Kathleen Stock is a contributing writer at UnHerd, a co-director of The Lesbian Project, and the author of 'Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism' (Little, Brown 2021). Until 2021, she was a Professor of Philosophy at Sussex University. She has written for UK national newspapers on a range of issues, especially on sex, gender, and women's rights. In 2023, she was shortlisted for Columnist of the Year by the British Society of Magazine Editors; in 2024 for Tabloid Columnist of the Year at the Press Awards; and in 2022, she was voted World’s Top Thinker in Prospect Magazine. She was awarded an OBE for services to higher education in 2020.

Helen Joyce is the author of the 2021 book “TRANS: When Ideology Meets Reality,” recently reissued as “Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women’s Rights.” A Times of London and Spectator Book of the Year, it was a UK and Amazon top ten bestseller. It received rave reviews in publications ranging from The Telegraph to The New York Times and endorsements from, among others, Daniel Dennett (“A sane, humane book”), Lionel Shriver (“Utterly unintimidated by extremist orthodoxy”), and Richard Dawkins (“Thoroughly researched, passionate, and very brave”).Until April 2022, Helen was The Economist’s Britain editor. She joined the paper in 2005 as education correspondent; subsequent roles include Brazil correspondent (based in São Paulo), International editor, Finance editor, and Executive editor for events. Before that, she edited Plus, an online magazine about maths published by the University of Cambridge, and was the founding editor for the Royal Statistical Society’s magazine, Significance. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Trinity College Dublin, a Master’s from Cambridge, and a PhD from University College London, all in mathematics. Helen now works as the director of advocacy for Sex Matters, a human-rights organization that campaigns for sex-based rights. Her independent journalism and subscription newsletter can be found on her website: thehelenjoyce.com. She has a regular column in the Critic magazine and tweets @hjoycegender.

Dr. Peter Boghossian is a Founding Faculty member at the University of Austin and the Executive Director of the National Progress Alliance. Peter has a teaching pedigree spanning more than 25 years, focusing on the Socratic method, scientific skepticism, and critical thinking. His dissertation explored increasing the moral reasoning of prison inmates and aiding their resistance to crime. His most recent book is "How to Have Impossible Conversations," and his writing can be found in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, Time Magazine, National Review, and elsewhere. His work centers on bringing the tools of professional philosophers to a wide variety of contexts to help people think through what seem to be intractable problems.

Andrew Doyle is a broadcaster, writer, and comedian. He is the author of 'Free Speech and Why It Matters' and 'The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World.' He is the creator of the satirical character Titania McGrath, whose show 'Mxnifesto' ran at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and at the Duchess Theatre in London’s West End. He is also the author of 'Woke: A Guide to Social Justice' and 'My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism.' Andrew was formerly a Visiting Research Fellow at Queen's University, Belfast, and a Presidential Scholar at the New College of Florida. He presents 'Free Speech Nation' and 'Headliners' on GB News.

Julie Bindel is a journalist, author, and feminist campaigner against male violence towards women and girls. She has been targeted by transactivists since first writing about the issue of men in women's spaces in 2004.

Dr. Frank Furedi, author and social commentator, is an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent. He is also the Executive Director of the Brussels-based think tank, MCC Brussels. Author of more than 26 books, Furedi’s studies have been devoted to an exploration of the cultural developments in Western societies. In recent years, he has published several studies on the impact of the Culture Wars on family life, socialization, education, and public life. His recent book, "100 Years of Identity Crisis," argues that it disrupts the socialization of young people and encourages the estrangement of generations from one another.His research has been oriented toward the way that risk and uncertainty are managed by contemporary culture. His two influential books, "The Culture of Fear" and "Paranoid Parenting," investigated the interaction between risk consciousness and perceptions of fear, trust relations, and social capital in contemporary society. His book, "How Fear Works: The Culture of Fear in the 21st Century" (2018), explored the distinct features of contemporary fear culture.

Dr. Colin Wright is an evolutionary biologist and Manhattan Institute Fellow, also serving as an Academic Advisor for the Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine and a member of The Killarney Group think tank. Since 2018, he has written on sex and gender issues for publications like the Wall Street Journal and Newsweek, and appeared on TV shows and podcasts including The Joe Rogan Experience and Tucker Carlson Tonight.

Eliza Mondegreen is a graduate student researching how online trans communities handle questions and doubts about trans identity, transition, and detransition.

