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Doctors Call for Withdrawal of Psychiatry Textbook Promoting ‘Gender-Affirming’ Care

American Psychiatric Association’s new training guide for doctors shows a ‘radical shift away from medicine and science,’ fellow professionals say.
Doctors Call for Withdrawal of Psychiatry Textbook Promoting ‘Gender-Affirming’ Care
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Darlene McCormick Sanchez
Darlene McCormick Sanchez
Senior Reporter
1/3/2024|Updated: 1/3/2024
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Nearly 170 health professionals have signed an open letter to the American Psychiatric Association (APA) condemning its new “gender-affirming” care textbook as “unacceptable, unethical and unsafe.”

Their open letter to the organization appears on the website of the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism, a free speech and civil liberties watchdog group. The signatories demand that the APA “explain why it glaringly ignored many scientific developments in gender-related care and to consider its responsibility to promote and protect patients’ safety, mental and physical health.”
Darlene McCormick Sanchez
Darlene McCormick Sanchez
Senior Reporter
Darlene McCormick Sanchez is an Epoch Times reporter who covers border security and immigration, election integrity, and Texas politics. Ms. McCormick Sanchez has 20 years of experience in media and has worked for outlets including Waco Tribune Herald, Tampa Tribune, and Waterbury Republican-American. She was a finalist for a Pulitzer prize for investigative reporting.
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