Nursery World - Anger over BBC film's slant on child gender dysphoria

Organisations and activists from the transgender community have voiced concerns about a BBC2 documentary on how to approach children with gender dysphoria, which was broadcast last night (12 January).

Gender dysphoria is the condition of feeling that one’s emotional and psychological male or female identity does not match one’s biological sex.

The documentary film – ‘Transgender Kids: Who knows best?’ – examines the views of Canadian psychologist Kenneth Zucker, who was sacked from his job at a Toronto gender identity clinic in 2015 after an investigation found that his practices were inappropriate.

Mr Zucker believes that gender dysphoria stems from mental health problems and autism rather than being biologically driven and rejects the 'gender affirmative' approach favoured by many other experts, which says that children should be encourage to live out their chosen sex.

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