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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 with pseudonyms

Many guests lack the courage of their convictions and use fake names and identities.

  • “A Woman”
  • “Andrius”
  • “Artemis”
  • “Arty Morty” 
  • “Austin Unbridled”
  • “Aydin Paladin”
  • “Benji” / “GNC-Centric”
  • “Brette” & “Anna” (unaccepting parent and “desisted” child)
  • “Brian W” / “BriWagon”
  • “Brit”
  • “Bx”
  • “Cat Girl Kulak”
  • “Catherine”
  • “Ciel/CielNestPasVert”
  • “Chris”
  • “Dr. Rollergator” 
  • “E. Ransom”
  • “Emily”
  • “Emmie”
  • “Finley”
  • “Grace”
  • “Garrett”
  • “Isaac”
  • “Isaac” / “CryptoCluniac” (conservative transmedicalist)
  • “Issa Ismail”
  • “J. Burden”
  • “Jellybean Gen”
  • “Jenni”
  • “Jennifer Anne” / JenniferAnne_s
  • “Jess”
  • “Jet London”
  • “Jett”
  • “Jonathan Anomaly”
  • “Joshua Neal”
  • “Jules Louise”
  • “K. Yang” 
  • “Kallie”
  • “kate” / unqueenlyandsh
  • “Kayla”
  • “Kelly S”
  • “Kevin / Evelyn”
  • “King Crocoduck”
  • “Kobe”
  • “Kruptos”
  • “Lara”
  • “Leigh”
  • “Lexi” 
  • “Leoaica Motanelul”
  • “Limpidă”
  • “Little Apostate”
  • “Lois”
  • “Lomez”
  • “Lorelei”
  • “Mackenzie”
  • “Maye Muses”
  • “Mazy”
  • “Micheal Scott”
  • “Michelle” / somenuancepls
  • “NJada”
  • “Oak Leaves and Onions”
  • “Oliver”
  • “Peachy Keenan”
  • “Peavy”
  • “PsiKey”
  • “Rachel”
  • “radley_ms”
  • “Raw Egg Nationalist”
  • “RedHawk of The Old Glory Club”
  • “Ria”
  • “Right Side”
  • “Robin” / “niwatori_dt”
  • “Robynne M.” (conservative transmedicalist)
  • “ROGD Mom”
  • “ScioSophia”
  • “Shane Cole”
  • “Solid Ground”
  • “Some Moms”
  • “Stoic Mom”
  • “Tali”
  • “Tascatorials”
  • “Terffy”
  • “Teiresias”
  • “The Distributist”
  • “The Prim Reaper” 
  • “The Right Side of History”
  • Theo/XXinv9
  • “Tracy Shannon” / “Shannon Thrace” {“trans widow”)
  • “Waffling Willow”

Guests (alphabetically by surname)

This list is not exhaustive.

