Dr. Michelle Cretella on the transgender movement

Michelle Cretella, MD is a pediatrician, writer, researcher, and speaker. She served as the first Executive Director of the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) from 2018 through 2021.Show more

Prior to being hired as Executive Director, she was elected to their Board of Directors in 2005; as its Vice President in 2010 and President in 2014. Over the years, she also chaired the ACPeds Pediatric Psychosocial Committee, Adolescent Sexuality Committee, and Scientific Policy Committee. In these roles, she became one of the ACPeds chief researchers, writers, and spokespersons on a host of childhood issues, especially transgender belief in youth.

Her article Gender Dysphoria in Children and Suppression of Debate was published in the 2016 summer issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Following an interview by Tucker Carlson on this topic, she became recognized as a leading physician critic of gender ideology in pediatrics. She has collaborated on legislation in several states to protect youth from sterilizing transgender interventions and has contributed to several amicus briefs for various pro-family and pro-life court cases at the state, federal and international levels. She is regularly consulted by Breitbart News, FRC, One News Now, Relevant Radio, FOX News and many others.

Dr. Cretella is a peer reviewer for three professional journals: the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, Issues in Law and Medicine, and the International Journal of Behavioral and Healthcare Research.

Dr. Cretella serves on the Advisory Board of Advocates Protecting Children, and the Advisory Board for the Alliance for Therapeutic Choice and Scientific Integrity. She is a member of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), the Catholic Medical Association (CMA), and the John Paul II Academy for Human Life and the Family.

Dr. Cretella received her medical degree in 1994 from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. She completed her internship and residency in pediatrics in 1997 at the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford, Connecticut. She completed a fellowship in College Health through the University of Virginia in 1999. Dr. Cretella practiced pediatrics with a special interest in behavioral health from 1999-2012. She left clinical pediatric practice in 2012 to devote more time to her family and pro-life child advocacy.

You can read the transcript on the website of the organization that did the interview:

https://tfpstudentaction.org/blog/dr-michelle-cretella-on-transgender-ideology