The Peter McCormack Show #132 - James Esses - Is Gender Ideology Harming Children?
Dec 9, 2025
James Esses, a UK psychotherapist and former Childline volunteer, discusses the urgent need to address gender ideology's impact on children. He argues that gender dysphoria should be treated as a mental health condition rather than through immediate medical interventions. The conversation dives into the dangers of puberty blockers, indoctrination in schools, and the normalization of gender identity trends. Esses critiques the media and clinical approaches while emphasizing the importance of therapy focused on exploring underlying issues rather than pushing for transitions.
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Don't Push Irreversible Paths For Teens
- Avoid facilitating irreversible medical pathways for teens who present self-harm via transition impulses.
- Prioritize empathic exploration, not coercion, and only work with clients who choose that therapeutic route.
Profit Motives In Gender Clinics
- Esses highlights financial incentives in private gender clinics accelerating treatments.
- He shows how expensive consultations and surgeries create profit motives that can drive rapid medicalization.
Argument To Criminalize Reassignment Surgery
- Esses opposes sex-reassignment surgery even for adults and proposes criminalization of such surgeries.
- He compares them to other banned body mutilations like FGM and extreme modifications.
