Recent Article Criticizes the Quality of Jack Turban's Analysis
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Several health professionals have criticized the work of affirmative model advocate Jack Turban, from the Stanford University School of Medicine, regarding his studies and analysis of childhood and adolescent gender dysphoria issues.
This post references a paper by Turban, Beckwith, Reisner, and Keuroghlian and is found below:
“Association Between Recalled Exposure to Gender Identity Conversion Efforts and Psychological Distress and Suicide Attempts Among Transgender Adults”
Archives of Sexual Behavior published an LTE in response to this study:
“One Size Does Not Fit All: In Support of Psychotherapy for Gender Dysphoria.”
They wrote a piece in Quillette for the general public:
“Jack Turban’s Dangerous Campaign to Smear Ethical Psychotherapy as Anti-Trans ‘Conversion Therapy’”
From the article:
We agree with Turban’s position that therapies using coercive tactics to force a change in gender identity have no place in healthcare. However, we take issue with the authors’ problematic analysis and flawed conclusions, which they use to justify the misguided notion that any practice that deviates from reflexively “affirmative” psychotherapy for gender dysphoria (GD) is harmful and should be banned. Their analysis is compromised by serious methodological flaws, including the use of a biased data sample, reliance on poorly constructed survey questions, and the omission of any control variable that tracks subjects’ baseline mental-health status.
References:
D’Angelo, R, Syrulnik, E., Ayad, S, Marchiano, L, Kenny, DT, & Clarke, P. (2020, November 1). Jack Turban’s Dangerous Campaign to Smear Ethical Psychotherapy as Anti-Trans ‘Conversion Therapy.’ Quillette. Retrieved from https://quillette.com/2020/11/01/jack-turbans-dangerous-campaign-to-smear-ethical-psychotherapy-as-anti-trans-conversion-therapy/
D’Angelo, R, Syrulnik, E., Ayad, S, Marchiano, L, Kenny, DT, & Clarke, P. (2020, October 21). One Size Does Not Fit All: In Support of Psychotherapy for Gender Dysphoria. Archives of Sexual Behavior. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-020-01844-2
Turban, J.L., Beckwith, N., Reisner, S.L., Keuroghlian, A.S. (2019). Association Between Recalled Exposure to Gender Identity Conversion Efforts and Psychological Distress and Suicide Attempts Among Transgender Adults. Journal of the American Medical Association 77(1), 1-9. Retrieved from DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.2285