Every episode of Beyond Gender

15 September 2026

REPATH LAUNCH

Stella O'Malley and Mia Hughes take centre stage for a special launch-day episode marking the arrival of REPATH, Genspect's re-psychopathologisation campaign. Without a guest to interview, the two hosts speak in their own voices about why restoring psychiatric rigour to gender-distress cases is not a step backwards but a clinical necessity — and what they hope REPATH will change for the patients, clinicians and families currently navigating a system built on automatic affirmation.

15 September 2026

REPATH LAUNCH

Stella O'Malley and Mia Hughes sit down without a guest to mark a milestone: the formal launch of REPATH, Genspect's Re-psychopathologisation Campaign. Their conversation is an unhurried, clear-eyed look at what the campaign actually means — what re-psychopathologisation is and is not, why it is clinically necessary, and what it would look like in practice. If you have wanted a calm, well-grounded explanation of why evidence-based clinicians are pushing back against automatic affirmation, this is the episode to pass on to the people in your life who still need convincing.

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.

27 August 2026

Inside Europe's Transgender Medicine System with Róisín Michaux

With Róisín Michaux

Róisín Michaux, an Irish investigative journalist based in Brussels, brings rare on-the-ground reporting to the Beyond Gender conversation. Going undercover as a fictitious distressed autistic teenager, she mapped how easily Irish and European minors can access hormones and surgery through online prescribers, cross-border clinics, and networks operating well outside conventional medical oversight. Stella, Mia, and Bret press her on the detail — and the picture that emerges is as precise as it is disturbing.

20 August 2026

How Institutions LIE to Protect Themselves | Nick Wallis

With Nick Wallis

Nick Wallis broke one of Britain's most damning institutional scandals — the wrongful prosecution of over seven hundred Post Office workers. Now he turns the same lens on gender medicine. In this episode, Stella, Mia and Bret draw out the uncomfortable parallels: how organisations close ranks, suppress dissent, and punish those who ask the right questions. Wallis also reflects on his years inside the BBC and what journalism looks like when fear replaces duty.

13 August 2026

He Helped Ban Conversion Therapy. Now He Regrets It

With Peter Gajdics

Peter Gajdics survived genuinely abusive psychiatric treatment designed to erase his homosexuality. Years later, he became an advocate for conversion therapy bans — until he noticed something troubling buried in the legislation. In a candid conversation with Stella, Mia and Bret, he unpacks how bills meant to protect gay and lesbian people came to include clauses that critics argue protect gender ideology instead. His testimony is uncomfortable, precise and impossible to dismiss.

6 August 2026

What Has Marxism Got To Do With Transgender Ideology? | Emmet Connor

With Emmet Connor

Irish author and podcaster Emmet Connor joins Stella, Mia and Bret to trace the intellectual roots of gender identity politics. Drawing on his book The Red Pandemic, he argues that trans activism is not an isolated phenomenon but part of a broader ideological pattern — one linking identity politics, systemic oppression frameworks and internationalist movements. The hosts press him with genuinely challenging questions, making this a probing conversation about where gender ideology comes from and why understanding its intellectual history matters for anyone trying to make sense of the current moment.

30 July 2026

Why Anorexia is Just Like Gender Dysphoria...? A Conversation with Deanne Jade

With Deanne Jade

Stella O'Malley, Mia Hughes and Dr Bret Alderman sit down with Deanne Jade — psychologist and founder of the National Centre for Eating Disorders — to explore what decades of treating anorexia can teach us about gender dysphoria. The conversation draws a striking clinical parallel: both can function as socially reinforced, overvalued beliefs that resist treatment and cause serious harm. Deanne brings hard-won expertise and a rare willingness to say what the therapeutic mainstream has been reluctant to admit.

23 July 2026

BLACKLISTED For Having An Opinion! | Dr. Jon Mills

With Dr. Jon Mills

Canadian philosopher-psychoanalyst Dr. Jon Mills joins Stella, Mia and Bret to recount how a cancel campaign cost him his standing in a professional psychoanalytic organisation — and spurred his book critiquing woke social justice ideology. The conversation moves from his personal experience of being labelled a racist to a rigorous dissection of how ideological conformity captured the very disciplines built to champion independent thought. Essential listening for anyone trying to understand the machinery behind institutional capture.

