Az Hakeem

@Doctor_Az_

Dr Az Hakeem is a consultant psychiatrist, medical psychotherapist and group analyst. He trained in medicine at University College London, in psychiatry at the Royal Free and in forensic psychotherapy at the Portman Clinic, where he later worked as a consultant until leaving the NHS. 

He was one of the earliest and most outspoken gender-critical psychiatrists and the only consultant psychiatrist specialising in psychotherapy for adults with gender-identity conditions. He set up and ran a specialist UK psychotherapy service for adults with gender dysphoria for 12 years using both one-to-one and group analytic therapy with a less than 2% rate of patients deciding to pursue physical treatments. He stopped seeing gender patients in 2022 due to the political climate and now works exclusively in private practice based in Harley Street.

He is the author of Trans: exploring gender identity and gender dysphoria and more recently Detrans: when transition is not the solution; a member of CAN-SG, professional patron of LGB Alliance, and Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at UCL Medical School.

“As one of the earliest gender-critical psychiatrists who has been openly speaking and publishing in the area of gender identity since 2000, Sex Matters is in concordance with my clinical expertise and opinions.”