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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
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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
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Genspect Comment on the PATHWAYS Puberty Blocker Trial
Our response to Dr Hilary Cass speaking in the House of Lords, Thursday 22 October 2026 Dr Hilary Cass’s...
23rd October 2026
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At the Battle of Ideas, Gender is Part of the Greater Challenge
A monster revealed: a sobering but inspiring Battle of Ideas in London Last weekend, I was fortunate to attend...
23rd October 2026
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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
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The Misogyny Task Force Needs to Say What a Woman Is
As Institutions refuse to obey the UK Supreme Court ruling on sex and gender, Labour goes in search of...
7th October 2026
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“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
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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
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Banned in Belfast? Join us on 25 September
Genspect and the Free Speech Union are coming together for an evening examining conversion therapy, free speech and the...
29th August 2026
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Professor Emma Renold: Cymru’s Queen of Queer Education
Ben Sears discusses the impact of radical queer pedagogy in Welsh schools on education and child safeguarding. “‘Queering childhood’...
19th August 2026
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Responsible Adults Protect Children From Harm
The latest attempt to stop the NHS Puberty Blocker trial “Adolescence,” said Dr Hilary Cass, “is a time of...
11th August 2026
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Queering the Family Courts and Upending Child Safeguarding?
The UK’s deeply troubling Conversion Practices bill. The weather is changing, the nights are drawing in – so it...
11th July 2026
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Genspect response to NHS England consultation on cross-sex hormones for minors
Genspect has submitted a response to NHS England’s public consultation on the proposed clinical policy for prescribing masculinising and...
1st July 2026
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Cass’s Puberty Blocker Trial Reinstated
The elusive search for ‘true trans’ After a relatively quick pit stop to deal with some niggling ethical queries,...
1st July 2026
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Open Letter from Genspect to Wes Streeting
16 January 2026 Dear Secretary of State, We are writing in response to your remarks of 13 January regarding the PATHWAYS...
16th January 2026
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Genspect Responds to the Sandie Peggie Ruling: A Failure of Institutional Clarity
An Employment Tribunal in Scotland has delivered a mixed ruling in the case of Sandie Peggie, an NHS nurse...
8th December 2025
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An Open Letter from Genspect to Dr Hilary Cass
Dear Dr Cass We offer our sincere thanks for your scholarship, your integrity, and the clarity of thought embodied...
3rd December 2025
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Genspect Letter to Wes Streeting on the NHS PATHWAYS Puberty Blocker Trial
26 November 2025 The Rt Hon Wes Streeting MPSecretary of State for Health and Social CareDepartment of Health and...
26th November 2025
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The PATHWAYS Puberty Blocker Trial Betrays Vulnerable Young People
I had to suppress a shudder as I read through some of the outcome measures that will be used...
25th November 2025
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Genspect condemns reckless new trial of puberty blockers for gender distressed youth
Despite providing no services to support the growing number of detransitioners living with debilitating health difficulties caused by medical...
22nd November 2025
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Genspect’s Response to NHS England Children’s Gender Service Consultation
NHS England is currently consulting on a revised service specification for children and young people’s gender services, following the...
2nd November 2025
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PRESS RELEASE: Genspect condemns arrest of Graham Linehan
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEGenspect condemns yesterday’s arrest of writer and satirist Graham Linehan in connection with social media posts. This arrest marks...
3rd September 2025
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Genspect Submission to NHS England LGBT+ Health Evidence Review
Genspect has provided evidence to the NHS England LGBT+ Health Evidence Review, which can be read in full below;...
29th August 2025
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No More Experiments on Children
When the Atlantic Started Flowing the Other WayLast Monday, Spiked published a piece I wrote entitled No More Experiments on Children. It argued, in plain and unapologetic words, that...
27th 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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Bathbombs and Body Politics: How Corporate Activism Markets Medical Transition to Kids
A disturbing new development has emerged in Lush’s controversial campaign: according to The Times, children as young as seven were...
29th April 2025
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Blocking the Puberty Blocker Study
When I first set about writing the puberty blocker report, I was advised not to bother – apparently, it would...
17th February 2025
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Hearing on Puberty Blockers “Like Travelling Back in Time”
On 22nd January, the UK government’s Women and Equalities Committee (WEC) held an oral evidence session on the safety and...
14th February 2025
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Genspect UK statement on the news that more than 1,000 patients a year are referred for trans chest surgery on the NHS
Mental health professionals have long recognised that psychological distress is sometimes projected into the body. Conditions like anorexia are...
10th February 2025
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An Ethical Design for the UK’s Puberty Blocker Trial?
Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) proposes to inject a new cohort of gender dysphoric children with powerful gonadotropin-releasing hormone...
22nd January 2025
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Puberty Blockers: A Ban in Name Only?
The jubilation that accompanied the UK’s announcement of an indefinite ban on puberty blockers at the end of last...
21st January 2025
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The NHS Puberty Blocker Study
Necessary evil or medical scandal in the making?Join Genspect UK and guest speakers Professor Michael Biggs, Dr Louise Irvine and psychotherapist Susan Evans at 6pm GMT...
18th January 2025
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Call to action!: Help Genspect UK stop the NHS puberty blocker study
New BBC report reveals horrifying new details about the NHS puberty blocker study Hot on the heels of Genspect...
9th December 2024
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Open Letter to Health Secretary: Concerns About NHS Puberty Blocker Study
Dear Health Secretary, We are writing to you as organisations and individuals concerned with issues of sex and transgender...
7th December 2024
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Ethical and Practical Challenges for the NHS Puberty Blocker Study
What do we know about the NHS puberty blocker study? There is very limited publicly available information about how...
1st December 2024
