The hosts

Three hosts, and between them a network of clinicians across the continent, a reading knowledge of the Nordic and Dutch documents, and a psychologist's ear for the European traditions that the affirmative model set aside.

Stella O'Malley in Europe

Host of Beyond Gender, psychotherapist, founder of Genspect

Stella O'Malley runs a global organisation from a small Irish town, and much of its work is on the continent: conferences, clinician networks and conversations with the European doctors who changed their minds.

Mia Hughes

Co-host and researcher

Mia Hughes reads the European guidelines in the original and the Dutch studies in full. On the European episodes she is the co-host who can say exactly what Sweden's Karolinska decided and when.

Dr Bret Alderman

Co-host and psychologist

Bret Alderman is the co-host who asks European guests about the culture of their professions: why Scandinavian psychiatry could change its mind and why others found it so hard.