Streamer and essayist, TheymerSophie, joins Dr Helen and Marianne, following on from their incredible live stream which raised £50,000 for the care of trans youth, via the GenderGP Fund. Together they discuss the state of the transphobia in the UK today; what makes Britain such a hotbed for anti trans activity and what can be done about it.

If you have been affected by any of the topics discussed in our podcast, and would like to get in touch, please contact us via the Help Centre. You can also contact us on social media where you will find us at @GenderGP on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

We are always happy to accept ideas for future shows, so if there is something in particular you would like us to discuss, or a specific guest you would love to hear from, let us know. Your feedback is really important to us. If you could take a minute or two to leave us a rating and a review for the podcast on your favourite podcast app, it will help others to discover us.

 

Links:

Follow Sophie on Twitter - https://twitter.com/theymersophie

Support Sophie on Patreon - patreon.com/curiovids

 

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Talking trans politics in Britain with @TheymerSophie

 

Hello, this is Dr Helen Webberley. Welcome to our GenderGP Podcast, where we will be discussing some of the issues affecting the trans and non-binary community in the world today, together with my co-host Marianne Oakes, a trans woman herself, and our head of therapy.

 

Dr Helen Webberley:

Hi everyone. Marianne and I here today with another guest. Nice to see you all. And I want to welcome Sophie with us today. So I met Sophie just before Christmas 2020, when it came to my attention that there was a fundraising gaming stream, not really words that I completely understood at the time. But someone said, well actually my kids said, mom, you've got to have a look at this. There's someone on Twitch doing a live stream, raising funds for young people who were affected by the Tavistock ruling in late 2020. And I'm really happy to have Sophie here who's responsible for all of that. So as I normally do, Sophie, I'm going to hand over to you. I'll let you tell the world who you are and how come all this came about. And also, thank you.

Theymer Sophie:

Well, thanks. Thank you for everything you do. I've said this a million times on the stream already when we've chatted before, but you know, I played a game, you help people, but yeah. So I'm Sophie, pronouns they/them. I have a YouTube channel called Curio where I talk about media mostly from a queer, leftist perspective. But sometimes I do like quite purely political videos. I have one that's my most viewed video that's called the aesthetics of intellectualism and talks about people like Jordan Peterson. And I am working on one about the gender critical movement, which is called transphobia with British characteristics. And I I also, and this is as Helen was saying, sometimes stream games on the website Twitch, where Twitter and Twitch, as Theymer Sophie. And so after the Tavistock ruling I felt absolutely awful, a lot of pacing around the room saying F this country. And I saw people talking about what could be done. I saw Joe (unclear 2:32) initiative to try and overturn it, things like this. And I saw Casey Montgomery mentioned that GenderGP had set up a fund to help under sixteens. And I thought, well, this is a good opportunity. I know my audience, and I know they'll show out for helping out trans kids however they can. So I made a little trailer and I told them I would stream on Twitch, which if you're completely unfamiliar, if you're prestream Helen's condition, basically I play a game and a feed of it goes out to an audience,

How many people detransition? Dr Jack Turban, child and adolescent psychiatry fellow at Stanford University School of Medicine, joins the GenderGP podcast for an episode exploring the notion of detransition.

Together Jack, Helen and Marianne discuss the notion that a person's gender expression and gender identity can change throughout their life. They asked "How many people detransition"? They acknowledge the use of detransition as an argument against affirming transgender people and the damage that this does, as well as covering how we need to broaden our understanding of what detransition really means, what is driving it and how we can work to support someone through the process.

If you have been affected by any of the topics discussed in our podcast, and would like to get in touch, please contact us via the Help Centre. You can also contact us on social media where you will find us at @GenderGP on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

We are always happy to accept ideas for future shows, so if there is something in particular you would like us to discuss, or a specific guest you would love to hear from, let us know. If you've enjoyed "How Many People Detransition? Exploring Detransition with Jack Turban", let us know. Your feedback is really important to us. If you could take a minute or two to leave us a rating and a review for the podcast on your favourite podcast app, it will help others to discover us.

