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Priya Arora is an American journalist who identifies as nonbinary.

Background

Arora earned a bachelor’s degree from University of California, Irvine in 2010, followed by a master’s degrees from New York University in 2014 and Columbia University in 2016.

Arora worked as an editor at India.com, Brown Girl Magazine, and Floor Covering Weekly before taking a role as frontpage editor at Yahoo in 2017, then HuffPost in 2018.

New York Times

From 2018 to 2022 Arora worked at the New York Times. Arora was interviewed by Carolyn Ryan and got a contractor role reviewing headlines for the website. In 2019 Arora raised concerns about bias in pieces about chest binding that cited anti-trans site 4thWaveNow and had biased headlines.

Arora was offered a full-time role in London on the global news desk, returning to New York in 2020 and soon being named a senior staff editor. After the Times published a troubling op-ed by Tom Cotton urging a crackdown on George Floyd protestors, Dean Baquet agreed to a meeting with staffers. That led to formalizing of employee affinity groups, including Times Out, where Arora became a leader. These groups soon felt like extensions of management, though, and they were unable to implement things like bringing Trans Journalists Association in for a presentation. After some Times Out members protested an editorial board piece critical of New York Pride for requesting police not to wear uniforms, Carolyn Ryan sided with management. Tensions reached a head when anti-trans activist Pamela Paul of the New York Times book section hired anti-trans activist Jesse Singal to review anti-trans activist Helen Joyce’s book Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality. Arora decided to send an email to Baquet:

I’m reaching out today as a trans non-binary NYT employee who has been deeply hurt by this week, by the actions of my own employer. I want to preface this by saying never before have I walked into a workplace on day one and felt like I belonged. For me, that’s been the magic of this place. Of this institution, of the journalism we do and the values we uphold.

Reviewing this book was absolutely the right call. Picking a cisgender, transphobic person who has a history of denying gender identity is real and who has hurt and defamed transgender journalists was not the right call. As much as transgender issues have come to the forefront in the last few years as people, we’ve always been here. I’m heartened by the progress the Times has made this past year and the renewed efforts towards DEI goals that are backed by action.

It becomes hard to be so invested in our journalism and our coverage when internally our members share the feeling that the Times is not only not as inclusive as it could be, but is actively doing harm to trans, to trans and queer folks inside the building. I don’t know how to defend this place that I love, the people and reporters and editors I love working with when my existence as a trans person feels like it’s up for debate. I’m writing to you because I respect you a lot. I want to make a difference here. I want to know that the Times hears me and sees me as a queer and trans person of color, and is taking my lived experience seriously. There’s a lot more work to be done, but healing the pain that has been caused would require starting with an acknowledgement of our wrongs with a true desire to understand where we’ve made mistakes. Thank you for taking the time to hear me out, and I look forward to hearing from you.

Baquet replied:

I do want the Times to be an inclusive place. It is important to me personally and professionally, but I have to tell you, I disagree with you in this instance. I know Pamela worked hard to find someone to review the book. There was not a long line of people who were willing to do so, to be honest. And for all the criticism of the choice in the building and on social media, I have not seen much criticism of the actual review. There is another very large principle at play here. The editor of the book review has to have tremendous freedom to make choices. Each of us has political views, personal views, and friends who write books. I think she worked tremendously hard to manage all of those issues. Harper I do hope this disagreement doesn’t make you less proud of the place, the place hasn’t changed.

Arora was assigned an audience development role in California. During an interview for a possible role under deputy managing editor Sam Dolnick, publisher A.G. Sulzberger’s cousin, Dolnick said Baquet shared Arora’s email about Singal with the entire masthead.

Arora felt that was the cue to leave, and in 2022, Arora took an editor role at Apple News.

References

Sohn, Amy (May 31, 2019). Chest Binding Helps Smooth the Way for Transgender Teens, but There May Be Risks. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/31/well/transgender-teens-binders.html

Staff report (May 31, 2019). Do You Use Chest Binders? Tell Us About Your Experience. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/31/reader-center/chest-binding-experience.html

Takenaga, Lara (June 17, 2019). ‘It’s Binding or Suicide’: Transgender and Non-Binary Readers Share Their Experiences With Chest Binders. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/reader-center/chest-binding.html

Gupta, Prachi (May 31, 2019) At the New York Times, ‘Objectivity’ Means Quoting One Trans Teen and One Anti-Trans Group. Jezebel https://jezebel.com/at-the-new-york-times-objectivity-means-quoting-one-tr-1835150495

Taylor, Derrick Bryson (November 2, 2019). Adoption Groups Could Turn Away L.G.B.T. Families Under Proposed Rule. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/02/us/trump-hhs-lgbtq-rule.html

The editorial board (May 18, 2021). A Misstep by the Organizers of Pride. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/opinion/nyc-pride-police-parade.html

Resources

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Lisa Selin Davis is an American author and “gender critical” activist involved in anti-transgender extremism. Since 2013, Davis has become a key anti-trans voice in American media, part of the movement’s “parental rights” faction. Davis has a gender diverse child and is unaccepting of the child’s interest in gender transition.

Davis’ attacks on the trans rights movement center on several gender critical tactics:

Davis claims “there is a dominant narrative about trans kids that the media is promoting.” According to Davis, this alleged narrative is merely “mantras by activists” and based on “feeling over fact.” Davis claims to have concerns about the affirmative model of care and is troubled that fellow anti-trans activists can no longer publish their conservative beliefs without consequence.

Davis claims to be a liberal who is part of the “silenced center.” Davis disavows being part of the gender critical world or the gender affirming world and simply wants to “diversify the media narrative.” So far, Davis’ “viewpoint diversity” efforts have largely been the promotion of extremist clinicians, cultural critics, and activists with similar gender critical beliefs.

Background

Davis was born January 18, 1972. Davis’ parent Peter is a musician who plays in a group called Annie and the Hedonists. Davis’ youth was spent in a Massachusetts suburb with parent Helaine Selin (born 1946), a librarian and author.

Helaine Selin worked at Hampshire College and helped “nepo baby” Davis attend, then graduate in 1993 with a bachelor’s degree in film studies. Davis then moved to New York City and lived with sibling Benjamin Lazar Davis, a musician. Davis built props at Nickelodeon for a few years, then earned an MFA in writing from Arizona State University in 2003.

Davis has edited a number of publications and websites, including Upstate House magazine, Senior Planet, KGB Bar, upstater.net, and brownstoner.com. Davis is the author of young adult novels Belly (2005) and Lost Stars (2016). Davis stopped writing in the genre, alleging it was no longer possible to write about characters from other demographic groups. Davis’ non-fiction writing has appeared in several publications, including Grist, The Wall Street Journal, Time, the New York Times, Quillette, and Quartz.

Davis and spouse Alex F. Sherwin live in New York with their two children, Enna and Athena. Davis’ 2020 book Tomboy is dedicated to them.

2013 Parenting article

In 2013, Davis wrote a piece for Parenting just before the magazine closed, titled “My Daughter Wants to be a Boy!” The title was stealth edited in 2017 to “My Daughter Is a Tomboy!” and the article was edited to remove some identifying information. The article was removed from the Parenting.com website in 2018, though the site remains online as part of a 2021 asset transfer from Meredith to Dotdash. The original version describes Davis’ child:

She insisted on being Spiderman for Halloween, and on getting light-up superhero sneakers “like my friend Luca’s” when she needed new shoes. They told us at school that she gravitated toward the boys, and though she is quite small for her age, and not particularly hearty, they told us she could hold her own with the rowdy bunch of them. 

And again, I thought, “How great is she?”

Well, okay, 90% of me said that. The other 10% thought, “uh-oh.” As she started to announce in ways both subtle and direct that she’s a boy, and ask me questions like “Why can’t boys have vaginas and girls have penises?” the ratio of heartwarming to heart-sinking has shifted.

Let me say that I don’t hold particularly conventional views about gender or sexuality. There are so many lesbians in my family that I fully expect either or both of my daughters to be gay (though of course I will love and accept them if they turn out to be heterosexual). But there is something about having the only girl who won’t play princess, the only girl in the school who thinks and says she’s a boy, that has shaken me a bit. Dressing like a boy? Cool. Thinking you actually are a boy? Way more complicated. […]

Some of my fears for Enna-as-boy are rooted in reality. It’s a much harder way to move through the world, identifying with the gender you weren’t assigned at birth.

2017 New York Times op-ed

In 2017, Davis wrote an op-ed in the New York Times insisting that their child is not transgender, but instead a “tomboy.” Davis says author Jennifer Finney Boylan gave it the thumbs up, and Davis claims the whole community on Twitter then gave it the thumbs up.

Following its warm reception among conservatives and anti-trans thought leaders, Davis was given a book deal and turned the piece into the 2020 book Tomboy. Despite a book deal and many subsequent writing gigs and media appearances, Davis claims to have been “cancelled” for the op-ed. Davis reportedly met with Chase Strangio and Kate Bornstein about Davis’ “concerns about the dominant narrative” that affirming care benefited gender diverse youth.

Drawing parallels to the response to Jesse Singal’s transphobic 2018 piece in The Atlantic, Davis claims to be part of a group of “left wing” people who meet surreptitiously to plan strategies that undermine affirming care and promote the “Dutch protocol” for gender diverse youth, a gatekeeping model of care sometimes called “watchful waiting.”

2020 book Tomboy

In an expansion of the 2017 op-ed, Davis’ thesis is that masculine girls have recently disappeared from the cultural landscape. This erasure narrative about “tomboys” and lesbians is a major talking point among gender critical and trans-exclusionary separatists.

Cultural criticism

The narrative Davis puts forth is permeated with metaphors of disease and impairment. Davis describes some gender diverse youth as being influenced by peers and having “comorbidities” that should be cured before they are approved for gender affirming health services. Davis has concerns that medical transition is being used “as a panacea for other mental health issues.”

Davis’ binary view about transitioning to “the opposite sex” presents trans rights as a moral dilemma that could harm cisgender people: “Do we want to make decisions that are worse for the majority of people but they benefit a small group?”

Davis has criticized Stanford University School of Medicine psychiatrist Jack Turban for asking the media not to use the term “detransition.” Davis was offended after getting criticized by Turban during an interview request. Davis uses the term “activist” as a thought-terminating pejorative for anyone who does not share similar views, even subject matter experts like Strangio and Turban.

Meanwhile, Davis supports numerous controversial disease models of sex and gender diversity, including Ray Blanchard‘s sex disease “autogynephilia” and Kenneth Zucker‘s diseases like “gender identity disorder” and “gender dysphoria.” Davis has spoken with ex-trans activists like James Shupe and supports conservative trans people such as Aaron Kimberly and Scott Newgent.

2022 Quillette profile of Erica Anderson

Davis complained after The Nation noted that gender critical publication Quillette was deemed transphobic for promoting “rapid-onset gender dysphoria” and other conservative beliefs about gender diverse youth. Davis told fellow anti-trans activist Benjamin Boyce, “I don’t read Quillette, but I know they have a more diverse media narrative around this issue.”

A couple of months later, Davis profiled conservative transgender clinician Erica Anderson in Quillette. Anderson began litigating conservative clinical views about trans and gender diverse youth in the press in 2021. Because USPATH had specifically stated that clinical disputes should be discussed among professionals and not litigated in the lay press, Anderson resigned from USPATH in a move to get more attention for these conservative clinical views from people like Davis.

2022 Newsweek op-ed

In a classic case of false balance and “bothsidesism,” Davis made the case against affirmative care in a Newsweek piece titled “What Both Sides Are Missing About the Science of Gender-Affirming Care.” As usual, one of the best ways to analyze Davis’ bias is via the proportion of text and links. These pieces always start of with a veneer of journalism, then quickly make a case for one position. Unlike the infamous 2018 Atlantic piece by Jesse Singal, at least this one is labeled opinion.

Davis cites 3 neutral sources and 7 sources that reflect expert medical consensus. Davis cites 35 sources that dispute expert medical consensus and support the gender critical view, which could basically be summarized thus: being trans is a rapidly spreading disease that should be monitored and controlled by a state-run healthcare system overseen by conservative clinicians and legislators, where even one bad outcome must be prevented at all costs. Even if the cost is 100 good outcomes. Others with Davis’ cis-centric point of view would add even if the cost is prosecuting the families and doctors who work toward good outcomes.

2022 San Francisco Chronicle op-ed

This piece purports to condemn extremist anti-trans legislators. It also suggests that mainstream medical consensus is the extremism at the other end of the political spectrum. Davis once again praises federal healthcare systems that require children to travel to centralized clinics run by state-funded gatekeepers in hopes of receiving medical care capped by a federal budget. Despite extensive evidence about the drawbacks of such systems for minorities seeking health services, like the US Veteran’s Administration or Canada’s CAMH, Davis is convinced that systems like Sweden’s, or worse, the UK’s will prevent rare cases of regret.

 2022 Skeptic special edition

Anti-trans activist Michael Shermer paid other members of the gender critical faction in the skeptic community to present their version of “the debate” about trans people. No trans contributors were invited. Joining Shermer in this attack were Harriet Hall, Carol Tavris, and Davis, whose piece is titled “Trans Matters: An Overview of the Debate, Research, and Policies.” Davis bristles about being lumped in with “conservative, transphobic bigots” and claims support for affirming models of care “is now a test of loyalty” among its supporters.

April 2022 Quillette piece

It was inevitable that Davis would become a regular contributor to Quillette’s steady stream of anti-trans articles. Davis’ efforts continued with a dogwhistle piece about “the encroachment of ideology on medicine by activists” and the “propaganda surrounding medical literature.” While the piece seems to condemn the national deluge of anti-trans legislation criminalizing trans healthcare, Davis’ real point is to claim that the government has gone too far in supporting trans youth. Davis cites several examples gleaned from anti-trans parenting forums.

September 2022 Boston Globe piece

Davis continues to place the same article in any outlet that will take it, in this case repurposing a Substack piece in the Boston Globe, which was then reprinted in the New York Post as “Kid gender guidelines not driven by science.” Davis blames WPATH for bomb threats against trans-affirming children’s hospitals, because they did not publish better Standards of Care. Davis quotes anti-trans allies including Julia Mason of Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine and James Cantor, formerly of CAMH. Davis once again holds up federally controlled conservative gatekeeping as the ideal protocol.

Podcast

Beginning in 2022, Davis began a series of interviews, mostly with conservative and anti-transgender guests.