Susan Evans is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Retired Clinical Nurse Specialist (SRN RMN). She is a Senior Fellow at the University of East London and a former member of staff at GIDS at Tavistock. Susan raised concerns about the medicalized approach to child gender identity issues in 2005 and initiated the Judicial Review with Mrs. A and Keira Bell in 2019. She is now working in private practice with children, young adults, and families experiencing issues connected to gender identity. Susan is also the co-author of a book with Marcus Evans titled 'Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults.

Marcus Evans is a psychoanalyst. Before retiring from the NHS, he worked as a psychiatric nurse and an adult psychotherapist for 40 years. He is interested in applying psychoanalytic thinking in mental health settings. Marcus was a founding member of the Fitzjohn’s service for the treatment of patients with severe and enduring mental health issues and personality disorders, and he served as the clinical lead for the adult and adolescent services for five years. He is the author of three books: 'Making Room for Madness in Mental Health,' 'Psychoanalytic Thinking in Mental Health Settings,' and 'Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults,' which he co-authored with his wife, Susan Evans.

Laura Becker is a detransitioner, author, and artist who speaks internationally on her experiences with transition, detransition, and the broader psychology of gender issues affecting young people. Her memoir "Surviving the Trans Myth" is available on her website laurabecker.org.

​Bev Jackson is a co-founder and trustee of the LGB Alliance. She was a founding member of the UK Gay Liberation Front in 1970 and has supported progressive causes from anti-Apartheid to women’s reproductive rights over the past decades. She became alarmed by the regressive turn taken by the gay rights movement she had helped to found. In 2019 she met Kate Harris, who had similar concerns. The UK organization Stonewall flatly refused to engage in discussing these concerns. Bev and Kate, therefore, set up the LGB Alliance to revive the LGB rights movement

Sarah Phillimore is a barrister specializing in child protection law since 1999. She has operated the website Child Protection Resource since 2014. In 2019 she joined the organisation ‘Fair Cop’ which campaigns for better police protection of freedom of speech. Sarah is an active campaigner for the rights of women and children and a great believer that sex is real and it matters.

​Dr Louise Irvine is co-chair of the Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender; a GP in London for 30 years; a former GP trainer and local programme director for GP training; NHS campaigner and former chair of the successful Save Lewisham Hospital Campaign. Dr Irvine is interested in supporting clinicians who wish to challenge the prevailing orthodoxy of gender affirmative medicine, and instead promote an evidence based approach that prioritises avoidance of harm and improved psychosocial understanding of children and vulnerable adults with gender dysphoria.

Mattias Desmet, a leading expert on mass formation theory related to COVID-19, is a clinical psychology professor at Ghent University, Belgium, and a practicing psychotherapist. His work, featured in Forbes, The New York Post, and Fox News, includes over a hundred peer-reviewed papers and several books. Desmet has received significant accolades, including the Evidence-Based Psychoanalytic Case Study Prize and the Wim Trijsburg Prize from the Dutch Association of Psychotherapy.

Graham Linehan is an acclaimed Irish writer, director, and producer, renowned for creating and writing beloved sitcoms such as 'Father Ted', 'The IT Crowd', 'Black Books', and 'Count Arthur Strong'. His work, distinguished by sharp wit and unique humor, has earned him multiple BAFTA awards. He faced cancellation when he began advocating for women's rights in 2017 and currently strives to raise awareness about the dangers of gender identity ideology on his Substack, The Glinner Update. His memoir 'Tough Crowd' was published in 2023.

Chris Elston, known as 'Billboard Chris,' is a Canadian activist recognized for his public advocacy on various social issues, notably concerning children's rights and gender identity discussions. He gained prominence by wearing billboards and utilizing public spaces to spark conversations and debate.

Shannon Thrace is a writer, cultural critic, and IT professional who lives for travel, good food, and summer music festivals. She is the author of '18 Months: A Memoir of a Marriage Lost to Gender Identity'—the story of the dissolution of her fifteen-year relationship when her husband began to identify as transgender. Find her musings on modern malaise and the crisis of modernity on her Substack.

Mia Hughes is an Ottawa-based British journalist and researcher for Michael Shellenberger's nonprofit, Environmental Progress. She is the author of the WPATH Files report, which exposed the widespread medical mistreatment of children, adolescents, and vulnerable adults in WPATH's field of gender-affirming care.

