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River Page vs. transgender people

River Page is an American writer connected to several anti-trans outlets run by conservative gay, lesbian, and bi people, including The Free Press, Log Cabin Republicans, Pirate Wires, and Blocked and Reported.

Background

River Coda Carnes Page was born on January 6, 1996 and grew up in Zavalla, Texas with parent Manda, stepparent Ricky Page, and three siblings.

Page earned a bachelor’s degree from University of West Florida in 2019. Page was recruitment director of UWF’s Democratic Socialist Alliance and has frequently written criticisms of the professional class and the liberal elite.

In 2021, Page married Christopher Chandler Farley, who also graduated from UWF in 2019.

Writings on sex and gender

While working at an advertising agency, Page contributed to Twink Revolution and Conservative gay anti-trans activist Michael Solana’s Pirate Wires before taking a staff job at conservative The Free Press.

In a piece for the Log Cabin Republicans’ publication Outspoken, Page expresses contempt for trans and gender diverse people interested in same-gender relationships with cisgender gay or lesbian people.

Left homophobia is easily distinguished because it almost always qualifies with the term “cis.” […] Of course, the female gaze is usually qualified, which is why they call lesbians who refuse to extend it to transwomen TERFs. In any case, the male gaze is almost purely visual and physical, and with no women operating as sexual gatekeepers, it reaches its maximum within gay culture, on our most popular dating apps, where people trade nudes before names if they bother trading names at all. 

The woke homophobes most hostile to gay men are “trans-masc” people who identify as gay men (or something close to that), yet very few of them seem to be trying to “pass” as male. Almost all of them seem to be forgoing hormone therapy, and the vast majority seem to be still presenting as more or less stereotypically female. Given that they look more or less like conventional young women, they could successfully attract straight men, but they seem to have no sexual interest in doing so, which is by far the most damning evidence against their claims to gay manhood.

In the “post-liberal”/anti-liberal magazine Compact, Page is critical of progressive schoolteachers who signal support to their students who are sex and gender minorities through inclusive classroom signage and curricula, writing:

Far too often, what passes for “discussions of gender and sexuality” and “allyship” among the educator-activist class is, in fact, propaganda that traduces actual LGBT history and insults the intelligence of the wider community. And it’s all done to maintain narratives that serve the interests of the educator-activist class, whether they be personal or political.

References

Escambia County Courts (2021). Groom PAGE, RIVER CODA CARNES, Bride FARLEY, CHRISTOPHER CHANDLE.R https://unicourt.com/case/fl-esc-groom-page-river-coda-carnes-bride-farley-christopher-chandler-549572?init_S=chup_ltst

University of West Florida (2019). Fall 2019 Commencement. https://uwf.edu/media/university-of-west-florida/offices/commencement/programs-pdf/CommencementProgram_Fall2019_DIGITAL.pdf

Carroway Funeral Home (April 7, 2016). Linda Roberts Colwell of Huntington, Texas | 1951 – 2016 | Obituary. https://www.carrowayfuneralhome.com/obituary/3648801

Selected anti-trans writings by Page

Page, River (). The Price of Pursuing the Truth About Transgender Medicine.

Page, River (August 8, 2022). The truth about ‘woke homophobia.’ Outspoken https://getoutspoken.com/alphabet-soup/the-truth-about-woke-homophobia

Page, River (Mar 22, 2023). America Can’t Decide What An Adult Is. Pirate Wires https://www.piratewires.com/p/leonardo-di-caprio-consent

Page, River (November 9, 2023). Meet the Transsexual Hijabis Welcoming the Muslim New World Order. Pirate Wires https://www.piratewires.com/p/trans-hijabis

Page, River (March 22, 2023). The Yaoi To Trans Pipeline. Pirate Wires https://www.piratewires.com/p/yaoi-trans-pipeline

Additional selected work by Page

Page, River (Winter 2021). The CIA and the New Dialect of Power. American Affairs https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/11/the-cia-and-the-new-dialect-of-power/

Page, River (Winter 2021). The Biden Admin’s March Toward Permanently Enshrining DEI Into Corporate America Pirate Wires https://www.piratewires.com/p/the-biden-admins-march-toward-permanently

Page, River (Winter 2021). We Can’t Assimilate Them All. Pirate Wires https://www.piratewires.com/p/hamtramck-muslim-city-council-progressives

Page, River (Winter 2021). The Cyborgian Denizens of DIDTok. Pirate Wires https://www.piratewires.com/p/cyborgian-denizens-didtok

Page, River (Winter 2021). DC’s DEI “Experts” Shaping AI’s Future. Pirate Wires https://www.piratewires.com/p/dcs-dei-experts-shaping-ais-future

Page, River (Winter 2021). Coomer Conversion Therapy. Pirate Wires https://www.piratewires.com/p/ex-gay-twitter

Media

Katie Herzog (March 23, 2024). Episode 208: Ayesha Erotica Can’t Disappear (with River Page). Blocked and Reported https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/episode-208-ayesha-erotica-cant-disappear

Bari Weiss (July 25, 2024). Is Kamala Harris ‘Brat’? Also: What’s Brat? [Guests River Page and Kat Rosenfield] Honestly with Bari Weiss https://www.thefp.com/p/the-week-that-twitter-became-real-0bc

Suzy Weiss (October 31, 2024). Trick or Treat: It’s Our Halloween Special! [Guests River Page and Kat Rosenfield] Honestly with Bari Weiss https://www.thefp.com/p/trick-or-treat-its-our-halloween-bd0

Michael Moynihan, Batya Ungar-Sargon, Abigail Shrier, River Page (September 19, 2024). Abigail Shrier, River Page on Trump Assassination Attempts, Hezbollah Fallout, P. Diddy & More. The Free Press https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETEBF1ElW9s

Resources

X/Twitter (x.com)

Substack (substack.com)

LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

Compact (compactmag.com)

  • River Page
  • compactmag.com/contributor/river-page

Washington Examiner (washingtonexaminer.com)

  • River Page
  • washingtonexaminer.com/author/river-page

Outspoken / Log Cabin Republicans (getoutspoken.com)

  • River Page
  • https://getoutspoken.com/author/river-page

Muck Rack (muckrack.com)

Splice Today (splicetoday.com)

Twink Revolution (twinkrev.com) [archive]

  • River Page
  • twinkrev.com/author/riverpage [archive]