Medical transition Archives

Trans Infantilization, from “Cracked Eggs” to Resocialization

Spend any time whatsoever in trans spaces and one of the first things you’ll notice is the rampant infantilization....

31st March 2024

Feeling like an Imposter Before, During and After Transition

Because my research focuses in part on experiences of feeling like an imposter, the subject of “passing” as a...

19th January 2024

Genspect concerns submitted to the World Health Organisation (WHO) regarding the announcement of the development of a guideline on the health of trans and gender diverse people

Genspect is an international organisation that promotes a healthy approach to sex and gender. Our organisation includes professionals, trans...

5th January 2024

Leading doctors lodge formal complaint about HSE treatment of Irish children with gender identity issues

On Friday the 15th of December 2023, the Irish national broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) broke the news that...

24th December 2023

“T is the key that opens the gate holding back the flood”: When transition isn’t helping

Research online trans communities and you develop an ear for contradiction: Life got worse after transitioning, but not because...

27th October 2023

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

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

Does the Affirmative Care Model Protect Kids and Families? A Comprehensive Review

By Genspect guest author Lynn Chadwick. See here for the references cited in this article. In a recent sweeping...

31st March 2022

A response to openDemocracy: In defence of a gender-rational approach

Yesterday, we received an email asking us for comment on a piece in a UK outlet called openDemocracy. The...

25th March 2022

La vérité sur la détransition

Traduit par un parent francophone de Genspect. Jusqu’à présent, l’expérience des détransitionneurs et des détransitionneuses a été largement ignorée...

8th March 2022

DMN provides perspective on Texas

On Sunday March 6, 2022, the Dallas Morning News published another balanced editorial, Gender-affirming care needs more research, not...

7th March 2022

A therapist’s understanding of gender dysphoria

The upcoming Genspect webinar on detransition will focus on how society needs to grapple with certain issues if we...

7th March 2022

The Truth About Detransition

Until now, the detransitioner experience has largely been ignored – even though the best way for clinicians to improve their...

6th March 2022

San Francisco Chronicle publishes balance about Texas

On March 4, 2022, the San Francisco Chronicle published a balanced piece written by independent journalist Lisa Selin Davis...

4th March 2022

Constructive Criticism for TIME

Written by a Genspect parent and health professional. On February 12, 2022, TIME Magazine published an article entitled Pediatricians...

1st March 2022

WORLD ROUNDUP: New developments about gender-questioning youth this week

While Texas tries to make gender-affirming care illegal, Sweden just released their new standards which takes an evidence-based approach...

25th February 2022

BREAKING: Sweden drastically changes protocol, prioritizes psychotherapy

Genspect has quickly translated the following article from the Swedish publication Lakartidningen.se, which was published February 22, 2022. Please...

23rd February 2022

For more Scandi-style progressive politics, try Missouri, Alabama, and Utah

Written by Genspect parent Lynn Chadwick. Two new bills in Missouri and Alabama seek to prohibit medical procedures for...

15th February 2022

FRANCE: A health scandal ahead?

Translation into English by a Genspect parent of an article written by members of La Petite Sirene and published...

7th February 2022

What Genspect has done: Our 48 achievements so far

At Genspect, we’re doing so much work making change in the world that sometimes we forget to let you...

4th February 2022

Sweden to release new standards in March

Independent journalist Jesse Singal just did a remarkable interview with a Swedish investigative journalist who has reported on the medicalization...

28th January 2022

Scott Newgent of TReVoices in conversation with Stella O’Malley

Transman Scott Newgent, founder of TReVoices (Trans Rational Educational Voices) and author of a powerful Newsweek article on the...

13th July 2021

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