Richard Hanania is an American political scientist, right-wing eugenicist, and anti-transgender extremist. Hanania claims that “trans ideology is closer to a religion than it is to most political beliefs.”
In 2023, Hanania was revealed to be the author of misogynistic and pro-genocidal posts on white nationalist sites under the pseudonym “Richard Hoste.”
Background
Richard Anton Hanania was born on August 28, 1985 and grew up in Oak Lawn, Illinois. After completing high school early, Hanania attended Moraine Valley Community College, then earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of Colorado. Hanania then earned a law degree from University of Chicago and a doctorate from UCLA.
Hanania founded the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI), which includes an anti-transgender podcast. Guests include other anti-trans extremists, including Chris Rufo, Aaron Sibarium, Eric Kaufmann, Michael Shellenberger, Razib Khan, Steven Pinker, and Jesse Singal.
“Enlightened Centrists”
Hanania created a list of allegedly “enlightened centrists,” many of whom share Hanania’s disdain for transgender people.
References
Mathias, Christopher (August 4, 2023). Richard Hanania, Rising Right-Wing Star, Wrote For White Supremacist Sites Under Pseudonym”. HuffPost https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-hanania-white-supremacist-pseudonym-richard-hoste_n_64c93928e4b021e2f295e817 [archive]
Hanania, Richard (August 6, 2023). Why I Used to Suck, and (Hopefully) No Longer Do. Richard Hanania’s Newsletter https://www.richardhanania.com/p/why-i-used-to-suck-and-hopefully
Hanania, Richard (October 6, 2022). Why Gender Ideology Canât Survive Elon. Richard Hanania’s Newsletter https://www.richardhanania.com/p/why-gender-ideology-cant-survive
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Coleman Hughes is an American writer and anti-transgender activist.
Background
Coleman Cruz Hughes was born February 25, 1996 and grew up in Montclair, New Jersey. Hughes earned a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University in 2020.
Like Glenn Loury, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and John McWhorter, Hughes has gained a reputation for criticizing progressive views and policies around race.
Anti-transgender activism
Hughes has written for several anti-trans publications, including Quillette, The Spectator, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, National Review, Washington Examiner, Manhattan Institute’s City Journal, and Heterodox Academy.
Coleman hosts Conversations with Coleman, which is a major platform for other anti-transgender activists, including:
- Niall Ferguson
- Kmele Foster
References
Hughes, Coleman (May 2023). A case for color blindness. TED https://www.ted.com/talks/coleman_hughes_a_case_for_color_blindness
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Bill Maher is an American comedian and anti-transgender activist.
Background
William “Bill” Maher was born on January 20, 1956 in New York City. Maher earned a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University in 1978 and began a comedy career in 1979.
Maher hosted the panel show Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher on Comedy Central from 1993 to 1997 and on ABC from 1997 to 2002. In 2003 Maher began hosting the weekly show Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO.
Maher has platformed many anti-trans figures over the course of the HBO show, including:
- Steve Bannon
- Roseanne Barr
- Andrew Breitbart
- Pat Buchanan
- Vivek Ramaswamy
- Ralph Reed *
- Hanna Rosin
- Dave Rubin
Key:
- [no asterisk] >5 appearances
- * = 5+ appearances
- ** = 10+ appearances
- *** = 15+ appearances
- **** = 20+ appearances
Maher has had a far smaller number of trans-supportive guests. Maher has had trans guests, including:
- Janet Mock
- Eddie Izzard
- Elliot Page
- Chaz Bono
References
GLAAD (May 21, 2022). GLAAD Responds to âReal Time with Bill Maherâ Segment âAlong for the Pride.â https://glaad.org/glaad-responds-real-time-bill-maher-segment-along-pride-1/
Tapper, Jake (March 1, 2023). Maher: ‘Woke’ community wants to ‘shut down debate’ around transgender issues. CNN https://www.cnn.com/videos/media/2023/03/01/bill-maher-transgender-community-debate-tapper-intv-sot-vpx.cnn
Joseph A. Wulfsohn (January 21, 2023). Bill Maher says Biden admin âall-inâ on trans indoctrination of kids https://nypost.com/2023/01/21/bill-maher-biden-all-in-on-trans-indoctrination-of-kids/
