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Marcus Evans is a British psychoanalyst whose clientele has included trans and gender diverse people. Evans was a key critic of trans healthcare for gender diverse youth at the Tavistock. The clinic was later closed.

Evans and his wife Sue Evans co-authored the 2021 book Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults.

He is involved with anti-trans organization Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM).

Background

Evans graduated from Bembridge in 1976. He served as head of nursing at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust from 1998-2018). Evans was Clinical Director of the adult & adolescent departments between 2011 & 2015. In 2018 he began working in private practice.

2021 book

The following people are mentioned in the acknowledgements:

We are grateful to the following people who have generously given their time and expertise to the development of this book: Annie Pesskin, Ian Williamson, Richard Stephens, Margot Waddell, Frances Grier, and Ema Syrulnik, as well as all our colleagues at the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine. We are grateful to Kate Pearce at Phoenix for offering to publish this book.

Resources

Evans Psychotherapy (evanspsychotherapy.co.uk)

LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

Twitter (twitter.com)

Original newsletter:

www.psychsociety.com.au/units/interest_groups/gay_lesbian/glip_news_august03.pdf (PDF: requires reader)

Contact information for the reviewer:

National Convener
Mr Gordon Walker
Department of Psychology, Monash University 
PO Box 197, Caulfied East, VIC, 3145
Tel: (03) 9903 2728
Fax: (03) 9903 2501
Email: gordon.walker@med.monash.edu.au

GLIP News
Gay and Lesbian Issues and Psychology
An Interest Group of the Australian Psychological Society Ltd.
Volume 2, Issue 2 August 2003 page 5

by Gordon Walker, Convener

Book review: Bailey, J.M. (2003). 
The man who would be queen: The science of gender-bending and transsexualism.
Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press.

This is a book, written by a leading researcher in the field, is about understanding sexual orientation and identity. Although the author makes much use of research, this is not a textbook; any educated person with an interest in this topic would find the material very accessible. The stories of various boys and men are woven together with the discussion of research to create a highly interesting and very worthwhile book. In fact once I started I had difficulty putting down! Broadly speaking it is an examination of the relationship between male homosexuality and femininity. As the author says, to say that femininity and homosexuality are closely bound together has been politically incorrect for some time now, but nevertheless factually correct. The book then goes on to demonstrate this across the sexual orientation spectrum. 

The book is therefore a challenge to the postmodern position on gender, although the author clearly occupies the middle ground between social constructionism and essentialism. This is demonstrated in his discussion of feminine boys and of those labeled gender identity disordered (GID) in particular. In looking at the debate between those on the left who want them left alone to be as feminine as they want to be and those on the extreme right who view homosexuality as arrested psychosexual development, he draws the reader’s attention to research that shows that therapy directed at reducing femininity in highly feminine boys reduces the number who ultimately seek a sex-change, and therefore increases the number who as adults identify as gay. He suggests that an alternative to this would be to allow such boys to become women very early (pre-puberty) so that they can have better outcomes as women. 

The author uses a range of research to clearly challenge the view that pronounced femininity in boys is the result of socialisation. The question of where does extreme femininity come from is also examined 

Similarities and differences between gay and straight men are also examined. Broadly speaking, although gay men have interests more in line with those of women, in attitudes to sex and the body homosexual and heterosexual men were shown to be essentially the same; the differences in behaviour come about because heterosexually men are basically constrained in their behaviour by women. The author provides a very accessible and readable account of the sometimes confusing array of studies that have attempted to account for sexual orientation and draws the conclusion that there is some fundamental biological influence that transcends culture. The last section of the book focuses on transsexualism, and produces a compelling argument for recognising two main types: homosexual and non-homosexual types, with the latter being erotically obsessed with the image of themselves as women. A very much more complex picture emerges than the popular image of a woman being trapped inside a man’s body. 

The great value of this book lies in the way it has brought together a wide range of research on important questions relating to sexual orientation. This gives the reader a wonderful opportunity to reflect further on what being other than heterosexual might mean. 

Gordon Walker 
Department of Psychology 
School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine 
Monash University

Letter to Dr. Walker from WOMAN Network

“We write to express our concern that the Special Interest Group on Gay and Lesbian Issues of the Australian Psychological Society has been implicated in support for the writings of Prof J Michael Bailey of Northwestern University.

