Hello, it's me, Jesse Single. Without my usual co-host, Katie Herzog. I feel...

Unencumbered. This is a special bonus episode of Blotten reported,

an interview with one of my favorite youth gender clinicians. I met Dr. Erica Anderson for lunch

in San Francisco when I was working on my story in the Atlantic about youth gender dysphoria back

in 2018. Dr. Anderson is her self-trans. She transitioned as an adult, despite what she viewed as

unfair and overly harsh gatekeeping and questioning. And in both my conversations with her and the

quote she's given to other journalists, she has always come across as a deeply thoughtful,

kind individual, one who's willing to stick her neck out a bit so as to communicate the full

complexity and nuance of what she does for a living. Since youth gender dysphoria has become such a

raging, culture war-infused controversy, and because mainstream coverage of it is almost

universally abysmal, I invited her on the podcast for a long, wide-ranging conversation about her

work and was quite grateful she accepted. Dr. Anderson is a veritable encyclopedia of knowledge

on the subject, given her years of clinical experience and given that she works with young people

ranging from just two or three all the way up to young adults. Here's a quick rundown of her

background before we get to the interview itself. Dr. Erica E. Anderson serves on the medical staff

of the University of California San Francisco Benioff Children's Hospital in behavioral pediatrics,

where she works in the child and adolescent gender clinic in pediatric endocrinology.

She also has a private consulting practice pertaining to LGBT issues. Dr. Anderson has a PhD in

clinical psychology, a master's in theology, and has spent four decades working in health psychology,

public health, healthcare management, and pediatrics. She is currently writing not one but two

books, a memoir, and a book on transgender sexuality. This brief intro only captures a tiny fraction

of what Dr. Anderson has done in her life. She's a fascinating person and I highly recommend you

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