This section is about academic psychiatry. For transition information please visit therapists specializing in gender issues.
Psychiatrists covered here
- John Bancroft, former Kinsey Institute director
- Susan Bradley, prominent promoter of reparative therapy for our children
- Collette Chiland, promoted gatekeeping and disease models
- Peter Collins, created the disease “gynandromorphophilia“
- Richard Green, founded journal dedicated to “the prevention of transsexualism”
- Stephen B. Levine, wrote pathologizing textbook
- Paul McHugh, world-renowned critic of transgender people
- Jon K. Meyer, proposed closing Johns Hopkins gender clinic in 1979
- Walter J. Meyer III, former head of WPATH
- Richard Pillard, sought genetic markers for sexual orientation
- Richard R. Pleak, advocate for affirmative models of care for youth
- Vernon Rosario, advocate for affirmative models of care for youth
- Alan Sanders, sought genetic markers for sexual orientation
- Chester W. Schmidt, Jr., another Johns Hopkins gatekeeper
- Betty Steiner, founded Clarke Institute gender clinic
- Thomas Szasz, leader of anti-psychiatry movement and critic of trans diagnoses
- Jack Turban, advocate for affirmative models of care for youth
- Thomas Wise, promoted pathologizing views of gender identity