 

Links:

Website: www.jackturban.com

Twitter: @jack_turban

 

Get the facts about detransition and how many people detransition

 

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How Many People Detransition? Exploring Detransition with Dr Jack Turban: 

 

Hello, this is Dr Helen Webberley. Welcome to our GenderGP Podcast, where we will be discussing some of the issues affecting the trans and non-binary community in the world today, together with my co-host Marianne Oakes, a trans woman herself, and our head of therapy.

 

Dr Helen Webberley:

Hi everyone. Dr Helen Webberley, Marianne Oakes, and we've got a lovely guest all the way from California today. I'm going to let him introduce himself.

Dr Jack Turban:

I'm Jack Turban. I'm a child and adolescent psychiatry fellow at Stanford, and I researched the determinants of mental health among transgender youth in particular. And one topic that I've been particularly interested in recently and writing more about is this idea of kind of non-linear gender transition trajectories, which is a fancy way of saying that somebody's gender expression and sometimes their gender identity is not necessarily always the same for their whole life. And this has been creeping up more and more in the media as like an argument against affirming transgender people, which I think is a hundred percent wrong. So I've been trying to kind of broaden people's conceptualization of what quote "detransition" means and setting up more of a formal framework, particularly for mental health professionals or physicians who are working with people who say they want to detransition to understand exactly what that means and what are the different things that could be driving it and how do you work to really understand someone through that process and support them the best that you can.

Dr Helen Webberley:

Briliant. Thank you. Lovely. Well, that makes me very excited. There's lots of things I'd like to talk to you about. So detransition is, it's become a kind of a painful word, I would say. For me, and certainly for me in my career and my work, and when I read about it and when people when (unclear 1:54) detransitioning are brought up as the other side, via example. So it's not a happy word in my vocabulary.

Fundraising for trans healthcare has found a new home thanks to the likes of @Hbombrguy who raised a staggering $340,000 for Mermaids in 2019 and @theymerSophie whose livestream on Twitch late in 2020 raised a phenomenal £50,000 towards the GenderGP Fund - an amount that was matched by GenderGP in in-kind donations. Inspired by these incredible fundraising feats, Twitch streamer Ed Sweet, is holding his own live stream to raise funds for trans youth over the weekend of February 20th and 21st.

In this episode of the GenderGP Podcast, Ed joins Dr Helen and two other gamers, Dr Helen’s own son, Jack, and Rhy, one of GenderGP’s Pathway Advisors. Together they discuss the forthcoming stream “Mario Kart for Hope’’, how vital fundraising is for trans youth in the UK right now, and why Twitch is the perfect fundraising platform for this community.

If you have been affected by any of the topics discussed in our podcast, and would like to get in touch, please contact us via the Help Centre. You can also contact us on social media where you will find us at @GenderGP on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

We are always happy to accept ideas for future shows, so if there is something in particular you would like us to discuss, or a specific guest you would love to hear from, let us know. Your feedback is really important to us. If you could take a minute or two to leave us a rating and a review for the podcast on your favourite podcast app, it will help others to discover us.

 

Links:

Podcast: Pronouns in bio

Follow Ed on Twitter: @EdwardTSweet

Twitch: SuperSweetBoy https://www.twitch.tv/supersweetboy

Follow @theymerSophie on Twitter

Read about Hbomberguy here: The Guardian

Mermaids

Article: Livestream results in £100K pot to provide healthcare for trans kids

 

We help teenagers who have nowhere else to turn

 

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How gaming became a lifeline for trans youth

 

Hello, this is Dr Helen Webberley. Welcome to our GenderGP Podcast, where we will be discussing some of the issues affecting the trans and non-binary community in the world today, together with my co-host Marianne Oakes, a trans woman herself, and our head of therapy.

 

Dr Helen Webberley:

Welcome to another edition of our podcast. Unusual one this week, we have a gaming podcast, a little bit outside of my comfort zone as a mom and a doctor. But just recently, I did happen to find myself massively immersed in the world of gaming, which I think we'll talk about a little bit later. I've got some cool guests with me today. If I'm allowed to say that word cool without being too uncool. And I'm going to let them introduce themselves. So we have Ed, we have Jack, we have Rhy. Ed, over to you first, introduce yourself, tell us why you're here and what's happening.

