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We must demand better theory, better research and much more careful practice. Last month I began, in the pages of this magazine, to share my deep concerns about the rapid ingress of the transgender movement into so many of our professional and…

En tant que psychologue clinicienne et pionnière de la recherche et du traitement du genre, je préférerais discuter avec mes collègues de la prolifération actuelle et du phénomène social de ce que l’on appelle la transition de genre, assister à des…

An article I didn't want to write I honestly do not want to be writing this article. As a clinical psychologist and pioneer in gender research and treatment, I would prefer to be discussing the current proliferation and social phenomenon…

A 21st century concept to represent and contain the fullness of human experience Your impression of how your own mind works needs to be updated. Stay with me to learn about this 21st century revision. I have developed this new perspective…

There is only the mattering map All over the planet, identity politics are pitting us against each other in ever increasingly proprietary action. I want to propose here that a “turning in” to one’s own identity group is an important…

How to hide a democracy that is not one The notion of political parties in the non-United States existing along a neat and orderly linear continuum from left to right (or right to left depending on your predilection I suppose)…

It is definitely nothing that has come before All of us alive on the planet today are part of the most significant transition in centuries, whether we know it or not, whether it has touched us lightly or heavily and…

The medicalization of our lives For several decades now, the idea of transitioning genders has been a minor, but accessible, one in the United States and other Western countries. To participate required surgical and hormonal treatments and the practice of…

With “alternative reality” on both sides Once, not so long ago, I was a very experienced psychologist, a researcher and a writer on an international scale. I specialized in issues of gender, which was a field that I helped found…

Or is it? I am writing these words on the first day of a new year, indeed a new decade well into the 21st century CE in the West. I struggle to deliver the hopeful and optimistic message that is expected…