  • August 22, 2023: Heterodox Trans People #6: Phil Illy
  • August 14, 2023: Telling Our Own Stories [PITT]
  • July 13, 2023: “Never Let Them in the Door. Immediately Lawyer Up.” [Erin Friday of Our Duty]
  • May 11, 2023: Heterodox Trans People #5: Julia Malott
  • April 6, 2023: “Gender Ideology Is Hurting My Trans Son” [unsupportive parent]
  • March 3, 2023: Heterodox Trans People #4: The Aarons [Aaron Kimberly and Aaron Terrell]
  • December 31, 2022: Heterodox Trans People #3: Corinna Cohn
  • December 14, 2022: Heterodox Trans People #2: “Stillman Cray”
  • December 5, 2022: Heterodox Trans People #1: Zander Keig
  • November 25, 2022: An Untenable Situation [ex-trans teacher]
  • October 19, 2022: “My whole body is a scar. My voice is a scar.” [ex-trans activist]
  • August 24, 2022: Gender Heretics Radio Hour [Ben Appel]
  • August 15, 2022: What You Need to Know About Title IX [Candice Jackson]
  • August 2, 2022: Everyone Should Read Bob Ostertag’s Book [Bob Ostertag]
  • June 13, 2022: From Tomboy to Transgender Trend [Stephanie Davies-Arai]

References

Ira, Stephen (April 24, 2017). What Lisa Selin Davis Got So Wrong In Her New York Times Essay About Her “Tomboy” Daughter. NewNowNext http://www.newnownext.com/lisa-selin-davis-new-york-times-transgender/04/2017/

McNamara, Heather (April 25, 2017). Lisa Selin Davis’ Child Is (Not) Transgender. Gender Analysis https://genderanalysis.net/2017/04/lisa-selin-davis-child-is-not-transgender/

Urquhart, Evan (April 21, 2017). In Our Gender Diverse Era, Parents Should Practice Humility With Their Kids. Slate https://slate.com/human-interest/2017/04/parents-of-gender-diverse-kids-need-to-embrace-humility-not-certainty.html

Damour, Lisa (October 7, 2020). ‘Tomboy’ Looks at Gender Roles, and Role-Playing, Through the Ages. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/books/review/lisa-selin-davis-tomboy.html

Selected articles by Davis

Davis, Lisa Selin (2013). “My Daughter Wants to be a Boy!” [retitled in 2017 as “My Daughter Is a Tomboy!” and removed in 2018] Parenting http://www.parenting.com/article/tomboy [archive]

Davis, Lisa Selin (April 18, 2017). My Daughter Is Not Transgender. She’s a Tomboy. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/opinion/my-daughter-is-not-transgender-shes-a-tomboy.html

Davis, Lisa Selin (April 3, 2017). For 18 years, I thought she was stealing my identity. Until I found her. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/03/identity-theft-racial-justice

Davis, Lisa Selin (2020). Tomboy: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare to Be Different. Grand Central Publishing, ISBN 9780316458290 

Davis, Lisa Selin (December 19, 2021). Tomboys, trans boys and ‘West Side Story.’ Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-12-19/tomboys-west-side-story-anybodys-gender-nonconforming-trans-people

Davis, Lisa Selin (January 6, 2022). A Trans Pioneer Explains Her Resignation from the US Professional Association for Transgender Health. Quillette https://quillette.com/2022/01/06/a-transgender-pioneer-explains-why-she-stepped-down-from-uspath-and-wpath/

Davis, Lisa Selin (February 22, 2022). What Both Sides Are Missing About the Science of Gender-Affirming Care. Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/what-both-sides-are-missing-about-science-gender-affirming-care-opinion-1681396

Davis, Lisa Selin (March 4, 2022). Texas investigations into gender-affirming care for kids aren’t just cruel, they hurt science. San Francisco Chronicle https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Texas-investigations-into-gender-affirming-care-16975929.php

Davis, Lisa Selin (March 4, 2022). Gender-Transition Decisions Should Be Made by Families, Not the State. Quillette https://quillette.com/2022/04/25/gender-transition-decisions-should-be-made-by-families-not-the-state/

Davis, Lisa Selin (Volume 27 Number 1). Trans Matters: An Overview of the Debate, Research, and Policies. Skeptic https://www.skeptic.com/magazine/archives/27.1/

Davis, Lisa Selin (May 11, 2022). Investigative Issues: The Shaky Foundation of ‘Gender-Affirming Care.’ Via Year Zero Substack by Wesley Yang. https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/the-gender-affirming-house-of-cards/

Davis, Lisa Selin (May 13, 2022). These parents didn’t embrace gender-affirming care. Texas investigated them. Dallas Morning News https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2022/05/15/texas-parents-investigated-for-not-embracing-gender-affirming-care/

Davis, Lisa Selin (August 30, 2022). How to treat gender dysphoria. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2022/08/how-to-treat-gender-dysphoria/

Davis, Lisa Selin (December 10, 2022). Liberal media refuses to tell full truth about transgender kids. New York Post https://nypost.com/2022/12/10/liberal-media-refuses-to-tell-full-truth-about-transgender-kids/

Books

Davis, Lisa Selin (2024). Housewife: Why Women Still Do It All and What to Do Instead. Legacy Lit, ISBN 978-1538722886

Davis, Lisa Selin (2020). Tomboy: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare to Be Different. Legacy Lit, ISBN 978-0316458313

Media

Big Think: Should parents de-emphasize gender norms? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf52XWX27kU

Benjamin A. Boyce: Tomboys & Other Untold Tales https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PH-MjV7Dms


To the Contrary on PBS: Woman Thought Leader Lisa Selin Davis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtnKjA48Uvc

Gender Dysphoria Alliance: Tomboy: with Lisa Selin Davis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ip7R8znFyw

Gender: A Wider Lens: Who Gets to Decide What’s Normal: A Conversation w/ Lisa Selin Davis, hosted by Stella O’Malley & Sasha Ayad

Resources

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Note: In 2025, this site phased out AI illustrations after artist feedback. The previous illustration is here.

Karen Davis is an American musician and anti-transgender activist.

Background

Davis earned a bachelor’s degree from New York University. In college, Davis became aware of radical feminism an got involved in feminist activism.

From 1992 to 1997 Davis worked as a kindergarten teacher in Brooklyn. Davis has been a working musician and music teacher since 1997. In 2005, Davis teamed up with singer/guitarist Joe Pla to perform classic rock and blues locally.

Davis was raised Catholic and has a sibling who identifies as gay.

Anti-trans activism

Davis is reportedly “fascinated and appalled by the Gender Wars.” Davis was radicalized on reddit via suspended gender critical subreddits.

In 2020 Davis started a YouTube series called “You’re Kiddin’, Right?” The account was later suspended for hate speech.

Media

Jon Uhler (SurvivorSupport.net) (Jul 12, 2024). Guest Karen Davis: Unmasking the Dangers of the Trans Pushers, “Trans Allies,” & Their Agenda. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuWNyctrNKo

Tufty (Mar 31, 2022). Karen Davis says Graham Linehan used racist tropes to discredit her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6wyi1OrKw8

RubbleOfEmpires (Jan 17, 2022). GenSpect, Mars & Karen Davis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kfHN-UQrGI

Savage Minds (Nov 11, 2021). S2E8: Karen Davis. https://savageminds.substack.com/p/karen-davis

Heterodorx (). Episode 22: Karen Davis Isn’t Kidding! https://www.heterodorx.com/podcast/episode-22-karen-davis-isnt-kidding/

Transition Radio Show (Jun 1, 2021). TRS Presents Karen Davis:How She Reached Her Peak Trans Moment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAsC1weMcGw

Women’s Human Rights Campaign-USA (Feb 5, 2021). Interview with Karen Davis of “You’re Kidding, Right?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ziVbe_VFZU

Women’s Declaration International (WDI) (December 21, 2020). Karen Davies musician & YouTuber of ‘You’re kiddin’ right?’ talks about her activism in the US. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tQDWMc-a90

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“Christina Buttons” is the pen name of Christina Berry, an American writer, former sex worker, illustrator, and anti-transgender activist who wrote articles for anti-trans publication The Daily Wire until 2023. Berry joined the anti-trans Manhattan Institute in 2024.

Background

Christina “Tina” Berry is reportedly “from a small town in Alabama” and grew up in the San Diego area.

Berry stated, “I received many diagnoses throughout my life, the most recent being Asperger’s syndrome at age 30.” Starting in middle school, Berry felt ostracized and reported the following problems that required therapy:

  • body dysmorphia
  • dermatillomania
  • insomnia
  • obsessive-compulsive habits
  • self-cutting
  • anorexia
  • major depressive disorder
  • trips to “emergency rooms, psychiatric hospitals, outpatient programs, and group homes”
  • monotone voice
  • “limited eye contact”
  • “flat affect”
  • “stumbling while walking and almost falling”
  • “a large number of atypical perceptual experiences”
  • “social immaturity”
  • “significant inflexibility in her thinking”
  • “difficulty identifying feelings”
  • “tendency to express emotions indirectly and impulsively” 
  • “emotionally disturbed”
  • drug and alcohol use
  • groomed and raped at age 15 by a 47 year old

“After running away from two lower-security residential treatment facilities, flunking out of a wilderness program in Idaho, and several more psychiatric hospital stays, I arrived at my final destination: a lockdown psychiatric residential treatment center in Utah called Provo Canyon School, where I would live for a year.”

After returning home and getting a GED, Berry moved in with a romantic partner and began doing sex work. As a young adult, Berry appeared in pornography as “Rita Lovely” and “Cute Courtney.”

Berry worked at Moonbow Publishing as a contract illustrator, which began a turning point away from some of these earlier self-destructive behaviors.

Anti-transgender activism

Berry stated, “I became a journalist after discovering the stories of detransitioners—stories that deeply resonated with my own struggles with mental health and identity.”

After working for anti-diversity organization Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism, Berry worked at The Post Millennial in 2022 before joining The Daily Wire.

Berry plans to continue this anti-trans work with a book titled The Parent’s Survival Guide to Gender Ideology and a website genderdebunked.com.

In 2024, Berry joined the Manhattan Institute, which led to revelations about Berry’s work in hardcore pornography.

Over the course of this activism, Berry began a relationship with anti-trans activist Colin Wright.

2023 Daily Wire resignation

Berry covered transgender issues for The Daily Wire, switching to “Christina Buttons” after starting. In 2023, Berry resigned from The Daily Wire over its increasingly inflammatory anti-trans rhetoric, particularly that of Matt Walsh and Michael Knowles:

I’m leaving The Daily Wire. I work hard getting the facts right and using precise language because of the heated nature of the gender debate, with so much at stake, while their pundits dump gasoline all over it for entertainment and clicks.

As an independent journalist I will continue my commitment to factual and rigorous reporting on gender ideology and pediatric gender medicine, with the goal of reaching people across the political spectrum. You can help support my journalism by donating.

I’ve already begun receiving inquiries from left-wing publications to see if I’ll give them dirt. As a company, The Daily Wire is a fantastic place to work, they treat their employees extremely well, their editorial team is top notch and everyone I have ever interacted with there is wonderful. I am leaving because I want to reach people on the center-left and lately I’ve felt there has been a distinct increase in inflammatory rhetoric from some of The Daily Wire’s personalities that make it more difficult to accomplish that.

Why? I didn’t misrepresent their views. They made extremely controversial public statements, doubled down on them, and I left so that I could express my opinions on them. My loyalty is to the people who are trying to improve the situation with gender medicine, not inflame it.

I would never use the word transgenderism to describe gender ideology. It was either a sloppy choice from not having done enough research or it was intentionally meant to inflame. Most people believe that being transgender is the same as being gay. That’s why I expend so much energy trying to inform people on why “gender identity” has no biological basis. Furthermore, “eradicating” gender ideology completely from all aspects of life is not realistic, nor attainable and amounts to conservative virtue signaling. We have to be specific about what “gender identity” ideology is, where it came from, what the tenets are, where it should not be taught (K-12) or accommodated (sports, prisons, etc) otherwise you drive mass hysteria. Most reasonable people would agree with all of these points if they were given the opportunity to have them be explained.

References

Goforth, Claire (March 7, 2023). Matt Walsh lashes out at Daily Wire reporter who quit over his increasing transphobia. Daily Dot https://www.dailydot.com/debug/daily-wire-reporter-christina-buttons-resignation-matt-walsh-transphobia/

Meyer, Ken (March 7, 2023) Reporter Quits The Daily Wire With Scathing Open Letter Decrying ‘Overtly Partisan’ Trans Coverage. Mediaite https://www.mediaite.com/news/reporter-quits-the-daily-wire-with-scathing-open-letter-decrying-overtly-partisan-trans-coverage/

“thunderturdy” (March 7, 2023). Comment: Why I’m leaving the Daily Wire. reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/transgender/comments/11l1vb0/why_im_leaving_the_daily_wire_christina_buttons/ [deleted]

I know her from college. This girl was and very likely still IS seriously troubled. She had a few break downs in front of us all at a classmates’ home, like people saw her do incredibly inappropriate shit that I will not repeat here out of respect for her. She then went on to do porn for a while (not kidding), then decided she wanted to move to Europe and got married to a Swiss dude only to dump him and run back home..THEN she reappeared wanting to be a microbiologist (or some kind of scientist) then moved on to illustration…my point with saying all of this is that she’s a lost grifter, clinging to anything that will get her love, admiration, and attention. I feel bad for her honestly, because she was always so sweet and kind… but not that bad anymore since she decided to align herself with fascists. I thought she was ok up til now. Bummer.

Selected writing by Berry

Buttons, Christina (December 10, 2024). Crazy is You or Me, Amplified. Buttons Lives https://www.buttonslives.news/p/crazy-is-you-or-me-amplified

Berry, Christina (September 7, 2022). Alabama Nonprofit Fighting Underage Gender Treatments Says They’re Being Targeted By ‘Unprecedented’ DOJ Subpoena. Daily Wire https://www.dailywire.com/news/alabama-nonprofit-fighting-underage-gender-treatments-says-theyre-being-targeted-by-unprecedented-doj-subpoena [archive]

Berry, Christina (September 6, 2022). Nearly 1 In 4 Democratic Voters Believe Men Can Get Pregnant: Poll. Daily Wire https://www.dailywire.com/news/nearly-1-in-4-democratic-voters-believe-men-can-get-pregnant-poll [archive]

Buttons, Christina (March 7, 2023). Why I’m Leaving The Daily Wire. Reality’s Last Stand https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/why-im-leaving-the-daily-wire

Resources

Christina Buttons (buttonslives.com)

Cute Courtney (cutecourtney.com) [archive]

Model Mayhem (modelmayhem.com)

  • Rita Lovely
  • modelmayhem.com/ritalovely
  • modelmayhem.com/798695 [archive]

My Life in LA (mylifeinla.com)

  • Rita Lovely
  • mylifeinla.com/acasting/ritalovely [archive]

One Model Place (onemodelplace.com)

  • Rita Lovely
  • onemodelplace.com/member.cfm?ID=293013 [archive]

X/Twitter (x.com)

Substack (substack.com)

LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

Instagram (instagram.com)

YouTube (youtube.com)

Buttons Lives (buttonslives.com)

TikTok (tiktok.com)

Etsy (etsy.com)

Amazon (amazon.com)

Daily Wire (dailywire.com)

Quillette (quillette.com)

Manhattan Institute (manhattan.institute)

City Journal (city-journal.org)

Blocked and Reported is a “drama” podcast hosted by anti-transgender activists Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog. It has significant coverage overlap with other anti-transgender drama channels like Libs of TikTok and The Matt Walsh Show.

Originally billed as a podcast about “dumb internet garbage” or “internet nonsense,” in 2024 it was rebranded as about “internet controversies.”

Background

Blocked and Reported was founded in 2020 under the auspices of Permabanned Media LLC.

Their original logo was by a follower.
They later got a less amateurish logo by Shannon Loys.

Orbiters and employees

In 2022 they engaged the services of two sociopathic trolls from another “drama” site called rdrama.net, a group banned from reddit for trolling who started a rival drama forum. They create hoaxes and memes to ratchet up online drama, which Blocked and Reported can then cover. Singal and Herzog seem unconcerned about the ethics of this practice.

One troll named Jack Despain Zhou uses the online handles Jackal, TraceWoodgrains, and Tracingwoodgrains. This person’s involvement is explained on their site using a homophobic and antisemitic meme:

blocked and reported homophobic antisemitic
Original homophobic and antisemitic cartoon by “A. Wyatt Mann” (left), repurposed and published by Singal and Herzog (right) on Blocked and Reported (2022) [enlarge]

The other troll uses the handle LexerLux and interacts with commenters.

As another example of how these Blocked and Reported employees reflect the low-empathy personalities of Singal and Herzog, within hours of the incident, “LexerLux” was posting hoaxes about the murders of six people at a Christian school in Tennessee.

