A prolific journalist with a fortnightly column in The Spectator, Lionel Shriver has written widely for the New York Times, the Guardian, the London Times, Prospect, the Financial Times, Harper’s Magazine, UnHerd, Spiked, and many other publications. Her first nonfiction book, "Abominations: Selected Essays from a Career of Courting Self-destruction," was published in 2022. It joins fifteen novels and a story collection, including "Mania," "Should We Stay or Should We Go," "The Mandibles," and "We Need to Talk About Kevin." Her work has been translated into 35 languages. She regards the fetishization of transgenderism as an ominously decadent form of societal derangement.

Michael Shellenberger is a Time Magazine "Hero of the Environment" Green Book Award winner, Dao Journalism Prize winner, Founder-President of Environmental Progress, Founder of Public, and the C.B.R. Chair of Politics, Censorship, and Free Speech at the University of Austin. He is the best-selling author of "San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities" (HarperCollins, 2021) and "Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All" (HarperCollins, 2020). Michael has broken major stories, including the Twitter Files, for which he won the 2023 Dao Award for journalism; the Censorship Industrial Complex; San Francisco’s cash incentives for homelessness; the "Amazon Forest are the lungs of the world" myth; climate pseudoscience; climate anxiety; U.S. government support for fracking; and forest management, climate change, and California’s fires. Michael offers testimony as a journalist and policy expert to the U.S. Congress on a range of issues covering free speech, censorship, and the environment. He has testified on AI and censorship (September 2023); climate change and public health (April 2023); Big Tech censorship (March 2023); the Censorship Industrial Complex (March 2023); climate change and the global energy crisis (September 2022); Texas & California electrical grid failures (April 2021); climate change and agriculture (February 2021); climate change and health (August 2020); climate change and energy (July 2020); and nuclear energy (January 2020).

Kathleen Stock is a contributing writer at UnHerd, a co-director of The Lesbian Project, and the author of 'Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism' (Little, Brown 2021). Until 2021, she was a Professor of Philosophy at Sussex University. She has written for UK national newspapers on a range of issues, especially on sex, gender, and women's rights. In 2023, she was shortlisted for Columnist of the Year by the British Society of Magazine Editors; in 2024 for Tabloid Columnist of the Year at the Press Awards; and in 2022, she was voted World’s Top Thinker in Prospect Magazine. She was awarded an OBE for services to higher education in 2020.

Dr. Peter Boghossian is a Founding Faculty member at the University of Austin and the Executive Director of the National Progress Alliance. Peter has a teaching pedigree spanning more than 25 years, focusing on the Socratic method, scientific skepticism, and critical thinking. His dissertation explored increasing the moral reasoning of prison inmates and aiding their resistance to crime. His most recent book is "How to Have Impossible Conversations," and his writing can be found in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, Time Magazine, National Review, and elsewhere. His work centers on bringing the tools of professional philosophers to a wide variety of contexts to help people think through what seem to be intractable problems.

Helen Joyce is the author of the 2021 book “TRANS: When Ideology Meets Reality,” recently reissued as “Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women’s Rights.” A Times of London and Spectator Book of the Year, it was a UK and Amazon top ten bestseller. It received rave reviews in publications ranging from The Telegraph to The New York Times and endorsements from, among others, Daniel Dennett (“A sane, humane book”), Lionel Shriver (“Utterly unintimidated by extremist orthodoxy”), and Richard Dawkins (“Thoroughly researched, passionate, and very brave”). Until April 2022, Helen was The Economist’s Britain editor. She joined the paper in 2005 as education correspondent; subsequent roles include Brazil correspondent (based in São Paulo), International editor, Finance editor, and Executive editor for events. Before that, she edited Plus, an online magazine about maths published by the University of Cambridge, and was the founding editor for the Royal Statistical Society’s magazine, Significance. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Trinity College Dublin, a Master’s from Cambridge, and a PhD from University College London, all in mathematics. Helen now works as the director of advocacy for Sex Matters, a human-rights organization that campaigns for sex-based rights. Her independent journalism and subscription newsletter can be found on her website: thehelenjoyce.com. She has a regular column in the Critic magazine and tweets @hjoycegender.

Andrew Doyle is a broadcaster, writer, and comedian. He is the author of 'Free Speech and Why It Matters' and 'The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World.' He is the creator of the satirical character Titania McGrath, whose show 'Mxnifesto' ran at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and at the Duchess Theatre in London’s West End. He is also the author of 'Woke: A Guide to Social Justice' and 'My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism.' Andrew was formerly a Visiting Research Fellow at Queen's University, Belfast, and a Presidential Scholar at the New College of Florida. He presents 'Free Speech Nation' and 'Headliners' on GB News.

