The guests
Psychiatrists and surgeons, philosophers and journalists, parents and detransitioners. Each guest page gathers every conversation that person has had with Beyond Gender.
Adam Coleman
Author, publisher, and fatherhood advocate
Adam Coleman — author, publisher, and a man who grew up without a father — brings a searingly personal lens to one of the most pressing questions in the gender debate: what happens to boys when men go missing? His Beyond Gender appearance cuts to the heart of paternal absence, masculine identity, and why so many young men are searching for direction in all the wrong places.
Airiel D. Salvatore
Detransitioner and public speaker
Airiel D. Salvatore — known online as Airie — brings one of the podcast's most psychologically searching conversations to Beyond Gender. In an episode recorded ahead of Detrans Awareness Day, he sits down with Stella, Mia, and Bret to trace the arc from a troubled early life through transition and surgery to the slow, painful dismantling of a deeply held belief.
Ajay
Butch lesbian and lifelong gender non-conformist
Ajay is a butch lesbian in her sixties who has lived her gender non-conformity without medical transition — and speaks with unflinching honesty about how different her path might have looked had she grown up today. In conversation with the Beyond Gender hosts, she brings rare generational perspective to questions that are reshaping young women's lives.
Alex Byrne
MIT philosopher writing on sex and gender
Alex Byrne is a philosopher at MIT whose work spans the philosophy of mind and, increasingly, the contested conceptual terrain of sex and gender. On Beyond Gender he brings academic rigour to questions that rarely get it — slowing down, unpacking definitions, and asking what we actually mean before we decide what to believe.
Allen Frances
Psychiatrist, author and DSM-IV chair
Allen Frances helped write the rulebook for modern psychiatry — literally. As chair of the DSM-IV Task Force he shaped how mental illness is diagnosed worldwide. He has spent the years since warning about overdiagnosis and the perils of labelling. His conversation with Stella, Mia and Bret is one of the podcast's most instructive — and revealing — episodes.
Anders Sørensen
Clinical psychologist and author
Danish clinical psychologist Anders Sørensen has spent his career questioning psychiatry's dominant assumptions — not from outside the field, but from within it. His book Crossing Zero makes the case that distress is over-diagnosed, antidepressant withdrawal is routinely minimised, and patients deserve far more honesty about the treatments they are offered. On Beyond Gender, he brings that challenge directly to the conversation.
Andrew Doyle
Writer, comedian and cultural commentator
Andrew Doyle — satirist, author, and creator of the parodic progressive activist Titania McGrath — joined the Beyond Gender hosts to press on an uncomfortable truth: that the authoritarian temptation is no longer the property of any single political tribe. His episode is a rare invitation to question your own side.
Bev Jackson
Activist, writer and LGB Alliance co-founder
Bev Jackson has been on the front lines of British LGBT politics for more than half a century. As a co-founder of both the UK Gay Liberation Front in 1970 and LGB Alliance in 2019, she brings a rare long view to debates about gender and sexuality — and in conversation with the Beyond Gender hosts, she uses every year of it.
Carrie Clark
Director of Genspect UK
Carrie Clark, Director of Genspect UK, brings forensic precision to conversations that require it. In her Beyond Gender appearance, she joins Stella O'Malley and Mia Hughes to take apart an NHS puberty blocker trial piece by piece — and makes the case that institutional amnesia, not new evidence, is driving it.
Claire Fox
Baroness, author and free speech campaigner
Baroness Claire Fox has travelled from the radical left to the House of Lords — and she brings that entire arc to Beyond Gender. In a conversation that refuses to keep free speech and gender medicine in separate boxes, she makes a case that many listeners will find both provocative and persuasive: these are not two crises, they are one.
Cori Cohn
Detransitioner and legislative advocate
Cori Cohn was nineteen years old when he underwent genital surgery in 1994 — well before gender identity entered public consciousness. Thirty years on, he joins Stella, Mia, and Bret for one of the most candid conversations in the podcast's history: what he gained, what he lost, what he still carries, and why he now testifies before state legislatures across America.
Craig Wiener
Clinical psychologist and author
Dr. Craig Wiener brought something Beyond Gender rarely gets from a clinical guest: a precise, two-part framework for diagnosing what goes wrong in mental health culture. His distinction between promoters and protectors gave Stella, Mia and Bret sharper language for patterns they had long observed — and a conversation that cuts to the heart of what therapy is actually for.
