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Lee Willerman was an American psychology professor and eugenicist known for work on twin studies. Willerman was dissertation advisor and mentor for anti-transender psychologist J. Michael Bailey, who has published work on eugenic ideologies.

Background

Willerman was born on July 26, 1939 and grew up in Chicago. Willerman earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Roosevelt University in 1961 and 1964 respectively. Willerman earned a doctorate from Wayne State University in 1967. After a three-year stint at National Institutes of Health, Willerman completed a post-doctoral year at the University of Michigan in the Department of Human Genetics. In 1971 Willerman took a position at University of Texas at Austin, remaining there until dying at age 57 on January 10, 1997.

Eugenics

In 1974, Willerman joined the American Eugenics Society, and Willerman subsequent work involved eugenics-themed hypotheses. Willerman’s first study examined IQ and birth weight differences between identical twins, finding that the twin who had been heavier at birth tended to be higher in IQ. Willerman worked with Joseph M. Horn and John C. Loehlin on a major study of adoptive families, the Texas Adoption Project. Much of this work involved psychometrics and research into neuroanatomical predictors of intelligence.

Interracial offspring of white mothers obtained significantly higher IQ scores at 4 years of age than interracial offspring of Negro mothers, suggesting that environmental factors play an important role in the lower intellectual performance of Negro children.

Willerman (1970)

Willerman also had a hypothesis that tangled capillaries in fingernail beds were evidence for a likelihood of schizophrenia, because similar capillaries in the brain were “allowing free radicals to leak into the brain.”

Eugenicists and hereditarians have long recognized the value of twin studies because they provide a natural control for experiments. Bailey’s initial work on twins led to several papers on the heritability of “homosexuality.”

Willerman and J. Michael Bailey

Willerman seems to have been a parental figure for Bailey, shaping views and setting Bailey on a hereditarian career path:

My advisor, Lee Willerman, was a much better role model. Lee was one of the most intellectually and personally delightful people I’ve ever met, and he led me to discover a love of individual differences·IQ, sex differences, psychopathology, behavior genetics, etc. And he taught me the human sexuality course when I learned about an interesting theory of sexual orientation, which I investigated for my dissertation. The theory involved maternal prenatal stress, and I found no evidence for it. However, I loved the research area, and have stayed there, more or less.

Bailey has since published eugenic articles:

  • stating it is “morally acceptable” to screen for and abort gay fetuses: “selection for heterosexuality may benefit parents and children and is unlikely to cause significant harm.”
  • arguing that “offering sex offenders the opportunity to be castrated in return for a reduced sentence is not ethically problematic coercion.”

References

Bailey JM (2003). Personal information. via his Northwestern University website. https://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/JMichael-Bailey/personal.html [archive]

Loehlin JC, Horn JM, Schultz R, Raz N, Bailey JM (1997). Lee Willerman (1939-1997). Intelligence, 1997, 24, 323-328.

Faulkner LR, Durbin JR Lee Willerman obituary via University of Texas at Austin.

Freeman, Karen (January 31, 1997) Lee Willerman, 57, Authority On Genes’ Role in Intelligence. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/31/us/lee-willerman-57-authority-on-genes-role-in-intelligence.html

Willerman L, Naylor AF, Myrianthopoulos NC (1974). Intellectual development of children from interracial matings: Performance in infancy and at 4 years. Behavior Genetics volume 4, pages83–90 (1974) https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01066706

Willerman L, Naylor AF, Myrianthopoulos NC (1970). Intellectual Development of Children from Interracial Matings. Science Vol 170, Issue 3964 pp. 1329-1331 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.170.3964.1329

Twin studies via bookrags.com http://www.bookrags.com/sciences/genetics/twin-studies-wog.html

Resources

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

Gender Dysphoria Support Network (GDSN) is a website run by anti-transgender extremists. GDSN is closely aligned with global anti-trans ringleader Stella O’Malley.

