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Transitions is a new mini-series from the GenderGP podcast. GenderGP team member, Cleo Madeleine, will be joined by members of the community to talk about the journeys they have been on, the transitions they have been through and the moments that changed everything. If you'd like to know more about our services you can contact us, or read more on our website. If you've got a story of your own you'd like to share, why not reach out on social media where you can find us at @GenderGP on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.   Ask A Question   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.   The GenderGP Podcast Transitions: Amy

During Dr Helen Webberley's hearing we're bringing you Transitions, a new mini-series from the GenderGP podcast. GenderGP team member, Cleo Madeleine, will be joined by members of the community to talk about the journeys they have been on, the transitions they have been through and the moments that changed everything. Chloe's Twitter is @drcrog. More information about their work and resource can be found on the 16point6 website. If you've got a story of your own you'd like to share, why not reach out on social media where you can find us at @GenderGP on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.   Ask A Question   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. Photo by George Becker from Pexels   The GenderGP Podcast Transitions: Chloe

During Dr Helen Webberley's hearing we're bringing you Transitions, a new mini-series from the GenderGP podcast. GenderGP team member, Cleo Madeleine, will be joined by members of the community to talk about the journeys they have been on, the transitions they have been through and the moments that changed everything. Jamie's store is Unisex Unity. We have loads of links for healthcare professionals in our Medical Hub, and if you'd like to find out more about the GenderGP Fund you can visit our website. If you've got a story of your own you'd like to share, why not reach out on social media where you can find us at @GenderGP on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.   Ask A Question   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.   The GenderGP Podcast Transitions: Jamie  

During Dr Helen Webberley's hearing we're bringing you Transitions, a new mini-series from the GenderGP podcast. GenderGP team member, Cleo Madeleine, will be joined by members of the community to talk about the journeys they have been on, the transitions they have been through and the moments that changed everything. If you'd like to know more about our services you can contact us, or read more on our website. If you've got a story of your own you'd like to share, why not reach out on social media where you can 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.   The GenderGP Podcast Transitions: Ezra  

During Dr Helen Webberley's hearing we're bringing you Transitions, a new mini-series from the GenderGP podcast. GenderGP team member, Cleo Madeleine, will be joined by members of the community to talk about the journeys they have been on, the transitions they have been through and the moments that changed everything. We have loads of links for healthcare professionals in our Medical Hub. If you'd like to know more about our services you can contact us, or read more on our website. If you've got a story of your own you'd like to share, why not reach out on social media where you can 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.   The GenderGP Podcast Transitions: Oliver  

During Dr Helen Webberley's hearing we're bringing you Transitions, a new mini-series from the GenderGP podcast. GenderGP team member, Cleo Madeleine, will be joined by members of the community to talk about the journeys they have been on, the transitions they have been through and the moments that changed everything. In this episode, Marianne rejoins the show to interview Cleo. If you'd like to know more about our services you can contact us, or read more on our website. If you've got a story of your own you'd like to share, why not reach out on social media where you can 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.   The GenderGP Podcast Transitions: Cleo  

During Dr Helen Webberley's hearing we're bringing you Transitions, a new mini-series from the GenderGP podcast. GenderGP team member, Cleo Madeleine, will be joined by members of the community to talk about the journeys they have been on, the transitions they have been through and the moments that changed everything. If you'd like to know more about our services you can contact us, or read more on our website. If you've got a story of your own you'd like to share, why not reach out on social media where you can 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.   The GenderGP Podcast Transitions: Rhy  

During Dr Helen Webberley's hearing we're bringing you Transitions, a new mini-series from the GenderGP podcast. GenderGP team member, Cleo Madeleine, will be joined by members of the community to talk about the journeys they have been on, the transitions they have been through and the moments that changed everything. If you'd like to know more about our services you can contact us, or read more on our website. If you've got a story of your own you'd like to share, why not reach out on social media where you can 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.   The GenderGP Podcast Transitions: Clark  

CW: This episode contains a sustained description of self harm from 2:19-2:33   During Dr Helen Webberley's hearing we're bringing you Transitions, a new mini-series from the GenderGP podcast. GenderGP team member, Cleo Madeleine, will be joined by members of the community to talk about the journeys they have been on, the transitions they have been through and the moments that changed everything. If you'd like to know more about our services you can contact us, or read more on our website. If you've got a story of your own you'd like to share, why not reach out on social media where you can find us @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.   The GenderGP Podcast Transitions: Marianne  

On this special episode of the GenderGP podcast, Helen and Marianne sit down and talk about the upcoming Medical Practitioners' Tribunal Service hearing. Helen shares her hopes and fears for what's to come, talks about her support from the community, and tells her story - in her own words. 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.   The GenderGP Podcast Implications of the MPTS Hearing  

On this episode of the GenderGP podcast Marianne is joined by Cleo Madeleine, our podcast producer, and special guest Dr Alison Berner. Dr Berner is a research fellow in oncology and specialist in gender identity whose research addresses barriers to accessing cervical screening for transmasculine people. Together they discuss the challenges facing trans and non-binary people in healthcare, and how we can change things for the better.  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 You can find your nearest NHS Patient and Liaison Service (PALS) office here. NHS Population Screening: information for transgender people | Public Health England I'm trans or non-binary, does this affect my cancer screening? | Cancer Research UK Making Medicine More Inclusive  

In this episode of the GenderGP podcast Helen and Marianne are joined by stef shuster (they/them), an assistant professor of sociology at Michigan State University. They discuss stef's research on how healthcare providers respond to their trans patients - in both good ways and bad - and imagine what excellence in trans healthcare might look like. 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: Doctors treating trans youth grapple with uncertainty, lack of training | The Conversation Why We Need To End Gatekeeping | The GenderGP Podcast stef shuster is on Twitter @stefshuster. Their book, Trans Medicine, is available from NYU Press.   The GenderGP Podcast Excellence in Trans Healthcare  