Claire Fox is the director of the Academy of Ideas, which she established to create a public space where ideas can be contested without constraint. She convenes the yearly Battle of Ideas festival and initiated the Debating Matters Competition for sixth-formers. Additionally, she co-founded a residential summer school, The Academy, with the aim of demonstrating ‘university as it should be’. In May 2019, she was elected as an MEP for the North West England constituency of the UK in the European Parliament elections. In 2020, she was appointed as a visiting professor in professional practice at the University of Buckingham. In September 2020, Claire became a member of the House of Lords as Baroness Fox of Buckley. Claire is frequently invited to comment on developments in culture, education, media, and free speech issues on TV and radio programmes in the UK such as Newsnight and Any Questions? She has been a regular newspaper reviewer on Sky News and is a monthly columnist for MJ (Municipal Journal). She was the longest-standing panelist on BBC Radio 4’s The Moral Maze for over 20 years until 2020. She is the author of a book on free speech, recently republished as 'I STILL Find That Offensive!' (Biteback, 2018), and 'No Strings Attached! Why Arts Funding Should Say No to Instrumentalism' (Arts&Business, 2007). Additionally, she has written a variety of chapters and essays for a range of publications, most recently ‘Narcissism and Identity’ in 'From Self to Selfie: A Critique of Contemporary Forms of Alienation' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).

Emma is the founder of the childrenoftransitioners.org website and the X account @childrenoftrans. She writes and campaigns on behalf of children of trans people, highlighting a lack of safeguarding. Her father is a transsexual who transitioned in the 1980s while he had custody of her.

Alex is the Executive Director of The Charlton School, a nonprofit therapeutic learning community for girls and young women experiencing mental health challenges in Burnt Hills, New York. With over 25 years of clinical experience, Alex has worked with children, adolescents, and families in various clinical, therapeutic, and educational settings. The Charlton School experienced a wave of trans identification among pupils between 2016 and 2020. Initially adopting an affirmative approach, the school later changed course after realizing that focusing solely on gender meant neglecting other issues students faced.

Kallie Fell is the Executive Director of the Center for Bioethics and Culture and Program Director of the Paul Ramsey Institute. With a background in reproductive physiology and molecular biology, she has worked as a perinatal nurse for over six years. Kallie has co-directed documentaries like Trans Mission and The Detransition Diaries, hosts the Venus Rising podcast, and co-authored The Detransition Diaries. Her latest film, The Lost Boys: Searching for Manhood, was recently released.

Andrew Gold is a journalist, author, and YouTuber who specializes in cults and extreme ideologies. He will talk about the cultish elements of gender ideology. He speaks five languages and has made and presented documentaries for the BBC and HBO.

Tove Solander holds an MA in women’s studies from the University of York (UK) and a PhD in English literature from the interdisciplinary gender research school at Umeå University (Sweden). She is currently a lecturer in gender studies at Stockholm University. Her published research spans from sense impressions in art and literature to trouser roles in the Japanese Takarazuka revue. While she maintains a persistent interest in feminist theory, embodiment, and female masculinity, lately, she has shifted her research focus to current controversies around gender and transgender issues and has explored new research methods. The interview study with detransitioners is a pilot study for a larger Nordic project seeking research funding. Other ongoing research concerns the conceptual drifts and ambiguities surrounding the concept of gender, especially as translated into Swedish.

Sasha Ayad is a Licensed Professional Counselor in private practice who has treated adolescents for over 15 years. Her work focuses on teens and young adults struggling with issues of gender dysphoria and gender identity. She became interested in the sharp rise in teenagers who declare a trans identity for the first time during adolescence. She discovered, through working with hundreds of families and dozens of adolescents, that teens were developing gender dysphoria only after intellectually questioning their “gender.” Sasha has pioneered a gentle but effective way of working psychologically with rigid beliefs, identity, and social influence. She questions the practice of medical transition for children and teenagers, and her clinical work focuses on developmentally appropriate, least-invasive-first talk therapy. In addition to having been a founding board member of GETA (now Therapy First) , she is also the co-host of Gender: A Wider Lens Podcast and a founding member of the Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine. Her recent book, co-authored with therapists Lisa Marchiano and Stella O’Malley, is a compassionate and fact-based guidebook for parents called When Kids Say They’re Trans.

