Dianna T. Kenny is an Australian psychologist and anti-transgender extremist. Kenny was a member of the anti-trans organization Pediatric and Adolescent Gender Dysphoria Working Group and is an ambassador to Australian anti-trans hate group Binary. Kenny contributed a chapter to a 2018 anti-trans book edited by Michele Moore and Heather Brunskell-Evans and has contributed to anti-trans blog Gender Clinic News by Bernard Lane.
Background
Dianna Theadora Kenny earned a bachelor’s degree from University of Sydney in 1975, followed by training in music and education. Kenny then attended Macquarie University, earning a master’s degree in 1980 and a doctorate in 1988. While in school, Kenny worked in troubled students. Kenny taught at University of Sydney from 1988 to 2019. In 2019 Kenny founded DK Consulting.
Selected writing by Kenny
Kenny, Dianna (February 4, 2025). Disoriented doctors: Trans social contagion affects not only teenage patients but the medical profession. Gender Clinic News https://www.genderclinicnews.com/p/disoriented-doctors
Kenny D (2025). Psychotherapy for Gender Dysphoric Young People: It Is Not About Gender. MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202508.0272.v1
Kenny, Dianna (August 15, 2024). Gender gymnastics: Society has tumbled off the vaulting horse of reality. Gender Clinic News https://www.genderclinicnews.com/p/gender-gymnastics
Kenny, Dianna (July 8, 2024). Not born this way: The psychic pandemic that drives transgender medicalisation can be arrested, but it demands sane leadership at the top as well as sensitive therapy. Gender Clinic News https://www.genderclinicnews.com/p/not-born-this-way
Kenny, Dianna (2021). The social contagion of gender dysphoria. https://diannakenny.com.au/the-social-contagion-of-gender-dysphoria/
Kenny, D. T. (2019). Gender development and the transgendering of children. In M. Moore & H. Brunskell-Evans (Eds.), Inventing transgender children and young people (pp. 93–107). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Books
Kenny, Dianna (2025) InTRANSigence: Gender Ideology, Social Contagion, and the Making of a Transgender Generation. Independently published, ISBN 979-8262604371
- Kenny, Dianna (2024). Gender Ideology, Social Contagion, and the Making of a Transgender Generation. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ISBN 978-1036414788
Media
TERF Talk Down Under (September 15, 2022). TERF Talk #48 Dr Dianna Kenny, the truth about gender dysphoria. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZbEsaJMvRU
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