GDSN was founded in March 2020. The site was later redirected to Beyond Trans.

Open letters

GDSN published a 2022 open letter by Stella O’Malley of Genspect titled “An Open Letter to Pediatric Gender Clinics.”

GDSN published a 2021 open letter critical of EPATH and signed by anti-trans activist groups.

Signatories:

GDSN recommendations

The GDSN site recommends like-minded anti-trans extremism

Books

Podcasts

Films

  • Trans Kids: It’s time to talk
  • Dysphoric (a four-part documentary series)
  • The Trans Train (a three-part Swedish documentary series with English subtitles)
  • Trans Mission – What’s the rush to reassign gender?

YouTube

In the media

  • The Federalist – Is transgender the new anorexia?
  • The Economist – An English Ruling on Transgender Teens Could Have Global Repercussions
  • Newsweek – We need balance when it comes to gender dysphoric kids
  • Quillette – No one is born in the wrong body
  • The Sunday Times – The Detransitioners
  • Public Discourse – The Impossibility of Informed Consent for Transgender Interventions
  • Sexology Today – Do trans-kids stay trans- when they grow up?

Key studies

  • Lisa Littman – Parent reports of adolescents and young adults perceived to show signs of a rapid onset of gender dysphoria
  • SEGM – Correction of a Key Study: No Evidence of “Gender-Affirming” Surgeries Improving Mental Health
  • Lisa Marchiano – Outbreak: On Transgender Teens and Epidemics
  • Roberto D’Angelo, Ema Syrulnik, Sasha Ayad, Lisa Marchiano, Dianna Theadora Kenny & Patrick Clarke – One Size Does Not Fit All: In Support of Psychotherapy for Gender Dysphoria
  • Anastassis Spiliadis – ‘Taking the lid off the box’: The value of extended clinical assessment for adolescents presenting with gender identity difficulties
  • Elie Vandenbussche – Detransition-Related Needs and Support: A Cross-Sectional Online Survey

Recommended Online Reading

  • Transgender terminology
  • Top ten tips for parents
  • Lisa Marchiano – Guidance for Parents of Teens with Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria
  • Lisa Marchiano – New Guidance for Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria
  • Lisa Marchiano – Should I take testosterone?
  • Sasha Ayad – Finding Support at Home and Beyond
  • Carey Callahan – Advice for gender dysphoric teens
  • Stella O’Malley – ‘Gaslighting the Concerned Parents of Trans Children – A Psychotherapist’s View

Exploring Specific Issues

  • Puberty Blockers – I couldn’t sit by while so many others made the same mistake: Keira Bell
  • Autism – Autism, Puberty, and Gender Dysphoria: Elizabeth Hawker
  • Gender-questioning Boys (Angus Fox) – When Sons Become Daughters: Parents of transitioning boys speak out on their own suffering
  • Gender-questioning Boys – Masculinity, anime and gender dysphoria
  • Suicidality – Suicide facts and myths, Gender dysphoria and suicide
  • Parental Alienation – Trans kids may reject family, not the other way around

Detransition

  • Elle Palmer – Channel
  • Daisy Chadra – Channel
  • DeTrans Stories: Suffering & Sincerity with Torren
  • Detransition: The Elephant in the Room Documentary

Other organizations listed

GDSN lists other anti-trans resources

INTERNATIONAL

  • Gender Critical Resources Support Board
  • Oasis: A Place for Parents (Facebook group)
  • Our Duty – UK , USA, Australia, Canada
  • Parents of ROGD Kids
  • Amanda Familias

BY COUNTRY

  • Cry For Recognition (Belgium)
  • No Corpo Certo (Brazil)
  • Kirjo (Finland)
  • Ypomoni (France)
  • Transteens Sorge berechtigt (Germany)
  • Genitori De Gender (Italy)
  • Aotearoa Support (NZ)
  • Genid: Gender Identity Challenge – Norway, Sweden
  • AMQG (Switzerland)
  • Bayswater Support Group (UK)
  • Cardinal Support Network (US – Ohio)

INTERNATIONAL

BY COUNTRY

Resources

Gender Dysphoria Support Network (genderdysphoriasupportnetwork.com) [archive]

X/Twitter (x.com)

Open Therapy Institute (OTI) is an American psychology organization associated with several anti-transgender activists.