  • Erika Bachiochi 
  • J. Michael Bailey (anti-trans extremist)
  • Jamie Bambrick
  • Marc Barnes
  • Stephen Baskerville
  • Julie Behling
  • Carl Benjamin 
  • Christina Berry / “Christina Buttons” (anti-trans activist)
  • Julie Bindel (anti-trans activist and sex segregationist)
  • Stephen Blackwood
  • Linda Blade (anti-trans activist and sex segregationist)
  • Ray Blanchard (anti-trans activist)
  • Randall Bock
  • Tomas Bogardus (anti-trans activist)
  • Schyler Bogert (conservative transmedicalist)
  • Karlyn Borysenko
  • Shannon Boschy
  • Rick Bosshardt
  • Beth Bourne (unaccepting parent and anti-trans extremist)
  • Jason Bradley
  • Cynthia Breheny
  • Erin Brewer (unaccepting parent)
  • Asha Britt / “Kinesis” / “Kinysis” / “Alex” / “GC_Ladyboi’ / “Sulaco_Queen” / “A Gender Critical Trans Individual” / “Last LadyBoi StarFighter”
  • Chloe Brockman / “Chloe Cole” (ex-trans activist)
  • Katherine Brodsky
  • Belinda Brown (anti-trans activist)
  • Rachel Fulton Brown
  • Heather Brunskell-Evans (anti-trans activist)
  • Joseph Burgo (unaccepting parent / “autogynephilia” activist)
  • Carey Callahan (ex-trans activist)
  • Denise Caignon (unaccepting parent and anti-trans extremist)
  • Chiara Caignon-Lewis (ex-trans activist)
  • James Cantor (anti-trans activist)
  • Jeremy Carl
  • July R. Carlan / “Shape Shifter” (ex-trans activist / regretter)
  • John Carpay
  • Daisy Chadra (ex-trans activist)
  • Lynn Chadwick (unaccepting parent)
  • Bruno Chaouat
  • Brian Chau
  • Seerut Chawla
  • Brian Chu / Cactus Chu
  • Cory Clark
  • Malcolm Clark (anti-trans activist)
  • Donovan Cleckley (ex-trans activist)
  • Nathan Cofnas
  • Belissa Cohen (LGB separatist)
  • Corinna Cohn (conservative regretter / ex-trans activist)
  • Malcolm Collins
  • Simone Collins
  • Darryl Cooper
  • William Costello
  • Timothy Courtois
  • Maritza Cummings (ex-trans activist)
  • Sarah Elizhar (ex-trans activist)
  • Zach Elliot
  • Leslie Elliott / Leslie Elliott Boyce (anti-trans activist)
  • Christopher Elston / “Christoph Elston” / “Billboard Chris” (anti-trans activist)
  • Sarah Elizhar  (ex-trans activist)
  • Kasey Emerick / “KC Miller” (ex-trans activist)
  • Libby Emmons
  • Devon Eriksen
  • Erika Ervin / “Amazon Eve” (conservative transmedicalist)
  • James Esses
  • Marcus Evans (anti-trans activist)
  • Susan Evans (anti-trans activist)
  • Abigail Favale
  • Mars Fernandez / “UPPERhand Mars” (conservative transmedicalist)
  • Janice Fiamengo
  • Deb Fillman
  • Nate Fischer
  • Robin Forbes-Lorman
  • Mitra Forouhar
  • Maya Forstater (anti-trans activist)
  • J.G. Fox
  • Erin Friday (unaccepting parent)
  • Abel Garcia (ex-trans activist)
  • Kalvin Garrah (conservative transmedicalist)
  • Jane Gatsby
  • Genevieve Gluck (anti-trans activist)
  • Claire Graham (identifies as intersex)
  • Dave Greene
  • Karleen Gribble / “DRKarleenG”
  • Wheston Chancellor Grove (author)
  • Sall Grover (anti-trans activist and sex segregationist)
  • Seth Gruber 
  • Alasdair Gunn / “Angus Fox” (anti-trans activist)
  • Sarah Haider (anti-trans activist)
  • Eithan Haim
  • Az Hakeem (anti-trans activist)
  • Jordan Hall
  • JD Haltigan
  • Laura Bryant Hanford
  • Mary Harrington (anti-trans activist)
  • Carrie Hathorn (LGB separatist)
  • Laura Haynes
  • Debbie Hayton (conservative transmedicalist)
  • Charles Haywood
  • Luka Hein (ex-trans activist)
  • Bradley Helgerson
  • Jim Heller
  • LaRell Herbert 