Ed:

Okay. So obviously, I'm Ed, a streamer on Twitch under the name SuperSweetBoy. I do a mix of games and dramatic read-throughs of stories. And on the 20th of February, I am doing a fundraiser for GenderGP called Mario Kart for Hope.

Jack Webberley:

My name is Jack. I am also a gamer. I am also a student in Cardiff University, studying civil engineering. I am on today because last night mum asked me, could you please come on as a gamer and basically make sure she doesn't embarrass herself.

Ed:

You were her back up.

Jack Webberley:

Yeah, back up.

Rhy Brignell:

Hi, my name is Rhy. My pronouns are they/them. I would describe myself as a casual gamer for the shame.

Footballing legend, Neville Southall, joins Dr Helen and Marianne to talk about equality and why it is so important for those who have a platform to use it for good. Neville talks about the reasons why he regularly hands over his twitter account, with its 170.8k followers to minority groups to help get their message out and why, in order for society to be fair, everyone needs to have a voice.

If you have been affected by any of the topics discussed in our podcast, and would like to get in touch, please contact us via the Help Centre. You can also contact us on social media where you will find us at @GenderGP on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

We are always happy to accept ideas for future shows, so if there is something in particular you would like us to discuss, or a specific guest you would love to hear from, let us know. Your feedback is really important to us. If you could take a minute or two to leave us a rating and a review for the podcast on your favourite podcast app, it will help others to discover us.

 

Links:

Twitter: @NevilleSouthall

Facebook: Rainbow Toffees

Neville Southall's latest book: Mind Games, the Ups and Downs of Life and Football is available to purchase now.

 

Allyship matters - learn more here

 

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A footballing legend's take on Trans Rights - Neville Southall

 

Hello, this is Dr Helen Webberley. Welcome to our GenderGP Podcast, where we will be discussing some of the issues affecting the trans and non-binary community in the world today, together with my co-host Marianne Oakes, a trans woman herself, and our head of therapy.

 

Dr Helen Webberley:

So, Neville Southall, that's out of the way. Excited to have you on. Tell us who you are, what you do and whatever are you doing on the GenderGP podcast?

Neville Southall:

Well, what I was, was a footballer for Everton for a long time, probably 20 odd years. And what I do now, I work in a special school in Ebbw Vale, which is, I know it's not too far from you. And what, why I've come on really is because I don't know nothing really. So I'm on here to learn a bit as well. And I think every time I go on something or I talk to people, then I learn a bit more. And as you know, good me going on Twitter and talking about transgender issues or anything like that. I don't think that's right. I think what you can do is support and help when you can. But the main thing is to get the right people to talk about the right things. So you can educate people because it's like anything else, any minority group needs to be understood, and it needs to have a fair platform to be able to do that. And the way the media sets up well, in most countries, it doesn't give everybody a fair view. So my platform is really to raise awareness of what people do and to give them a chance to actually say what they believe in. And I think everybody should have that chance.

Dr Helen Webberley:

A couple of weeks ago, you very kindly gave Marianne, our head of therapies, sole access to your Twitter account which obviously has massive following for your followers to ask all the questions. So, what's your interest in minority groups? Why have you decided to do this, to help people learn? What's your interest? Why you?

Neville Southall:

Well, mainly because I can. And I thought, as a society, we were brought up to help everybody. So when I first sort of went on Twitter and it was all because a lad was, you know, really homophobic, but he was obviously denying he was gay. So we had long chats and long chats. And eventually I came on Twitter and asked people what I should be saying,

Noah Halpin, founder and manager of the This Is Me Transgender Healthcare Campaign, joins Dr Helen and Marianne to discuss the current state of trans healthcare in Ireland. Together they discuss the importance of fighting for best practice, person-centred healthcare for all transgender and non-binary people, and what this means in reality.

If you have been affected by any of the topics discussed in our podcast, and would like to get in touch, please contact us via the Help Centre. You can also contact us on social media where you will find us at @GenderGP on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

We are always happy to accept ideas for future shows, so if there is something in particular you would like us to discuss, or a specific guest you would love to hear from, let us know. Your feedback is really important to us. If you could take a minute or two to leave us a rating and a review for the podcast on your favourite podcast app, it will help others to discover us.

