"The Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM), a Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group, received the green light to teach medical professionals through Washington State University's continuing medical education (CME) program - meaning medical providers may now use SEGM courses to fulfill requirements to maintain their licensure. Critics argue the move by WSU gives the appearance of legitimacy to a group with opaque funding"
"To the untrained eye, the content may seem innocuous - one lecture claims to examine the role of psychotherapy in treating gender dysphoria. Another one reviews international literature on trans issues. But coming from SEGM, they take on a more sinister role. Conversion therapy tactics and restrictive, debunked screeds against trans people's medical self-determination ( such as the United Kingdom's Cass Review) are being presented as sound science."
Washington State University's continuing medical education program approved courses from the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM), a group designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The approval allows medical providers to use SEGM courses to fulfill licensure requirements and makes the CME series available online for free. The SEGM curriculum appears to reuse lectures and panels from its October 2023 conference and is marketed to psychologists, physicians, dietitians, dentists, and pharmacists. The group has opaque funding and close ties to far-right, Christian fundamentalist forces. SEGM materials present conversion therapy tactics and debunked critiques of trans medical self-determination as sound science. The approval risks misdirecting providers away from evidence-based, trans-competent care.
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