Dr. Julia Mason is a pediatrician of over 30 years of experience with a particular interest in pediatric gender medicine for more than 5 years. She is a founding board member of SEGM, the Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine and has been an advisor to Genspect since its inception. Dr. Mason will talk about brain development in adolescence and young adulthood. She will explain the complexities of brain development during the crucial stages of adolescence and young adulthood and how aspects of normal development can lead a troubled young person into dangerous territory, particularly in relation to gender development and making decisions about irreversible body modifications.

Rosie Kay (BA Hons) FRSA, MCR St Cross College, Oxford, born in Scotland, danced from a very early age, then trained at London Contemporary Dance School, graduating in 1998, before a career as a dancer in Poland, France, Germany and the USA. Kay returned to the UK in 2003, founded Rosie Kay Dance Company 2004-21 and set up K2CO in 2022. Kay’s works up to date include Romeo + Juliet (2021), Absolute Solo II tour in 2021 with three personal solos danced by Kay, with Adult Female Dancer celebrated as the ‘Top 5 Dance Works of 2021’ by The Observer and saw Kay nominated for a National Dance Award 2022 for Outstanding Female Performance (Modern) for Absolute Solo II. Kay is well known for the multi- award-winning work 5 SOLDIERS (2010- present) based on intense research with the British Army and large-scale development of this work, 10 SOLDIERS (2019). Rosie Kay’s Fantasia, a pure-dance work about beauty was included in The Guardian’s ‘Top 10 Dance of 2019’. MK ULTRA was created in 2017 a work about conspiracy theory and pop made with BBC film-maker Adam Curtis. Other works include Motel (2016), Sluts of Possession (2013), There is Hope (2012), Double Points: K (2008), Asylum (2005) based on research with asylum seekers. Kay choreographed the live Commonwealth Games Handover Ceremony (2018), watched by over 1 billion people worldwide and has worked in film as the choreographer to Sunshine on Leith (2013). Kay was the first choreographer appointed Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the School of Anthropology, University of Oxford (2013). Awards for her work include Best Independent Company (2015) and nominated for Best Choreography for 5 Soldiers (2015), National Dance Awards and nominated for Best Independent Company 2012 and 2017, a Royal Society for Public Health Award for support to military communities, and the Bonnie Bird New Choreography Award. Kay was invited to meet Queen Elizabeth II as a young achiever of Scotland at Holyrood. Kay is co-founder of new organisation Freedom in the Arts (FITA), which she set up with Denise Fahmy to tackle an atmosphere of intolerance in the arts. With this work FITA protects artists, upholds values around freedom of expression and support arts organisations maintain impartiality. Kay’s talk at Genspect is ‘The Body is the Frontline: Trans, the Military, the Body and Dance’. Kay’s dance and academic work explores the body and our relationship with it- be it how the body is still essential to 21st century warfare- the place of injury, killing and training, to how the body is used in modern pop imagery and how the bodies of celebrities are used to push certain agendas and expose human frailties and vulnerabilities. Her published academic work explores women with disordered eating disorders relationship to their bodies through dance, and work on how the brain perceives watching dance with neuroscientists. Always at the forefront of body modification technologies, the military is an interesting place to explore what might be next down the pipeline, as well as how the military sees the bodies of its own soldiers.

Dr.Kristopher Kaliebe, MD, is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. He is board-certified in Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Forensic Psychiatry and is a Distinguished Fellow at the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). His clinical work has been primarily in University clinics, Federally Qualified Health Centers, and juvenile corrections. At USF, Dr. Kaliebe instructs medical students, psychiatry residents, child and adolescent psychiatry fellows, and forensic psychiatry fellows. Dr. Kaliebe’s publications and presentations include the effects of digital technologies, gender, psychotherapy, mind-body medicine, nutrition, and mental health in primary care settings. He is concerned about naïve interventionalism in medicine.

Dr. Steven Levine is a clinical Professor of Psychiatry who has been writing articles on transgender youth care for the last seven years. Most recently he has published on the comprehensive psychiatric evaluation of these patients and parents.

Jaco van Zyl (MA, ClinPsych.), a clinical psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist originally from South Africa and now based in Ireland, specializes in group psychology, trauma-spectrum disorders, and mood disorders. His work, influenced by South Africa's political history, explores group dynamics and ideologies. He has published research on conversion therapy and contributes to Merion West and Psychodynamic Practice. Van Zyl co-hosts the Critical Therapy Antidote Podcast, discussing current ideological and psychological trends.

