Dr. Zucker: Maybe it’s time to retire to Boca Raton.
Your work is widely regarded as detrimental to the trans community. Some have called your philosophy an act of violence toward already suffering individuals. Many have challenged your methods, data, and conclusions [find a few here, here, and here]. You have had countless opportunities to present your ideas and they have been judged as outdated and injurious yet you continue to speak, assuming the role of an authority. I ask you to stop.
The latest site of opposition was the USPATH (United States Professional Association for Transgender Health) conference in Los Angeles. Local trans women, many of color, protested by calling you out as a threat whose presence alone made them feel vulnerable. Security was called on the activists, producing a tragic series of events only further traumatizing some of the most marginalized in our community, people already lacking a voice and too often subject to harassment from law enforcement.
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You faced similar protests at the WPATH (World Professional Association for Transgender Health) conference in Amsterdam last June, and in Toronto over the many years of your tenure; now you are scheduled to present at the upcoming European PATH meeting in April, once again over the same objections. There are countless writings against you online (and even once before by me here). The recent BBC documentary in which you appeared was universally panned by the trans community. The response has been consistent.
Your work is not merely ‘unpopular’ or ‘controversial’: your practices and ideology are no longer aligned with current standards of treatment, especially the groundbreaking work of Diane Ehrensaft and numerous others which makes clear that transgender youth are to be supported in their gender identity, and that encouraging them to remain aligned with their gender assigned at birth only furthers depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, leads to poorer performance at schools and increased ‘acting out’ at home. Study after study reconfirms that youth and adolescents have a clear sense of their gender identity, and when affirmed, do better. And it is long past time where our society is comfortable with outsiders defining the issues of a marginalized group
Trans Issues Today: Dr. Zucker, Time to Retire to Sunny Boca?
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