GCCAN President Grace Lidinsky-Smith recently appeared on 60 Minutes to discuss trans health care and detransition.
Mission Statement
Our mission is to empower recipients of gender transition-related care to become healthy and whole.
We Deserve Better Care
GCCAN is a group of past and present gender care consumers with concerns and objections with gender care today. To understand GCCAN’s goals, read our Gender Care Consumer Bill of Rights.
On May 23rd, 60 Minutes released a segment on Transgender Health Care, covering the recent bills attempting to make trans healthcare illegal, testimonials from various trans health professionals, and detransition. The segment received pushback, which the producers detailed in a 60 Minutes: Overtime segment. One of the interviewed subjects was Grace Lidinsky-Smith, the president of GCCAN. She spoke of her own detransition and of the hope to improve better patient outcomes, access to therapy, and lifetime patient outcome tracking.
GCCAN has spoken against blanket bans on treatment in the past, and continues to do so. While oppose these bills, the concern about the current state of gender medicine is warranted.
In order to celebrate GCCAN’s first full year in existence, we want to share what we have been working on and thank everyone who has helped us along the way.
We started GCCAN in 2019 because we, as gender care consumers, had all been failed in some way by our doctors and therapists. We feel that many gender care consumers are not getting holistic, high-quality care. So, we came together to demand better.
The Gender Care Consumer Advocacy Network (GCCAN) is looking for new board members to help us advance our mission of empowering recipients of gender-related care to become healthy and whole individuals.
The American Psychological Association is getting ready to revise their trans guidelines for 2022. They provided an opportunity for public comment on their “Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People” from 2015. The current guidelines do not address many of the important needs we outline in the GCCAN Gender Care Consumer’s Bill of Rights and we have provided the APA with suggestions for improvement.
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