Dr. Jan Macvarish is the Education and Events Director of the Free Speech Union (FSU), a non-partisan group founded by journalist Toby Young in 2020, which has grown to nearly fourteen thousand members with a 70% success rate in casework. Previously, she was a sociologist at the University of Kent and Birkbeck, University of London, specializing in interpersonal relationships, parenting, and family dynamics. She authored 'Neuroparenting: The Expert Invasion of Family Life' and co-authored Parenting Culture Studies.

Lynn Chadwick worked in neonatal intensive care as a registered nurse for 28 years. As the mother of two trans identified children she has navigated the pain of estrangement, and currently advocates for parents of ROGD kids within several organizations.

Jude Hunter is a Commerce and Business Graduate and a Mum and Stepmum to 5 now adult children. She was shocked when Medical Professionals in Australia wanted to immediately prescribe her daughter testosterone without adequately considering her daughter’s comorbid mental health issues. She found the way that medical professionals treated her and her husband’s questioning of the proposed “treatment” pathway alarming and very damaging to the family’s dynamics. Jude has spent over 5.5 years researching the way gender ideology has impacted society and the harm it is causing to young people who are being rushed into irreversible interventions. She believes that a trauma-informed model should be used with young people to assess their distress properly, rather than ignore the source of their feelings and bury them under the false hope of a new “identity”. She has helped lobby for a Parliamentary Inquiry into the use of the “gender affirmation model” in Australia, something that has unfortunately been voted against by many Australian MPs.

Jennifer Lahl is the founder of the Center for Bioethics and Culture. She has 20 years of experience in pediatric critical care nursing and hospital administration. Her interests intersect in the areas of science, technology, medicine, and biotechnologies, with much of her work focused on assisted reproductive technologies. She is an award-winning filmmaker and has produced 11 documentary films, three of which focus on transgender issues, including 'The Lost Boys: Searching for Manhood.' Her book, 'The Detransition Diaries,' based on her film, 'The Detransition Diaries: Saving Our Sisters,' will be available in January 2024.

Bob Withers is a Jungian psychoanalyst, writer and international lecturer with a special interest in the obstacles that can be encountered when attempting to explore a person’s gender related distress psychotherapeutically. His psychoanalytic work with a male to female to male detransitoner in the early 1990s alerted him to the importance of conducting such work prior to medical transition. His 2015 paper ‘The Seventh Penis; towards effective psychoanalytic work with pre-surgical transsexuals”, won the Michael Fordham prize for that year.

Angelo Vincent Deboni is a mental health advocate and Registered Counsellor in South Africa, specializing in crisis counselling and identity formation through an existentialist lens. He facilitates the Bridging the Gap support group at BeyondTrans.org and has presented to the Critical Therapy Antidote Network. Vincent has been published by Psychreg.org and Male Psychology Network UK, and has appeared on Benjamin Boyce's podcast. His work emphasizes personal values, evolving identities, and a therapeutic approach free from ideology.

Jesper Waldvogel Rasmussen, chairman of the Danish Rainbow Council. Jesper, a writer, producer and educator, started pushing back publicly against gender ideology and child sex change about five years ago when he learned the truth of what was happening in his country’s national health system. In 2022 Jesper co-founded the anti-woke LGBT-organization the Danish Rainbow Council and formulated its 12 main political goals. Since then, Jesper has led a very concrete and doggedly determined fight against the gender madness in both the Danish parliament as well as culturally in Denmark. The Danish Rainbow Council has in record time become a respected/feared political firebrand and is making very noteworthy progress with regards to informing the Danish public, changing the culture and, most importantly, putting a political stop to the ultimate ‘fetich’ of the gender ideology cult: The Child Sex Change. Recently the Danish Rainbow Council branched out to Norway and Iceland, who have now joined with the Danes under the pan-Scandinavian banner of The Nordic Rainbow Council.

Eldur is a freelance writer, free-thinker and current chairman of the Lesbian and Gay Alliance in Iceland and is in the process of co-founding the Icelandic and Nordic Rainbow Councils.

