Kristopher Kaliebe is a board-certified General, Forensic, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and a professor in the Psychiatry Department at the University of South Florida. He is a Distinguished Fellow at the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), where he challenged so-called ‘gender affirming care’ by publishing a courageous op-ed in its journal, which is read by clinical professionals nationwide. A doctor I happen to know at UC San Francisco forwarded the op-ed to me when it was first published late last year, and I would soon hear it discussed in lay circles, which strikes me as surprisingly wide reach for an op-ed in a niche medical journal. That’s how unusual and significant it was.

Dr. Kaliebe has been speaking out on podcasts and in print interviews, and has testified as a forensic expert in several important ongoing legal actions in states where pediatric gender medicine is currently in the hands of a few, largely-ill-informed, lawyers and judges.

He’s also been working with an organization called Restore Childhood to produce the now-available Gender Toolkit, a free resource parents can download and use to help inform teachers and administrators whose grasp of this issue was likely shaped by trans-activists. We talk about the Gender Toolkit during the last twenty minutes of the conversation. I encourage you to share the episode widely, and to download and read the Toolkit linked in the show notes.

Links:

The Gender Toolkit Published by Restore Childhood

A Plea for Scholarly Dialog, Dr. Kaliebe’s AACAP opinion piece, republished on Restore Childhood’s Substack in January 2024

Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family and Social Class, by Rob Henderson

Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up, by Abigail Shrier

Credits:

Music by William A Ferguson

Logo by Anne Gibbons

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