Jack Turban dismisses as “nonsense” what Pamela Paul’s states about attitudes about “gatekeeping”. And yet in Turban’s new book he strongly suggests psychosocial assessments should be done away with because, he suggests, they are useless. He suggests in the book that puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones should be as easy for children to get as Prozac. He has also suggested that kids should be able to get blockers without parental approval, like birth control.
Here is the first section in @Jack_Turban’s book where he strongly suggests that he thinks psychosocial assessments for gender-transition treatment for children should be discarded.
This is the third time this month that Jack Turban has held up the virtues of the psychosocial assessment—he did so in the essay he published with coauthors criticizing the Cass Review and he did it in his NYT opinion essay. All this despite his suggesting in his book that the assessment is useless and should be done away with.
At another point in his book, @Jack_Turban recounts prescribing a teen Prozac and the kid remarks how easy that was and wouldn’t it be nice if it were that easy for minors to get gender-affirming care? Turban makes very clear he agrees, which suggests he believes that kids should be able to get blockers and hormones on their first visit to a doctor about gender dysphoria.
@jack_turban Also, Pamela Paul is not referring to what WPATH and the Endocrine Society recommend, she is referring to what activists like Florence Ashley say. @ButNotTheCity
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