The guests
Danish psychiatrists, Icelandic campaigners, observers of the Dutch and Nordic systems, and the clinicians, writers and detransitioners from further afield. Every guest page lists that person's episodes.
Ellie
Mother and parental rights witness
Ellie is a Ukrainian-born mother in California whose teenage daughter Maya was removed by child protective services and placed in foster care, where staff facilitated a gender transition against both parents' wishes. Her still-unresolved case is a stark warning for European policymakers asking what happens when child welfare institutions adopt gender-affirmation ideology as fixed institutional policy.
Eoin Lenihan
Researcher, author and institutional analyst
When the Catholic Church collapsed in Ireland, something moved in to fill the space — and Eoin Lenihan has mapped exactly what that something is. His book Vandalising Ireland traces the NGO networks, foreign funding and captured media that rewrote Irish public life. For European listeners, the topology is familiar: the same architecture is visibly at work across Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany and the EU's own institutions.
Jasmin Faulk
Writer and cross-cultural commentator
Raised in Saudi Arabia, where biological sex was a legal fact enforced by the state, Jasmin Faulk brings a rare comparative lens to European debates. Her argument — that ideology, whether theocratic or secular-progressive, consistently uses the female body as a site of control — cuts across the left–right lines that tend to polarise these discussions on the continent.
Jon Mills
Philosopher, psychoanalyst and author
Canadian philosopher and psychoanalyst Jon Mills was blacklisted from a professional organisation — not for clinical wrongdoing, but for an unfashionable opinion. His case is a direct warning for European clinicians: ideological enforcement has arrived inside the institutions meant to protect analytical independence and patient care.
Katy Faust
Children's rights advocate and author
Katy Faust brings a framework largely absent from European policy debate: that reforms to marriage and parenthood law impose real costs on children, not only on adults. With the European Court of Human Rights pressing member states to recognise foreign surrogacy arrangements and EU institutions advancing cross-border parenthood proposals, her children-first analysis lands squarely in European legislative territory.
Niamh Regan
Academic and parental rights campaigner
Dr. Niamh Regan is an Irish academic who came to wider attention through her close examination of Ireland's Bí Cineálta 'Be Kind' framework — revealing how schools across Europe are quietly sidelining constitutional parental rights under the cover of anti-bullying policy.
Peter James Steven
Developer, detransitioner, and founder of detrans.ai
Peter James Steven built detrans.ai after noticing that mainstream AI systems consistently failed — or refused — to reflect detransitioners' own accounts of their lives. For European listeners navigating the EU's AI Act, the rapid closure of gender clinics in Sweden and Finland, and the Netherlands' ongoing policy recalibration, his work asks the question regulators are only beginning to face: who programmes the story these tools tell?
Wesley Yang
Journalist, essayist and cultural critic
Wesley Yang is the writer who gave the Anglophone world the phrase 'Successor Ideology' — a diagnostic tool now widely used to describe the progressive worldview reshaping law, medicine and public life. His Beyond Gender conversation asks whether European institutions, from EU equality bodies to national gender self-ID laws, are further along this trajectory than they recognise.