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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

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

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

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

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

Trans Identification and Eating Disorders

One of the first heretical thoughts I entertained—the first time I realized young women like the young woman I...

23rd October 2022

Conversion Therapy: Not Yet Out of the Woods

On 10th May 2022, the long-anticipated Queen’s Speech took place, setting out the government’s legislative agenda for the coming parliamentary...

8th June 2022

Gender non-conforming children: Promoting well-being and mental health in schools

Here’s the thing about bullying: it reaches into the places where we feel most ashamed, and holds our secrets...

15th March 2022

A therapist’s understanding of gender dysphoria

The upcoming Genspect webinar on detransition will focus on how society needs to grapple with certain issues if we...

7th March 2022

Constructive Criticism for Psychology Today

Written by a Genspect parent A recent article in Psychology Today about using hormones and puberty blockers on young...

2nd February 2022

WSJ series: Increased mental health problems linked to social media influence, experts say

Article written by Genspect parent Lynn Chadwick. The negative impacts of social media on young people have been a...

11th January 2022

A parent responds to TIME article on poorly designed Trevor Project survey

On December 14, 2021, TIME Magazine printed this article: Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy for LGBTQ Youth Can Help Save Lives,...

16th December 2021

When doing less is helping more: A more considered approach

Written by Genspect parent Lynn Chadwick. In Clinical and Ethical Considerations in the Treatment of Gender Dysphoric Children and...

3rd December 2021

First Ever Conference on ROGD Packs Clinical and Emotional Punch

Written by Genspect parent Derek Duval. (Para la version en espagnol, vaya aqui.) On Saturday, November 20, 2021, Genspect...

22nd November 2021

Q&A with Dr. Stephen Levine

Written and compiled by Genspect parent Derek Duval. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Genspect advisor Stephen Levine published the...

16th November 2021

Edwards-Leeper: Support doesn’t always mean medical interventions

This summary was written by a Genspect parent. Many thanks to independent journalist Meghan Daum of the Unspeakable podcast for giving...

7th October 2021

ADVICE: Treating without transition

Cynthia Breheny is a woman who has struggled with gender dysphoria since early childhood and used unconventional therapeutic treatment...

1st October 2021

Social media’s impact on mental health and body image

Since Dr. Jean Twenge started documenting the rise of the smart phone generation born after 1995 (what she dubbed...

16th September 2021

Finally, some clarity on “conversion” therapy

A must-listen interview! Click here to hear Stella break down what “conversion” therapy is and isn’t. The proposals for...

28th August 2021

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