LGBTQ+ Healthcare: Module 5 - Ethical Dilemmas of Gender Diverse Youth Care

Dates and Times

End Date: 4/13/2029

Objectives

1. Recognize the trends in the field of gender care for minors and their relevance for clinical practice.
2. Summarize the most salient ethical debates in the field of gender care for minors. ​
3. Understand the effects of medical treatments used for gender care in minors.
4. Recognize the relevance and importance of understanding trends on detransition and regret in the field of gender care for minors.
5. Understand the evidence-base and its clinical relevance in the approach to managing gender dysphoria in adolescents.

Authors:

Dr. Scott Leibowitz - Module 5 Lecturer

Scott Leibowitz, MD, is a board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist, speaker, writer, and educator who is internationally known for specializing in the care of transgender and gender diverse (TGD) children and adolescents. He completed his undergraduate studies at Cornell University and obtained his medical degree at Tel Aviv University, Sackler School of Medicine. After his general psychiatry residency at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York, he moved to Boston and completed his child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Dr. Leibowitz served in three pediatric multidisciplinary gender clinics in American Children's Hospitals over a 16-year period, between 2008 and 2024. He worked at Boston Children's Hospital's Gender Management Service, the country's first program in an academic medical center, as well as the Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago multidisciplinary gender service. Most recently (2016 - 2024), he spent eight years as Medical Director of Behavioral Health for the THRIVE Gender Program at Nationwide Children's Hospital, which has become the largest embedded therapy and assessment model of any pediatric gender clinic in the United States. Dr. Leibowitz was the co-lead of the Adolescent chapter for the 2022 World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Standard of Care 8th edition (SOC8), has been a co-investigator in NIMH-funded research, has authored over 30 academic publications, and has edited two clinical guides on the subject. Dr. Leibowitz serves on the Board of Directors for the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (2022-2026) and co-led the Sexual Orientation Gender Identity Issues Committee for the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry as co-chairperson (2013-2021).

Shannon Winnubst - Project Manager

Dr. Shannon Winnubst is Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University. She specializes in queer studies, neoliberalism, and race/racialization in the United States.

Ali Alkhalifa - Curriculum Designer & Coordinator

Ali Alkhalifa (he/him or they/them) is the Education Program Specialist for the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department. Ali helped research and coordinate with various lecturers with whom he co-created the LGBTQ+ healthcare content. He received a B.A. and M.A. in Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies and is passionate about feminist pedagogies, media analysis, and LGBTQ+ health disparities.

Alex Souza - Curriculum & Instructional Designer

Alex Souza, M. Ed, is an Instructional Designer in the Office of Distance Education within the College of Arts and Sciences. Alex is passionate about making learning experiences more inclusive and engaging. He prioritizes empathy when considering the learner's experience and while collaborating with stakeholders and colleagues.

Jessica Henderson - Curriculum & Instructional Designer

Jessica Henderson is a Senior Instructional Designer at Ohio State, specializing in accessible, inclusive, and engaging online learning experiences. Her interdisciplinary background spans curriculum development, distance education, foreign language instruction, and quantitative and qualitative analysis. Grounded in Universal Design for Learning and UX design principles, her work emphasizes motivation, Gameful learning, scenario‑based learning, and active learning strategies in online environments. She currently serves as the lead expert in designing immersive digital educational escape rooms and pioneering creative uses of AI in education, supporting innovative online teaching practices and alternative assessment strategies.

Sarah Dove - Curriculum & Instructional Designer

Sarah Dove holds a PhD in Comparative Studies from The Ohio State University, an MA in Dance Theories and Practices from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and a BA in Music and Business from Otterbein College. For the last eight years, Sarah has invested significant time working in curriculum and instructional development in higher education with keen attention to access pedagogy and diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice frameworks. Sarah is very proud to have supported the LGBTQ+ Healthcare CEU project during planning and early development stages. This initiate is an important resource for healthcare professionals to bolster point-of-care for marginalized individuals.

Matthew Carter - Audiovisual Production Specialist

Matt brings expertise in instructional video and podcast production and editing, photography, software recordings for complex technical training, case-based simulation videos, and more.