So it turns out the court decision is heavily reliant on testimony from Paul Hruz, who writes articles of The New Atlantis (a pseudojournal of the Christian right) and appears at Heritage Foundation funded events with the American College of Pediatricians.
https://twitter.com/Simon_Whitten/status/1333759565511487490
So it turns out the court decision is heavily reliant on testimony from Paul Hruz, who writes articles of The New Atlantis (a pseudojournal of the Christian right) and appears at Heritage Foundation funded events with the American College of Pediatricians. https://twitter.com/Simon_Whitten/status/1333759565511487490
So it turns out the court decision is heavily reliant on testimony from Paul Hruz, who writes articles of The New Atlantis (a pseudojournal of the Christian right) and appears at Heritage Foundation funded events with the American College of Pediatricians. https://twitter.com/Simon_Whitten/status/1333759565511487490
So it turns out the court decision is heavily reliant on testimony from Paul Hruz, who writes articles of The New Atlantis (a pseudojournal of the Christian right) and appears at Heritage Foundation funded events with the American College of Pediatricians. https://twitter.com/Simon_Whitten/status/1333759565511487490
So it turns out the court decision is heavily reliant on testimony from Paul Hruz, who writes articles of The New Atlantis (a pseudojournal of the Christian right) and appears at Heritage Foundation funded events with the American College of Pediatricians. https://twitter.com/Simon_Whitten/status/1333759565511487490
The American College of Pediatricians is recognised by the SPLC as an anti-LGBT hate group.

They promote religious conversion therapy for sexual orientation as well as gender identity. https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/american-college-pediatricians
American College of Pediatricians

The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) is a fringe anti-LGBTQ hate group that masquerades as the premier U.S. association of pediatricians to push anti-LGBTQ junk science, primarily via

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/american-college-pediatricians
Of course he alludes to the 1970s/80s gay conversion therapy studies from James Cantor's blog post to make his case when appearing on Laura Ingraham's show on Fox News.

Why wouldn't he?
#Boom magazine doing more due diligence than the Queen's Bench!

This man was a key "expert" witness for the claimant in the Keira Bell case decided today.

His own university warns he is not someone "who could speak knowledgeably of transgender health."
https://www.boom.lgbt/index.php/news-a/98-localnews/1869-trans-community-protests-university-pediatric-professor
The SPLC has an interesting write-up of some of his previous attempts to play the "expert" witness and his links to the Alliance Defending Freedom group who want to re-criminalise homosexuality and support state-mandated sterilisation of trans people. https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/12/13/alliance-defending-freedom-developed-stable-anti-lgbt-expert-witnesses
Alliance Defending Freedom developed a stable of anti-LGBT "expert"

Alliance Defending Freedom has been holding conferences to cultivate anti-LGBT expert witnesses. Far from experts, these crackpots are at the medical fringe and at odds with their own professional

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/12/13/alliance-defending-freedom-developed-stable-anti-lgbt-expert-witnesses
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