Beyond Gender

This is our second interview with Dr. Paul McHugh - we sincerely apologize for mistakenly re-uploading the first interview last week.

She went from revolutionary communist to member of the House of Lords. From bankrupted magazine publisher to defender of free speech in Parliament. And now she’s watching the same patterns play out again – adults surrendering to emotional blackmail, institutions betraying the people they claim to protect, and an entire generation being told that if they don’t get what they want, it will destroy them.Claire Fox, Baroness Fox of Buckley, has spent four decades fighting battles over speech, truth, and who gets to decide what’s best for other people.

Professor Eric Kaufmann reveals why the progressive era that began in the 1960s is finally collapsing. This isn't just about "woke" culture - it's about the end of a 60-year ideological system that has shaped every major institution in the West.Key topics discussed:The "moral Big Bang" of the 1960s and how white guilt transformed American institutionsWhy affirmative action (1965-2025) and disparate impact doctrine are being dismantled after 60 yearsThe crucial distinction between "cultural socialism" and economic MarxismHow universities became ground zero for ideological captureCanada as a "woke theocracy" compared to the US and UKThe emerging battle between classical liberals and post-liberals on the rightProfessor Kaufmann's departure from Birkbeck after 20 years to found the Centre for Heterodox Social ScienceKaufmann traces the origins of today's culture wars back to the civil rights era, showing how ideas that emerged at Berkeley in the 1960s have now scaled up to dominate institutions. He provides historical context from Nixon's era through to Trump's executive orders, demonstrating that current political battles are actually about reversing policies that have been entrenched for over half a century.This conversation offers essential historical perspective on why Western societies are experiencing such dramatic political and cultural upheaval, and what might replace the progressive consensus.*Note: This conversation was recorded before Professor Kaufmann's October 2025 report "The Decline of Trans and Queer Identity among Young Americans" showing a dramatic drop in trans identification among youth. Read the full report: https://www.heterodoxcentre.com/resea...Eric Kaufmann (https://x.com/epkaufm) Professor of Politics, University of Buckingham Senior Fellow, Macdonald-Laurier Institute Author of extensive research on culture wars, populism, and political polarization

In 1975, Dr. Susan Bradley founded Toronto’s first gender clinic for children at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry. For nearly five decades, she treated over 400 gender-dysphoric children and chaired the DSM-IV Subcommittee on Gender Identity Disorders. The pattern she observed was impossible to ignore: “Even the ones who’ve gone through some of this and come out in our clinic, they’re nearly all gay or lesbian.” Now, in her eighties, she’s speaking out about what went wrong.

🚨 15 years after WPATH's 2010 de-psychopathologization campaign, Genspect launches the counter-campaign to restore psychiatric safeguards Mia Hughes and Stella O'Malley explain why recognizing the drive for extreme body modification as pathological is the most compassionate, evidence-based response to protect vulnerable youth from the harms of WPATH's de-psychopathologization.The Critical Distinction: A teen exploring trans identity? Not pathological. A teen obsessively fixated on removing healthy body parts, pursuing lifelong medicalization, destroying their endocrine system? That's pathological behavior requiring mental health support—not celebration and scalpels. "You could develop a trans identity and not want any medical interventions. And arguably your behavior is not yet pathological. It's when you're going into actual harmful medical interventions that are going to harm your body. Now your behavior is pathological." - Stella O'MalleyWhat Happened: In 2010, WPATH's de-psychopathologization campaign declared trans identities "natural and healthy," dismantled all psychiatric guardrails, and triggered a social contagion among youth. By 2013, the DSM-5 replaced "Gender Identity Disorder" with "Gender Dysphoria"—the identity was now healthy, only the distress was pathological. By 2018, the WHO's ICD-11 went further, moving it entirely out of mental health into "conditions related to sexual health."The result? Kids started falling into an ideological abyss with no safeguards to catch them.Campaign hub: https://genspect.org/re-psychopathologization-campaign/

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At 34 years old, Sall Grover thought she was creating a simple solution to a common problem. After years of sexual harassment as a screenwriter in Hollywood, she and her parents developed Giggle—a women-only app for roommates, freelance work, and lesbian dating. Using facial recognition technology, the app verified users were female before granting access. Apple and Google approved every build throughout 2019 without question. Then came February 7th, 2020, and Sall’s life became a legal nightmare that would span five years and counting.

