ROGD Archives — Genspect

Lay Your Cards on the Table

Once upon a time, most of us had never heard of gender ideology, also known as trans ideology. Everybody...

13th October 2025

ROGD Awareness Day – Share Your Story

Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD) is a term first described by Dr. Lisa Littman in research published on August...

15th August 2025

When the Truth Is Uncomfortable – and We Want to Look Away

Both the UK grooming scandals and the medicalisation of ROGD teens highlight how the visceral reality of body horror...

9th May 2025

Listening to the Silenced: Genspect’s Mission for Thoughtful, Honest Care

At Genspect, we believe real support begins with listening, not lecturing. We’re an international organisation committed to evidence-based approaches to...

29th April 2025

WPATH’s Annus Horribilis

As 2024 ended, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health could have described the past year with the same...

7th March 2025

Dispatches from Deutschland: If You Know Nothing, You Will Believe Everything (Part 2)

In part one we read about the collapse of Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine’s standards in the face of gender ideology. In part...

4th March 2025

ROGD Awareness Day: The Dangers of Avoidance

One significant finding from the recent parent survey that I carried out is that many parents regret having avoided...

16th August 2024

In What Way is Surgery Reversible? Memories of Diversity Seminars in the Workplace

I have been unemployed now for almost 5 months, following a sudden and unexpected redundancy from my job of...

29th June 2024

On Bringing Your Whole Self to Work

I sit in the “collaboration space” surrounded by my colleagues and peers. The session’s facilitators have the flip chart paper...

28th June 2024

Who funds Genspect?

The first time I saw someone on the internet ask ‘Who funds Genspect?’ I rolled my eyes and smiled...

2nd June 2024

Holding the Space for Exploratory Therapy with Gender-Questioning Clients

The Cass Review for the UK NHS has sharpened wider awareness of the ongoing controversy over exploratory therapy for...

26th May 2024

A Practical Response to Gender Distress: A Review

Review of A Practical Response to Gender Distress, by Pamela Garfield-Jaeger LCSW, MS Oh, how I wish I had this...

22nd April 2024

Are “Life Goals” Anything to Do with Health Services?

Among the final recommendations of the United Kingdom’s Cass Review of the treatment of children and young people is...

20th April 2024

UK NHS Report Casts a Shadow on Australian Gender Clinic Practices

MEDIA RELEASE – Genspect Australia Current medical treatments for children with gender dysphoria lack supporting evidence, according to a...

19th April 2024

Reflections on the Cass Report

This is an area of remarkably weak evidence, and yet results of studies are exaggerated or misrepresented by people...

17th April 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

Gender Identity in Italy: The Developing Situation at Careggi Hospital

The explosion of children and adolescents adopting a gender identity over the last decade is not restricted to the...

9th April 2024

Redefining Gender Identity: A Call for the Return of “Cross-Sex Identity Disorder”

Much has been written criticising the concept of “gender identity,” however, the concept is already changing into “gender incongruence.”...

17th March 2024

The WPATH Files Revealed

The WPATH Files are leaked internal conversations that were sent to Michael Shellenberger last year. Michael worked on these...

5th March 2024

Unveiling Risks to PHARMAC’s Integrity and Women’s Health Amidst Testogel Approval

On February 8 the New Zealand Government announced that its Pharmaceutical Management Agency (PHARMAC) will add testosterone gel to...

1st March 2024

Where are the Educational Psychologists When Children Say They’re Transgender?

There is a debate raging nationally. A debate about how to support young people who say they are trans....

26th February 2024

Navigating Ideological Currents: Why We Will Continue to Avoid Ideological Bias

It is hard to think of any topic more likely to incite fear, rage, suspicion, purity-testing, name-calling, highly uncharitable...

2nd February 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

Parenting within the minefield of sex and gender

This piece explores the highly contentious issues that impact parents of gender-distressed children Parents of gender-distressed children should probably...

3rd January 2024

Parenting the gender-distressed child in 2024

What is facing parents of gender-distressed children this coming year? For those of us who have lived in...

31st December 2023

The New Gay-Conversion Therapy: A Psychologist’s Perspective

Gay-conversion therapy is a thing of the past. It comprised psychological interventions intended to convert homosexuals into heterosexuals. Critics...

6th September 2023