Gender identity ideology at work
Conversion Therapy
Thoughtful Therapists Response to the Draft Conversion Practices Bill 2026
Lucy Beney and Peter Jenkins 11 page briefing on the draft bill
Is gender identity conversion therapy practised in the UK today? Charlesworth, S. (2021) Transgender Trend
Replacing One Kind of ‘Conversion Therapy’ With Another Esses, J. (2021) Quillette.
Unpacking research into the prevalence of conversion therapy by therapists in the UK, Jenkins, P. (2021) Transgender Trend.
Memorandum of Understanding on Conversion Therapy (MOU)
United Kingdom
Captured! The full story behind the Memorandum of Understanding on Conversion Therapy, Charlesworth, S. (2021) Transgender Trend
Through the Looking Glass: Making sense of the MOU Parts 1
Through the Looking Glass: Making sense of the MOU – Part 2
Jenkins, P. (2021) Critical Therapy Antidote
WPATH, the MOU and gender ideology in the UK - Transgender Trend, Jenkins, P. (2024)
Breaking up Is Hard to Do: Why the UKCP Is Right to Leave the Memorandum of Understanding on Conversion Therapy, Jenkins, P. (2024) Critical Therapy Antidote.
Ireland
Ireland Adopts the UK Memorandum of Understanding on Conversion Therapy, – Jenkins, P. (2024) Critical Therapy Antidote
The Irish MoU on Conversion Therapy: A Concession amidst Ideological Persistence? Van Zyl, J. (2024) Genspect
World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)
Breaking News: The WPATH Files: Experimental medicine on children and adults? Jenkins, P. (2024) Critical Therapy Antidote
The European Professional Association for Transgender Health (EPATH) issues a statement on the Cass Review, Jenkins, P. (2024) Critical Therapy Antidote
The WPATH Files: Pseudoscientific surgical and hormonal experiments of children, adolescents and vulnerable adults, Hughes, M. (2024) Environmental Progress, California
“Get them on treatment!” WPATH and the long reach of gender ideology into UK healthcare, Jenkins, P. (2023) Critical Therapy Antidote
What is WPATH and what are their guidelines? – Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender, Clinical Advisory Group on Sex and Gender (CAN-SG) (2022)
WPATH 8 Standards of Care: Greasing the slipway to medical transition, Jenkins, P. (2022) Critical Therapy Antidote:
Professional therapy associations
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
Serious concerns about how the BACP’s draft ethical framework is queering psychotherapy and counselling - Sue Parker Hall (2026) raises serious questions about whats really behind the new ethical framework
Trans Formation: How Gender Identity Ideology Took over the BACP, Peter Jenkins (2025)
How did BACP change so drastically from a formerly respected professional therapy association, to a quasi-political movement for social justice advocacy, and within such a short space of time?
BACP and Terfism: Reaching the point of no return for ethical therapy, Jenkins, P. (2022) Critical Therapy Antidote:
United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy
Background on UKCP Guidance on Gender Critical Views, Jenkins, P. (2023) Critical Therapy Antidote
British Psychological Society
The politicisation of clinical psychology training, Sherwood, C. and Miller, K. (2022) Save Mental Health
Online influence
Childline has a safeguarding problem. The Spectator, Esses, J. (2023)
Kooth: the online mental health platform spreading gender ideology (transgendertrend.com)
Transgender Trend (2023) Kooth: The online mental health platform spreading gender ideology
Mermaids: Anything but a fairy tale, Esses, J. (2022)
Adverse impacts on parents and families
“Gaslighting the concerned parents of transchildren – a practitioner's view”, O'Malley, S. (2021) Quillette
Detransition and detransitioners
Keira Bell: My story. Persuasion, Bell, K., (2021)
“Access to care and frequency of detransition among a cohort discharged by a UK national adult gender identity clinic: Retrospective casenote review”, Hall, R., Mitchell, L. and Sachdeva, J. (2021) BJPsych Open,
“Detransition-Related Needs and Support: A Cross-Sectional Online Survey”, Vandenbussche, E. (2021) Journal of Homosexuality
Issues for counselling and psychotherapy students and trainees
What’s a gender critical therapy trainee to do? Sears, B. (2022) Critical Therapy Antidote