In this respect, we draw your attention to the following quote from GLIP News, August 2003:

“
any educated person with an interest in this topic would find the material very accessible. The stories of various boys and men are woven together with the discussion of research to create a highly interesting and very worthwhile book. In fact once I started I had difficulty putting down! 
 The author provides a very accessible and readable account of the sometimes confusing array of studies that have attempted to account for sexual orientation and draws the conclusion that there is some fundamental biological influence that transcends culture. 
 The great value of this book lies in the way it has brought together a wide range of research on important questions relating to sexual orientation. This gives the reader a wonderful opportunity to reflect further on what being other than heterosexual might mean.”

The book referred to is “The Man Who Would Be Queen” which was published under the imprimateur of the National Academies of Sciences. It has brought huge condemnation for its inaccurate and highly offensive portrayal of transsexualism and the people who are affected by it. This has culminated recently in legal action against the author, who is accused of failing to obtain the necessary informed consents of the subjects of his material. Importantly, the scientific veracity of the work has now been shattered in a most public way at the recent IASR Conference in the United States.

Bailey seized on earlier work by Ken Zucker of the somewhat infamous Clarke Institute, and categorised us as either excessively homosexual males or autogynaephilic males. He deliberately excluded the anecdotal evidence of those, the vast majority, who did not fit with his theory and ignored completely the prevailing hard science pointing to the somatic nature of transsexualism. The fall out from this scientific fraud is gaining momentum and it would be very unfortunate if Monash University were to be included in this.

You can gauge the international responses to the issue by visiting these websites:

http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/LynnsReviewOfBaileysBook.html

http://www.tsroadmap.com/info/bailey-blanchard-lawrence.html

One matter of very real concern is the way in which the religious right has already seized on Bailey’s writings to further justify their rejection of transsexualism as a valid condition of human sexual formation and their condemnation of those affected by it. These same condemnations will undoubtedly be directed at gay and lesbian people to the detriment of us all.

We therefore ask you to consider repudiating Bailey’s work and ensure your next newsletter contains a suitable disclaimer.”

It is reported that Dr. Walker is making inquiries about the matter and will respond after he’s had time to review the matter.

Carol Tavris is an American social psychologist and anti-transgender activist.

Tavris considers the safer and mpre accepting climate for gender diverse youth to be a “social contagion” that needs a correction.

Tavris’ attacks on the trans rights movement center on several gender critical tactics:

Tavris claims sexual orientation change efforts like “conversion therapy” are terrible, but gender identity change efforts are completely different.

Background

Carol Anne Tavris was born September 17, 1944 and grew up in Los Angeles. Tavris’s parent Dorothy was a lawyer, and parent Sam died when Tavris was 11.

Tavris earned a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature and sociology from Brandeis University. Tavris then earned a PhD in sociology from the University of Michigan.

Tavris was married to actor Ronan David O’Casey (1922-2012).

Tavris has written several widely-used psychology textbooks.

Anti-transgender activism

Tavris and other anti-transgender extremists like Cathy Young and Christina Hoff Sommers have been logrolling for each other for years.

2022 Skeptic piece

In 2022, Tavris published a piece in Skeptic repeating transphobic talking points packaged as “skepticism.”

Today, once again, the public is hearing only one side of an emotionally compelling issue: the transgender story. Once again, distinctions are ignored, this time between people for whom identification with the other sex began in early childhood and those whose rapid onset gender dysphoria started during adolescence. 

[…]

 Saying you suffer from “gender dysphoria” is cool and common, just as saying you were sexually abused in your youth once was. 

Tarvis is especially scornful of an On the Media episode, claiming it did not give time to the ex-transgender movement:

In its most glaring omission, “On the Media” said not a word about the “desisters,” a term often used for those who make a social transition (changing their names and pronouns) but do not persist in having surgery and hormones or changing their gender identity, and often change back; or about the many (possibly thousands of) “detransitioners” who now regret that they had medical procedures. Many of them are bitter and angry that they have had irreversible voice and hair growth changes, underwent surgical procedures that cannot be corrected, and have become infertile. 