 

Links:

Follow Noah on Twitter: @Noah_Halpin

Follow Noah on Facebook: This is Me

 

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The Future of Transgender Healthcare - Noah Halpin

 

Hello, this is Dr. Helen Webberley, welcome to our GenderGP podcast, where we will be discussing some of the issues affecting the trans and nonbinary community in the world today together with my cohost Marianne Oakes, a trans woman herself and our head of therapies.

 

Noah:

Thanks, Helen. Thanks for having me on, um, my name is Noah Halpin and I'm the founder of the this is me transgender healthcare campaign. So what we do is we fight for best practice person centered health care for all trans and nonbinary people in Ireland. And we continue to do that every, every single day of the year.

Helen:

Brilliant. So, okay. Um, what, what do you mean by best practice? What do you mean by person centered and pick those things for us? What does that actually mean in everyday life.

Noah:

In Ireland, um, the one service that provides healthcare to trans and nonbinary people, they operate off a model of care that was created solely by the clinic themselves. There's no evidential basis for their model of care. It's very much a psychiatric model of care. So we strive have international best practice, uh, model of care introduced into Ireland, which would be in our WPATH, the world association for transgender health, um, based on an informed consent model so that people are believed as opposed to having to prove themselves. And so this is, this is what we strive for in Ireland and person centered being that, that the person themselves are, are at the forefront of their own treatment and, and not decisions being made by, uh, like I said, psychiatrist's opinions of what these people are very, very close to.

Helen:

Um, I can see you smiling. They're very, very close to the attitude of GenderGP. Isn't it? What do these words mean to you? Best practice to monitor them?

Marianne:

Oh, I was going to say, sounds like you've been reading the GenderGP script there because that's what's going through my mind when he was talking though, was how are you finding effecting change? You know, is it a people open to listening and believing, or are you finding that there's resistance?

Noah:

What I find mostly obviously the trans community are very much on board and want change. A lot of families of young trans people are, are similar. I'm finding a very kind of 50/50 split down the middle when it comes to politicians,

In this Wellbeing Special, GenderGP’s Psychological Therapies Lead, Marianne Oakes, is joined by Counsellor Amy Walters. The pair discuss some of their learnings and strategies for managing life when times get tough and the importance of being kind to ourselves.

If you have been affected by any of the topics discussed in our podcast, and would like to get in touch, please contact us via the Help Centre. You can also contact us on social media where you will find us at @GenderGP on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

We are always happy to accept ideas for future shows, so if there is something in particular you would like us to discuss, or a specific guest you would love to hear from, let us know. Your feedback is really important to us. If you could take a minute or two to leave us a review and rating for the podcast on your favourite podcast app, it will help others to discover us.

 

Links:

Follow Marianne on Twitter: @OakesMarianne

Book a session with Marianne here

 

Our counsellors can talk to you about any aspect of your gender

 

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Practising self-care when times get tough

 

Hello, this is Dr Helen Webberley. Welcome to our GenderGP Podcast, where we will be discussing some of the issues affecting the trans and non-binary community in the world today, together with my co-host Marianne Oakes, a trans woman herself, and our head of therapy.

 

Marianne Oakes:

You're going to have to have me here. I'm hosting it today and not the usual Helen Webberley. But we've got a wonderful guest who is Amy Walters, who is one of the Wellbeing Team that I have the privilege to manage. And we're just going to talk about general mental health today at this time. Just to see, I don't know, what advice or coping mechanisms we may be able to develop as the conversation goes. I don't know how you feel about that, Amy, but what I was going to say is, do you want to just introduce yourself quickly? And then we'll get going.

Amy Walters:

I noticed that you said quickly there, cause you know, we do tend to talk for a long time. Yeah. I'm Amy, thank you so much for inviting me on the podcast. It's lovely to be here. I really could talk forever. So you might have to stop me. Yeah, I'm one of the counselors on the Wellbeing Team. I get the privilege of doing the information gathering sessions and follow-up sessions and run individual counseling sessions as well. I absolutely love it. I love what we do at GenderGP. It's great to be part of the team. So that's kind of the briefest of introductions that I can give you.

