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Jacobin is an American socialist media organization that has published consistently trans-supportive content and included trans journalists.

Background

Jacobin was founded by Bhaskar Sunkara. In September 2010 the Jacobin online magazine started, then expanded to a print version later in 2010. In 2017, Jacobin launched the peer-reviewed journal Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy and Jacobin Radio.

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Reuters is an American media organization. Their coverage of trans and gender diverse people has been generally fair and accurate.

Two notable exceptions came in 2022, when they presented the ex-trans movement and “detransitioners.” which they claim “have long been untouchable subjects” in a poorly framed investigation. The same authors had previously written on gender-affirming care for minors in a highly skeptical tone. Both pieces have been frequently cited by opponents of this care, including The Heritage Foundation, America First Policy Institute, and in a hearing on “The Dangers and Due Process Violations of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Children.”

Selected coverage by Reuters

Respaut, Robin; Terhune, Chad; Conlin, Michelle (December 22, 2022). Why detransitioners are crucial to the science of gender care. Reuters https://www.reuters.com/investigates/section/youth-in-transition/

Terhune, Chad; Respaut, Robin; Conlin, Michelle (October 6, 2022). As more transgender children seek medical care, families confront many unknowns. Reuters https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-transyouth-care/

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Blaze Media is a conservative American media organization that publishes consistently anti-transgender content.

Background

Glenn Beck launched theblaze.com in 2010. Beck then launched pay channel Glenn Beck TV, later renamed TheBlaze in 2012.

The Conservative Review was founded in 2014. They launched pay channel CRTV in 2016.

Blaze Media was created in 2018 through a merger between channels TheBlaze and CRTV LLC. 

People

Writers who have contributed anti-trans pieces include:

  • Andrew Chapados
  • Donna Colorio
  • Steve Deace
  • Chris Enloe
  • Joseph MacKinnon
  • Sebastian Pestritto
  • Paul Sacca
  • Terry Schilling
  • Josh Slocum
  • Buck Throckmorton
  • Dave Urbanski
  • Cortney Weil
  • Rebeka Zeljko

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Al Jazeera is a Qatari media organization. Its coverage of trans topics is neutral to negative.

Background

“Homosexual acts” are illegal in Qatar, with punishment of up to three years in prison. Human Rights Watch reported in 2022:

“Security forces arrested people in public places based solely on their gender expression and unlawfully searched their phones. As a requirement for their release, security forces mandated that transgender women detainees attend conversion therapy sessions at a government-sponsored “behavioral healthcare” center.

A Qatari transgender woman, arrested by Preventive Security in public in Doha, said: “They [Preventive Security] are a mafia. They detained me twice, once for two months in a solitary cell underground, and once for six weeks. They beat me every day and shaved my hair. They also made me take off my shirt and took a picture of my breasts. I suffered from depression because of my detention. I still have nightmares to this day, and I’m terrified of being in public.””

The original Al Jazeera Satellite Channel (then called JSC or Jazeera Satellite Channel) was launched in November 1996. Al Jazeera English was launched in November 2006.

Al Jazeera has produced videos that are more balanced, allowing trans people to speak for themselves.

Selected publications

Apr 25, 2025 UK court defines ‘woman’; trans women left in limbo | The Take

Dec 24, 2021 What is behind the rise in transphobia in the UK? | UpFront https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H8nR–8Sq4

Olympic gender debate rages after boxer quits fight | Al Jazeera Newsfeed

Muslim TikToker attacked over Jeffrey Marsh grooming claims | Al Jazeera Newsfeed

Outrage as Trump bans transgender people from serving in US military

Pakistan to include transgenders in new census

(Apr 2, 2014). Trans youth: Deciding who you are | TV Shows

Jun 23, 2014 Trans youth rights: The battle over the bathroom

Oct 17, 2013 India’s ‘third gender’: A marginalised social class | TV Shows

Indian transgenders granted legal status

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The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London. The Times and sibling publication The Sunday Times are considered newspapers of record in the UK. Both publications produce consistently anti-transgender content.

Media critic Jane Fae of Trans Media Watch described The Times‘ trans coverage as part of “a concerted campaign of disinformation” in a 2020 submission to the UK government.

Background

The newspaper began in 1785 as The Daily Universal Register. In 1788, the name was changed to The Times. An American edition of The Times began in June 2006. In 1981, The Times and The Sunday Times were bought by Rupert Murdoch.

Notable incidents

On November 11, 2017, anti-trans extremist Janice Turner wrote a piece titled “Children sacrificed to appease trans lobby.”

