—In his ruling that Arkansas’s 2021 law banning gender-affirming medical care for minors is unconstitutional, U.S. District Judge James Moody Jr. cited significant problems with the state’s selected experts: “The Court does not credit the testimony of Professor [Mark] Regnerus and gives it no weight because the Court finds that he lacks the qualifications to offer his opinions and failed to support them.”; “Dr. [Patrick] Lappert does not meet the requirements under Daubert to give opinions relevant to this case.”; “Dr. [Paul] Hruz has never treated a patient for gender dysphoria.”
—Was issued a purchase order for $34,800 by Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration as an “expert witness” in the state’s effort to ban Medicaid coverage of treatments for transgender people.
—Board member of Courage International, an organization that promotes chastity for LGBTQ people. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, “Its leaders say they do not practice reparative therapy. But the founder, John Harvey, saw homosexuality as pathological, and the organization has long had a 12-step program, based on the similar Alcoholics Anonymous program, that’s meant to help gay people abstain from sex.” He’s listed as the contact for the Birmingham chapter.
–Linked to the Alliance Defending Freedom, an organization that says on its website that it is a “leader in defending religious freedom, free speech, the sanctity of life, parental rights, and God’s design for marriage and family.”
—Said of assisted reproductive technology for transgender people who undergo surgery: “Because they will be told, you have a right to have a child even though you’re having this transgender surgery…Well, that’s the language of slavery, to speak of a person that’s having a right to another person is the language of slavery.”
—A North Carolina judge excluded “in part” Lappert’s expert testimony in a case related to health coverage for gender-affirming care noting that “Lappert is not qualified to render opinions about the diagnosis of gender dysphoria, its possible causes, the efficacy of the DSM, the efficacy of puberty blocking medication or hormone treatments, the appropriate standard of informed consent for mental health professionals or endocrinologists, or any opinion on the non-surgical treatments obtained by Plaintiffs… Lappert is not a psychiatrist, psychologist, or mental health professional, nor has he ever diagnosed a patient with gender dysphoria. He is not an endocrinologist, nor has he ever treated a patient with hormone therapies… Lappert is also not qualified to opine on the efficacy of randomized clinical trials, cohort studies, or other longitudinal, epidemiological, or statistical studies of gender dysphoria.”