The guests

Danish psychiatrists, Icelandic campaigners, observers of the Dutch and Nordic systems, and the clinicians, writers and detransitioners from further afield. Every guest page lists that person's episodes.

Adam Coleman

Author and founder of Wrong Speak Publishing

Adam Coleman brings an unflinching perspective on fatherlessness and male identity that resonates far beyond the United States. As founder of Wrong Speak Publishing, he argues that the emotional void left by absent fathers creates the precise conditions in which gender ideology finds its most willing recruits — a thesis with urgent implications for Europe's rising rates of family breakdown and lone-parent households.

Airiel D. Salvatore

Detransitioner and public speaker

Airiel D. Salvatore is a detransitioner who underwent surgical transition, including vaginoplasty, before coming to question the ideological framework that had shaped that path. Their Beyond Gender podcast appearance, recorded ahead of Detrans Awareness Day, offers European clinicians, policymakers, and fellow detransitioners an unflinching first-person account of transition, collapse, and what follows.

Ajay

Butch lesbian and gender-critical voice

In The Butch Enigma, Ajay — a butch lesbian in her sixties — delivers one of the most arresting testimonies in recent gender-critical discourse: she would have transitioned had today's gender medicine existed when she was young. For European clinicians rethinking paediatric care, her words carry uncommon weight.

Alex Byrne

MIT philosopher and author

Alex Byrne brings MIT-grade analytical philosophy to the charged debate over what it means to label a child transgender. His application of Ian Hacking's looping-effects framework gives European health authorities — from Sweden's Karolinska to Germany's S3 guideline process — a conceptual vocabulary for understanding why diagnostic categories can reshape the very populations they describe.

Allen Frances

Psychiatrist, author and DSM-IV Task Force chair

Allen Frances chaired the DSM-IV Task Force and built a career warning that psychiatry pathologises ordinary distress. Yet when he appeared on Beyond Gender, the architect of diagnostic caution took a surprising position on gender dysphoria — one that European health authorities, who have already acted on overdiagnosis concerns, will find worth examining.

Anders Sørensen

Clinical psychologist and psychiatry critic

Danish clinical psychologist Anders Sørensen challenges psychiatry from inside the consulting room — questioning how the profession frames distress, what patients are told about stopping medication, and why talking therapies have been pushed to the margins. For a Europe navigating mounting mental-health waiting lists and a growing critical-psychiatry movement, his arguments are timely.

Andrew Doyle

Satirist, playwright and television presenter

Andrew Doyle's conversation with the Beyond Gender hosts lands with particular force in Europe, where governments from Sweden to France are actively debating the boundaries of permissible speech online. A satirist who uses comedy to expose institutional overreach, Doyle brings a perspective shaped by Britain's experience of gender-recognition reform and hate-speech legislation — a cautionary map for continental legislators.

Bev Jackson

Gay liberation pioneer and LGB Alliance co-founder

Bev Jackson helped found Britain's Gay Liberation Front in 1970, then spent years living in the Netherlands — watching from continental Europe as the movement she built was transformed beyond recognition. Fifty years on, she co-founded LGB Alliance, and her cross-Channel perspective speaks directly to European audiences grappling with the same ideological shifts.

Carrie Clark

Advocate and policy analyst, Genspect UK

As the NHS prepares to spend £10 million restarting puberty blocker trials, Carrie Clark of Genspect UK offers one of the most forensic accounts of why the Scandinavian countries that have already reversed course — and the European clinicians watching from the continent — should be paying close attention to what is unfolding in Britain.

Claire Fox

Author, broadcaster and free speech campaigner

Baroness Claire Fox has spent three decades arguing that the expansion of therapeutic culture erodes the civic courage adults need to protect children. For European audiences watching Sweden, Finland and the Netherlands walk back experimental gender medicine, her anatomy of how victimhood politics silences clinicians and researchers lands with particular urgency.

Cori Cohn

Detransitioner and public advocate

Cori Cohn was nineteen when he underwent genital surgery in 1994 — before the systematic reviews now reshaping European gender medicine existed. Thirty years on, his testimony reaches a continent whose clinical bodies in Sweden, Finland, France and the Netherlands are each confronting the same question: what did the protocols of that era miss, and what cannot be undone?

