A series of lawsuits are threatening to upend gender-affirming care as patients who regret their

transitions take aim at the therapists and surgeons who brought them there.

Welcome to the Carlet Psychiatry Podcast, keeping psychiatry honest since 2003.

I'm Chris Hagan, the editor-in-chief of the Carlat Psychiatry Report.

And I'm Kelly Newsom, a psychiatric MP and a dedicated reader of every issue.

2006 has been a year of change for gender-affirming care,

and in this podcast series, we're going to bring you up to speed on the

controversy. You'll hear from patients who found new life after transition, and from rare cases where

people felt deceived and later detransitioned. You'll learn how lawsuits and legislation are

threatening to shut down gender affirming care, forcing the president of the U.S.

Association into exile.

We're not going to take sides.

We'll cover problems in the science of gender-affirming care that the movement tried to conceal,

but both sides have worked to suppress information, and we're going to apply equal scrutiny to the

politicians who've distorted these treatments, rebranding them as forced sterilization and

surgical mutilation, and even attempting to censor this podcast. Come along as we walk the line

between transition and mutilation, optimism and therapeutic overreach,

identity and diagnosis. And at the end of the episode, a research update on GLP1 agonists in depression.

But first, let's clarify some terms. Non-binary refers to people who don't identify within the

exclusive male-female binary. They may identify with elements of both genders, or neither,

carving out their own path. That identity can shift over time, and when it does, it's called

gender fluid.

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