Gabriel Hays (September 4, 2023) Bill Maher tells Joe Rogan gender surgeries are harmful, claims kids turn trans to say âf— youâ to parents. Fox News https://www.foxnews.com/media/bill-maher-tells-joe-rogan-gender-surgeries-harmful-claims-kids-turn-trans-say-f-you-parents
Molly Jong-Fast (May 26, 2022). Bill Maher Isnât a Liberal Anymore. The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/05/bill-maher-anti-lgbtq-transgender-comments/676673/
Bill Maher takes on Trans kids in sports, gender affirming surgery in debate with Neil Degrasse Tyson. The Hill https://thehill.com/video/bill-maher-takes-on-trans-kids-in-sports-gender-affirming-surgery-in-debate-with-neil-degrasse-tyson/9151163/
(August 6, 2023). Bill Maher interviews Riley Gaines to discuss the Transgender movement in sports, including penis sizes. Marca https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/tv-shows/2023/08/06/64ceeb79e2704e1ea48b460f.html
Vakil, Caroline (May 21, 2022). Maher says increase in those identifying as LGBT partly attributed to being ‘trendy’. The Hill
Wakefield, Lily (May 21, 2022). Bill Maher says US is ‘experimenting on kids’ and ‘everyone will be gay by 2054’. PinkNews
GLAAD (April 19, 2021). Medical Association Statements Supporting Trans Youth Healthcare and Against Discriminatory Bills. https://www.glaad.org/blog/medical-association-statements-supporting-trans-youth-healthcare-and-against-discriminatory
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Helen Pluckrose is a British writer and anti-transgender activist. Pluckrose was editor of anti-trans group blog Areo magazine from 2018 to 2021.
Pluckrose is critical of postmodernism and cultural constructivism. While claiming to take a centrist position that is generally trans-supportive, Pluckrose has espoused many anti-transgender views.
Background
Pluckrose was born in August 1974. Pluckrose earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of East London and a master’s degree from Queen Mary University of London.
Pluckrose was a social care worker from age 17 to 34.
In 2017 Pluckrose, Peter Boghossian, and James A. Lindsay carried out the “grievance studies” affair, where they submitted 20 hoax papers to academic journals in hopes of getting them published. One recommended that people challenge their transphobia by inserting sex toys into their anuses.
Pluckrose was editor of anti-trans group blog Areo magazine from 2018 to 2021, founding Areo Magazine Ltd in 2019. Pluckrose and Lindsay published the book Cynical Theories in 2020. Pluckrose founded Counterweight Support Limited in 2021.
Pluckrose and spouse David have one child.
Anti-transgender activism
Pluckrose asserts that “extreme trans activists” want to compel people to accept the following:
- people must believe that trans people “straightforwardly are the gender they experience themselves to be”
- people must use language that reflects a trans person’s gender
- people must be trans-inclusive when choosing sexual partners
Pluckrose’s most significant anti-trans position is that “transitioning children is difficult to justify ethically.”
Pluckrose’s reasoning is a form of cisgender supremacy that prioritizes the well-being of cisgender children over the well-being of transgender children. According to Pluckrose, giving parental consent to medical transition for a trans youth “cannot justify permanently damaging the bodies” of young people who might not benefit in the long term from medical transition. In Pluckrose’s argument this “collateral damage” is worse than collateral damage to trans young people denied medical transition.
Pluckrose’s position is predicated on the potent “regret” narrative and its medicalized manifestations: “desistance” in minors and “detransition” in adults. Regret narratives are vastly overrepresented in mainstream media because it taps into parental anxiety and justifies suspicion about all trans people. Those who believe being trans is a medical problem like “social contagion” often believe there is a cure. Those who believe being trans is an ideology or cult often cling to the powerful fantasy of trans apostasy.
Ideologues who wish to involve themselves in the bodily autonomy of others often amplify regret narratives. For instance, though abortion regret is rare, abortion opponents amplify regret narratives to make abortion less accessible for those who might benefit, including minors.
