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Episodes
Episode 52: A holiday message from Cora
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cora gives her annual holiday message. The world is as challenging now for gender diverse people as it has been in quite some time, but together we...
Episode 51: Rates of detransition
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
'We are seeing that people are detransitioning at a pretty high rate' There are two new systematic reviews about the rate of detransition. How...
Episode 50: Post-traumatic growth
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
'We will stand up for you' Is the world beginning to turn back toward supporting the trans community, and is there a way that we can grow and ...
Episode 49: The sinister history of trans research
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
'They should be in a straightjacket with a hard steel lock on it' Why are gender diverse folk reluctant to engage with research? Let's tak...
Episode 48: Negative Transition Outcomes
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
'Unequivocally... those who underwent surgeries faced higher risks.' This week Cora goes toe-to-toe with an influencer to understand how a han...
Episode 47: Gender Critical Radicalisation
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
'It's a fetish, Janet!' What are gender critical beliefs and how have they become so mainstream? We take a look at how framing trans exclusion as the ...
Episode 46: The effect of the puberty blocker ban
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The UK has released new schools guidance around keeping children safe and relationships and sex education and Cora reviews them both. They're an e...
Episode 45: The largest trans health survey in the world
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
'The transgender movement is the most violent domestic terror threat in the world' Cora takes on Donald Trump Jr . and we take a look at the l...
Episode 44: Trans voices
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For trans folk being legible in the world can sometimes involve a change to their voice. Cora has been working on her voice and we take a look at befo...
Episode 43: Social Media
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
'...children experienced gender dysphoria after binge watching trans content on social media' Trans folk use social media like everyone else, ...
Episode 42: The Supreme Court and passing
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week Cora takes on the EHRC, the Government, and the Supreme Court. What is 'passing' and why shouldn't passing be the benchmark for entry to app...
Episode 41: Gender diversity, neurodivergence, and intersectionality with Dr Abby Vines
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
'They're attributing their experiences to gender when they're actually better understood as an autistic trait' What are experiences of...
Episode 40: Transgender folk in prison
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Where should we house transgender prisoners and what are their experiences? This is a difficult episode with a huge content warning, we are going to t...
Episode 39: Internalised Stigma
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
'Tr***y tr***y tra**y, I don't care, you want pe****s in women's bathrooms' We ponder stigmatising language and what happens when peop...
Episode 38: Trans Q&A, talking puberty blockers, hospital rooms, religion, and bodily autonomy.
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Researchers from California got in touch to ask a series of fascinating questions, so I thought we'd try something a little different, as we get i...
Episode 37: Transgender brains
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
'...to say therefore I am a woman is just a betrayal of language' We tackle the question of gendered brain development and wonder what kind of...
Episode 36: Puberty blockers and IQ
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There are a handful of studies that look at the relationship between GnRHa and cognitive development, in terms of IQ and executive functioning. We fin...
Episode 35: A holiday message from Cora
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The holiday season can be really challenging for gender diverse folk, and this year, given the year it has been, it's particularly difficult. So Cora ...
Episode 34: Who are trans and non-binary people?
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
'The gender craziness is most common in wealthy, White, progressives' We take a look at big representative research around the world to wonder about t...
Episode 33: Talking Masculinity with Dr Ffion Davies
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
'If I was wearing a wig and lipstick would I have been banned from schools...?' There are some forms of masculinity that can be a positive force for g...
Episode 32: A Trans Healthcare Deep Dive
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
'It makes no sense to give people permanent solutions to a temporary problem' Do trans people who receive transition related healthcare continue to re...
Episode 31: Gender Identity with Dr Ellie Fisher
14 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
'Teaching this religion as if it is fact' Is gender identity a real thing? What do measures of gender identity tell us about how it develops a...
Episode 30: Cyberbullying
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
'You can be sued for cyberbullying for speaking the actual truth' We take a look at the Paris Olympics, at cyberbullying. and Cora gets... uh....
Episode 29: Building consensus with Dr Antreas Anthimou
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
'So I vowed to destroy the woke mind virus' When the language around gender diversity is so provocative is it possible for us to come together...
Episode 28: Workplace Discrimination
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
'Lazy, entitled, and difficult to work with' What are the consequences of workplace discrimination for gender diverse folk and can we create w...
