NARTH, Zucker and the horror of the Clarke Clinic

Gender Identity Disorders In Childhood And Adolescence:
A Critical Inquiry And Review Of The Kenneth Zucker Research

By the NARTH Scientific Advisory Committee
Published March 2007
Canada:

The debate continues as to whether or not a diagnosis of gender identity disorder (GID) is
wanted or needed today, especially for children. Indeed, some are calling for the
complete removal of GIDfrom the DSM (Isay, 1997), with the reasoningthat GID is
used to pathologize gender-variant children. Others suggest that GID has the potential to
derail biological priming and places children at risk for distress. While arguments from
both sides of the scientific and political spectrum are likely to persist for some time, this
paper seeks to review the work of perhaps one of the more prominent researchers in this
area: Dr. KennethJ. Zucker. Dr. Zucker is Psychologist-in-Chief, Centre for Addiction
and Mental Health, Head, Child and Adolescent Gender Identity Clinic, Child, Youth and
Family Program—Clarke Division, Toronto, Canada.

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