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Autism and Gender Dysphoria, Part 4

Rigidity / Black-and-White Thinking Autistic people are especially prone to rigid or ‘black-and-white’ thinking. Anyone with a gender dysphoric...

17th December 2025

The Alchemist and the Algorithm

By now, there is a general recognition that social media is not good for young people. The negative impacts...

9th October 2025

PRESS RELEASE: Genspect condemns arrest of Graham Linehan
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Genspect condemns yesterday’s arrest of writer and satirist Graham Linehan in connection with social media posts. This arrest marks...

3rd September 2025

The Cult Connection Part 2 – Information Control

The Cult Connection Part 1 looked at what a cult is – a group or movement with a shared commitment...

26th August 2025

Society’s Perfect Storm: Mental Health, Body Image, and Social Media

From 1995 to 2016, a period spanning over two decades and thousands of patient encounters, I did not meet...

10th June 2025

When Your Trans-identified Son goes to College

As of May 1st college-bound seniors in American high schools are breathing a sigh of relief — and so...

27th May 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

It’s Not Just The Kids: How Social Media Captures Parents

I wasn’t always someone who believed there was anything wrong with stating “trans women are women”. Or at least,...

2nd July 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

WPATH Files Webinar Series: Medical Scandals of the Past

Throughout April and May

16th 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

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

Fan Fiction and Trans Identity

I’d been meaning to return to the subject of fan fiction and trans identification—just as I’ve been meaning to...

6th March 2024

Where did All the Weird Nerd Women Go?

I had a long conversation with Nicole Rainey about her experiences in online fandom, what she witnessed as gender...

6th 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

“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

Permanent Decisions, Temporary Relief: The Psychology of Body Modification

In an increasingly complex and tumultuous world, body modification has emerged as a poignant coping mechanism, offering solace and...

27th December 2023

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

The Split

To paraphrase the Irish writer, Brendan Behan, the first item on the agenda of any meeting these days is:...

11th November 2023

Recant! Apology in the Age of the Gender Wars

We are living through an historic age—an age of puritans, of organisational conquest, of punishment of heretics, and of...

4th September 2023

#ROGDAwarenessDay: What It Is and Why You Should Care

Amidst the ongoing onslaught of transgender media coverage and public discussion on gender and sexuality, a new push for...

16th August 2023

ROGD: Looking Back, Looking Forward

Five years ago today, Lisa Littman put words to a phenomenon that many clinicians and researchers had been trying...

16th August 2023

Gender as a Playground for the Gifted Mind

If you’ve noticed that gender dysphoric people are often pretty bright, you’re not the only one. Though I’ve heard...

10th July 2023

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

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

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

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

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

How Internalized Misogyny Contributed to My Transition

Introduction (Childhood): Admiring Women as a Girl, and Enjoying Masculinity and Femininity Without Judgement When I was a little...

28th July 2022

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

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

Analysis of Reddit detrans survey

The recent explosion in the numbers of children and young people referred to clinics for medical treatments related to...

12th March 2022

Besides twitching teens, what else is social media producing?

Written by Genspect parent Lynn Chadwick. As previously reported by Genspect, clinicians are seeing a sharp increase in young...

11th March 2022

France cautions on gender youth medicine/France met en garde contre la medicine des jeunes de genre

Reprinted from the Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine. Read the full English translation on SEGM’s website, which also...

3rd March 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

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