Marianne Oakes:

Just while you were talking that Amy, it was going through my mind, you know, cause it's unstructured, this conversation. And I think sometimes being counselors, people assume that we've got everything sorted, you know, and I think people sometimes forget that we've got lives and we've got our own set of issues to deal with in counseling is what we do as a profession. But I think where we are fortunate is that we, certainly the Wellbeing Team at GenderGP, I don't know about others, but the Wellbeing Team, you know, when we are feeling a bit down, we do contact each other, don't we? And like you say, we now, and then we just have conversations. We're able to look after ourselves and I just wonder how valuable that would be, not the people's lives, not necessarily to have a counsellor there, but do you know, feeling a bit down who, who can I talk to, who will listen and who will take on board what, what I just need to externalize?

Amy Walters:

I think that's a really good point. And I think what I was thinking about wellbeing, you know,

Marlo Mack, the creator of the How to Be a Girl podcast, joins Dr Helen and Marianne to share her personal experiences of life with her transgender daughter. Marlo talks about her daughter coming out aged four, some of the people she has met along the way and how the simple act of acceptance was the key to an incredible journey.

If you have been affected by any of the topics discussed in our podcast, and would like to get in touch, please contact us via the Help Centre. You can also contact us on social media where you will find us at @GenderGP on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

We are always happy to accept ideas for future shows, so if there is something in particular you would like us to discuss, or a specific guest you would love to hear from, let us know. Your feedback is really important to us. If you could take a minute or two to leave us a review and rating for the podcast on your favourite podcast app, it will help others to discover us.

 

Links:

Twitter - @girlpodcast

Blog - http://www.howtobeagirlpodcast.com/

How to be a Girl: a Memoir by Marlo Mack: Amazon

How it all began: https://vimeo.com/93816674

 

Our counsellors can provide support to young people and their families

 

The GenderGP Podcast

Marlo Mack: Accepting Your Trans Kid

 

Hello, this is Dr Helen Webberley. Welcome to our GenderGP Podcast, where we will be discussing some of the issues affecting the trans and non-binary community in the world today, together with my co-host Marianne Oakes, a trans woman herself, and our head of therapy.

 

Dr Helen Webberley:

We have the lovely, lovely, and inspirational Marlo Mack with us today. And I'm just going to tell you how I first came across Marlo before I introduce her. So I was in a conference in at the WPath in Amsterdam in 2016, and I was listening to somebody talk about looking after transgender children in healthcare. And it was the first talk that I'd been to, which seemed to absolutely understand what I was feeling about transgender children and what they needed. And halfway through the presenter played a video, and it was a cartoon video of a little cartoon girl teaching us how to be a girl. And I was absolutely spellbound by it.

 

What are your favourite things to play with? My princess things? Your princess things? Why do you like princesses so much? I just kind of do. Do you think it's okay for boys to like princesses? But I am a girl.

 

Dr Helen Webberley:

And that was my first introduction. I remember going out and telling anybody I could find that I've just seen this most amazing video which just tells you all about it. Fast forward to 2020, and I now delighted to welcome Marlo Mack and her inspirational videos and podcasts and now audiobook onto our podcast. So Marlo, thank you so much for joining us. I'm really, really excited to have you here. Tell us a little about you and how you, how you started your lovely campaigning work.

Marlo Mack:

Oh, well, thank you first off. So thank you so much for having me. This is a real honour and pleasure for me. I'm a big fan of what you're doing. And I really enjoy listening to your podcast as well. I'm just a regular mom, I guess I'm a regular American mom who ended up with an unusual situation, and I happened to have access to a recorder. And when my daughter was very young, when I still thought I had a son, began recording her and she began saying these very interesting and at the time, very surprising and unsettling things. I'm not a boy, mama, I'm a girl. And I was recording this, all that all along. I happened to be also working in for a radio show at the time I was learning how to work in w...

Marlo Mack, the creator of the How to Be a Girl podcast, joins Dr Helen and Marianne to share her personal experiences of life with her transgender daughter. Marlo talks about her daughter coming out aged four, some of the people she has met along the way and how the simple act of acceptance was the key to an incredible journey.

