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Shlomit Gorin vs. transgender people

Shlomit Gorin is a psychologist and anti-transgender activist affiliated with anti-trans hate group Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine. Trans and gender diverse people, especially young people, should avoid going to Gorin for therapy.

Anti-trans activism is a family business: Gorin’s sibling is anti-trans philosopher Moti Gorin.

Background

Shlomit Gorin was born on February 15, 1978 and grew up in Peoria. Illinois.

Gorin earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Northwestern University in 2000 and 2009, respectively, then earned a doctorate at the Wright Institute. From 2001 to 2006, Gorin worked at TURN – The Utility Reform Network. After working as a practicum trainee at Anka Behavioral Health in 2009 and 2010, Gorin held similar roles at the Wright Insitute from 2010 to 2012. Gorin worked as a trainee at Richmond Area Multi-Services (RAMS) in 2011 and 2012. Gorin interned at California Pacific Medical Center from 2012 to 213 and was a fellow at Pacific Pain Institute in 2014 and 2015.

Gorin has had a private practice since 2013. In 2018, Gorin returned to RAMS as a trainer. Gorin’s dissertation was completed in 2019.

According to a profile on Richmond Area Multi-Services:

Dr. Shlomit Gorin started at RAMS as a practicum trainee and later transitioned to staff psychologist in the Adult Outpatient Clinic and supervisor in the Training Program. Her interests include immigration; intergenerational transmission of trauma; sex and gender; expressions of psychic phenomena via the body; the impact of material living conditions along with social, cultural and political forces on the individual; and the integration of disciplines in the humanities with psychoanalysis. Shlomit maintains a private practice in San Francisco providing psychotherapy to children, adolescents, and adults. She obtained a bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature and a master’s degree in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Northwestern University, and a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the Wright Institute.

Anti-trans activism

In 2024, Gorin was scheduled to moderate a panel with Joe Burgo, Anna Hutchinson, and Paul Garcia-Ryan titled “Sex Matters: Differences in assessment and treatment for boys and girl experiencing gender distress.” Gorin’s SEGM bio states:

Clinical psychologist based in San Francisco, CA. She provides psychoanalytic psychotherapy to children, adolescents, and adults. For
the past several years, she has dedicated the majority of her practice to gender-distressed and trans-identified adolescents and young adults, as well as detransitioners. Shlomit is also co-director of a training program for doctoral-level students at a community mental health outpatient clinic serving chronically and severely disturbed individuals suffering from traumatic immigration histories, personality disorders, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, and economic precarity. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature and a master’s degree in Slavic Languages & Literatures from Northwestern University, and a doctorate in clinical psychology from the Wright Institute.

Gorin signed the anti-trans Beyond WPATH petition.

Following release of the UK’s Cass Review, anti-trans activist Lisa Selin Davis wrote:

Dr. Shlomit Gorin, a San Francisco-based clinical psychologist, posted information about the Review, as well as systematic reviews from other countries and content by and about detransitioners, on her professional listserv: the APA’s Division 39, the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology.

Respondents dismissed her offerings as written by TERFs, hate groups, and conversion therapists, as anti-trans and “murderous in fantasy.” Eventually, her posts on gender were blocked; the newly-installed listserv moderator said she violated APA guidelines and “ethical commitments” from the division’s 2020 “Letter of Apology to LGBTQ+ Communities,” which prohibits “speech that is injurious to LGBTQ+ members.”

“It’s censorship, defamation, intimidation, bullying,” she said.

Anti-trans extremist Leor Sapir also reported on this incident in 2025:

Recognizing that ignoring the Cass Review wouldn’t make it go away, some U.S. medical groups banned its very discussion on their professional e-mail chains. When Shlomit Gorin, a Bay Area psychologist, posted information about the report and its evidence reviews on the Listserv of a formal division of the American Psychological Association, the moderator blocked her post on the grounds that it violated the group’s 2020 “Letter of Apology to LGBTQ+ Communities,” which forbids “speech that is injurious to LGBTQ+ members.” 

References

Sapir, Leor (Winter 2025). Gender Medicine on the Ropes: From the courtroom to the ballot box, the trans movement has taken some hits. City Journal https://www.city-journal.org/article/gender-medicine-trans-movement-donald-trump-election

Davis, Lisa Selin (October 11, 2024). Medical Groups Are Censoring the Cass Review. Broadview https://www.broadview.news/p/medical-groups-are-censoring-the

Gorin, Shlomit [signatory] (2023). Open Letter to NHS chiefs: The importance of the word “woman” in communication about women’s health. CAN-SG https://can-sg.org/2023/02/23/open-letter-to-nhs-chiefs-the-importance-of-the-word-woman/

D’Angelo R, Marchiano L, Gorin S (2022). Response to Book Review Essay “Trying to Pass off Transphobia as Psychoanalysis and Cruelty as ‘Clinical Logic.’” by Avgi Saketopolou. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly 91:177-190. https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2022.2124080

Gorin, Shlomit (September 2019). The happiness dilemma: an integrative literature review on happiness in positive psychology and psychoanalysis. [dissertation ready by Beate Lohser and Alexander Zmdhenko] https://www.proquest.com/docview/2498601528/abstract/B5FBCB76A73B4091PQ/1

(2018) Contributors. Fort Da 24:118-119 https://pep-web.org/search/document/FD.024B.0118A?page=P0118

Gorin, Shlomit (September 2011). Lessons from Russian literature. Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology https://www.ncspp.org/impulse/article/potential-space-shlomit-gorin-ma

Gorin, Moti (2013). The nature and ethical significance of manipulation. Rice University https://repository.rice.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/cb8ee1ce-395b-4525-b7a2-19d264a72284/content

Resources

Richmond Area Multi-Services (ramsinc.org)

Vimeo (vimeo.com)

LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

NPIdb (npidb.org)

  • Shlomit Gorin: NPI #1407173107
  • npidb.org/doctors/behavioral_health/clinical_103tc0700x/1407173107.aspx