PN medical correspondent Mena Mirhom, M.D., checks in with two panelists from a session on "Hiding the Broccoli in the Mashed Potatoes" hosted by APA's Council on Communications: Ashanti Branch of the Ever Forward Club and Devika Bhushan, M.D., a public health physician and writer. #APAAM26 @branchspeaks@drdevikab@gregorysbrownmd
In today's Question of the Day at APA's 2026 Annual Meeting, Psychiatric News spoke with a group of community psychiatry residents, a psychiatrist from Egypt, and two residency buddies attending the meeting together.
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"Having us sit in front of a group of fellow psychiatrists and quite clearly state our identities as trans psychiatrists, psychotherapists, and psychoanalytic practitioners was all in the same spirit of recognizing how important it is to show that we are human, too."
More than 50 years ago, a psychiatrist calling himself Dr. Anonymous donned a mask and declared to a room of his colleagues that he was a gay psychiatrist. The historic moment led to the removal of homosexuality from the DSM a year later. Now, Dr. Jack Drescher is organizing panels of transgender and nonbinary psychiatrists to share their experiences, answer their colleagues' questions, and echo Dr. Anonymous's historic effort. Read the full story at psychnews.org or by tapping the link to the April issue in our bio—and watch for our coverage of the next "Transgender Psychiatrists Speak" panel on Saturday at APA's 2026 Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