In a special episode of the GenderGP podcast, Marianne is joined by our own Chief Operating Officer, Katie Tiplady-Startin, to talk about which services we offer, who can use them, and how we work to make gender-affirming healthcare accessible to everyone who needs 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 review and rating for the podcast on your favourite podcast app, it will help others to discover us.   Links: Gillick competency and body autonomy for transgender youth | GenderGP Bell and Mrs A v The Tavistock | GenderGP How GenderGP Operates | GenderGP   The GenderGP Podcast GenderGP Q&A: How To Use The Service   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 co-host Marianne Oaks, a trans woman, herself, and our head of therapy.   Marianne Oakes: Good afternoon everybody, and welcome to the GenderGP podcast. Today, we're going to try and answer some questions that we frequently get asked by our patient groups and by new people coming to the service, and to help me do that, I've got the wonderful Katie. Instead of me trying to introduce her because she is a multi-talented person, I'm going to ask Katie to introduce herself. So welcome Katie, and would you like to just tell the listener a little bit about yourself? Katie Tiplady-Startin: Thank you, Marianne. I'm not entirely sure I'm going to live up to that introduction, but I'll do my best. So I'm Katie. I started working with Helen Webberley way back in the day. I was the first person that she brought into GenderGP. Some of you will have seen my name on messages and information on the website over the years. But now my role is Chief Operating Officer at GenderGP, and that actually encompasses all of the patient services. So the wellbeing teams, the medical teams, the, the pathway teams that most people would have had some interaction with if you're, if you're with the service. And my day-to-day role is basically to keep everything ticking along, making sure that it's still working well, and if we need to change anything that, you know, we do that quickly and well, so hopefully I can answer some of these frequently asked questions, but I think the key to say is that GenderGP is moving with what's needed. So some of the answers that you might hear from this episode might be different if you'd have looked at the website two, three years ago. Marianne Oakes: I just wanted to add as well, Katie, uh so the listener understands, when me and Helen get things wrong, Katie's the one that, the one that slaps our legs and keeps us all in check. In fact, if anybody gets anything wrong on the team, there is a lot to remember working at GenderGP and, and there's only one person who we can rely on to make sure we're all going in the same direction and that's Katie. So, Katie Tiplady-Startin: Oh, do I need to send you something Marianne? Send you a present for all of that lovely, all of those lovely things. Marianne Oakes: The first question that, I think everybody asks this, I think anybody coming to the website probably got this undermined as well, who can actually access the services of GenderGP? Well, what would your view be on that? Katie Tiplady-Startin: Anybody.

On this episode of the GenderGP Podcast, Marianne and Helen are joined by Jodie and Krystle from Endometriosis South Coast. They talk about why endometriosis shouldn't be treated as just ‘a women's disease', and how we can improve access to healthcare for trans people. 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: You can find out more about Endometriosis South Coast on their website. Freddy McConnell also joined us on the podcast to talk about accessing healthcare as a trans man.   The GenderGP Podcast Endometriosis doesn't just affect women  

CW: self-harm. This episode contains a single description of self-harm scars from 42.05-42.25. On this episode of the GenderGP podcast, Marianne and Helen are joined by the mum of a trans child. She shares her story of the challenges they've faced, the journey they've been on together, and the brave child at the heart of 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 review and rating for the podcast on your favourite podcast app, it will help others to discover us.   Links: Giving trans youth a voice with Dr Anna Carlile | The GenderGP Podcast The NHS MUST listen to trans youth impacted by failures | GenderGP The GenderGP Podcast Fighting For Care For My Trans Child  

On this episode of the GenderGP podcast Helen and Marianne are joined by author and sociologist Tey Meadow (she/her). They talk about Tey’s research into trans kids, discuss the challenges facing the families and professionals who support them, and share suggestions for making life easier for young trans people. 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: Anti-trans legislation has never been about protecting children | Washington Post   Tey is on Twitter @dr_tey, and her website is teymeadow.com.  Her book, Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century is available via University of California Press.   The GenderGP Podcast Making Life Easier For Trans Kids  

In this episode of the GenderGP Podcast Marianne and Helen are joined by Heather Corinna (they/them), a non-binary writer, sex educator, and activist. Heather shares their wisdom from over 25 years of working to improve education around gender and sexuality for young people, and together they all discuss how understanding what connects us is more important than what sets us apart. 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: Scarleteen | Sex Education for the Real World is Heather’s website, offering “inclusive, comprehensive, supportive sexuality and relationships info for teens and emerging adults”.   You can follow Heather on Twitter @heathercorinna. They are also the author of several books, including S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-To-Know Sexuality Guide to Get You Through Your Teens and Twenties (now in a second edition), Wait, What? A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies, and Growing Up, and the forthcoming What Fresh Hell Is This? Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You, available from most booksellers.   The GenderGP Podcast Inclusive Sex Education  

[CW: This episode contains a single mention of sexual violence from 30.00-30.30]   Marianne and Helen are joined by Van Levy (they/them), a nonbinary advocate, educator, and mental health therapist from San Diego. Van talks to us about how to deal with both external and internal transphobia, and how by improving the way we talk about trans people we can build a better world for everyone. 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: Van’s book EXPLORING MY IDENTITY(IES) is a guide to addressing your internalised transphobia, and is available via Amazon.   The GenderGP Podcast Why We Need To End Gatekeeping  

In this episode of the GenderGP podcast Marianne and Dr Helen sit down together ahead of this year’s International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia (IDAHoBiT) on May 17th. Marianne shares how transphobia has affected her and her family, and Dr Helen discusses how we can address our own internalised transphobia and start working towards a more accepting society. 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: Let’s make this IDAHoBiT a time of revival and restoration | The GenderGP Blog The Dad Who Gave Birth – Freddy McConnell | The GenderGP Podcast   You can find more information about IDAHoBiT and events on the day on the official UK page. GenderGP will be running a live event about LGBT+ self-care with Marianne and friends from 1pm to 2pm BST on our YouTube channel. You can submit your own advice, insights, and questions for the GenderGP stream here. We’re so excited to have the community come together for what promises to be a joyous, affirming event.   The GenderGP Podcast The Impact of Transphobia  

In this episode of the GenderGP podcast Fionn Collins (he/him), a trans man working for the student union at Technological University Dublin, talks to Marianne about having a second top surgery, following unsatisfactory results from the first. He shares his advice and feedback for anyone considering top surgery for themselves, and candidly discusses what he wished he’d known beforehand. 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: GenderGP Podcast - Top surgery for trans guys GenderGP Podcast - Top Surgery: what to ask, with Ioannis Ntanos Gay Ireland News - Irish trans activist opens up about life-changing journey abroad for top surgery Follow Fionn on Twitter: @urnofionn   The GenderGP Podcast Top Surgery: Getting it right  

