Reparative Therapist, Zucker, to Speak on GID in Adolescents in London

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On October 1st, London's Royal Society of Medicine is organising and hosting a one day conference entitled, "Gender Identity Disorder in Adolescents" at its Wimpole Street premises. The day will see many people speak on the topic, mostly from the UK and within the EU, but the opening talk of the first session, "Definition and spectrum of Gender Identity Disorder" is being given by Ken Zucker of the University of Toronto.

For those unfamiliar with him, he is perhaps best known in our community for advocating the use of reparative therapy on gender variant children. He has also been appointed by the American Psychiatric Association to head the task force responsible for updating the section on GID in the DSM-V, an appointment which has caused much controversy in the trans community.

The conference in London features many speakers who are likely to advocate a more sympathetic approach to gender variant children than psychologically abusing them with reparative therapy, but the appointment of Zucker to open the conference suggests that he and his methods are still taken somewhat seriously by those to whom the psychological care of gender variant children is entrusted.

The Royal Society of Medicine may be contacted at:

RSM
1 Wimpole Street
London
W1G 0AE
United Kingdom