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Podcast: The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum
Episode: When Queer Theory Meets Medical Practice: Aaron Kimberly On The Crisis In Transgender Health Care
Description: Aaron Kimberly is a mental health clinician with longtime experience providing care to transgender and gender questioning patients. He is also a trans man who made his transition fifteen years ago. In recent years, he has been speaking out against what has become the prevailing wisdom and standard protocol in transgender medicine: that people identifying as transgender, even adolescents and sometimes children, effectively "know who they are" and have a right to begin hormone therapy without comprehensive psychological assessment. Known as the affirmative care model, this approach has been promoted by activists and largely embraced by the medical establishment...