The Beyond Gender podcast
Long conversations about a short decade
Stella O'Malley, Mia Hughes and Dr Bret Alderman talk to the clinicians, researchers, parents and detransitioners who watched gender identity become the organising idea of a culture. Every episode is catalogued here, with a written summary, the guest and the theme.
The latest episode
3 September 2026
Where Did Psychotherapy Go Wrong? | Ian Cox
With Ian Cox
Ian Cox, an Irish psychologist and lecturer, joins Stella O'Malley to examine what has gone wrong inside psychology and counselling. Cox describes the creeping influence of postmodern, activist ideology on training and clinical practice — and the personal cost of speaking out, including complaints, a social-media pile-on and being doxxed. A conversation between two clinicians who have both held the line, and paid for it.
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The hosts
A psychotherapist, a researcher and a psychologist. Three ways of asking the same question.
Stella O'Malley
Host, psychotherapist and founder of Genspect
Stella O'Malley is the voice that opens every episode of Beyond Gender. An Irish psychotherapist and author, she started the podcast to keep asking, in public, the questions she had been asking in her consulting room for years.
Mia Hughes
Co-host and researcher
Mia Hughes is the researcher on the Beyond Gender panel. She reads the documents everyone else cites second-hand, and her questions to guests tend to begin with a page number.
Dr Bret Alderman
Co-host and psychologist
Bret Alderman is the psychologist on the Beyond Gender panel. Where others look at policy, he looks at the mind: what a belief does to the person who holds it, and what it does to a profession that stops examining its own.
What the podcast is about
Beyond Gender began in February 2025 with a simple premise: that the rapid rise of gender identity as a medical, legal and educational category is a cultural event, and that cultural events can be examined. The hosts are gender-critical. They think sex is real, that children cannot consent to lifelong medical pathways, and that therapy which cannot ask why has stopped being therapy. Their guests are free to disagree, and some do.
More about the podcastThe wider network
This is the hub. The ideas behind the conversations are followed on beyond-gender.org. Irish, British and European listeners have their own sites for the episodes and the evidence that matter where they live. The podcast is published by Genspect, the organisation Stella O'Malley founded in 2021, and every site links back to the same YouTube channel.