During Pluckrose’s tenure at Areo, there were several articles critical of trans people (written by people like anti-trans activist Louise Perry), and no articles written by trans people.
In a 2020 Quillette interview, Pluckrose complained about trans activism:
People are being no-platformed, fired, and cancelled for disagreeing with these ideas. Here in the UK, the police have investigated somebody posting a limerick on Twitter that did not adhere to trans activismâs concept of gender identity and a journalist publishing an interview with a historian who said slavery was not genocide. Gender critical feminists are routinely threatened and intimidated for making arguments that self-ID is a threat to womenâs sex-based rights.
References
Pluckrose, Helen (September 27, 2017). An Argument for a Liberal and Rational Approach to Transgender Rights and Inclusion. Areo https://areomagazine.com/2017/09/27/an-argument-for-a-liberal-and-rational-approach-to-transgender-rights-and-inclusion/
Hill, Jason D. (December 16, 2020). On Activist Scholarship: An Interview with Helen Pluckrose. Quillette https://quillette.com/2020/12/16/on-activist-scholarship-an-interview-with-helen-pluckrose/
Perry, Louise (July 8, 2019). Minds Without Bodies: Transgenderism and the Authentic Self. Areo https://areomagazine.com/2019/08/07/minds-without-bodies-transgenderism-and-the-authentic-self/
Smith M (pseudonym) (2018). Going in Through the Back Door: Challenging Straight Male Homohysteria and Transphobia through Receptive Penetrative Sex Toy Use. Sexuality & Culture. 22 (4): 1542. 10.1007/s12119-018-9536-0
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Caroline Farrow is a British writer and anti-transgender extremist.
Background
Farrow attended Brentwood School, Essex and New Hall School in Chelmsford, Essex.
Farrow worked as an accountant before working as an airline flight crew member. In 2010 Farrow began a pro-Catholic blog. Farrow has served as campaign director for the far-right lobby group CitizenGo.
Farrow is married to a priest named Robin and has five children. They live in Ash, Surrey.
Anti-transgender activism
Farrow posted on anti-trans site Kiwi Farms as Caroline Farrow, without a pseudonym, which was very unusual. After Farrow made a number of transphobic comments during a debate with Susie Green on Good Morning Britain, an investigation was opened. Farrow complained about being investigated on a 2019 Quillette podcast hosted by Toby Young.
In 2022 Farrow was arrested at home after many years of harassing, doxxing, and misgendering Stephanie Hayden. Surrey Police said:
âOn Monday, 3 October, officers attended an address in the Guildford area as part of an investigation into allegations of malicious communications (sending of indecent, grossly offensive messages, threats, or information) and harassment. A 48-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of both offences. A number of electronic devices were seized as potential evidence from this address under section 19 of PACE. Where an offence is alleged to have been committed on an electronic device, for example, it may hold a key piece of evidence and may routinely be seized during an investigation. The woman was taken to Guildford police station where she was interviewed. She has now been released under investigation and inquiries remain ongoing.â
In October 2023, Farrow announced that CPS were not proceeding with prosecution because “the evidential test has not been met.”
References
Wakefield, Lily (October 13, 2022). Anti-trans activist Caroline Farrow sues trans woman sheâs accused of doxxing. PinkNews https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/10/13/stephanie-hayden-caroline-farrow-arrest-kiwi-farms/
Gilbert, David (October 6, 2022). J.K. Rowling Ally Arrested for Allegedly Doxing a Trans Activist. Vice News https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k87vq/caroline-farrow-arrested-kiwi-farms
Young, Toby (March 26, 2019). Quillette Podcast 23 â Catholic journalist Caroline Farrow talks about being investigated by the British police for misgendering a transwoman. Quillette https://quillette.com/2019/03/26/quillette-podcast-23-catholic-journalist-caroline-farrow-talks-about-being-investigated-by-the-british-police-for-misgendering-a-transwoman/
Staff report (March 20, 2019). Surrey Police investigation over ‘misgendering’ tweets. BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-surrey-47638527
Hill, Amelia (March 20, 2019). Mother drops action against woman who said she ‘mutilated’ trans daughter. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/mar/20/catholic-journalist-investigated-by-police-after-misgendering-trans-woman
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Dennis Prager is a conservative writer and anti-transgender activist.