Surgeon, Ioannis Ntanos, returns for a second episode of the GenderGP podcast in which he tackles some of the key questions guys should be asking when considering top surgery. This episode of the podcast seeks to educate and empower the individual so that they can get the most out of their experience. 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: GenderGP Blog Post - Top Surgery for Trans Guys   The GenderGP Podcast Top Surgery: what to ask, with Ioannis Ntanos   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: I'm delighted to be back again with Marianne and myself and back with Dr. Ioannis. He is, we have had Dr. Ioannis as our guest before. He's a surgeon who specializes in chest and top surgery for transmasculine people. So really delighted to have you back again, Ioannis. And I want to learn so much more than I learned last time, even though last time you filled my boots with learning. So lovely to have you on. And I hope that your spring weather is the same as ours is here. Dr Ioannis Ntanos: Thank you very much for inviting me back. And it was a blast the last time, and it is a pleasure again, it's very nice to be here with both of you. Thank you. Marianne Oakes: You're welcome. Dr Helen Webberley: So, Ioannis, we've got lots of questions to ask you. We want to know it all, because I tell you a secret, I've never had top surgery. I don't think Marianne's ever had top surgery. And so we speak from a position of ignorance sometimes. You, I don't know whether you've had top surgery or not. I'm not going to ask you, but I think you might've done that surgery in your time. And I'd be really grateful if you could just give us some nuggets. What do people ask you? What do people want to know? What should we be telling people? Because it's really hard in this area of healthcare. The education is very little for doctors, the education is very little for those who support people, and the education is very little for patients. So I'd love to use this opportunity to really, I don't know, share the myths, share the truths, debunk the lies and teach people what they want to know. So over to you, Ioannis. Tell me, tell me everything, you know, Dr Ioannis Ntanos: I'll try my best, Helen. Thank you very much. So, so let's start with the basics. I don't know if we covered that last time. Top surgery is a stop, is a part of someone's transition, but it's not necessarily a part for everyone. So top surgery includes chest surgery, in forms of mastectomies and chest wall for reconstruction from transmasculine individuals, or a BA, a breast augmentation for transfeminine. But it's not, it's not there for everyone. Okay. But it is a choice for, for some or some of those individuals. And you're right. I haven't had top surgery myself, but I have done a few. Okay. So, so I'm conducting these consultations regularly every week and some of them appear to be more meaningful than others. And this is, it comes, essentially comes down to how prepared someone is to come and have the discussion with ...

Streamer and essayist, @TheymerSophie returns for a second episode of the GenderGP Podcast in which they talk to Dr Helen and Marianne about what it really means to be non-binary. Together they discuss the idea that there is so much more to gender than just man and woman. They also explore how we, as a society can adapt to make it easier as more people come out, through our use of language and our understanding. If you have any questions related to what it means to be non-binary get in touch and we will invite TheymerSophie back on to answer them. Just drop us an email via our Help Centre. 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 TheymerSophie on Twitter Support TheymerSophie on Patreon TheymerSophie’s YouTube coming out video Owen Jones meets Judith Butler - video Whipping girl by Julia Serano   The GenderGP Podcast Exploring the binary with @Theymer Sophie   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: Marianne and I are with Sophie here today. Sophie is the nonbinary games player. If I can introduce them as that. And when we were doing, Sophie, when we were doing that weekend of the fundraiser, I blundered several times in my pronouns, in my name. And then there was a member of the GenderGP team who joined, I blended with their pronouns and I'm just like, how can I do this publicly live on stream that's trying to help trans youth? And so I said, Sophie, please come and kind of teach me more about what it means to be nonbinary. And Marianne you're with me as well as always. And, you know, I've heard you say in the past and indeed to Sophie that you, you feel that your gender is more binary. Even though it's the opposite end of the one that everyone thought when you were born. So really, I'm really interested to learn today. And if you don't mind Sophie, just chuck some challenging questions towards you that we get asked all the time, but I don't know the answers to, because I don't, I don't understand it fully enough. So if that's okay, if that's okay, TheymerSophie: If it's okay, I'd just like to jump in and say that what you're referring to on the stream. I just want to open out with something that I think is really important. And it's something that Marianne said in our last discussion, which was that people are very offended by being told they've done something. And in many cases that's a lot more offended than anyone is by the thing that was done. The thing that you're describing there, you know, you used the wrong pronouns for a member of staff on the stream, and they said, oh, it's this one. And you said, oh, sorry. And we just carried on. And that's really the normal situation. I just want to, the strongest possible thing I can say, like to open out is that for anyone who's listening, who maybe you don't know trans people in your real life, like maybe you, maybe you just know one or a couple, you know it's, it's not a big deal. It's not, it's not a big deal. People, people just don't want to be, you know, aggressively harassed. People that want to, you know--we, we know the difference, right? We all,

  Musician, Steph May, joins Dr Helen and Marianne, to discuss her new single:, “One Life”, which has been released today (March 26th) ahead of Trans Day of Visibility 2021 (March 31st). Together they discuss what visibility means to them and the importance of trans role models. Steph is calling on the trans community and its allies to support her in getting into the UK singles chart, in time for this year’s Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31st. Let’s do what we can to give her the boost she needs. The target is 8,000 downloads or 800,000 premium user streams from the track’s release date today (26th March).   Spotify Amazon YouTube Deezer It can also be streamed from Apple Music and downloaded from iTunes, just search: “Steph May – One Life” 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.   The GenderGP Podcast Music and Trans Visibility with Steph May  

Academic and Head of the Education Department at Goldsmiths University, Dr Anna Carlile, joins Dr Helen and Marianne, to discuss her research paper, “It’s like my kid came back overnight”, which focuses on the experiences of trans youth and their families accessing clinical care in the UK. Together they discuss inclusive education for trans youth, the issues faced when young trans people try to access care and how the approach needs to change. 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: “It’s like my kid came back overnight” - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/26895269.2020.1870188 Follow Anna on Twitter - @anna_carlile Find out more about Anna The adverse childhood experience study: https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/index.html   The GenderGP Podcast Giving trans youth a voice with Dr. Anna Carlile  

  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   The GenderGP Podcast 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, and I'm also there on camera chatting and, and, you know, gaming. And people can send in donations if I'm fundraising for something. I said in my announcement that I would keep going until we hit 10,000 pounds,

  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 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. 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   The GenderGP Podcast Exploring Detransition with Dr Jack Turban  

  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   The GenderGP Podcast 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. I work as a pathway advisor for GenderGP, and I also have my own comedy pop culture podcast for trans and queer people called Pronouns in Bio. So check us out if you like podcasts. Dr Helen Webberley: Tell us what it's all about, the Mario Kart for Hope. Ed: Okay. So recently, well, I was inspired to do this because of earlier in the year or late last year,

  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.   The GenderGP Podcast 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, because coming from the football world, it was never talked about in nice friendly terms to be gay. It was completely the opposite. So I wasn't sure what I was supposed to say to him. So I was looking for advice, really. And then from that, it just sort of moved into the transgender.

