Genspect founder Stella O’Malley on GB News

Hot on the heels of our first outing in the print media, Stella has appeared on GB News, the UK’s newest TV station. On the show Dewbs & Co., she discussed the fast-tracking of gender-questioning kids into medical procedures:

A couple of quotes:

The reason we set up Genspect is that so many parents were coming to different parent groups, all over the world, and they were all saying the same thing: that they were unhappy with the medical treatment they were receiving and the therapeutic treatment that their children were receiving. […] Why don’t we look at this through a wider perspective, so we can help you in your entirety? Rather than just thinking, all you are is a walking gender identity and there’s nothing else to you. Because most people are much more than that, and much wider than that.

Presenting a different (albeit non-clinical) perspective was Katy Jon Went, a trans woman and commentator:

What we do have now which is different is we have medical options, we have legal laws, those things weren’t present in the past. But if I can pick up something that Stella said that I would agree with as well […] One of the biggest issues is the lack of well-being, mental health, psychotherapeutic support services. When I began to transition, it was one of the compulsory things: you had to go into three months’ therapy. That’s not a compulsory thing anymore…

Kudos to Dewbs & Co. It’s great to see a TV network taking parents’ concerns seriously.