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It does.

And I think it matches well in Genspect's new era than the, you know, the following WPath around the world, which I thought was the best thing ever.

I love doing that.

But now we're not following WPath around anymore because we don't think they're worth following.

The LGB should never have been put with the T.

It was strategically put together and also lazily allowed, you know, lazily allowed as in, you know, And I think, yeah, the LGB Alliance, all the LGB, the gay men's work, all the lesbian groups, there's so many of them, that I'm delighted to see the losing the T from the LGB, because I think they're two different cohorts with different needs, different resources, different challenges.

The second one I saw, Erin, you said, which is a good point I wanted to lean into, something along the lines of why Genspect.

And for myself, why Genspect, I'd like to say, is... we are uh certainly one of the main if not the only organization that is putting forward a psychological approach to this solely a psychological approach we we don't believe that medicalization is the way forward and while people are free to seek medicalization clinicians should not be free to offer medicalization and to call it health care because this is not evidenced health care it is elected medicalization and it's consumer medicalization and we believe the psychological approach is the most important and effective and compassionate way to understand what is actually happening and our repath campaign is centered upon a psychological approach so why genspect well we're putting forward a psychological approach we're putting forward a specific psychological understanding which we will be getting more into next week

We acknowledge the fact that some people struggle with such a long multi-syllable word.

This is our campaign to bring some clarity and precision to the field, the debate surrounding gender medicine, because here in 2026, we're in a befuddled, confused, bewildered state.

Nobody really knows what's going on or how best to find our way out of the mess that we're in.

Re-psychopathologization or repath is our answer to that confusion.

Whereas before you would have just had to deal with it, but I don't think, well, Ira poorly saw it, but I don't think many of them actually understood the power of Jorgensen and the power of how they were creating the demand by allowing the talk of the surgery or the surgeries to be conducted.

So I think the key point there is once you have an availability of medicine, you're offering people a solution to their pain and people then it lodges in their head of that's what's going to make me feel better rather than I am suffering mental pain.

and i need to get on with it as you said i need to somehow assimilate that into my life it's no i need to get the medicine to make me feel better and that happens all over the place with lots of different medicines let's say you know there's you know prozac and happy pills and all sorts of this you know there's an awful lot of once you have the medicine and i remember when i was growing up there was a huge campaign against antibiotics because so many patients were coming in saying I want a biotic.

I need an antibiotic.

Wow.

And when you think about it, you know, all the security that Genspect has to do for the conference.

I remember going to the LGB Alliance and there was no protesters outside.

Activists who just don't know how to behave in an appropriate way.

Oh, before, I mean, in the essay, there's not so much of the scientific literature because I just didn't think it was the place for dense academic articles.

But there are decades and decades of... psychiatrists and scholars defining trends as this particular type of mental disorder, disorder of overvalued belief.

So if you go on the Genspect Repath page, there's a wonderful section where we've put all of the literature to show that this is not just something we have made up.

We've not just pulled this out of thin air.

Uh, for instance, there's one called Do No Harm.

There's one called Genspect.

Yes.

There are others.