“LexerLux” hoax posted the day of the Nashville school shooting

The podcast’s “one of the good ones” branding was perfected by Herzog’s former employer Dan Savage in the 1990s. They like to pretend they are edgy “lefty” iconoclasts who aren’t bothered by slurs and hoaxes, but these kinds of “pickme” people are invariably thin-skinned and histrionic about progressive neologisms as well as how others describe them.

Singal has also logrolled for “Adam Friended” and “PSA Sitch,” appearing on an unlisted stream in 2022.

Guests and guest hosts

Episodes have included a number of conservative, ex-trans, and anti-trans guests and guest hosts. Others have not publicly discussed their views on trans people.

  • “PSA Sitch”

reddit

On reddit, the r/BlockedAndReported subreddit is one of the few remaining anti-trans hate subreddits. They feature a tag specifically for Trans Issues and frequently disparage and mock trans people in the news.

Because so many of the members were involved in other anti-trans subreddits that have already been banned, moderators have had to set strict rules about how transphobic users contribute: “Any trans-related threads that are not DIRECTLY related to a topic discussed on the pod will be removed. However, feel free to post any other trans topics in the Weekly Discussion Thread.” This rule was later amended:

Trans Topics

Threads around trans topics are subject to removal at the arbitrary discretion of the mods. This sub is not meant to be a replacement for r/GenderCritical! Because of the overzealous reddit policies around this subject, discussions around this topic can put the sub at risk (even when there is nothing genuinely objectionable) and so any such threads will be monitored carefully, and possibly removed or locked if the mods deem it necessary.

Moderators include:

  • “SoftandChewy” (subreddit creator)
  • “ShaykItOff”
  • “Blanderama”

Related subreddits

In addition to r/IntellectualDarkWeb, the reddit algorithm for related communities showed that users frequently monitored the three top trans-supportive subreddits:

  • r/transgender
  • r/asktransgender
  • r/trans

The data visualization below shows the ideological overlap with other subreddits:

Alt-right / “intellectual dark web”

  • IntellectualDarkWeb
  • samharris

Anti-liberal

  • ShitLibSafari
  • stupidpol
  • StupidPolEurope
  • redscarepod
  • thefunhouseofideology

“Rationalist” / libertarian

  • CultureWarRoundUp
  • theschism
  • TheMotte
  • slatestarcodex
  • WeTheFifth
  • VeryBadWizards

Culture podcasts

  • gimlet
  • ezraklein
  • replyallpodcast
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References

workmanswhistle (April 30, 2022). BAR getting some heat for LOTT hoax. reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/BlockedAndReported/comments/ufi6hi/bar_getting_some_heat_for_lott_hoax/ [archive]

blahblahblahblah8 (September 13, 2022). Finally, an accurate and fair-minded assessment of the pod and its sociopathic researcher. reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/BlockedAndReported/comments/xdo0vc/finally_an_accurate_and_fairminded_assessment_of/ [archive] [repost]

Resources

Blocked and Reported (blockedandreported.org)

reddit (reddit.com)

X/Twitter (x.com)

Bluesky (bsky.app)

Facebook (facebook.com)

  • BARflies [founded 2020, removed in 2022]
  • facebook.com/groups/335760494204788 [archive]

Open Government in Washington State (opengovwa.com)

John Derbyshire is a British-American author, eugenicist, and anti-transgender activist. Derbyshire is a member of the Human Biodiversity Institute, a conservative-run eugenics think tank closely associated with promoting harmful views about trans people, particularly the group’s promotion of the transphobic 2003 book The Man Who Would Be Queen by HBI member J. Michael Bailey.

Background

John Derbyshire was born on June 3, 1945. Derbyshire attended the Northampton School for Boys and earned a degree from University College London. Derbyshire was a computer programmer for stock market speculators before becoming a full-time writer. Derbyshire’s work has appeared in National Review, The New Criterion, The American Conservative , Unz Review, Taki’s Magazine, VDARE, and The Washington Times.

Derbyshire was fired by National Review in 2012 for a Taki’s Magazine article titled The Talk: Nonblack Version.

Derbyshire married Lynette Rose Derbyshire in Jilin, China in 1986. They have two children.

In 2012, Derbyshire was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Derbyshire hosts a podcast on a platform owned by John Christopher Zander (aka The Z Man), doing business as Z Media LLC.

Anti-trans activism

Derbyshire and J. Michael Bailey both had books published by Joseph Henry Press.

Man Who Would Be Queen review (2003)

Derbyshire wrote a glowing review of J. Michael Bailey’s The Man Who Would Be Queen for National Review.

“Lost in the Male”: review by John Derbyshire [excerpt]

Part Three is the book’s most difficult section, because it deals with the rarest and most puzzling aspect of male effeminacy: According to Bailey, less than one man in 12,000 is transsexual, a condition defined simply by “the desire to become a member of the opposite sex,” whether or not that desire has led to actual surgery. The striking finding here is that there are two quite distinct types of men who wish they were women, distinguished by the choice of erotic object. On the one hand there are “homosexual transsexuals,” who desire masculine men—heterosexual men, for preference—and who dress and behave like women to attract them. And then there is the “autogynephilic transsexual,” a man whose erotic attention is fixed on the idea of himself as a woman.

The strangeness of this latter type is captured nicely in the title of Bailey’s chapter on them: “Men Trapped in Men’s Bodies.” An autogynephile is essentially a heterosexual man whose object of desire is an imaginary feminine creature which happens to be himself… or herself, depending on how you look at it. Such a person was usually not effeminate as a child, has likely been married, and does not show typically homosexual preferences in career or entertainment choices. The historian and travel writer Jan (formerly James) Morris, to judge from her autobiographical book Conundrum, belongs to this category. The consummation of sexual desire presents obvious difficulties for the autogynephile. Indeed, it is occasionally fatal: Around 100 American men die every year from “autoerotic asphyxia,” which seems to arise from a conjunction of masochism and autogynephilia—the two conditions are related in some way not well understood.

All of these types—girlish boys, male homosexuals, transsexuals of both types—are of course human beings, who, like the rest of us, must play the best game they can with the cards Nature has dealt them. No decent person would wish to inflict on them any more unhappiness than their mismatched bodies and psyches have already burdened them with. At the same time, there is circumstantial evidence that complete acceptance and equality for all sexual orientations may have antisocial consequences, so that the obloquy aimed at sexual variance by every society prior to our own may have had some stronger foundation than mere blind prejudice. Male homosexuality, in particular, seems to possess some quality of being intrinsically subversive when let loose in long-established institutions, especially male dominated ones. The courts of at least two English kings offer support to this thesis, as does the postwar British Secret Service, and more recently the Roman Catholic priesthood. I should like to see some adventurous sociologist research these outward aspects with as much diligence and humanity as Michael Bailey has applied to his study of the inward ones.

Derbyshire’s positive review (as with Dan Seligman in Forbes) shows why this book will be embraced by conservatives as part of the new “calculated compassion” movement in the face of significant and unstoppable LGBT political advances in the last 30 years. Seems they hope to slow things down at least.

As expected, uber-conservative Derbyshire loves Bailey. In discussing the first two sections, he brings up Bailey’s cloacal extrophy story, his woefully uninformed “homosexual voice” thinking and clueless conjectures on why certain jobs in the gender ghettoes go to gay men.

Then he gets to the part on trans people, which Derbyshire sums up perfectly and exposes the book for what it is. Bailey has been claiming he never called us men, but that’s not how anyone else sees it, whether they’re Derbyshire, yours truly, or other psychologists. Derbyshire also picks up on how Bailey claims there’s a connection between transsexual women and 25 men a year who die from self-strangulation while masturbatingin panties.

The 1 in 12,000 number cited is way off, as Bailey is about to find out. I would estimate several thousand assimilated trans women in the Chicago area alone, and probably five times that many who would fit in Bailey’s definition of anyone seriously thinking about transition. Bailey should be very pleased to see that conservatives like Tammy Bruce and John Derbyshire are taking up Anne Lawrence’s “Men Trapped in Men’s Bodies”cliche, which dovetails perfectly with the Man Who Would Be Queen title.

Subsequent commentary (2003)

Derbyshire sees gay people as “intrinsically subversive” when allowed in positions of power (see the Califia-Rice quotation on my “illegal immigrants” page for how those of us who pass get painted as moles and traitors).

Derbyshire’s review came about the same way as Bailey’s Amazon shill reviews, it turns out. A little logrolling. Both were published by National Academies Press: Derbyshire’s Prime Obsession:and Bailey’s The Man Who Would Be Queen both came out in 2003.

The Derb is well-known for anti-gay commentary, and he’s taking us to task for being those “‘transgender’ extremists,” miserable ingrates who just aren’t satisfied with the crumbs from the table.

http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/03_06_15_corner-archive.asp

The homosexual-rights activists are in a period of overshoot. They have banished the old regime of illegality, persecution and blackmail, and a good thing too. Now, however, they are trying to effect radical changes in society, changes which huge numbers of people will not stomach. As I have said before: “Homosexuals would, I believe, be wise to lower the volume, cherish their private lives, withdraw the more contentious litigation, and stop ‘pushing the envelope.’ Envelopes can break.”

There’s also this gem (interesting in light of my business partner Calpernia’s boyfriend Barry, who was gay-bashed on base for months before he was literally beaten to death with a baseball bat):

The extremist-homosexualist lobbies are extremely skilled at this. Just look at the word “gay-bashing.” It ought to mean whacking someone over the head with a baseball bat. What it actually means–is taken to mean by ordinary Americans–is the utterance of anything opposed to the extremist-homosexualist cause. (It was used against me just five minutes ago in an e-mail, because I wondered aloud about diseases specific to male homosexuals.)

And last, before we get to the review, an anecdote about his wacky adventures with Bailey (emphasis mine):

June 12, 2003 blog post

The Man Who Would Be Late

Yes, it’s true: NRODT [archive link] really did assign me to review Michael Bailey’s book about effeminate men. I urge you to do one, or better yet both, of the following: (a) get a subscription to NRODT so you can read my review, or (b) buy Michael’s book. As well as the obvious reasons to buy it (it’s a good book, full of fascinating observations and, so far as I could discern, agenda-free), there is also the fact that Michael, the nicest guy you could ever wish to meet, and a very conscientious researcher, is being vilified by militant trans-gender extremists. Here is an anecdote about the book. It happens that Michael and I share the same publisher. We had adjoining tables at Book Expo America in Los Angeles the other day. The drill is, you get half an hour at a table in a huge hall, where people line up in front of the tables to get a free book (this is a trade show) signed by the author. It’s all timed very precisely by the organizers, as they have a LOT of authors to get through. Well, I was waiting in the green room with my publisher’s publicity lady, to do my signing at 12:30. Michael was scheduled to sign at the same time, but he was late. It got to be 12:15, 12:20, and the publicity lady was getting worried. Derb: “I sure hope he gets here on time. A long line of angry transsexuals doesn’t bear thinking about…” Fortunately Michael showed up with a minute to spare.

More fun with The Derb

From his blog work on the National Review’s The Corner. Links in text added by me.

Derbyshire, John (November 16, 2003). Culture wars: Report from Derb bunker. National Review http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/03_11_16_corner-archive.asp [archive]

November 16, 2003

CULTURE WARS: REPORT FROM DERB BUNKER [John Derbyshire]

Following the “Derbophobe” link at the end of today’s column, a number of readers have e-mailed in to ask what on earth I have done to tick off this Lynn Conway person so very comprehensively. 

It’s a long story but here is the gist of it. 

There is a professor of psychology at Northwestern University, Michael Bailey. Michael’s research specialty is the psychology of “gender identity.” He studies–in a formal, peer-reviewed academic sense–things like homosexuality, transsexualism, and so on. Earlier this year he published a book about his research, titled The Man Who Would Be Queen. I am slightly acquainted with Michael and his work–we are both members of a certain invitation-only e-list dealing with matters of human variation from biological, psychological and sociological perspectives. I therefore volunteered to review his book for National Review. My review duly appeared in the June 30 issue of NRODT this year. Here it is. 

Now, the last part of Michael’s book deals with male transsexuals–men who wish to become women. In it, he subscribes to the theory (which did not originate with him) that there are two quite distinct types of male transsexual. The first type is pretty straightforward, just a particularly effeminate kind of homosexual, who wants to be a woman in order to attract male sex partners–heterosexual ones for preference. The second type, however, is much stranger. This is the “autogynephile”–a masculine, basically heterosexual man, whose erotic attention is fixated on the image of himself as a woman. In the studies Michael (and others) have done, this type appears quite distinct from the other. Autogynephiles, for example, are likely to have been married to normal women and to have fathered children by them. They differ from the other type–the “homosexual transsexual”–in all sorts of other ways, too, that show up clearly in life histories and psychological tests. 

Now, this is all psychological theory. It may be wrong–though on the evidence Michael presents, in his book and elsewhere, it seems to this non-specialist that he has a pretty good case. This theory, however, is pure poison to those autogynephiles who, like Lynn Conway, have hadsex-reassignment surgery. They take very strong exception to the implication that they are fundamentally males–and heterosexual males at that! WE ARE WOMEN! They scream. FULLY FEMININE WOMEN! To say that they take strong exception to Michael’s work is, in fact, to understate the situation. They are spitting furious with Bailey, and have launched a huge campaign against him and anyone associated with him. 

The scale of their campaign is tremendous. Anyone who ever shook hands with Michael Bailey is being tracked down and “exposed” via materials like those I linked to. This campaign is very well financed and has pulled in some big guns–the Southern Poverty Law Center, for example, is carrying out a “hate crimes” investigation. Our publisher has been lobbied ferociously to withdraw Michael’s book (Michael’s publicist, who is also mine, has been a target of their campaign) and Northwestern has also been threatened with various kinds of action if they do not shut Michael’s mouth. 

What’s this got to do with me? Well, I gave Michael’s book a friendly review, see, so I must be part of the Axis of Evil. In fact, these lunatics have erected a huge conspiracy theory about myself and Michael, based on the fact that, wait for it, we have the same publisher!!! It follows, you see, that Michael and I meet secretly in a basement somewhere every Friday to plot further insults and outrages against these autogynephiles. I’m not kidding. This stuff is bizarre. 

In fact, other than belonging to the same e-list, Michael and I are not acquainted. I have met him just once: his book came out at the same time as mine, and our publisher sent us both to BookExpo in Los Angeles this summer, along with all their other authors whose books had just appeared. Michael does not, in fact, altogether approve of me. He is–as his book clearly shows–sympathetic to people with “gender identity” problems, and regards me as a primitive homophobe. (Imagine! Me!!) 

A great many other facts on Lynn Conway’s website are wrong, too. I have never, for example, written a book about yachting, and I have never heard of half the people she names as being part of the great Bailey-Derbyshire conspiracy to present autogynephiles as essentially male. 

Not to put too fine a point on it, Lynn Conway is nuts. She and her pals have money, though, and energy, and a big cheering section in the “gay rights” crowd, so I shall probably end up in jail for some kind of “hate crime” before they are through with me. 

OK, it’s all a bit of a storm in a teacup. It does illustrate, though, the savagery of the “gender issues” and “gay rights” campaigners. These people are pure totalitarians, intent on shutting up and destroying anyone who goes against their party line–even someone as generally sympathetic as Bailey. They are absolutely unscrupulous, very well funded, and have powerful friends in Congress and the judiciary–it is they who are driving this new “hate crimes” legislation. 

As an opinion journalist, I am fair game, and I can take care of myself. Michael, though, is a scientist, a “retired and uncourtly scholar,” quite unused to this kind of vituperation and misrepresentation. His work ought to be validated, or disproved, via the usual processes of discussion and peer review. 

