The guests
Tavistock staff who resigned, the claimant in Bell v Tavistock, novelists and comedians who lost work, peers, therapists and campaigners, alongside the international guests. Each page gathers that person's episodes.
Adam Coleman
Author and fatherhood advocate
Adam Coleman grew up without a father, survived homelessness and suicidal crisis, and turned that experience into a sharp critique of what fatherlessness does to boys. In conversation with the Beyond Gender hosts, he connects the emotional vacancy of fatherless young men to both the manosphere and the surge in adolescent males identifying as transgender — a pattern British schools and clinicians are now urgently contending with.
Airiel D. Salvatore
Detransitioner and public speaker
Airiel D. Salvatore joined the Beyond Gender hosts ahead of Detrans Awareness Day to recount a journey from troubled childhood through gender dysphoria, medical transition and irreversible surgery to detransition and hard-won clarity — testimony that lands with unusual force for British listeners navigating the wreckage of the Tavistock era.
Ajay
Butch lesbian and lived-experience speaker
Ajay is a butch lesbian in her sixties who has never medically transitioned, despite a lifetime of gender non-conformity and decades-long ambivalence about her body. Her story is a direct challenge to the affirmation-first model that shaped NHS gender services before the Cass Review — and a question mark over what might have happened had she been a teenager today.
Alex Byrne
Philosopher and author
Alex Byrne is a philosopher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology whose work brings analytic rigour to contested questions about sex and gender. In the debate reshaping British gender medicine — from the Cass Review to the closure of Tavistock — his argument that 'transgender child' is a partly constructed category, not simply a discovered one, carries serious policy weight.
Allen Frances
Psychiatrist, author and DSM-IV Task Force chair
Allen Frances chaired the DSM-IV Task Force and spent decades sounding the alarm about psychiatry's tendency to over-diagnose and over-medicate. His 2013 book Saving Normal made him the conscience of a profession he feared had lost its way. His caution-first philosophy sits remarkably close to the conclusions of England's Cass Review — yet his views on gender dysphoria proved more complicated than expected.
Anders Sørensen
Clinical psychologist challenging psychiatric overreach
The Cass Review forced Britain to confront the medicalisation of vulnerable young people. Clinical psychologist Anders Sørensen extends that reckoning to psychiatry at large. He questions whether NHS patients are genuinely informed before treatment begins, and warns that a systemic misreading of drug withdrawal as relapse is distorting both clinical records and individual lives.
Andrew Doyle
Comedian, author and free speech campaigner
Andrew Doyle — comedian, satirist and creator of the Titania McGrath persona — is one of Britain's sharpest voices on free expression and ideological conformity. His Beyond Gender conversation connects the dots between the Online Safety Act, years of digital suppression and the culture of silence that delayed honest public scrutiny of gender medicine in the UK.
Bev Jackson
LGB Alliance co-founder and campaigner
Bev Jackson was in the room when Britain's Gay Liberation Front was founded in 1970. Nearly fifty years later she co-founded the LGB Alliance — then fought a landmark charity tribunal to defend it. Her fifty-year arc illuminates how the UK's gay rights movement was built, and how she believes it was captured by an ideology that now reaches into the NHS, schools and the courts.
Carrie Clark
Director of Genspect UK
Carrie Clark leads Genspect UK at a pivotal moment for British gender medicine. As the NHS presses ahead with a £10 million puberty blocker study, she brings forensic scrutiny to the Pathways research programme — asking whether Britain is genuinely learning from the Cass Review or quietly repackaging the same failed approach.
Claire Fox
Baroness, free speech campaigner and author
Baroness Claire Fox has spent decades mapping the damage done when institutions capitulate to whoever claims the loudest grievance. On the Beyond Gender podcast she connects that argument directly to Britain's own story: how a chilling libel culture and competitive victimhood combined to let the Tavistock's failures go unchallenged for years.
Cori Cohn
Detransitioner and legislative campaigner
Cori Cohn underwent genital surgery in 1994, aged nineteen — years before British waiting lists and long before Tavistock became a household name. Now in his early fifties and identifying as neither male nor female, he has become one of America's most prominent detransitioner voices. His testimony offers a sobering long-view as the NHS rebuilds its gender services after the Cass Review.
Craig Wiener
Psychologist and author
Craig Wiener is an American psychologist whose book Backyard Politics examines how political polarisation distorts clinical thinking. On Beyond Gender he gave British listeners a precise framework for understanding why NHS gender services drifted toward affirmation-by-default — and what genuine protection of young people actually requires.
