EPISODE 8: DEFINITELY NOT GAY OR LESBIAN

When David and Louise’s* teenage daughter said she was really a boy, the couple were told by a swathe of professionals to affirm her delusion, or she might kill herself.For four years, they lived in turmoil as their daughter’s serious underlying mental health problems went largely unaddressed.Then one day, a chance encounter with a curious doctor led to a change of mind. In this episode, Julie Bindel talks to the couple along with other parents fed the “trans child” lie by professionals they thought they could trust. *Pseudonyms Writer: Julie Bindel Producer: Samantha Smith Artwork: Nicole Jones Actor: Joe FattoriniAnimations: Sarah Vaci (Lordy) SOURCES OF INFORMATION, ADVICE, AND SUPPORT The final report of the Cass Independent Review is referenced throughout the series. You can read it here. The LGB Alliance has a support line if you are 13 – 24 and want to explore your feelings and discuss your experiences in a warm, judgment-free space. The live-chat service is open between 3pm and 6pm on Tuesdays and between 4pm and 7pm on Thursdays. Send them an email at any other time and they’ll get back to you within 48 hours.Our Duty is an international support network for parents who wish to protect their children from gender ideology. They’ll put you in touch with other parents who want to protect their children from harm. Get full access to Julie Bindel's writing and podcasts at juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

I meet more parents in despair as their teenage children are egged on by clinics and institutions to a lifelong pathway of drugs and surgery.Writer: Julie BindelProducer: Samantha SmithArtwork: Nicole JonesActor: Joe FattoriniAnimations: Sarah Vaci (Lordy)SOURCES OF INFORMATION, ADVICE, AND SUPPORTThe final report of the Cass Independent Review is referenced throughout the series. You can read it here.The LGB Alliance has a support line if you are 13 – 24 and want to explore your feelings and discuss your experiences in a warm, judgment-free space. The live-chat service is open between 3pm and 6pm on Tuesdays and between 4pm and 7pm on Thursdays. Send them an email at any other time and they’ll get back to you within 48 hours.Our Duty is an international support network for parents who wish to protect their children from gender ideology. They’ll put you in touch with other parents who want to protect their children from harm. Get full access to Julie Bindel's writing and podcasts at juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

As a teenager, Sam* suffered lesbophobic bullying. Then Sam’s dad got a leaflet from the school urging him to accept his daughter as a boy who might need medication and, one day, surgery. The pair tell me what happened next.*pseudonymWriter: Julie BindelProducer: Samantha SmithArtwork: Nicole JonesActor: Joe FattoriniAnimations: Sarah Vaci (Lordy)SOURCES OF INFORMATION, ADVICE, AND SUPPORTThe final report of the Cass Independent Review is referenced throughout the series. You can read it here.The LGB Alliance has a support line if you are 13 – 24 and want to explore your feelings and discuss your experiences in a warm, judgment-free space. The live-chat service is open between 3pm and 6pm on Tuesdays and between 4pm and 7pm on Thursdays. Send them an email at any other time and they’ll get back to you within 48 hours.Our Duty is an international support network for parents who wish to protect their children from gender ideology. They’ll put you in touch with other parents who want to protect their children from harm. Get full access to Julie Bindel's writing and podcasts at juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, I investigate how schools have become a breeding ground for ideologically-driven ideas which have encouraged children and young people to believe in the false notion that they can change sex.Parents tell me about the extent of legal confusion and hostility to parents who’ve challenged pseudoscience in the classroom.Writer: Julie BindelProducer: Samantha SmithArtwork: Nicole JonesActor: Joe FattoriniAnimations: Sarah Vaci (Lordy)SOURCES OF INFORMATION, ADVICE, AND SUPPORTThe final report of the Cass Independent Review is referenced throughout the series. You can read it here.The LGB Alliance has a support line if you are 13 – 24 and want to explore your feelings and discuss your experiences in a warm, judgment-free space. The live-chat service is open between 3pm and 6pm on Tuesdays and between 4pm and 7pm on Thursdays. Send them an email at any other time and they’ll get back to you within 48 hours.Our Duty is an international support network for parents who wish to protect their children from gender ideology. They’ll put you in touch with other parents who want to protect their children from harm. Get full access to Julie Bindel's writing and podcasts at juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

Growing up in remote North Wales was a formative experience for consultant psychiatrist Dr Az Hakeem. Being an outsider served him well when he faced homophobia as a clinician and then false accusations of transphobia. The author of DETRANS: When Transition is Not the Solution tells Julie why he thinks so many clinicians have let down vulnerable children and young people.Writer: Julie BindelProducer: Samantha SmithArtwork: Nicole JonesActor: Joe FattoriniAnimations: Sarah Vaci (Lordy)SOURCES OF INFORMATION, ADVICE, AND SUPPORTThe final report of the Cass Independent Review is referenced throughout the series. You can read it here.The LGB Alliance has a support line if you are 13 – 24 and want to explore your feelings and discuss your experiences in a warm, judgment-free space. The live-chat service is open between 3pm and 6pm on Tuesdays and between 4pm and 7pm on Thursdays. Send them an email at any other time and they’ll get back to you within 48 hours.Our Duty is an international support network for parents who wish to protect their children from gender ideology. They’ll put you in touch with other parents who want to protect their children from harm. Get full access to Julie Bindel's writing and podcasts at juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

