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
27 October 2026
The Psychology of Evil: Why Ordinary People Embrace Dangerous Ideologies with Harrison Koehli
With Harrison Koehli
Dr Bret Alderman talks to Harrison Koehli, editor of Andrzej Lobaczewski's Political Ponerology, about how psychopathic traits can spread through social movements and capture institutions from within. For listeners who followed the Cass Review's account of how ideological conviction overrode clinical caution at the Tavistock, the conversation offers a wider psychological lens on that failure: why dissenting doctors were frozen out, why evidence got shouted down, and how a well-meaning cause can harden into something closed and punitive. It is a framework for understanding how gender-identity orthodoxy embedded itself in the NHS and in British schools, and why it proved so hard to challenge from inside.
What this episode means for the UKEpisodes about the UK
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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.