Julie Bindel is an investigative journalist, author, and feminist campaigner. She is co-director of the Lesbian Project, and a founder of Justice for Women. Julie is currently a visiting fellow at the University of Reading School of Law. Her most recent book is Feminism for Women: The real route to liberation (2021) described by JK Rowling as ‘Timely, necessary and important’. She is currently writing a book on lesbians.

Dr. Frank Furedi, author and social commentator, is an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent. He is also the Executive Director of the Brussels-based think tank, MCC Brussels. Author of more than 26 books, Furedi’s studies have been devoted to an exploration of the cultural developments in Western societies. In recent years, he has published several studies on the impact of the Culture Wars on family life, socialization, education, and public life. His recent book, "100 Years of Identity Crisis," argues that it disrupts the socialization of young people and encourages the estrangement of generations from one another. His research has been oriented toward the way that risk and uncertainty are managed by contemporary culture. His two influential books, "The Culture of Fear" and "Paranoid Parenting," investigated the interaction between risk consciousness and perceptions of fear, trust relations, and social capital in contemporary society. His book, "How Fear Works: The Culture of Fear in the 21st Century" (2018), explored the distinct features of contemporary fear culture.

Andrew Gold is a journalist, author, and YouTuber who specializes in cults and extreme ideologies. He will talk about the cultish elements of gender ideology. He speaks five languages and has made and presented documentaries for the BBC and HBO.

Eliza Mondegreen is a graduate student researching how online trans communities handle questions and doubts about trans identity, transition, and detransition.

Susan Evans is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Retired Clinical Nurse Specialist (SRN RMN). She is a Senior Fellow at the University of East London and a former member of staff at GIDS at Tavistock. Susan raised concerns about the medicalized approach to child gender identity issues in 2005 and initiated the Judicial Review with Mrs. A and Keira Bell in 2019. She is now working in private practice with children, young adults, and families experiencing issues connected to gender identity. Susan is also the co-author of a book with Marcus Evans titled 'Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults.

Marcus Evans is a psychoanalyst. Before retiring from the NHS, he worked as a psychiatric nurse and an adult psychotherapist for 40 years. He is interested in applying psychoanalytic thinking in mental health settings. Marcus was a founding member of the Fitzjohn’s service for the treatment of patients with severe and enduring mental health issues and personality disorders, and he served as the clinical lead for the adult and adolescent services for five years. He is the author of three books: 'Making Room for Madness in Mental Health,' 'Psychoanalytic Thinking in Mental Health Settings,' and 'Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults,' which he co-authored with his wife, Susan Evans.

Laura Becker is a detransitioner, author, and artist who speaks internationally on her experiences with transition, detransition, and the broader psychology of gender issues affecting young people. Her memoir Quirky Noy Queer, The Detransition Journey is available on her website funkypsyche.com.

​​Bev Jackson is a co-founder and trustee of the LGB Alliance. She was a founding member of the UK Gay Liberation Front in 1970 and has supported progressive causes from anti-Apartheid to women’s reproductive rights over the past decades. She became alarmed by the regressive turn taken by the gay rights movement she had helped to found. In 2019 she met Kate Harris, who had similar concerns. The UK organization Stonewall flatly refused to engage in discussing these concerns. Bev and Kate, therefore, set up the LGB Alliance to revive the LGB rights movement

Sarah Phillimore is a barrister specializing in child protection law since 1999. She has operated the website Child Protection Resource since 2014. In 2019 she joined the organisation ‘Fair Cop’ which campaigns for better police protection of freedom of speech. Sarah is an active campaigner for the rights of women and children and a great believer that sex is real and it matters.

​Dr Louise Irvine is co-chair of the Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender; a GP in London for 30 years; a former GP trainer and local programme director for GP training; NHS campaigner and former chair of the successful Save Lewisham Hospital Campaign. Dr Irvine is interested in supporting clinicians who wish to challenge the prevailing orthodoxy of gender affirmative medicine, and instead promote an evidence based approach that prioritises avoidance of harm and improved psychosocial understanding of children and vulnerable adults with gender dysphoria.

Bob Withers is a Jungian psychoanalyst, writer and international lecturer with a special interest in the obstacles that can be encountered when attempting to explore a person’s gender related distress psychotherapeutically. His psychoanalytic work with a male to female to male detransitoner in the early 1990s alerted him to the importance of conducting such work prior to medical transition. His 2015 paper ‘The Seventh Penis; towards effective psychoanalytic work with pre-surgical transsexuals”, won the Michael Fordham prize for that year..