Deanne Jade
Psychologist and eating disorders specialist
Deanne Jade has spent decades on the clinical front line of eating disorders, and she brings that hard-won perspective to a conversation that challenges easy assumptions about gender dysphoria. When she sits down with Stella O'Malley, Mia Hughes, and Dr Bret Alderman, the result is one of the podcast's most clinically rigorous and thought-provoking exchanges.
Derrick Jensen
Environmental philosopher and author
Derrick Jensen has spent decades interrogating the foundations of industrial civilisation — and refusing to stop at comfortable conclusions. On Beyond Gender, he brings that same unflinching methodology to a subject few radical thinkers will touch: the intellectual roots of trans activism. His appearance is a rare chance to hear a left-wing dissident follow the argument all the way down.
Diana Fleischman
Evolutionary psychologist and researcher
Diana Fleischman is an evolutionary psychologist whose work on disgust sensitivity, sex differences and reproductive strategy brings hard biological thinking to questions the gender debate usually handles with cultural gloves. On Beyond Gender she went where most commentators won't, and did it with both rigour and candour.
Edward Dutton
Evolutionary psychologist and author
Edward Dutton — known online as The Jolly Heretic — is not a typical gender-critical voice, and that is the point. The evolutionary psychologist brings a Darwinian lens to questions the podcast rarely approaches from this angle: why progressive ideology has spread so fast, and whether natural selection has anything to say about it.
Eldur Smári Kristinsson
Gay activist and LGBT alliance chairman
Eldur Smári Kristinsson chairs Iceland's Lesbian and Gay Alliance and has become one of the most compelling—and legally embattled—voices in the debate over gender-identity ideology. A gay man facing his third criminal investigation for speaking out, he joined Stella O'Malley to explain how a small, progressive nation of 400,000 came to resemble what he calls a gender Gilead.
Ellie
Ukrainian immigrant mother and parental rights advocate
Ellie is a Ukrainian immigrant mother in California whose teenage daughter Maya was removed by Child Protective Services and transitioned in foster care. Her appearance on Beyond Gender puts a human face on the collision between gender ideology, state child-welfare systems, and the rights of parents who dissent.
Ellie Lee
Sociologist and parenting culture researcher
Professor Ellie Lee has spent her career mapping how parenthood became a site of therapeutic intervention — and what gets lost when adults stop trusting their own instincts. On Beyond Gender, she connects the dots between reproductive politics, diagnosis culture and the slow erosion of adult authority in ways that feel both scholarly and urgently practical.
Emmet Connor
Irish author and podcaster
Emmet Connor argues that gender ideology cannot be understood in isolation — it is part of a broader ideological pattern with roots in Marxist and post-Marxist thought. His appearance on Beyond Gender, pressed hard by three hosts with distinct vantage points, is one of the podcast's most intellectually demanding conversations.
Eoin Lenihan
Researcher and author
Eoin Lenihan spent years tracing who reshaped Ireland — following funding trails, NGO networks and the media consensus that replaced one establishment with another. His bestselling Vandalising Ireland put those findings on the map. In conversation with Stella O'Malley, Mia Hughes and Dr. Bret Alderman, he unpacks a framework that travels far beyond Ireland's borders.
Eric Kaufmann
Political scientist and author
Eric Kaufmann is a political scientist who left his position at Birkbeck to found the Centre for Heterodox Social Science. In his Beyond Gender appearance, he traces the sixty-year arc of progressive ideology from its 1960s origins to its current grip — and growing resistance — in Western universities, government and media. A rare voice willing to name what others only imply.
Erin Friday
Attorney and parent-rights activist
Erin Friday is a California attorney and lifelong Democrat who became one of America's most prominent parent advocates after her daughter's school socially transitioned her without parental consent. Her story — of fighting institutional capture while navigating a system designed to sideline parents — is an account of principled resistance at real personal cost.
Frank Furedi
Sociologist, author and cultural critic
Frank Furedi has spent decades tracking how ideological movements capture institutions — and on Beyond Gender, he turns that long lens on gender medicine. In conversation with Stella O'Malley, Mia Hughes and Dr Bret Alderman, he traces a direct line from the rise of therapy culture to the medicalisation of an entire generation of children.