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 This is Me https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsMeIreland/

  Dr Helen and Marianne are joined by speech-language pathologist Jordan Ross Jakomin. Jordan talks about his passion for helping trans people and the importance of developing a voice that is authentic to the individual rather than trying to recreate a voice that merely conforms to gender stereotypes. 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. Jordan will be running two workshops with GenderGP in January, on the 27th for voice feminization and one on the 28 for voice masculinization. To book your place visit https://www.gendergp.com/gendergp-network/jordan-jakomin/   Links: Jordan’s website: https://jordanrosscommunication.com Voice and Communication Therapy for the Transgender client by Richard Adler: Amazon Liz Jackson Hearns, voice therapy   Blog posts: Voice Therapy for Trans People The role of non-verbal communication in how we are perceived   The GenderGP Podcast Voice therapy for trans people    

  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 or Amy here   The GenderGP Podcast Practising self-care when times get tough  

  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.   Notes:   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   The GenderGP Podcast Marlo Mack: Accepting Your Trans Kid    

  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. 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.

  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.  

  Psychologist Dr Lori Beth Bisbey and psychotherapist DK Green join Dr Helen and Marianne to talk about the quest for sizzling sex when you are gender diverse and some of the barriers that can get in the way. 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.   Notes:   Follow DK Green and Dr Lori Beth Bisbey on Twitter: @DKLeather, @DrBisbey DK Green Website: http://dkgreen.co.uk Dr Lori Beth Bisbey Website: https://drloribethbisbey.com   The GenderGP Podcast Sizzling Trans Sex - Dr Lori Beth Bisbey & DK Green  

  New Zealand author, Caitlin Spice, joins Dr Helen and Marianne to discuss her latest book, Raven Wild, which features a transgender protagonist. Caitlin talks about how her writing helped her to escape her feelings of gender dysphoria and express herself long before she came out as trans. 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 Raven Wild Promised Land Tales eBook: Available on Amazon The No Sleep Podcast: https://www.thenosleeppodcast.com: WARNING: This is a horror fiction podcast. It is intended for mature adults, not the faint of heart. Follow Caitlin on Twitter: @catespice Reddit No Sleep: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/

  Jason Masters is a Christian and an LGBT advocate. In this episode of the GenderGP podcast, he talks candidly to Dr Helen and Marianne about how his own experiences as a gay Christian led to his becoming a fierce trans ally. 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: Medium https://aussiealtchristian.com.au/2020/06/14/jk-rowling-and-the-transgender-community/ Follow Jason on Twitter: @jpmasters   The GenderGP Podcast How Christianity can embrace diversity - Jason Masters  

  In this episode of the GenderGP podcast we hear from olympian, Kirsti Miller, who joins Dr Helen and Marianne to discuss the role of trans women in sport. Together they discuss the role of hormones in sport, how the rules are no longer fit for purpose and how sport can - and must - change to become all inclusive. 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. Photo credit: Darrin Manuel   The GenderGP Podcast Being a visible transgender woman in sports - Kirsti Miller  

  In this episode of the GenderGP podcast, recorded for our Trans Sex Education Special, Marianne and Dr Helen answer some questions from the community. Topics tackled include: anal sex, genital hypersensitivity, asexuality and more. 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: Trans Love Stories Queer Sex with Juno Roche Find out more about sex and intimacy as a transgender person, in our set of special articles on trans sex here.   The GenderGP Podcast Lets talk about (Trans) sex   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 everybody. Helen and Marianne, just the two of us today. A short and sweet podcast just talking about sex, which is everybody's favourite conversation at some stage. We're following on from the topic of sexual health and sexual pleasure that we've been doing. And talking about the idea that everybody has the right to have a fulfilling and happy sex life. So, we've been running a series of articles, and we also asked the community to come up with any questions and worries that they might have about the issue. And so, Marianne and I thought we would come and join together today and see whether we can flush out some of the answers to those questions. So, thanks for joining me, Marianne. I know it's early in the morning for both of us, so we've got some questions here. Should we just kind of run through them? This one was: so I started o my testosterone blockers and my sex drive has reduced. And I'd like to know if there's anything I can do to improve this important aspect of my transition. I feel ashamed to ask my GP or gender clinic because of the attitude towards sex and transgender women in society. This is something that we hear and see a lot. I certainly see it in the medical world and Marianne, and I guess you must see some of it in, in the therapy room. And there is that thing, isn't there, where women and men that have different hormone profiles and that certainly has an impact on sex drive and libido? And one of the things that people have to be aware of is that testosterone is a big sex drive hormone. And, you know, you see that during puberty when, when boys are going through puberty, and their testosterone levels are raging. And so is their need to procreate and further the generations. And we see the same don't we when women and men go through the menopause and that hormones drop-off? So cisgender men going through their late menopause when their testosterone levels fall off, we do see that their sexual function and their sex drive also reduces. So it's not unsurprising, is it? That when you, when a trans woman changes her hormones from testosterone to estrogen, she's going to face that same difficulty with a drop in libido and drive, which is sad, but it's part of being a woman. If you are transitioning from a male hormone profile to a female hormone profile and the medicine that you take completely blanks out all of your testosterone, it may well cause you problems in that area. And there's no harm in just taking a tiny weeny, little bit of testosterone hormone to help with that. So that's the kind of medical side,

  Holly Lorka is an ICU nurse specialising in the post operative care of transgender patients following gender confirmation surgery. She is also a writer, storyteller and standup comedian. In this episode she talks to Dr Helen and Marianne about her work in Austin, Texas and how she still can’t quite believe how everything has come together, despite all of the challenges she faced growing up gender queer.  Links:   Huffington Post: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/icu-nurse-gender-confirmation-surgery_n_5f33cae2c5b6960c066ecc88  Twitter: @hollylorka  Website: https://hollylorka.com  Pre order Handsome, Stories of an Awkward Girl, Boy, Human