Lynn Conway and her gang couldn’t care less about any of that. Like the rest of the “gay rights” and “gender issues” crowd, they want to shut down all discussion and debate. Fundamentally they are extreme narcissists, who react with blind unreasoning fury when their precious self-esteem is pricked. They don’t want peer review; they don’t want science; they don’t want discussion; they want blood. This is real culture war here, and if we lose it, we shall lose our freedoms. 

November 17, 2003

TRANSSEXUALS VS. BAILEY-DERB AXIS OF EVIL [John Derbyshire]

Many readers have expressed great interest in the flap ove Michael Bailey’s book, which I sketched out in a long Corner post yesterday. Michael Bailey himself has set up a site to give his account of the affair. You can, by the way, read Michael’s book free on the web–there is a link somewhere in that site. 

TRANSSEXUALS VS. DERB [John Derbyshire]

A reader (one of several expressing the same sentiment): “Why do you play along with this person’s [i.e. Lynn Conway’s, the male-to-female transsexual who put up that ‘Derbophobe’ web site] pathology by calling him a “she”? As a woman, I can tell you one thing for sure: He is not a woman, just a poor, deluded amputee.” 

In my opinion, this is not an easy call. You can make a polemical point–and, if the offending theory is true, be technically correct–by referring to Lynn Conway as “he.” I think my own preference for “she” just derives from a strong, old-fashioned attachment to good manners. 

Now, you could argue that, given the vituperation heaped on my head by Lynn Conway, she has forfeited any right to good manners on my part. I just don’t agree. If she considers herself a woman, and has gone to all the pain and expense of having an operation to make her feel more like a woman, I think common courtesy dictates that we call her what she wishes to be called, however deluded we may think she is. To start referring to her as “he” just seems a bit spiteful and nyah-nyah-ish, even if technically correct. Perhaps I’m not making a good case here; perhaps I’m not sure about this; but that is kind of the point. When in doubt, stick with good manners. 

This is related, in some way I can’t be bothered to figure out, to the question of whether to pronounce your enemy’s name properly. I used to work with a woman who was perfectly detestable–everyone detested her, she was a sneak and a suck-up, incompetent and lazy, but highly skilled at ingratiating herself with management. Her name was “Diane,” which in England is pronounced “die-AN.” Well, she had this big thing about how she wanted everyone to say “DEE-an.” Naturally we all referred to her as “die-AN.” Now, twenty years on, with the sage maturity of my years, I think I would have said “DEE-an,” while working very hard indeed to get her fired. 

[By the way, “Derbyshire” is pronounced “DAH-bi-shuh.” That’s “DAH-bi-shuh”–everybody got that?] 
Posted at 02:31 PM

Eugenics

Derbyshire has been reading the work of his eugenicist friends like J. Michael Bailey:

http://www.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire200405140857.asp

Now, the trend in current research on homosexuality, if I have understood it correctly, suggests that the homosexual orientation is indeed mostly congenital — the result of events in the mother’s womb, or in early infancy, with perhaps some slight genetic predisposition. The thing is, in short, mainly biochemical — part of a person’s physical make-up.

Supposing this is true, let us conduct a wee thought experiment — admittedly a fanciful one. A young woman in the late stages of pregnancy, or carrying a small infant, shows up at her doctor’s office. “Doctor,” she asks, “is there some kind of test you can do to tell me if my child is likely to become a homosexual adult?” The doctor says yes, there is. “And,” the woman continues, “suppose the test is positive — would that be something we can fix? I mean, is there some sort of medical, or genetic, or biochemical intervention we can do at this stage, to prevent that happening?” The doctor says yes, there is. “How much does the test cost? And supposing it’s positive, how much does the fix cost?” The doctor says $50, and $500. The woman takes out her checkbook. 

Of course this is not happening anywhere in the U.S.A. right now. If my understanding of the state of current research is correct, however, it might very well be happening on a daily basis ten years from now.

References

Squire, Megan (February 18, 2022). Prolific White Nationalist Personality Identified. SPLC https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/prolific-white-nationalist-personality-identified/

Byers, Dylan (April 7, 2012). National Review fires John Derbyshire. Politico https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/04/national-review-fires-john-derbyshire-119887

Derbyshire, John (April 05, 2012). The Talk: Nonblack Version http://takimag.com/article/the_talk_nonblack_version_john_derbyshire/ [archive]

Derbyshire, John (November 16, 2003). Culture wars: Report from Derb bunker. National Review http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/03_11_16_corner-archive.asp [archive]

Derbyshire, John (June 12, 2003). The Man Who Would Be Late. National Review http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/03_06_08_corner-archive.asp [archive]

Derbyshire, John June 30, 2003. Lost in the Male. National Review, pp. 51-52. https://www.unz.com/jderbyshire/lost-in-the-male/

Conway, Lynn (2003). Who is John Derbyshire? by Lynn Conway http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/Derbyshire/Who-is-JD.html

Conway, Lynn (2003). Full text and commentary by Lynn Conway http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/Derbyshire/DerbyshireReview.html

Conway, Lynn (2003). Follow-up report describing Derbyshire’s involvement in this matter. http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/Bailey/NFIC/NFIC.html

Books

  • From the Dissident Right (Vdare Books, 2013) ISBN 978-1304001542
  • We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism (Crown Forum, 2009) ISBN 978-0-307-40958-4
  • Unknown Quantity: A Real And Imaginary History of Algebra (Joseph Henry Press, 2006) ISBN 0-309-09657-X
  • Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (Plume Books, 2003) ISBN 0-452-28525-9
  • Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream (St. Martin’s Griffin, 1997) ISBN 0-312-15649-9

Resources

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

John Derbyshire (johnderbyshire.com)

X/Twitter (x.com)

Z Media LLC / Radio Derb (thezman.com/wordpress)

In 2018, Benjamin A. Boyce began a series of interviews with other anti-transender, conservative, and ex-trans figures. The show is alternately called “Calmversations” or “The Boyce of Reason.” Despite the show’s relaxed tone, Boyce’s guests are often strident critics of progressive aspects of the trans rights movement.

See this episode list for details.

Guests

The guest list below is still being organized and updated.

The ex-trans movement

Conservative sex and gender minorities / transmedicalists

Gender critical feminists and activists

Parental rights

  • “ROGD Mom”

Artists and entertainers

Gender critical people in other areas of public life

Miscellaneous

  • Sinead & Helena
  • Skylar & Joy
  • Daniel Stange
  • Mars
  • Alex Kaschuta
  • Emily
  • “A Woman”
  • Ash and Raphael

Sex-segregated sports

Masculinity/men’s rights, etc.

  • Greg Ellis (activist)
  • Logan McCree (Philip Tanzer)
  • Bo Winegard (psychologist/men’s rights)
  • Jonathan Pageau (religious activist)
  • Jack Murphy (activist)

See also

Benjamin A. Boyce

Calmversations episode list

Resources

Substack (substack.com)

YouTube (youtube.com)

Anti-trans activist Benjamin Boyce hosts Calmversations, a show featuring conservative, ex-transgender, and anti-transgender guests.

Below is a list of all episodes through 2024.

2024

s07e39 | The Road to Tyranny is Paved with “Natural Rights” with Kevin Dolan 3 days ago

s07e38 | WTF is the “Woke Right” with Neil Shenvi & Dave Greene 5 days ago

s07e37 | So, I Transed My Lesbian Wife… with Tali 9 days ago

s07e36 | Abortion as a Right, with Seth Gruber 11 days ago

s07e35 | It Ain’t Easy, Bein’ Heathen, with BIG DAVE MARTEL 15 days ago

s07e34 | US Law & “Gender Medicine” with Leor Sapir 18 days ago

s07e33 | Morality Plays & Governance – TheDeepEnd #23 with Leslie Elliott Boyce 23 days ago

s07e33 | Raw Egg Nationalist, in Calmversation 25 days ago

s07e32 | Millennial Woes Interviews Me (or at least tries) 29 days ago

s07e31 | It Ain’t Easy, Being Heathen, with Mike Maxwell of Imperium Press Dec 14th, 2024

s07e30 | In the Shadow of the Meaning Crisis, with John Vervaeke Dec 11th, 2024

s07e29 | Debating the “Post War Consensus” with Dave Greene & Wokal Distance Dec 9th, 2024

s07e28 | In Defense of Liberalism, with Joseph Klein Dec 3rd, 2024

s07e27 | Taste the Biscuit: TheDeepEnd no. 22 with Leslie Boyce Dec 1st, 2024

s07e26 | Surf & TERF with Meghan Murphy! Nov 29th, 2024

s07e25 | Trauma & Transition: A Detrans Story, with Roxanne Reed Nov 26th, 2024

s07e24 | The Cool Kids Are Alt-Right, with Rudyard Lynch, aka WhatIfAltHist Nov 22nd, 2024

s07e22 | The Strange Death of Late Night, with Wade Stotts Nov 20th, 2024

s07e23 | Political Horseshoe Theory is Meigh: TheDeepEnd no.21 with Leslie Elliott Boyce Nov 18th, 2024

s07e21 | Is Trump a Libertarian Win? with Clint Russell Nov 13th, 2024

s07e20 | Young Men: Get Yourselves Off the Ground! | Trump’s Message to the Chuds Nov 11th, 2024

s07e19 | Restoring American Fraternity, with RedHawk of The Old Glory Club Nov 8th, 2024

s07e18 | “The Right to Regret” and other Gender Insanity, with Eliza Mondegreen & Jamie Reed Nov 6th, 2024

s07e17 | Election Incoherence: TheDeepEnd #20 Nov 4th, 2024

s07e16 | A Democrat’s Case for Trump, with Joomi Kim Oct 31st, 2024

s07e15 | Libertarian Tech-Bro Utopia, with Jeremy Kauffman Oct 27th, 2024

s07e14 | Nina Power: Speaking Truth to Stupidity Oct 24th, 2024

s07e13 | Darryl Cooper: The Making of a Martyr Oct 17th, 2024

s07e12 | The Gentle Parenting Trap, with Dr. Camilo Ortiz Oct 13th, 2024

s07e11 | Arming Parents Against Gender Ideology, with Kris Kaliebe Oct 10th, 2024

s07e10 | Will Tanner: Zoomer with a View (of History) Oct 7th, 2024

s07e09 | Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me, with Professor Wilfred Reilly Oct 1st, 2024

s07e08 | How Boomers Broke Britain, or, The Endless End of the English Empire, with Connor Tomlin Sep 28th, 2024

s07e07 | Why is Israel Important to the West? with King Crocoduck Sep 25th, 2024

s07e06 | Discussing “The Woke Right” with Konstantin Kisin Sep 19th, 2024

s07e05 | Mythologies of The Current Era, TheDeepEnd #19 with Leslie Elliott Sep 18th, 2024

s07e04 | Economics of Connection and Conflict with Professor Ashley Hodgson Sep 14th, 2024

s07e03 | No Fault Divorce & the Unraveling of the American Family, with Dr. Stephen Baskerville Sep 10th, 2024

s07e02 | Why Oliver is Transitioning (Female to Male) Sep 6th, 2024

s07e01 | Courage in an Age of Madness, with Jordan Hall Sep 2nd, 2024

s06e134 | Lies, Damn Lies, & Gender Journalism with Benjamin Ryan Aug 31st, 2024

s06e133 | Ulysses S. Grant: Civil War Super Star, with Beau Dade Aug 29th, 2024

s06e132 | How We Met & Why We Married #TheDeepEnd #18 with Leslie Elliott Boyce Aug 27th, 2024

s06e131 | Escaping Extremist Islam, with Yasmine Mohammed Aug 21st, 2024

s06e130 | How the West was Undone, with Professor Eric Kaufmann Aug 19th, 2024

s06e129 | Postmodernism on the Right, with Neema Parvini, the Academic Agent Aug 16th, 2024

s06e128 | Electoral Dysphoria | TheDeepEnd #17 with Leslie Elliott Boyce Aug 14th, 2024

s06e127 | What Are We Voting For? (Likely Trump/Vance Policies) | with Jeremy Carl Aug 12th, 2024

s06e126 | Conspiracy Nuts—and Bolts! | with Jay Dyer Aug 9th, 2024

s06e125 | Why Eithan Haim Blew The Whistle on Child Gender Medicine Aug 5th, 2024

e06e124 | Alex Kaschuta: Ex-Darling of the Alt-Right Aug 3rd, 2024

s06e123 | American Diversity vs. Ideological Purism, with Isaac Simpson Aug 1st, 2024

s06e122 | Evergreen Meltdown Watch Party #7 (final show!) with Leslie Elliott Jul 30th, 2024

s06e121 | Progressive Manipulations, from Climate to Gender, with Melanie Bennet & Leslie Elliott Jul 25th, 2024

s06e120 | Online Extremism, Satanic Cults, & Accelerationism, with Bx Jul 23rd, 2024

s06e119 | This Perilous Political Moment, with Peachy Keenan Jul 20th, 2024

s06e118 | Evergreen Fiasco Watch Party #6 with Leslie Elliott Boyce Jul 17th, 2024

s06e117 | Getting Interviewed by Malcolm and Simone Collins Jul 13th, 2024

s06e116 | Lies, Damn Lies, and Journalism | with Lisa Seline Davis and Eliza Mondegreen Jul 11th, 2024

s06e115 | Jamie Bambrick: A Pastor With Christian Opinions Jul 9th, 2024

s06e114 | Tavistock: The OG Propaganda Mill? with Courtenay Turner Jul 5th, 2024

s06e113 | Simone Collins: Techno-Matriarch Jul 3rd, 2024

s06e112 | Devon Eriksen: Author, Engineer, Opinionator Jun 26th, 2024

s06e111 | Evergreen College Implosion Watch Party #4 w/ Leslie Elliott Jun 24th, 2024

s06e110 | Anatomy of a Transition, with Schylar Jun 22nd, 2024

s06e109 | Has Liberalism Failed Us? | with Carl Benjamin Jun 20th, 2024

s06e108 | Gen X’s Politically Homeless Problem | with Jenny Holland Jun 17th, 2024

s06e107 | How The Gnostic Sausage Is Made | with Right Side Jun 14th, 2024

s06e106 | “Scary Ideas” & The Mainstream Legitimacy Crisis, with Lomez Jun 6th, 2024

s06e105 | Detrans Lawfare: Holding “Gender” Doctors Accountable | with Lynn Chadwick & Katherine Dooley Jun 4th, 2024

s06e104 | Evergreen Implosion Watch Party #3 (with Leslie Elliott) Jun 2nd, 2024

s06e103 | Natalism vs. Nihilism | with Malcolm Collins May 30th, 2024

s06e102 | TransMan in a TradLand, a detrans story, with Maia May 29th, 2024

s06e101 | The Unprotected Class: Honestly Tackling Anti-White Racism, with Jeremy Carl May 27th, 2024

s06e100 | Evergreen College Implosion Watch Party Part 2 with Leslie Elliott May 22nd, 2024

s06e99 | Surviving Social Justice: A Detrans Story, with Mazy May 20th, 2024

s06e98 | Liberalism’s Last Stand, with Helen Pluckrose May 15th, 2024

s06e97 | So I Married An Autogynephile… A Detrans Story, with Jules Louise May 14th, 2024

s06e96 | Auron MacIntyre’s Total State: How Liberal Democracies Become Illiberal Tyrannies May 8th, 2024

s06e95 | Evergreen College Implosion: 7 Year Anniversary Watch Party May 6th, 2024

s06e94 | Race Is Poison (White Guilt, Black Power) | with Eli Steele May 4th, 2024

s06e93 | The Evergreening of America, with James Lindsay May 2nd, 2024

s06e92 | Cluster-B Blues, with Josh Slocum of Disaffected Apr 26th, 2024

s06e91 | Fear & Self-Loathing: A Detrans Story, with LaRell Herbert Apr 24th, 2024

