Leaked Gender-Affirmative Training, Part 6: Doubting the Need For Distress

It’s been a moment since I’ve published an installment in my series of leaked training videos by Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy and her colleagues in the pediatric gender-affirmation method. During that time, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, where Dr. Olson-Kennedy heads the pediatric gender clinic, has announced that they are shutting down the clinic in the face of existential threats by the Trump administration. So these trainings have taken on a time-capsule element, given the increasing uncertainty of the very viability of this field of medicine in which she has been such a pioneer.

This video, the 6th of 12 installments, is another training conducted by Darlene Tando, a licensed clinical social worker, who runs the Tando Therapy Team, which specializes in gender-affirming care, in San Diego. In the training, Ms. Tando explores a principle that Dr. Olson-Kennedy has been out front espousing: that a child with cross-sex identification should not, as the DSM-5 demands for a gender dysphoria diagnosis, be required to experience substantial, long-term distress over the schism between their gender identity and their sex to obtain what Ms. Tando characterizes as necessary gender-affirmative intervention.

Here are the first five videos:

LEAKED: Trans-Care Training Videos By Beleaguered Top Gender-Clinic Doctor, Part 1

LEAKED: Trans-Care Training Video By Dr. Olson-Kennedy, Part 2—Affirming Young Kids

Leaked Gender-Affirmative Training Videos, Part 3: The Parents' Path to Acceptance

Leaked Gender-Affirmative Training Videos, Part 4: Trans Children's Identity Evolution

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

I’m putting a paywall on this post, given how time consuming these videos are to digest and report upon.