Genspect Releases Full Programme for Denver Conference
By Genspect
Genspect has now released the full schedule of speakers and their topics for its upcoming “The Bigger Picture” conference in Denver, Colorado November 4-5. This conference will coincide with the publication of our Gender Framework, a comprehensive guidance document setting forth a non-medicalised approach to gender distress, and will reflect Genspect’s approach of countering WPATH on all fronts. Just as the GF argues that the influence of gender ideology must be recognized and rooted out of schools, laws, legislative policy, and cultural institutions, the roster of speakers at our Denver conference will address the pervasive influence of gender ideology across all these areas of society.
The breadth and variety of speakers at our conference reflect our broad-spectrum approach to countering WPATH. Traditional exploratory psychotherapy for gender-distressed youth must replace affirmative care, of course, and a rigorous scientific method must continue challenging the shoddy evidence base for activist-driven gender medicine; but Genspect holds that much more is needed if we’re successfully to counter the pervasive influence of gender ideology in Western culture.
The event kicks off on Saturday, November 4 with opening remarks from Director Stella O’Malley, launching both the conference itself and the Gender Framework. Author, ecologist and political candidate Michael Shellenberger will then place the battle against gender ideology within the larger struggle to protect free speech rights from progressive dogma and intolerance in the West. Manhattan Institute fellow Leor Sapir comes next with his analysis of the insidious way gender ideology has embedded itself within institutions across America.
Jesse Singal and Ben Appel will join Shellenberger and Sapir for a panel discussion focused on the media’s love affair with trans identities, moderated by Benjamin Boyce. The morning concludes with two prominent speakers who have very publicly challenged gender medicine: first legal warrior Vernadette Broyles will describe how schools, courts, and gender clinics are hurting kids and depriving parents of their rights; then noted whistle-blower Jamie Reed will explain what the Left must do to wake up and put a stop to the harm.
After a break for lunch, noted gender expert Dr. Stephen Levine will discuss the key elements of comprehensive psychiatric evaluation for gender distress, followed by a Q&A; then Zhenya Abruzzese of the Society for Evidence-Based Medicine will recount the shocking history of how experimentation with puberty blockers on minor children actually came about. Later in the afternoon, Denise Caignon from 4th Wave Now will discuss the gender-affirming American zeitgeist and the impossible challenges it poses for parents and politicians.
Dr. Joseph Burgo will later describe his clinical work with young men who don’t masturbate and other males in flight from masculinity. Stella O’Malley will then discuss her evolution from launching the Beyond Trans programme in 2021 to conceptualizing and publishing the Gender Framework. Well-known psychotherapists Sasha Ayad and Lisa Marchiano then join Levine, O’Malley and Burgo for a panel discussion on the psychological roots of gender-related distress.
The evening concludes with a live broadcast of Gender: A Wider Lens with special in-person guest detransitioner Chloe Cole.
The Sunday morning programme begins with a deep dive into the science of sex and gender: Heather Heying will discuss the evolutionary origins of sex differences, Colin Wright will define the sex binary and explain why it matters, Sammy Stagg will discuss the contested science over brain scans to prove that no one is “born in the wrong body,” and finally Dr. Carrie Mendoza will link lessons drawn from the opioid crisis to the impending affirmative care scandal, describing how bad ideas can scale and then unwind within the American health care industry.
Jessie Mannisto of Genspect will then moderate a panel focused on women combatting gender ideology; panelists will include speakers Heying, Mendoza, and O’Malley who will be joined by evolutionary biologist Carole Hooven and artist Nina Paley.
Later in the morning, documentary filmmaker Jennifer Lahl will discuss the disturbing phenomenon of transgender-assisted reproduction. January Littlejohn of Do No Harm will describe how the local school district transitioned her daughter without consent and what it took for her child to desist. Just prior to the break for lunch, Shannon Thrace will describe how her husband’s trans-identification ultimately destroyed their marriage.
Sunday afternoon speakers include Wesley Yang analysing the vast institutional failure in American concerning gender ideology and how it is wreaking havoc upon the bodies of the young. Detransitioner Corinna Cohn will discuss his experiences as a political activist opposing gender ideology across America, and Coach Linda Blade will describe the intrusion of gender ideology into women’s sports.
Philosopher Alex Byrne, whose book was cancelled by his publisher only to be picked up by another, will talk about that book, The Trouble with Gender. Erin Friday of Our Duty will then recount her experience as the mother of an ROGD child, and Prisha Mosely will explain the difference between validation and affirmation, with reference to her own journey toward detransition. Wilfred Riley will then speak about the impending medical scandal that is the detransition time bomb.
Following a panel discussion with the afternoon’s speakers and then closing remarks, Signal Productions will screen the premiere of its highly-anticipated documentary on gender.
Genspect’s “The Bigger Picture” promises to be landmark event in the battle against gender ideology. Please join us for this historic event.