  • Ritchie Herron / “Tullip” (ex-trans activist / regretter)
  • Katie Herzog (anti-trans activist)
  • Heather Heying (anti-trans activist)
  • Stephen Hicks
  • Milli Hill (anti-trans activist)
  • Emma Hilton (anti-trans activist)
  • Jesse Hinty (ex-trans activist)
  • Sam Hoadley-Brill 
  • Jenny Holland
  • Carole Hooven (anti-trans activist)
  • Coleman Hughes (anti-trans activist)
  • Mia Hughes / “Mia Ashton” / Mia Sedley” / _CryMiaRiver (anti-trans activist)
  • Phil Hutchinson / “Phil Illy” (“autogynephilia” activist)
  • Amie Ichikawa
  • Elika Imanaga
  • Auron MacIntyre
  • Ane Maiora
  • Isabella Malbin (anti-trans activist)
  • William Malone (anti-trans activist)
  • Jessie Mannisto (anti-trans activist)
  • Carob Marcelle 
  • Lisa Marchiano (anti-trans activist)
  • Maud Maron (anti-trans activist)
  • Dave Martel / Big Dave Martel
  • Heather Mason
  • Mike Maxwell
  • Frank McCormick
  • Rhys McKavanagh (conservative transmedicalist)
  • Dina McMillan
  • Carrie Mendoza (anti-trans activist)
  • Robynne Merguerdijian
  • Noelle Mering
  • Chris Milburn
  • Michael Millerman
  • David Minor
  • Veera Mirjam
  • Joshua Mitchell
  • Sarah Mittermaier / “Eliza Mondegreen” (anti-trans activist)
  • H. Georg Moeller
  • Josh Moon
  • Prisha Mosley (ex-trans activist)
  • Meghan Murphy (anti-trans activist)
  • Jamie Mustard
  • Michelle Naef 
  • Mike Nayna
  • Scott Newgent (conservative transmedicalist / regretter)
  • Terry Newman
  • Reid Nicewonder
  • Abby Nissenbaum
  • Ani O’Brien
  • Stella O’Malley (anti-trans extremist)
  • Camilo Ortiz
  • Chris Ostrowski
  • Jonathan Pageau
  • Nina Paley (anti-trans activist)
  • Elle Palmer 
  • Neema Parvini / The Academic Agent 
  • Thaddeus Patrick
  • Gio Pennacchietti
  • Laura Perry (ex-trans activist)
  • Chanel Pfahl
  • Charles Pincourt
  • David Pivtorak
  • Helen Pluckrose (anti-trans activist)
  • Jeremy Pollack
  • Nina Power (anti-trans activist)
  • Simon Amaya Price & Gareth Amaya Price / “Ash” & “Raphael” (ex-trans activist and unaccepting parent)
  • Steve Salerno
  • Angel SanMartin
  • Leor Sapir (anti-trans extremist)
  • Arielle Scarcella (LGB separatist and sex segregationist)
  • Nick Schappaugh / “Naxela2” (“autogynephilia” activist)
  • Christine Sefein
  • Jodi Shaw
  • Jonathan Shedler 
  • Chris Shelton
  • Neil Shenvi
  • Lindsay Shepherd
  • Brandon Showalter
  • Abigail Shrier (anti-trans activist)
  • Elisa Rae Shupe / Jamie Shupe (former ex-trans activist)
  • Isaac Simpson
  • Rachael Slick / “Aella” (“autogynephilia” activist)
  • Josh Slocum
  • Erec Smith
  • Erin Smith
  • Keri Smith
  • Warren Smith
  • Debra Soh (anti-trans activist)
  • John Sonmez
  • Amy Sousa (anti-trans activist)
  • Will Spencer
  • April Spitzer / “Taftaj” / “Taf Taj” (conservative transmedicalist)
  • Daniel Stange (LGB separatist)
  • Eli Steele
  • Beth Stelzer (anti-trans activist and sex segregationist)
  • Inez Stepman
  • Kathleen Stock (anti-trans extremist)
  • Wade Stotts
  • Karen Straughan
  • Rupa Subramanya
  • Vaishnavi Sundar
  • Will Tanner
  • Philipp Tanzer / Logan McCree
  • Aaron Terrell (conservative transmedicalist)
  • Anderson Todd
  • David Tomasi
  • Connor Tomlin
  • Courtenay Turner
  • Jon Uhler
  • ChloĂ© Valdary
  • Jaco van Zyl
  • Rebecca Velo
  • John Vervaeke
  • Miranda Yardley (conservative transmedicalist)
  • Curtis Yarvin
  • Natasha Ybarra-Klor (writer)
  • Katelyn Yntema
  • Michael Young / “Wokal Distance”