s06e90 | TheDeepEnd #16: Snacks-Positivity and the Limits of Power Apr 22nd, 2024

s06e89 | Counseling As Conversation, with David Minor Apr 21st, 2024

s06e88 | Post-Liberal Bedtime Stories, with Mike Nayna & Gio Pennacchietti Apr 19th, 2024

s06e87 | DeTrans Stories Legacy: Helena Kerschner, 2019 Apr 15th, 2024

s06e86 | Healing From Sissy Hypno, with Shane Cole Apr 12th, 2024

s06e85 | Unnatural Selection: Rise of Genetically Modified Babies, with Jonathan Anomaly Apr 9th, 2024

s06e84 | Experts & Sex Cults | TheDeepEnd 15 with Leslie Elliott Apr 8th, 2024

s06e83 | It’s Time America’s Backbone Grew a Spine, with Rebecca Velo Apr 3rd, 2024

s06e82 | Realistic Expectations for A.I., with Brian Chau Apr 1st, 2024

s06e81 | Can Christianity Save American Masculinity? with Will Spencer Mar 29th, 2024

s06e80 | Is “Gender” A Useless Concept? [TheDeepEnd #14 w Leslie Elliott] Mar 28th, 2024

s06e79 | From Gender Fantasy to Race Realism: A Gen Z Journey, with PsiKey Mar 26th, 2024

s06e78 | Autism, Gender, Gen Z (A Young Interviewee Returns), with Simon Amaya Price Mar 25th, 2024

s06e77 | The Queering of American Education, with Logan Lancing Mar 22nd, 2024

s06e76 | The WPATH To Hell… with Mia Hughes Mar 20th, 2024

s06e75 | Caste Away: The Indelicacy of IQ Inquiry, with Bo Winegard Mar 18th, 2024

s06e74 | Life After Mormonism, with Joshua Neal Mar 16th, 2024

s06e73 | Kaiser REALLY Wants to Trans You, with Beth Bourne Mar 14th, 2024

s06e72 | Real Parasocialism Has Never Been Tried, TheDeepEnd 13 with Leslie Elliott Mar 11th, 2024

s06e71 | California Foster Care’s Gender Meat Grinder Mar 10th, 2024

s06e70 | Do Genetics Dictate Politics? with Edward Dutton, The Jolly Heretic Mar 7th, 2024

s06e69 | Equality vs. Reality: The Taboo of “Race Realism” | with Nathan Cofnas Mar 5th, 2024

s06e68 | The Feminization of Politics, or, Why Democracy Sucks, with Aydin Paladin Mar 2nd, 2024

s06e67 | Beneath Sheep’s Clothing, or, Why Communism SUCKS | with Julie Behling Feb 29th, 2024

s06e66 | Conspiracies In Theory & Practice | with Courtenay Turner Feb 29th, 2024

s06e63 | Equitocracy vs. Meritocracy in Medicine | with Dr. Rick Bosshardt Feb 28th, 2024

s06e65 | Splitting Crosshairs: TheDeepEnd #12 with Leslie Elliott Feb 26th, 2024

s06e62 | Karen Straughan on Motherhood, Vaccines, and Gender Feb 25th, 2024

s06e64 | The Art of Thoughtfulness, with Warren Smith Feb 23rd, 2024

s06e61 | Woke Persecution of a Christian Church, with Rev Bradley Helgerson Feb 19th, 2024

s06e60 | Trans Narcissism & Overcoming AGP, with Ray Alex Williams Feb 17th, 2024

s06e59 | The God-Shaped Machine, with New Polity’s Marc Barnes Feb 13th, 2024

s06e58 | Viral Purity Spirals | TheDeepEnd #11 with Leslie Elliott Feb 12th, 2024

s06e57 | Medical Madness: The Downward Spiral of US Healthcare, with Andrew Zywiec Feb 10th, 2024

e6e56 | Andrew Doyle’s Haberdashery of Haters Feb 8th, 2024

s06e55 | “Gender Me This…” A Candid Chat with Sasha Ayad & Stella O’Malley About Therapy, Gender, & Online Bullies Feb 6th, 2024

s06e54 | Theo Jordan Saves America: One Floridian’s Fight For Truth, Justice, & Saner Times Feb 3rd, 2024

s06e53 | The Center Mustn’t Scold, with Katherine Brodsky Jan 31st, 2024

s06e52 | The War On Boobs, with Leslie Jan 29th, 2024

s06e51 | Pull-No-Punches Punditry, with Tony Kinnett Jan 27th, 2024

s06e50 | The Queering of the American Child, with James Lindsay and Logan Lancing Jan 25th, 2024

s06e49 | Is It Ethical To Transition Yourself | with Artemis Jan 22nd, 2024

s06e48 | Canada’s “Safe Supply” Drug Program: The Literal Opiate of the Masses, with Dr. Lori Regenstreif, MD Jan 20th, 2024

s06e47 | The Detrans to Tradwife Pipeline is Real, with Daisy Strong (née Ollie Chadra) Jan 18th, 2024

s06e46 | The Shaming of the Prude: TheDeepEnd #9 w/ Leslie Elliott Jan 16th, 2024

s06e45 | Public School Tried To Trans My Daughter, with January Littlejohn Jan 12th, 2024

s06e44 | Killing D.E.I. Softly, with Carob Marcelle Jan 9th, 2024

s06e43 | A Warning To America, From Communist China, with Xi Van Fleet Jan 4th, 2024

s06e42 | Trans Daughter, or Prodigal Son?: How Parents Are Coping With Trans Identification, with Kallie Jan 2nd, 2024

2023

s06e41 | Widowed by Transition, with Shannon Thrace Dec 31st, 2023

s06e40 | From The Opioid Crisis to Gender “Medicine”: How Health Care Harms | with Carrie Mendoza Dec 27th, 2023

s06e39 | “Lolcows,” Kiwifarms, and The Death of the Open Internet, with Josh Moon Dec 22nd, 2023

s06e38 | Luka Hein’s Detransition Story Dec 21st, 2023

[Holiday Special] | Twas the Night Before Wokemas Dec 18th, 2023

s06e37 | Internet As Neurosis Accelerator, with Eliza Mondegreen Dec 15th, 2023

s06e36 | Inspecting Henpeckery (TheDeepEnd #7 with Leslie Elliott) Dec 12th, 2023

s06e35 | Authority & Authoritarianism II: A Christian Response, with Jonathan Pageau Dec 10th, 2023

s06e34 | Before (and After) Trans Was Cool, with Dr. Az Hakeem Dec 8th, 2023

s06e33 | Wokery 101: A College Student’s Guide to Surviving DEI, with Aaron Kindsvatter & David Tomasi Dec 4th, 2023

s06e32 | Authority & Authoritarianism, with James Lindsay Dec 1st, 2023

s06e31 | Gender Affirmation & The Law | with Shape Shifter and Mitra Forouhar Nov 30th, 2023

s06e30 | Based Gen Z: Resisting The Resistance | with The Right Side of History™

  • “The Right Side of History” 28 NOV

s06e29 | 👋Mr. Probelmatic Hands👋 | The DeepEnd #6 with Leslie Elliot

  • Leslie Elliot 27 NOV

s06e28 | Stella O’Malley & Kellie Jay Keen, in Calmversation

s06e27 | Art and Ideology, with J.G. Fox

  • J.G. Fox 22 NOV

s06e26 | Creepin’ Creepers! TheDeepEnd with Leslie Elliott

  • Leslie Elliott 21 NOV

s06e25 | Autogynephilia: Malignant Fetish or Benign Orientation? A Debate with Phil Illy and Rudy

s06e24 | So I Married An Interviewee…. (my first calmversation with Leslie Elliott… Boyce)

  • Leslie Elliott Boyce 15 NOV

s06e23 | Fashion Police: Freedom of Expression VS Safeguarding, with Solid Ground

  • “Solid Ground” 13 NOV

s06e22 | Child Transition First Responders: Stephanie Davies Aria & Denise Caignon

s06e21 | Sage’s Story: How Gender Identity Lead to Sex Trafficking, with Laura Bryant Hanford

  • Laura Bryant Hanford 9 NOV

s06e20 | Fixing “Youth Gender Medicine” with Eliza Mondegreen and Jamie Reed

s06e19 | Sainthood & Sanity, or, Eastern Orthodoxy and Mental Health, with Thaddeus Patrick

  • Thaddeus Patrick 23 OCT

s06e18 | Gender, Sex, & Identity: My Thoughts After 5 Years of Interviews, feat. Jane Gatsby

  • Jane Gatsby 19 OCT

s06e17 | The Fog of War: How Social Media Warps Reality | TheDeepEnd #5 with Leslie Elliott

  • Leslie Elliott 16 OCT

s06e16 | Discussing Dogma & Religious Experience with Michael Witcoff (Brother Augustine)

  • Michael Witcoff 14 OCT

s06e15 | Venture Politics: Using Capital to Shape Society, with Nate Fischer

  • Nate Fischer 12 OCT

s06e14 | “My Body Is A Puberty Blocker”: Talking About Intersex Conditions with James Linehan

  • James Linehan 6 OCT

s06e13 | How T Overtook LGB, with Iseult White & Malcolm Clark

s06e12 | The Life Parasocial (DeepEnd #4 with Leslie Elliott)

  • Leslie Elliott Boyce 2 OCT

s06e11 | Rise of the Art-Right, with Gio Pennacchietti

  • Gio Pennacchietti 29 SEP

s06e10 | “Human Rights” vs. Women’s Rights, with Meghan Murphy & K. Yang

s06e09 | Lies, Damn Lies, and Information Warfare, with Cat Girl Kulak

  • “Cat Girl Kulak” 25 SEP

s06e08 | Normalizing the Pathological, Pathologizing the Normal with Eliza Mondegreen and Jessie Mannisto

s06e07 | Derailed Development: a Detrans Story, with Abel Garcia

s06e06 | The Globalist Agenda, with Jason Bradley

  • Jason Bradley 18 SEP

s06e05 | Dealing with Dysphoria, with Oak Leaves and Onions

  • “Oak Leaves and Onions” 14 SEP

s06e04 | Trauma, Drama, & Pharma, with Katelyn Yntema

  • “Katelyn Yntema” 12 SEP

s06e03 | Nietzsche, Hinduism, and The Great Books | with Jash Dholani

  • Jash Dholani 8 SEP

s06e02 | Parents VS. California: Saving Kids from Gender Ideologues, with Erin Friday & Jonathan Zachreson

s06e01 | No Enemies To The Right!?, with The Distributist & Wokal Distance

  • “The Distributist” & “Wokal Distance”/Michael Young 3 SEP

s05e119 | The Psychology of Victimhood, with Jaco van Zyl

  • Jaco van Zyl 26 AUG

s05e118 | Challenging Gender Medicine from Within, with Jamie Reed & Aaron Kimberly

s05e117 | The Trans-fixation of Kevin / Evelyn: A Detrans Story

  • “Kevin / Evelyn” 22 AUG

s05e116 | YouTube Bans Me For Talking About COVID Authoritarianism (Sunday Stream with Leslie Elliott)

  • Leslie Elliott Boyce 20 AUG

s05e115 | Canadian Justice VS. COVID Tyranny, with William Roy & Dr. Chris Milburn

  • William Roy & Dr. Chris Milburn 19 AUG

s05e114 | Resisting Indoctrination in Education, with Angel SanMartin

  • Angel SanMartin 18 AUG

s05e113 | When Kids Say They’re Trans | with Sasha Ayad & Some Moms

s05e112 | Why Woke Won’t Work, with James Lindsay & Wokal Distance

s05e111 | Ancient Wisdoms, Modern Attitude, with Spencer Klavan

  • Spencer Klavan 9 AUG

s05e110 | Orphaned & Owning It, with Veera Mirjam

  • Veera Mirjam 7 AUG

s05e109 | How Advertising Became Totally Cringe, with Isaac Simpson

  • Isaac Simpson 2 AUG

s05e108 | The Future is… Feudal? with Maximum Leader Charles Haywood

  • Charles Haywood 31 JUL

s05e107 | From Maoist China to “Woke” America: The Living Memory of Xi Van Fleet

  • Xi Van Fleet 26 JUL

s05e106 | The Prodigal Transitioner, with Austin Unbridled

  • “Austin Unbridled” 24 JUL

s05e105 | The Gauntlet of Girlhood, with Lisa Marchiano & Eliza Mondegreen

s05e104 | Can Lawfare Save US from Wokeness? with David Pivtorak, Esq.

  • David Pivtorak 19 JUL

s05e103 | Alexander Hamilton: Architect of the Deep State? with B.B. Dade

  • B.B. Dade 16 JUL

s05e102 | Neuroscience & Spirituality, with David Tomasi

  • David Tomasi 15 JUL

s05e101 | Thailand’s “Third Gender” with Amanda Kovattana

  • Amanda Kovattana 13 JUL

s05e100 | Stairway to Selfhood: Life after Detransition, with Elle Palmer

  • Elle Palmer 10 JUL

s05e99 | Documenting & Executing the “Grievance Studies Affair” with James Lindsay & Mike Nayna

s05e98 | Stunted by Transition | a Detrans Story, with Kobe (male to male detransitioner)

  • “Kobe” 4 JUL

s05e97 | When Butch Is Not Enough, a Detrans Story, with Terffy

  • “Terffy” 3 JUL

s05e96 | “Wokeness” as a Post-Christian Nationalism, with Josh Daws

  • Josh Daws 1 JUL

s05e95 | The Sacred & The Psychological, with the Solid Ground Streamers

  • “Solid Ground” 29 JUN

s05e94 | PTSD: A Physical Injury with a Physical Cure? with Jamie Mustard

  • Jamie Mustard 25 JUN

s05e93 | The Politics of Addiction, with Doctor Randall Bock

  • Randall Bock 23 JUN

s05e92 | Autogynephilia’s Impact on Intimacy | with Phil Illy

s05e91 | So Over The Rainbow | with Alasdair Gunn & Eliza Mondegreen

s05e90 | Unscripted Remarks on Gender (from “Breaking the Narrative” hosted by Center for Bioethics & Culture)

  • Center for Bioethics & Culture 14 JUN

s05e89 | Gender Idolatry: A Christian Take on Transgenderism, with Brandon Showalter

  • Brandon Showalter 13 JUN

s05e88 | How “Population Control” Guides Global Governance, with Jason Bradley

  • Jason Bradley 7 JUN

e05e87 | Parenting an ROGD Kid, with Stoic Mom

  • “Stoic Mom” 4 JUN

s05e86 | This Episode is Gay! with Ritchie and Rudy

s05e85 | Dilating the Overton Window, with J. Burden

  • “J. Burden” 1 JUN

s05e84 | Nobody Expects the Spanish Transition! with Ane Maiora

  • Ane Maiora 31 MAY

s05e83 | Fatal Flaws in “Gender Affirming” Care | with Eliza Mondegreen & Aaron Terrell

s05e82 | Men in Women’s Prisons: What Could Go Wrong? with Amie Ichikawa

  • Amie Ichikawa 25 MAY

s05e81 | Crash Course in Libertarianism, with Micheal Scott of Fabian Liberty

  • “Micheal Scott” 23 MAY

s05e80 | Let’s Hear It From The Boys (a Genspect debrief), with Alasdair, Corinna, & Ritchie

s05e79 | How US Law Enforces Transgenderism, with Leor Sapir

s05e78 | “What If They’re Gay Not Trans?” A Genspect Panel with Alasdair Gunn, Ritchie Herron, Iseult White, Jet London, and Malcolm Clark

s05e77 | “What About the Boys?” A Genspect Panel with Joe Burgo, Marcus Evans, Corinna Cohn, and Alasdair Gunn

s05e76 | Detransition: A Group Discussion | from Genspect’s Bigger Picture Conference

s05e75 | Winning the Gender War, with Stella and Alasdair (on location in Ireland)

s05e74 | Is there a Science to Story? with Justin Wells

  • Justin Wells 1 MAY

s05e73 | Ethics of Surrogacy, with Lexi of Stop Surrogacy Now UK

  • “Lexi” 28 APR

s05e71 | IN The Matrix, Not OF The Matrix, with Kruptos

  • “Kruptos” 23 APR

s05e70 | Posie Parker Down Under, with Kellie-Jay Keen

s05e69 | Lydia Leitermann Interviews Me

  • Lydia Leitermann 18 APR

s05e68 | The Sophistry of Gender, with Tomas Bogardus

s05e67 | Notes on the Luciferian West, with Jonathan Pageau, Paul VanderKlay, & “Wokal Distance”/Michael Young