Craig Wiener

Clinical psychologist and author

Craig Wiener's career-long argument against the over-medicalisation of human behaviour lands with particular force in Europe, where Sweden, Finland and others are dismantling affirmation-only gender protocols. His framework of 'promoters' and 'protectors' — and his warning that diagnoses such as gender dysphoria can become thought-stopping devices — offers clinical language for the soul-searching now underway across European healthcare systems.

Deanne Jade

Founder, National Centre for Eating Disorders

With decades spent treating eating disorders at the UK's National Centre for Eating Disorders, Deanne Jade brings a clinically grounded lens to a question troubling European practitioners: why do anorexia and gender dysphoria so often appear together, and why do both conditions so fiercely resist resolution?

Derrick Jensen

Environmental philosopher and author

Derrick Jensen is an American environmental philosopher whose decades of writing on civilisation and power brought him to Beyond Gender to trace how nineteenth-century anarchism flows into contemporary trans ideology. For European audiences the argument cuts especially deep: Foucault and Gayle Rubin, the primary sources Jensen examines, are foundational texts of the continent's own intellectual tradition.

Diana Fleischman

Evolutionary psychologist and writer

Diana Fleischman brings evolutionary psychology to questions that gender medicine has long refused to ask. A secular, data-driven thinker, she argues that disgust responses carry genuine moral information and that autogynephilia is a real, measurable phenomenon — offering European clinicians and policymakers a non-ideological framework for reassessing the evidence base for gender-affirming care.

Edward Dutton

Evolutionary psychologist and author

Edward Dutton applies evolutionary psychology to the politics of gender medicine, arguing that ideological conformity and the medicalisation of gender-nonconforming youth may carry long-term biological consequences. His framework lands with particular force in Europe, where self-ID legislation and clinical gender protocols have advanced further than almost anywhere else.

Eldur Smári Kristinsson

Gay rights activist and free speech campaigner

Iceland — population 400,000 — has become an unlikely test case for the limits of hate-speech law in Europe. Eldur Smári Kristinsson, a gay rights activist, faces his third criminal prosecution simply for questioning gender ideology. His story asks a question every European democracy must now answer: when does protecting identity become a tool for silencing dissent?

Ellie

Mother and parental rights witness

Ellie is a Ukrainian-born mother in California whose teenage daughter Maya was removed by child protective services and placed in foster care, where staff facilitated a gender transition against both parents' wishes. Her still-unresolved case is a stark warning for European policymakers asking what happens when child welfare institutions adopt gender-affirmation ideology as fixed institutional policy.

Ellie Lee

Sociologist and parenting culture scholar

Ellie Lee directs the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies at the University of Kent. Her argument that Western family life has been colonised by therapeutic expertise — converting routine child-rearing into clinical problems — carries particular force in Europe, where Sweden, Finland and France are already unwinding child gender medicine and asking how institutional safeguards collapsed so completely.

Emmet Connor

Author and ideological critic

Emmet Connor, author of The Red Pandemic, traces gender ideology back to its roots in Marxist and critical theory — a lineage that begins, in large part, in continental Europe itself. For European listeners reckoning with how their institutions moved so rapidly on paediatric gender medicine, his analysis offers an uncomfortable but clarifying intellectual map.

Eoin Lenihan

Researcher, author and institutional analyst

When the Catholic Church collapsed in Ireland, something moved in to fill the space — and Eoin Lenihan has mapped exactly what that something is. His book Vandalising Ireland traces the NGO networks, foreign funding and captured media that rewrote Irish public life. For European listeners, the topology is familiar: the same architecture is visibly at work across Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany and the EU's own institutions.

Eric Kaufmann

Political scientist and author

Eric Kaufmann is a political scientist whose research on progressive institutional capture gives European audiences a precise framework for understanding how gender-identity ideology took hold in universities, health services and legislatures across the continent — and why dismantling it is proving so difficult.

Erin Friday

Attorney and parental rights advocate

A California attorney who discovered her daughter's school had secretly transitioned her child, Erin Friday turned personal crisis into sustained advocacy. Her account of CPS visits, institutional pressure, and eventual desistance is finding sharp recognition among European parents now confronting the same questions about who controls a child's identity at school.

Frank Furedi

Sociologist, author and cultural critic

Frank Furedi grew up behind the Iron Curtain before spending decades inside Western radical politics — a double vantage point that shapes his unflinching reading of gender ideology as a continent-wide conformity project. For European listeners watching their own governments, schools and EU institutions move in lockstep, his historical depth is indispensable.