Do not go to people associated with Open Therapy Institute for therapy. If you are a minor forced to see an OTI therapist, do everything in your power to end the sessions and find a supportive local therapist.

Background

OTI is based in New York City. It operates on the belief that “political ideologies have become unquestionable orthodoxies,” stating on their site:

As mental health care becomes more political and one-sided, many clinical issues are going unaddressed. As political ideologies have become unquestionable orthodoxies throughout society, more people are struggling but patients are having a harder time finding therapists who are truly open, empathic, and supportive. As more organizations have become ideologically stifling, people are struggling to find innovate ways to keep the workplace free, nuanced, and truly inclusive of all viewpoints. Many people are looking for thoughtful solutions to address new challenges, and tools from clinical psychology are often indispensable.

People

Team

  • Andrew Hartz, founder
  • Sally Satel, senior advisor
  • Warren Procci, senior advisor
  • Ira Moses, senior advisor
  • Larry Amsel, senior advisor
  • Val Thomas, senior advisor
  • Pamela Paresky, senior advisor
  • Camilo Ortiz, clinical director
  • Richard Redding, head of research
  • Craig Frisby, head of research
  • Michael Strambler
  • Chloe Carmichael
  • Neil Kressel
  • Paul Garcia-Ryan
  • Katherine Cullen

People listed as OTI scholars include:

OTI has been promoted in the media by a number of anti-trans activists, including:

References

Satel, Sally; Redding Richard (February 27, 2023). Are Florida Universities Training Therapists to Be Political Activists? National Review https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/02/are-florida-universities-training-therapists-to-be-political-activists/

Resources

Open Therapy Institute (opentherapyinstitute.org)

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Margaret Nichols is an American psychologist and sex therapist who specializes in LGBTQ+ clients, “including kink and consensual nonmonogamy (swinging, polyamory, etc.).”

Background

Margaret E. “Margie” Nichols Jacobson was born in 1947. Nichols attended Radcliffe College before earning a bachelor’s degree from New York University in 1970. Nichols earned a doctorate from Columbia University in 1981 and is a licensed therapist in New Jersey. Nichols did post-doctoral work in sex therapy at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, now part of Rutgers School of Biomedical and Health Sciences.

In 1983 Nichols founded the Institute for Personal Growth. In 1985, Nichols was a founder and the first director of the Hyacinth AIDS Foundation. Nichols became a diplomate of the American Board of Sexology in 1985.

In 2003 Nichols became an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and became a Certified Sex Therapy Supervisor in 2011.

Review of Alice Dreger

In 2008, Nichols published a scathing commentary on a paper by Alice Dreger that attacked trans critics of The Man Who Would Be Queen. Nichols’ review describes and contextualizes Dreger’s activism within the history of disease models of gender identity and expression.

Review of Anne Lawrence

In 2013, Nichols published a review of Men Trapped in Men’s Bodies: Narratives of Autogynephilic Transsexualism, a book by Anne Lawrence. The review describes and contextualizes Lawrence’s “autogynephilia” activism within the history of disease models of gender identity and expression.