At 13 years old, Jonni Skinner was diagnosed with a fake endocrine disorder and put on cross-sex hormones. At 14, he was misdiagnosed with "tall stature" and given higher doses to stunt his growth. The same doctors who threatened to remove him from his home if his mother didn't comply also falsified his medical records and sent him to sex shops for "treatment supplies." Eight years later, Jonni is speaking out about a medical scandal that turned vulnerable children into experimental subjects. This isn't just malpractice—it's systematic abuse disguised as healthcare, and Jonni's story exposes how the gender medicine industry operates in the shadows.See Jonni at The Bigger Picture: https://genspect.org/the-bigger-picture-albuquerque/Jonni Skinner spent eight years believing he was transgender after being medicalized at 13. Born in rural Michigan to a religious family, Jonni was diagnosed with high-functioning autism at 4 and struggled with being a feminine boy in a conservative environment. When puberty began triggering severe body dysmorphia and religious guilt about his attraction to males, his mother sought help at the University of Michigan's gender clinic. What followed was a systematic campaign of medical abuse that would steal Jonni's adolescence and leave lasting physical and psychological damage.

The gender medicine house of cards is collapsing in American courtrooms, and one lawyer is helping to pull it down brick by brick. While activists scream about "trans rights," Glenna Goldis is methodically exposing the fraud, deception, and child abuse hiding behind medical credentials. From Supreme Court victories to explosive document discoveries revealing WPATH's lies, the legal landscape has shifted dramatically against pediatric transition. But winning in court is just the beginning - Goldis wants Nuremberg-style trials and medical licenses revoked. She wants the people who did this to children to pay. In this conversation with Stella and Mia, she maps out how the law is finally catching up to the gender medicine scandal and what needs to happen next to ensure it never returns.See Glenna in Albuquerque. In-person & livestream tickets available: https://genspect.org/the-bigger-picture-albuquerque/

Why do so many fathers vanish from their children's lives? Adam Coleman argues it starts at birth - without holding their babies in those first crucial months, men never develop the chemical bond that keeps them present. The result: boys without fathers become men who can't regulate emotions, swinging from zero to a hundred over minor slights, filling prisons and chasing external validation through money and women. This conversation explores the uncomfortable truth that teaching boys emotional regulation might be a father's most critical role - and why figures like Andrew Tate appeal to a generation of men who never learned the difference between internal worth and external validation.

Dr. Gordon Guyatt revolutionized modern medicine. As a professor at McMaster University, he coined the term "evidence-based medicine" in 1991, created the hierarchy of evidence that every medical student learns, and wrote the User's Guide to the Medical Literature that taught physicians worldwide how to critically evaluate research. For 48 years, he's been the gold standard for rigorous scientific thinking in healthcare.Then came his systematic reviews of pediatric gender medicine. His team found only low-quality evidence for youth interventions. When twenty U.S. states used his work to restrict access to these treatments, Guyatt called it "egregious, unconscionable misuse of our work." But in this explosive interview, he admits signing a statement endorsing "medically necessary care for gender diverse youth" without reading it carefully. "That was not my paragraph, and I didn't read carefully enough," he confesses. When pressed further: "I was a dope. Okay. I'm sometimes a dope."

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Soren Aldaco was 11 when she discovered online fandom spaces where roleplay identities could become real identities—and 19 when a double mastectomy at the notorious Crane Center left her with massive hematomas the surgeons denied were happening. Now a detrans woman, graduate student, and Independent Women's Forum Ambassador, she's fighting for her case against Texas medical malpractice laws to reach the Supreme Court. In this conversation, she unpacks how "fantasy and reality" merged online, why every provider who pushed her toward medicalization had trans-identified family members, and what it means to survive both the physical complications and the ideological capture that enabled them. Soren will be speaking at Genspect’s upcoming Bigger Picture conference in Albuquerque.Support the show.

