Scott Leibowitz is a pioneer in the field of transgender health care. He has directed or worked at three gender clinics on the East Coast and the Midwest, where he provides gender-affirming care, the approach the medical community has largely adopted for embracing children and teenagers who come out as transgender. He also helps shape policy on L.G.B.T. issues for the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. As a child and adolescent psychiatrist who is gay, he found it felt natural to work under the L.G.B.T. “umbrella,” as he put it, aware of the overlap as well as the differences between gay and trans identity.‘ (emphasis mine)
Read more about Leibowitz at: nytimes.com/2022/06/15/magazine/gender-therapy.html
What do we know about Scott Leibowitz?
From the New York Times article (by Emily Bazelon, published June 15, 2022) we know (from his own admission) that he’s gay.
We also know the following public information (available at transgendermap.com):
His full name is Scott Farrell Leibowitz.
He was born on (or D.O.B.) May 20, 1978. I think his date of birth is helpful and relevant, for sociological perspective, to better understand how society may have created or formed the mind/brain of such an extremely reckless madmen.
He’s an American pediatric psychiatrist best known for his work with gender diverse youth (which we already gathered from the New York Times article).
He was born in Smithtown, New York.
He got a bachelor’s degree in human development from Cornell University.
He got a medical degree from the Tel Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine New York State/American Program.
He completed residencies at the Zucker Hillside Hospital in Queens and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine’s Long Island Jewish Health System.
He did a Fellowship at the children’s gender clinic at Boston Children’s Hospital with colleague Laura Edwards-Leeper. In 2013 he took a similar position at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago. In 2015 he was recruited to Nationwide Children’s in Columbus, Ohio.
Other than that he appears to be Jewish (and his name sounds Jewish) but I haven’t confirmed this.
One final note, some interesting background on the author of The New York Times article:
Emily Bazelon is a staff writer for the magazine and the Truman Capote fellow for creative writing and law at Yale Law School. Her 2019 book, “Charged,” won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the current-interest category. Anne Vetter is a photographer and writer in California and Massachusetts. Their work is focused on the fluidity of identity, as well as Jewishness, whiteness and wealth.
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