References

Nichols, Margaret (2016). The Great Escape: Welcome to the World of Gender Fluidity. Psychotherapy Networker, March/April 2016. http://ipgcounseling.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Great-Escape-Welcome-to-the-World-of-Gender-Fluidity-By-Margaret-Nichols.pdf

Nichols ME, Fedor JP (2015). Sex Therapy with Clients Who Practice “Kink.” https://ipgcounseling.com/wp-content/uploads/SexTherapyWithClientsWhoPracticeKink.pdf

Nichols, Margaret (2014). Therapy with LGBTQ Clients:  Working with Sex and Gender Variance from a Queer Theory Model. published in Principles and Practice of Sex Therapy, Fifth Edition, edited by Yitzchak M. Binik and Kathryn Hall, Guilford Press, ISBN 978-1462513673

Nichols M (2013). A Review of “Men Trapped in Men’s Bodies: Narratives of Autogynephilic Transsexualism.” Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 40:1:71-73. https://doi.org/10.1080/0092623X.2013.854559

Nichols M (2008). Dreger on the Bailey Controversy: Lost in the Drama, Missing the Big Picture. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 2008 Jun;37(3):476-80; discussion 505-10. [PDF] https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-008-9329-x

Nichols M (2006). Psychotherapeutic Issues with “Kinky” Clients. Journal of Homosexuality, 50(2–3), 281–300. https://doi.org/10.1300/j082v50n02_14

Nichols, Margaret; Shernoff, Michael (2006). Therapy with Sexual Minorities: Queering Practice. In In S. R. Leiblum (Ed.), Principles and practice of sex therapy (4th ed., pp. 379–415). The Guilford Press, ISBN 978-1593853495

Nichols ME (2000). Sex Therapy with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered and “Kinky” Clients. published in Principles and Practice of Sex Therapy, Third Edition, edited by Sandra Leiblum and Ray Rosen, Guilford Press, ISBN 978-1572305748

Media

TEDx Talks (March 30, 2015). Beyond the Gender Binary | Dr. Margaret Nichols | TEDxJerseyCity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MUIYlaWVUk

Resources

Dr. Margie Nichols (drmargienichols.com)

Institute for Personal Growth (ipgcounseling.com)

Hyacinth (hyacinth.org)

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Jerry T. Lawler is a conservative Catholic American psychologist who is involved in the “ex-transgender” movement. Similar to the ex-gay movement, it is a group of people who believe they have been cured of being trans, either through “desistance” or “detransition.” Lawler offers faith-based therapy to “cure” gender diverse people.

Background

Jerome Timothy Lawler was born in August 1942. Lawler earned a bachelor’s degree from University of Wisconsin Madison in 1964. Twenty-five years later Lawler returned to school, earning a master’s degree from San Jose State University in 1990 and a doctorate from California School of Professional Psychology in 1994.

Since 2017 Lawler has offered therapy as a Licensed Graduate Professional Counselor (LGPC) at Safe Harbor Christian Counseling in Glen Burnie, Maryland.

Anti-transgender activism

Lawler was a founding member of the International Association of Therapists for Desisters and Detransitioners, an anti-transgender front group focused on the “ex-transgender” movement. Lawler is also associated with Therapy First (and its predecessor Gender Exploratory Therapy Association) and Beyond Trans. Lawler was a signatory on the Beyond WPATH open letter criticizing WPATH, and WHO Decides, a petition critical of a World Health Organization panel on trans healthcare.

In 2024, Lawler published an anti-trans paper with Chan Kulatunga-Moruzi on healthcare for trans and gender diverse youth. That year, Lawler also testified in support of Maryland HB 722, along with Jamie Reed, Ismail Royer, Lisa Geraghty, and Henry Mosley.

References

Staff report (February 21, 2024 ). Bipartisan bill seeks to ban chemical, surgical gender and sex transition procedures on minors without parental consent. NottinghamMD.com nottinghammd.com/2024/02/21/bipartisan-bill-seeks-to-ban-chemical-surgical-gender-and-sex-transition-procedures-on-minors-without-parental-consent/

Coverage in anti-trans press

Sprinkle, Preston; Eddy, Paul (March 24, 2021). Less Than Affirming: Perspectives Beyond the Gender Affirmative-only Model of Care for Trans* and Gender Dysphoric People. Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender https://www.centerforfaith.com/blog/less-than-affirming-perspectives-beyond-the-gender-affirmative-only-model-of-care-for-trans-and

