A new group, the Detransition Advocacy Network, founded by Charlie Evans, has just been launched in the UK to support people who have stopped or reversed gender reassignment.

To celebrate its launch, Make More Noise, an ‘independent feminist collective’, hosted a conference discussing the ethics of the social and medical transition of gender non-conforming women and girls. Social media commentary was tagged #ManchesterDetrans.

Professionals working in the field gave talks, while a panel of detransitioned spoke about their experiences.

Among the speakers were Susan Evans, a mental health nurse and psychotherapist, who resigned her position at the Tavistock clinic over concerns that hormones were being prescribed to vulnerable children without due care; Dr Anna Hutchinson a chartered Clinical Psychologist who held senior positions at a number of internationally renowned London hospitals, including Great Ormond Street Hospital and The Tavistock Centre; and Stella O Malley an Irish psychotherapist, best selling author and public speaker whose documentary ‘Trans Kids – it’s time to talk’ was one of the first films to investigate the treatment of transgender children.

In a follow up interview with the Sunday Independent, Ms O’Malley said ‘Born in the wrong body’ is a great description of a feeling, “but it’s not a diagnosis”.

“And psychologically, that is a very dangerous thing to say to somebody. Can you be born in the wrong body? Can you be born in the wrong head? Are people who are born in very challenging bodies, through disability, are they born in the ‘wrong’ body? I reject the concept”, she added.

Meanwhile, the Government here is pushing ahead with plans to make it far easier for under 18s to change their legally recognised gender.