Deanne Jade
Eating disorders specialist and NCFED founder
Deanne Jade is the founder of the National Centre for Eating Disorders and one of Britain's most experienced eating disorders specialists. Her appearance on Beyond Gender brought a clinically grounded challenge to gender-affirmative practice: if the NHS rightly refuses to affirm an anorexic patient's distorted body image, she asks, why should it take a different approach to gender dysphoria?
Derrick Jensen
Author, philosopher and radical environmentalist
Derrick Jensen is an American author whose prolific work on anarchism, civilisation and ecology made him a defining voice of radical environmentalism. His Beyond Gender appearance drew on decades of intellectual archaeology to map the ideological lineage — from Foucault's assault on age-of-consent norms to contemporary trans activism — now shaping British schools and the NHS gender services scrutinised by the Cass Review.
Diana Fleischman
Evolutionary psychologist and researcher
Diana Fleischman spent nearly a decade at the University of Portsmouth before moving to a research post in New Mexico, giving her a transatlantic view of the gender debate. Her evolutionary psychology framework — applied to disgust, autogynephilia, and social contagion — offers British listeners some of the sharpest scientific tools for understanding a crisis the NHS is still navigating.
Edward Dutton
Evolutionary psychologist and author
Edward Dutton applies evolutionary theory to the gender debate, arguing that progressive belief systems — including those driving NHS practice, school curricula and British institutions — may operate as biological selection mechanisms. His provocative 'Woke Eugenics' thesis, tested against the Cass Review's findings, offers British listeners an uncomfortable but scientifically grounded lens on how gender ideology took hold.
Eldur Smári Kristinsson
Icelandic gay rights activist and campaigner
Iceland has a population smaller than many British cities, yet it has become one of the most extreme examples of gender ideology embedded in law. Eldur Smári Kristinsson, a gay rights activist whom Iceland has tried to silence, carries a direct warning for Britain as it navigates the Cass Review and debates hate speech legislation.
Ellie
Mother and parental rights witness
Ellie is a Ukrainian immigrant living in California whose teenage daughter Maya — a girl with multiple psychiatric diagnoses — was removed by child services and transitioned against her family's wishes. Her case illuminates how ideologically captured state institutions can override parental rights and ignore medical caution, raising urgent questions for British parents, social workers and policymakers.
Ellie Lee
Professor of Family and Parenting Research
Ellie Lee is Professor of Family and Parenting Research at the University of Kent, where she has spent two decades analysing how expert culture and therapeutic norms transform ordinary family life. Her sociological framework offers British audiences a rare analytical lens on the forces that turned parenting into a site of clinical risk — and ultimately a gateway to paediatric gender medicine.
Emmet Connor
Irish author and cultural critic
An Irish author who traces gender activism to a broader ideological tradition, Emmet Connor gives British audiences a wider lens for understanding how gender ideology gained its institutional foothold — in NHS trusts, schools and public bodies — a phenomenon the Cass Review documented but whose deeper roots remain fiercely contested.
Eoin Lenihan
Researcher and author on institutional capture
Eoin Lenihan's forensic examination of how Ireland was reshaped by NGO capture, media complicity and elite collusion lands with force for British audiences. The machinery he describes in Vandalising Ireland — ideology laundered through institutions that present themselves as neutral — is recognisable to anyone tracking how trans activism entered the NHS, UK schools and the law.
Eric Kaufmann
Political scientist and academic freedom researcher
Eric Kaufmann spent twenty years at Birkbeck before leaving to found the Centre for Heterodox Social Science — a move that signals how thoroughly Britain's universities have been captured by progressive ideology. In episode #44 he traces a 60-year consensus that shaped not only academia but NHS gender services, school guidance and the professional culture that resisted the Cass Review.
Erin Friday
Attorney and parent advocate
Erin Friday is a California attorney who discovered that her daughter had been given a new name and pronouns at school — without any notification to her family. Her account of drawing firm lines, protecting her parental authority, and watching her daughter eventually return to her birth identity offers a precise mirror for British parents grappling with confidential school transitions.
Frank Furedi
Sociologist and author
Frank Furedi is emeritus professor of sociology whose critique of therapy culture and institutional overreach spans decades of British public life. In episode 12, he argues that schools, health services and EU-funded NGO networks have turned three generations of would-be rebels into obedient medical conformists — a diagnosis with sharp relevance for NHS patients, British schools and parents navigating today's gender landscape.
