825: The Ethics of Medical Interventions for Trans* Identified Kids: Jane Wheeler
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🗓️ 26 October 2020
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Summary
Jane Wheeler is the founder and President of Rethink Medical Identity Ethics (https://rethinkime.org), which is a a non-profit research and education organization dedicated to improving and optimizing ethical long term care and treatment for gender variant children, adolescents and youth. Jane practiced law for many years as a corporate regulatory healthcare attorney in licensing, standards of care and informed consent. She was a board member of Lawyers for Human Rights (now the Los Angeles LGBT Bar Association) and served on GLAAD/LA Women’s Committee. She received her J.D. from UCLA Law School and has a B.A. from University of Arizona in Anthropology. She currently works as a consultant for non-profits in the area of funding for health and education related programs and projects, and mom to two teenagers.
In this episode, we talk about her work at ReIME, the facts about puberty blockers and cross sex hormones, current problems with how trans* identified kids are being treated, and how we can best care for trans* and gender non-conforming kids.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends, welcome back to another episode of Theology in the raw. I have on the |
| 0:04.0 | show today Jane Wheeler. Jane Wheeler is the founder and president of |
| 0:10.6 | Rethink Identity Medical Ethics. If you go to RethinkIME.org you can check out |
| 0:16.7 | the work that she has involved in and it's just it's a fantastic |
| 0:21.8 | organization that she has started and the main thing that it addresses is |
| 0:27.0 | some of the ethical questions surrounding medical interventions with teenagers |
| 0:34.5 | who are gender non-conforming or identify as transgender or non-binary. It's a |
| 0:41.8 | huge conversation happening in certain spheres of the medical field and Jane |
| 0:47.1 | is navigating that extremely well I think. She's very sharp very wise. She has a |
| 0:53.8 | well I talk about her credentials in the podcast but yeah she got her JD from |
| 0:58.6 | UCLA law school super smart super awesome and actually the the topic that we're |
| 1:04.6 | going to discuss I get into a lot of the same stuff we talk about here in my |
| 1:09.3 | fourth coming book embodied transgender identities the church and what the |
| 1:13.6 | Bible has to say. Now Jane is not she's not a religious person doesn't |
| 1:19.3 | have like a Christian faith commitment in fact she's a lesbian with two |
| 1:24.1 | teenage sons and so she's coming out this strictly from kind of a scientific |
| 1:30.6 | point of view. Now my book I do come at it from a Christian point of view but I do |
| 1:34.6 | deal a lot with a lot of the scientific research the data and actually a lot |
| 1:39.8 | of the stuff we talk about in this podcast I do have a couple chapters that |
| 1:43.5 | that does get into some of the questions surrounding medical interventions with |
| 1:48.6 | trans identified teenagers so this is very this is very relevant to my fourth |
| 1:54.7 | coming book what you can check out where books are sold play Amazon maybe |
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