Brandt Files

Links to every entry in the series

This is an index of all the entries in the Brandt Files, a series about the first legal challenge to a ban on youth gender medicine in the US.

• Introduction to the Brandt Files

The Trial

• #1: Don’t Say Gay at the LGBTQ Rights Trial

  • Gayness

  • Gender nonconformity

• #2: On “Gender Identity”

• #3: Before the First Shot

  • Dan Karasic (psychiatrist)

  • WPATH guidelines

  • ROGD

• #4: Side Effects? Haven’t Seen ‘Em

  • Deanna Adkins (endocrinologist)

  • Side effects, risks, and complications

• #5: Mom and Dad Ace Obedience School

  • The pressures that parents face

  • Suicide myth

• #6: A Race-Baiter Takes the Stand

  • Jack Turban (psychiatrist)

  • Expert witness law

• #7: Our Heroes Scale the Hierarchy of Oppression

  • Equal protection law

  • Defining trans

• #8: Why not make a logical argument?

  • Gender dysphoria

  • Disability law

  • Past trans litigation

• #9: The ACLU’s Deal with the Doctors

  • Past trans litigation

  • ACLU lawyers

• #10: How Judge James M. Moody, Jr., Disposed of Arkansas

  • Defense witnesses

  • Media coverage

• #11: What They Didn’t Argue

  • Paul Hruz (endocrinologist)

The Appeal

• Arkansas’ appeal to the Eighth Circuit hasn’t been decided yet. For a preview, check out #7 and #10, linked above.

Related

• David v. Goliath and the ACLU

  • The giant corporate law firms that partner with trans rights advocates–including in Brandt