Gary Clark

Paleoanthropologist and evolutionary biologist

Gary Clark is a paleoanthropologist and evolutionary biologist who has spent years working with Aboriginal communities in Australia's Western Desert. Identifying with the political left, he draws on four million years of fossil evidence and cross-cultural anthropology to argue that denying biological sex is an empirical failure — a challenge that speaks directly to Europe's ongoing policy and clinical debates.

Gerald Posner

Investigative journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist

Gerald Posner spent years mapping the architecture of the opioid crisis for his book Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America. On Beyond Gender he turns the same forensic gaze on gender medicine for minors, arguing that structural forces — commercial incentives, regulatory gaps, and professional groupthink — drive harm regardless of ideology. For European audiences navigating their own policy recalibrations, his industry-analyst framework cuts through the noise.

Gordon Guyatt

Physician and pioneer of evidence-based medicine

Gordon Guyatt coined the term "evidence-based medicine" at McMaster University in 1991 — the same framework that now underpins how Swedish, Finnish, Dutch and EU health bodies evaluate paediatric gender interventions. His Beyond Gender appearance laid bare a striking contradiction: the architect of rigorous clinical appraisal admits he signed a statement endorsing gender-affirming care without reading it.

Graham Linehan

TV writer and child safeguarding campaigner

Graham Linehan created two of Britain and Ireland's most celebrated television comedies — Father Ted and The IT Crowd — before his public dissent on gender medicine cost him his career, his marriage, and his platform. In episode #34 of Beyond Gender, he argues that the clinical and institutional failures he witnessed are not a British story. They are a European one.

Gurwinder Bhogal

Writer and cultural commentator

Gurwinder Bhogal is a British writer and essayist whose work dissects how intelligent people fall into ideological traps and how digital platforms rewire human judgment. For European audiences watching institutions from Stockholm to Brussels absorb gender-identity doctrine with minimal scrutiny — and confronting EU-level debates on algorithmic harm to children — his analysis of motivated reasoning and attention fragmentation cuts close to home.

Holly Lawford-Smith

Philosopher and author

Holly Lawford-Smith is a political philosopher at the University of Melbourne and author of Gender Critical Feminism (Oxford University Press, 2022). Her analytic rigour brings rare precision to the questions now confronting European legislators, clinicians and courts: what the word 'woman' actually means, and what is at stake for women's rights when sex is displaced by self-declared gender identity.

Ian Cox

Psychologist and lecturer

Irish psychologist Ian Cox has become one of the clearest voices challenging the ideological capture of counselling and psychology training. His account of professional backlash after pushing back offers a cautionary — and clarifying — map for European clinicians navigating precisely the same pressures.

J.D. Haltigan

Developmental psychologist and researcher

Developmental psychologist J.D. Haltigan brings a forensic, data-driven lens to the question of how activist ideology has reshaped clinical psychology from within. His analysis of diagnostic confusion, the pathology-identity boundary, and social media's effects on adolescent minds maps directly onto the institutional pressures European clinicians face — and onto the policy reversals now unfolding across Scandinavia and the Netherlands.

Jaco van Zyl

Psychotherapist and cultural critic

Jaco van Zyl is a psychotherapist whose work examines what happens when a culture trades shared obligations for individual self-definition. For European clinicians navigating contested youth gender medicine, his thesis — that a generation raised on 'my truth' is psychologically unmoored — supplies a broader diagnostic frame for the clinical caseloads accumulating across the continent.

James Lindsay

Mathematician, author and founder of New Discourses

James Lindsay is a mathematician and the founder of New Discourses, a platform dedicated to exposing the architecture of ideological capture. Best known for the Grievance Studies hoax and for co-authoring Cynical Theories, he maps how critical social justice frameworks have moved from Anglo-American academia into EU institutions, Scandinavian clinics, and continental universities — with particular consequences for gender medicine.

James Linehan

Lived-experience advocate on puberty suppression

James Linehan was born with hypogonadism and never experienced natural puberty. His testimony on Beyond Gender — describing decades of vulnerability, emotional delay, and irreversible fertility loss — reaches Europe at a pivotal moment, as Sweden, Finland, and the Netherlands reassess puberty suppression and the evidence behind the claim that it is safe and reversible.