Gary Clark
Evolutionary biologist and biological anthropologist
Gary Clark has spent decades in the field — studying fossil anatomy and living among Aboriginal communities — and he arrives at the gender debate not from culture-war instinct but from four million years of evolutionary evidence. A self-described leftist, he refuses to let political identity override the science.
Gerald Posner
Pulitzer finalist, investigative journalist and author
Gerald Posner spent years mapping the pharmaceutical industry's grip on medicine, regulators, and the press. When he turned that lens on gender medicine, what he found was not surprising — it was damning. His conversation with Stella, Mia, and Bret is a masterclass in following the money through one of medicine's most contested frontiers.
Gordon Guyatt
Physician and father of evidence-based medicine
Gordon Guyatt coined the term “evidence-based medicine” and spent a career insisting that clinical decisions follow the data. So when his own systematic reviews found only low-quality evidence for paediatric gender treatments — and he admitted on air to co-signing a statement endorsing those same treatments without reading it — the Beyond Gender hosts were there to put it on record.
Graham Linehan
Television writer and gender-critical campaigner
Graham Linehan wrote some of Britain's most beloved sitcoms — Father Ted, The IT Crowd, Black Books — before his public stance on gender medicine cost him his platform, his career and his marriage. In conversation with Stella O'Malley, Mia Hughes and Dr Bret Alderman, he talks about what it takes to say the thing and refuse to unsay it.
Gurwinder Bhogal
Writer and cultural commentator on tech and society
Gurwinder Bhogal is one of Substack's most incisive voices on how ideas spread, stick, and distort. Across two appearances on Beyond Gender, he helped Stella O'Malley, Mia Hughes, and Bret Alderman interrogate the forces that shape belief — from the failure of intelligence as a guard against bad ideas to the algorithmic machinery rewriting how young people understand themselves.
Holly Lawford-Smith
Political philosopher and author
Holly Lawford-Smith is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Melbourne and the author of Gender-Critical Feminism (Oxford University Press, 2022). One of the few academic philosophers willing to defend gender-critical feminism publicly, she came to Beyond Gender to lay out the intellectual case with precision and without polemic.
Ian Cox
Psychologist, lecturer and critic of ideological capture
An Irish psychologist and lecturer, Ian Cox is one of the clinicians willing to say plainly what many of his peers will only whisper: that postmodern, activist ideology has moved into the therapy room and is distorting training, practice and patient care. His conversation with Stella O'Malley is among the most candid the podcast has produced.
J.D. Haltigan
Developmental psychologist and researcher
J.D. Haltigan is a developmental psychologist who has spent years documenting how ideological capture has reshaped clinical psychology. A data-literate, academically rigorous voice, he brings the tools of the research world to questions most practitioners are reluctant to ask in public — which is exactly why his conversation with Beyond Gender is worth your time.
Jaco van Zyl
Psychotherapist and clinical commentator
Jaco van Zyl brings a clinician's precision to questions most therapists avoid. On Beyond Gender he argues that when culture stops asking young people to meet reality — and starts bending reality to meet them instead — it removes the very resistance that builds a stable self, leaving adolescents less equipped for life, not more.
James Lindsay
Mathematician, author and founder of New Discourses
James Lindsay built New Discourses into one of the most widely read platforms for analysing the ideological roots of contemporary progressivism — and, more recently, parallel patterns emerging on the right. His Beyond Gender conversation is a rare opportunity to hear that analytical framework tested against hosts who approach the same terrain from clinical and lived-experience perspectives.
James Linehan
Writer with lived experience of hypogonadism
James Linehan was born with hypogonadism, a condition that prevented his body from undergoing natural puberty. His appearance on Beyond Gender brought something the wider debate around hormonal intervention almost never hears: an unhurried, firsthand account of what the absence of puberty actually costs — physically, psychologically, and across a lifetime.
Jamie Reed
Gender clinic whistleblower and case manager
Jamie Reed spent nearly five years as a case manager inside Washington University's pediatric gender clinic — a progressive, queer woman who went in as a true believer and came out as one of the most consequential whistleblowers in American medicine. Her conversation with Stella, Mia, and Bret is a rare, unflinching first-person account of what it actually looked like on the inside.