See also

Benjamin A. Boyce

Calmversations episode list

Resources

Substack (substack.com)

YouTube (youtube.com)

The Unz Review is an American media organization. They frequently publish gender critical articles. It’s described as “a collection of interesting, important, and controversial perspectives largely excluded from the American mainstream media.”

Authors who have commented on trans issues include:

Resources

The Unz Review (unz.com)

The Economist is a British media organization that publishes consistently anti-transgender articles.

Contributors

References

Staff report (April 5th 2023). The evidence to support medicalised gender transitions in adolescents is worryingly weak. The Economist https://www.economist.com/briefing/2023/04/05/the-evidence-to-support-medicalised-gender-transitions-in-adolescents-is-worryingly-weak

Staff report (Mar 7th 2023). Legal action may change transgender care in America. The Economist https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/03/07/legal-action-may-change-transgender-care-in-america

Staff report (Jul 28th 2022). Questioning America’s approach to transgender health care. The Economist https://www.economist.com/united-states/2022/07/28/questioning-americas-approach-to-transgender-health-care

Staff report (Jan 8th 2022). Trans ideology is distorting the training of America’s doctors. The Economist https://www.economist.com/united-states/2022/01/08/trans-ideology-is-distorting-the-training-of-americas-doctors

Callahan, Carey (Dec 3rd 2019). Gender identity is hard but jumping to medical solutions is worse. The Economist https://www.economist.com/open-future/2019/12/03/gender-identity-is-hard-but-jumping-to-medical-solutions-is-worse

Staff report (Dec 12th 2020). An English ruling on transgender teens could have global repercussions. The Economist https://www.economist.com/international/2020/12/12/an-english-ruling-on-transgender-teens-could-have-global-repercussions

Staff report (Dec 12th 2020). New standards of transgender health care raise eyebrows. The Economist https://www.economist.com/united-states/2022/09/22/new-standards-of-transgender-health-care-raise-eyebrows

Staff report (Dec 12th 2020). Other countries should learn from a transgender verdict in England. The Economist https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/12/12/other-countries-should-learn-from-a-transgender-verdict-in-england

Staff report (Jun 22nd 2022). Swimming’s ruling on transgender women continues a trend. The Economist https://www.economist.com/international/2022/06/22/swimmings-ruling-on-transgender-women-continues-a-trend

Resources

The Economist (economist.com)

The Daily Mail is a British media organization that publishes a steady stream of sensationalized anti-transgender content.

Background

The Daily Mail was founded in 1896 and is published in London. It was an immediate hit and has enjoyed high circulation for most of its run.

Because of its sensationalized and inaccurate reporting, Wikipedia declared it an unreliable source in 2017. Its current editor is Ted Verity.

They have mentored, nurtured, and published many of the UK’s most anti-transgender activists, including Helen Lewis, Julie Burchill, Peter Hitchens, Katie Hopkins, Richard Littlejohn, Suzanne Moore, and Piers Morgan.

References

Yakovlev, Mikhail (February 5, 2020). The consequences of The Daily Mail’s “trans trolls” and other transphobic media coverage. Media Diversity Institute https://www.media-diversity.org/the-consequences-of-the-daily-mails-trans-trolls-and-other-transphobic-media-coverage/

Yacka-Bible, Sue (February 16, 2018). GLAAD joins call for advertisers to pull ads from the Daily Mail following anti-gay attack on parents-to-be Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black. GLAAD https://www.glaad.org/blog/glaad-joins-call-advertisers-pull-ads-daily-mail-following-anti-gay-attack-parents-be-tom-daley?response_type=embed

 Jackson, Jasper (9 February 2017). Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as ‘unreliable’ source. The Guardian. Archived  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/08/wikipedia-bans-daily-mail-as-unreliable-source-for-website

Collins, Lauren (April 2012). Mail Supremacy. The New Yorker. Archived http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/04/02/mail-supremacy

Goldacre, Ben (16 October 2010). The Daily Mail cancer story that torpedoes itself in paragraph 19. The Guardian. Archived https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/oct/16/ben-goldacre-bad-science-daily-mail-cancer

Goldacre, Ben (2008). Bad science. London: Fourth Estate. ISBN 9780007240197.