From Father Ted to losing 400,000 Twitter followers, comedy writer Graham Linehan explains how his stand against gender ideology cost him his career, marriage, and friendships. Fresh from the Joe Rogan Experience (20M listeners), he discusses WPATH controversies, cancel culture, and the silencing of dissent. Once a celebrated sitcom creator, Linehan became branded a “bigot” overnight—yet remains defiant, exposing what he calls a scandal everyone sees but few will confront.Support the show: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/beyondgenderpodcast/subscribe

With 35 years of clinical experience, Dr. Lisa Duval argues that gender dysphoria is best understood as a fear of adulthood—not an identity. She explains why using puberty blockers is the opposite of proper therapy, exposes how medicine shifted from evidence-based to “rights-based,” and reveals the psychological patterns clinicians overlook. From adolescent anxiety to the role of therapy, Duval shows how professionals can truly help young people in distress.Support the show: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/beyondgenderpodcast/subscribe

Dr. Lisa Duval episode coming this Thursday.

Before social media, before gender clinics in every city, before anyone knew what "gender identity" meant, Cori Cohn saw transsexualism on afternoon TV and thought he'd found the answer to his problems. At 19 in 1994, he had genital surgery. Three decades later, he's helped pass laws banning youth medical transition in 26-27 US states. In this remarkable conversation, Cohn reveals how he "doctor shopped" until finding a third psychologist who'd approve surgery, why he feels "subhuman" ("I'm definitely not a man and I'm not a woman"), and how the Episcopal Church now calls supporting pediatric transition part of their "baptismal call." His most haunting revelation: "If you physically can't return that passion because you have an injury from the surgery, your ability to sustain a relationship is extremely impaired." From testifying against clergy prayer circles supporting youth transition to explaining why "almost all the boys who transitioned...do OnlyFans," this is the testimony of someone who lived the experiment before it became an industry.

From founding North America's first pediatric gender clinic in 1975 to being fired by activists in 2015 (and winning an $800,000 settlement), Dr. Ken Zucker has witnessed—and shaped—the entire evolution of gender medicine. In this remarkable conversation, the architect of gender dysphoria diagnoses in DSM-3R, 4, and 5 reveals how "gender identity disorder" became "gender dysphoria," why social transition flips desistance rates from 80% to 12%, and how activists "put the gender identity tail on the sexual orientation dog." His most striking revelation: Christina Olson's new data shows 88% of socially transitioned children persist—compared to only 12% persistence in his Toronto clinic. As Zucker observes: "When it comes to sex and gender, nowadays people stop thinking." From the paradox of homosexuality leaving the DSM while GID entered it, to WPATH's "talking out of both sides of their mouth" (claiming it's both natural diversity AND medically necessary), this is the insider account of how gender medicine transformed from careful assessment to "treatment on demand."

Navy-trained plastic and reconstructive surgeon Dr. Patrick Lappert breaks ranks to expose what he calls his field’s “source of great shame.” With 40+ years of surgical experience, he dismantles the myth of “gender-affirming care,” arguing it is cosmetic surgery for body dysmorphic disorder. From phalloplasty and vaginoplasty complications to chest masculinization and the lack of evidence, Lappert reveals why surgeons are failing patients while claiming a standard of care.Support the show: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/beyondgenderpodcast/subscribe

What drives someone who helped found the UK Gay Liberation Front in 1970 to co-found LGB Alliance nearly 50 years later? Bev Jackson's journey spans from being the only woman at GLF's first meeting (19 gay men and her) to secretly gathering 70 people in 2019 because gay rights organizations had been "taken over by cuckoos." In this powerful episode, Jackson explains why she believes gender ideology is "the opposite of homophobia," reveals how Stonewall's Ruth Hunt betrayed lesbians by adding the T after promising not to, and recounts the courtroom victory when Mermaids spectacularly failed to strip LGB Alliance of charitable status. From her pivotal moment at age 11—standing up as the only Jewish student in an antisemitic classroom—to watching organizations meant to protect gay youth become their "biggest danger," Jackson's story illuminates how the movement she helped birth got hijacked. Her warning: young lesbians on dating apps now find "20, 30, 40 percent are men calling themselves women."