 Dr. Zucker asks the rhetorical question of whether it would be ethical to treat an African American child who wishes to identify as Caucasian with cosmetic surgeries to facilitate this identity, though his critics point out that gender identity is completely non-analogous to ethnic identity.He has also been criticized for statements suggesting that children with nonnormative gender might be autistic and hyperfocusing on gender.There is no one universal set of behavioral interventions designed to reduce stress in children with GID.