Essays Archives — Genspect

True Believers: Why Trans Activism is Fueled by Hatred, Intolerance, and Nonsense

The Western world in the 21st century is one of the strangest moments in human history. This is an...

6th November 2026

From Reason to Ideology: How the Collège de France Lost Twenty Years of Progress

On the cancelling of the symposium, “The Child, Target of Ideologies” In 2005, the Collège de France devoted two...

5th October 2026

How the Dutch Normalized Medical Madness

The Dutch campaign to sell gender medicine overruled human instincts and normalized the unthinkable In February 2009, a Dutch...

1st October 2026

Germany: A Glimmer of Hope for Sex Realists?

Trans flags over the Brandenburg Gate by Elena Ahle Is the victory of the AfD in Germany a dark...

28th September 2026

Why WPATH Chose the Path to Disaster

How trans activism captured gender medicine In the 1990s, behind closed doors and far from public view, the foundation...

26th September 2026

Who wants an ordinary egg when you could have a Fabergé?

Self-Rejection, Integration, and the Un-Exotic Life

When we reject the body we also reject the self I wholeheartedly appreciate the term “sex-rejecting procedures,” adopted by...

18th September 2026

Trans Is a Mental Disorder: And we must be allowed to say so

A strange idea has been loose in our society for the last few decades. And it’s so pervasive and...

15th September 2026

All in the Family?

What if we are looking at the wrong patient? Trans-identified children through a family systems lens In family therapy,...

14th September 2026

What Does Testosterone do to the Female Body?

Too much of a good thing harms women’s bodies and brains We are only beginning to understand the long-term...

7th September 2026

No Intermission: Gender, Performance, and the Distress Nobody Measures

Steve Andrews on stage fright, passing and whether gender-affirming care really is “life saving” I drag myself into the...

26th August 2026

Cicero Denounces Catiline by Cesare Maccari (1889), fresco in Palazzo Madama, Rome. Source: Wikimedia Commons

How Long, WPATH?

A detransitioner asks, “How long, WPATH, will you abuse our patience?” For WPATH to insist that their SOC is...

22nd August 2026

Evidence for what?

Why we need to recognise transgender ideation Clinical clarity. That’s what we’ve needed all along. I read all around...

12th August 2026

Not a Story—A Diagnostic Code: A Rare Disorder as a ‘Control’ for Puberty Blockers

What Congenital GnRH Deficiency Reveals About Puberty Blockers and the Developing Brain This is a follow-up to “Frozen in...

29th July 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nobody Passes as Themselves
A detransition story

There is a certain kind of gender transition story that people like to hear. It is a story of...

20th February 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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