The practices this Canadian MD was disciplined for (e.g. single-appointment hormone Rx) are increasingly encouraged in the US, where activists call it "transphobic" to put trans-identifying youth through mental health assessments.https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/london-doctor-who-treated-transgender-youth-disciplined-ends-practice …
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Johanna Olson-Kennedy: "opposes mandating mental-health assessments for all kids seeking to transition. As she put it when we talked, 'I don’t send someone to a therapist when I’m going to start them on insulin'."https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-a-child-says-shes-trans/561749/ …
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Gender doctor: "There are lots and lots of kids who don’t have dysphoria….so to say to them you have to go get a letter from a mental health provider [TO ACCESS HORMONES AND SURGERIES] feels challenging to me.” https://archive.org/details/ehrensaft-sherer …
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