Jasmin Faulk
Writer and cross-cultural commentator
Jasmin Faulk grew up navigating daily life as a girl under Saudi Arabia's legally enforced gender segregation — not as ideological abstraction but as lived, legal reality. Her conversation on Beyond Gender traces a provocative line between those restrictions and the ideological conformism she encountered after moving to the United States, asking what censorship looks like when it arrives from opposite directions.
Jill Escher
Autism advocate and NCSA president
Jill Escher arrived at autism advocacy through grief and a medical file. Her two profoundly autistic sons, and a decades-old record showing her mother was given synthetic steroid hormones during pregnancy, set her on a course of research that challenges how medicine accounts for its own interventions across generations.
Jon Mills
Philosopher, psychoanalyst and author
A Canadian philosopher-psychoanalyst with a prolific academic career, Jon Mills joined Beyond Gender to recount how a cancel campaign cost him his standing in a professional psychoanalytic organisation — and to explain why that experience convinced him that woke social justice ideology poses a specific, serious threat to the disciplines built to understand the human mind.
Jonathan Kay
Journalist, editor and Quillette podcaster
Jonathan Kay brings a distinctly Canadian perspective to the Beyond Gender conversation — not as a culture-war combatant but as a journalist who has spent years mapping how institutions lose their grip on reality. His appearance with Stella, Mia and Bret turns a single, seismic moment in recent Canadian history into a sharply observed case study in media failure and ideological capture.
Jonni Skinner
Detransitioner and gender medicine critic
Jonni Skinner was thirteen years old when a gender clinic at the University of Michigan placed him on cross-sex hormones following what he describes as a fabricated diagnosis. Now in his early twenties, he speaks with rare precision about what happened to him — and about the institutional machinery designed to make it inevitable.
Joseph Figliolia
Researcher into medical institutional capture
Few voices in the gender medicine debate have brought as forensic an approach to the question of institutional capture as Joseph Figliolia. On Beyond Gender, he joined Stella O'Malley, Mia Hughes, and Dr Bret Alderman to dissect, step by step, how a medical society can officially endorse paediatric gender treatments without ever conducting an evidence review of its own.
Joshua Slocum
Cultural critic and writer on narcissism
Joshua Slocum brings a double lens to his work — the personal and the political — having lived inside both a narcissistic family system and progressive activist movements. His conversation with Stella, Mia, and Bret is among the most electrically argued the podcast has produced: a theory of modern culture told through the grammar of personality disorder.
Katy Faust
Children's rights advocate and author
Few guests arrive at the Beyond Gender table with both lived experience and research credentials on the same question. As founder of Them Before Us, Katy Faust has spent years making the case that children's needs must come before adult desires in debates about family structure — and her conversation with Stella O'Malley, Mia Hughes, and Dr Bret Alderman is one of the podcast's most quietly urgent episodes.
Keira Bell
Detransitioner, legal pioneer and campaigner
Keira Bell's legal battle against the Tavistock clinic is one of the defining moments in the global debate over youth gender medicine. Her conversation with Stella O'Malley and Bret Alderman on Beyond Gender is essential listening — frank, measured, and more personally revealing than almost anything else in the public record.
Kenneth Zucker
Clinical psychologist and gender dysphoria researcher
Kenneth Zucker spent decades at the forefront of childhood gender dysphoria research — shaping three editions of the DSM and running what may have been North America's first paediatric gender clinic. His forced departure from CAMH in 2015 became a flashpoint in the culture war around gender medicine. In episode #31, the Beyond Gender hosts give him the floor.
Kris Kaliebe
Child and adolescent psychiatrist and professor
Kris Kaliebe brings a rare perspective to the gender medicine debate — that of a practising psychiatrist willing to interrogate his own field's foundations. Triple board-certified and a professor at the University of South Florida, he joined Beyond Gender to trace how psychiatry's drift toward biological thinking created the conditions for some of today's most contested clinical decisions.
Laoise de Brún
Barrister, documentary journalist and campaigner
Laoise de Brún brings a rare combination to the Beyond Gender table: the cross-examining rigour of a barrister, the storytelling instinct of a documentary journalist, and five years of frontline campaigning in Ireland. In conversation with Stella, Mia, and Bret, she makes the case that Ireland's revolutionary inheritance is directly at stake in today's debate over women's rights.