McCarthy, S.A. (February 23, 2024). Maryland Dems Back Bill Requiring Parental Consent for Gender Transition Procedures on Minors. The Washington Stand https://washingtonstand.com/news/maryland-dems-back-bill-requiring-parental-consent-for-gender-transition-procedures-on-minors

Selected anti-trans writing by Lawler

Kulatunga Moruzi C, Lawler J (2025). Frailties of Memory: Implications for Therapists Treating Gender Dysphoric Youth. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy  Volume 51, 2025 – Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1080/0092623X.2024.2406854

GETA signatories including Lawler (September 11, 2022). Re: Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex in Education Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance; RIN: 1870-AA16; Docket ID No. ED-2021-OCR-0166 https://www.therapyfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Attachment-1_GETA-Title-IX-Comment.pdf

Resources

Safe Harbor Christian Counseling (safeharbor1.com)

LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

International Association of Therapists for Desisters and Detransitioners (iatdd.com)

  • Dr Jerry T. Lawler [archive]
  • iatdd.com/dr-jerry-t-lawler

Beyond Trans (beyondtrans.org)

Therapy First (therapyfirst.org)

Crisis Magazine (crisismagazine.com)

Anti-transgender activist Debra Soh hosted a podcast from 2021 to early 2023. Guests included many other key members of the anti-transgender movement.

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2022

2021

Sallie Baxendale is a British psychologist and anti-transgender activist.

Background

Sallie Ann Baxendale earned a bachelor’s degree from University of Surrey in 1990, followed by a master’s degree there in 1992. Baxendale earned a doctorate from UCL in 1997.

Much of Baxendale’s research involves epilepsy and brain development.

Anti-transgender activism

Baxendale began appearing in anti-trans media in 2021, starting with Transgender Trend.

Baxendale supports the ex-transgender movement and is critical of gender affirming healthcare for minors, especially use of puberty blockade. Baxendale was alarmed that some people describe puberty blockade as “fully reversible.”

Baxendale was an invited speaker at a 2023 anti-trans conference organized by the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM).

Since 2023 Baxendale has contributed to anti-trans publication UnHerd,

In 2024 Baxendale published a summary of the 2024 Acta Paediatrica literature review (described below) on anti-trans site Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender (CAN-SG).

2024 puberty blockade literature review

In 2024 conservative Swedish psychiatrist Mikael Landén leaked a pre-publication paper by Baxendale to anti-trans activist Bernard Lane. Baxendale’s academic literature review reflected Landén’s view that puberty blockade should be strictly controlled because of unknown risks, particularly cognitive effects.

On the day of publication, Baxendale published a piece in UnHerd about how this puberty blockade literature review was rejected by three journals as well as accepted by Acta Paediatrica, which previously promoted more gatekeeping of healthcare for gender diverse youth in Sweden’s healthcare system. Baxendale claimed, “it wasn’t the methods they objected to, it was the actual findings.” Of the rejection reasons that Baxendale shared, all were about the obvious bias of the author and the stigmatizing potential from how the material is tendentiously presented.

The obvious and simple answer is to skip puberty blockers and go straight to hormones. Baxendale cites studies about young people who experience central precocious puberty having more robust brain development and cognition, so Baxendale has made a strong case for use of puberty-inducing drugs in all minors who desire improved cognition and IQ.