  In the second episode of our Young Voices podcast special, Leo shares his experiences of coming out age 11, how his family responded to the news and his experience of accessing care via the Tavistock. As he approaches his 17th birthday, Leo chats to Dr Helen and Marianne about the challenges he has faced and his excitement about the next phase of his 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.   The GenderGP Podcast Young Voices: Being a 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: Hey, hi everybody. I've got another exciting young guest with us today. I'm with Marianne as usual, and I'm also with a young man called Leo who's very kindly agreed to come on and talk to us and tell us all about himself and life, the universe, and everything else. But pre-warning, we're not going to talk about geography because Leo and I have both admitted that that is not our strong point. So anyway, Leo, lovely, lovely, lovely to meet you and lovely to have you here today. I'm just going to do a really awful grown-up thing and say, Leo, tell us all about yourself, tell us anything you want us to know. And just go for it. Leo: So, my name is Leo. I'm 16, I live in Bedford, I came out as trans when I was about 11. So I've been living as myself for quite a while now, about five years, which is exciting. And I'm coming up to a year on testosterone, which is very cool. Those are the basics. Dr Helen Webberley: Your life, your life milestones, aren't they? Leo: Yeah. Pretty much. Marianne Oakes: I'm loving the pondering because it just, to me, it's like you ask any 16-year-old, say about, tell you about themselves and nothing seems remarkable, does it? Leo: It's quite hard. I was just trying to think of what is most important to me right now. And those are the things, really. Marianne Oakes: What, if you don't mind, tell us a little bit about what kinds of things you like, what hobbies, if any? Leo: Well, I'm really into fitness, so I work out. Now it’s less so, now the gyms are closed, but again, a normal scene. So yeah, I work out quite a lot of biking, so my friends like to bike on a regular basis. Quite a lot of music, the acting, I like dancing, I like all the things, I should have mentioned that. Dr Helen Webberley: So, you say you came out at 11. What are you able to remember that? Tell us what that was like for you. What does that mean for you and your family and those around you? What, what happened? Leo: Yeah, I remember very well. At that time, it was near my 12th birthday, but it was a few months off. And I, I remember ever since I was young, I was what people would call a tomboy, I suppose. So as soon as I could, as soon as my parents started letting me pick my clothes, that'd be boys, things made for boys. Uh yeah, I was just tomboy. It was sort of an inside joke, my family. And as the older I got, and actually around the time I started puberty,...

  13 year old Arthur, and his mum, Anna, join Dr Helen and Marianne for this first episode in our Young Voices podcast special. The pair share the two sides of this transition story, from Arthur coming out at age seven, through the day-to-day trials and tribulations of any normal teenager, to his aspirations of one day becoming an Olympian. Together, Arthur and his mum demonstrate that his being trans is the least interesting part about him. 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: Mermaids http://mermaidsuk.org.uk/   The GenderGP Podcast Young Voices. Raising a trans teen   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: This is the first of our series on young people and bringing to life some of our younger trans members of the trans community who’ve been gracious and generous enough to give us their time to tell you what it means to them to be trans and how it's affected their life in good ways or maybe some bad ways, maybe how it’s affected their families. So really, really, really excited to welcome Arthur and his mum today. So, Arthur, thank you so much for joining us. I'm going to throw you right into the deep and say tell us all about you and your mum. Hi, mum. Arthur: Well, I do karate. (unclear 1:11). Anna: How old were you when you remembered being trans? And you said, I’ve always been. And that's about right. It was so long ago, cause how old were you when you identified? It was about seven. Arthur: Seven, six. Anna: Six or seven years old when Arthur drew a picture and tried, and he didn't have the word like. Obviously, he didn't have the words. And I didn’t know the terminology either or anything. And he drew pictures. So he was about seven. So we've been in services since then. Since we came with yourselves, the stress of this beast, it's been gone, hasn't it? So you've forgotten about being trans, you’re just Arthur, aren’t you? Arthur: Yeah. That makes sense. Marianne Oakes: Can I just—what was your journey to finding GenderGP, if that’s not too big a question. It sounds like it was with the NHS before, would that be correct? Anna: Yes, Mermaids. Arthur: I got my hormone blocker through the NHS. Anna: It was a bit of a battle to get it, though. Arthur: I wanted testosterone. I needed it, I believe. But I couldn't, because of how old do you have to be for the NHS? Older. Anna: Fifteen, sixteen. Arthur: Fifteen, yes. He was panic-stricken, weren’t you? And we saw the firm, but no, we found out about GenderGP when we met Helen actually at one of the Mermaids residentials. And Mermaids are fantastic in the early days. We haven’t been for a few years, but we just said I think we're ready to check back in with them because I think he’s ready to find out more information about all the stuff that is coming up in the next few years and questions for other teenagers. So,

  Sofie Lasiuk chats with Dr Helen and Marianne about her transition in Canada and her positive experiences with the Canadian healthcare system, a system in which GPs manage and support the healthcare of their trans patients, with incredible results. 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:   Trans healthcare in Canada: https://www.gendergp.com/trans-healthcare-in-canada/   The GenderGP Podcast GP-led trans healthcare in Canada   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 everybody. I’m here with Marianne as usual, and we have a very exciting guest with us today who’s from quite a long way away. I’m with Sophie Lasiuk, and she’s in Toronto. I’m not going to tell you anything more about her. I’m just going to pass you over as I like to do. Sophie, introduce yourself, tell us why you’re here and give the listeners and a little taste of what we’re going to talk about. Sophie Lasiuk: Of course. Well, first of all, I’d like to thank you for inviting me to your podcast today. So, I’m a fifty-two-year-old woman, as you said. We live in Toronto, Ontario. And I’ve been following your posts at doctor for several years now and reading up on some of the problems that people tend to have when transitioning in the UK. And it occurred to me as I went through my own transition over the last three or four years that the systems in place in our two countries are markedly different, and I wondered why that was, and I can’t figure that out. The system in place in Canada has been so welcoming and so user-friendly, for lack of a better word. And I just wanted to reach out to you and express how the differences have been helpful to me, and perhaps start a conversation on your side of the Atlantic about how things can be improved over there. Dr Helen Webberley: Well, I think that would be amazing. And I want to say thank you to you for reaching out to us in the first place and for making that first contact. You sent me some brief messages, which I always love receiving. And then you wrote a blog for our website just explaining how it was for you. So, if anyone hasn’t read that yet, then there's maybe some spoiler alerts in there. And I was astounded. I was like goodness gracious me, this is what we’ve been campaigning for the last kind of five years, and you’re there already. So just outline how—you said that you are in your fifties. How did it go from the first time when you actually wanted to go and ask a doctor about this. Sophie Lasiuk: So, my truth is that I have identified as female since my earliest memories. I’m in my fifties now. Still three or four years of age, I had this innate understanding of my gender, and I’ve carried that with me all my life. And society certainly has had some catching up to do and over the last ten years or so, certainly including my wife and discussions, we decided it was the right time for me to move forward with my gender transition. So I did approach my doctor in 2016, I believe it was, early 2017 to get assistance, medical assistance to move forward.

