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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
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Genspect’s Final Submission to the UK Commission on Human Medicines Puberty Blocker Consultation
Genspect fully supports the Government’s ban on puberty blockers for gender distressed children and young people. We believe the...
30th October 2024
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Genspect’s Submission to the UK Department of Health and Social Care’s Consultation on Puberty Blockers
The UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has launched a targeted consultation on a proposed permanent order...
16th September 2024
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Breaking up Is Hard to Do: Why the UKCP Is Right to Leave the Memorandum of Understanding on Conversion Therapy
Introduction The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is one of the main leading professional associations of therapists within...
12th July 2024
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A Double Standard in the UK’s Genital Surgery Laws?
In this article on a very sensitive topic, I argue that what is considered ‘mutilation’ of the body is...
25th May 2024
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Scottish Educational Psychologists and Gender Ideology in Scotland’s Schools: A Conspiracy of Silence?
On 26th February 2024, Genspect published the article by McGuiggan, D’Lima and Robertson, Where are the Educational Psychologists when...
8th May 2024
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Are “Life Goals” Anything to Do with Health Services?
Among the final recommendations of the United Kingdom’s Cass Review of the treatment of children and young people is...
20th April 2024
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Reflections on the Cass Report
This is an area of remarkably weak evidence, and yet results of studies are exaggerated or misrepresented by people...
17th April 2024
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Parenting a Trans-Identifying Child
A parent’s response to the Cass Review’s Final Report Dear Reader, You may be questioning why the Cass Review...
15th April 2024
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Genspect Welcomes Dr Hilary Cass’s Report
Genspect welcomes Dr Hilary Cass’s report and we look forward to seeing a wider range of treatment options and...
10th April 2024
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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
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The New Puberty Blocker Experiment on the UK’s Children
In March 2022, the interim findings of the Cass Review into the United Kingdom’s childhood gender services proposed the...
19th March 2024
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Where are the Educational Psychologists When Children Say They’re Transgender?
There is a debate raging nationally. A debate about how to support young people who say they are trans....
26th February 2024
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Llygad ar Gymru
Mae menywod traws yn fenywod, mae dynion traws yn ddynion, ac mae hunaniaethau anneuaidd yn gwbl ddilys. Llywodraeth Cymru,...
2nd October 2023
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The Tide Keeps on Turning
In a positive week, the American Academy of Pediatics (AAP) has made the long-overdue decision to carry out a...
5th August 2023
