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150 - The Consumerism of Gender-Affirming Care with Leor Sapir

Gender: A Wider Lens

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Challenging the notion of parental pressure in gender clinics

Insights from the world of gender medicine suggest that there is a significant amount of pressure on parents to agree to medical interventions for their children once they step foot in gender clinics. Accounts from a closed gender clinic in St. Louis indicate that parents, especially skeptical fathers, were often sidelined and pressured to agree to hormone treatments for their children.

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