  In this episode of the GenderGP podcast, journalist - and latest GenderGP team member - Taryn De Vere talks about her experiences of her daughter coming out as trans and how it ignited her passion for activism and her support for the trans community. Together she and our GenderGP co-hosts discuss the importance of education and supporting your trans child. 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: @taryndevere Independent article: https://www.independent.ie/life/health-wellbeing/im-a-proud-mum-to-a-transgender-child-39061549.html Pride post: https://www.gendergp.com/how-to-celebrate-trans-pride-in-lockdown/ Taryn De Vere Jewellery: https://taryndevere.com   The GenderGP Podcast What we can learn from trans kids - Taryn DeVere: The GenderGP Podcast S5 E8   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 another amazing guest today. We have Taryn De Vere with us. And Taryn has two places in my heart. She has recently joined GenderGP as our social media manager, and we needed to take on somebody bright and colourful to help with the queries and questions that were coming into social media, and also someone to kind of spread our word and spread the words of the community on behalf of GenderGP. So, welcome to the team, Taryn, and welcome to our podcast today. I shall, as I usually do, let you introduce yourself and tell everybody exactly who you are, why you might possibly be here, and all about you. Over to you. Taryn De Vere: Thanks. So yeah. I'm Taryn De Vere. I live in Ireland, but I'm originally from Australia. And I have a child who identifies as trans, a young child who came out to me when she was at about five. And that kind of started me on the whole journey of learning all about—perhaps I didn't have friends who were trans before, and I did understand some of the issues relating to trans people, and it was actually my knowledge that came to the fore at that time because my daughter said to me in the car do all women have vulvas, and my instinctual response was yes, and then I said, “Oh hang on a sec. No, trans women. So no, trans women don't have vulvas. And she said, "Well, what's a trans woman?” and I started talking to her explaining and then she said, “That’s me. I'm a trans girl.” and I said, “Oh okay.” so that that was the starting point for it all you know that moment and then now we're a few years on you know in our story and so I just obviously, I would have been interested in trans rights before but not as passionately as when you have a child, you suddenly just get really thrown into it. And so I've become extremely involved in the trans rights movement and particularly with trans kids. Dr Helen Webberley: Yeah. So I haven't really obvious question rolling off my tongue which I'm guessing other people might have too. Did you know before that time in the car? Did you have any inkling that that was coming? Taryn De Vere: Not really. I mean, I wouldn't have parented along with a very strict kind of gender binary line. I say that but then in some ways,

  Dr Michelle Telfer, Associate Professor and Paediatrician at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, joins Dr Helen and Marianne to talk about Australia’s approach to the treatment of trans youth. Together they discuss the vital importance of affirmative treatment in achieving positive outcomes for this group of individuals, as well as the groundbreaking work that went into the production of the world’s first set of clinical guidelines for the treatment of transgender adolescence: The Australian Standards of Care in 2018. If you have been affected by any of the topics discussed in our podcast, and would like to get in touch, please get in touch 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 @michelle_telfer https://www.rch.org.au/uploadedFiles/Main/Content/adolescent-medicine/australian-standards-of-care-and-treatment-guidelines-for-trans-and-gender-diverse-children-and-adolescents.pdf https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(19)30208-1/fulltext

  Facial Feminisation Surgery Special - Part 3 Stephanie Hirst and Dr David Simon Radio and TV presenter Stephanie Hirst is joined by her surgeon, Dr Simon, co-founder of the FacialTeam in Marbella, Spain. In this third and final part of our Facial Feminisation Special, Stephanie shares her experiences of FFS and how it changed her life, while Dr Simon talks about the guidelines, research and best practice which have been instrumental in forcing the re-evaluation of FFS and the transformative role it can play in the lives of trans women. Dr Daniel Simon talks to Stephanie Hirst for the GenderGP Podcast As work continues on the updated WPATH Standards of Care, it is anticipated that the transformative role that Facial Feminisation Surgery can play in the lives of trans feminine individuals, will be given more prominence than ever before. This is largely thanks to the groundbreaking work being carried out by experts in the field, including the specialist surgeons at FacialTeam in Malaga, Spain. If you have been affected by any of the topics discussed in our podcast, and would like to get in touch, please drop us a line at info@GenderGP.com. 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: @stephaniehirst https://www.facebook.com/stephaniehirsty/ http://facialteam.eu/ https://facialteam.eu/facial-feminisation-surgeons/facial-feminization-surgeons/   The GenderGP Podcast Stephanie Hirst - How Facial Feminisation Surgery Changed my Life: The GenderGP Podcast S5 E6   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: Okay, hi everybody, welcome to this edition of our podcast. I am not with Marianne today, but I have two other guests with me. I have Stephanie Hirst, who is a radio and TV presenter, who also has a trans history. We’re really excited to hear about all that she has to say about being trans, about her journey, about what it’s like to be such a celebrity, and making that journey. And then we have Dr Simon, who’s our third guest from the Facial Team, who I think has some input into how beautiful Stephanie looks today, and how feminine she looks. So, I am really excited to welcome both of you. Thank you for joining us. Stephanie, can I pass over to you first and let you introduce yourself in a much better way than I could ever do? Tell us all about you and over to you. Stephanie Hirst: I guess my story is quite classic because I think from a very early age, I knew that something wasn't right. And when you are at school, especially like nursery school and they put the girls and the boys into different groups, I would always go and stick with the girls, because that was my natural state of comfortable. And they would go and put me back with the boys. Now you sit over there with the boys. And this happened several times, they raised it to my mum. Back then, there was no google or anything like that. There was nothing. You know, my mum couldn't look this kind of stuff up. So, I think she just went with her gut instinct and just ignored it. And then as you grow up, you start to learn that this isn't, in inverted commas, I guess, acceptable. Because anyone who I guess looks like a boy and I guess well is a boy, then you are slightly effeminate, well, you tend to get bullied.

