The hosts

Documents do not write themselves into the public record. Clinicians, parents and journalists forced most of these into daylight, and the three hosts of Beyond Gender have spent years interviewing them.

Stella O'Malley and the British evidence

Psychotherapist, founder of Genspect, host of Beyond Gender

Stella O'Malley argued for a cautious, therapy-first approach to gender-distressed children years before the Cass Review recommended one. Her relationship to the British evidence is that of someone who was early.

Mia Hughes, WPATH and the British guidelines

Researcher and co-host

British clinical guidance on gender long deferred to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. Mia Hughes is the researcher who showed what WPATH's members said about their own standards when they thought no one was reading.

Dr Bret Alderman on therapy and conversion-therapy law in the UK

Psychologist and co-host

The United Kingdom has spent years trying to draft a conversion-therapy ban that protects gay and trans people without criminalising ordinary talking therapy. Bret Alderman is a psychologist who explains why the drafting is so hard.