(from the Dutch group) re her election as Treasurer of WPATH. Why? Because she was a co-author of an article that she, Dr. Anne Lawrence, and I published in the Annual Review of Clinical Psychology (2016). Why? In part, because the article included material about... /2
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the concept of autogynephilia. The signatories of this petition appeared to be outraged that Kreukels would be a co-author of a paper that discussed autogynephilia with regard to theory and clinical matters and called for her head. It now appears that WPATH has defended... /3
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Kreukels' integrity, to which I say "Good for WPATH." Of course, the deep irony of this is that WPATH, in SOC-7, had already given its opinion on autogynephilia: namely, the term does not appear once in the entire Standards of Care. Of course, this was a political position... /4
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not a scientific one [Disclosure: I was one of many co-authors of SOC-7, but my contribution pertained to epidemiology. I have no recollection of ever seeing the document in toto prior to its publication]. So, WPATH really has nothing further to denounce: it has already... /5
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intellectually erased the clinical phenomenon of autogynephilia and I doubt that SOC-8 will be much better. Of course, clinicians and researchers who observe and/or do research on autogynephilia can easily be ignored: just don't cite them. Now, there is a forum called... /6
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Transgender Health, which is not affiliated with WPATH. Less than 2 weeks from the next WPATH meeting in Buenos Aires, two prominent WPATH politicos--Sam Winter and Dan Karasic--have announced their resignation from the WPATH Board, a couple of weeks before their terms... /7
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were to end, because of WPATH's refusal to denounce Dr. Kreukels. A little virtue signaling I guess. Dr. Kelly Winters--another politico par excellence--weighed in, initially posting that the paper in question was published in the Journal that I am the Editor of: /8
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Archives of Sexual Behavior. Of course, that was an absurd statement--the article was published in ARCP, which, by the way, has an extremely high impact factor. Interestingly, right around the time I commented about this egregious error on the Transgender Health site, /9
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Winters issued a correction to that ridiculous statement. I think that this little drama tale is a good example of how politics have poisoned serious clinical, empirical, and theoretical work in the field of gender dysphoria. /10
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