Washington State University credentials anti-trans hate group to teach...

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Washington State University credentials anti-trans hate group to teach medical providers

https://www.advocate.com/health/wsu-credentials-anti-trans-hate-group 🔗

S. Baum (30 Oct 2025)

The Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM), a Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group, received the green light to teach medical professionals through Washington State University's continuing medical education (CME) program — meaning medical providers may now use SEGM courses to fulfill requirements to maintain their licensure.

Critics argue the move by WSU gives the appearance of legitimacy to a group with opaque funding and a disturbing proximity to far-right, Christian fundamentalist forces. It also means well-meaning providers who want to enhance their practice with trans-competent care may be misdirected to SEGM propaganda instead of evidence-based best practices. Most damning, critics say, is that listing SEGM as a CME option lends undue legitimacy to a dangerous cell of what the Southern Poverty Law Center has dubbed an anti-trans pseudoscience network.

"They're an issue group that has a position on transgender health care," said Evan Urquhart, a science journalist and founder of Assigned Media. "Whatever they do serves that particular agenda. It's not about an openness to evidence in the spirit of scientific exploration; they advocate against gender-affirming care, using misinformation."

To the untrained eye, the content may seem innocuous — one lecture claims to examine the role of psychotherapy in treating gender dysphoria. Another one reviews international literature on trans issues. But coming from SEGM, they take on a more sinister role. Conversion therapy tactics and restrictive, debunked screeds against trans people's medical self-determination (such as the United Kingdom's Cass Review) are being presented as sound science. And while scientific debate is always an important step in improving medicine, the program is full of red flags that betray a political, as opposed to academic, agenda.