Beyond Gender for the United Kingdom
The people who changed Britain's mind
Tavistock whistleblowers, Keira Bell, the writers who paid for speaking first, the clinicians who read the Cass Review before it was fashionable. Beyond Gender has interviewed them. This site gathers those episodes and guests for British listeners.
The latest episode
15 September 2026
REPATH LAUNCH
Genspect's REPATH campaign — calling for a return to proper psychiatric assessment and differential diagnosis in place of automatic affirmation — launches at a moment when Britain is still working out what should replace the model the Cass Review condemned. Stella O'Malley and Mia Hughes explain what re-psychopathologisation actually means, why it is not what its critics claim, and why it matters for NHS clinicians, therapists and policymakers trying to rebuild gender services on firmer ground.
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The hosts
An Irish psychotherapist who started on Channel 4, a researcher from Cheshire, and an American psychologist watching Britain as the test case.
Stella O'Malley in the UK
Host of Beyond Gender, psychotherapist, founder of Genspect
Stella O'Malley is Irish, but her public career began on British television, and her podcast's most consequential episodes have been about the British institutions that changed course.
Mia Hughes
Co-host and researcher
Mia Hughes grew up in Cheshire and now researches gender medicine from Canada. On the British episodes she is the co-host who knows the Cass Review's appendices as well as its conclusions.
Dr Bret Alderman
Co-host and psychologist
Bret Alderman watches the British story from California, and what he sees is a case study in how a profession recovers its nerve.
Why the UK
Britain is the only major country where the health service, the professional bodies and the courts all reversed course on youth gender medicine within a few years. The Cass Review, the closure of the Tavistock clinic, the end of routine puberty blockers and the Supreme Court's ruling on the meaning of sex are the events the rest of the world now cites. Beyond Gender talked to the people inside them.
About this siteThe evidence behind the episodes
The sister site beyondgender.co.uk holds the documents: the Cass Review's findings, the NHS England decisions, the Bell and For Women Scotland judgments, the schools guidance, each dated and quoted from the original. The episodes are the conversations; the evidence site is the record.