  Facial Feminisation Surgery Special - Part 2 Dr Raul Bellinga FacialTeam in Marbella is leading the charge in Facial Feminisation Surgery (FFS). In this episode, Dr Raul Bellinga, facial plastic surgery director and rhinoplasty specialist, joins Dr Helen and Marianne. Together they talk about the research and some of the groundbreaking techniques being carried out by the FacialTeam surgeons, as well as how this work is influencing developments in facial feminisation surgery globally.  As work continues on the updated WPATH Standards of Care, it is anticipated that the transformative role that Facial Feminisation Surgery can play in the lives of trans feminine individuals, will be given more prominence than ever before. This is largely thanks to the groundbreaking work being carried out by experts in the field, including the specialist surgeons at FacialTeam in Malaga, Spain. In this three-part special, we explore all things FFS; from the theory, with Alexandra Hamer, to the practice with Dr Raul Bellinga and finally the impact, with radio and TV presenter, Stephanie Hirst and her surgeon, Dr Simon. If you have been affected by any of the topics discussed in our podcast, and would like to get in touch, please drop us a line at info@GenderGP.com. 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 http://facialteam.eu/ https://facialteam.eu/blog/ffs-surgery/raul-jimenez-bellinga-md-feboms/   The GenderGP Podcast A Surgeons take on Facial Feminisation: The GenderGP Podcast S5 E5   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, welcome everybody to our podcast. I am here with Marianne, as usual. And today, we are really excited to welcome Dr Bellinga from the Facial Team in Marbella. Dr Bellinga, thank you for joining us. I’m going to let you come in and just tell us who you are, what you do, what your lovely and amazing team do. So, I’ll hand it over to you. Dr Raúl Bellinga: Alright, good morning to everyone. Thank you so much for your kind words. And let me introduce myself. I am Dr Bellinga, Raúl Bellinga, from Facial Team, Spain. We are placed in Marbella, in the south of Spain, the lovely Costa del Sol. And I am part of a surgical group and whose name is Facial Team. Facial Team is a surgical group which started in 2008, and we are just dedicated to facial feminisation surgery. So, we are pretty experienced about what we are doing now. At Facial Team, we are now six surgeons, and we are all dedicated to one specific feature in the face. In my case, for instance, I am the one who is dedicated one hundred per cent to rhinoplasty, to feminisation rhinoplasty, which is slightly different from cosmetic rhinoplasty. Dr Helen Webberley: Okay, wow, brilliant. So, the rhinoplasty being the surgery on the nose, the feminisation surgery on the nose. Just broadly, you've got six surgeons. Do you all do something different? Or how does it work if someone needs a little bit of attention on their nose as well as their forehead? How does it work to get that full kind of picture? Dr Raúl Bellinga: Alright, good. As I told you at the beginning, we are experts in one very specific feature in the face. For instance, as I told you,

  The GenderGP Podcast: Facial Feminisation Surgery Special As work continues on the updated WPATH Standards of Care, it is anticipated that the transformative role that Facial Feminisation Surgery can play in the lives of trans feminine individuals, will be given more prominence than ever before. This is largely thanks to the groundbreaking work being carried out by experts in the field, including the specialist surgeons at FacialTeam in Malaga, Spain. In this three-part special, we explore all things FFS; from the theory, with Alexandra Hamer, to the practice with Dr Raul Bellinga and finally the impact, with radio and TV presenter, Stephanie Hirst and her surgeon, Dr Simon. Part 1. Alexandra Hamer - The Principals of Facial Feminisation Surgery Alexandra Hamer has been studying facial gender differences for 18 years. She specialises in understanding what makes a face look feminine or masculine. In this episode she talks to Dr Helen and Marianne about her work in facial feminisation simulation. Using photoshop, Alex helps individuals considering surgery to understand the impact which FFS might have and how to use the minimum number of surgical techniques, to achieve the maximum feminising results. If you have been affected by any of the topics discussed in our podcast, and would like to get in touch, please drop us a line at info@GenderGP.com. 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 http://www.virtualffs.co.uk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VirtualFFS https://facialteam.eu/ffs-cost-consultations/virtual-ffs/   The GenderGP Podcast What is Facial Feminisation Surgery? The GenderGP Podcast S5 E4   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, everybody, to this edition of our podcast. I am here with Marianne as usual, and we have a lovely guest today as well. I'd like to welcome Alex, who I think is very exciting because her specialty is virtual facial feminisation. I love the fact that it's facial feminisation because this is going to help a lot of people, but also the fact that this virtual thing is very much what GenderGP is all about. So Alex, let me allow you to introduce yourself and tell us all that you do. Take the floor. Alexandra Hamer: Right. Do you know what I feel? It's really difficult because I have one of those jobs that doesn't have a proper name. People say what do you do? And depending on how much time I've got, the answer can be very long or very short. Anyway, I am Alexandra Hamer, and, so, essentially, I advise people on facial feminisation surgery. I am not a surgeon, I am not a doctor, so it's not that I advise them on the surgery, but I explain what makes their face masculine, and what techniques there are available that can feminise it. And I also simulate the changes in photoshop so that they can get a sense of how those different procedures will look in real life. By doing that, they get a sense of what's important and what isn't important. The thing is, if you go to a surgeon, they will often give you a very long shopping list of procedures, and a lot of those often will make very little difference but will cost you thousands and thousands of pounds. And so I can show people, I can say, look,

