Genspect Press Release: The Bigger Picture Conference
By Genspect
Genspect, an international organisation providing support for individuals and families impacted by gender distress, will challenge the narrow, medicalised model of gender care currently in vogue by holding a major conference presenting “The Bigger Picture.”
The Bigger Picture Conference Thursday 27th– Saturday 29th April, Killarney, Co. Kerry
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Genspect, an international organisation providing support for individuals and families impacted by gender distress, will challenge the narrow, medicalised model of gender care currently in vogue by holding a major conference presenting “The Bigger Picture.” This event will take place 27-29 April in Killarney, Ireland, while down the street, the European Professional Association for Transgender Health (EPATH) holds its own annual conference. Genspect intends this to be the first of a series of counter-conferences to EPATH/WPATH, as they continue to confront EPATH, an organisation that brooks no debate and incorrectly insists that the “science is settled.”
Genspect advances “a healthy approach to sex and gender” and disputes the claim that EPATH promotes safe, well-evidenced, and effective care for those who struggle with gender distress. “Just the opposite,” says Stella O’Malley, psychotherapist and director of Genspect. “It’s not appropriate to push puberty blockers, hormones, and surgery on vulnerable kids. The EPATH programme promotes heavy medical interventions while Genspect favours the least invasive approach first.”
“The Bigger Picture” will bring together leading lights from across the gender space. Attendees will meet experts from many fields holding a myriad of perspectives: eminent scientists, researchers, lawyers, doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, sociologists, educators, feminists, and some well-known detransitioners will challenge the evidence base for gender medicine and describe the widespread damage that gender identity ideology has wrought. Presentations, panel discussions, debates and a live-streaming of the podcast Gender: A Wider Lens will ensure that all sides of this complex issue will be addressed.
The Keynote will be delivered by Helen Joyce, a former journalist at The Economist and author of the ground-breaking Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality. Other featured speakers include Prof. Michael Biggs of Oxford University, who doggedly pursued the concealed truth about failed trials for puberty blockers and the myth of high suicide rates among gender-distressed children at the Tavistock; Ken Zucker who has decades of experience working with gender-distressed children; Lisa Littman, who first put the spotlight on social contagion and coined the term Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria; and O’Malley herself, who will argue for the need to protect ethical psychotherapy from proposed conversion therapy bans advocated by EPATH and its allies.
Genspect’s conference on “The Bigger Picture” will expand the common understanding of gender distress and crack open EPATH’s mono-focus on medicalised modes of treatment to include cultural, psychological and sociological perspectives. Tickets for the event are on sale here:
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