WPATH Board of Directors at dinner after two days of meetings at the Annual Retreat, this year in Ghent, Belgium. Board member and host Griet DeCuypere arranged for us to have our own private room. The food, ambience and conversation couldn’t have been better. From left front and then clockwise: Jamison Green, Griet DeCuypere, Sam [...]

By DIANE ACKERMAN  NYT Published: March 24, 2012 A happy marriage relieves stress and makes one feel as safe as an adored baby. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/24/the-brain-on-love/

See below for the wonderful Word Cloud that came from the harvest. The explanation from the narrative reads: “The size of each word is a function of how many times the word appeared in the transcription of the Harvest – the larger the word, the more times it appeared in the Harvest. In addition, words in [...]

This is a movie slideshow of the invited WPATH Symposium in Cuba featuring Drs. Lin Fraser, Walter Bockting (presented by Lin Fraser), Gail Knudson, Dan Karasic and Jamison Green.  Each slide lasts 4 seconds and the Dr. Bockting audio begins at 1:55. You can move around or pause as you wish. We were invited to present [...]

By GARY GREENBERG NYT Published: January 29, 2012 The debate over the new manual of mental disorders misses one thing: the diagnoses are only convenient categories. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/30/opinion/the-dsms-troubled-revision.html

By By KJ DELL’ANTONIA   NYT Published: January 12, 2012 When Grandma sends a determined tomboy frilly clothes, some readers suspect an agenda. http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/12/parental-quandary-considered-grandma-gives-frilly-gifts-to-a-tomboy/

Click here to download a copy of PAHO presentation.

By DAVID Z. HAMBRICK and ELIZABETH J. MEINZ Published: November 19, 2011   NYT Popular research says 10,000 hours of practice is the key to success. Not so fast. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/opinion/sunday/sorry-strivers-talent-matters.html

By ALINA TUGEND   NYT Published: November 18, 2011 Research shows that, in spite of what they would like to think about themselves, most people do not act ethically when put on the spot. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/19/your-money/why-doing-the-ethical-thing-isnt-automatic.html