Resources

The Daily Mail (dailymail.co.uk)

ABC is an American media organization.

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NewsGuard (newsguardtech.com)

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Britannica (britannica.com)

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The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE or NCSE) is an American anti-pornography organization.

Background

Founded in 1962 as Morality in Media (MIM), NCOSE opposes pornography by highlighting the links to sex trafficking, violence against women, child abuse, and addiction.

Staff

  • Patrick A. Trueman: CEO & President
  • Dawn Hawkins: Senior Vice President & Executive Director
  • Benjamin W. Bull: Vice President & General Counsel
  • Lisa L. Thompson: Vice President of Policy and Research
  • Haley Halverson: Vice President of Advocacy and Outreach
  • Madison Darling: Director of Operations
  • Eleanor Kennelly Gaetan: Senior Advisor for Public Policy
  • Dani Pinter: Legal Counsel for NCOSE Law Center
  • Jake Roberson: Creative Director and Public Relations Manager

Board

CEO & President

  • Patrick A. Trueman
  • Former Chief, Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section U.S. Department of Justice

Board Chair

  • Ron DeHaas
  • President and Co-founder, Covenant Eyes

Board Chair (Emeritus)

  • Robert L. Cahill, Jr.
  • Former Managing Partner, Conklin Cahill & Co.

Board Secretary

  • Rhonda Graff
  • Former Aerospace Program Manager/Industrial Engineer

Board Treasurer

  • Ken Sukhia
  • Partner, Sukhia Law Group

Members

  • Hadley Arkes, Ney Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus at Amherst College; Founder/Director of the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American Founding
  • Beth Coons, Chair, Farnsworth Companies
  • Jay Dennis, President Join One Million Men
  • John D. Foubert, Dean, College of Education, Union University
  • Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University
  • Donald L. Hilton, Neurosurgeon
  • Donna M. Hughes, Professor, Eleanor M. and Oscar M. Carlson Endowed Chair The University of Rhode Island
  • Mary Anne Layden, Director, Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology Program, Center for Cognitive Therapy, Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania
  • Bishop Paul S. Loverde, Bishop of Arlington, Retired
  • Dan O’Bryant, JD Former Fellow in Residence, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Harvard University, Former Faculty United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado
  • Margaret Rucks, Managing Director Rucks Family Foundation
  • Olga Samaniego, National Regent, Catholic Daughters of the Americas
  • Linnea W. Smith, Retired Psychiatrist
  • Melea Stephens, Marriage and Family Therapist

Resources

NCOSE (endsexualexploitation.org)

  • moralityinmedia.org [archive]
  • ncose.com [archive]

Facebook (facebook.com)

  • facebook.com/PornHarms

US Library of Congress (loc.gov)

https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0008400/

David L. Wheeler is an American journalist. He covered psychologist J. Michael Bailey‘s hereditarian views about sexual orientation in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Background

Wheeler earned a bachelor’s degree in English and Psychology from University of Massachusetts Boston in 1978 and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1980. He contributed to the Chronicle of Higher Education before becoming International Editor in 2000 and Managing Editor of the Global Chronicle in 2006. He was named Editor of Al Fanar Media in 2012 and has been based in London.

Resources

Alexandria Trust (alexandriatrust.org)

The Chronicle of Higher Education is an American media organization. It is a trade publication covering academia. Its coverage of controversies involving the academic exploitation of sex and gender minorities has had a consistently pro-academia bias.

