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Part I: Three days at the European Professional Association for Transgender Health
I spent last week traveling up and down Muckross Road in Killarney, Ireland. I walked south to the European...
4th May 2023
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To Help Trans-Identifying Kids, Follow The Science
Much is being learned As a STEM researcher and a lifelong liberal democrat, I fervently hold that young trans-identifying...
5th April 2023
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Norway Takes a Step Forward in Ending “Experiment” in Youth Gender Medicine
Independent body finds the country’s affirmative approach risky, irreversible, and based on cherry-picked research. An independent investigating body in...
22nd March 2023
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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
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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
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Genspect Goes for “The Bigger Picture”
EPATH (WPATH) counter conference. Read to find out more.
2nd March 2023
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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
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Gender Chaos
By July 2013 the Irish Government was already committed to bringing in a system of gender recognition so that...
24th February 2023
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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
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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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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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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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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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“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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“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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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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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
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The Current State of Paediatric Gender Dysphoria in Australia
The Tavistock’s Gender Identity Development Services (also known as GIDS) has closed at last. Australian Genspect parents are very...
24th August 2022
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The ‘Failed’ Boy
What do we mean when we refer to internalized homophobia? With their scientific-sounding names, many diagnostic terms with Greek...
16th August 2022
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An Open Letter to Pediatric Gender Clinics
The world’s largest pediatric gender clinic, the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust...
29th July 2022
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Bill Maher Showed You the Tip of the Iceberg
The HBO television show Real Time with Bill Maher, hosted by American comedian and political commentator Bill Maher, recently...
15th July 2022
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Conversion Therapy: Not Yet Out of the Woods
On 10th May 2022, the long-anticipated Queen’s Speech took place, setting out the government’s legislative agenda for the coming parliamentary...
8th June 2022
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The timeline of a blunder: How Irish politician Mick Barry got it so wrong
Click here to listen for yourself to the clip mentioned in this piece (between the 5- and 10-minute marks)....
18th May 2022
