The Speakers
STELLA O’MALLEY
Stella O’Malley is the founder and Executive Director of Genspect, an international organisation that advocates for a healthy approach to sex and gender. She is also the founder-director of Beyond Trans, a support network that offers online support meetings to families of individuals affected by gender dysphoria and therapist-facilitated online support meetings for detransitioners, people who identify as trans and people who have been harmed by medical transition.
PROFESSOR SALLIE BAXENDALE
Professor Sallie Baxendale is a Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist at UCLH and Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology.
PATRICK PARKINSON
Patrick Parkinson is an Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Queensland where he served as Dean from 2018 - 2021. Professor Parkinson is a specialist in family law and child protection.
BELLE LANE
Belle Lane has appeared as counsel in a number of cases involving gender dysphoria, acting for the parents who wish to medically transition the child, parents who oppose and appearing as counsel for the Independent Children’s Lawyer.
MARCUS EVANS
Marcus Evans served as Head of the Nursing Discipline at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust from 1998 to 2018. In 2019 he resigned as a Governor of the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust over concerns about the clinical management of the Trust’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS).
SUSAN EVANS
Susan worked in a variety of mental health services in the NHS, one of which was as a clinical specialist in the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust Gender Identity Service (GIDS) for children.
DR VANESSA SPILLER
Dr Spiller regularly works with gender non-conforming and gender-questioning youth, young adults and their families, most of whom are also neurodivergent. Guided by the highest levels of evidence currently available, she employs standard therapeutic paradigms and "treatment-as-usual" approaches to address the complex issues that can arise at the intersection between core developmental tasks, neurodivergence, trauma, environmental and family factors and gender identity.
KARLEEN GRIBBLE
Karleen Gribble is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Western Sydney University. Her interests include infant and young child feeding in emergencies, child rights, caregiver-child and child-caregiver attachment, and treatment of infants within the child protection and criminal justice systems.