Back in 2019 the APA published guildelines on how to deal with men and masculinity. These guidelines were pretty much in line with the feminist narrative on toxic masculinity which overemphasizes feminine behavior as a solution for all of men's problems and emphasizes masculine behavior as their cause.

The APA didn't go as far as use the term "Toxic Masculinity" choosing instead an easier to defend "harmful traditional masculinity". However, the sources they provided did not support the claims made in their guidelines, it was ultimately recognize that their guidelines were scientifically unfounded and they issue a retraction (that they hid in some corner of the internet).

The only reason I know of this is because of a youtube video from a psychologist (or psychiatrist) I watched over a year ago. I can no longer find the youtube video and I cannot find any evidence of the retraction either.

I didn't do 100% due diligence when I watched the youtube video. So it is technically possible that the retraction was fake news. But I doubt it.

Does anyone know where to find the retraction or youtube video I'm talking about?

I think that archiving this information is extremely important because it represents two things:

  1. Evidence that the APA was full of shit so anyone in Academia still trying to use it as evidence of "toxic masculinity" should be embarrassed into oblivion.
  2. Evidence of the anti-male activism in influential institutions.

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Edit: I "found" it.

The "retraction" is archived here, where they redefined what what they "really" meant and then claim that us people who thought that their publication actually meant what it said are delusional.

This article explains it in detail.