The hosts

This site is a reference work, but the documents in it were put on the public record largely because a small number of people kept asking about them. Three of those people present the Beyond Gender podcast, and one of them works in Birr, County Offaly.

Stella O'Malley and the Irish healthcare debate

Psychotherapist, founder of Genspect, host of Beyond Gender

Stella O'Malley is the Irish clinician most closely associated with the argument that Ireland's approach to gender distress should follow the evidence rather than the advocacy. Her position in the Irish debate is a matter of record.

Mia Hughes and the guidelines Ireland relies on

Researcher and co-host

Ireland's gender services have cited the guidelines of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. Mia Hughes is the researcher who documented what that organisation's members said about those guidelines in private.

Dr Bret Alderman on Irish psychotherapy and youth

Psychologist and co-host

Bret Alderman's contribution to the Irish record is a professional one: what happens to psychotherapy when a health service decides in advance what a young client's distress means.