Gary Clark
Evolutionary biologist and paleoanthropologist
Gary Clark is an evolutionary biologist and paleoanthropologist whose career spans fossil anatomy, sexual dimorphism and fieldwork in Australia. A self-described leftist, he challenges the assumption that acknowledging biological sex is a conservative position — a distinction the Cass Review implicitly demanded of NHS clinicians and that Britain's schools debate urgently needs.
Gerald Posner
Investigative journalist and pharma watchdog
Gerald Posner is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated investigative journalist whose decades-long scrutiny of the pharmaceutical industry provides a forensic framework for understanding how profit-driven medicine shapes public health policy. In his Beyond Gender appearance, he argues that the same commercial forces and press failures that drove America's paediatric gender medicine crisis have direct parallels in Britain's own reckoning with the Tavistock clinic and the Cass Review.
Gordon Guyatt
Physician who coined evidence-based medicine
Gordon Guyatt coined the phrase "evidence-based medicine" and co-developed the GRADE framework that NICE uses to rate research quality — the same framework underlying the Cass Review's damning verdict on gender medicine for children. His Beyond Gender appearance became a landmark: the architect of that evidence standard admitting he signed an advocacy statement endorsing the very treatments it condemns, without reading it.
Graham Linehan
Sitcom creator and gender-critical campaigner
Graham Linehan created two of British television's most beloved comedies — Father Ted and The IT Crowd — before becoming one of the most publicly vilified figures in the UK's gender debate. His story, told frankly in episode #34, is a case study in what happens when an industry turns on one of its own for refusing to stay silent.
Gurwinder Bhogal
Writer and technology commentator
Gurwinder Bhogal is a writer and technology commentator whose work explores cognitive biases and digital manipulation. In two appearances on Beyond Gender, he offered an analytical framework that illuminates a distinctly British puzzle: how did the NHS, the Tavistock clinic and the academic establishment embrace gender-identity ideology so uncritically — and what did social media's engineered psychology do to a generation of vulnerable young people?
Holly Lawford-Smith
Philosopher and gender-critical feminist author
Holly Lawford-Smith is a political philosopher at the University of Melbourne whose rigorous academic challenge to gender identity theory has made her one of the most influential voices in Britain's debate over sex and the law. Her Beyond Gender appearance landed just as the UK Supreme Court handed down its landmark ruling on the meaning of "woman" — making her arguments feel immediately, urgently relevant.
Ian Cox
Irish psychologist and professional freedom advocate
Ian Cox is an Irish psychologist who has spoken out about the ideological capture of counselling and psychology training — and paid a personal price for doing so. His first-hand account of complaints, doxxing and professional silencing resonates directly in Britain, where the BACP, NHS psychological services, and parliament are wrestling with the same pressures.
J.D. Haltigan
Developmental psychologist and academic critic
J.D. Haltigan is a developmental psychologist who argues that activist ideology has systematically displaced scientific rigour inside academic psychology. For British listeners, his diagnosis maps directly onto what the Cass Review uncovered: a field that abandoned evidence, silenced sceptics, and left vulnerable young patients without honest clinical care.
Jaco van Zyl
Psychotherapist and cultural commentator
Jaco van Zyl is a psychotherapist whose work examines how Western culture's retreat from shared reality is reshaping childhood and adolescence. His conversation with the Beyond Gender hosts cuts directly to one of the Cass Review's most sobering findings: that NHS gender services had drifted from exploring young people's distress to affirming their stated identities — with consequences still being reckoned with.
James Lindsay
Cultural critic, author and founder of New Discourses
James Lindsay has spent years mapping the intellectual architecture of what critics call 'woke' ideology — tracing its roots in critical theory, its methods of institutional capture and its demands for ideological conformity. For British audiences reckoning with the Cass Review's findings, his framework offers a coherent explanation of how a set of ideas can override clinical evidence, silence dissent and reshape entire institutions.
James Linehan
Speaker with lived experience of hypogonadism
James Linehan was born with hypogonadism, a condition that prevented him from going through puberty naturally. His first-hand account of what that actually means — emotionally, socially and physically — brings rare grounded authority to Britain's debate over puberty blockers, the Cass Review and what NHS gender clinics have been offering children.
Jamie Reed
Former gender clinic case manager and whistleblower
Jamie Reed spent five years inside one of America's busiest paediatric gender clinics before filing the affidavit that helped close it to minors. Appearing on Beyond Gender, she offers British listeners something rare: an insider account of how a well-meaning clinic lost its way — at the very moment the NHS is rebuilding its own services from scratch.