  • Jonathan Pageau, Paul Vander Klay, & “Wokal Distance”/Michael Young 13 APR

s05e66 | Crisis in Counseling, with Leslie Elliott, Jennifer Friend, & Aaron Kindsvatter

  • Leslie Elliott, Jennifer Friend, & Aaron Kindsvatter 11 APR

s05e65 | How Pregnancy Put Cynthia’s Dysphoria in Perspective, w Cynthia Breheny & Zach Elliott

  • Cynthia Breheny & Zach Elliott 9 APR

s05e64 | Tomboy, Interrupted: A Detrans Story, with Chloe Cole

s05e63 | Catherine, A Female Fed Up With Feminism

  • “Catherine” 4 APR

s05e62 | This Little Student Went To Market: A School Choice Primer, with Jason Bedrick

  • Jason Bedrick 1 APR

s05e61 | The Dangerous Radicalization of Gender Rhetoric, with Stella O’Malley & Eliza Mondegreen

s05e60 | The Decline of General Intelligence, with Dr. Edward Dutton

  • Edward Dutton 23 MAR

s05e59 | Autism, Isolation, and Autogynephilia, with Naxelas

  • “Naxelas” 21 MAR

s05e58 | Genspect’s “The Bigger Picture” Conference, with Joe Burgo & Alasdair Gunn

s05e57 | Lost in Transition: A Detrans Story, with Sarah Elizhar

  • Sarah Elizhar 10 MAR

s05e56 | Tale of a “Trans Widow” with Tracy Shannon

s05e55 | Arming Warrior Teachers with a Winning Mindset, with Barry Wall

  • Barry Wall 5 MAR

s05e54 | The Libtard-to-TradCath Pipeline, with Peachy “Domestic Extremist” Keenan

  • “Peachy Keenan” 25 FEB

s05e53 | In Defense of Common Sense, with Jodi Shaw & Leslie Elliott

  • Jodi Shaw & Leslie Elliott 22 FEB

s05e52 | America’s Abusive Relationship with Itself, with Josh Slocum

  • Josh Slocum 18 FEB

s05e51 | Creativity, Sexuality, Identity, with Corinna Cohn & Nina Paley

s05e50 | Ditching the Therapeutic Treadmill, with Camille Keifel

s05e49 | The Ethics of Transition, with Taftaj

  • “Taftaj” 10 FEB

s05e48 | The Liberal Parasite – with James Lindsay and Carl Benjamin (aka Sargon of Akkad)

s05e47 | Moral Compasses, Social Contagions, with Eliza Mondegreen

s05e46 | Should Porn Be Banned? with Aella and Meghan Murphy

s05e45 | MAiD in Canada: From Medical Transition to Assisted Suicide, with Lois and Eva Kurilova

s05e44 | Live with James Lindsay: Woke Gnosticism and the Oxford Debate

s05e43 | The Life of a Dominican Nun, with Sister Mary of Jesus

  • Sister Mary of Jesus 15 JAN

s05e42 | Is it High Time for Gen X to Step to the Plate? with Nina Power

s05e41 | Curing the Gender Curse: A Detrans Story, with Teiresias

  • “Teiresias” 4 JAN

s05e40 | Understanding Psychopathy | with Jon Uhler, LPC

  • Jon Uhler 1 JAN

2022

s05e39 | …And What About Living With Dignity? with Alasdair Gunn (Angus Fox)

s05e38 | Restoring Ethics to Canadian Journalism, with Terry Newman

  • Terry Newman 27 DEC 2022

s05e37 | Manly Virtues, Manly Vices, with Joseph Burgo

s05e36 | Celebrating the Superpower of Pregnancy, with Brit the Slightly Twisted Female

  • “Brit” 20 DEC 2022

s05e34 | The Art of Being Pwned, with Curtis Yarvin

  • Curtis Yarvin 13 DEC 2022

s05e33 | Canada’s Elective Death Sentence (“MAiDs”), with Darshan Maharaja

  • Darshan Maharaja 11 DEC 2022

s05e32 | Kellie-Jay Keen Saves the Day

s05e31 | Medical Fads and Fanatics, with Eliza Mondegreen & Mia Ashton

s05e30 | Decoding “Stochastic Terrorism” & Other Games of the Ruling Class, with DR. ROLLERGATOR and JAMES LINDSAY

s05e29 | Beyond Gender: a chat over whiskey, with Stella O’Malley & Angus Fox

s05e28 | Dark Heart of the Ivory Tower: Corruption of Psychology Departments, with Christine Sefein

  • Christine Sefein 25 NOV 2022

s05e27 | Canada’s Easy-Access Euthanasia Program, “MAiD” with Rupa Subramanya

  • Rupa Subramanya 21 NOV 2022

s05s26 | Crisis in Counseling, with Leslie Elliott (The Radical Center)

  • Leslie Elliott 21 NOV 2022

s05e25 | Rethinking “Gender Therapy” with Lisa Marchiano

s05e23 | The Long Road To Self-Acceptance, with Veera Mirjam

  • Veera Mirjam 8 NOV 2022

s05e22 | Gender Medicine Has Gone INSANE: Inside WPATH, with Eliza Mondegreen

s05e21 | Teen Transition Fast Track, with Prisha

s05e20 | Furry Fandom & Detransition, with Ria

  • “Ria” 28 OCT 2022

s05e19 | The Politics of “Trans Kids” with Corinna Cohn and Denise Caignon

s05e18 | From “Boys Will Be Boys” to “Boys Won’t Be Boys”… with Angus and Ritchie

s05e17 | Economic Impacts of Lockdowns on the Working Class, with Sarah St. Onge

  • Sarah St. Onge 17 OCT 2022

s05e16 | Everyone’s Conspiring, All of the Time, with DR. ROLLERGATOR

  • “Dr. Rollergator” 17 OCT 2022

s05e15 | Gender Absurdities in US Law, with Candice Jackson & Lauren Bone, sisters in lawfare

s05e14 | Saving Kids from Gender… and the State, with Erin Friday

s05e13 | How Gender Activists Dictate “Standards of Care” | with Stella O’Malley

s05e12 | Trans Rush, Detrans Regret, with Jenni

  • “Jenni” 10 OCT 2022

s05e11 | Hot Topics & Cold Showers, with James Lindsay

s05e10 | Saving Children’s Medicine from Gender Ideology, with Julia Mason, MD

s05e09 | Documenting Detransition Stories, with Jennifer Lahl

s05e08 | The Secret Life of Angus Fox

s05e07 | Talking Therapies & Gender Identities, with Marcus and Susan Evans

s05e06 | Castration Affirmation?? New Medical Guidelines Promote Eunuchs, with Genevieve Gluck of REDUXX

  • Genevieve Gluck 18 SEP 2022

s05e05 | Overcoming Autogynephilia, with Andrius

  • “Andrius” 15 SEP 2022

s05e04 | Child Services Sicced on Mom for Celebrating Daughter’s Desistance, with Brette & Anna

  • “Brette” & “Anna” 12 SEP 2022

s05e03 | Using Artificial Intelligence to Study Social Media Contagion, with Shannon Boschy

  • Shannon Boschy 7 SEP 2022

s05e02 | Mediocracy: The Dumbing-Down of American Elites | with Wilfred Riley

s05e01 | Right Winging It, with The Distributist

  • “The Distributist” 4 SEP 2022

s04e92 | Biology: The New Hate Speech, with Colin Wright

s04e91 | From Transition to Liberation: A Detrans Male Story, with Torren Danowski

  • Torren Danowski 28 AUG 2022

s04e90 | Catholic Feminism & The Genesis of Gender | with Abigail Favale

  • Abigail Favale 27 AUG 2022

s04e89 | Andrew Doyle HEARTILY SHUNS the Woke Puritans

s04e88 | From Maoist China to Woke America: Alvin Lui Stands Up

  • Alvin Lui 23 AUG 2022

s04e87 | Surviving Awkward: from Aspergers to Anime to Transition | a Detrans Story, with Emmie

  • “Emmie” 17 AUG 2022

s04e86 | Speaking Truth to Gender, with Sasha Ayad & Stella O’Malley

s04e85 | Cultural Revolution: from Communist China to Woke USA, with Erica Li

  • Erica Li 11 AUG 2022

s04e84 | Political vs. Personal Christianity, with Neil Shenvi

  • Neil Shenvi 7 AUG 2022

s04e83 | Counseling Ex-Cons, with Gar Lock

  • Gar Lock 5 AUG 2022

s04e82 | Is Liberal Feminism Anti-Woman? | with Louise Perry

s04e81 | Courage & Cowardice In Canadian Public Schools, with Chanel Pfahl🇨🇦

  • Chanel Pfahl 16 JUL 2022

s04e80 | Liberal World Disorder, with Auron MacIntyre & Wokal Distance

  • Auron MacIntyre & “Wokal Distance”/Michael Young 12 JUL 2022

s04e79 | Trauma, Transition, & an Intersex Condition: a Detrans Story, with Theo

  • “Theo” 1 JUL 2022

s04e78 | Right Winging It, with Auron MacIntyre

  • Auron MacIntyre 28 JUN 2022

s04e77 | How the West was Undone, with Carl Benjamin (aka Sargon of Akkad)

s04e76 | Indoctrination in California’s Public Schools, with Kelly S

  • “Kelly S” 26 JUN 2022

s04e75 | Daughter of God, Bride of Christ: Maria Brandell on Becoming a Nun

  • Maria Brandell 26 JUN 2022

s04e74 | The Genius of Thomas Sowell, with Alan Wolan

  • Alan Wolan 19 JUN 2022

s04e73 | Transition and Redemption: A Detrans Story, with NJada

  • “NJada” 14 JUN 2022

s04e72 | When Transition Goes Wrong, a Detrans Story with Shape Shifter

s04e71 | When Transition Works, with Zander Keig

s04e70 | The Impact of Feminism on Young Men, with Helena Kerschner, Josh Slocum & Limpida

s04e69 | Life & Times of an Internet TERF | with Mia

s04e68 | The New Homophobia, with Ben Appel

  • Ben Appel 25 MAY 2022

s04e67 | Five Years Later: Catching Up With Bret Weinstein

  • Bret Weinstein 23 MAY 2022

s04e66 | The Science of Sex / The Faith of Gender, with Zach Elliott

  • Zach Elliott 21 MAY 2022

s04e65 | Curtis Yarvin, on How American Power Operates, At Home & Abroad

  • Curtis Yarvin 18 MAY 2022

s04e64 | Sex Differences in Detransition, with Sinead & Tullip

s04e63 | Adolescence Via Internet: a Detrans Story, with Michelle

s04e62 | A Catholic Critique of Liberalism, with Marc Barnes of New Polity

  • Marc Barnes 3 MAY 2022

s04e61 | Speaking Truth to Gender, with Helen Joyce & Stephanie Davies-Arai

s04e60 | Why “Woman” Needs to Mean, Well, *Woman*, with DR. Karleen Gribble

  • Karleen Gribble 26 APR 2022

Special Episode: The Family Sex Show: A Dramatic Website Reading [Explicit Content]

  • 24 APR 2022

s04e58 | Detrans Stories: Depression & Addiction, with Brian W

  • “Brian W” 24 APR 2022

s04e57 | Dysphoria & Self-Acceptance, with Cynthia Breheny

  • Cynthia Breheny 15 APR 2022

s04e56 | Facts & Fictions of the “TransKid” Phenomenon, with Denise of 4thWaveNow

s04e55 | Revolution, Rationalism, Revelation: Imaging A Post-Woke World, with James Lindsay & Jonathan Pageau

s04e54 | Testosterone! The Science, The Experience, with Carole Hooven & Helena Kerschner

s04e53 | Can Culture Survive the Culture War? with Famous Artist Birdie Rose

  • Birdie Rose 2 APR 2022

s04e52 | Inflation Nation: Energy Policy & Your Wallet, with Joan Sammon & Alma Cook

  • Joan Sammon & Alma Cook 26 MAR 2022

s04e51 | On the Ground in Ukraine, with Erin Smith

  • Erin Smith 18 MAR 2022

s04e50 | In The Beginning Was The Discourse, with Wokal Distance

  • “Wokal Distance”/Michael Young 15 MAR 2022

s04e49 | How to Become Bully-Proof, with Stella O’Malley

s04e48 | What Feminism Gets Wrong About Men, with Janice Fiamengo

  • Janice Fiamengo 7 MAR 2022

s04e47 | All The News Unfit To Print: Failures of Elite Journalism, with Trish Wood

  • Trish Wood 28 FEB 2022

s04e46 | S.E.L.ing Out US Schools, with Lisa Logan

  • Lisa Logan 24 FEB 2022

s04e45 | Psychoanalysis in Theory and Practice, with Jonathan Shedler

  • Jonathan Shedler 21 FEB 2022

s04e44 | School to Sex Work Pipeline: Grooming in Education, with Charlie Jacobs

  • Charlie Jacobs 19 FEB 2022

s04e43 | Logos, Chaos, Meaning Crisis, with Professor John Vervaeke

  • John Vervaeke 13 FEB 2022

s04e42 | Crisis in Education, with Paul Rossi and Frank McCormick

  • Paul Rossi and Frank McCormick 8 FEB 2022

s04e41 | The Science of Climate, the Climate of Science, with ScioSophia

  • “ScioSophia” 4 FEB 2022

s04e40 | Woke as Cancer: Diagnosis & Treatment, with James Lindsay & King Crockoduck

s04e39 | Detrans Stories: Education, Autism, Gender, Communism, with Limpidă

  • “Limpidă” 28 JAN 2022

s04e38 | Pandemic Impacts: Canadian Prisons, with Heather Mason

  • Heather Mason 27 JAN 2022

s04e37 | Liberals Fall While Conservatives Decline, with Mary Harrington

s04e36 | Political Mythologies, with Michael Millerman

  • Michael Millerman 16 JAN 2022

s04e35 | Appreciating Men, with The Prim Reaper

  • “The Prim Reaper” 15 JAN 2022

s04e34 | Gender Absurdities, with Exulansic

s04e33 | James Lindsay Lets Loose, with James Lindsay, Letting Loose

s04e32 | Getting Hormonal, with Carole Hooven

s04e31 | God & The Devil: Catholic Counter-Woke Strategies, with Noelle Mering

  • Noelle Mering 1 JAN 2022

2021

s04e30 | Feminine Overcorrection in Academia, with JD Haltigan

  • JD Haltigan 30 DEC 2021

s04e29 | What is “Street Epistemology”? | with Reid Nicewonder of Cordial Curiosity

  • Reid Nicewonder 24 DEC 2021

s04e28 | Sidewalk Skepticism, with Billboard Chris

s04e27 | Biological Sex and US Law, with Candice Jackson

s04e26 | Abandon Cope, Ye Who Enter Here, with James Lindsay

s04e25 | Counter Wokecraft: Using Cold War Tactics against Critical Social Justice, with Charles Pincourt