[…]

Many gender professionals have marginalized, bullied, and tormented their colleagues who disagree. Politically organized “transactivists” protest that any research on, say, factors contributing to the rise of cases of gender transition, the potentially negative consequences of transitioning, or the importance of counseling and treatment before transitioning are indications of the unacceptable idea that gender transition is a pathological problem or disorder. 

[…]

But we may, at last, be entering a new phase. As usual, we can thank the first wave of writers who have refused to be cowed or bullied — Abigail Shrier in Irreversible Damage, Kathleen Stock in Material Girls, Helen Joyce in Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality. 

[…]

In November, 2021, Laura Edwards-Leeper and Erica Anderson, two psychologists whose practice has been devoted to offering transgender patients ethical, evidence-based treatment, wrote an editorial in the Washington Post. Their trans-supporting credentials are flawless. 

Tavris also cites “The Gender Affirmative Treatment Model for Youth with Gender Dysphoria: A Medical Advance or Dangerous Medicine?” by Alison Clayton.

“My thanks to Leonore Tiefer, PhD, for her resources, advice, and expertise.”

Selected publications

  • Estrogen Matters: Why taking hormones in menopause can improve women’s well-being and lengthen their lives–without raising the risk of breast cancer (with Avrum Bluming). Little, Brown Spark 2018 ISBN 978-0-316-48120-5
  • Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts (with Elliot Aronson) Mariner Books, 2020, ISBN 978-0-358-32961-9
  • Psychology (with Carole Wade, Samuel Sommers, and Lisa Shin) 2020, Pearson, ISBN 978-0-13-521262-2)
  • Invitation to Psychology (with Carole Wade) (6th edition, 2014, Pearson, ISBN 978-0-205-03519-9)
  • Psychobabble and Biobunk: Using Psychology to Think Critically About Issues in the News (Pearson, 2011, ISBN 978-0-205-01591-7)
  • The Scientist and the Humanist: A festschrift in honor of Elliot Aronson (with Marti Hope Gonzales and Joshua Aronson) (New York: Psychology Press, 2010 ISBN 978-1848728677)
  • Psychology in Perspective (with Carole Wade, Samuel Sommers, and Lisa Shin) (Three editions, latest 2001, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-028326-6)
  • The Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex (Simon & Schuster, 1992) (ISBN 0-671-66274-0)
  • Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion (1983, Revised edition 1989, Touchstone, ISBN 0-671-67523-0)
  • EveryWoman’s Emotional Well-Being: Heart & Mind, Body & Soul (Doubleday, 1986, ISBN 978-0385185615)
  • The Longest War: Sex Differences in Perspective (with Carole Wade) (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977, revised 1984, ISBN 978-0155511866)
  • The Redbook Report on Female Sexuality: 100,000 married women disclose the good news about sex (Delacorte, 1977, ISBN 978-0385288675)

References

Tavris, Carol (2022) Trans Reality: “I Didn’t Know There Was Another Side” Skeptic 27.1 (March 2022) https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/transgender-reality-i-didnt-know-there-was-another-side/

Resources

Dr. Carol Tavris (tavris.socialpsychology.org)

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

Michael Seto is a Canadian psychologist whose work focuses on sex and gender minorities.

He has used disease models to describe trans people, including the deprecated and unscientific term “gynandromorph.” No reputable scientist uses this term for humans. It is only used by transphobes in the context of attraction to transgender people. The disease “gynandromorphophilia” was created by Peter Collins and Ray Blanchard, two transphobic colleagues of Seto’s. Blanchard has published articles with Seto. Collins has quoted research by Seto in testimony about the use of child-sized sex dolls as a possible way to prevent sex offenses against children.

Background

Seto was born in 1967. He earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from University of British Columbia in 1989. He then earned a master’s degree from Queen’s University in 1992, followed by a doctorate in 1997.

He worked at notorious anti-transgender facility CAMH from 1998 to 2008. Much of his research focuses on adolescent sex offenders, minor attracted persons, and child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

University of Ottawa Institute for Mental Health Research

He became editor of Sexual Abuse in 2015 and consulting editor of Journal of Sex Research in 2014. Carleton University University of Ottawa University of Toronto

He is married to sexologist Meredith Chivers. In 2003, Chivers and Seto sat on a panel at the Kinsey Institute with J. Michael Bailey as part of a multidisciplinary group of researchers in sexual psychophysiology.