Jamie Reed

Gender clinic whistleblower and case manager

Jamie Reed spent four years as a case manager inside Washington University's Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital — one of America's busiest paediatric gender clinics. When she blew the whistle in 2023, her testimony triggered investigations across the United States and sent shockwaves through a Europe that was already beginning to question the model she knew from the inside.

Jasmin Faulk

Writer and cross-cultural commentator

Raised in Saudi Arabia, where biological sex was a legal fact enforced by the state, Jasmin Faulk brings a rare comparative lens to European debates. Her argument — that ideology, whether theocratic or secular-progressive, consistently uses the female body as a site of control — cuts across the left–right lines that tend to polarise these discussions on the continent.

Jill Escher

Autism research funder and NCSA president

Jill Escher is president of the National Council on Severe Autism and founder of the Escher Fund for Autism. Her investigation into prenatal synthetic-hormone exposure — and the neurodevelopmental damage she argues echoes across generations — carries direct implications for Europe, where the same drugs were prescribed to pregnant women in the Netherlands, France and beyond.

Jon Mills

Philosopher, psychoanalyst and author

Canadian philosopher and psychoanalyst Jon Mills was blacklisted from a professional organisation — not for clinical wrongdoing, but for an unfashionable opinion. His case is a direct warning for European clinicians: ideological enforcement has arrived inside the institutions meant to protect analytical independence and patient care.

Jonathan Kay

Journalist, editor and author

A veteran of Canadian media and a close observer of how institutions capitulate to ideological pressure, Jonathan Kay brings to Beyond Gender both insider knowledge of the Canadian experience and a framework European listeners will find uncomfortably familiar. His conversation maps the machinery of institutional capture — one that has not stopped at national borders.

Jonni Skinner

Detransitioner and advocate

Jonni Skinner was thirteen years old when a US gender clinic placed him on cross-sex hormones. His account of fabricated diagnoses, falsified records and lasting physical harm arrives precisely as Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands and other European nations audit the same clinical model they spent a decade importing.

Joseph Figliolia

Medical institutions researcher and writer

Joseph Figliolia maps how professional medical bodies lose their scientific independence from the inside. His forensic analysis of the Texas Medical Association — citation cartels, opaque committees, WPATH deference — gives European clinicians and policymakers a precise mirror: the mechanisms are not American exceptions but a template that has shaped paediatric gender policy across the continent.

Joshua Slocum

Psychotherapist and cultural critic

Joshua Slocum brings a clinician's eye to the culture wars, arguing that the emotional manipulation tactics of abusive personal relationships — gaslighting, DARVO, reality-denial — have been adopted wholesale by political movements. For European observers watching parliaments, clinics and regulators navigate identical pressures, his framework gives a precise vocabulary to what many have sensed but struggled to name.

Katy Faust

Children's rights advocate and author

Katy Faust brings a framework largely absent from European policy debate: that reforms to marriage and parenthood law impose real costs on children, not only on adults. With the European Court of Human Rights pressing member states to recognise foreign surrogacy arrangements and EU institutions advancing cross-border parenthood proposals, her children-first analysis lands squarely in European legislative territory.

Keira Bell

Detransitioner, campaigner and legal pioneer

Keira Bell's High Court case against the Tavistock clinic reshaped the conversation about medical treatment of gender-questioning youth across Europe. Her account — from puberty blockers and testosterone to detransition — confronts the clinical protocols that spread from the Netherlands outward across the continent, and raises questions that Sweden, Finland, France and Germany are still working through.

Kenneth Zucker

Psychologist and gender development researcher

Kenneth Zucker spent decades building one of the world's most rigorous child and adolescent gender clinics, only to be forced out under activist pressure. His long-run desistance research and critique of ideologically driven care speak directly to the clinical reckonings now underway across Europe.

Kristopher Kaliebe

Child, adolescent and forensic psychiatrist

Dr Kristopher Kaliebe brings a rare combination of clinical depth and institutional candour to the debate over youth gender medicine. As a child, adolescent and forensic psychiatrist at the University of South Florida, he traces the professional forces that led psychiatry to abandon its own evidence standards — a pattern European clinicians and regulators are now confronting directly.

Laoise de Brún

Women's rights campaigner and founder, The Countess

Laoise de Brún built The Countess into one of Ireland's most effective women's rights organisations over five years of determined advocacy. Her account of securing legislation that separates prison placement from gender recognition certificates is required listening for European campaigners navigating similar legislative battles — and for anyone wondering what coalition-style advocacy can achieve when institutions seem closed.

