Zucker subverts his scientific journal

in a vendetta against women who exposed

his reparatist treatment of gender-variant children

A report by Lynn Conway

August 14, 2007

[V 8-22-07]

Ken Zucker, the editor of the Archives of Sexual Behavior (ASB), recently subverted that scientific journal into a propaganda machine in support of his colleagues and ASB editorial board members J. Michael Bailey, Ray Blanchard and Anne Lawrence.

In a highly prejudicial and scientifically unethical action, Zucker and his editorial board have widely pre-published Alice Dreger's bizarrely one-sided history of the Bailey book investigation* in the journal which they themselves control, and then posed it as if it were an independent scholarly work.

In doing so, Zucker is supporting efforts of ASB editorial board members Bailey, Blanchard and Lawrence to demonize trans women who have exposed their transphobic teachings and collective misconduct.

Zucker is also motivated by a personal vendetta of his own against Andrea James and Lynn Conway, because those women have exposed him as running a reparatist clinic in Toronto that preys upon gender variant children – a clinic that pressures children into conforming to gender norms so as to “avert homosexual development” and "avoid bad outcomes” such as transsexualism.

[*To understand why thousands of trans women protested Bailey's book, see the page of  "Direct Quotes from Bailey's Book", noting that Bailey's unfounded pronouncements on transsexualism are delivered - without mercy - as if they were "scientific facts"]

For background on Zucker's reparatist activities, see the following links:

In Lynn Conway's site:

http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/News/Drop%20the%20Barbie.htm
 

In Andrea James' site:

http://www.tsroadmap.com/info/kenneth-zucker.html

http://www.tsroadmap.com/info/clarke-institute.html

Media exposures of Zucker:

http://www.brainchildmag.com/essays/fall2001_wilkinson.htm

http://www.xtra.ca/public/viewstory.aspx?AFF_TYPE=3&STORY_ID=2873&PUB_TEMPLATE_ID=1

NARTH lauds Zucker, citing him as follows:

http://www.narth.com/docs/GIDReviewKenZucker.pdf

"Zucker’s priority is “helping these kids be happily male or female,” but he also acknowledges that the treatment process does, in some cases, apparently avert homosexual development . And in support of parents’ rights to avert a homosexual outcome for their children, Zucker cites a persuasive quote from Richard Green: “The right of parents to oversee the development of children is a long -established principle. Who is to dictate that parents may not try to raise their children in a manner that maximizes the possibility of a heterosexual outcome?"" - NARTH

Zucker’s view re transsexualism, as quoted in Bailey’s book:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040404191711/books.nap.edu/books/0309084180/html/31.html

"Failure to intervene increases the chances of transsexualism in adulthood, which Zucker considers a bad outcome. ... Why put boys at risk for this when they can become gay men happy to be men?"

More about Ken Zucker: 

Zucker is Editor of the Archives of Sexual Behavior (ASB), the journal of the IASR. A powerful member and past president of the IASR, Zucker runs the reparatist gender clinic at CAMH in Toronto – specializing in enforcing gender conformity in gender variant children and youth.

Recent reports and media articles describing Zucker’s reparatist activities:

3-20-07:  NARTH: "Gender Identity Disorders In Childhood And Adolescence: A Critical Inquiry And Review Of The Kenneth Zucker Research", by the NARTH Scientific Advisory Committee

NARTH lauds  Zucker's reversion therapy at CAMH (aka The Clarke Institute), in which he psychologically intervenes to "cure" childhood GID, seeing it as a way to "cure" homosexuality too. The article concludes:

"Zucker’s priority is “helping these kids be happily male or female,” but he also acknowledges that the treatment process does, in some cases, apparently avert homosexual development . And in support of parents’ rights to avert a homosexual outcome for their children, Zucker cites a persuasive quote from Richard Green: “The right of parents to oversee the development of children is a long -established principle. Who is to dictate that parents may not try to raise their children in a manner that maximizes the possibility of a heterosexual outcome?""

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4-05-07:  PFC News and LynnConway.com: "A 2001 Magazine Article Revisited in 2007: "Drop the Barbie! If You Bend Gender Far Enough, Does It Break?"" (documenting the failure of Zucker's reparative therapy methods at CAMH (extolled by NARTH) to be adopted by other clinics - in contrast with the current emergence of much more modern, humane care-centers for gender variant children and teens in many of our large cities)

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4-13-07:  XTRA (Canada): "Boys will be girls / Gender identity clinic event disrupted by trans activists", a 4-12-07 article by Audrey Gagnon. (see related story: "Drop the Barbie")

"On the morning of Mar 29 a group of trans activists crashed a celebration honouring Susan Bradley, the founder of the Child AndAdolescent Gender Identity Clinic at Toronto's Centre For Addiction And Mental Health (CAMH).
 
The featured speaker of the event was Kenneth Zucker, a psychologist and current head of the gender identity clinic. He's known for promoting reparative therapy for gender-variant children, which teaches kids to conform to society's expectations of female and male behaviour. His work is heavily promoted by notorious ex-gay group the National Association For Research And Therapy Of Homosexuals.
 
"Dr Zucker has never left himself in a position where the community could ask him questions," says trans activist Tina Strang. She and 519 Trans Programs coordinator Kyle Scanlon had issued a call to action via e-mail two days before the event, urging trans people and their allies to attend the lecture and voice their concerns."  (see full story...)