If you have been affected by any of the topics discussed in our podcast, and would like to get in touch, please contact us via the Help Centre. You can also contact us on social media where you will find us at @GenderGP on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

We are always happy to accept ideas for future shows, so if there is something in particular you would like us to discuss, or a specific guest you would love to hear from, let us know. Your feedback is really important to us. If you could take a minute or two to leave us a review and rating for the podcast on your favourite podcast app, it will help others to discover us.

 

Links:

Twitter - @girlpodcast

Blog - http://www.howtobeagirlpodcast.com/

How to be a Girl: a Memoir by Marlo Mack: Amazon

How it all began: https://vimeo.com/93816674

 

Our counsellors can provide support to young people and their families

 

The GenderGP Podcast

Marlo Mack: Accepting Your Trans Kid

 

Hello, this is Dr Helen Webberley. Welcome to our GenderGP Podcast, where we will be discussing some of the issues affecting the trans and non-binary community in the world today, together with my co-host Marianne Oakes, a trans woman herself, and our head of therapy.

 

Dr Helen Webberley:

We have the lovely, lovely, and inspirational Marlo Mack with us today. And I'm just going to tell you how I first came across Marlo before I introduce her. So I was in a conference in at the WPath in Amsterdam in 2016, and I was listening to somebody talk about looking after transgender children in healthcare. And it was the first talk that I'd been to, which seemed to absolutely understand what I was feeling about transgender children and what they needed. And halfway through the presenter played a video, and it was a cartoon video of a little cartoon girl teaching us how to be a girl. And I was absolutely spellbound by it.

 

What are your favourite things to play with? My princess things? Your princess things? Why do you like princesses so much? I just kind of do. Do you think it's okay for boys to like princesses? But I am a girl.

 

Dr Helen Webberley:

And that was my first introduction. I remember going out and telling anybody I could find that I've just seen this most amazing video which just tells you all about it. Fast forward to 2020, and I now delighted to welcome Marlo Mack and her inspirational videos and podcasts and now audiobook onto our podcast. So Marlo, thank you so much for joining us. I'm really, really excited to have you here. Tell us a little about you and how you, how you started your lovely campaigning work.

Marlo Mack:

Oh, well, thank you first off. So thank you so much for having me. This is a real honour and pleasure for me. I'm a big fan of what you're doing. And I really enjoy listening to your podcast as well. I'm just a regular mom, I guess I'm a regular American mom who ended up with an unusual situation, and I happened to have access to a recorder. And when my daughter was very young, when I still thought I had a son, began recording her and she began saying these very interesting and at the time, very surprising and unsettling things. I'm not a boy, mama, I'm a girl. And I was recording this, all that all along. I happened to be also working in for a radio show at the time I was learning how to work in w...

Marianne and Dr Helen are joined by two NHS surgeons specialising in top surgery. Mr Ioannis Ntanos and Miss Chloe Wright discuss the ethics and health policy around top surgery for trans and non-binary individuals. In this episode of the GenderGP podcast, the guests cover binding, the positive impact of top surgery on intimacy and their ambition to move top surgery from its current position as a fringe of breast surgery, into its own specialty.

If you have been affected by any of the topics discussed in our podcast, and would like to get in touch, please contact us via the Help Centre. You can also contact us on social media where you will find us at @GenderGP on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

We are always happy to accept ideas for future shows, so if there is something in particular you would like us to discuss, or a specific guest you would love to hear from, let us know. Your feedback is really important to us. If you could take a minute or two to leave us a review and rating for the podcast on your favourite podcast app, it will help others to discover us.

 

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Top surgery for trans guys

 

Hello, this is Dr Helen Webberley. Welcome to our GenderGP Podcast, where we will be discussing some of the issues affecting the trans and non-binary community in the world today, together with my co-host Marianne Oakes, a trans woman herself, and our head of therapy.

 

Dr Helen Webberley:

We have two surgeons with us today, two UK-based surgeons who are both very experienced and talented in top surgery. So I'm really, really delighted to welcome both of you. We have Mr Ioannis Ntanos and Ms Chloe Wright, two surgeons. So I'm going to let you introduce yourselves, just to tell us who you are, why you ended up having a specialism in top surgery, which is what we're talking about today. And any golden nuggets that you want to start with. So Ioannis, if you don't mind, I'll call you Ioannis, introduce yourself and tell us who you are. And welcome to GenderGP.