References

Baxendale, Sallie (March 20, 2024). We’ve learned nothing about puberty blockers: Gids clinicians have left a vacuum of data. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2024/03/weve-learned-nothing-about-puberty-blockers/

Baxendale, Sallie (February 19, 2024). Why did three journals reject my puberty-blocker study? Trans children deserve to know the facts. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2024/02/why-did-three-journals-reject-my-puberty-blocker-study/

Baxendale, S. (2024). The impact of suppressing puberty on neuropsychological function: A review. Acta Paediatrica. https://doi.org/10.1111/apa.17150

  • Gender diverse youth studies cited:
  • Staphorsius AS, Kreukels BPC, Cohen-Kettenis PT, Veltman DJ, Burke SM, Schagen SEE, Wouters FM, Delemarre-van de Waal HA, Bakker J (2015). Puberty suppression and executive functioning: An fMRI-study in adolescents with gender dysphoria. Psychoneuroendocrinology (Vol. 56, pp. 190–199). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2015.03.007
  • Arnoldussen M, Hooijman EC, Kreukels BP, de Vries AL (2022). Association between pre-treatment IQ and educational achievement after gender-affirming treatment including puberty suppression in transgender adolescents. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry (Vol. 27, Issue 4, pp. 1069–1076). SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.1177/13591045221091652
  • Schneider MA, Spritzer PM, Soll BMB, Fontanari AMV, Carneiro M, Tovar-Moll F, Costa AB, da Silva DC, Schwarz K. Anes M, Tramontina S, Lobato, MIR (2017). Brain Maturation, Cognition and Voice Pattern in a Gender Dysphoria Case under Pubertal Suppression. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (Vol. 11). Frontiers Media SA. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00528

Baxendale, Sallie (January 21, 2024). Research Raises Concerns About the Impact of Puberty Blockers on the Development of Cognitive Function. CAN-SG https://can-sg.org/2024/01/21/puberty-blockers-and-teenage-brain-development/

Lane, Bernard (January 17, 2024). Evidently correct: New support for brain studies: the WHO steers clear of paediatric transition. Gender Clinic News https://www.genderclinicnews.com/p/evidently-correct

Manning, Sanchez (January 13, 2024). Puberty blockers given to children who say they were born in the wrong body and want to ‘change gender’ may lower their’ IQs. Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12960869/Puberty-blockers-given-children-say-born-wrong-body-want-change-gender-lower-IQs.html

Baxendale, Sallie (July 7, 2023). Doctors have failed detransitioners. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2023/07/doctors-have-failed-detransitioners/

Baxendale, Sallie (July 26, 2023). Has Gids learned from its failure? UnHerd https://unherd.com/2023/07/has-gids-learned-from-its-failure/

Baxendale, Sallie (July 1, 2021). The Teenage Brain. Transgender Trend https://www.transgendertrend.com/teenage-brain/

Media

Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (January 16, 2024). SEGM NYC23 – Sallie Baxendale – The Effect of Puberty Blockers on the Teenage Brain. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5ZnRKqqByg

Resources

University College London Hospitals (uclh.nhs.uk)

  • Sallie Baxendale
  • uclh.nhs.uk/our-services/find-consultant/professor-sallie-baxendale

Google Scholar (scholar.google.com)

ResearchGate (researchgate.net)

UnHerd (unherd.com)

Robert Withers is a British psychologist and anti-transgender activist.

Withers was a member of the anti-trans organization Pediatric and Adolescent Gender Dysphoria Working Group.

Background

Robert “Bob” Withers earned a master’s degree from University of Sussex.

Withers helped establish the Rock Clinic in Kemp Town in 1990.

Anti-trans activism

In 2015, Withers published an article titled “The seventh penis,” which was later withdrawn over patient consent issues:

The above article published online on 19 May 2015 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), and in print and online in issue 60:3 (cover date June 2015) has been withdrawn by agreement between the author, the journal’s Editors-in-Chief, Marcus West and Nora Swan-Foster, and John Wiley & Sons Limited. The withdrawal has been agreed because consent to publish was not obtained. The author and the journal apologize for this oversight.