Jasmin Faulk
Writer and cultural commentator
Jasmin Faulk grew up under Saudi Arabia's rigid gender apartheid before settling in the United States. Her first-hand experience of ideological enforcement gives sharp analytical purchase on questions British audiences are already living with: who controls the language around gender, who polices dissent, and what happens to institutions when conformity becomes compulsory.
Jill Escher
Autism researcher and NCSA president
Jill Escher is a US autism researcher and president of the National Council on Severe Autism whose personal story carries direct relevance for British listeners. Her discovery that her mother received weekly synthetic hormone injections during a 1965 pregnancy led her to investigate whether prenatal steroid exposure underpins the modern surge in both autism and gender dysphoria.
Jon Mills
Philosopher, psychoanalyst and author
A philosopher-psychoanalyst expelled from a professional body and smeared as a white supremacist for editing a collection that criticised social justice ideology, Jon Mills brings a chilling first-hand account of institutional cancellation — one that will be painfully recognisable to dissenting clinicians and academics across Britain.
Jonathan Kay
Canadian journalist and Quillette contributing editor
Jonathan Kay is a Canadian journalist and editor whose work probes how institutions surrender critical thinking to social consensus. In his Beyond Gender conversation he traces Canada's ideological capture from the contested Kamloops residential school claims of 2021 outward through media and public life — offering British listeners a forensic template for understanding the institutional failures the Cass Review exposed inside the NHS.
Jonni Skinner
Detransitioner and paediatric gender medicine campaigner
Jonni Skinner was placed on cross-sex hormones at thirteen by a US gender clinic, following what he describes as a fabricated diagnosis. By fourteen, higher doses were being used to restrict his growth while his mother faced custody threats for objecting. Now a detransitioner with lasting physical damage, his story carries direct lessons for Britain's NHS reforms and child safeguarding.
Joseph Figliolia
Policy analyst and gender medicine researcher
Joseph Figliolia is a Manhattan Institute policy analyst who has mapped how American medical societies adopted positions on paediatric gender medicine without scrutinising the evidence. His analysis — including his account of a 'citation cartel' in which associations cross-reference one another to lend false authority to weak claims — mirrors what the Cass Review exposed in Britain, and carries urgent lessons for the NHS.
Joshua Slocum
Writer and podcaster on narcissistic coercion
Joshua Slocum argues that the manipulation tactics of Cluster B personality disorders have migrated from private relationships into the institutions that govern public life. In episode 17 of Beyond Gender, he gave British listeners a vocabulary for what many have observed in the gender debate: emotional coercion repackaged as compassion, and a culture so afraid of saying no that it can no longer protect those in its care.
Katy Faust
Children's rights advocate and author
Katy Faust is the founder of Them Before Us, a children's rights organisation that scrutinises policies — from surrogacy to donor conception — where adult desires override children's welfare. Her argument that institutions reliably drift toward serving adult stakeholders offers British listeners a framework for understanding not just what went wrong at Tavistock, but why.
Keira Bell
Detransitioner and legal campaigner
Keira Bell's legal challenge against the NHS Tavistock clinic sent shockwaves through British healthcare. As a teenager she was prescribed puberty blockers and testosterone by the Gender Identity Development Service; as a young adult she detransitioned. Her landmark High Court case helped trigger the scrutiny that led to GIDS's closure — a story at the centre of Britain's reckoning with gender medicine.
Kenneth Zucker
Clinical psychologist and gender researcher
Kenneth Zucker spent decades at the forefront of gender medicine, shaping the diagnostic criteria that governed clinical practice worldwide — then was forced out by activist pressure in 2015. His research on desistance and the effects of early social transition lies at the heart of the Cass Review's conclusions, and his story carries direct implications for NHS clinicians and any future UK conversion therapy legislation.
Kristopher Kaliebe
Professor of child and forensic psychiatry
A US professor of child and forensic psychiatry, Kaliebe argues that medicine's retreat from psychoanalytic rigour into a purely biological model left clinicians defenceless against ideological capture — a critique that maps with uncomfortable precision onto what the Cass Review found at the heart of the NHS.
Laoise de Brún
Barrister, campaigner and founder of The Countess
Ireland is often held up as a cautionary tale or a model in British debates over sex-based rights. Laoise de Brún — barrister, former BBC and Channel 4 documentary maker, and founder of Dublin's The Countess — has spent five years winning those fights in Ireland. What she has learned belongs in every British courtroom, classroom and parliamentary committee room.
