Rethinking Youth Gender Medicine

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy at MIT. He is the author of Trouble with Gender: Sex Facts, Gender Fictions (2023) and a co-author of Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2025).

UK-based clinical psychologist specialising in adolescence, the relationship between mental and physical health, and identity development. She is committed to thoughtful, evidence-informed, and ethical practice, with an interest in the interplay between mind, body, and society.

Former President of USPATH and past board member of WPATH, Anderson served as a clinical psychologist at the Child and Adolescent Gender Center at the University of California–San Francisco. Dr. Anderson was one of the first gender clinicians to publicly speak out about inadequate evaluation of gender-dysphoric adolescents and young adults in the US.

Philosopher and bioethicist. He is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University. He specializes in bioethics and in moral and political philosophy. He has published articles in American Philosophical Quarterly, JAMA, The Hastings Center Report, The American Journal of Bioethics, Philosophia, and Public Health Ethics, and is a co-author of Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2025).

Professor of adolescent psychiatry, leader of one of the two nationally centralized gender identity units for minors in Finland, and committee member for national guidelines for health services related to medical and surgical gender reassignment. Dr. Kaltiala was the first leader of a national pediatric gender clinic to raise concerns regarding the risk-benefit ratio of treating gender dysphoric youth with puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. Finland was the first country to revise the standard of care to prioritize noninvasive approaches, sharply restricting eligibility for hormonal interventions. Dr. Kaltiala is currently involved in two major international evidence review projects in the field of gender medicine.

Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and has over 200 academic publications in neuropsychology, including books, book chapters and original research studies with over 8000 citations of her work in the literature. She was awarded the International Neuropsychological Society Arthur Benton Prize in 2018 in recognition of her outstanding scientific contributions to the field of neuropsychology.and received the Distinguished Contribution Award from the British Psychological Society in 2023. She is a passionate advocate for the application of neuropsychological principles and knowledge in public policy and discourse. Her review of the impact of puberty blockers on neurodevelopment featured in the Cass Review

Past president of the Plastic Surgery Foundation and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). The ASPS recently changed its policy and now recommends against gender surgery for children and young people under age 19. Scot will talk about the lack of evidence for the safety and effectiveness of ‘gender-affirming’ surgeries in young people.

Psychiatrist who started one of the first gender clinics for gender patients in 1974 and has continuously been active seeing patients and writing about his and his colleagues’ observations since. Most of his recent experience has been with transgender youth. Six of his recent co-authored or sole authored papers have been downloaded over 325,000 times. Long interested in psychotherapy as an investigative and therapeutic tool, he posits the hypothesis that a new trans identity is a creative unconscious solution to existential woes that must be understood in terms of the youthful sensibilities of minors.

We have over 30 speakers presenting on the topic of youth gender medicine. Please stay tuned for the names, bios, and the full conference agenda soon.