The Protocol

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A six-part podcast exploring the story of medical treatment for transgender young people — how the care began, the lives it changed, and the legal and political fights that could end it in the United States.

ÉPISODE 1

The Beginning

The story of youth gender medicine starts in The Netherlands, with a clinical psychologist and a 16 year-old who was determined to go through life as the gender he long felt he was.

43 min
ÉPISODE 2

The Gender Kids

The new treatment is codified into a protocol, and the Dutch publish a landmark study that launches the field of youth gender medicine. A former patient describes the benefit of early treatment in a society that is still hostile to trans people.

35 min
ÉPISODE 3

The American Approach

In Boston, a psychologist helps set up the first youth gender clinic in the U.S., adapting the Dutch approach. Across the country, a rising star in the field questions their methods. Meanwhile, demand increases worldwide as the types of patients seeking care change.

41 min
ÉPISODE 4

The Whistleblower

A small Midwestern gender clinic gets consumed by a growing political fight when a whistleblower goes public. She had begun to see the treatments as harmful, and decided the political route was the only way to fix it.

43 min
ÉPISODE 5

The Review

The heated debate is not limited to the U.S. In England, a pediatrician tasked with figuring out how the country’s health care system should provide the care finds that the evidence is “remarkably weak.” One major medical group argues that’s missing the point — and repeating history.

46 min
ÉPISODE 6

The Now

State bans are enacted. The Supreme Court is poised to weigh in. President Trump declares that there are only two genders and threatens to withhold federal funds from hospitals that provide pediatric gender treatments. We hear from kids, parents and providers caught in the middle about the complicated decisions they are making.

51 min
BANDE-ANNONCE DE LA SAISON 1

Introducing ‘The Protocol’

Since 2021, nearly half the states in the U.S. have passed bans on medical treatments for transgender minors. The Trump administration is now targeting the care, and in the coming weeks, the Supreme Court is expected to weigh in. “The Protocol” is the story of youth gender medicine — where it came from, who it was meant to help, and what may come next in the legal and political fights over its future.

4 min

BANDE-ANNONCE

Introducing ‘The Protocol’

Since 2021, nearly half the states in the U.S. have passed bans on medical treatments for transgender minors. The Trump administration is now targeting the care, and in the coming weeks, the Supreme Court is expected to weigh in. “The Protocol” is the story of youth gender medicine — where it came from, who it was meant to help, and what may come next in the legal and political fights over its future.

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Fascinating!

2025-06-07

WabanackiDrive

I binged this podcast after hearing the first episode on “The Daily”. I was drawn in and spellbound - absolutely fascinating. Well-researched and such a well-told story. Highly recommend - this is well worth a listen!
Such a needless subject

2025-10-21

POD Mike

And a fad that nobody will remember in 20 years.
This took 2 yrs ?

2025-10-07

Mag 101

No objective or scientific facts. Not even a superficial overview or assessment of the incredible, so called “medical” claims that have been made. NYT still clearly fears the activist mob and panders in the tone of this series; or maybe it just fears illuminating its early complicity in the cultural contagion. Entertaining as a broad overview of some key players but no new information here and certainly no critical thought. Oh how far you have fallen NYT.
Lacking objectivity

2025-06-15

Vachiepoo

As a scientist and a psychologist, I was actually able to research the claims made in this podcast through the scientific literature available, because very little of what was asserted made sense to me. Good reporting should not have to make us do this. Wether by laziness, incompetence or ideology, the finished product comes off as useless at best and terribly dangerous at worse. Not worth listening to. You can just wait for the cliff notes from the right and dismissals from the left.

A six-part podcast exploring the story of medical treatment for transgender young people — how the care began, the lives it changed, and the legal and political fights that could end it in the United States.