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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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“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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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“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
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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
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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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Originals and Facsimiles
There’s a painful gap that stretches between what trans activists mean when they talk about acceptance—or self-acceptance or authenticity—and...
5th November 2022
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Trans Identification and Eating Disorders
One of the first heretical thoughts I entertained—the first time I realized young women like the young woman I...
23rd October 2022
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Confusing Truth
Am I trans? The question is like a key that unlocks the door to transition. My search for an...
18th October 2022
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Outsider Shame and the Great Sorting
You start off at a neighborhood school around the age of five and for the next six years or...
14th October 2022
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Genspect Explainer: Latest data on gender affirmative care from USA
On October 6th 2022, Reuters published a ground-breaking article highlighting the drastic increase in children identifying as transgender and seeking gender...
12th October 2022
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Genspect Explainer: Mermaids
Mermaids is a UK registered charity that was established in 1995 to support “transgender, nonbinary and gender-diverse children, young...
5th October 2022
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WPATH Explained
Genspect provides a brief overview on why many believe that WPATH’s release of their Standards of Care (Version 8)...
1st October 2022
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The Casually Regressive Message of Drag Queen Story Hour
No tanks rolled in, and no shots were fired, but that there has been an invasion is indisputable. The...
25th September 2022
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What YouTube Influencers Are Telling Your Kids About Trans Identity and Doubt
Ever felt “a sense of misalignment, disconnect, or estrangement from your own emotions”? How about “knowing you’re somehow different...
20th September 2022