Seto joined the International Academy of Sex Research and the editorial board at the journal they control, The Archives of Sexual Behavior.

Seto’s Wikipedia bio was written by anti-transgender troll James Cantor, who is now banned. Seto has made additional edits to it himself.

“Gynandromorphs”

In science, a gynandromorph is an animal with bilateral intersex traits and sex mosaics. Gynandromorph has never been used by scientists to describe mammals, let alone primates like humans. No human has ever been observed with bilateral intersex traits.

Seto’s beliefs and unscientific terminology have made their way into publications like Reason:

Even the gender dimension is more complex than most realize, writes Seto, with some people “attracted to gynandromorphs, that is
 individuals with physical features of both sexes 
 other individuals who are attracted specifically to transgender people, and those who would describe themselves as more pansexual with regard to gender, for example, being attracted to both cis- and trans-gender women or men.”

Selected publications

Seto, M. C., & Barbaree, H. E. (1999). Psychopathy, treatment behavior, and sex offenders recidivism. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 14 (12), 1235-1248. 

Seto, M. C., Khattar, N. A., Lalumiere, M. L. & Quinsey, V. L. (1997). Deception and sexual strategy in psychopathy. Personality and Individual Differences, 22 (3), 301-307.

Chivers, M. L., Seto, M. C., & Blanchard, R. (2007). Gender and sexual orientation differences in sexual response to sexual activities versus gender of actors in sexual films. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93(6), 1108–1121. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.93.6.1108

Seto, M. C., Cantor, J. M., & Blanchard, R. (2006). Child pornography offenses are a valid diagnostic indicator of pedophilia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 115(3), 610–615. https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-843X.115.3.610

Seto MC (2017). The Puzzle of Male Chronophilias. Arch Sex Behav. 2017 Jan;46(1):3-22. doi: 10.1007/s10508-016-0799-y. Epub 2016 Aug 22.

Chivers ML, Seto MC, Blanchard R (2007). Gender and sexual orientation differences in sexual response to sexual activities versus gender of actors in sexual films. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 93, 1108–1121.

Seto, Michael C. (2018). Pedophilia and Sexual Offending Against Children: Theory, Assessment, and Intervention. American Psychological Association ISBN 978-1433829260

Seto, Michael C. (2013). Internet Sex Offenders. American Psychological Association ISBN 978-1433813641

References

Staff report (March 21, 2017). Child sex doll trial raises issue of what constitutes child porn. The Canadian Press https://www.hamiltonnews.com/news-story/7201493-child-sex-doll-trial-raises-issue-of-what-constitutes-child-porn/

Misconceptions make pedophiles hard to detect. USA Today https://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-11-15/sexual-predators-penn-state/51225988/1

Expert provides snapshot of a child pornographer. Metro. http://metronews.ca/news/london/245302/expert-provides-snapshot-of-a-child-pornographer/

Ontario police arrest 31 in massive child-porn bust. National Post https://nationalpost.com/related/topics/story.html?id=1256779nationalpost.com. 2010-03-30.

Ont. won’t fund pedophile study. CTVNews. 4 May 2007. http://www.ctvnews.ca/ontario-won-t-fund-study-that-pays-sex-offenders-1.239954

Group objects to study that will pay sex offenders. CBC 4 May 2007. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2007/05/04/pedophilia-study.html

McIlroy, Anne (February 27, 2009). Hot and bothered. The Globe and Mail https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/hot-and-bothered/article714183/

Brown, Elizabeth Nolan (August 24, 2016). Beyond Gay and Straight: New Paper Says Sexual Orientation Is Much More Complicated. Reason https://reason.com/2016/08/24/beyond-gay-straight-sexual-orientation/

CAMH (2004). Psychobiology of Aggression and Antisocial Behaviour across the Lifespan. http://www.camh.net/research/research_psychobiology.html [archive]

Kinsey Institute (2003). Methodological Approaches In Reproductive Psychophysiology Saturday July 12 – Tuesday July 15, 2003 http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/services/psychophys.html [archive]

Resources

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

Twitter (twitter.com)

LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

University of Ottawa (uottawa.ca)

David I. Miller is an American psychologist who published pathologizing research on sex and gender minorities while working with J. Michael Bailey at Northwestern University.

