Pitchstone Publishing

The Gender Framework

A comprehensive, evidence-based guide for professionals and families.

Helping professionals navigate the gender debate with clarity and compassion.

“An indispensable roadmap through the gender debate, written by professionals who have lived in its trenches. Essential reading for families and clinicians: wise, humane, and deeply informed.”
— Abigail Shrier, best-selling author of Irreversible Damage and Bad Therapy

 

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The Gender Framework: book cover

Beyond the limited horizon of gender-affirming care exists a range of ways to manage gender-related distress—without invasive medical procedures.

About the Book

The Gender Framework offers a non-medicalized understanding of gender-related distress in its social and developmental context.

Experts across biology, psychology, philosophy, sociology, law, medicine, and education explain how we arrived here—and outline a constructive way forward.

Chapters & Authors

Section One The Gender Landscape — Understanding Sex & Gender
1
Sex—What It Is and Why Do We Need It?
Dr. Colin Wright
2
Theories of Sex and Gender
Stella O’Malley
3
Conceptualizing Gender Dysphoria
Stella O’Malley
Section Two Competing Paradigms — Diagnosis & Treatment
4
Typology, Classification, and Diagnosis of Gender Distress
Dr. Stephen Levine, Dr. Joseph Burgo, and Carrie Clark
5
Competing Modalities of Treatment
Dr. Stephen Levine and Dr. Joseph Burgo
6
Going Forward and Turning Back—Transition and Detransition
Dr. Stephen Levine, Dr. Joseph Burgo, and Amanda Miller
Section Three Clinical Considerations — Comorbidities & Sociocultural Context
7
Comorbidities
Dr. Stephen Levine, Dr. Joseph Burgo, and Christina Buttons
8
Gender and Autism Spectrum Disorder
Christina Buttons
9
The Sociocultural Landscape
Christina Buttons
Section Four Conflicts of Rights — Gender & Wider Society
10
Navigating Conflicts of Rights
Dr. Holly Lawford-Smith
11
Families in Transition—Care & Concerns
Jamie Reed and Emma Thomas
12
Gender in Schools
Tom Neumark and Dr. Kathleen Goonan
13
Foundations for the Future
Stella O’Malley

Contributing Authors

Dr. Joseph Burgo
Psychotherapist; Bestselling Author
Christina Buttons
Investigative Reporter, Manhattan Institute
Carrie Clark
Writer; Researcher; Genspect Advisory Board
Dr. Kathleen Goonan
Physician Executive, Internal Medicine
Dr. Stephen Levine
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, CWRU
Amanda Miller
Researcher, Genspect
Tom Neumark
Education Policy Writer
Stella O’Malley
Psychotherapist; Executive Director of Genspect
Jamie Reed
Director of LGB Courage Coalition
Emma Thomas
Founder, Children of Transitioners
Dr. Colin Wright
Evolutionary Biologist, Manhattan Institute
Dr. Holly Lawford-Smith
Associate Professor in Political Philosophy, University of Melbourne

Editorial Team

Stella O’Malley Carol Bartle Carrie Clark Amanda Miller

“This book is a call for greater humility, open-mindedness, and constructive dialogue, offering a way forward in a debate too often marked by division and moral certainty.”

— The Gender Framework