This is part two of my publication of leaked recordings from panels at the American Psychiatric Association’s annual conference in Los Angeles, which runs from May 17 to 21. The APA held two panels about pediatric gender medicine: one that included three skeptics, which took place on Sunday; and a second that included three advocates and took place on Monday.
These two panels were among only three at the conference that journalists were forbidden to attend. Recordings were also forbidden. I obtained recordings of both, along with all the presenters’ slides.
Yesterday, I reported about one of the three speeches at the gender-medicine advocates’ panel, by Dr. Scott Leibowitz:
LEAKED: Secret American Psychiatric Association Speeches On Pediatric Gender Medicine
A year ago, I published an editorial in The Washington Post arguing that the American Psychiatric Association should honor its historic tradition of observing free and open debate about issues related to homosexuality in particular and to openly discuss the critiques of the research behind pediatric gender medicine at their annual conference. At this year’s APA conference, running May 17 to 21, the organization has finally done just that.
This new Substack concerns the skeptics’ panel, entitled, “Comparison of Clinical Guidelines for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: What Is the Role of Systematic Evidence Reviews?” The video of that panel is published above.
The panelists included:
Dr. Stephen Levine, a psychiatrist who, per Wikipedia, “co-founded Case Wester…
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