Doctor’s in the Know!
Illuminations with Dr. Caretto and Medically Speaking…
The Mind, the Body and Trans Health.
Understanding the Impact of Restricted Trans Health Care
Over the past year, the Trevor Project reported that 1 in every 5 trans and nonbinary young person attempted suicide over the past year, twice the rate that of their cisgender peers. Not only does the population face high mental health risks, they also face barriers...
Illuminations with Dr. Caretto: Mental Illness
Illuminations with Dr. Caretto: Standards of Care 8, Part 2Missed Standards of Care 8, Part 1? Read the entry. I will now talk about the suggestions for SOC8 which I see as potentially controversial. The two general areas of debate can be divided into those that are...
Illuminations with Dr. Caretto: Standards of Care 8, Part 2
Illuminations with Dr. Caretto: Standards of Care 8, Part 2Missed Standards of Care 8, Part 1? Read the entry. I will now talk about the suggestions for SOC8 which I see as potentially controversial. The two general areas of debate can be divided into those that are...
Illuminations with Dr. Caretto: Bell vs Tavistock overturned!
Posted by Cameron Parkins Illuminations with Dr. Caretto: Bell vs Tavistock overturned! In 2004, I attended my first conferenceabout gender dysphoric youth in London at The Tavistock and Portman Clinic (“Tavistock”). It was so informative that I spent the...
Medically Speaking – Call to action: Improving transgender health education
Posted by Cameron Parkins Medically Speaking -- A call to action: Improving transgender health education in US medical schools The American College of Physicians and other medical institutions have widely voiced support of incorporating transgender health...
Illuminations with Dr. Caretto: More Than One Way To Be Trans
Posted by Cameron Parkins Everything old is new again: More Than One Way To Be Trans In his 1966 book, The Transsexual Phenomenon, Dr. Harry Benjamin’s defined 6 types of (male to female) transsexuals: Transvestite of the pseudo type; Transvestite of the...
Medically Speaking: Gender-Affirming Voice Care
Posted by Cameron Parkins Gender-affirming voice care Many gender expansive individuals will choose to pursue medical and surgical interventions to better align their outward appearance with their gender identity. Many options for gender-affirming care exist...
Illuminations with Dr. Caretto: Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria
Posted by Cameron Parkins This is the third installment addressing the myth of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria. The first addressed the myth of social contagion and the second talked about how to evaluate a research article, using the example of Lisa Littman’s...
Illuminations: Evaluating Research Articles
Posted by Cameron Parkins In this installment of Illuminations, I would like to educate readers on how to evaluate research articles. I will use Lisa Littman's (first) article on Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD) as an example because so many anti-trans...
Medically Speaking: Providing Gender Affirming Care
Posted by Cameron Parkins "Medically Speaking" is a new column by Dr. Daniel Shumer and members of the Child and Adolescent Gender Clinic team at the University of Michigan. On April 6, 2021, the Arkansas State Legislature passed a bill making it illegal for...
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