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Therapy First’s team has authored op-eds and been featured in major media outlets, contributing to the international conversation on gender dysphoria and mental health.

No, You Don’t Have a Disorder, You Have Feelings

Lisa Marchiano
Quilette

ChatGPT-Induced Psychosis and the Good-Enough Therapist

Lisa Marchiano
Psychology Today

What Comes After Gender Affirmation?

Jennifer Block
The New Atlantis

Children Taking DIY Cross-Sex Hormones Before Going to Gender Clinics

Ben Spencer
The Sunday Times

A New Report Roils the Debate on Youth Gender Care

Paul Garcia-Ryan
The Washington Post

As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do.

Pamela Paul
The New York Times

Kids Identifying as Transgender Need ‘Talk Therapy,’ Not Drugs , Therapists Say

Sharon Kirkley
The National Post

A Landmark Finnish Study Is Changing How We Approach Transgender Kids

Benjamin Ryan
New York Post

Pain, Confusion and Compassion: How the US Has Reached a Trans ‘Tipping Point’

Benjamin Ryan
New York Post

Youth Gender Medications Limited in England, Part of Big Shift in Europe

Azeen Ghorayshi
New York Times

Can the Cass Report Really Be Enforced? Vulnerable Young Children Deserve Justice

Anna Hutchinson
Unheard

The Cass Review Damns England’s Youth-Gender Services

The Economist

Gender Medicine in the US: How the Cass Review Failed to Land

Jennifer Block
British Medical Journal

Parenting Tips for How to Discuss Gender Identity with Your Children

Sasha Ayad
The Megyn Kelly Show

Why Young Kids Struggle with Gender Identity

Sasha Ayad
The Megyn Kelly Show

The Trouble with Conversion Therapy

Anna Hutchinson
Unheard

The ‘Holy F***’ Moment I Knew Something Was Wrong at the Tavistock

The Sunday Times
Hannah Barnes

Journalist Hannah Barnes on the Inside Story of the Collapse of Tavistock’s Gender Identity Clinic

Jonathan Chang and Meghna Chakrabarti
On Point

Hormones First. Research Later

Bernard Lane
Quilette

The Ranks of Gender Detransitioners Are Growing. We Need to Understand Why

Lisa Marchiano
Quilette

Why Do So Many Teenage Girls Want to Change Gender?

Emma Hartley
Prospect

How Do I Go Back to the Debbie I Was?

Hannah Barnes and Deborah Cohen
BBC Newsnight

Chest Binding Helps Smooth the Way for Transgender Teens, but There May Be Risks

Amy Sohn
New York Times

Misunderstanding a New Kind of Gender Dysphoria

Lisa Marchiano
Quilette