Tavistock Center’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), the United Kingdom’s first and largest gender clinic for children, is scheduled to close in 2023. The closure of Tavistock’s gender identity clinic comes after the publication of an independent review funded by the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). The report cited a lack of conclusive evidence about…

“If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?” That challenge from Stephen Levine, author of such books as “Who Dies?” and “One Year to Live,” brings many readers to a dead stop (pun…

In 1973, the same year that the American Psychiatric Association stopped calling homosexuality a mental disorder, Dr. Stephen Levine finished his residency in psychiatry. Within a month, an unforgettable patient crossed his path. The man was sitting in his backyard, under an oak tree. He had shoved a gun in his mouth and was threatening…