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Brother David: An Ethical Tale, Part 2
Part 1 in this series presents the case study of Brother David, a monk who asked a urologist to castrate...
15th January 2026
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Two Ways to Be Wrong
Twenty years ago, I went with a friend to see Touching the Void, a 2003 documentary about a mountain...
13th January 2026
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Brother David: An Ethical Tale, Part 1
Becoming a Eunuch for the Kingdom of Heaven In the summer of 1995, a private practice urologist referred a...
9th January 2026
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Three Strategies to Respond to an Ideological Crisis
In the field of so-called “gender medicine”, we have seen a shameful abdication of responsibility that has left the...
17th November 2025
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Restoring Clinical Clarity: Why We Shouldn’t Be Afraid to Say ‘Mental Illness’
In recent years, the term mental illness has become so stigmatised that counsellors, psychotherapists, and mental health practitioners are now being...
7th November 2025
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The therapist’s duty of care versus client autonomy
Working with clients in the counselling context is a complex process. The ethical therapist must always hold the balance...
4th November 2025
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Unconscionable Cowardice
From Defending Science to Endorsing Pseudoscience“…if you can find it in my statement, I’ll have to jump off a bridge.” On April 14, 2016,...
9th September 2025
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On the Other Side (of “transition”)
When I embarked on my “transition” from female to male in November of 2010, my overarching desire was to...
29th August 2025
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The Ripple Effect: From Silence to Stirring
Even though the UK has been in turmoil over trans issues for years, with whistleblowers emerging from the Tavistock...
16th June 2025
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When the Truth Is Uncomfortable – and We Want to Look Away
Both the UK grooming scandals and the medicalisation of ROGD teens highlight how the visceral reality of body horror...
9th May 2025
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Nobody Passes as Themselves
A detransition storyThere is a certain kind of gender transition story that people like to hear. It is a story of...
20th February 2025
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Not Being Affirmed Saved My Life
I was five years old when I told my mother I was a “girl trapped in a boy’s body.”...
11th February 2025
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Why I Quit the LGBTQIA+ Community
I have put in my two-week notice. I am quitting the LGBTQIA+ community. I will not be coming back....
4th February 2025
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From Confusion to Clarity
As children, we all crave acceptance and belonging. For gay men, this journey often includes painful experiences of shame...
16th January 2025
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Trans Kids: It’s time to talk
Six years ago yesterday, the film “Trans Kids: It’s time to talk” was released. At the time, I was a psychotherapist...
26th November 2024
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I hate the word “gender”
The last time I spoke to my pal Graham Linehan on the phone I actually thought he had stubbed his toe...
4th November 2024
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Gender Dysphoria: A terrible diagnosis and an even more flawed treatment approach
There are certain milestones along the road that can be pointed to as turning points in the trans phenomenon...
1st November 2024
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I have a branding problem – and so does Genspect
My head nearly fell off and rolled on the ground when I heard Peter Boghossian ask Phil Illy if...
27th October 2024
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The Bigger Picture in Lisbon
When Genspect first conceived the idea of countering WPATH’s fascist diktat of #NoDebate with a counter-conference in the same...
30th June 2024
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I Lost a Job I Loved Because I Cried About Pride in the Staffroom
Over the course of a year or so, while watching my trans-identified child’s mental health plummet, flags and posters...
27th June 2024
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Who funds Genspect?
The first time I saw someone on the internet ask ‘Who funds Genspect?’ I rolled my eyes and smiled...
2nd June 2024
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Assisted Suicide and Trans: Being Our Authentic Selves to Death
The parallels between the assisted suicide movement and the transgender movement are staggering. I’ve followed the work of journalist...
7th May 2024
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The Importance of Special Educational Needs Assessment Concerning Trans-Identifying Children in UK Schools: The Role of Educational & Child Psychologists
Introduction The aim of this paper is to promote the relevance of Special Educational Needs (SEN) assessment to gender-distressed...
2nd April 2024
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Navigating Ideological Currents: Why We Will Continue to Avoid Ideological Bias
It is hard to think of any topic more likely to incite fear, rage, suspicion, purity-testing, name-calling, highly uncharitable...
2nd February 2024
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Trouble with Gender: A Review
The controversies surrounding ‘gender’, ‘gender identity’ and ‘transgender’ often depend on differences of opinion of what these concepts might...
22nd December 2023
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#ROGDAwarenessDay: What It Is and Why You Should Care
Amidst the ongoing onslaught of transgender media coverage and public discussion on gender and sexuality, a new push for...
16th August 2023
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Building a Better World: Eliza Mondegreen Interviews Steven A. Richards
Steven A. Richards is an author and detransitioner who writes fiction and essays, often on the subject of the...
31st July 2023
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The Civil War Over Gender Services in Irish Public Healthcare
Inside Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE), the equivalent of the UK’s National Health Service, there is a civil war...
28th July 2023
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Abandoning Buffalo Bill: Why a Serious Paraphilia Needs a Serious Name
This year’s London Pride featured convicted kidnapper and attempted murderer Sarah Jane Baker, known for cutting off and eating...
10th July 2023
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Gender as a Playground for the Gifted Mind
If you’ve noticed that gender dysphoric people are often pretty bright, you’re not the only one. Though I’ve heard...
10th July 2023
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Rewriting the Past in the Preferred Image of the Future
It’s hard not to feel a grudging respect for the audacity of the trans movement; the speed at which...
5th July 2023
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The Assimilation of a Young Lesbian
I recently discussed my detransition with a friend of mine. Inevitably, the conversation turned to access to hormones and...
12th June 2023
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How Gender Archetypes Inform Our Cultural Approaches to Sex and Gender
As a young straight woman who mistakenly thought I should ‘transition’ to live as a gay man because I...
3rd June 2023
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Affirming Anorexia
Three years ago, Katherine’s world turned upside-down when her teenage daughter—we’ll call her Lauren—came out as transgender in a...
30th May 2023
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In Flight from Manhood
I’m a psychotherapist who works with biological males considering transition, and also with men who have resumed living as...
5th May 2023