Notable editors

Notable contributors

Alice Dreger is both a contributor and recipient of favorable coverage under editor Michael G. Riley.

  • Dreger, Alice (October 23, 2019). Napoleon Chagnon Is Dead
  • Dreger, Alice (July 29, 2018). The Delicate Art of Dealing With Your Archivist.
    • Brenes, Michael (August 2, 2018). Historians Just Don’t Get Archivists. Here’s Why.
    • Zanish-Belcher, Tanya (August 1, 2018). Allies in the Stacks.
    • McCartney, David (August 1, 2018). Seven Additional Types of Archivists
  • Dreger, Alice (May 11, 2018). Why I Escaped the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’
  • Dreger, Alice (October 1, 2017). Take Back the Ivory Tower.
  • Dreger, Alice (November 27, 2016). Step In, or Look Away?

Robin Wilson

  • Wilson, Robin (September 3, 2016). Citing Safety Concerns, Northwestern U. Bans Tenured ‘Gadfly’ Professor From Campus.
  • Wilson, Robin (December 10, 2004). Northwestern U. Will Not Reveal Results of Investigation Into Sex Researcher.
  • Wilson, Robin (December 1, 2004). Northwestern U. Concludes Investigation of Sex Researcher but Keeps Results Secret.
  • Wilson, Robin (December 19, 2003). Northwestern U. Psychologist Accused of Having Sex With Research Subject.
  • Wilson, Robin (December 12, 2003). Northwestern U. Psychologist Is Accused of Having Sex With Research Subject.
  • Wilson, Robin (July 25, 2003). Transsexual ‘Subjects’ Complain About Professor’s Research Methods.
  • Wilson, Robin (July 17, 2003). 2 Transsexual Women Say Professor Didn’t Tell Them They Were Research Subjects.
  • Wilson, Robin (June 20, 2003). ‘Dr. Sex.’
    • Nash, Barbara P. (August 1, 2003). The Science Involved in a New Book About Transsexuals.

Tom Bartlett

  • Bartlett, Tom (August 26, 2015). Star Scholar Resigns From Northwestern, Saying It Doesn’t Respect Academic Freedom.
  • Bartlett, Tom (March 10, 2015) Reluctant Crusader.
  • Bartlett, Tom (February 12, 2013). An Anthropologist, Once Accused of Genocide, Tells His Story at Last
  • Glenn, David and Bartlett, Thomas (December 3, 2009). Rebuttal of Decade-Old Accusations Roils Anthropology Meeting Anew
  • Bartlett, Thomas (October 24, 2003). Did a University Let a Sex Researcher Go Too Far?

David L. Wheeler

  • Wheeler, David L. (July 21, 1993). Study Suggests X Chromosome Is Linked to Homosexuality.
  • Wheeler, David L. (March 17, 1993). Search for the Homosexual Gene in Study of Lesbians.
  • Wheeler, David L. (February 5, 1992). Studies Linking Homosexuality to Genes Draw Criticism From Researchers.
  • Wheeler, David L. (December 18, 1991). A Genetic Component of Homosexuality Is Strongly Indicated.

Patrick Healy

Additional coverage

This coverage is tangentially related to academic exploitation of transgender people.

  • Traldi, Oliver (April 23, 2018). Don’t Be Fooled: There Is a Free-Speech Crisis.
  • Chan, J. Clara (July 6, 2017). A Common Plea of Professors: Why Can’t My Faculty Senate Pull More Weight?
  • Brown, Sarah (March 19, 2017). In a Polarized Climate, Free-Speech Warriors Seize the Spotlight.
  • Schmidt, Peter (March 3, 2017). Northwestern U. Is Accused of Violating Academic Freedom.
  • Peace, William J. (August 31, 2015). Sexual Healing.
  • Wood, Peter (April 16, 2012). How to Apologize.
  • Riley, Naomi Schaefer (May 11, 2011). No Sex for You.
  • Riley, Naomi Schaefer (March 10, 2011). Heads Will Roll! (Sometimes.)
  • Huckabee, Charles (March 3, 2011). Northwestern U. Students Get After-Class Demonstration of Sexual Act.
  • Gusterson, Hugh (January 9, 2011). What if They Had a Science War and Only One Side Showed Up?
  • Jackson, John L. Jr. (December 3, 2009). Day One at the Anthropology Meetings.
  • Monaghan, Peter (September 9, 2005). Investigating bisexuality in men.
  • Shea, Christopher (November 22, 1996). A Scholar Links Sexual Orientation to Childhood Gender Roles.
  • Burd, Stephen (September 9, 1992). 3 Research Institutes Return to the NIH.