Background
Dennis Mark Prager was born on August 2, 1948 in Brooklyn to Max and Hilda (Friedfeld) Prager. Prager has a sibling Kenneth.
Prager attended Yeshiva of Flatbush and earned a bachelor’s degree from Brooklyn College in 1970. Prager then took graduate courses but did not complete further degrees.
Prager was recruited by a British Jewish group to interview Jewish people in the Soviet Union, then toured speaking about the findings. From 1976 to 1983 Prager ran the Brandeis-Bardin Institute.
In 1982 Prager began a religious talk show and began writing more about antisemitism. Prager became known for criticism of narcissism and secularism. Prager has been married three times.
In the 1990s Prager began working to forge alliances between conservative Jews and Conservative Christians. Since 1999 Prager has hosted the nationally syndicated radio talk show The Dennis Prager Show.Â
Anti-transgender activism
In 2009, Prager and producer Allen Estrin started PragerU, which creates five-minute videos promoting conservative views.
References
Vaush (March 1, 2023). Debunking DERANGED Anti-Trans Prager U Propaganda. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggPrrXnAPw
Jessie Gender (December 3, 2021). How PragerU Creates Transphobia (in Trans-Affirming Folks). YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-vIGz2SuO0
January, Brianna (November 23, 2020). YouTube removed anti-trans PragerU videos for violating hate speech policies. Media Matters for America
Staff report (Jun 30, 2022). Daily Wire Tightens Alliances With âThe Jordan B. Peterson Podcastâ And Dennis Prager. Inside Radio https://www.insideradio.com/free/daily-wire-tightens-alliances-with-the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast-and-dennis-prager/article_4da336f0-f8ba-11ec-ab59-137e6e6efdb2.html
Ben Shapiro is a conservative American writer and anti-transgender activist.
Background
Benjamin Aaron “Ben” Shapiro was born January 15, 1984 in Los Angeles, California. Shapiro’s parent Cynthia Block Shapiro (born 1956) has worked as an executive coach, and parent David Jay Shapiro (born 1956) has been a writer and musician. David Shapiro has also written under the pseudonym “William Bigelow” and possibly “Hank Berrien,” often puff pieces praising child Ben.
Ben Shapiro studied classical violin as a child. Shapiro has a sibling named Leah and another sibling Abigail, a singer known as Classically Abby.
Shapiro used the online handle frumfiddle in college at UCLA, while earning a bachelor’s degree awarded in 2004. Shapiro was hired by Creators Syndicate at 17 to become America’s youngest nationally syndicated columnist, publishing the first of many subsequent books that year.
Shapiro earned a law degree from Harvard in 2007. Shapiro worked at Goodwin Procter LLP before setting up Benjamin Shapiro Legal Consulting in Los Angeles.
Ben Shapiro married Israeli physician Mor Toledano Shapiro (born 1988) in 2008. They have four children.
In 2012, Shapiro became editor of Breitbart News, resigning in 2016. In 2012, Shapiro also began work as a radio host.
In 2013, Shapiro and Jeremy Boreing co-founded conservative media watchdog TruthRevolt, which continued until 2018. In 2015, they founded Daily Wire and the podcast The Ben Shapiro Show. In 2020, Shapiro became editor emeritus of Daily Wire.
Shapiro frequently appears in the media and on campuses, usually making provocative statements in hopes of getting a response.
Anti-LGBTQ activism
Shapiro considers sex and gender minorities mentally ill and sinful. Shapiro does not think they should be able to marry or adopt.
Shapiro has said trans people should not be allowed to own guns, and Shapiro believes transgender youth are caused by “social contagion” or “crap parenting.”
