Beyond Gender

Beyond Gender

By Stella O'Malley, Mia Hughes, Bret AldermanSociety & Culture
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Beyond Gender episodes

  • 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.

    1 hr 8 min
  • “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.

    1 hr
  • 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/

    1 hr 9 min
  • Adam Coleman Wants To Make Fathers Great Again (#37)

    Why do so many fathers vanish from their children's lives? Adam Coleman argues it starts at birth - without holding their babies in those first crucial months, men never develop the chemical bond that keeps them present. The result: boys without fathers become men who can't regulate emotions, swinging from zero to a hundred over minor slights, filling prisons and chasing external validation through money and women. This conversation explores the uncomfortable truth that teaching boys emotional regulation might be a father's most critical role - and why figures like Andrew Tate appeal to a generation of men who never learned the difference between internal worth and external validation.

    1 hr
  • Gordon Guyatt's Confession: What the Father of Evidence-Based Medicine Didn't Read (#36)

    Dr. Gordon Guyatt revolutionized modern medicine. As a professor at McMaster University, he coined the term "evidence-based medicine" in 1991, created the hierarchy of evidence that every medical student learns, and wrote the User's Guide to the Medical Literature that taught physicians worldwide how to critically evaluate research. For 48 years, he's been the gold standard for rigorous scientific thinking in healthcare.


    Then came his systematic reviews of pediatric gender medicine. His team found only low-quality evidence for youth interventions. When twenty U.S. states used his work to restrict access to these treatments, Guyatt called it "egregious, unconscionable misuse of our work." But in this explosive interview, he admits signing a statement endorsing "medically necessary care for gender diverse youth" without reading it carefully. "That was not my paragraph, and I didn't read carefully enough," he confesses. When pressed further: "I was a dope. Okay. I'm sometimes a dope."


    1 hr 9 min
  • Soren Aldaco Just Wants Texas Detransitioners To Have Their Day In Court (#37)

    Soren Aldaco was 11 when she discovered online fandom spaces where roleplay identities could become real identities—and 19 when a double mastectomy at the notorious Crane Center left her with massive hematomas the surgeons denied were happening. Now a detrans woman, graduate student, and Independent Women's Forum Ambassador, she's fighting for her case against Texas medical malpractice laws to reach the Supreme Court. In this conversation, she unpacks how "fantasy and reality" merged online, why every provider who pushed her toward medicalization had trans-identified family members, and what it means to survive both the physical complications and the ideological capture that enabled them. Soren will be speaking at Genspect’s upcoming Bigger Picture conference in Albuquerque.


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    1 hr 2 min
  • Graham Linehan Lost Everything for Saying "They're Hurting Kids" (#34)

    From Father Ted to losing 400,000 Twitter followers, comedy writer Graham Linehan explains how his stand against gender ideology cost him his career, marriage, and friendships. Fresh from the Joe Rogan Experience (20M listeners), he discusses WPATH controversies, cancel culture, and the silencing of dissent. Once a celebrated sitcom creator, Linehan became branded a “bigot” overnight—yet remains defiant, exposing what he calls a scandal everyone sees but few will confront.

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    1 hr 4 min
  • Clinical Psychologist: We’re Misdiagnosing Gender Dysphoria and Making It Worse - Dr. Lisa Duval #33

    With 35 years of clinical experience, Dr. Lisa Duval argues that gender dysphoria is best understood as a fear of adulthood—not an identity. She explains why using puberty blockers is the opposite of proper therapy, exposes how medicine shifted from evidence-based to “rights-based,” and reveals the psychological patterns clinicians overlook. From adolescent anxiety to the role of therapy, Duval shows how professionals can truly help young people in distress.

    Support the show: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/beyondgenderpodcast/subscribe

    1 hr 8 min

About Beyond Gender

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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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