Mental health Archives

From Respect to Understanding

In this three-part series, Dwight Panozzo, PhD, LCSW, shares his personal and professional journey through the complexities of Gender...

10th July 2025

Lost in Cyber Space: Girls, Boys, and The Anxious Generation
Girls will be girls and boys will be boys online — even if they don't identify that way

One deeply unfashionable thing I do in my research is to group girls together, regardless of how they identify....

26th July 2024

Transition in the Family: Children Need Protection, Sometimes Even from their Own Fathers

When I was growing up, Stephen, who was the same age as me and the son of a neighbour,...

20th July 2024

Shadows of Doubt: Peering into the Void of Gender Identity

A man chronicles his descent into gender obsession—and gets some useful advice on r/detrans: My heart is racing constantly...

10th July 2024

I Lost a Job I Loved Because I Cried About Pride in the Staffroom

Over the course of a year or so, while watching my trans-identified child’s mental health plummet, flags and posters...

27th June 2024

Why Depressed Children Shouldn’t Be Given Puberty Blockers

When I heard of “puberty blockers” being given to healthy children I was astonished. My own experience with hormone...

11th June 2024

Parenting a Trans-Identifying Child

A parent’s response to the Cass Review’s Final Report Dear Reader, You may be questioning why the Cass Review...

15th April 2024

Rethinking Mental Healthcare: A Call for Comprehensive Reform

America’s mental health system is in dire need of an overdue makeover. With the persistent surge of mass shootings...

12th April 2024

“Really not enjoying the female experience”

The Reddit community r/questioning describes itself as “a helpful community for those questioning their sexuality and/or gender.” In practice, online communities...

11th January 2024

Grateful to be alive at thirty-five

I am so grateful to have just turned thirty-five. Not the birthday that all single (or any) women would...

26th 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

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

Gender non-conforming children: Promoting well-being and mental health in schools

Here’s the thing about bullying: it reaches into the places where we feel most ashamed, and holds our secrets...

15th March 2022

Constructive Criticism for Psychology Today

Written by a Genspect parent A recent article in Psychology Today about using hormones and puberty blockers on young...

2nd February 2022

A parent responds to TIME article on poorly designed Trevor Project survey

On December 14, 2021, TIME Magazine printed this article: Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy for LGBTQ Youth Can Help Save Lives,...

16th December 2021

ADVICE: Ways to manage gender dysphoria non-medically

I am a 37-year-old a bisexual woman married to a wonderful man, now happy in my skin, but who...

24th September 2021

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