Over 700 Health Experts Criticize ‘Fundamentally Flawed’ APA Book on Gender Affirmation

More than 700 medical experts and concerned citizens have signed an open letter slamming a recently published book by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) on “gender-affirming” care. The Gender-Affirming Psychiatric Care (GAPC) textbook was published by the APA on Nov. 8 and is touted as “the first textbook dedicated to providing affirming, intersectional, and evidence-informed psychiatric care for transgender, non-binary, and/or gender-expansive (TNG) people.” However, “the book’s claims of being evidence-informed are untenable,” said the open letter published this month by the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR). Signatories include psychologist Jordan B. Peterson. “GAPC omits any in-depth analysis of the evidence to date, dismisses ‘scientific neutrality’ as ‘a fallacy’ (p. xix), and chooses authors with the correct ‘lived experiences” and ‘community impact of prior work over academic titles’ (p. xx).”...