Background

Miller earned a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematical Physics from Harvey Mudd College in 2010, then did graduate work at University of California – Berkeley before earning a Ph.D. in Psychology from Northwestern University in 2018.

Miller has published on sex and gender minorities with Kevin J. Hsu and Allen Rosenthal. He is one of the the few “autogynephilia” activists under age 50.

References

Hsu, K. J., Rosenthal, A. M., Miller, D. I., & Bailey, J. M. (2017). Sexual arousal patterns of autogynephilic male cross-dressers. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 46, 247-253. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-016-0826-z

Hsu KJ, Rosenthal AM, Miller DI, Bailey JM (2016). Who are gynandromorphophilic men? Characterizing men with sexual interest in transgender women. Psychological Medicine, 46, 819–827. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291715002317

Resources

GitHub (github.io)

Mark Roger Lepper (born December 5, 1944) is an American psychologist. He was the Psychology Department Chair at Stanford University who allowed J. Michael Bailey to engage in the vulgar misuse of gender diverse children on Stanford’s campus.

Stanford biologist Joan Roughgarden had contacted Lepper when she learned of Bailey’s upcoming lecture. From her 2003 report on the event:

I learned in March that the psychology department at Stanford had invited Bailey to give a regularly scheduled departmental seminar. I alerted the chair of psychology to the considerable risk attending such a speaker, because Bailey’s findings were of dubious quality, and likely to hurt and offend people. He said that the seminar series could accommodate a marginal speaker every now and then, and invited me to attend. My caution went unnoticed however, and Bailey was introduced as “controversial,” someone whose work has “important implications for law, medicine and social policy” and as a “successful teacher whose courses feature transsexuals stripping after class.”

What ensued was the most humiliating lecture I’ve ever personally attended.

Source: Letter to the National Academy of Sciences (2003)

Resources

Stanford University Bulletin (stanford.edu)

  • Psychology 2003-04 (PDF)

Satoshi Kanazawa (born 1962) is an American-born British evolutionary psychologist. He considers fellow evolutionary psychologist J. Michael Bailey “one of the greatest behavior geneticists and sex researchers in the world today.”

Logrolling with J. Michael Bailey

Kanazawa wrote a Psychology Today blog called The Scientific Fundamentalist until his dismissal in 2011 for his claim about race and attractiveness.

Kanazawa’s 2016 research on female sexuality cites several works by Bailey.

To return the favor, Bailey convinced two psychology department colleagues to co-sign Bailey’s request to host Kanazawa as a visiting scholar at Northwestern University in 2018.

When students and faculty objected, Bailey said he “didn’t invite him, in the usual sense of that word.” He claimed Kanazawa was just asking for “a desk and library access.”

Northwestern’s Psychology Department once again rallied around Bailey and his two colleagues, refusing to intervene or comment on the matter.

References

Kanazawa S (November 28, 2010). What If It Turns Out the Earth Were Flat After All? Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/201011/what-if-it-turns-out-the-earth-were-flat-after-all

Kanazawa S (2016). Possible evolutionary origins of human female sexual fluidity. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 2017 Aug;92(3):1251-1274. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12278. Epub 2016 May 16.

MacColl M (January 17, 2019). Students call for removal of visiting researcher Dr. Satoshi Kanazawa at town hall. North by Northwestern. http://alpha.northbynorthwestern.com/story/students-call-for-removal-of-visiting-researcher-d/

Cook C (January 17, 2019). Students at town hall demand administrators force Kanazawa off campus. Daily Northwestern. https://dailynorthwestern.com/2019/01/17/lateststories/students-at-town-hall-demand-administrators-force-kanazawa-off-campus/

Tucker D (December 17, 2018). Controversial Professor Credited For Bringing Controversial Scholar To Northwestern. CBS Chicago. https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/12/17/controversial-professor-credited-for-bringing-controversial-scholar-to-northwestern/

Flaherty C (December 19, 2018). Unwelcome Guest. Inside Higher Ed. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/12/19/northwestern-students-want-controversial-scholar-their-campus

Robinn Joachim Mentz Cruz MA, LMHC (born August 10, 1972) is an American therapist and workout instructor. Cruz is credited as Robinn J. Cruz by Anne Lawrence in the acknowledgements of the 2013 book Men Trapped in Men’s Bodies. That book presents transgender people as motivated to transition by a sex-fueled mental illness called “autogynephilia.”

