Legislation Archives

Five Reasons the British Prime Minister Needs to Bin the Conversion Practices Bill

Andy Burnham at Manchester Pride. Credit: Rathfelder The bill is unworkable law, and a legacy of trans lobby from...

4th November 2026

Ancient and Modern: Lucy Beney’s Talk from The Battle of Ideas

The draft Conversion Practices Bill is completely at odds with child development “He’s like a man you’d meet any...

3rd November 2026

Britain’s Main Therapy Association is Rewriting the Rules on Sex and “Conversion Practices”

A look at the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy’s guidance on gender, sexuality and relationships. By Peter Jenkins...

26th October 2026

Beyond the Medical Mask: Laura’s story

Laura’s Quest to Protect Vulnerable Children A Note from Genspect Genspect hopes this piece will be the first of...

22nd October 2026

Más allá de la máscara médica: la historia de Laura

La lucha de Laura por proteger a los niños vulnerables Una nota de Genspect Genspect espera que este artículo...

22nd October 2026

Strange Brew: The “Evidence” for the UK’s draft Conversion Practices Bill 2026

Old beliefs die hard Exorcism, purifying substances and research deficit Peter Jenkins It seems that we are still in...

8th October 2026

The Conversion Practices (Criminalization) Bill Casts a Shadow Over Families

Paddy O’Gorman reports on the FSU/Genspect event – ‘Banned in Belfast’ Families in Northern Ireland will have “the shadow...

6th October 2026

Genspect Supports the Yaeli Martinez Child Protection Act

A new US bill aims to stop states from using child welfare laws to break up families when parents...

2nd October 2026

Portugal: Genspect Asks Awkward Questions about Puberty Blockers and Hormones

What the National Authority of Medicines and Health Products says, what clinics do, and what the data doesn’t show...

30th September 2026

Portugal: Bloqueadores e hormonas em menores: o que diz o Infarmed

O que diz a Autoridade Nacional do Medicamento e Produtos de Saúde, o que fazem as clínicas e o...

30th September 2026

“The Chilling Bill”: Belfast panel warns Conversion Practices Bill is “chasing a phantom problem”

Speakers at a Belfast event examining Northern Ireland’s proposed Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill have challenged its supporters to explain...

28th September 2026

Submissão da Genspect sobre as Propostas de Alterações à Legislação Portuguesa sobre Identidade de Género

(Em análise no Parlamento Português) Read this statement in English Submissão da Genspect sobre as Propostas de Alterações à...

23rd September 2026

Genspect Submission on Proposed Amendments to Portuguese Gender Identity Legislation

Prepared by Dr. Stella O’ Malley for consideration by the Portuguese Parliament Leia esta declaração em português The Portuguese...

23rd September 2026

Helmet mask of the Sande secret society of clitoridectomised women Sierra Leone. Credit: Brooklyn Museum, CC-BY-3.0.

Is the UK’s National Health Service Breaking FGM Law?

Postcolonial and queer theory champion invasive surgeries on women and girls Doomscrolling on a Sunday evening, I noticed a...

17th September 2026

PORTUGAL: Lei contra as terapias de terapias de conversão ameaça pais com pena de cadeia até 3 anos

No UK discute-se a possibilidade de ser aprovada a lei contra as terapias de conversão. Em Portugal esta lei...

9th September 2026

PORTUGAL: A Conversion Therapy Ban Threatens Parents with Up to 3 Years in Prison

By José Ribeiro e Castro, lawyer, politician and former president of the CDS-PP party Leia este texto em Português...

9th September 2026

Unneeded; Unwanted: Labour’s Conversion Practices Bill

Labour’s Conversion Practices Bill will make it impossible for gender distressed people to be anything but trans Should “gender...

1st September 2026

Should an 11-Year-Old’s Chances of Recovery Be Deemed “Vanishingly Remote”?

Stella O’Malley’s response to Dr Hillary Cass concerning the case of “Jo”. Stella O’Malley’s recent article responding to Dr...

23rd August 2026

The Two-Bill Pipeline: How California Continues to Build a Legal Machine to Take Your Children

Experience has shown Genspect time and again that depriving gender distressed young people of their families is the last...

17th June 2026

The mystery of the disappearing “gender identity”

Yesterday’s ruling by the UK’s highest court, the Supreme Court, clarified that the word “woman” in their jurisdiction, the 2010 Equality...

17th April 2025

New Zealand has a new government. What does this mean for sex and gender?

The election New Zealanders went to the ballot box on October 14th and voted to change the government. They...

12th December 2023

Shape Shifter v. Fenway Health: Latest US Detransitioner Court Case Exposes Faults with “Gender-Affirming Care.”

Shape Shifter v. Fenway Health, an emergent court case in Massachusetts, is part of a growing number of legal...

18th October 2023

Taking Conversations Into the Real World: Eliza Mondegreen Interviews Corinna Cohn

Corinna Cohn is a writer, podcaster, and activist from Indiana. Corinna was diagnosed with gender identity disorder at age...

22nd August 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

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

My testimony against California SB107 in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee

On Tuesday, August 30, Chloe Cole, 18, testified before the California State Senate Judiciary Committee, opposing Senator Weiner’s bill...

1st September 2022

The Current State of Paediatric Gender Dysphoria in Australia

The Tavistock’s Gender Identity Development Services (also known as GIDS) has closed at last. Australian Genspect parents are very...

24th August 2022

An Open Letter to Pediatric Gender Clinics

The world’s largest pediatric gender clinic, the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust...

29th July 2022

Genderizing Title IX in US Schools

Under the radar until the last couple of years, gender ideology has gained a foothold in nearly every arena,...

23rd July 2022

An Open Letter to the American Academy of Pediatrics

We write to you from Genspect, an international and non-partisan organization which represents thousands of parents of gender dysphoric...

18th July 2022

A Frolic of Its Own: Scotland and Gender Recognition Reform

On 2nd March 2022, the Scottish government introduced the ‘Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill’ before the Scottish Parliament. The purpose...

11th July 2022

NZ’s conversion practices prohibition law: A wolf in wolf’s clothing

A commentary by Jan Rivers, Fully Informed. What Has Happened? Following a record 106,000 submissions, oral hearings conducted at...

8th March 2022

DMN provides perspective on Texas

On Sunday March 6, 2022, the Dallas Morning News published another balanced editorial, Gender-affirming care needs more research, not...

7th March 2022

For more Scandi-style progressive politics, try Missouri, Alabama, and Utah

Written by Genspect parent Lynn Chadwick. Two new bills in Missouri and Alabama seek to prohibit medical procedures for...

15th February 2022

Sweden to release new standards in March

Independent journalist Jesse Singal just did a remarkable interview with a Swedish investigative journalist who has reported on the medicalization...

28th January 2022

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