Do Executive Orders and "The Trump Effect" Impact Your Trans-Identified Child?
Join Me for a Webinar with Therapy First, Tomorrow, February 17th
As new executive orders in the United States aim to restrict access to transition-related medical interventions for youth under age 19, many gender dysphoric young people are experiencing fear, confusion, and uncertainty. This panel will explore concerns, discuss strategies for meaningful connection and support, and provide guidance for therapists, parents, educators, and school officials on how to communicate effectively, navigate uncertainty, and foster resilience in affected youth.
Learning Objectives:
Understand young people’s concerns about newly released executive orders relating to gender identity, including the loss of access to transition-related interventions for individuals under 19.
Discuss strategies for connecting with young people who may feel fearful, confused, angry, or cornered by these changes.
Share recommendations for how adults—therapists, parents, teachers, and school officials—can communicate about these executive orders, help young people navigate uncertainty, and build resilience.
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Speakers:
Anna Hutchinson is a London based clinical psychologist with twenty-five years of frontline experience specializing in adolescent mental health and physical health. She is the Clinical Director of an independent practice and was recently employed by the NHS as an Education Lead for the new holistic UK gender services for children and young people. Anna worked in the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at The Tavistock Clinic between 2013 and 2017. Much of her work is focused on teaching and writing on culturally competent and ethical psychotherapeutic practice with gender distressed youth and their families.
Roberto D’Angelo is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Byron Bay, Australia. He specializes in working with adolescents and young adults with gender dysphoria using a contemporary psychoanalytic approach. A Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, he is also a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. His publications explore clinical and ethical issues in the treatment of gender dysphoria.
Sasha Ayad is a licensed professional counselor and among the first U.S. clinicians to recognize the sharp rise in adolescent-onset gender dysphoria. While working as a school counselor, she founded her school’s first Gay-Straight Alliance to create a safe space for LGBT kids to discuss their evolving sense of identity and sexual orientation. Since 2016, her private practice has been exclusively dedicated to teens and young adults struggling with issues of gender dysphoria and gender identity She is also well known as the co-host of the popular podcast Gender: A Wider Lens. Sasha holds a B.S. in Psychology and an M.Ed. in Counseling Psychology.
Sara Stockton is a licensed marriage and family therapist, lecturer, researcher, presenter, and clinical supervisor of a psychotherapy practice in central New York. In 2013, she co-authored and published one of the first mental health assessments in the US utilized to assess youth readiness for medical treatment and gender transition. She spent the first part of her career traveling to teach and train medical facilities, physicians, and schools on how to provide what we now know as gender affirming care.
Joseph Burgo has been in private practice as a psychoanalyst for more than 40 years and he works with gender distressed teenage boys and young men who have detransitioned. He provides clinical supervision to therapists working in this area and is the author of three books in the realm of popular psychology focused on shame, narcissism, and psychological defense mechanisms.