The lies behind "gender exploratory therapy"
This article was originally published in the KALW with support from our National Fellowship and the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Journalism and the Fund for Reporting on Child Well-being.
A collage of photos showing people rallying for trans rights, the Gender Exploratory Therapy Association logo, and Trump signing anti-trans executive orders.
Since returning to office, the Trump administration has ignored widely accepted standards of care for gender dysphoria, which is when a person’s identity differs from the gender they were assigned at birth. It’s all part of the federal government’s effort to marginalize and ultimately erase transgender people from American life.
This week, Hanisha Harjani reports on a relatively new and controversial therapeutic approach for people with gender dysphoria: Gender Exploratory Therapy. They look at the practice's origins and how it's being used to deny trans youth gender affirming care.