Sexual Orientations and Gender Identity: Unresolved Issues

Michael Bailey is a professor of psychology at Northwestern University. During his career he has studied several controversial issues related to sexual orientation and gender identity, including nature versus nurture, sex differences, paraphilias, and transsexualism/transgender. He is currently trying to understand the marked increase in gender dysphoria among adolescents and young adults since about 2010.

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Speaker's Title and Institutional/Organizational Affiliation: Professor
Event Type :
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Debate, Forum, or HxConversation
Speaking Topics - List up to 5 specific topics or titles, each separated by a semicolon: gender dysphoria; transgender; sexual orientation; rapid-onset gender dysphoria; autogynephilia
Blackout Dates (Dates speaker is unavailable, Days/Month/Year): None
Distance Willing to Travel: Any/No Limits to Travel Radius
Scholarly Area: Social Sciences
Modality of Event : In Person and/or Virtual
Willingness to be recorded: Willing
Speaking Fee (Not including travel/lodging expenses): $0-$2,000 USD
Recent Appearance (1 of 5) -title, host institution, year: "A Psychometric Indicator of Paraphilia" Puzzles of Sexual Orientation, Lethbridge, Canada 2023
Recent Appearance (2 of 5) -title, host institution, year: "Three Kinds of Gender Dysphoria" Stanford Classical Liberalism Seminar (online) 2023
Recent Appearance (3 of 5) -title, host institution, year: "ROGD: What have we learned? What questions should we be asking?" ROGD Awareness Day, Glencoe, IL 2024
Recent Appearance (4 of 5) -title, host institution, year: "Understanding Gender Dysphoria with Dr. Michael Bailey" Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (online) 2023