Leor Sapir
Manhattan Institute Fellow and gender policy analyst
Leor Sapir is a Manhattan Institute Fellow whose forensic analysis of American gender medicine carries direct lessons for Britain. When the New York Times spent two years investigating youth gender clinics yet never asked what gender identity actually is, Sapir noticed — and said so. His scrutiny of journalism, evidence, and institutional failure mirrors the questions the Cass Review forced onto British medicine.
Lionel Shriver
Novelist and cultural critic
Lionel Shriver has watched Britain's gender debate from the inside — a London-based American novelist whose fiction has long probed collective delusion and its human cost. Her two appearances on Beyond Gender gave British listeners a novelist's dissection of how institutions capitulate to ideology, and why the post-Cass reckoning may matter more than it first appears.
Louise Irvine
GP and co-chair of CAN-SG
A practising UK GP and co-chair of the Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender, Louise Irvine has been one of the most consistent medical voices challenging the direction of NHS gender services. She brings an insider's understanding of how institutional capture took root in British healthcare — and what a clinically grounded path out of it looks like.
Lucy Beney
School counsellor and gender-critical therapist
Lucy Beney spent years as a school counsellor navigating a profession increasingly shaped by gender ideology. When the UK Supreme Court ruled that 'woman' means biological sex, Britain's largest therapy body responded not with legal reflection but with ideological solidarity. For Beney, it was the final straw. She resigned her BACP membership — and in doing so gave voice to a quiet crisis inside British therapy rooms.
Malcolm Clark
Documentary maker and gender-critical journalist
Malcolm Clark is a British documentary maker who has spent years scrutinising the institutional capture of medicine by gender ideology. Drawing on his broadcasting background, he brings a journalist's scepticism to clinical claims — and a particular talent for the uncomfortable comparison that cuts through therapeutic euphemism.
Marcus Evans
Psychoanalyst and Tavistock whistleblower
A psychoanalyst with forty-five years inside British psychiatry, Marcus Evans resigned from the Tavistock Clinic's board of governors in 2019 over his concerns about its gender service. His testimony offers British listeners the most authoritative insider account yet of how a flagship NHS institution lost its clinical bearings.
Mary McAlister
Parental rights attorney
Mary McAlister is an American attorney who has spent years in court defending parents whose children were socially transitioned by schools without their knowledge or consent. For British parents navigating conflicting school policies, post-Cass NHS guidance, and a legal framework still finding its footing, her courtroom experience offers hard-won lessons about what parental authority must mean in practice.
Meghan Murphy
Feminist writer and founder of Feminist Current
Meghan Murphy was among the first prominent feminists to be deplatformed by a major social media company for stating that men are not women — a line that has since cost British women jobs, nursing registrations and academic careers. The Canadian founder of Feminist Current brings a decade of front-line experience of how gender identity ideology captured the progressive left.
Melissa
Parent speaking out on youth gender medicine
Melissa is the mother of Jonni Skinner, who was placed on a medical gender transition pathway at age thirteen. Speaking to the Beyond Gender podcast, she exposes the coercive tactics — including suicide threats deployed by a social worker to silence parental dissent — that drove her son onto a path of serious medical harm. Her testimony speaks directly to the systemic failures the Cass Review identified in NHS gender services.
Michael Gurian
Author, family therapist and educator
Michael Gurian has spent three decades mapping the neurological and genomic differences between male and female brains, translating that science into practical guidance for schools and families. His appearance on Beyond Gender arrives at a pivotal moment for Britain: as the Cass Review demands a return to biological evidence in the care of gender-distressed young people, Gurian offers exactly the framework UK clinicians and educators have been missing.
Michael Kerr
Detransitioner and founder of Detransition Pathway UK
Michael Kerr's journey — from gay man in Scotland to transwoman and back again — runs directly through NHS pathways that millions of British patients depend on. As founder of Detransition Pathway UK, he is pressing the health service to recognise detransition as a clinical need in its own right, not an afterthought.
Michael Nayna
Documentary filmmaker and institutional critic
Australian documentary filmmaker Michael Nayna has spent years inside the culture wars with a camera, mapping how institutions — universities, newsrooms, medical bodies — lost their grip on evidence and accountability. For British listeners his diagnosis illuminates the conditions that allowed the NHS gender pathway to expand with so little scrutiny for so long.