16 July 2026

When Sexual Fantasy Becomes Medical Treatment | Malcolm Clark

With Malcolm Clark

Malcolm Clark — documentary maker, writer, forensic observer of the human fringe — joins Stella O'Malley, Mia Hughes and Dr Bret Alderman to ask a question mainstream medicine is not yet ready to answer: what happens when an erotic fixation becomes the basis for surgical intervention? The episode covers apotemnophilia, autogynephilia, contagion and criminality with a candour rare in any medium. Clark is a gifted and unsettling guide, and the hosts are at their sharpest when the subject refuses to behave.

9 July 2026

Differences Between Boys and Girls with Dr. Michael Gurian

With Dr. Michael Gurian

Stella O'Malley, Mia Hughes, and Bret Alderman sit down with author and therapist Dr. Michael Gurian to explore what brain science and genomics actually reveal about sex differences — and what that means for boys and girls in classrooms, for men and women in the counselling room, and for the wider trans debate. Gurian's research offers a rare grounding in biology at a moment when ideology too often drowns out evidence.

2 July 2026

What is a Transgender Child? with Alex Byrne & Moti Gorin

With Alex Byrne

Mia Hughes sits down with two philosophers — Alex Byrne of MIT and Moti Gorin of Colorado State University — to examine the conceptual foundations of what we call a "transgender child." Drawing on their peer-reviewed paper and Ian Hacking's influential idea of "making up people," the conversation pushes past slogans into genuine philosophical inquiry. This is the kind of rigorous, unhurried thinking the gender debate urgently needs, and one of Beyond Gender's most intellectually demanding — and rewarding — conversations to date.

25 June 2026

From Gay Man to Transwoman... and Back Again | Michael Kerr

With Michael Kerr

Michael Kerr is a Scottish detransitioned man whose years inside the NHS gender system left him with questions the system refused to answer. In conversation with the Beyond Gender hosts, he speaks with unusual candour about the trauma at the root of his transition, the clinical failures he experienced, and the peer support organisation he has built to help others find their way back.

18 June 2026

Rethinking Youth Gender Medicine with Dr Louise Irvine

With Dr Louise Irvine

Dr Louise Irvine, GP and Co-Chair of the Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender, joins the Beyond Gender hosts for a searching conversation about how British healthcare institutions lost their clinical footing — and what a course correction might look like. From the WellBN investigation to the evidence on puberty blockers, this episode asks the hard questions that too few medical bodies have been willing to put on the table.

11 June 2026

The Doctors Transitioned My Son at 13 - Here’s What Happened Next...

With Melissa

Stella, Mia and Bret hear from Melissa, mother of Jonni Skinner, who was medically transitioned at thirteen. She recounts how a social worker's suicide warnings and pseudoscientific pressure overrode her instincts, how doctors prescribed hormones before she fully understood what was happening, and how serious health consequences followed. A rare, unflinching account of what parental trust in gender medicine can actually cost.

4 June 2026

Why Did Canada Go Mad? A Conversation with Jonathan Kay

With Jonathan Kay

Jonathan Kay — editor, writer and Quillette podcaster — joins Stella, Mia and Bret to map the strange journey Canada has taken over the past five years: from confident liberal democracy to a country gripped by institutional self-condemnation. The conversation is anchored by the May 2021 Kamloops graves claim and radiates outward into media capture, educational ideology and the question of whether Canada is finding its way back. Sharp, funny and unsettling in equal measure.

28 May 2026

Psychiatry's Biggest Mistake? | Dr Kris Kaliebe

With Dr. Kristopher Kaliebe

A conversation that steps back from the gender medicine debate to ask how psychiatry created the conditions for it. Dr. Kristopher Kaliebe, a triple board-certified professor at the University of South Florida, joins Stella, Mia, and Bret to trace the field's shift from psychoanalysis to biological thinking, the role of pharmaceutical industry influence, and how medical metaphors like 'chemical imbalance' became literal claims acted upon by patients and clinicians alike. The implications for the treatment of trans-identified youth follow naturally and with unusual analytical force.

21 May 2026

Dr Anders Sørensen: The Problem with Psychiatry, Withdrawals & Informed Consent

With Dr Anders Sørensen

Clinical psychologist Dr Anders Sørensen joins Stella, Mia and Bret to challenge the psychiatric establishment on its own terms. Drawing on his book Crossing Zero, he argues that distress is routinely over-diagnosed and over-medicated, that patients are rarely given honest information about antidepressant withdrawal, and that psychotherapeutic alternatives are consistently undervalued. It is a conversation with direct echoes for the Beyond Gender project: the same failures of informed consent, the same rush to a medical pathway, the same sidelining of talking therapies.