“I thought it was appropriate." Hear Testimony From Boston Children’s On Why They Slashed to 2 Hours the Assessments For Kids Seeking Gender-Transition Treatment

Yesterday, I broke the news in The New York Sun that since 2018, Boston Children’s Hospital has had a policy in its pediatric gender clinic of only allocating two hours for psychologists to assess gender dysphoric kids and determine whether to refer them to an endocrinologist for gender-transition treatment. (I encourage you to read the article and to share my tweet thread about it.) In this podcast, I provide sound clips from the testimony of leaders at this gender clinic who spoke about these policies at an ongoing civil trial in Boston.

I think the public will find remarkable, to say the least, the manner in which these mental-health professionals discuss how they care for these vulnerable children. Whereas many skeptics and critics will no doubt be shocked by Boston Children’s policies, considering them indicative of a presumed problem in which troubled children are rushed onto these life-altering medications, they are likely to be further stunned by how sanguine and matter-of-fac…