Stephen Beck is an American healthcare executive and anti-transgender activist. Beck is a member of anti-trans hate group Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine (SEGM). Beck and spouse Sharon are unaccepting parents of a trans nonbinary child.
Background
Stephen Richard “Steve” Beck was born May 22, 1967. Beck earned a medical degree from University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 1992. Beck practices internal medicine in Ohio.
Beck is married to Sharon “Shari” Beck aka âMaria Polaris,â “Maria Borealis,” âMaria Veradisâ and a host of other pseudonyms, an anti-trans extremist affiliated with Cardinal Support Network and Parents of ROGD Kids.
Anti-transgender activism
Beck coathored a 2021 letter with SEGM members William J. Malone, Paul W. Hruz, and Julia W. Mason critical of clnical guidelines published by endocrinology groups.
References
Jones, Zinnia (January 31, 2024). âStill dreaming of running over the trans activistsâ: Sharon Beck, leader of anti-trans parent group Cardinal Support Network and wife of SEGMâs cofounder, âguidedâ Ohio Rep. Gary Click on his trans care ban. Gender Analysis https://genderanalysis.net/2024/01/still-dreaming-of-running-over-the-trans-activists-sharon-beck-leader-of-anti-trans-parent-group-cardinal-support-network-and-wife-of-segms-cofounder-guided/
SPLC (December 12, 2023). Group dynamics and division of labor within the anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience network. https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/defining-pseudoscience-network/
Jones, Zinnia (January 11, 2023). Anti-trans group SEGMâs cofounder Stephen Beck is an executive at Bon Secours Mercy Health, the fifth-largest Catholic healthcare network in the US. Gender Analysis https://genderanalysis.net/2023/01/anti-trans-group-segms-cofounder-stephen-beck-is-an-executive-at-bon-secours-mercy-health-the-fifth-largest-catholic-healthcare-network-in-the-us/
Selected writing by Beck
Abby Walch, Caroline Davidge-Pitts, Joshua D Safer, Ximena Lopez, Vin Tangpricha, Sean J Iwamoto (2021). Proper Care of Transgender and Gender Diverse Persons in the Setting of Proposed Discrimination: A Policy Perspective. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2021 Jan 23;106(2):305-308. https://doi.org/10.1210/clinem/dgaa816.
- William J. Malone, Paul W. Hruz, Julia W. Mason, and Stephen Beck (2021). Letter to the Editor from William J. Malone et al: âProper Care of Transgender and Gender-diverse Persons in the Setting of Proposed Discrimination: A Policy Perspectiveâ The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Volume 106, Issue 8, August 2021, Pages e3287âe3288, https://doi.org/10.1210/clinem/dgab205
- Abby Walch, Caroline Davidge-Pitts, Ximena Lopez, Vin Tangpricha, Sean J Iwamoto, Joshua D Safer (2021). Response to Letter to the Editor from Malone: âProper Care of Transgender and Gender Diverse Persons in the Setting of Proposed Discrimination: A Policy Perspective.â The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Volume 106, Issue 8, August 2021, Pages e3295âe3296, https://doi.org/10.1210/clinem/dgab206
Resources
GoFundMe (gofundme.com)
- Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities
- gofundme.com/f/js3kr-healthy-kids-healthy-communities
World Professional Association for Transgender Health (wpath.org)
- Stephen Beck, MD
- app.wpath.org/member/7537
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