Safeguarding Trans-identified Children and Adolescents – Our New Guide
Download Guide ** Now updated for 2025 ** Most young people who adopt transgender identities are now doing so in adolescence. For some, this may turn out to be a…
Overvalued ideas and a deeply held belief about identity
Sometimes we can see our children's immersion in this new identity as a sort of delusion: the unshakeable belief in something that is untrue. Previously intellectual young people, often with…
A New Way to Be Mad
This article from The Atlantic discusses the phenomenon of apotemnophilia: the attraction to the idea of being an amputee. Some sufferers will even go so far as to seek out…
A Harvard Psychiatrist explains our Social Justice Warriors
In this article, Abigail Shrier interviews Harvard Psychiatrist Harold Bursztajn, about Generation Z (those born after 1995) and how living their lives online encourages a dichotomous view of the world…
Gender: A Wider Lens Episode 16 – Gender Dysphoria – What It’s Like For Parents
Although we have posted a link to Sasha Ayad and Stella O'Malley's fantastic podcast series before, we thought this episode deserved a special mention of its own. This episode highlights…
The Times Investigation: Raising Concerns About GIDS
The Concerns On 8th April 2020, The Times ran a series of articles about worries over the treatment of children at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust Gender Identity Development…
School Refusal: What to do when your child is reluctant to go to school
Many of our parents have reported that their trans-identified child has experienced a period of time when they were out of full-time education, whether for a few weeks or several…
Talking Therapy: Is No Therapy Better Than Bad Therapy?
Talking Therapy: Is no Therapy Better than Bad Therapy? One of the first questions parents ask us is where they can find a trusted therapist to help their child work…
Articles: Therapist Lisa Marchiano
The parents I speak with overwhelmingly love their children. They are interested in supporting their children in growing to adulthood with healthy bodies. They want to support their child’s emerging…
Video: Sasha Ayad
Sasha Ayad is a therapist who works with children and young people who struggle with issues around their gender identity and gender dysphoria. She co-hosts the podcast Gender: A Wider…
Podcast: Gender – A Wider Lens
Psychotherapists Stella O'Malley and Sasha Ayad take a look at gender from a psychological perspective in their podcast Gender: A Wider Lens. Is gender identity a facilitation of development and…
Documentary: Trans Kids – It’s Time to Talk.
This documentary from psychotherapist Stella O'Malley considers the huge rise in numbers of young people embarking on gender transition, through the prism of the gender identity issues that she experienced…
BBC Panorama – Trans Kids:Why Medicine Matters
Doctors are divided about the best way to help young people - so what is the evidence? Dr Faye Kirkland investigates how much we understand about the care being offered…
The Importance of an Unhappy Adolescence
It's miserable to be unhappy in your teenage years - but it is also profoundly important. It's hard to imagine adulthood going well if there haven't been quite a few…