References
Harris, Dan (September 2017). Outspoken conservative Ben Shapiro says political correctness breeds insanity. Nightline https://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/outspoken-conservative-ben-shapiro-political-correctness-breeds-insanity-50603406 [archive]
Harris, Dan; Torres, Ignacio; Effron, Lauren (October 21, 2017). Conservative commentator on future of free speech on campus. ABC News https://abcnews.go.com/US/outspoken-conservative-ben-shapiro-free-speech-place-college/story?id=50610394 [archive]
Goldstein, Sasha (July 15, 2015). Ben Shapiro files complaint against transgender reporter Tur. New York Daily News http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ben-shapiro-files-complaint-transgender-reporter-tur-article-1.2298804 [archive]
Walker, Lauren (July 21, 2015). Editor Ben Shapiro Files Police Report Against Transgender Reporter After Heated TV Exchange. Newsweek http://www.newsweek.com/conservative-editor-files-police-report-against-transgender-reporter-after-355851 [archive]
Tobin, Andrew (July 21, 2015). Jewish pundit, trans journalist in on-air spat. The Times of Israel http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-pundit-trans-journalist-in-on-air-spat/ [archive]
Walker, Lauren (July 21, 2015). Editor Ben Shapiro Files Police Report Against Transgender Reporter After Heated TV Exchange. Newsweek. https://web.archive.org/web/20170318225103/http://www.newsweek.com/conservative-editor-files-police-report-against-transgender-reporter-after-355851 [archive]
Tavernise, Sabrina (November 23, 2017). Ben Shapiro, A Provocative ‘Gladiator,’ Battles to Win Young Conservatives. The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/us/ben-shapiro-conservative.html [archive]
Wilburn, Caroline (November 1, 2022). Ben Shapiro visits A&M, criticizes transgender community. The Battery https://www.thebatt.com/news/ben-shapiro-visits-a-m-criticizes-transgender-community/article_9340e138-5a5f-11ed-bd70-4b233c964e13.html
Henry, Vesper (March 22, 2023). Facts trump Ben Shapiro’s feelings on social contagion theory of trans identity. Media Matters for America https://www.mediamatters.org/ben-shapiro/facts-trump-ben-shapiros-feelings-social-contagion-theory-trans-identity
Staff report (March 7, 2023). Ben Shapiro accuses parents of trans children of âcrap parenting.â Media Matters for America https://www.mediamatters.org/ben-shapiro/ben-shapiro-accuses-parents-trans-children-crap-parenting
Prieb, Natalie (April 13, 2022). Ben Shapiro gets into scrap with student at âMen Cannot Be Womenâ event. The Hill https://thehill.com/homenews/3266482-ben-shapiro-gets-into-scrap-with-student-at-men-cannot-be-women-event/
Staff report (March 31, 2023). Ben Shapiro says trans people should be banned from owning firearms. Media Matters for America https://www.mediamatters.org/ben-shapiro/ben-shapiro-says-trans-people-should-be-banned-owning-firearms
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PragerU is a conservative American nonprofit advocacy group that frequently posts anti-transgender media.
Background
PragerU was founded by Dennis Prager and Allen Estrin in 2009. They create short-form animated content that explains a conservative view on a subject.
Key people include:
In 2020, YouTube took down two anti-trans videos featuring Candace Owens for violating their policy on hate speech, wherein being transgender was likened to schizophrenia and disease.
Anti-trans content
DETRANS: The Dangers of Gender-Affirming Care (October 25, 2023)
Abigail Shrier
- Why Girls Become Boys (March 29, 2021)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7bMJd_QAXs
- critical of trans and gender diverse youth
- Preferred Pronouns or Prison (April 15, 2019)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn5opUFNs-I
- critical of gender recognition bills
Ashley McGuire
- Gender Identity: Why All the Confusion? Oct 3, 2017
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAAlFya89aw
- critical of Fallon Fox and trans athletes
Amala Ekpunobi
- A (Biological) Womanâs Take on Trending TRANS TikToker Dylan Mulvaney- Unapologetic LIVE (Apr 18, 2022)
- critical of Dylan Mulvaney
- A Conservative, Transgender, & Transexual Walk Into A Studio⊠(Dec 2, 2022)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpRJ6YZErdA
- Guests Blossom Brown and Buck Angel
- Children Should Not Choose Their Gender: An Unapologetic Special (May 8, 2022)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUZ_o5kX6u0
Aldo Buttazzoni
- If You Can Choose Your Gender Can You Choose Your Race? Apr 26, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJQOSV3lJNw
- Should San Francisco Guarantee Income for Trans People? Dec 7, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=827PcqodBc8
Marissa Streit
- Child Regrets Transitioning Soon after Mastectomy & Hormones (Dec 22, 2022)
- Guest Chloe Cole
Selina Soule
- The End of Women’s Sports (November 16, 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BuV-s1SYLk
- critical of trans athletes Andraya Yearwood and Terry Miller
Christina Hoff Sommers
- War on Boys (May 19, 2014)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFpYj0E-yb4
References
Anderson, Drew (2019-08-06). “BACKGROUNDER: PragerU’s Ties to White Supremacy, Horrific Anti-LGBTQ Record”. GLAAD. Archive
Ingram, Mathew. Congress and the platforms: The circus is back in town. Columbia Journalism Review.