Mr Ioannis Ntanos:

That's absolutely fine. Thank you very much. Hello everyone. So yes, my name is Ioannis Ntanos. I'm a breast surgeon, but focusing on top surgery for the last three and a half years since I joined the team in North Manchester General Hospital. My exposure to top surgery started with me moving to Manchester, but from the first moment, I was extremely interested in it, not only from a surgical point of view but from an ethics and health policy point of view, too. And this is solely within the last three and a half years. And I was trained under the lead at the time here, (unclear 1:44) who was here in Manchester. And I've recently taken over from leading the services at this point. Thank you.

Dr Helen Webberley:

Welcome. And Ms Chloe Wright. Nice to have you. Introduce yourself.

Ms Chloe Wright:

So thank you for having me with you. So I'm Chloe Wright. In my current position, I'm a consultant oncoplastic breast surgeon, but I'm delighted that in the new year, I'm going to be joining Manchester General Hospital. And that will be in the delivery of care for people who are seeking their gender-confirming top surgery. I had the benefit of really early exposure to this surgery in my training and so 2009. And so then, through the course of my ongoing surgical training of breast surgery training as an interest, I further pursued in my fellowship, my sort of breast surgery and plastic fellowship, I spent time then working with surgeons in different units to develop these skills. And it's been a research interest of mine, particularly the impact of chest,

This episode of the GenderGP podcast features a Live Q&A with Dr Helen Webberley and Lead therapist Marianne Oakes. Together the pair discuss what the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust ruling means for trans youth, how this will impact GenderGP service users, what is being done to help the community and how you can support young trans people.

This is also available as a video.

If you have been affected by any of the topics discussed in our podcast, and would like to get in touch, please contact us via the Help Centre. You can also contact us on social media where you will find us at @GenderGP on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

We are always happy to accept ideas for future shows, so if there is something in particular you would like us to discuss, or a specific guest you would love to hear from, let us know. Your feedback is really important to us. If you could take a minute or two to leave us a review and rating for the podcast on your favourite podcast app, it will help others to discover us.

If you have been impacted by this episode of our podcast and you would like to speak to a member of the team, please get in touch via our Help Centre.

 

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The Tavistock Ruling

 

Hello, this is Dr Helen Webberley. Welcome to our GenderGP Podcast, where we will be discussing some of the issues affecting the trans and non-binary community in the world today, together with my co-host Marianne Oakes, a trans woman herself, and our head of therapy.

 

Dr Helen Webberley:

Hello to anybody or everybody that can see us and hear us. My name is Dr Helen Webberley. I am the founder of gender GP. I am a medical doctor although I'm not here in a medical capacity. And I am a passionate advocate for the improvement of the rights for transgender people's access to health care. I'm here with Marianne Oakes who is the head of therapy at GenderGP. Anyone who listens to our podcast will know that Marianne and I often talk about issues related to the transgender community. We're here today with slightly heavy hearts because of the ruling made by the judge in the case that was brought against the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust provides a whole host of services of medical services. And one small part of that is the gender identity service that we know serves young people in the UK, which is good. So the case brought against the, we'll call it the Tavistock. So by the Tavistock, we mean the NHS service for young people within gender dysphoria. So a case was brought against the Tavistock by two people. One was an ex-patient of the Tavistock somebody who had presented as transmasculine and had gone through medical treatment and surgical treatment in the form of top surgery but now wishes to re-identify as female. And the other, the other claimant in the case was Mrs A who is a parent of a transgender youngster. And the youngster, as well as exhibiting symptoms and signs of gender identity disorder, also has been given a diagnosis of being on the autistic spectrum disorder. And Mrs A was worried that her child would be referred to GIDS and may have treatment. So those were the two claimants in the case. The court was asked to review the practice by GIDS of prescribing puberty blockers to patients under the age of 18. So the courts were very clear that this was not about discussing the medical merits of puberty blockers, whether they work, whether they are effective, whether they should or shouldn't be used in this condition, because the court recognized that is an arena where a medical discussion would be needed rather than a legal discussion. So the courts were, therefore, felt that they were being asked to determine whether informed consent in the legal sense can be given by such...