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Kenneth Zucker

Kenneth J. Zucker (; born 1950) is an American-Canadian psychologist and sexologist known for the living in your own skin model, a form of conversion therapy aimed at preventing pre-pubertal chidren from growing up transgender by modifying their gender identity and expression.

He was named editor-in-chief of ''Archives of Sexual Behavior'' in 2001. In 2007, Zucker was chosen to be a member of the American Psychological Association Task Force on Gender Identity, Gender Variance, and Intersex Conditions, and in 2008 he was named chair of the American Psychiatric Association workgroup on "Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders" for the 2012 edition of the DSM-5. He previously served on workgroups for the DSM-IV and the DSM-IV-TR.

He was psychologist-in-chief at Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and head of its Gender Identity Service until December 2015. Citing a review by two adolescent psychiatrists stating that CAMH was out of step with current practices for transgender youth, CAMH fired Zucker and closed the clinic in 2015. They later apologized to Zucker and paid him a financial settlement after one of the complaints in the review was found to be false. Zucker is a professor in the departments of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Toronto. Zucker collaborated with Susan Bradley, collecting clinical and research data over a period of twenty years and became an international authority on gender dysphoria in children (GDC) and adolescents. Zucker's views and therapeutic approach have attracted criticism from several advocates and mental health professionals. Provided by Wikipedia