The hosts

One of the three is Irish and records from County Offaly. The other two bring the outside comparison: what Britain, Canada and the United States did first, and what Ireland can learn from it.

Stella O'Malley, an Irish voice

Psychotherapist in County Offaly and host of Beyond Gender

Stella O'Malley practises as a psychotherapist in the Irish midlands and has been, for most of a decade, the best-known Irish clinician willing to question the affirmative approach to gender in public.

Mia Hughes

Co-host and researcher

Mia Hughes is the Beyond Gender co-host who turns an Irish anecdote into a question about documents: what the HSE guideline says, what the clinic's own audit found, what the international bodies Ireland defers to were saying in private.

Dr Bret Alderman

Co-host and psychologist

Bret Alderman is the American psychologist on the panel, and for Irish listeners he is the outsider's eye: the co-host who notices what is distinctively Irish about an Irish story.