Stephen B. Levine, M.D.: "It’s a belief system, and beliefs are not what parents want from doctors. "

In 1973, Dr. Stephen Levine, a clinical professor of psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University, was introduced to the world of gender medicine when his supervisor sent him a patient who wished to become a woman. The patient told Dr. Levine that he had been sitting under an oak tree with a gun in his mouth, and he had decided that either he was going…