Why The Drive For Medical Transition Should Be Re-Psychopathologized
🚨 15 years after WPATH's 2010 de-psychopathologization campaign, Genspect launches the counter-campaign to restore psychiatric safeguards Mia Hughes and Stella O'Malley explain why recognizing the drive for extreme body modification as pathological is the most compassionate, evidence-based response to protect vulnerable youth from the harms of WPATH's de-psychopathologization.The Critical Distinction: A teen exploring trans identity? Not pathological. A teen obsessively fixated on removing healthy body parts, pursuing lifelong medicalization, destroying their endocrine system? That's pathological behavior requiring mental health support—not celebration and scalpels. "You could develop a trans identity and not want any medical interventions. And arguably your behavior is not yet pathological. It's when you're going into actual harmful medical interventions that are going to harm your body. Now your behavior is pathological." - Stella O'MalleyWhat Happened: In 2010, WPATH's de-psychopathologization campaign declared trans identities "natural and healthy," dismantled all psychiatric guardrails, and triggered a social contagion among youth. By 2013, the DSM-5 replaced "Gender Identity Disorder" with "Gender Dysphoria"—the identity was now healthy, only the distress was pathological. By 2018, the WHO's ICD-11 went further, moving it entirely out of mental health into "conditions related to sexual health."The result? Kids started falling into an ideological abyss with no safeguards to catch them.Campaign hub: https://genspect.org/re-psychopathologization-campaign/
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The Man Who Named Autogynephilia - Ray Blanchard
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Sall Grover - The Woman Who Refused to Lie
At 34 years old, Sall Grover thought she was creating a simple solution to a common problem. After years of sexual harassment as a screenwriter in Hollywood, she and her parents developed Giggle—a women-only app for roommates, freelance work, and lesbian dating. Using facial recognition technology, the app verified users were female before granting access. Apple and Google approved every build throughout 2019 without question. Then came February 7th, 2020, and Sall’s life became a legal nightmare that would span five years and counting.
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“I Was Thirteen When They Put Me on Estrogen” - Jonni Skinner
At 13 years old, Jonni Skinner was diagnosed with a fake endocrine disorder and put on cross-sex hormones. At 14, he was misdiagnosed with "tall stature" and given higher doses to stunt his growth. The same doctors who threatened to remove him from his home if his mother didn't comply also falsified his medical records and sent him to sex shops for "treatment supplies." Eight years later, Jonni is speaking out about a medical scandal that turned vulnerable children into experimental subjects. This isn't just malpractice—it's systematic abuse disguised as healthcare, and Jonni's story exposes how the gender medicine industry operates in the shadows.See Jonni at The Bigger Picture: https://genspect.org/the-bigger-picture-albuquerque/Jonni Skinner spent eight years believing he was transgender after being medicalized at 13. Born in rural Michigan to a religious family, Jonni was diagnosed with high-functioning autism at 4 and struggled with being a feminine boy in a conservative environment. When puberty began triggering severe body dysmorphia and religious guilt about his attraction to males, his mother sought help at the University of Michigan's gender clinic. What followed was a systematic campaign of medical abuse that would steal Jonni's adolescence and leave lasting physical and psychological damage.
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The Lawyer Dismantling the Gender Medicine Empire - Glenna Goldis (#38)
The gender medicine house of cards is collapsing in American courtrooms, and one lawyer is helping to pull it down brick by brick. While activists scream about "trans rights," Glenna Goldis is methodically exposing the fraud, deception, and child abuse hiding behind medical credentials. From Supreme Court victories to explosive document discoveries revealing WPATH's lies, the legal landscape has shifted dramatically against pediatric transition. But winning in court is just the beginning - Goldis wants Nuremberg-style trials and medical licenses revoked. She wants the people who did this to children to pay. In this conversation with Stella and Mia, she maps out how the law is finally catching up to the gender medicine scandal and what needs to happen next to ensure it never returns.See Glenna in Albuquerque. In-person & livestream tickets available: https://genspect.org/the-bigger-picture-albuquerque/
What’s really going on with gender—and how does it connect to wider cultural shifts? Psychotherapist Stella O’Malley, researcher Mia Hughes, and psychologist Bret Alderman explore how debates around gender, identity, psychology, and medicine open up bigger questions about culture, society, and mental health. With guests ranging from doctors and therapists to parents and detransitioners, they offer honest, thoughtful discussions—no jargon, no ideology.
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