Graham Linehan is an acclaimed Irish writer, director, and producer, renowned for creating and writing beloved sitcoms such as 'Father Ted', 'The IT Crowd', 'Black Books', and 'Count Arthur Strong'. His work, distinguished by sharp wit and unique humor, has earned him multiple BAFTA awards. He faced cancellation when he began advocating for women's rights in 2017 and currently strives to raise awareness about the dangers of gender identity ideology on his Substack, The Glinner Update. His memoir 'Tough Crowd' was published in 2023.

Chris Elston, known as 'Billboard Chris,' is a Canadian activist recognized for his public advocacy on various social issues, notably concerning children's rights and gender identity discussions. He gained prominence by wearing billboards and utilizing public spaces to spark conversations and debate.

Shannon Thrace is the author of '18 Months: A Memoir of a Marriage Lost to Gender Identity,' where she recounts the decline of her fifteen-year relationship following her husband's revelation as transgender. Through her narrative, Thrace offers a deeply personal glimpse into the complexities of love, identity, and the impact of gender transition on a marriage

Mia Hughes is an Ottawa-based British journalist and researcher for Michael Shellenberger's nonprofit, Environmental Progress. She is the author of the WPATH Files report, which exposed the widespread medical mistreatment of children, adolescents, and vulnerable adults in WPATH's field of gender-affirming care.

Claire Fox is the director of the Academy of Ideas, which she established to create a public space where ideas can be contested without constraint. She convenes the yearly Battle of Ideas festival and initiated the Debating Matters Competition for sixth-formers. Additionally, she co-founded a residential summer school, The Academy, with the aim of demonstrating ‘university as it should be’. In May 2019, she was elected as an MEP for the North West England constituency of the UK in the European Parliament elections. In 2020, she was appointed as a visiting professor in professional practice at the University of Buckingham. In September 2020, Claire became a member of the House of Lords as Baroness Fox of Buckley. Claire is frequently invited to comment on developments in culture, education, media, and free speech issues on TV and radio programmes in the UK such as Newsnight and Any Questions? She has been a regular newspaper reviewer on Sky News and is a monthly columnist for MJ (Municipal Journal). She was the longest-standing panelist on BBC Radio 4’s The Moral Maze for over 20 years until 2020. She is the author of a book on free speech, recently republished as 'I STILL Find That Offensive!' (Biteback, 2018), and 'No Strings Attached! Why Arts Funding Should Say No to Instrumentalism' (Arts&Business, 2007). Additionally, she has written a variety of chapters and essays for a range of publications, most recently ‘Narcissism and Identity’ in 'From Self to Selfie: A Critique of Contemporary Forms of Alienation' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).

Emma is the founder of the childrenoftransitioners.org website and the X account @childrenoftrans. She writes and campaigns on behalf of children of trans people, highlighting a lack of safeguarding. Her father is a transsexual who transitioned in the 1980s while he had custody of her.

Alex is the Executive Director of The Charlton School, a nonprofit therapeutic learning community for girls and young women experiencing mental health challenges in Burnt Hills, New York. With over 25 years of clinical experience, Alex has worked with children, adolescents, and families in various clinical, therapeutic, and educational settings. The Charlton School experienced a wave of trans identification among pupils between 2016 and 2020. Initially adopting an affirmative approach, the school later changed course after realizing that focusing solely on gender meant neglecting other issues students faced.

Christina Buttons is an investigative reporter who is laser-focused on exposing the frivolous scholarship and pseudoscience supporting gender ideology. She is a self-declared former 'social justice warrior' who now describes herself as 'politically homeless'. Her educational background is in science communication and biology. Christina writes for the Buttonslives Substack and has illustrated three award-winning children’s books.

Carrie D. Mendoza, MD, is the Director of Genspect US and a practicing Emergency Medicine physician with over 20 years of experience working in rural, suburban, and urban hospitals, treating everything from snakebites to gunshot wounds to Covid-19 patients. Her practical experience provides unique insights into the American medical system and how modern healthcare bureaucracy can scale harmful policies while ignoring the negative side effects. Dr. Mendoza will share her experience with the opioid epidemic and how the lessons learned from it can inform our understanding of medicalizing gender ideology and how best to stop its harmful effects.

Psychotherapist and author of several books, Stella is the founder and director of Genspect. She first became well-known for her work in gender with the 2018 documentary, Trans Kids: It’s Time To Talk. Moved by how many families were impacted by gender dysphoria, Stella founded the Gender Dysphoria Support Network to help parents access appropriate support. Alongside Sasha Ayad, Stella co-hosts the popular podcast, Gender: A Wider Lens, and is also the co-author of When Kids Say They’re Trans: A Guide for Thoughtful Parents.