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#DiscoSexology Part IV: Interview With The CAMH Medical Director

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Disco Sexology, Part Three: Controversy Disco Sexology, Part Five: Zucker’s Patient By Cristan Williams Listen to this article Upon completion of this series, this work will be released, in its entirety, as both an audio and ebook. Installment Preface Welcome to the fourth installment in this series on the rise and fall of Disco Sexology. Affirming therapeutic models offer a patient-therapist relationship wherein the patient’s gender isn’t problematized. This approach was recently criticized in a BBC documentary titled, Transgender Kids: Who Knows Best? wherein Dr. Zucker compared affirming models of care to buying dog food for kids engaging in anthropomorphic schoolyard play: “It is possible that kids who have a tendency to get obsessed or fixated on something may latch on to gender. Just because kids are saying something doesn’t necessarily mean you accept it, or that it’s true, or that it could be in the best interests of the

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Community significance

“#DiscoSexology Part IV: Interview With The CAMH Medical Director” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to healthcare and medicine, while also engaging transgender identity and history. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

The article may have historical value because it explicitly interprets or preserves material concerning healthcare and medicine. Published in 2017 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how transgender identity and history was framed at that moment.

Policy significance

“#DiscoSexology Part IV: Interview With The CAMH Medical Director” discusses institutions, law, or governance in connection with healthcare and medicine. Even without a dominant policy classification, the article may help researchers identify practical consequences for transgender identity and history.

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Rank 1 is the dominant inferred theme or framing. Parent labels identify broader theme families; the relationship key beneath the diagram explains the line styles used for hierarchy, same-family relationships, overlap, and separate-but-related themes.

Themes

  1. 1
    Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
    100%
  2. 2
    Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    80%
  3. 3
    Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    35%
  4. 4
    Science, evidence, and expertiseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
    33%
  5. 5
    Sex and gender classificationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
    19%
  6. 6
    Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
    17%

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Relationship among the ranked article themes The central circle is the primary theme. Line styles are defined in the relationship key below the diagram. Healthcare and medicine to Transgender identity and history: Overlapping theme
Transgender identity and history
Healthcare and medicine to Community and organizing: Separate but related
Community and organizing
Healthcare and medicine to Science, evidence, and expertise: Separate but related
Science, evidence, and expertise
Healthcare and medicine to Sex and gender classification: Separate but related
Sex and gender classification
Healthcare and medicine to Media, rhetoric, and discourse: Separate but related
Media, rhetoric, and discourse
Healthcare and medicineRank 1
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This article appeared 4 year(s) after the theme’s highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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The documented sources span 1 domain. The dated evidence currently falls in 2018. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.

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Singal’s Florida: You’re very wrong about trans kids

Cristan Williams · collective-demo.transhouston.com · February 24, 2018

Shortly after the DSM-5 was published, Dr. Zucker’s boss was blindsided by a reporter asking him if Zucker’s clinic would continue its DSM-IV-centered “treatment” of kids. When Zucker’s boss said no, the reporter cited a statement by Zucker claiming that he intended to continue his…

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Article authors

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Cristan Williams

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Connected through 2 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

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Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Rani Baker

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Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Kelley Winters

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Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Admin

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Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Marian

7 publications · 12 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Related authors are calculated from co-authorship, shared themes and framings, and citation relationships in the registered corpus. This does not imply a personal or institutional association.

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