E378. Gender Affirming Care On Trial - Benjamin Ryan

About this episode

Bridget Phetasy interviews journalist Benjamin Ryan about the first-ever gender surgery malpractice trial and its implications.

Independent journalist Benjamin Ryan was the only reporter who sat through all three weeks of the first-ever gender surgery malpractice trial. He and Bridget discuss the chilling testimony of a mother who was browbeaten until she consented to her daughter’s mastectomy, a 15-year-old’s 11-month sprint from questioning her gender to surgery, and why the psychologist was an “enabler” instead of a measured professional. They cover the judge who tried to scare Ryan off reporting, why detransitione...

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Host: Bridget Phetasy

Guest: Benjamin Ryan

Topics covered

• gender affirming care
• malpractice trial
• psychology
• medical ethics
• detransitioning

Keywords

• gender affirming care
• malpractice trial
• Benjamin Ryan
• Bridget Phetasy
• detransitioning
• psychology
• medical ethics

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Organizations: psychologist

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