Background

Mentz graduated from Argosy University in Seattle in 2007 and was likely a classmate of Lawrence’s. That school has since closed.

Mentz has worked at RJM Psychological Services, PLLC in Tacoma Washington since 2007.

References

  • NPI#: 1487993598
  • WA License: LH60277706

Resources

Psychology Today (psychologytoday.com)

Zhana Vrangalova is an anti-trans psychologist and “autogynephilia” activist.

Background

Snezana Zhana Vrangalova was born in November 1981 in Skopje, Macedonia. Vrangalova earned a bachelor’s degree from Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje. She earned a doctorate from Cornell University in 2014. She worked with Ritch Savin-Williams, Anthony Ong, and David Pizarro.

She was appointed as an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at New York University in 2014. She authored the 2016 book The Casual Sex Project and often writes about hookup culture.

“Autogynephilia” activism

On April 13, 2015, Vrangalova made a comment about about the video game Gender Bender DNA Twister Extreme, summoning “autogynephilia” creator Ray Blanchard.

When video games & psych research clash w/ views of ‘politically correct’ http://ow.ly/LxZK4#GenderBender#autogynephilia @BlanchardPhD

On June 13, 2015 Vrangalova made a comment about Caitlyn Jenner that revealed her anti-trans views:

In all the #CaitlynJenner media madness, 1 thing went unsaid: That there are 2 types of trans women. #autogynephilia http://ow.ly/OcLji

The link went to religion site Patheos and an article by conversion therapist Warren Throckmorton discussing “autogynephilia” with unethical sexologist J. Michael Bailey.

When people pointed out the problem with her beliefs, she said:

I’m aware of the controversy, but there’s a lot of research to support #autogynephilia, pc or not pc.

When people pointed out that once-skeptical Bailey magically discovered bisexuality exists after getting paid by the American Institute of Bisexuality.

they didn’t “recant”, the conducted a study using more rigorous definition of “bisexual”.

It’s good science accepted by scientists.Those rejecting it r nonscientist activists who wrongly think it’s transphobic

Podcast

Vrangalova co-hosted the The Science of Sex podcast with Joe Pardavila from 2017 to 2019. Guests included a number of anti-trans sexologists associated with J. Michael Bailey, including James Cantor and Gerulf Rieger.

  • 1 Brian Dodge
  • 2 Michal Kosinski
  • 3 Lisa Dawn Hamilton
  • 4 James Pfaus
  • 5 Brooke Wells
  • 6 Ryan Scoats
  • 7 Lara Greaves
  • 8 Nan Wise
  • 9 Samuel L. Perry
  • 10 Kirstin Mitchell
  • 11 Sofia Jawed-Wessel
  • 12 Neil Malamuth
  • 13 Naomi Muggleton
  • Special from Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (2 parts)
    • Dayna Henry
    • Megan Maas
    • Ron Rogge
    • Margaret Bennett
    • Lauryn Vander Molen
  • 14 Justin Garcia
  • 15 Kayla Knopp
  • 16 David Frederick
  • 17 Justin Lehmiller
  • 18 [no guest]
  • 19 Kathryn Klement 
  • 20 Qazi Rahman
  • 21 Benjamin Breyer
  • 22 Cynthia Graham
  • 23 Ritch Savin-Williams
  • 24 Richard Wassersug
  • 25 J. Michael Bailey
  • 26 James Cantor 
  • 27 Jim Pfaus
  • 28 [no guest]
  • 29 Christian Joyal
  • 30 Dylan Selterman
  • 31 Lori Brotto
  • 32 Emily Rothman
  • 33 Dulcinea Pitagora
  • 34 Kirstin Mark
  • 35 Christian Grov
  • 36 Patrick Jern
  • 37 Amy C. Moors
  • 38 Amy Muise
  • 39 Jimmy Moran
  • 40 Tierney Lorenz
  • 41 [no guest]
  • 42 Justin Lehmiller
  • 43 Kaci Mial
  • 44 Kirstin Mitchell
  • 45 Wednesday Martin
  • 46 Gerulf Rieger
  • 47 Gregory D. Webster
  • 48 Menelaos Apostolou
  • 49 Eric W. Schrimshaw
  • 50 Seth Pardo
  • 52 Liam Wignall
  • 52 Pascal Wallisch
  • 53 Jessica Wood 
  • 54 Michelle Drouin
  • 55 Gideon Nave
  • 56 Kenneth Play 
  • 57 Kate Esterline
  • 58 Christina Parreira 
  • 59 Shayna Sparling

