Malcolm Clark: Making Science Documentaries

0:00 – Intro: science documentary producer Malcolm Clark
1:56 – Oliver Sacks and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
3:16 – Gender identity as a mental health issue
5:27 – Where the idea of being born in the wrong body began
6:49 – Magnus Hirschfeld and the first sex change surgeries
9:44 – Erwin Gohrbandt, surgeon and Nazi
10:45 – Strict gender roles and early crackpot science
13:51 – Synthetic hormones and doctors playing God
15:12 – Eugen Steinach's testicle gland implants
17:43 – Top surgery and accepting your body
20:29 – Why puberty is so hard for girls
24:01 – Puberty blockers in the UK versus the U.S.
24:43 – What brain scans reveal about adolescence
28:39 – The Tavistock and missing follow-up
30:08 – Michael Biggs and flaws in the Dutch protocol
33:07 – Jazz Jennings and Barbara Walters' interview
36:28 – Jazz at the Smithsonian and a mother's self-diagnosis
38:23 – Barbara Walters, Sean Connery, and the media's hunger
40:53 – "Better a living daughter than a dead son"
43:25 – When harm looks like help
45:28 – Diagnosing and medicating normal kids
47:59 – Defending J.K. Rowling and misogyny online
51:08 – Malcolm's documentary on puberty blockers
52:20 – Books to read: Shrier, Joyce, and Stock
54:19 – FreedomFest, language, and wrap-up