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Podcast: You Must Be Some Kind of Therapist
Episode: 132. Colluding with Madness? Dr. Jillian Spencer on the Psychology of Gender-Affirming Clinicians
Description: In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Jillian Spencer, a child and adolescent psychiatrist from Brisbane, Australia, who has found herself at the center of a heated debate surrounding so-called “gender-affirming care” for children. After raising concerns about the practices at her hospital's gender clinic, Jillian was suspended and is now embroiled in legal battles that could redefine workplace protections for those with gender-critical beliefs. What led her to take such a bold stand, and what are the implications for mental health care?We explore the concepts in a not-yet-published paper Jillian recently co-a...