Leor Sapir
Gender policy researcher, Manhattan Institute fellow
Leor Sapir spent months doing the work the New York Times wouldn't: asking the foundational questions its celebrated podcast series on youth gender transition carefully avoided. A policy researcher at the Manhattan Institute, he brings forensic precision to media analysis and gender medicine — making him one of the sharpest critics of how this debate is being curated for public consumption.
Lionel Shriver
Novelist and cultural critic
Few novelists bring the same combination of forensic precision and genuine outrage to cultural criticism as Lionel Shriver. Across two appearances on Beyond Gender, she proves exactly why fiction writers sometimes see further than commentators: she tracks gender ideology's institutional grip, diagnoses the arrested development at its core, and refuses the comfortable middle ground that makes most public debate so forgettable.
Louise Irvine
GP and Co-Chair, Clinical Advisory Network
Few clinicians have been as willing to name what went wrong in British gender medicine — and to stay in the room long enough to map a path forward. Louise Irvine brings the perspective of a GP who has watched institutions drift from evidence-based care, and in her Beyond Gender conversation she doesn't let the hard questions stay rhetorical.
Lucy Beney
Psychotherapist and Thoughtful Therapists member
Lucy Beney is a UK-based psychotherapist who has chosen to speak in her own name about what she and colleagues are encountering inside Britain's mental health profession. On Beyond Gender she brought clinical precision and unusual candour to a conversation most therapists are still having only in private.
Malcolm Clark
Documentary maker and writer
Malcolm Clark brings a documentary maker's forensic eye to questions mainstream discourse avoids. In his Beyond Gender appearance, he joins Stella O'Malley, Mia Hughes and Dr Bret Alderman to examine what happens when erotic fixation becomes the basis for surgery — territory where medicine, desire and identity collide in ways few commentators are willing to name.
Marcus Evans
Psychoanalyst and Tavistock whistleblower
Few guests arrive at this microphone with Marcus Evans's vantage point — forty-five years inside British psychiatry, including time as a governor of the institution at the centre of the gender medicine storm. His 2019 resignation from the Tavistock made headlines. His reasons, laid out with Stella O'Malley and Mia Hughes, are what make the episode essential.
Mary E. McAlister
Senior litigation counsel and parental rights attorney
Mary McAlister has spent nearly three decades litigating parental rights cases, and that courtroom depth is exactly what she brings to her conversation with Stella O'Malley. As Senior Litigation Counsel at the Child & Parental Rights Campaign, she connects the dots between Alfred Kinsey's ideological legacy and the legal battles now playing out in schools across America.
Meghan Murphy
Feminist journalist and founder of Feminist Current
Meghan Murphy built Feminist Current into one of the most consequential — and contested — voices in gender-critical feminism. In her conversation with Stella O'Malley, Mia Hughes, and Dr. Bret Alderman, she traces the arc from insider to outcast: the podcast collective that pushed her out, the publication she built in response, and the Twitter ban that made her a test case for the new rules of political speech.
Melissa
Mother of detransitioner Jonni Skinner
Melissa is the mother of Jonni Skinner, who was medically transitioned at thirteen. In conversation with Stella O'Malley, Mia Hughes and Dr Bret Alderman, she offers a rare parental account of how suicide warnings and clinical pressure dismantled her instincts — and the serious health consequences her son has since faced.
Michael Gurian
Author, therapist and gender science researcher
Michael Gurian has spent more than three decades studying what brain science and genomics actually reveal about sex difference — and what that means in real life for children, families, and clinicians. On Beyond Gender he brings that research to bear on the classroom, the counselling room, and the trans debate, offering rare empirical grounding in a conversation too often driven by ideology.
Michael Kerr
Detransitioner and peer support advocate
Michael Kerr is a Scottish detransitioned man who spent years inside the NHS gender system. On the Beyond Gender podcast he sits down with Stella O'Malley, Mia Hughes, and Dr Bret Alderman to speak with unusual candour about the trauma that drove his transition, the clinical failures he encountered, and the peer support work he has built to help others find their footing.
Michael Nayna
Documentary filmmaker and cultural critic
Michael Nayna is the filmmaker behind the documentary record of the Grievance Studies Affair — the audacious sting operation that exposed how activist ideology had captured academic peer review. On Beyond Gender, he brings that same forensic eye to the broader crisis of institutional truth-telling, asking what happens when the gatekeepers of knowledge abandon their own standards.