Julie Bindel heads to Brighton to meet parents and campaigners in conflict with their local authority over its policies on single sex spaces.They’re asking “what now?” following a change of government and the landmark Cass report which blew apart the scandal of an unwarranted social and medical experiment on children.Writer: Julie BindelProducer: Samantha SmithArtwork: Nicole JonesActor: Joe FattoriniAnimations: Sarah Vaci (Lordy)SOURCES OF INFORMATION, ADVICE, AND SUPPORTThe final report of the Cass Independent Review is referenced throughout the series. You can read it here.The LGB Alliance has a support line if you are 13 – 24 and want to explore your feelings and discuss your experiences in a warm, judgment-free space. The live-chat service is open between 3pm and 6pm on Tuesdays and between 4pm and 7pm on Thursdays. Send them an email at any other time and they’ll get back to you within 48 hours.Our Duty is an international support network for parents who wish to protect their children from gender ideology. They’ll put you in touch with other parents who want to protect their children from harm. Get full access to Julie Bindel's writing and podcasts at juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

In 2018, former BBC journalist Hannah Barnes stumbled on a curious story involving apparent turmoil at an NHS clinic which was being overwhelmed by children described as experiencing “gender distress”.Consultant psychiatrist David Bell was a governor at the NHS Trust which ran the clinic. He was trying to blow the whistle on serious failings in the care of these children.In this episode, David, now retired, and Hannah who is associate editor at the New Statesman, describe what followed.And how between them, they helped exposed one of the biggest safeguarding and medical scandals in NHS history. Get full access to Julie Bindel's writing and podcasts at juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

When Aurora* started to believe she was a boy, her parents were told by a swathe of professionals to affirm her delusion, or she might kill herself.For four years, the family lived in turmoil as Aurora’s serious underlying mental health problems went largely unaddressed. Then one day, a chance encounter with a curious doctor led to a dramatic change of mind.In this episode, Julie Bindel talks to Aurora, whose parents she met in Episode 2. Now 18, Aurora questions why she was fed the lie of the “trans child” by professionals she should have been able to trust.Writer: Julie BindelProducer: Samantha SmithArtwork: Nicole JonesActor: Joe FattoriniAnimations: Sarah Vaci (Lordy)SOURCES OF INFORMATION, ADVICE, AND SUPPORTThe final report of the Cass Independent Review is referenced throughout the series. You can read it here.The LGB Alliance has a support line if you are 13 – 24 and want to explore your feelings and discuss your experiences in a warm, judgment-free space. The live-chat service is open between 3pm and 6pm on Tuesdays and between 4pm and 7pm on Thursdays. Send them an email at any other time and they’ll get back to you within 48 hours.Our Duty is an international support network for parents who wish to protect their children from gender ideology. They’ll put you in touch with other parents who want to protect their children from harm. Get full access to Julie Bindel's writing and podcasts at juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

In this series, Julie Bindel meets families whose lives have been thrown into turmoil by the ­failure of pretty much every institution to stand up to the cult of trans ideology.They’ve been bullied into allowing their once-healthy children to take powerful drugs, sometimes undergo life-altering ­surgery, and be repeatedly brainwashed by the fad of gender.This episode speaks to parents living under threat of sanction as a result of the social worker and counselling professions abandoning sense and safeguarding. Get full access to Julie Bindel's writing and podcasts at juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

Across the UK, loving parents have been threatened, shunned and sometimes driven to considering suicide by the authorities they once trusted.I’ve been meeting families whose lives have been thrown into turmoil by the ­failure of pretty much every institution to stand up to the cult of trans ideology.They’ve been bullied into allowing their once-healthy children to take powerful drugs, sometimes undergo life-altering ­surgery, and be repeatedly brainwashed by the fad of gender.What will it take to finally stop one of the biggest medical scandals in a generation?Julie in Genderland: Available 10 September 2024.Writer: Julie BindelProducer: Samantha SmithArtwork: Nicole JonesActor: Joe FattoriniAnimations: Sarah Vaci (Lordy)SOURCES OF INFORMATION, ADVICE, AND SUPPORTThe final report of the Cass Independent Review is referenced throughout the series. You can read it here.The LGB Alliance has a support line if you are 13 – 24 and want to explore your feelings and discuss your experiences in a warm, judgment-free space. The live-chat service is open between 3pm and 6pm on Tuesdays and between 4pm and 7pm on Thursdays. Send them an email at any other time and they’ll get back to you within 48 hours.Our Duty is an international support network for parents who wish to protect their children from gender ideology. They’ll put you in touch with other parents who want to protect their children from harm. Get full access to Julie Bindel's writing and podcasts at juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe