Genspect Launches New Think Tank to Draft a Gender Care Framework

Building on the success of our historic conference in Ireland during the month of April,
Genspect is pleased to announce the establishment of a new think tank charged with
developing a healthy alternative to the deeply flawed Standards of Care 8 promoted by the
World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). Genspect believes there is an
urgent need for an international, structured, comprehensive and well-informed alternative to
SOC8, and we are uniquely positioned to sponsor the development of such a document. Rather
than offering our own Standards of Care for medicalised transgender healthcare. However, we
will instead lay out a non-medicalised pathway toward resolving gender distress and toward
understanding it within the larger sociocultural context.

In short, Genspect will create a non-medical guide (the Gender Care Framework) to
rival WPATH’s Standards of Care 8, relying upon contributions from experts and leading
thinkers in various fields impacted by gender ideology. We intend to publish this guide in
November 2023, coinciding with our next conference in Denver, Colorado.

The Framework will offer parents and professionals from different fields working with
gender distress clear guidance on how to provide non-medicalised help and support, in an
accessible and internationally relevant way. Our think tank (The Killarney Group) comprises an
impressive team of authorities charged with compiling the Framework; its creation gives
parents, detransitioners and others impacted by gender medicine a clear signal that a
structured alternative to medicalisation is on the way, and that the finest minds are working on
it.

Genspect has also announced two additional conferences as part of its ongoing
challenge to the medicalised model of gender care promoted by WPATH and its subsidiary
organisations EPATH and USPATH. Just as our first conference, “The Bigger Picture”, took place
at the same time and place as EPATH’s gathering down the road in Killarney, so will Genspect’s
next two conferences mirror the annual gatherings of both USPATH (Denver, November 2023)
and WPATH itself (Lisbon, October 2024). Wherever they go, we will follow.

Like “The Bigger Picture”, our next two conferences will bring together disparate voices
to challenge WPATH’s monofocus on the affirmative care model with its emphasis on puberty
blockers and cross-sex hormones. We will hear from transitioners and detransitioners who
dispute the precepts of pediatric gender medicine. Also featured will be parents, educators,
lawyers, policy-makers, feminists, psychotherapists, politicians, and social scientists; they will
challenge the evidence base for gender medicine, describe the socio-cultural origins of gender
dysphoria, and present healthy alternative treatment recommendations for individuals,
families and society at large.

For more information or to schedule interviews, contact: media@genspect.org