My Washington Post Oped on Pediatric Gender Medicine, My Cancer CT Scan, and a Threat to My Safety

It's been an eventful week for me to say the least.

This Substack is essentially a newsletter to blast out three pieces of news:

• I’ve just published an editorial in the Washington Post calling upon the American Psychiatric Association to stop ignoring the systematic literature reviews about pediatric gender medicine.

• I had my two-year CT-scan cancer follow-up on Tuesday and the result came back negative, much to my profound relief.

• For the first time in my life and reporting career, I received a clear threat to my safety—quite evidently because of my work reporting about pediatric gender medicine.

My Return to the Washington Post

Here is a link to my Washington Post editorial, as well as a tweet thread about it if you’d care to share that and comment on the piece there.

This editorial is 18 months in the coming and is the product of all the study and reporting on this issue I’ve engaged in during that span of time. I hope you’ll give it a read and use it as a basis off of which to have discussions with others. There are lots of hyperlinks i…