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A 'gender' toolkit written by a psychiatrist

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Matt Osborne
Aug 27, 2024
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“There is no expert clinical consensus regarding the treatment of children who meet diagnostic criteria for gender dysphoria,” Kristopher Kaliebe writes in An Urgent Conversation: What to Know About Children, Gender, & School Policy. Produced for Restore Childhood, it is available for free (donation optional) at their website.

Founded by parents and educators, Restore Childhood was a grassroots response to school closures as well as vaccine and mask mandates that, like ‘gender medicine,’ resulted from ‘settled science’ that turned out to be wrong. “During the Covid-19 pandemic it became apparent that policy makers had little motivation or political will to provide thoughtful and nuanced policies that place the well-being of children first,” the nonprofit organization says.

They asked Kaliebe, a professor at the University of South Florida, to write this brief for the general audience involved in education: mainly parents, but also teachers, administrators, counselors, school resource o…

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