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Leaked Gender-Affirmative Training Videos, Part 5: Olson-Kennedy On Trans People Meeting Cis Expectations

The prevailing theme of this video is Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy's exasperation over all the hurdles that trans youth have to jump through to make cisgender people happy.

This is the 5th of 12 hours of leaked training videos in the gender-affirming care method that were led in April 2024 by Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy and her colleagues. Dr. Olson-Kennedy, who is one of the nation’s top pediatric gender medicine doctors, and her team provided these Zoom trainings mostly to mental health providers.

This particular video features the return of Dr. Olson Kennedy herself, who continues her talk from parts one and two.

The prevailing theme in this new video is Dr. Olson-Kennedy’s exasperation over all the hoops that transgender people have to jump through to make cisgender people accept them and feel that it’s okay that they receive cross-sex hormone treatment.

Toward the end of the video, she gets particularly political as she emphasizes, in the same breath, two thoughts that she does not acknowledge are contradictory: the fact that few kids are apparently getting gender transition drugs, which means, she says, the political uproar over this phenomenon is ov…

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