Leor Sapir

Manhattan Institute fellow and policy researcher

Leor Sapir is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute whose work scrutinises the evidence base and media coverage surrounding youth gender medicine. When he turned his attention to the New York Times' ambitious Protocol series, the questions he found missing were the same ones troubling European regulators, clinicians and parents trying to make sense of a literature that has been shifting beneath their feet.

Lionel Shriver

Novelist and cultural critic

Lionel Shriver, author of We Need to Talk About Kevin, brings a novelist's precision to Europe's gender reckoning — tracing how institutional capture, social contagion and the promise of medical transition reshaped Western culture, and why the tide is now turning. Her two Beyond Gender appearances offer some of the sharpest cultural criticism available to European listeners navigating this debate.

Louise Irvine

GP and co-chair, CAN-SG

Dr Louise Irvine is a British GP and Co-Chair of the Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender (CAN-SG). In the Beyond Gender episode 'Rethinking Youth Gender Medicine,' she charts how UK medical culture became captured by gender-identity ideology — and how clinicians are now reclaiming the field. For European practitioners navigating the same fault lines, her analysis is both map and precedent.

Lucy Beney

Psychotherapist and Thoughtful Therapists practitioner

As European legislators race to draft conversion-therapy bans, UK therapist Lucy Beney offers a sobering warning from inside the profession. Her account of the disciplinary machinery built around a deliberately vague Memorandum of Understanding illuminates precisely what continental clinicians risk importing alongside well-intentioned legislation.

Malcolm Clark

Documentary filmmaker and writer

Malcolm Clark has spent years scrutinising the clinical and ethical foundations of gender medicine. His Beyond Gender appearance hands European doctors and regulators a precise question: if the same medical establishment refuses limb-removal for apotemnophilia, what consistent principle permits analogous surgery for a related paraphilic presentation?

Marcus Evans

Psychoanalyst and former Tavistock governor

Marcus Evans spent forty-five years in psychiatry before resigning as a Tavistock governor in 2019, following his wife Sue's earlier whistleblowing on the clinic's gender service. His testimony places gender medicine's ethical collapse in its starkest historical frame — arriving precisely as Sweden, the Netherlands and other European systems face their own clinical reckonings.

Mary Ann Kenny

Irish academic and grief-misdiagnosis survivor

Irish academic Mary Ann Kenny describes how her grief after her husband's death was treated as psychiatric illness: sertraline, hospitalisation, and the threatened removal of her children. For readers in Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, France and Germany, her story raises a question European mental health systems share with Ireland's: how fast ordinary sorrow gets filed as disorder.

Mary McAlister

Attorney and parental rights litigator

Mary McAlister is a senior litigation attorney who has spent years in American courts defending parents whose children were socially transitioned by schools without their consent. In her Beyond Gender conversation she traces that legal battle to Alfred Kinsey's research — an ideological lineage that shaped sex education curricula across Europe as much as in the United States.

Meghan Murphy

Feminist writer and founder of Feminist Current

Meghan Murphy paid a professional price for gender-critical dissent long before it had a name. As founder of Feminist Current and one of the first prominent voices banned from Twitter for stating that men are not women, she charted a path that European feminists — navigating stricter hate-speech laws and more entrenched academic orthodoxy — are still being forced to walk.

Melissa

Mother and parental-rights witness

Melissa's account of how a social worker's suicide ultimatum overrode her maternal judgment — and left her thirteen-year-old son Jonni on cross-sex hormones — lands with particular force in Europe, where Sweden, Finland and the Netherlands are now dismantling the very clinical protocols that governed his treatment.

Michael Gurian

Author, therapist and sex-differences educator

Michael Gurian has spent four decades mapping the neurological and genomic landscape of male and female development. His research on boys' underachievement and brain-based sex differences gives European educators and clinicians a biologically grounded framework at a moment when gender medicine is being fundamentally reconsidered across the continent.

Michael Kerr

Detransitioner and NHS patient experience speaker

Michael Kerr transitioned and later detransitioned within the NHS in Scotland. His account of how underlying trauma went unexamined while a medical pathway moved forward raises questions that resonate across every European healthcare system now reassessing its approach to gender-related distress.