Episode 27: The Cass Review Part 3 (the last one, I promise)
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
'Schools have been feeding students into this medical experiment' The Cass Review is rather conservative about social transition in part becau...
Episode 26: The Cass Review Part 2
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
'Puberty blockers are beneficial... but the quality of these studies is poor.' Dr Cass is wrong, and this misinterpretation has profound impli...
Episode 25: The Cass Review
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Cass Review was informed by systematic reviews that excluded the low quality evidence from synthesis. Is this a reasonable decision and what do th...
Episode 24: Language and Definitions
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
'Gender identity is the new religion they preach' You ever wondered how we might inclusively think of gender, what gender identity is, and wha...
Episode 23: Eating Disorders
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Gender diverse folk are at an increased risk of developing disordered patterns of eating and methods of weight control. There are discrete reasons for...
Episode 22: Social Transition
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Gendere diverse folk can change the gender they perform to themselves and to the world, a shift in expression known as social transition. While affirm...
Episode 21: Autogynephilia
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are trans folk so sexy that they can't resist transition? Autogynephilia is the theory that transgender folk invert the object of their sexual att...
Episode 20: Media Representation
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is representation a good thing? Is it possible that representation might influence attitudes towards marginalised communities and maybe, might better ...
Episode 19: Gender Euphoria
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While there might be a focus on dysphoria and distress for gender diverse communities there is also an experience they know better than most, one of g...
Episode 18: The Speed of Transition
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Transition is sometimes seen as hasty, maybe hurried, but the research about the experiences of children and young people show transition to be anythi...
Episode 17: Harrassment, Bullying, Victimisation
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When schools are more welcoming more gender diverse folks can live openly, but if schools aren't able to tackle the bullying and victimisation tha...
Episode 16: Classroom Psychology Live in Glasgow
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Classroom Psychology is going on tour, coming to you live from around the UK. This episode the University of Glasgow LGBTQ+ Psychology Network kindly ...
Episode 15: Public Policy
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When politicians debate the existence of gender diverse communities that sets a problematic context for gender diverse folk to exist within. We take a...
Episode 14: Misgendering and deadnaming
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It can be hard to remember to use someone's name or pronouns but what if we misgender or deadname someone for philosophical, religious, or stigati...
Episode 13: Athletic advantage
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Do transgender women retain an athletic advantage over their cisgender counterparts following transition and, maybe, does it matter? If the competetiv...
Episode 12: Conversion Therapy
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why do we not 'treat' gender dysphoria as a 'mental health condition' and support people to change their gender identities to alleviat...
Episode 11: Gender Diversity and Colonialism
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It is often claimed that gender is only male and female, that this is a Universal truth. But that is a particular view of gender we have advanced arou...
Episode 10: Gender Diversity and Neurodiversity
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is there a link between neurodiversity and gender diversity and if there is, what might explain that link? We take a look at this intersection and pon...
Episode 9: Informing Parents
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Should schools automatically tell parents whenever a child or young person starts to question their gender? We take a look at how young people underst...
Episode 8: Transgender folk and violent crime
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
'A grown man - a trans woman - entering a grown woman's space... is obviously wrong' This week we take a look at the question of whether t...
Episode 7: Detransition, 'desistance', regret.
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week our question is about whether children and young people experiencing gender dysphoria might experience that dysphoria to spontaneously resol...
Episode 6: Gender Affirmative Practice
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Some commentators highlight the complete lack of evidence of the outcomes of gender affirmative care, particularly long-term, so we take to the litera...
Episode 5: Transition in childhood
10 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week our question is about social transition in childhood and whether transition is the result of stronger cross-gender identification or whether...
Episode 4: 'Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria'
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we try to understand the apparent rise in adolescent non-binary and trans masc folks assigned female at birth referred to gender identity de...
Episode 3: Gender 'indoctrination'
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Describing the limitations of the Equality Act (2010) then Attorney General Suella Braverman described schools as risking 'indoctrination' of ...
Episode 2: The Binary Model of Gender
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In answer to a question about 'what constitutes a woman' Kier Starmer recently said 'let me start by saying the blindingly obvious, 99.9 s...
Episode 1: A Place Where Everyone Can Belong
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Classroom Psychology, where we talk about the science of gender diversity; join me and together we'll build a society where everyone ca...