References

Flourish, Clare (July 26, 2020). Robert Withers. https://clareflourish.wordpress.com/2020/07/26/robert-withers-transgender-professional-standards/

Admin (Sep 13, 2021). The full story: the misconduct of anti-trans psychotherapist Robert Withers. We talk with Ms. A. Transiness https://www.transiness.com/post/the-full-story-the-misconduct-of-anti-trans-psychotherapist-robert-withers-we-talk-with-ms-a

Withers R (2020). Transgender medicalization and the attempt to evade psychological distress. J Anal Psychol. 2020 Nov;65(5):865-889. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.12641

Withers R (2015). The seventh penis: towards effective psychoanalytic work with pre-surgical transsexuals. J Anal Psychol. 2015 Jun;60(3):390-412. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.12157.

Withdrawal statement: R. Withers, ‘The seventh penis: towards effective psychoanalytic work with pre-surgical transsexuals’, Journal of Analytical Psychology, 2015, 60, 3, 390-412, (https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.12157).

Resources

Rock Clinic Association (rockclinic.org.uk)

Jungian Therapy Sussex (jungiantherapysussex.info)

  • Bob Withers
  • http://www.jungiantherapysussex.info/our-therapists/bob-withers/

Twitter (twitter.com)

Anastassis Spiliadis is a Greek anti-transgender psychologist who supports the “ex-transgender” movement and promotes a form of delayed transition for gender diverse youth called “gender exploratory therapy.” Spiliadis was a member of the anti-trans organization Pediatric and Adolescent Gender Dysphoria Working Group.

Anastassis Spiliadis’ name is sometimes styled Anastasios Spiliadis and is Αναστάσης Σπηλιάδης in Greek.

Background

Spiliadis was born in July 1987. After earning a bachelor’s degree from National University of Athens (NKUA/Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών), Spiliadis earned master’s degrees from Kings College London, Westminster University, and Imperial College London.

Spiliadis has held a number of roles within the UK’s National Health Service. Spiliadis has worked at the Maudsley Centre for Child & Adolescent Eating Disorders (MCCAED).

Spiliadis also worked for four years at the infamous Tavistock Centre Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS).

Anti-trans activism

Spiliadis supports the disputed diagnosis “rapid onset gender dysphoria” and urged for more research in the anti-trans publication Archives of Sexual Behavior. That journal’s stated goal since its founding has been “the prevention of transsexualism.”

Spiliadis is a founding member of “ex-trans” organizations International Association of Therapists for Desisters and Detransitioners, and the Institute for Comprehensive Gender Dysphoria Research. Spiliadis is also associated with the website Detrans Foundation.

Spiliadis is a member of the Institute of Mental Health for Children and Adults in Athens, Greece. Spiliadis is based in London and in Athens.

References

United Nations Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity – IESOGI. Report on Conversion Therapy. https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Issues/SexualOrientation/ConversionTherapyReport.pdf

Hutchinson A, Migden M, Spiliadis A (2020). In Support of Research Into Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria. Archives of Sexual Behavior 2020 Jan;49(1):79-80. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-019-01517-9

Spiliadis A (2019). Towards a Gender Exploratory Model: slowing things down, opening things up and exploring identity development. Metalogos (35). https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Issues/SexualOrientation/IESOGI/Other/Rebekah_Murphy_TowardsaGenderExploratoryModelslowingthingsdownopeningthingsupandexploringidentitydevelopment.pdf

Ashley F (2022). Interrogating Gender-Exploratory Therapy. Perspectives on Psychological Science, Volume 18, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916221102325

Resources

ICF Consultations (icf-consultations.com)

  • ICF = Individual, Couple, Family

Detrans Foundation (detransfoundation.com)

International Association of Therapists for Desisters and Detransitioners (iatdd.com)

  • Anastassis Spiliadis
  • iatdd.com/anastassis-spiliadis [archive]

Tania Marshall is an Australian therapist and anti-transgender activist.

Marshall was a member of the anti-trans organization Pediatric and Adolescent Gender Dysphoria Working Group.

Background

Marshall attended University of Calgary, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1998 and an master’s degree in 2002.

Marshall has written frequently about neurodiversity.

Resources

Substack (substack.com)

LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

Tania A. Marshall (taniaannmarshall.wpcomstaging.com)