Akua Reindorf KC is a barrister at Cloisters Chambers, specializing in employment, discrimination, and human rights law, with particular expertise in the higher education sector. She authored the “Reindorf Report,” an investigation into the alleged no-platforming of two gender-critical external speakers by the University of Essex. She has represented numerous gender-critical claimants and organizations, including the LGB Alliance, James Esses, Almut Gadow, Eleanor Frances, John Armstrong, and Michael Biggs. Akua was named Barrister of the Year at the Legal Business Awards in 2023 and Employment Junior of the Year at the Chambers UK Bar Awards in 2022. She is a Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE Law School, where she focuses on the law of academic freedom and freedom of speech. Additionally, she serves as a Commissioner for the Equality and Human Rights Commission and is a Fee-Paid Employment Judge.

Carrie D. Mendoza, MD, is a practicing Emergency Medicine physician with over 20 years of experience working in rural, suburban, and urban hospitals, treating everything from snakebites to gunshot wounds to Covid-19 patients. Her practical experience provides unique insights into the American medical system and how modern healthcare bureaucracy can scale harmful policies while ignoring the negative side effects. Dr. Mendoza will share her experience with the opioid epidemic and how the lessons learned from it can inform our understanding of medicalizing gender ideology and how best to stop its harmful effects.

Psychotherapist and author of several books, Stella is the founder and director of Genspect. She first became well-known for her work in gender with the 2018 documentary, Trans Kids: It’s Time To Talk. Moved by how many families were impacted by gender dysphoria, Stella founded the Gender Dysphoria Support Network to help parents access appropriate support. Alongside Sasha Ayad, Stella co-hosts the popular podcast, Gender: A Wider Lens, and is also the co-author of When Kids Say They’re Trans: A Guide for Thoughtful Parents.

Peter Pitts is the President of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest and a Visiting Professor at the University of Paris School of Medicine. He is a former member of the United States Senior Executive Service and an Associate Commissioner of the US Food & Drug Administration. He is the lead author of many professional peer-reviewed articles in publications including The Lancet, Health Affairs, the New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst, Vaccines, Nature Biotechnology, Therapeutic Innovation and Regulatory Science, The Patient, and the Journal of Commercial Biotechnology. His new book, 'And Nothing But the Truth,' focuses on the need to stand firm on the urgency of sound science. He is also the author of The Next Normal, an examination of post-pandemic healthcare policy; The Value Equation: A Journey Through the Innovation Ecosystem in the Time of COVID; and Common-Sense Healthcare for Common Sense Americans. He is the editor of Coincidence or Crisis, a discussion of global prescription medicine counterfeiting, and Physician Disempowerment: A Transatlantic Malaise.

Stephanie founded Transgender Trend in 2015 to advocate for evidence-based healthcare for children with gender-related distress and science-based teaching in schools. She was shortlisted for the John Maddox Science Prize in 2018 for guidance produced for schools. She was awarded the British Empire Medal as Director of Transgender Trend for services to children in the late Queen's Jubilee Birthday Honours list in 2022.

Natalya Murakhver is the co-founder of Restore Childhood, a national nonprofit empowering parents to direct their children's upbringing, education, and health. In 2020, she helped organize #KeepNYCSchoolsOpen and brought a lawsuit against NYC to reopen public schools in person with teachers in classrooms. In 2021, she founded the #MaskLikeAKid campaign to raise awareness of prolonged restrictions placed on children. In January 2022, she worked with an international team of scientists and pediatric, infectious disease, emergency, and ICU doctors to launch Urgency of Normal, raising awareness of the effects of Covid-19 mitigations on children and creating a path to restoring normalcy. Restore Childhood is currently producing `15 Days...` a documentary about the pandemic school closures, and has recently released a toolkit for parents on gender in schools titled `An URGENT Conversation: An Advocacy Toolkit about Children, Gender, and School Policy.`

Sven Román has worked as a doctor since 2002 and became a specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry in 2010. He has broad experience in both inpatient and outpatient care and has conducted medical assessments in about 600 to 700 neuropsychiatric investigations. Since 2015, he has worked as a consultant in child and adolescent psychiatry throughout Sweden and now in Norway.For more than a decade, Sven Román has been a frequent commentator, especially in psychiatry, writing articles in Sweden’s major medical journals and daily and evening newspapers. He has also written articles for newspapers and medical journals in Norway and the USA, and he has appeared in magazines, radio, and TV in Sweden, other Nordic countries, Europe, and the USA. Some of the issues he has been involved with in recent years include the high prescription of psychotropic drugs, euthanasia, and the treatment of children and adolescents with gender dysphoria. On the latter issue, he has recently issued expert opinions for five US states.