Beyond Gender

Dr. Michael Gurian is a marriage & family counsellor, author, and co-founder of The Gurian Institute.

In this Beyond Gender episode, Mia interviews philosophers Alex Byrne (MIT) and Moti Gorin (Colorado State) about their paper "Trans Kids and 'Making Up People'," using Ian Hacking’s ideas about “making up people” and the looping effect to make their argument.

Michael Kerr is a detransitioned man from Scotland who has created Detransition Pathway UK, a peer-to-peer support organisation to support others through the process of detransitioning.

Dr Louise Irvine is a UK-based General Practitioner, GP trainer and Co-Chair of the Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender (CAN-SG).

CAN-SG has a conference in London on 5th and 6th July: "Rethinking Youth Gender Medicine"

Melissa is the mother of Jonni Skinner, who shares the shocking account which led her to feelings of shame - to sadness - to anger.

She was told by social worker Sara Wiener - amongst other pseudoscientific methods of persuasion - that her 13 year old son must go down this path or else he will commit suicide. Melissa was sent to a sex shop to buy a silicone body suit for her son, before the doctors whom she trusted put Jonni on a cocktail of oestrogen and spironolactone before later adding puberty blockers. She details Jonni’s serious health issues which were caused by the negligent treatment, denied by the doctors who were supposed to help.