Publications

In this section, we list formal publications by founders of the Integrity Project. 

On this site, under “Our Work”, we list additional important work, including white papers and amicus briefs.

Troubling Trends in Health Misinformation Related to Gender-Affirming Care

Stef M. Shuster and Meredithe McNamara

Hastings Center Report, Volume 54, Issue 3 (2024): 53–55.

“Demons and Imps”: Misinformation and Religious Pseudoscience in State Anti-Transgender Laws

Anne Alstott, Melisa Olgun, Henry Robinson, and Meredithe McNamara

35 Yale J.L. & Feminism 223 (2024) 

Mental Health, Climate Change, and Bodily Autonomy: An Analysis of Adolescent Health Policy in the Post-Pandemic Climate

Meredithe McNamara, Jesse Barondeau, Joanna Brown

Pediatric Clinics of North America, Volume 71, Issue 4, 2024, Pages 729-744

State-Level Bans on the Care of Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth in the United States: Implications for Ethics and Advocacy

McNamara M, Gentry KR, Sequeira GM, Kidd KM.

The Journal of Pediatrics, 2024 Jul 2:114182. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2024.114182. Online ahead of print.

A thematic analysis of disinformation in gender-affirming healthcare bans in the United States

Meredithe McNamara, Quinnehtukqut McLamore, Nicolas Meade, Melisa Olgun, Henry Robinson, Anne Alstott

i, Volume 351, 2024, page 116943

Combating Scientific Disinformation on Gender-Affirming Care

Meredithe McNamara, MD, MSc; Hussein Abdul-Latif, MD; Susan D. Boulware, MD; Rebecca Kamody, PhD; Laura E. Kuper, PhD; Christy L. Olezeski, PhD; Nathalie Szilagyi, MD; Anne Alstott, JD

Pediatrics (2023) 152 (3)

Bans on Gender-Affirming Healthcare: The Adolescent Medicine Provider's Dilemma

Meredithe McNamara et al. 

Journal of Adolescent Health, July 4, 2023

Increased HIV Transmissions With Reduced Insurance Coverage for HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis: Potential Consequences of Braidwood Management v. Becerra

A. David Paltiel, Ali R. Ahmed, Elena Y. Jin, Meredithe McNamara, Kenneth A. Freedberg, Anne M. Neilan, Gregg S. Gonsalves

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2023 March 16 10(3)

Protecting Transgender Health and Challenging Science Denialism in Policy

With Christina Lepore

New England Journal of Medicine, Nov. 24, 2022

A virulent brand of science denialism is emerging in the U.S. legal system, as states enact bans on gender-affirming health care. Misused clinical research and disinformation have provided legal cover for bans on essential treatments for transgender and gender-expansive (TGE) people. A template for challenging science denialism could come from collaborations between medical and legal experts that have supported initiatives to protect access to gender-affirming care.

Scientific Misinformation Is Criminalizing the Standard of Care for Transgender Youth

With Christina Lepore

JAMA, Aug. 22, 2022

Transgender and nonbinary (TGNB) youth in the US face growing sociopolitical obstacles in pursuit of health care. In 2021 and 2022, Arkansas and Alabama enacted legislative bans on gender-affirming care (GAC), with penalties for physicians ranging from loss of licensure to imprisonment. In 2022, the Texas attorney general set a troubling precedent by issuing a legal opinion equating GAC with child abuse, claiming that this treatment constitutes forced sterilization and experimentation. Such actions rely on scientific misinformation, retracted research, and politically biased sources. These bans on GAC place guardians and health care professionals in an ethically precarious position, in which the law and the standard of care conflict.

Scientific Misinformation and Gender Affirming Care: Tools for Providers on the Front Lines

With Christina Lepore, Rebecca Kamody, Laura Kuper, Nathalie Szilagyi, Susan Boulware, and Christy Olezeski

Journal of Adolescent Health, July 2, 2022

Up to 10% of youth express some degree of gender expansivity and about 1.8% identify as transgender. All providers working with children and adolescents care for transgender or gender expansive (TGE) youth, but knowledge gaps and low comfort levels with GAC are common. Legally codified misinformation presents an additional challenge to those on the front lines of clinical care. In this commentary, we identify and correct misconceptions that providers may encounter in this new sociopolitical climate.

A huge misconception about medical care for trans kids

Meredithe McNamara

Boston Globe, March 7, 2024

This Is How to Fight the Disinformation That Fuels Gender-Affirming Care Bans

Meredithe McNamara

Them, Nov. 28, 2023

Florida’s Excuse on Gender-Affirming Care is Troubling

Meredithe McNamara

Orlando Sentinel, Jan. 30, 2023

LGBTQ Exceptionalism is a Dangerous Double Standard

Anne Alstott and Meredithe McNamara

Peste Magazine, Jan. 22, 2023

Op-Ed: Denying Trans Youth Gender-Affirming Care is an Affront to Science and Medical Ethics

With Christy Olezeski, PhD

L.A. Times, June 13, 2022

Legislation attacking medical care for transgender youth marks a new extreme for scientific misinformation in the America. Years of study and scientific scrutiny have established safe, evidence-based guidelines for delivery of lifesaving, gender-affirming care. Medical ethics as outlined in the Hippocratic oath and professional guidelines not only permit but require doctors to provide it.