Regrets of a Trans Care Specialist, Sara Stockton, EP 342

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and Sara Stockton explore her past as a clinician in the field of Transgender care, how she helped coauthor the processes by which genderdysphoric children are assessed for medical intervention, and why she wholeheartedly regrets it now. Sara Stockton is a licensed marriage and family therapist, lecturer, researcher, presenter, and clinical supervisor of a psychotherapy group practice in Central New York. In 2012, she coauthored and published one of the first mental health assessments utilized to assess youth s readiness to begin medical treatment for gender transition. She spent the first part of her career as a clinician treating and advocating on behalf of youth and families surrounding issues with gender. Furthermore, she spent time traveling to teach medical facilities, physicians, and schools how to provide what we now refer to as genderconfirming care. Treating well over one hundred families, she also wrote many of the first letters that were used to approve gend