The Bigger Picture: Notes from Lisbon
Genspect leads the way
Last week, Natalya and I attended the Genspect Conference in Lisbon, Portugal. Genspect’s conferences take place in the same city and at the same time as the WPATH conferences, to provide a non-medical alternative approach to ‘gender variance’. More info on the stellar line-up of speakers here.
Here are our key takeaways:
The conference was attended by citizens from many countries, who hold a variety of different political beliefs & come from various professional backgrounds. Some speakers gave lectures from a personal perspective & others from a research perspective.
As we have learned, gender ideology has pervaded institutions across the West. What started as a niche medical experiment in Europe nearly 100 years ago has now gone far beyond its original clinical setting, pervading daily life, & has become a massive cultural sticking point.
When discussing the impacts of gender ideology, many topics come up: from the medicalization of children & vulnerable adults, to the issue of men in women’s sports & safe spaces, to the capture of courts who have shirked their safeguarding obligations.
The Genspect Conference aptly bridged all of these normally siloed ‘branches’ of gender ideology by including speakers who each had their own personal and professional experiences with the topics of sex & gender.
Within mainstream discourse, the issues of men in women’s sports, medicalization of children & the stories of detransitioners are often discussed as separate cultural issues.
Genspect corrected this incomplete framing by bridging these topics to show the issue in its entirety.
We have come to understand that the medical fraud which emanates from the practices of transgender medicine, poses extreme consequences not only for individual patients- but for all of society.
When doctors promise patients who are very young & very vulnerable, something which is biologically impossible to achieve (such as, a change of sex)- they do so upon the assumption that all of society will treat these patients as if they were members of the opposite sex.
The original transsexual experimentation done on (mostly) adult males was not aesthetically ‘successful’, which is why researchers decided that intervening in children’s bodies with puberty blockers & cross-sex hormones was a good idea.
Doctors prescribing social & medical transition to kids, assumed that schools would treat these few “trans” children as the opposite sex. Entire school policies had to change in ways which make all students less safe, in order to accommodate this niche medical experiment.
Genspect’s conference highlighted ways in which various aspects of societal functioning become negatively impacted starting from the moment when an individual’s cross-sex identity becomes socially, medically & institutionally validated.
The conference showcased the utmost compassion for individuals struggling with sex dysphoria, for families & for all of society.
Natalya spoke about the importance of parental agency and parental rights on a panel, as well.
Because gender ideology has subsumed our institutions & has inhibited our ability to safeguard children, it is incumbent upon every responsible adult to equip themselves with information to protect kids.
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This article was originally posted on X here.
that is a very fraught topic especially on campuses
i observe extreme distress during the transition process
Beautiful report. As the mother of a desister, and as a lifelong oddling who was gender-non-conforming as a kid and teen myself, I'm so happy this conference continues to grow!