Hazard Ratio: Benjamin Ryan

Hazard Ratio: Benjamin Ryan

History Is Repeating Itself In the Battle Over Conversion Therapy

The mental health profession learned a hard lesson after mistreating gay people during the 20th century, only to repeat those same mistakes—albeit in the name of undoing them—with trans patients.

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Roberto D’Angelo
Feb 16, 2026
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This is a guest post by Australian psychologist Roberto D’Angelo (no relation to Robin DiAngelo), adapted from his recent paper, “Trans is not the new gay.”

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Roberto D’Angelo
Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst. President of the Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine. Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles
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