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.
22 Facts About Kenneth Zucker
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Kenneth Zucker previously served on workgroups for the DSM-IV and the DSM-IV-TR.
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Kenneth Zucker was psychologist-in-chief at Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and head of its Gender Identity Service until December 2015.
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Kenneth Zucker was previously affiliated with the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine as a status-only professor in the Department of Psychiatry.
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Kenneth 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 and adolescents.
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Kenneth Zucker was born in 1950 to Jewish parents and grew up in Skokie, Illinois.
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Kenneth Zucker holds a certification from College of Psychologists of Ontario.
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Kenneth Zucker was impressed with the Clarke Institute and met with then chief of psychology, Kingsley Ferguson, who told Kenneth Zucker of Bradley's new working group assessing children and adolescents with gender identity problems.
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Kenneth Zucker collaborated with Susan Bradley, collecting clinical and research data over a period of twenty years and became an authority on gender dysphoria in children and adolescents.
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Kenneth Zucker has stated that children with gender dysphoria should be treated to eliminate peer ostracism, treating underlying psychopathology, and preventing the child from becoming transgender.
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Kenneth Zucker saw preventing children from becoming trans adults as justifiable in part due to the perceived difficulties posed by gender transition.
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Kenneth Zucker's underlying premise was his belief that pre-pubertal youth had malleable gender identities.
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Kenneth Zucker argued that preventing children growing up transgender would protect them from social discrimination and the need for gender-affirming care.
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Kenneth Zucker has argued the belief that socialization played a major role in transition, citing lower number of female-to-male transitions at the time.
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In 2006, Kenneth Zucker stated the prevention of homosexuality and transsexualism were a rationale for treatment for "gender identity disorder of childhood" but stated the former was "problematic".
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Kenneth Zucker was one of the authors of the WPATH 2012 7th edition of its standards of care which called social transition "controversial".
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In February 2017, Kenneth Zucker was slated to speak at a panel in Los Angeles for USPATH, the United States branch of WPATH.
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The advocates met with the WPATH board and requested Kenneth Zucker be removed from the upcoming second panel.
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In January 2015, Kenneth Zucker was the psychologist-in-chief at Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and head of its Gender Identity Service.
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In December 2015, CAMH announced that it was "winding down" the clinic and that Kenneth Zucker was no longer employed there.
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McKenzie said that Kenneth Zucker's treatments were against the centre's guidelines.
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Conservative media figures argued that the closure of the clinic and Kenneth Zucker's firing were evidence that "trans militants" were censoring scientists.