Gender: A Wider Lens

In this podcast, now in its fourth year, therapists Stella O'Malley and Sasha Ayad take a deep dive into the psychological and cultural forces impacting the social changes around "gender." Through interviews with researchers, doctors, therapists, parents, detransitioners, and others, Sasha and Stella's podcast is a "must listen" for anyone trying to navigate the current gender landscape. With their sharp analytical minds and deep compassionate hearts, Stella and Sasha have also become known throughout many parent networks as lighthouses in the midst of some very stormy seas. Previous guests include Helen Joyce, Jesse Singal, Leor Sapir, Kathleen Stock, Jamie Reed, Peter Boghossian and more. www.widerlenspod.com
Great hosts
30/11/2024
It’s really good that the hosts are practitioners. More expert than lay observers and more hands on than academics. Amidst the many GC podcasts out there this is a standout.
Where’s the evidence?
28 Jan
1 hour of a psychiatrist talking about his “clinical experience” and not a single study cited, nor even a single data point from his own research. Look, if you wanna be critical of an already vulnerable group of people it’d probably best to include some actual empiricism instead of just going off vibes. Categorising patients based on fetishism, spouting theories of how trans people are all autistic, talking definitively about “high” rates of transition regret, all without a single piece of evidence. This is old school pre-data psychology whereby a bunch of dudes just made some stuff up and wrote it down (horny women are just hysterical!). This is not how research is done and I doubt any academic takes this kind of shoddy science seriously. Also terfs.
Comprehensive guide to all things “Gender”
01/10/2024
Knowledgable hosts interview anyone who’s anyone in the world of “gender”. If you want to know how the current consensus on this issue came into being, where things are going and attain a thorough understanding of the issues, this is THE podcast.
Calm and balanced
05/04/2024
Very informative, with guests from a wide range of backgrounds, but always calm, compassionate and evidence based.
EP 39
16/09/2024
Transphobic.
Wikipedia
08/05/2024
TERF (/tɜːrf/) is an acronym for trans-exclusionary radical feminist. Though TERF was created to be a "deliberately technically neutral description", the term is now typically considered derogatory or disparaging. People labeled TERFs often reject the label, instead describing their beliefs as gender critical.
Excellent podcast for anyone wanting to learn more about these issues
06/04/2023
Balanced, thoughtful, compassionate, insightful, evidence-based discussion. Just what I was looking for when I became interested in this field.
Hate wrapped up with a bow
27/02/2024
It’s the “just asking questions” variety, the pretext being a paddling pool shallow excuse to attack trans people as a whole. Love the sinner hate the sin rebranded as white oh so very white respectability feminism.
Disappointed
19/04/2023
I was just listening to an episode from 2021. Conversation started off quite positively but in the end all I hear was ‘we cis gender have problems as well. Get over it’. These were the people claiming to be non-transphobic working to help transgender people with gender dysphoria. I feel sorry for their patients.
Great guests, lots of information
14/03/2023
This is a great show - very useful information from different perspectives.
About
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- CreatorSasha Ayad and Stella O'Malley
- Years Active2020 - 2025
- Episodes308
- RatingClean
- Copyright© Stella O'Malley & Sasha Ayad
- Show Website
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