THEY RESTARTED GENDER SURGERY FOR PROFIT??? Paul McHugh on John Money and Johns Hopkins (#22)
What happens when a psychiatrist looks at the data and says no?At 94, Dr. Paul McHugh remains psychiatry’s most controversial voice. From shutting down Johns Hopkins’ gender identity clinic in 1979 to co-founding the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, his career has been defined by refusing to follow ideological trends. In this episode, McHugh shares how psychiatry abandoned scientific integrity, first with multiple personalities, then with recovered memories, and now with gender identity.As medical journals “affirm” psychological self-concepts over biological facts, McHugh sounds the alarm: what happens when medicine treats ideas instead of evidence?
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Dr. Stephen Levine Reflects on 40 Years in Gender Medicine. - Original Rebels Series (#21)
What happens when a psychiatrist who spent 50 years treating gender dysphoria refuses to abandon science for ideology?Dr. Stephen B. Levine’s journey from co-founding a gender clinic in 1974 to being labeled a “hateful guy” reveals how a field once seeking answers became allergic to questions. As WPATH transformed from clinical inquiry to advocacy, Levine witnessed the moment when booing replaced peer review at professional conferences.From paraphilias as barriers to love to the myth of the 2% regret rate, this conversation exposes why the medical treatment of trans-identified people makes everyone miserable — patients, families, and the doctors who dare to say “we don’t know.”
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Modern Parenting Is DESTROYING Childhood - Nancy McDermott (#20)
What if the very way we parent today — hovering, curating, protecting — is destroying our children's ability to grow up?Nancy McDermott’s journey from Park Slope mom to parenting culture expert reveals how the family transformed from a sturdy institution into a fragile vehicle for self-fulfillment. As gentle parenting fails another generation and schools strip away parental authority, McDermott exposes how the 1970s divorce revolution created a traumatized generation now raising kids in perpetual fear.From birthday party invitations that require including everyone to teens who can't handle disappointment, this conversation reveals why modern parenting makes everyone miserable — and how we might find our way back.
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Poisoned in the Womb: When Medicine's Mistakes Echo Through Generations - Jill Escher (#19)
What if millions of pregnant women were unknowingly given drugs that altered their children’s brains, and their grandchildren’s?In this episode, Jill Escher, autism advocate and president of the National Council on Severe Autism, shares the shocking discovery that reshaped her understanding of her family, and the modern neurodevelopmental crisis. Escher’s journey began with two profoundly autistic sons and led her to a startling truth: her mother received weekly injections of synthetic steroid hormones during pregnancy.Now, as rates of both autism and gender dysphoria skyrocket, Jill connects dots that the medical establishment refuses to acknowledge, from DES disasters to modern anti-miscarriage drugs still in use until 2023.
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The "Transgender Child": How Psychiatry Created Its Most Destructive Diagnosis - Stella & Mia (#18)
What if the most destructive concept in modern psychiatry emerged from men lying to get hormones? Mia Hughes traces the shocking origins of childhood gender dysphoria back to the 1960s, when researchers studying effeminate boys were actually chasing ghosts—transgender children who didn't exist. Meanwhile, Stella O'Malley shares her harrowing personal journey as a child who desperately wanted to be a boy, offering a rare window into what gender dysphoria actually feels like from the inside. Their conversation challenges everything: Is this a real diagnosis? Should it exist? And in our current culture, is it too dangerous to leave in the DSM?
What’s really going on with gender? Psychotherapist Stella O’Malley, researcher Mia Hughes, and psychologist Bret Alderman explore how gender fits into a much bigger cultural shift—and what that means for all of us.
Through conversations with researchers, doctors, therapists, parents, and detransitioners, they cut through the noise to get to the heart of the issue. No jargon, no agendas—just honest, thoughtful discussions about one of the most pressing topics of our time.
If you’ve ever felt like something bigger is happening but struggled to make sense of it, this podcast is for you.
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