You're listening to gender, a wider lens.

I'm Stella O'Malley, a psychotherapist in Ireland.

And I'm Sasha Ayad, an adolescent therapist in the United States.

Since 2016, my practice has been exclusively dedicated to gender questioning teens

and families impacted by gender dysphoria.

I also work with gender questioning teenagers and I facilitated support meetings for families and

individuals who have been impacted by gender issues. We're curious about the

concept of gender and how it's unfolding in the wider culture. Join us as we look at gender through a wider lens.

Well, hello there, Sasha.

Hello there, Stella.

Today is going to be a very interesting episode. We are trying to cover the recent updates from the W path Standards of Care 8, which was recently published. We're recording this at the beginning of October

2022. And I wanted to start out by just kind of giving the listener an idea of where we're

going today, because this is a humongous document of really significant importance

with serious flaws and we do not expect that this episode is going to be a kind of end all and be all analysis but there are certain

things we want to touch on so we want to talk about how W path standards of

care are kind of used in the clinic clinical population why it's important.

We're going to go over the history of the organization, who they are, where they came from,

and how they've kind of appointed themselves as this authority on something really, really important.

We're going to talk about just what the tone of the document is like, what it's like to read it it definitely has a glossy impressive

feeling to it but then we're going to dig into some of the specific things

we've noticed and that lots of people are, which are frankly shocking and kind of position W path is kind of a fringe organization when you discover some of the ways they are talking about these really serious identity issues, body modifications, etc.

So this again, we can't cover everything.

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