Happy Independence Day, America!
Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and revolution! The Bigger Picture is back!
The Bigger Picture Conference is returning to the United States this September 27–28 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. And the timing couldn’t be more fitting.
For years, the U.S. was ground zero for experimental gender medicine: a place where euphemism replaced ethics and the guardrails of age, consent, and evidence were removed in the name of “kindness” and “affirmation.”
It was here that Admiral Rachel Levine, the U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health, felt emboldened to insist on the removal of all age limits from the WPATH Standards of Care Version 8, signalling tacit approval to irreversible medical interventions on children of any age.
It was here that whistleblowers like Dr. Eithan Haim and nurse, Vanessa Sivadge were targeted by federal authorities for exposing unethical practices at Texas Children’s Hospital—where gender procedures were allegedly performed on minors in secret and billed to Medicaid.
It was here that State Representative Shawn Thierry, a lifelong Democrat and civil rights advocate in Texas, was ostracized and nearly pushed out of her own party simply for voting in favor of protecting minors from irreversible gender procedures.
It was here that female athletes were forced to compete against men. It was here that people stood by while a generation of gender-nonconforming, proto-gay kids were sterilized in the name of “being themselves.”
It was here that the damning revelations in the WPATH files were ignored and the Cass Report was dismissed as “misleading” or lacking nuance.
We measured progress in the rare op-ed and watched “TERF Island” (the UK) with envy. The possibility of achieving victories like publication of the Cass Report, the limits (thought not stringent enough) placed on puberty blockers and the closure of the Tavistock clinic seemed beyond our reach.
What a Difference Political Will Makes
The UK led the way in pulling back from gender extremism, not because any political party took up the cause, but through the sheer courage and cheek of campaigners. Here it took Donald Trump, the great disrupter, to break through with a series of Executive Orders (read a summary of the Trump Administration’s activities here) and now State Legislators and the Supreme Court are finally acting. Just next week, the Federal Trade Commission will hold a workshop on unfair or deceptive trade practices in “gender-affirming care” for minors.
The Department of Education has returned Title IX to its original mission of making it possible for women and girls in to participate in school and college sports and the University of Pennsylvania is apologizing to every female athlete forced to compete against a biological man, and has stripped trans athlete, Lia Thomas of titles won swimming against women. It’s exhilarating — if the pendulum can swing here, it can swing anywhere.
With political courage, legal action, and growing public awareness, a new American revolution is quietly underway—one that is reclaiming medical integrity and reaffirming the role of families and communities in shaping young lives.
Fast Forward to September
Since Genspect's last U.S. gathering in Denver in 2023, the momentum has shifted dramatically and Americans are wondering what happened and why. The federal government itself has begun to reevaluate how gender ideology was embedded into policy, education, and healthcare. Liberal critics are finally getting a hearing in publications like The New York Times and the The Atlantic. The tide is turning in women’s sports led by icons like Jennifer Sey of XX-XY athletics.
From courtrooms to classrooms, dinner tables to state legislatures, we can feel the rumblings of something big. Americans are reexamining what it means to care for young people in distress. They are asking better questions, demanding better evidence, and beginning to understand that true compassion requires more than blind affirmation.
If the 2023 gathering in Denver was a milestone, this year’s Bigger Picture Conference is the staging area for the next big push. The full spectrum of experts, clinicians, detransitioners, parents, researchers, educators, and advocates will come together to assess not just where we've been, but where we're headed.
We'll hear from some of the wisest voices in the movement—Stephen Levine, Glenna Goldis, Lisa Littman, from detranstioners and whistle blowers well as cultural commentators like Lionel Shriver and Jennifer Sey who are helping us think more broadly about the forces shaping identity and belief in America today. We’ll meet heroes, make new friends and, leave energized for what’s next.
Let’s Make Some History!
At a time when naysayers focus of what divides us, millions of Americans are taking a stand for the truth, for children and a better future. The spirit of the American Revolution is alive again because of you. Bring your questions. Bring your insight. Bring your hope.
See you in Albuquerque!
Have a wonderful 4th of July!
Join us for The Bigger Picture. Be part of the movement that’s shaping what comes next.
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Thank you , Nancy, for the Independence Day reminder of all that has been going on in the past few years.
Genspect conferences are meetings of the movers and shakers, big and small, international and local - parents, detransitioners, clinicians, authors, attorneys, whistle-blowers, researchers, deep thinkers, doctors, athletes, the LGB, and others all dedicated to a healthy approach to sex and gender in a world that has lost its collective mind.
It appears that we are on our way internationally to a return to common sense, high quality research, and a restoration of the integrity of language and sex-based protections and accommodations. Hopefully we are returning to appropriate safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults.
Tonight I will celebrate with friends, my dog, a hamburger on the grill, and a good beer. I'll see y'all in Albuquerque this September!
Cannot wait. Superb overview. See y’all soon!