Publications — Page 16 of 22

When Your Serious Doubts Are Just “Intrusive Thoughts”

We’ve talked about imposter syndrome and internalized transphobia before. Let’s take a look at a few more ways members of...

14th March 2023

Accommodation in Killarney

The following hotels have a small number of rooms set aside for the conference. Please get in touch with...

10th March 2023

Genspect Press Release: The Bigger Picture Conference

Genspect, an international organisation providing support for individuals and families impacted by gender distress, will challenge the narrow, medicalised...

6th March 2023

How Early Trauma Thwarts Right-Brain Development

Most mental health disorders – plentiful in the trans-identified population – originate in maladaptive coping systems and are developed...

3rd March 2023

Genspect Goes for “The Bigger Picture”

EPATH (WPATH) counter conference. Read to find out more.

2nd March 2023

Saving Psychotherapy from Conversion Therapy Bans

Genspect believes that governments should reject these new expansive conversion therapy bans that make the practice of conventional therapy...

28th February 2023

Nothing to See Here

A couple of weeks ago, I attended a grand round with a leading gender clinician in my city. Let’s...

25th February 2023

Gender Chaos

By July 2013 the Irish Government was already committed to bringing in a system of gender recognition so that...

24th February 2023

Finland Takes Another Look at Youth Gender Medicine

The mismatch between the young people described in the protocol and the patients “on the ground” triggered a policy...

23rd February 2023

Detrans Awareness Day 2023

View our dedicated sister-site Beyond Trans for more information and to watch a recording of the event. Genspect are...

20th February 2023

Seeking Refuge in Idiosyncratic Sexual Identities (And Yaoi)

Previous research, while not necessarily seeking to understand causality, documents the prevalence of transgender identities among same-sex attracted youth...

20th February 2023

Irish Curriculum Bid to Present Gender Identity Theory as Fact

What is a curriculum? What are its aims and objectives and who does it serve? Most people don’t ask...

17th February 2023

Gender Identity Through the Lens of Developmental Trauma

A look at the over-represented subgroups that comprise gender-distressed children reveals strong clues that developmental trauma may drive trans...

15th February 2023

Genspect Expert College Series

Gender non-conforming and trans-identified students provide colleges the opportunity to celebrate diversity and empower young people to transcend stereotypes....

11th February 2023

Worried Parents were Behind Sweden’s U-turn on Paediatric Gender Medicine

A popular documentary series is often cited as the beginning of the end, but parents were always busy in...

8th February 2023

Patient Autonomy or Medical Responsibility?

There’s been a lot of talk about the Dutch protocol lately, which is finally coming under sustained scrutiny—just 20-odd years after this...

6th February 2023

Europe is Rising

Italian professionals appeal to the new PM, and Spanish parents petition the EU as "Catalan Tavistock" sees an incredible...

25th January 2023

If Your Parents Aren’t Accepting of Your Identity, I’m Your Mom Now

Over the weekend, the New York Times reported on the clash between parents and schools over whether parents have a right to...

23rd January 2023

Disability, Same-Sex Carers, and Safe Spaces

I enjoy Quentin Tarantino films but watch them from behind a pillow. I’m squeamish about the violence but his films...

18th January 2023

When Minority Rights are Wrong

Perhaps what is most surprising about these figures, is just how minuscule they are. In 2017 the Government Equalities...

10th January 2023

Proxies For Doubt

Doubt is simultaneously all-pervasive and strictly taboo in online trans communities. You’re never supposed to question or doubt anyone...

10th January 2023

The Dutch Model is falling apart

Finally. the Dutch are speaking up. The country that recklessly decided that it was a good idea to offer...

2nd January 2023

Switzerland remaining neutral

On Wednesday, 28th December 2022, the Swiss government rejected introducing a third-gender or no-gender option for official records. “The...

30th December 2022

The battle for the meaning of “detransition”

Canadian researchers said they were ready to tackle detransition. Instead, they’ve framed it as just another part of the...

27th December 2022

Suggestion, Appropriation, and Straight-Out Theft

In my recent conversation with Benjamin Boyce, we covered a lot of ground, including suggestion and the belief that many...

15th December 2022

When sterility is the risk, placebo is far from harmless

Gender dysphoria is strongly associated with depression and anxiety, both of which are susceptible to the subjective effects of...

14th December 2022

Suing Over Medical Transition: The Case Against Considering Wpath as a Competent, Reasonable Body of Expert Opinion.

Disclaimer: The following article is not intended as legal advice. Please consult a lawyer if you are directly affected...

10th December 2022

“Favour no particular outcome” – a guide for treating trans youth

GETA has published a how-to for mental health professionals on treating young people with gender identity problems. The organisation...

7th December 2022

Girls Are Better Than Boys

No one comes out and says it directly, at least not when you’re little. You reach your ownconclusions based...

5th December 2022

Two events cancelled in four days: psychiatrist who wrote about trans social contagion shut down by activists

Caroline Eliacheff, a child psychiatrist who has expressed concern about the abrupt rise in gender dysphoria cases among young...

28th November 2022

Psychotherapy is not ‘conversion therapy’ says chief psychiatrist

The head of psychiatry at Burgos university hospital in northern Spain, Dr Juan García Mellado, has suggested that increased use...

27th November 2022

Gender Identity, Religion, and Biology as Blasphemy

In the autumn of 2018 I wrote a poem, a piece in verse, called Woman. I recited the piece...

24th November 2022

“Get Them on Treatment!” WPATH and the Long Reach of US Trans Ideology into UK Healthcare

The recent publication of WPATH Standards of Care (SOC), now version 8, has raised concern on a number of...

22nd November 2022

Gender and the Hate Crime Bill in Ireland

In 1945 George Orwell wrote an essay entitled ‘The Freedom of the Press’ to preface his book Animal Farm....

12th November 2022

ROGD: What we know & what we’re learning

On November the 20th, Genspect held a conference on Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, or ‘ROGD’. This event united groundbreaking...

11th November 2022

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