Vaush (March 1, 2023). Debunking DERANGED Anti-Trans Prager U Propaganda. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggPrrXnAPw
Jessie Gender (December 3, 2021). How PragerU Creates Transphobia (in Trans-Affirming Folks). YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-vIGz2SuO0
January, Brianna (November 23, 2020). YouTube removed anti-trans PragerU videos for violating hate speech policies. Media Matters for America
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Sarah Vaci is an Anglo-Hungarian artist and anti-transgender activist.
Vaci’s activism focuses on the ex-transgender movement. Similar to the ex-gay movement of the 20th century, ex-trans activists and their supporters often believe people can be cured of being transgender through “desistance” or “detransition.”
Vaci is associated with anti-trans extremist group Genspect.
Background
Vaci was born on September 22, 1977. After graduating James Allen’s Girls’ School, Vaci earned a bachelor’s degree from Ravensbourne University London in 1996. Following ten years of working in SEN schools and with children with autism, Vaci earned master’s degrees in 2008 from Goldsmiths, University of London and from the Institute of Education.
Vaci worked in animation and film production from 1999 to 2010, including roles at The Film and Video Workshop. From 2008 to 2014, Vaci ran digital workshops at The British Museum. Vaci then opened a studio to work independently.
Vaci is based in Devon and uses the nickname “Lordy.” Vaci joined anti-trans group Genspect as a digital content creator in 2023.
Metamorphosis 100
On March 12, 2022, Vaci began profiling people whose gender identity or expression has shifted more than once and who identified as women at the time Vaci profiled them.
Because transition regret is so rare, Vaci has spent substantial time trying to find 100 verifiable people in the world to profile. A number of people profiled have withdrawn or asked to be removed, so the current number of profiles is misleading.
1: Laura Becker / Funk God
2: Cat Cattinson
3: Amber
4: Aoife [deleted]
5: Celine
6: Ashlyn
7: Aiden
8: Michelle
9: Maria
10: Emanuely
11: Amanda
12: C
13: Kat
14: Eve / Kylie
15: Jill O’Connor
16: Maria
17: ML
18: Jesse
19: Mnemosyne / Lytonya
20: Angelina Mannino
21: Oliver
22: A
23: Rada Linnea
24: Lexi
25: Jamie
26: Dakota
27: Diana Matos
28: Camille Kiefel
29: Juniper / Ellan K
30: A
31: Prisha Mosley / detransaqua
32: Jordan
33: Raven Mack
34: Jasmine / J.J. McQuade
35: Pip Malone
36: Soren Aldaco
37: Courtney Coulson
38: Rachel
39: Jade
40: [Anonymous]
41: Estella
42: Carol
43: Gabrielle
44: [withdrawn]
45: Tyla
46: Magda
47: Emma
48: [anonymous]
49: Max Robinson
50: Chloe Cole
51: Sabet
52: Violet
53: Evie
54: Victoria Gugenheim
55: Mary
56: Marina
57: Ash
58: Jade
59: Hanna
60: Layton
61: April
62: Calista
References
Linton, Deborah (July 25, 2019). Motheaten! Trump, Kim and Putin face an army of starving pests. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jul/25/motheaten-trump-kim-putin-artwork-sarah-vaci-clothes-moth-larvae
Vaci, Sarah (August 5, 2021). My Gender Dysphoria Story https://www.sarahvaci.com/post/agenderdysphoriastory
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Nina Power is a British philosopher and anti-transgender activist from the movement’s gender critical faction. Power is a sex segregationist who promotes the unfounded conspiracy theory that transgender people are “erasing” lesbians and tomboys.