  • Charles Pincourt 29 NOV 2021

s04e24 | The Gender Cope: a Detrans Story, with Isaac

  • “Isaac” 28 NOV 2021

s04e23 | Evolutionary Psychology of the Incel Phenomenon, with William Costello

  • William Costello 23 NOV 2021

s04e22 | Rejuvenating Journalism, with Nancy Rommelmann

  • Nancy Rommelmann 18 NOV 2021

s04e21 | Cognitive Dissidents, with Sasha Ayad LPC

s04e20 | Sacred Profanities, with Jonathan Pageau of The Symbolic World

  • Jonathan Pageau 11 NOV 2021

s04e18 | Orthodoxy in Public Education, with Frank McCormick @CBHeresy

  • Frank McCormick 31 OCT 2021

s04e17 | Being A Woman Being A Man, with Aaron Terrell

s04e16 | Truth Is No Stranger To Comedy, with Maye Muses

  • “Maye Muses” 24 OCT 2021

e04e15 | Heather Heying; in Calmversation

s04e14 | Self Esteem is for Suckers; Critical Thinking is for Everyone, with Steve Salerno

  • Steve Salerno 19 OCT 2021

s04e13 | Rise of the Well-Adjusted Weirdos, with Jessie Mannisto of Third Factor Magazine

s04e12 | Inside Antifa: Tactics of the Radical Left, with Erin Smith

  • Erin Smith 13 OCT 2021

s04e11 | Countering Critical Theory’s Nihilism with Mindful Humanism, with Jason Littlefield

  • Jason Littlefield 10 OCT 2021

s04e10 | Bureaucratic Incompetence & the Death of Expertise, with Michelle Naef

  • Michelle Naef 6 OCT 2021

s04e09 | Writing Fantasy, Making History: On Craft & Communism | with Steven Brust

  • Steven Brust 3 OCT 2021

s04e08 | Babymaking is Crazymaking! Reproductive Mental Health with Robin Atkins, LMHC

  • Robin Atkins 29 SEP 2021

s04e07 | Tomboys & Other Untold Stories, with Lisa Selin Davis

s04e06 | The Failure of NYC Public Schools, with Maud Maron

s04e05 | A Rational Feminism, with Erika Bachiochi

  • Erika Bachiochi 14 SEP 2021

s04e03 | Woke Psychopathy: Cluster B & Activism, with Josh Slocum of Disaffected Podcast

  • Josh Slocum 7 SEP 2021

s04e02 | How to Stop Being a Jerk and Get Along with the Opposite Sex, with Lorelei

  • “Lorelei” 5 SEP 2021

s04e01 | Challenging Gender Ideology in Public Schools, with Peavy

  • “Peavy” 1 SEP 2021

s03e114 | When Ideology Meets Reality, with Helen Joyce

s03e113 | Based & PoliSci Pilled, with Wilfred Reilly

s03e112 | Gender & Autism, with Ash and Raphael

  • “Ash” and “Raphael” 24 AUG 2021

s03e111 | Hardship and Hope: a Detrans Story, with Veera

  • “Veera” 20 AUG 2021

s03e110 | Are US Public Schools Beyond Saving? Deb Fillman Argues for Abolition

  • Deb Fillman 18 AUG 2021

s03e109 | Cult Thinking Then & Now: An Okay Boomer Story, feat. Jim Heller

  • Jim Heller 14 AUG 2021

s03e108 | Teen Mental Illness & Trans Identity, with Ella Washington

  • Ella Washington 11 AUG 2021

s03e107 | Writing About Women & Reviled for Writing “Woman” with Milli Hill

s03e106 | GenZ: The Politicized Generation, with Elika Imanaga

  • Elika Imanaga 6 AUG 2021

s03e105 | Canceled out of Counseling, with James Esses

s03e103 | Crowdsourcing COVID & Vaccine Facts, with Alexandros Marinos

  • Alexandros Marinos 26 JUL 2021

s03e102 | Bullying in the Trans Community, with Aaron Kimberly

s03e101 | United States’ Path to a World Power: The War of 1812, with B.B. Dade

  • B.B. Dade 21 JUL 2021

s03e100 | “South Africa is a CRT State” with Vincent De Boni

Righting the Left | with Jennifer Kabbany of The College Fix

s03e99 | Nobody’s in the Wrong Body | with Erin Brewer

s03e98 | You Are Your Avatar (Identity in the Profile Age) | with Professor H. Georg Moeller

  • H. Georg Moeller 7 JUL 2021

s03e97 | Damaged by Gender: A Detrans Story, with Garrett

  • “Garrett” 6 JUL 2021

s03e96 | Much Ado About Transition, with Blaire White

s03e95 | Human Contact, Devil’s Contract with Jodi Shaw

  • Jodi Shaw 28 JUN 2021

s03e94 | The End of Women’s Sport, with Coach Linda Blade

s03e93 | “Transkids” and Medical Ethics, with Jennifer Lahl

s03e92 | Through the Looking Glass: A Detrans Story, with Issa Ismail

  • Issa Ismail 17 JUN 2021

s03e91 | Critical Race Thinking, with Kimi Katiti

  • Kimi Katiti 15 JUN 2021

s03e90 | The Hormone Hangover: A Detrans Story, with Grace

e03s89 | A Preponderance of Gender, with Sasha Ayad LPC

e03s88 | Pride & Prejudice, with Helena and Sinead

s03e87 | The Lost Boys of Genderland, with Angus Fox

s03e86 | Liberating Women from Patriarchy Part 2, with Julie Bindel

s03e85 | Liberating Women from Patriarchy, with Kara Dansky

s03e84 | WOKEBUSTERS! with James Lindsay and Wokal Distance

  • James Lindsay and “Wokal Distance”/Michael Young 30 MAY 2021

s03e83 | Detrans Stories: Dominic Lauren

  • “Dominic Lauren” 27 MAY 2021

s03e82 | Bret Weinstein: Four Years Later

  • Bret Weinstein 23 MAY 2021

s03e81 | How Queer Theory Interferes with Good Therapy, with Aaron Kimberly

s03e80 | Update on the Hormone Health Crisis, with Dr. William Malone

s03e79 | Oh, the Humanities! with Stephen Blackwood

  • Stephen Blackwood 14 MAY 2021

s03e78 | Asian Americans: The Inconvenient Minority, with Kenny Xu

s03e77 | Resisting Dogmatism—Both Religious and Secular, with Sarah Haider

  • Sarah Haider 10 MAY 2021

s03e76 | Standing Up to CRT in Education, with Paul Rossi

  • Paul Rossi 8 MAY 2021

s03e75 | Rebuilding the Love Story, with Alison Tieman of Honey Badger Radio

  • Alison Tieman 4 MAY 2021

s03e74 | Libertarian Principles, with Christian Watson

  • Christian Watson 2 MAY 2021

s03e73 | Black Victim to Black Victor, with Adam B. Coleman

  • Adam B. Coleman 30 APR 2021

s03e72 | Revelation & Rebellion, with Jonathan Pageau

  • Jonathan Pageau 28 APR 2021

s03e71 | Equity in Corporate & Federal Hiring, with Amy Bee

  • Amy Bee 27 APR 2021

e03s70 | Dysphoria & Acceptance, with Natasha Ybarra-Klor

  • Natasha Ybarra-Klor 21 APR 2021

s03e69 | Social Media Censorship: A Legal Perspective, with Ramsey Ramerman

  • Ramsey Ramerman 18 APR 2021

e03s68 | What Is Up With Men and Their Issues??? (with Brian Martinez from Honey Badger Radio)

  • Brian Martinez 16 APR 2021

s03e67 | LGB Advocacy, with Belissa Cohen & Carrie Hathorn

  • Belissa Cohen & Carrie Hathorn 13 APR 2021

s03e64 | Critical Theory’s Threat to Jewish-Muslim Relations, with David Bernstein & Suhail Khan

  • David Bernstein & Suhail Khan 11 APR 2021

s03e66 | Native Americans & Classical Liberalism, with Jason Miller

  • Jason Miller 11 APR 2021

s03e65 | Debunking “White Fragility” with Jonathan Church & Christopher Paslay

  • Jonathan Church & Christopher Paslay 8 APR 2021

s03e63 | Critical Critical Theory Theory, with James Lindsay & Wokal Distance

s03e62 | Diversity & Exclusion, with Lindsay Shepherd

  • Lindsay Shepherd 4 APR 2021

s03e61 | Gnosticism / Nihilism / Humanism, with Professor Bruno Chaouat

  • Bruno Chaouat 1 APR 2021

s03e60 | #IStandWithMaya, with Maya Forstater

e03s59 | The Art of (Narrative) War, with Cactus Chu

  • Brian Chu 25 MAR 2021

s03e58 | The Corruption of US Colleges, with Aaron Kindsvatter

  • Aaron Kindsvatter 21 MAR 2021

S03E57 | The Plight of Women in India, with Vaishnavi Sundar

  • Vaishnavi Sundar 19 MAR 2021

356 | The Rhetoric of Woke / Anti-Woke Discourse, with Professor Erec Smith

  • Erec Smith 15 MAR 2021

355 | Managing Crippling Anxiety, with Jess

  • “Jess” 14 MAR 2021

354 | What Men & Women Want, with Nina Power

353 | (Culture) War & Peace, with Jeremy Pollack

  • Jeremy Pollack 8 MAR 2021

352 | Autogynephilia: One Man’s Account, with Kayla

  • “Kayla” 7 MAR 2021

351 | Comedy Uncanceled, with Francis Foster

350 | Basic Biology: Somehow Controversial??? with Emma Hilton & Colin Wright

349 | Russia’s Past, America’s Present | with Ora Itkin

  • Ora Itkin 1 MAR 2021

348 | The Fib In Women’s Lib, with Inez Stepman

  • Inez Stepman 25 FEB 2021

347 | The Future of Content Creation & Consumption, with LBRY founder Jeremy Kauffman

  • Jeremy Kauffman 24 FEB 2021

346 | An Unconventional Millennial, with Little Apostate

  • “Little Apostate” 22 FEB 2021

345 | A Postmodern Humanity, with Mary Harrington

344 | Detrans Stories: The Feminine & Divine, with Waffling Willow

  • “Waffling Willow” 18 FEB 2021

343 | Speaking Out For Children, with Christoph Elston

342 | Parting The BS Seas: The Capitol, Trauma, and Trump, with Karlyn Borysenko

  • Karlyn Borysenko 12 FEB 2021

341 | Tonic Masculinity, with Jack Murphy

  • Jack Murphy 11 FEB 2021

340 | Portrait of the Podcaster: A Brief Autobiography

  • 8 FEB 2021

339 | Courageous Gratitude, with Konstantin Kisin

338 | Straying from the Woke Script, with Jodi Shaw

  • Jodi Shaw 1 FEB 2021

337 | The Broken Religion of Identity Politics, with Professor Joshua Mitchell

  • Joshua Mitchell 30 JAN 2021

336 | When The Left Left Women, with Ani O’Brien

  • Ani O’Brien 28 JAN 2021

335 | Ethical Failures in Academia, with Abby Nissenbaum

  • Abby Nissenbaum 27 JAN 2021

334 | Executive Disorders, with James Lindsay & Wokal Distance

333 | Counseling & the Human Condition, with Timothy Courtois

332 | All the Birthing People, with Isabella Malbin

331 | The Art of the Puppet, with Barnaby Dixon

  • Barnaby Dixon 11 JAN 2021

330 | Seeking the Woke Antidote, with Keri Smith

  • Keri Smith 6 JAN 2021

2020

329 | When Government Regulates “Gender Identity”, with Katherine Deves

  • Katherine Deves 30 DEC 2020

328 | Debunking the Gender Myth, with Stephanie Davies-Arai

327 | Developing Giggle: A Women’s Social Media App, with Sall Grover

326 | Detrans* Stories: Suffering & Sincerity | with Torren

  • “Torren” 16 DEC 2020

325 | Gender: A Wider Lens, with Sasha Ayad and Stella O’Malley

324 | Facetious Navidad, with Andrew Doyle

323 | The Authenticity Quest, with Daisy Chadra (A DeTrans Story)

  • Daisy Marie Chadra 6 DEC 2020

322 | The Postmodern Jedi, with James Lindsay

321 | World of WokeCraft: Mists of Postmodernia, with Wokal Distance

  • “Wokal Distance”/Michael Young 27 NOV 2020

320 | Rock ‘n Realism, with Karen Davis

  • Karen Davis 24 NOV 2020

319 | Bypassing Bias with Dr. Dina McMillan

  • Dina McMillan 21 NOV 2020

318 | The Woke Encroachment into Therapy, with Seerut Chawla

  • Seerut Chawla 17 NOV 2020

317 | First Principles First, with Jane Gatsby

  • Jane Gatsby 13 NOV 2020

316 | Ethics & Aesthetics in Marketing & Design, with Christ Bintliff

  • Christ Bintliff 11 NOV 2020

315 | The Life & Thoughts of an Online Sex Worker, with Aella

  • “Aella” 7 NOV 2020

314 | Criminal Therapies: Gender Conversion in Canada, with Drs Debra Soh & James Cantor

313 | Conscious Conservatism and the Black Vote, with Felecia Killings

  • Felecia Killings 30 OCT 2020

312 | Teaching to Profess, with Lara Ayad

  • Lara Ayad 29 OCT 2020

311 | Black Conservatism: Where It’s At, Where It’s Going, with Julian Acciard

  • Julian Acciard 23 OCT 2020

310 | Rethinking The War on Drugs, with Benjamin Boyce

  • 19 OCT 2020

309 | “Don’t Tell Me What I Kant Do!” • Discussing Ethics with Sam Hoadley-Brill

  • Sam Hoadley-Brill 18 OCT 2020

308 | Gender, Conversion & Conformity, with Donovan Cleckley

  • Donovan Cleckley 10 OCT 2020

307 | What Makes Critical Race Theory Wrong (and Racist), with James Lindsay

306 | The Gender Trap, with Dr. Debra Soh & Abigail Shrier

305 | Black Minds Matter: Heterodoxy in Black American Thought, with Brittany King

  • Brittany King 27 SEP 2020

304 | Missteps of Modern Feminism, with Alex Kaschuta

  • Alex Kaschuta 21 SEP 2020

303 | Something Wokéd This Way Comes, with Wokal Distance

  • “Wokal Distance”/Michael Young 14 SEP 2020

302 | Breaking Through Black & White Thinking, with Desi-Rae

  • “Desi-Rae” 12 SEP 2020

301 | Whistleblowing on Woke Government, with Casey Petersen

  • Casey Petersen 1 SEP 2020

268 | Falsifying Wokeness, with King Crocoduck

  • “King Crocoduck” 30 AUG 2020

267 | Art Like An Egyptian, with Professor Lara Ayad

  • Lara Ayad 29 AUG 2020

266 | The Rise of Unreason in Academia, with Dr. James Cantor, PhD

265 | Evergreen Protests Through a Sociological Lens, with Shaun Cammack

  • Shaun Cammack 22 AUG 2020

264 | Decoding the Gender Matrix, with Helen Joyce

263 | Detrans Stories: Taking the Reins, with Chiara

262 | The Phantom Moderate: Left Coast Life, with Christopher Rufo

261 | Truths About Transition, with Buck Angel

260 | How Antiracism Disempowers, with Professor Erec Smith

  • Erec Smith 5 AUG 2020

259 | Detrans Stories: Helena, The Problematic

258 | A More Perfect Transition: Trans Health Advocacy, with Corinna Cohn

257 | Children’s Rights, Trans Realities with Scott Newgent

256 | Cops, Crime, & Sociology with Roderick Graham

  • Roderick Graham 24 JUL 2020

255 | The Diversity Dilemma, with Cedrick-Michael Simmons

  • Cedrick-Michael Simmons 24 JUL 2020

254 | Speech, Privacy, Capital, with Sarah Downey

  • Sarah Downey 17 JUL 2020

253 | End of Days Survivor’s Guide, with Jonathan Pageau & Paul Vander Klay

  • Jonathan Pageau & Paul Vander Klay 15 JUL 2020

252 | Sundown Town Stories, with Adrian Lee Oliver

  • Adrian Lee Oliver 13 JUL 2020

251 | Modeling a Minority Opinion, with @EricsElectrons

  • “EricsElectrons” 9 JUL 2020

250 | Why “White Fragility” Is Such An Ego Trip, with Christopher Paslay

  • Christopher Paslay 8 JUL 2020

249 | Girlhood, Interrupted: Teen Mental Health & the Transgender Trend, with Abigail Shrier

248 | Organization Psychology & The Woke Encroachment, with Dr. Karlyn Borysenko

  • Karlyn Borysenko 1 JUL 2020

247 | What We Do With The Shadows, with Jungian Therapist Anderson Todd

  • Anderson Todd 24 JUN 2020

246 | A Crash Course in Black U.S. History, with John Wood Jr.

