Jack L. Turban is an American psychiatrist, writer, and commentator who researches the mental health of transgender youth.
[20] Turban attended Harvard College where he studied neuroscience, then earned his medical and master of health science degrees from Yale School of Medicine.
[19][18] Turban is an assistant professor of child and adolescent psychiatry and health policy at the University of California, San Francisco.
[34][35][36] Turban has been critical of Wall Street Journal writer Abigail Shrier's book Irreversible Damage, which alleges that a recent surge in adolescents becoming transgender is taking place, supposedly due to social contagion.
[38] Turban has been critical of the geosocial networking application Grindr, and argued in Vox that the app may have detrimental effects on the mental health of gay men.