From Transgender Kids to Transsexual Adults—My Conversation With Buck Angel
Buck Angel, who has a popular YouTube show and identifies as transsexual, and I had a wide ranging conversation about my work reporting about pediatric gender medicine.
Hi everyone. I just had a great livestream conversation on Buck Angel’s YouTube show, which I’ve linked to below. He and I covered lots of topics:
How I got into writing about pediatric gender medicine
What it means that Buck identifies as a transsexual as opposed to transgender
My reporting about Boston Children’s Hospital only assessing kids for two hours before referring them for gender-transition treatment
My debunking of the debunking podcaster Michael Hobbes’ claims that no kids are being rushed onto gender-transition drugs
How the pediatric gender medicine field is lacking in transparency
What it was like for me to grow up gay during the height of the AIDS crisis compared with Buck’s experience growing up as a butch girl who as an adult became a transsexual
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