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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

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

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

#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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To Help Trans-Identifying Kids, Follow The Science

Much is being learned As a STEM researcher and a lifelong liberal democrat, I fervently hold that young trans-identifying...

5th April 2023

The New Thoughtcrime: An Interview

One of the must-read resources for young people ensnared in trans communities is the anonymous blog, newthoughtcrime, which explores...

4th April 2023

To Beard or Not to Beard

It took me a long time to muster up the courage to contact a medical professional regarding my detransition....

27th March 2023

There’s Nothing Neutral About Gender-Neutral Parenting

Last week the Irish politician and far left socialist, Paul Murphy, introduced his beautiful baby boy to the world....

20th March 2023

When Your Serious Doubts Are Just “Intrusive Thoughts”

We’ve talked about imposter syndrome and internalized transphobia before. Let’s take a look at a few more ways members of...

14th March 2023

How Early Trauma Thwarts Right-Brain Development

Most mental health disorders – plentiful in the trans-identified population – originate in maladaptive coping systems and are developed...

3rd March 2023

Nothing to See Here

A couple of weeks ago, I attended a grand round with a leading gender clinician in my city. Let’s...

25th February 2023

Seeking Refuge in Idiosyncratic Sexual Identities (And Yaoi)

Previous research, while not necessarily seeking to understand causality, documents the prevalence of transgender identities among same-sex attracted youth...

20th February 2023

Irish Curriculum Bid to Present Gender Identity Theory as Fact

What is a curriculum? What are its aims and objectives and who does it serve? Most people don’t ask...

17th February 2023

Gender Identity Through the Lens of Developmental Trauma

A look at the over-represented subgroups that comprise gender-distressed children reveals strong clues that developmental trauma may drive trans...

15th February 2023

Patient Autonomy or Medical Responsibility?

There’s been a lot of talk about the Dutch protocol lately, which is finally coming under sustained scrutiny—just 20-odd years after this...

6th February 2023

If Your Parents Aren’t Accepting of Your Identity, I’m Your Mom Now

Over the weekend, the New York Times reported on the clash between parents and schools over whether parents have a right to...

23rd January 2023

Disability, Same-Sex Carers, and Safe Spaces

I enjoy Quentin Tarantino films but watch them from behind a pillow. I’m squeamish about the violence but his films...

18th January 2023

Proxies For Doubt

Doubt is simultaneously all-pervasive and strictly taboo in online trans communities. You’re never supposed to question or doubt anyone...

10th January 2023

The battle for the meaning of “detransition”

Canadian researchers said they were ready to tackle detransition. Instead, they’ve framed it as just another part of the...

27th December 2022

Suggestion, Appropriation, and Straight-Out Theft

In my recent conversation with Benjamin Boyce, we covered a lot of ground, including suggestion and the belief that many...

15th December 2022

Suing Over Medical Transition: The Case Against Considering Wpath as a Competent, Reasonable Body of Expert Opinion.

Disclaimer: The following article is not intended as legal advice. Please consult a lawyer if you are directly affected...

10th December 2022

Girls Are Better Than Boys

No one comes out and says it directly, at least not when you’re little. You reach your ownconclusions based...

5th December 2022

Gender Identity, Religion, and Biology as Blasphemy

In the autumn of 2018 I wrote a poem, a piece in verse, called Woman. I recited the piece...

24th November 2022

“Get Them on Treatment!” WPATH and the Long Reach of US Trans Ideology into UK Healthcare

The recent publication of WPATH Standards of Care (SOC), now version 8, has raised concern on a number of...

22nd November 2022

Gender and the Hate Crime Bill in Ireland

In 1945 George Orwell wrote an essay entitled ‘The Freedom of the Press’ to preface his book Animal Farm....

12th November 2022

Originals and Facsimiles

There’s a painful gap that stretches between what trans activists mean when they talk about acceptance—or self-acceptance or authenticity—and...

5th November 2022

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