#6 | The Transgender Community with Dermot Mc Carthy and Philippa Ryder

https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Podcasts115/v4/fb/98/64/fb98643f-2681-f7e6-363a-a28935e5e228/mza_13379128428878458109.png/600x600bb.jpg

Insight Matters

Dil Wickremasinghe

12 episodes

8 months ago

Welcome to our Insight Matters - Inspiring Change in Self and Society podcast! Dil and Anne Marie are the Co-Founders of Insight Matters and with a team of 55 therapists they support the mental health of over 400 clients per week through their two city centre practices in Dublin. The support services are affordable, inclusive and accessible. Since its inception, it has been Dil's and Anne Marie's vision to make Insight Matters a national service. Dil and Anne Marie have been through their own mental health journey and grappled with depression, anxiety, eating distress, sexual abuse, sexual identity, homophobia and discrimination. Coincidentally in 2006, before they met, they both reached out for help, Anne Marie became an in-patient in a psychiatric hospital and Dil started attending counselling in a centre for sexual abuse survivors. Both Dil and Anne Marie discovered their passion for mental health and 4 years later they met at a mental health retreat. Since then they have become passionate mental health advocates and they hope to raise awareness, break down stigma and inspire change in self and soceity. For more information please visit www.insightmatters.ie or email info@insightmatters.ie

Health & Fitness

RSS

All content for Insight Matters is the property of Dil Wickremasinghe and is served directly from their servers with no modification, redirects, or rehosting. The podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by Podjoint in any way.

Health & Fitness

#6 | The Transgender Community with Dermot Mc Carthy and Philippa Ryder

Insight Matters

54 minutes 38 seconds

6 years ago

#6 | The Transgender Community with Dermot Mc Carthy and Philippa Ryder

Today, we want to give space to the issues that arise for our Transgender community. We have spoken before about Trans Rights, so today we want to focus on where we are at now in 2019 and how we can move forward into 2020 to make a positive change.

In today’s episode, Dil and Anne Marie are joined by Dermot McCarthy and the awe-inspiring Philippa Ryder. Dermot is a psychotherapist and part of the Insight Matters team. He works with people in the Transgender community, and is an activist and all round superstar in our eyes. Philippa – an LGBT activist and sports advocate – was previously the Chair of TENI (Transgender Equality Network Ireland), was an active participant in the Repeal campaign, and she also won a silver medal in last year’s Gay Games in Paris, at age 57!

In this episode, Dil, Anne Marie, Dermot and Philippa discuss the Gay Games, the importance and mentality of exercise, the importance of being able to talk to a therapist as a trans person, as well as what works and what can be improved in regards to Ireland’s transgender rights. They also discuss the need for more in-depth teaching about sexuality and gender with regard to psychotherapy training, and the fear around what others may think of the gender transition, and the transphobia that takes place within sport.

Also in this episode, Philippa tells of her experience in therapy and identifying as a trans woman for the first time, and Dermot tells of his first experience with a trans client as a therapist, and the group discuss what can be done to continue the advancement of rights and attitude towards trans people in Ireland, and worldwide. Be sure to check out The This Is Me National Grassroots Campaign to improve transgender healthcare in Ireland on Facebook and Twitter.

Get in touch with Dermot on his website www.innervoice.ie/, and check out Philippa’s current project, Sporting Pride, and also look out for her upcoming book that chronicles her gender transition.

If you need to talk to someone, call us now on 01-891 0703 or email info@insightmatters.ie for a confidential discussion and initial assessment with one of our senior therapists. Alternatively please fill in the online booking form (www.insightmatters.ie/book-online/) and we will contact you within 24 hours.