Teresa Binstock was an independent researcher based in Colorado. Binstock was best known for hypotheses about causes of autism, including suggestions that vaccines may be connected. Binstock also had connections to Denise Magner / “Kiira Triea” (1951ā2012), former owner and author of the transkids.us hoax site.
Background
Teresa Christine Binstock was born February 12, 1944.
Binstock reportedly earned a bachelor’s degree, claiming a major in mathematics as well as minors in physics, chemistry, creative writing, literature, and philosophy. The school and year were not specified. Binstock claimed to have been accepted into 3 graduate departments, changed direction, then went into making a living at art. Binstock reportedly conducted 8 years of Independent Research at University of Colorado Health Science Center (UCHSC) and The Childrenās Hospital in Denver. Binstock’s mentors were reportedly psychiatrist Gordon Farley, MD and pediatrician Randi Hagerman, MD, a Fragile X syndrome specialist.
Binstock has reportedly diagnosed with Aspergerās Syndrome by UCHSC post-doc fellow Cynthia Naseem Ahmed Smith, M.D., āwho presented me and two other Aspies at a Grand Rounds at USHSC in 1997.ā Binstock frequently published on the topic of autism and Aspergerās. [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]
Binstock was founder of the Institute for Molecular Introspections in 1997. It was later administratively dissolved.
Binstock died on January 27, 2021 in Colorado.
Sex development and gender
In 1998 Binstock co-authored a paper with “Kiira Triea” and Heike Bƶdeker (aka Heike Spreitzer).[1] Though cited as a co-author initially,[2] in later versions of the article, Binstockās name was dropped from author list.[3]
Binstock has also published on the etiology of gender identity and sexual orientation, proposing a variant of the āgay germā hypothesis (a viral cause) for the latter.[4] In 2000, “Kiira Triea” wrote:
A biologist named Teresa Binstock actually has found what may be the actual biological reason for transsexuality or a very strong piece of the puzzle. The TS people Iāve told of her work seem uninterested though perhaps because it seems not to have any āessentialistā appeal.[5]
Binstock has been cited by those who propose a genetic cause for transsexualism as well.[6] The Council for Responsible Genetics has cited Binstockās paper [4] in their Genetic Determinism and Sexual Orientation bibliography. They monitor abuses of genetics via Gene Watch.
Though Binstock has not publicly acknowledged being transgender, there is evidence that she was. One book describes Binstock thus:
Teresa, in her mid-fifties, looked something like an aging mountain woman. Six feet tall and dressed in sensible shoes and a full-length skirt, her long gray-blond hair was braided into pigtails.[17]
Binstock never seemed to have identified as intersex, though some of Binstock’s writings support the model that gender diversity is related to intersex.
Contact information
Teresa Binstock
Researcher in Developmental and Behavioral Neuroanatomy
Institute for Molecular Introspections
Box 1788, Estes Park CO 80517[email protected]
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References
Allnutt Funeral Home (2021). Teresa Binstock, February 12, 1944 ā January 27, 2021. https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/estes-park-co/teresa-binstock-10043818
Turner WJ (February 3, 2004). The Genetic Origin of Asexuality, Homosexuality, Transvestism, and Transsexuality. (PDF) GID Journal. gendercare.com/download/PHP/download.php?fname=./GIDJournal2-3-2004.pdf [archive]
Triea, Kiira (February 21, 2000). Re: TS/IS dynamics. alt.support.srs http://groups.google.com/group/alt.support.srs/msg/c54ec7212a024037?hl=en&dmode=source
Diamond M, Binstock T, Kohl JV (1996). From fertilization to adult sexual behavior. Hormones and Behavior, 30(4), 333ā353. https://doi.org/10.1006/hbeh.1996.0040
Selected writing by Binstock
Binstock, Teresa (18 January 2009). Email to Andrea James,
Bƶdeker, Heike; Triea, Kiira; Binstock, Teresa (October 1, 1998). Native vs. White Sex Cosmologies: Sex and Gender Variability vs. Variance in Inter- vs. Intracultural Perspective. Yumtzilob.
- For a citation with Binstockās name included, see Gerds, Heike (2004). Living Beyond the Gender Trap: Concepts of Gender and Sexual Expression Envisioned by Marge Piercy, CherrĆe Moraga and Leslie Feinberg. Shaker, ISBN 9783832233594. Note, p. 247.
- version with Binstockās name removed: http://web.archive.org/web/20040718154038/http://www.2tough.com/~kiira/cisae/yumtzilob.html
Binstock T (2001). An immune hypothesis of sexual orientation. Medical Hypotheses. 2001 Nov;57(5):583-90. https://doi.org/10.1054/mehy.2001.1416
Bolte, ER (1998). Autism and Clostridium Tetani: An Hypothesis. Medical Hypotheses, vol. 51, 1998,
pages 133-144. [Binstock served as science editor] https://doi.org/10.1016/s0306-9877(98)90107-4
Binstock TC (May 11, 1997). Changing the autism paradigm: a critique of Kemper & Baumanās speculations regarding in-utero timingā Bit.listserv.autism, (posts 13491, 13493, 13494, 13495, and 13496). See Autism Research Monographs, http://www.jorsm.com/binstock
Bernard S, Enayati A, Roger H, Binstock T, Redwood L (2002). The role of mercury in the pathogenesis of autism. Mol Psychiatry. 2002;7 Suppl 2:S42-3 https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.mp.4001177
Bernard S, Enayati A, Redwood L, Roger H, Binstock T. Autism: a novel form of mercury poisoning. Med Hypotheses. 2001 Apr;56(4):462-71. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11339848
13. Binstock T (2001). Intra-monocyte pathogens delineate autism subgroups. Med Hypotheses. 2001 Apr;56(4):523-31. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11339860
McCandless, Jaquelyn; Teresa Binstock; Jack Zimmerman (2002). Children with starving brains: A Medical Treatment Guide for Autism Spectrum. Bramble Books, ISBN 978-1883647179. Binstock worked as science editor on the book. archive https://archive.org/details/childrenwithstar00jaqu
14. Binstock, T (2001). Anterior insular cortex: linking intestinal pathology and brain function in autism-spectrum subgroups. Medical Hypotheses. 2001 Dec;57(6):714-7. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11918432
Binstock TC (1995). Fragile X and the Amygdala: Cognitive, Interpersonal, Emotional, and Neuroendocrine Considerations. Developmental Brain Dysfunction. Karger.
Kirby, David (2006). Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy. Macmillan, ISBN 9780312326456.
Resources
Insitute for Molecular Introspections (amnix.com/~imi2dnvr/) [no archive]