  • John Wood Jr. 18 JUN 2020

245 | Surviving a Moral Panic, with Lisa Marchiano, Jungian Analyst

244 | America’s New Religion, with James Lindsay & Mike Nayna

243 | Inoculation to Indoctrination: Exploring Cult Techniques with Chris Shelton

  • Chris Shelton 11 JUN 2020

242 | Chloé Valdary: Collective Guilt, Common Pride

  • Chloé Valdary 3 JUN 2020

241 | Bret Weinstein: Three Years After the Protest

  • Bret Weinstein 26 MAY 2020

240 | Enlightenment Virtues & Vices, with Carl Benjamin

239 | Courage & Detransition, with Chris (Male)

  • “Chris” 10 MAY 2020

238 | Having a Moment with Claire Graham

237 | Two if by Prime: Amazon’s Logistic Revolution, with Hannah the Logistics Lady

  • “Hannah the Logistics Lady” 13 APR 2020

236 | Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: A Primer | with Lisa Littman and Sasha Ayad

235 | Mackenzie’s Detransition Story

  • “Mackenzie” 4 APR 2020

234 | Quarantine Conversations, with Katie Herzog

233 | Comedy & Catastrophe, with Andrew Doyle

232 | Suppose Sex Is Real… with Colin Wright

231 | A Straight Talking Gay Man, with Arty Morty

230 | Quarantine Conversation: with Posie Parker

229 | Lucifer’s Wager, with Bo Winegard

  • Bo Winegard 19 MAR 2020

228 | Engendering an Authentic Self, with Stella O’Malley

227 | Gendered Enough: A Detrans Story with Leigh

  • “Leigh” 16 MAR 2020

226 | A Woman Without Feminism, with Claire Graham

225 | The Limits of Feminism, with Belinda Brown

  • Belinda Brown 14 MAR 2020

224 | Interview with a Woman

  • “radley_ms” 5 MAR 2020

223 | The Problematization of Everything, with Meghan Daum

222 | New Discourses, with James Lindsay

221 | Canadian Government Suppresses Impact Reports of Bill C-16

  • “Jennifer Anne” / JenniferAnne_s 19 FEB 2020

220 | Outwitting Wokeness, with Andrew Doyle

219 | Escaping Abuse, Evolving Agency, with Lara

  • “Lara” 14 FEB 2020

218 | Journalism, Gender, & Justice, with Helen Joyce

217 | The Cancel Culture Club, with Graham Linehan

216 | Consider the Gender, with Debbie Hayton

215 | Renegotiating Womanhood: A Detrans Story, with Laura

  • “Laura” 21 JAN 2020

214 | What the Hormones Didn’t Change: a Detrans Story, with Watson

213 | Trauma & Transition, with Rachel

  • “Rachel” 7 JAN 2020

212 | Growing Out of GroupThink, with Helena

211 | Unity and Disunity in the LGBT Community, with Arielle Scarcella

2019

210 | Banned but not Broken, with GNC_Centric

  • “GNC_Centric” 31 DEC 2019

209 | Coercive Tolerance, with Sasha Ayad

208 | Transgender & Right-of-Center, with Mars

  • Mars Fernandez 20 DEC 2019

207 | Stephen Hicks: Postmodernism and Its Discontents

  • Stephen Hicks 13 DEC 2019

206 | Maturing into Masculinity, with Logan McCree

  • Logan McCree 5 DEC 2019

205 | Germany’s Free Speech Problems, with Logan McCree

  • Logan McCree 3 DEC 2019

204 | Posie Parker: Sticking Up for Sex Differences

203 | Masculine Actualities, Feminine Possibilities, with Jonathan Pageau

  • Jonathan Pageau 22 NOV 2019

202 | Collateral Cancelation, with John Sonmez

  • John Sonmez 20 NOV 2019

201 | The State of College Debate, with Michael Moreno

  • Michael Moreno 30 OCT 2019

74 | Free Range Discourse with the Future Thinkers Euvie Ivanova and Mike Gilliland

  • Euvie Ivanova and Mike Gilliland 12 SEP 2019

73 | Defense Lawyer Speaks About Ramifications of the Yaniv Case

  • John Carpay 2 AUG 2019

72 | Blaire White: Persona and Personality

71 | Civility and Citizenship with Philosopher Steven Clouse

  • Steven Clouse 29 JUL 2019

70 | Transition by Tumor: An Accidental Androgen Story

  • “kate” / unqueenlyandsh1 25 JUL 2019

69 | Saving Our Religions, with Paul Vander Klay

  • Paul Vander Klay 24 JUL 2019

68 | A Postmodern Postmortem with James Lindsay

67 | Transsexual vs. Transgender, with Amazon Eve

  • Amazon Eve 15 JUL 2019

66 | The Science of Hormones with William Malone, MD

65 | A Life in Transition, with Miranda Yardley

64 | Parkouring Life’s Obstacles, with Rafe Kelley

  • Rafe Kelley 28 JUN 2019

63 | Creativity & Cancellation, with playwright Libby Emmons

  • Libby Emmons 13 JUN 2019

62 | The Unbearable Whiteness of Being, with Jonathan Church

  • Jonathan Church 31 MAY 2019

61 | Intuition and Wholeness in Jungian Therapy, with Lisa Marchiano

60 | Identity, Gender, and Development, with Dr. Ken Zucker

59 | The Biology of Male and Female, with Robin Forbes-Lorman

  • Robin Forbes-Lorman 17 MAY 2019

58 | Stigma and Censorship with Dr Ray Blanchard

57 | Parenting the Gender Dysphoric Child, with Sasha Ayad

56 | True Fantasy, with Steven Brust

  • Steven Brust 9 MAY 2019

55 | Telling the Grievance Studies Story, with Mike Nayna

  • Mike Nayna 8 MAY 2019

54 | Identity Politics is Rubbish, with Rose of Dawn

  • “Rose of Dawn” 3 MAY 2019

53 | Storytelling & Transition with Wheston Chancellor Grove

  • Wheston Chancellor Grove 24 APR 2019

52 | Trauma and Dysphoria with Erin Brewer

51 | Becoming a Feminine Entity with Jadis Argiope

  • Jadis Argiope 14 APR 2019

50 | Hierarchy, Trauma, & Psychology with Dr. Patrick Lockwood

  • Patrick Lockwood 12 APR 2019

49 | Is Social Justice a Cultural Revolution Reboot? with Simon Chen

  • Simon Chen 10 APR 2019

48 | Let’s Talk About Intersex with Claire Graham

47 | From Dysphoria to Euphoria with Therapist Carey Callahan

46 | Adolescent Identity & Exploration with Sasha Ayad, Licensed Professional Counselor

45 | Inside Radical Islam with Filmmaker François Margolin

  • François Margolin 3 APR 2019

44 | Art Dies Where Correctness Thrives | with Alexander Adams

  • Alexander Adams 1 APR 2019

43 | Dr. Ray Blanchard on Sex, Research, and Typology

42 | Gender Biology & Ideology with Kalvin Garrah

  • Kalvin Garrah 27 MAR 2019

41 | Taking on the Gender Industry with Maritza Cummings

  • Maritza Cummings 24 MAR 2019

40 | Toward a Trans-Centrism with Rhys McKavanagh

  • Rhys McKavanagh 18 MAR 2019

39 | Curb Your Postmodernism with Helen Pluckrose

38 | Conformity and Abuse in the Gender Ideology Community with GNC-Centric

  • “GNC-Centric” 14 MAR 2019

37 | Hip To Be Trans? with Jesse, of The Pique Resilience Project

36 | Therapy & the Teen Gender Crisis with Sasha Ayad, LPC

35 | A TransMan’s Cautious Transition with Sean Lindsey

  • Sean Lindsey 9 MAR 2019

34 | Reforming the Social Sciences with Lee Jussim

33 | Smashing the (Non)Binary with Jamie Shupe

  • Jamie Shupe 5 MAR 2019

32 | Social SPIDERS! & What They Say About Us, with Colin Wright

31 | Sexuality & Gender Identity with Dr J Michael Bailey

30 | Teen Transition and Social Media with Helena

29 | Free Will & Inescapable Bias with Dr. Cory Clark

  • Cory Clark 27 FEB 2019

28 | Transition vs Transformation with Jungian Analyst Lisa Marchiano

26 | Detransition & Self Acceptance with Chiara

25 | The Divine Feminine, with Rachel Fulton Brown

  • Rachel Fulton Brown 16 FEB 2019

24 | Radical Feminism & Power Structures with Dr. Jane Clare Jones

  • Jane Clare Jones 14 FEB 2019

23 | BJ Campbell: Guns, Memes, & Societal Ills

  • BJ Campbell 9 FEB 2019

22 | John Vervaeke: Wisdom, Myth, and Artificial Intelligence

  • John Vervaeke 6 FEB 2019

21 | Egolibrium: A story of lost lovers

  • 6 FEB 2019

20 | Art & Identity with Alexander Adams

  • Alexander Adams 3 FEB 2019

19 | Lior Leser: Sargon, Patreon, & The Case Against Paypal

  • Lior Leser 24 JAN 2019

18 | Dr Jane Clare Jones: Communicating Feminism

  • Jane Clare Jones 23 JAN 2019

17 | Adaptations in Masculinity with Eric Anderson, PhD

  • Eric Anderson 23 JAN 2019

16 | Physicist Sam Gregson: Resisting Media Manipulation

  • Sam Gregson 21 JAN 2019

15 | A Crash Course in Sexology with Dr. James Cantor

14 | Kinesis: Beyond the Trans Identity

  • Asha Britt 18 JAN 2019

13 | Kinesis on the Potentials of Trans People

  • Asha Britt 18 JAN 2019

12 | Psychologist Oren Amitay: Social Media & its Discontents

11 | Graham Linehan: In Good Faith

10 | Corinna on Trans Rights & Wrongs

09 | Esther O’Reilly: Unapologetic Christian Apologetics

  • Esther O’Reilly 14 JAN 2019

08 | Robynne on the Reality of Transition

  • Robynne Merguerdijian 14 JAN 2019

07 | Journalist William Ray: On the Death of the Left

  • William Ray 14 JAN 2019

06 | Filmmaker Jay Shapiro: On the Future of Tolerance

  • Jay Shapiro 14 JAN 2019

05 | Dr. Kathleen Stock: On Being vs Identifying as Female

04 | Arno Michaelis: Life After a Hate Group

  • Arno Michaelis 14 JAN 2019

03 | Carrey Callahan: Rethinking Transition

02 | Coleman Hughes: Categories and Consequences of Race

  • Coleman Hughes 14 JAN 2019

01 | Reverend Paul Vander Klay: “Walk Softly & Carry a Big Cross”

  • Paul Vander Klay 22 DEC 2018

Vaush is the stage name of Ian Kochinski, and American media personality supportive of trans and gender diverse people.

Background

Kochinski was born on February 14, 1994 in Los Angeles and grew up in Beverly Hills. Kochinski earned a bachelor’s degree from Humboldt State University in 2018.

Kochinski became known for debating conservative people and conspiracy theorists, including Stefan Molyneux, Carl Benjamin (Sargon of Akkad), Tomas Bogardus, and Debra Soh.

Media

Vaush (April 25, 2022). DEBATE VS. Dr. Debra Soh On Trans Issues, Gender, and MORE. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK0YPY1tjJQ

Vaush (June 10, 2022). TRANS WATER – Gender Debate Gets Scientific. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1B6gqZ7Vto

Modern-Day Debate (June 8, 2022). Vaush Vs Dr. Tomas Bogardus | Are Trans-Women Women? | Debate Podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHxHSD4qWEM

Destiny (July 5, 2022). Debating The “Aqua” Professor Vaush Made Crazy Arguments Against. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PuIIo5VEy0

Perspective Philosophy (July 4, 2022). Discussing The Vaush Debate and Gender with Dr Bogardus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lld4p2ADGc

Resources

The Vaush Pit (vaush.gg)

YouTube (youtube.com)

Wikpedia (en.wikipedia.org)

X/Twitter (x.com)

Facebook (facebook.com)

TikTok (tiktok.com)

Instagram (instagram.com)

In 2020, supporters of J.K. Rowling published an open letter in the Sunday Times in response to criticism of the author.

Rowling’s book Troubled Blood included a male serial killer who dresses as a woman in order to lure his female victims, a common transphobic trope.

Signatories include many key figures in anti-transgender extremism.

Signatories

  • Alexander Armstrong, actor
  • Trezza Azzopardi, writer
  • Grace Carley, producer
  • Maureen Chadwick, writer
  • Malcolm Clark, television producer-director
  • Nick Cohen, journalist
  • Amanda Craig, writer
  • Andrew Davies, writer
  • Jess de Wahls, textile artist
  • Charlotte Delaney, writer
  • James Dreyfus, actor
  • Simon Fanshawe, writer
  • Nehanda Ferguson, musician
  • Aminatta Forna, writer
  • Eileen Gallagher, writer & producer
  • Magi Gibson, writer
  • Kath Gotts, composer & lyricist
  • Manick Govinda, arts consultant
  • Jane Harris, writer
  • Debbie Hayton, journalist
  • Philip Hensher, writer
  • Justin Hill, writer
  • Susan Hill, writer
  • Tatsuya Ishida, cartoonist
  • Griff Rhys Jones, actor
  • Russell Celyn Jones, writer
  • Lisa Marchiano, author
  • Arthur Matthews, writer
  • Ian McEwan, author
  • Ann McManus, writer
  • Ben Miller, actor
  • Jimmy Mulville, producer
  • Mez Packer, writer
  • Nina Paley, animator
  • Gillian Philip, author
  • Rachel Rooney, author
  • Lizzie Roper, actress
  • Birdy Rose, artist
  • Jane Thynne, writer
  • Frances Welch, writer
  • Francis Wheen, writer
  • Victoria Whitworth, writer
  • Shirley Wishart, musician
  • Zuby, musician and author

References

O’Connor, Roisin (September 28, 2020). JK Rowling: Ian McEwan and Graham Linehan among literary figures to support author amid transphobia row. The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/jk-rowling-transgender-views-support-ian-mcewan-sunday-times-b666932.html

Diamond, Jonny (September 30, 2020) Our terrible year of open letters continues: JK Rowling edition. LitHub https://lithub.com/our-terrible-year-of-open-letters-continues-jk-rowling-edition/