Background
Power was born around 1980 and attended University of Warwick, earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Power then earned a doctorate from Middlesex University.
Power’s book The One-Dimensional Woman (2009) examines pornography, consumer capitalism, and the ideology of “women’s work.” In the 2021 book What Do Men Want?: Masculinity and Its Discontents, Powers proposes the term heteroÂsociality “to appeal for a new appreciation of sexual difference based not on conflict, antipÂathy and commodification, but on friendship, trust and mutual respect between the sexes.”
Power hosts the podcast The Lack with political theorist Benjamin Studebaker and filmmaker Helen Rollins.
Anti-transgender activism
Power platforms and logrolls for a number of other anti-trans activists, including Benjamin Boyce, Andrew Doyle, Matt Walsh, Scott Newgent, Keira Bell, Maya Forstater, Allison Bailey, Kathleen Stock, Victoria Smith, Bev Jackson, J.K. Rowling, Julie Bindel, Helen Joyce, Suzanne Moore, and anti-trans groups like Womanâs Place UK, Mumsnet, Sex Matters, and LGB Alliance.
Praising Walsh’s What Is a Woman?, Power writes:
Walsh goes further than his dumb-beardy act, pinning various medical and psychological practitioners on why they think itâs a good idea to give children an osteoporosis-causing drug also used in chemical castration. Their answers are terrifying: Children will know when theyâre ready; children know best; the drugs are reversible (they are not). Nobody, in fact, knows the long-term effect of giving young people (or adults) cross-sex hormones. What we do know isnât good; they donât reduce negative thoughts in the gender-dysphoric children who take them, for example.
On the erasure of “tomboys,” Power says:
Today, the boyish girl is in danger of being told she was âborn in the wrong body,â and whisked off to a gender clinic to begin the journey from puberty blockers to breast removal to reproductive surgery and, ultimately, infertility. Setting children on this pathâone that many regretâis an obvious, grotesque harm.
Power has been critical of Nicola Sturgeon, Dylan Mulvaney, and that shining example of the failures of federally centralized “gender clinics,” the Tavistock.
References
Power, Nina (June 14, 2022). Trans Barbarism. Compact https://compactmag.com/article/trans-barbarism
Power, Nina (January 24, 2023). The Trans War on Tomboys. Compact https://compactmag.com/article/the-trans-war-on-tomboys [references photo from ~1991n when she was 10 or 11]
Power, Nina (February 16, 2023). Nicola Sturgeonâs Trans Folly. Compact https://compactmag.com/article/nicola-sturgeon-s-trans-folly
Power, Nina (March, 2023). Welcome to TERF Island. Compact https://compactmag.com/article/welcome-to-terf-island
Media
Benjamin Boyce (Mar 10, 2021). What Men & Women Want | with Nina Power. -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uex1YPdw1h4
Benjamin Boyce (Jan 7, 2023). Considering Systems of Power | with Nina Power! -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0-mSdpyHas
Chris Williamson (Jan 31, 2022). The Crisis Of Modern Masculinity – Nina Power. | Modern Wisdom Podcast 429 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGO_XWSO7CQ
Triggernometry (Feb 13, 2022). “Demonising Men Will Make Things Worse” – Nina Power. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5whVOaxuS0
Louise Perry (Feb 12, 2023). Masculinity and Its Discontents – Nina Power. | Maiden Mother Matriarch 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gXD1DgXezU
Gus Carter (Mar 17, 2023). Why are all our young men being demonised? | SpectatorTV The Spectator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEiUwQafyDk
Andrew Doyle (Jul 10, 2021). GBNews Nina Power: In a âthriving healthy culture, everything has to be potentially mockable.â -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uImdUzulhg
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