Resources

Chronicle of Higher Education (chronicle.com)

This unattributed and undated piece was written by Robin Pinnel and published as part of the marketing materials for The Man Who Would Be Queen by J. Michael Bailey. It is notable for what Bailey and Joseph Henry Press include. Bold item was in the original.

Timeline of Significant Moments in Transgender History

In recent years, transgendered people have grown from a marginalized population to an increasingly major part of our mainstream culture. Slowly but surely, transgendered, transsexual, and intersexed individuals have claimed not only their legal rights, but their place in the public eye. Below is a timeline of some significant moments in transgender history during the past 10+ years.

1992:

  • Release of The Crying Game
  • Veronica Vera opens Miss Vera’s Finishing School for Boys Who Want to Be Girls

1993:

  • The first appearance of RuPaul on MTV
  • Minnesota passes the first law prohibiting discrimination against transgendered people. The Minnesota statute establishes protections for transgendered people under the rubric of sexual orientation.
  • Cheryl Chase founds the Intersex Society of North America (ISNA)

1994:

  • Release of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

1995:

  • Release of To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

1996:

  • Release of The Birdcage

1998:

  • Theater debut of Hedwig and the Angry Inch
  • California becomes the second state to amend its state hate crimes law to include transgendered and transsexual people. The California legislation adds “gender” to the list of protected categories. Since then, Vermont, Missouri, and Pennsylvania have also amended their state hate crimes statutes to include transgendered people.

1999:

  • PBS debuts the documentary You Don’t Know Dick: Courageous Hearts of Transsexual Men.
  • Release of Boys Don’t Cry
  • The first annual Transgender Day of Remembrance to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice.

2001:  

  • Release of the movie version of Hedwig and the Angry Inch CBS debuts The Education of Max Bickford, a drama about a college professor going through a midlife crisis. Included in the cast of regulars is Erica, who used to be the title character’s best friend, Steve. This is the first transgendered person to appear regularly on a major network television program.
  • Rhode Island becomes the second state with a non-discrimination law explicitly protecting transgender people. The state’s non-discrimination statute isamended to explicitly include “gender identity or expression” as a protected category.
  • Two transgender-themed movies (Hedwig and Southern Comfort) receive awards at the Sundance Film Festival. Southern Comfort wins top honors for best documentary and Hedwig’s director, John Cameron Mitchell, wins the dramatic directing award.

2002:  

  • Dame Edna becomes a regular on Ally McBeal
  • A new WB program, Everwood, features a male child who was born a hermaphrodite, neither a boy nor a girl.
  • Jeffrey Eugenides writes Middlesex, in which the main character (Calliope Stephanides) is a hermaphrodite.

2003:  

  • A Florida judge awards custody of two children to a transgendered father, a man who was born and started out in life as a female.
  • The California Assembly honors the first transgendered recipient of its “woman of the year” award.
  • HBO airs Normal, in which Oscar nominee Tom Wilkinson plays a middle-age Midwest factory foreman who’s celebrating his 25th anniversary with wife Jessica Lange when he blurts that he can only continue living if he can live as a woman.
  • Joseph Henry Press, trade publisher for the National Academies, publishes The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism by J. Michael Bailey
  • Showtime debuts its fact-based A Soldier’s Girl, in which a male Army recruit falls for a transgendered nightclub performer who is living as a woman.