  Author and campaigner Mia Violet talks to Dr Helen and Marianne about her book: Yes You Are Trans Enough. Together they explore the implications of some of the hoops which trans people are made to jump through in order to prove themselves. If you have been affected by any of the topics discussed in our podcast, and would like to get in touch, please drop us a line at info@GenderGP.com. 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 https://www.miaviolet.love/about-mia/ Twitter: @ohmiagod Instagram: oh.mia.god https://www.amazon.com/Yes-You-Trans-Enough-Self-Loathing/dp/1785923153/   The GenderGP Podcast Mia Violet – Yes You Are Trans Enough: The GenderGP Podcast S5 E3   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, welcome to GenderGP Podcast. Today, I am really happy to welcome Mia Violet. And, as always, I’m going to let Mia introduce herself, tell you a little bit about her, and what she does, and why we are really excited to talk to her today. Hi, Mia. Mia Violet: Hello. Oh, gosh, I never know how to introduce myself. Dr. Helen Webberley: I’ve put you on the spot. Mia Violet: Yeah, it’s like, how do you—there’s no real way to say, “I’ve written a book” and not come across like you are just really arrogant, like, “Oh, I’ve written a book by the way. I’m an author.” I’ve got a book right here as well. Yeah, I am a trans woman, an author, I wrote Yes You Are Trans Enough, which is like part memoir, part primer on trans issues. I use Twitter a lot, more than I probably should, where I am @ohmiagod. I also use Instagram a bit, where I am @oh.mia.god, I talk about trans issues and self-love. Dr. Helen Webberley: So, Yes You Are Trans Enough is your book. Why did you feel the need to tell the world that you need to be trans enough to be anything? Mia Violet: Sure. Yeah, sure. I was at an event recently, and someone said, "What was the emotion behind why you wrote the book?" And I answered and said, honestly, rage. Like, anger. Because what happened, the genesis of the book is a really long story. I won’t bore everyone with it. But the short version is that I read an article by someone that quoted another trans woman, can’t remember who it was, and she was talking about another trans woman, and she said, “Oh, she’s not trans enough.” Like she’s not trans enough to have gotten this title or this award or whatever. And as a trans person that really, really annoyed me, because I am someone who’s dealt with, “Oh, am I trans enough?” feelings basically my entire life. So, I wrote an article, just off the top of my head, where I was, there is no such thing as trans enough. Yes, you are trans enough. You don’t have to be stereotyped. You don’t have to have gone through these milestones. I was thinking a lot about the stereotypes—like I always say, I don’t fit into that. I didn’t play with dolls as a child. I am like I always played with Batman as a child, you know, superheroes and action-y things. But obviously, I am still female. So, I wrote this article and just this kind of debunking things off the top of my head. I just threw it out on my blog,

  Sara Phillips is the chair of the Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI), she has been a trans rights activist for the past 26 years and played an instrumental role in developing Ireland’s progressive GRA legislation in 2015, and the review of the act in 2018. In this episode of the GenderGP podcast, Sara joins Dr Helen and Marianne to discuss the ways in which Ireland has forged its own very progressive path for trans rights and what other countries can learn from the steps they have already taken. If you have been affected by any of the topics discussed in our podcast, and would like to get in touch, please drop us a line at info@GenderGP.com. 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: @sararphillips www.teni.ie www.belongto.org - Response to the Gender Recognition Act   The GenderGP Podcast TENI's Sara Phillips talks trans rights in Ireland - The GenderGP Podcast S5 E2   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, hi everybody. I am very happy to be here with Marianne on our today’s edition of our podcast with Sara Phillips. And as usual, I’m going to pass over to Sara to let her introduce herself and tell us all about the work that she does and her ambitions for today, tomorrow, and for the future. So, Sara, welcome to our podcast. Sara Phillips: Thank you. It’s a pleasure to be with you this morning. As you said, I am Sara Phillips. I am the chair of Trans Equality Network Ireland. I’ve been in that position now for the past seven years. I have been out as an activist in trans rights for the past twenty-six years here in Ireland. I suppose most recently, I've been working quite a lot on gender recognition. I was one of the lead negotiators for our very progressive gender recognition legislation in 2015. And more recently I was on the government review group of that act in 2018, which provided some very progressive recommendations which have yet to be legislated for. I suppose as chair of our national organisation, I work across all areas of trans life, whether it's healthcare, whether it’s gender recognition, whether it's support. And there is still a huge amount of work to be done over here in Ireland. Currently, I am also a member of the steering committee of the International Trans Fund, which is an organisation providing funding to small trans organisations specifically in the global south but also in Asia, who work to try and support trans communities in different ways. Dr. Helen Webberley: Oh, wow. That is one introduction. I’m so excited to quiz you on some of this. So, just going back to the beginning, you say that you have been an activist for twenty-six years. How have things progressed, changed, developed, reverted in that twenty-six years? Sara Phillips: Well, it’s changed quite a lot. I think when I came out first was 1992. And I suppose trans people in Ireland were few. In fact, for most of us who were around at that point, we had tended to have looked to the UK quite a lot. We did have some groups starting up at that point. We had had a longstanding group which started in 1977 (unclear 2:45) Beaumont society ironically. More for trans people over here,

  Shay Robertson talks to Helen and Marianne about his journey as a trans man, from the very first meeting with his GP, through surgeries and on, into his role as a trans advocate. Together they explore some of the key questions around surgeries for masculinisation as well as providing guidance on how to work with your GP, and where you can go to get the support you need.   My Journey: From Sally to Shay, by Shay Robertson                       From Sally to Shay - A visual journey                       If you have been affected by any of the topics discussed in our podcast, and would like to get in touch, please drop us a line at info@GenderGP.com. 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: From Sally to Shay by Shay Robertson: Purchase on Amazon here For more information: Visit Shay's website here Advice and support: Visit Shay's Facebook Page here   The GenderGP Podcast From Sally to Shay: Shay Robertson – the GenderGP Podcast S5 E1   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, I’m here today with Shay Robertson and Marianne Oakes. Hi Shane. Hi Marianne. Lovely to have you both here. Really excited to have you, Shay. I'm just going to hand over to you so you can tell everybody who you are, why you’re here, the work that you do, the inspiration that you give, the journey that made you arrive at the beginning of that inspiration. So over to you, and tell us all about you. Shay Robertson: Well, first of all, good morning, Helen and Marianne. Thank you for having me here. My name is Shay Robertson. I am an FtM female to male. I have been transitioning since 2011. What I've done over my journey is when I first started looking out, actually, I did struggle to find information for my journey. I found a lot of information male to female but not really my way around. I did struggle. It was kind of a bit like I was in the dark. I knew what I wanted to do but didn’t really know the process. So really from going to see the GP going through consultants, I was completely really unawares. So what I decided to do was during my journey I noted everything down so I could help others in the future. And then what I did was I managed to create all that and make a book about my journey, which on my part, I think is actually doing really well, and I'm getting so much positive feedback from it. You see a lot of things online. You see a lot of things in books where doctors can tell you things, surgeons can tell you things, but they can't actually tell you the feelings of what the actual person going through that journey is actually feeling. I put everything down into this book, so it doesn't just help the person transitioning; it can help partners and friends that can support as well. What I also did was document everything from the meeting from the first doctor to what they said to the surgeon, to the consultant. All the worries. It’s doing really well. I’m really proud of that. I also went on to create a Facebook page which I call “Transpirational,” and that’s been quite a big hit as well. It’s not just your everyday Facebook page. It is people that are generally asking questions and where others can jump i...