References

Molay, Jack (Oct 8, 2015). What Dr. Zhana Vrangalova Taught Me About Transphobia in Science. Crossdreamers https://jackmolay.medium.com/what-dr-zhana-vrangalova-taught-me-about-transphobia-in-science-c40dd244b68d

Throckmorton, Warren (June 11, 2015). What Kind of Woman is Caitlyn Jenner? Part One of a Q&A on Autogynephilia with Michael Bailey. Patheos https://www.patheos.com/blogs/warrenthrockmorton/2015/06/11/what-kind-of-woman-is-caitlyn-jenner-part-one-of-a-qa-on-autogynephilia-with-michael-bailey/ [archive]

Vrangalova Z (Apr 13, 2015). https://twitter.com/DrZhana/status/587695608976248832 https://archive.ph/KWNkh

Vrangalova Z (Jun 13, 2015). https://twitter.com/DrZhana/status/609737211211325440 https://archive.is/wip/KtOZc

Resources

Dr. Zhana (drzhana.com)

The Casual Sex Project (casualsexproject.com)

Cornell College of Human Ecology (human.cornell.edu)

Freewebs (freewebs.com)

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Kathryn Sandra Kaur Hall (born 1958) is a Canadian psychologist who with coauthor Yitzchak M. Binik has promoted pathologizing ideas about sex and gender minorities. Their 2014 book Principles and Practice of Sex Therapy presents the response to the 2003 anti-transgender book The Man Who Would Be Queen as that of “some militant gender activists.” It also allows psychologists Kenneth Zucker and Nicola Brown to make the case for non-affirmative models of care for minors. Zucker was fired the year after the book’s publication.

Background

Hall earned her Bachelor’s degree from Queen’s University in 1980 and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from McGill University in 1986. Her husband is sports psychologist James L. “Jim” Mastrich, Jr. (born 1952).

Passage from Principles and Practice of Sex Therapy

The Future of Sex Therapy

The relationship between sexual dysfunction and the other sexual disorders might be best characterized as a DSM-arranged marriage. Paraphilia and gender dysphoria clinicians and researchers have usually not been sex therapists. Yet in the view of previous DSMs and most of the North American mental health community, all sexual and gender issues are alike. The net result is that the sexual dysfunctions, paraphilias, and gender identity disorders have all been thrown into a single DSM chapter. This is not true in the World Health Organization (WHO) International Classification of Diseases (ICD) classification.

Whether sexuality is an important defining characteristic for gender dysphoria is matter of some controversy. Brown and Zucker (Chapter 11) point out that autogynephilia—that is, sexual arousal to the idea of oneself being a woman—may be a crucial mechanism in male-to-female gender dysphoria and that this “erotic location error” is considered by some as a sexual orientation. This theory has aroused bitter controversy, as evidenced by the recent brouhaha between J. Michael Bailey of Northwestern University and some militant gender activists (see special issue of Archives of Sexual Behavior, June 2008). Brown and Zucker also review the intervention literature and summarize the substantive changes in the DSM-5 diagnosis.

References

Binik YM, Hall SKS (2014). The Future of Sex Therapy. In Principles and Practice of Sex Therapy, Fifth Edition. Guilford Publications. Edited by Yitzchak M. Binik and Kathryn SK Hall. ISBN 978-1462513673

Resources

Dr. Kathryn Hall (drkathrynhall.com)

Prabook (prabook.com)