On April 8, 2019, The Times published four anti-trans articles in one issue:

  • a front-page piece by Lucy Bannerman titled “Calls to end transgender ‘experiment on children.'”
  • another piece by Lucy Bannerman titled “It feels like conversion therapy for gay children, say clinicians”
  • a third piece by Lucy Bannerman titled “Families ‘exploited by gender lobby groups pushing for treatment’”
  • a piece by Carl Heneghan titled “Doubts over evidence for using drugs on the young.”

References

Owen, L. (2022). “Parasitically Occupying Bodies”: Exploring Toxifying Securitization in Anti-Trans and Genocidal Ideologies. Peace Review, 34(4), 481–494. https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2022.2129000

Turnbull‐Dugarte, S. J., & McMillan, F. (2022). “Protect the women!” Trans‐exclusionary feminist issue framing and support for transgender rights. Policy Studies Journal, 51(3), 629–666. https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12484

Gwenffrewi, Gina (). Punk Mood, Junk Food: Portrayals of Transgender Apocalypse. In Women and the Abuse of Power https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80043-334-220221008

Armitage, L. (2020). Explaining backlash to trans and non-binary genders in the context of UK Gender Recognition Act reform. Journal of the International Network for Sexual Ethics and Politics (Internet), 8, 11-35. https://doi.org/10.3224/insep.si2020.02

Serano, Julia (November 27, 2017). Transgender Agendas, Social Contagion, Peer Pressure, and Prevalence. Medium https://juliaserano.medium.com/transgender-agendas-social-contagion-peer-pressure-and-prevalence-c3694d11ed24

Stokoe, Ash; Gwenffrewi, Gina; Galpin, Charlotte (October 28, 2022). Hunting Mermaids: Exploring media representation of the trans+ community. University of Birmingham https://blog.bham.ac.uk/socialsciencesbirmingham/2022/10/28/hunting-mermaids-exploring-media-representation-of-the-trans-community/

Fae, Jane (26 November 2020). Written submission to The Women and Equalities Select Committee: Call for Evidence in respect of the Government response to Reform of the Gender Recognition Act. [auto-download Word document] https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/17432/default/

Carrell, Severin; Brooks, Libby (Fri 17 May 2019). Times editor defends paper’s coverage of transgender issues. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/may/17/times-editor-defends-papers-coverage-of-transgender-issues

Strudwick, Patrick (17 May 2019). The Editor Of The Times Of London Has Denied It Is Transphobic. BuzzFeed https://www.buzzfeed.com/patrickstrudwick/editor-times-denied-newspaper-transphobic

Nolan, Megan (December 7, 2017,). Lily Madigan and the Hunt for Past Transgressions. VICE https://www.vice.com/en/article/lily-madigan-and-the-hunt-for-past-transgressions/

Duffy, Nick (November 29, 2017). Jo Cox women’s leadership scheme rebukes The Times over attacks on transgender teen. PinkNews https://www.thepinknews.com/2017/11/29/jo-cox-womens-leadership-scheme-rebukes-the-times-over-attacks-on-transgender-teen/

McCormick, Joseph (November 25 2017). The Times attacks trans teenager for applying to Jo Cox leadership programme. PinkNews https://www.thepinknews.com/2017/11/25/the-times-attacks-trans-teenager-for-applying-to-jo-cox-leadership-programme/

Jones, Owen (15 Dec 2017). Anti-trans zealots, know this: history will judge you. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/15/trans-backlash-anti-gay-zealotry-section-28-homophobia

Jackman, Josh (Nov 12 2018). Times columnist Rod Liddle ‘identifies as young, black, trans chihuahua.’ PinkNews https://www.thepinknews.com/2018/11/12/rod-liddle-transgender-black-chihuahua/

Milton, Josh (8 April 2019). Trans people slam The Times for calling trans kids therapy an ‘experiment’: The four articles were published in today’s issue of The Times in the UK. https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/the-times-four-transphobic-articles/ [archive]

Parsons, Vic (May 26, 2022). Meet the Trans Storytellers Fighting British Transphobia. them https://www.them.us/story/trans-storytellers-fighting-british-transphobia

Coverage in anti-trans media

Kirkup, James (8 April 2019). It is now ‘transphobic’ to report doctors’ fears about trans’ children’s health. The Spectator https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/it-is-now-transphobic-to-report-doctors-fears-about-trans-children-s-health/

Selected anti-trans writing

note: see the Lucy Bannerman profile for a list of hundreds of anti-trans pieces.

Turner, Janice (November 11, 2017). Children sacrificed to appease trans lobby. The Times https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/children-sacrificed-to-appease-trans-lobby-bq0m2mm95

Massie, Alex (May 24, 2025). If biological truth is transphobic, then we’ve lost our minds. The Times https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/if-biological-truth-is-transphobic-then-weve-lost-our-minds-dfsqkcq3s

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BuzzFeed is an American media organization that consistently posts fair and accurate reporting about trans and gender diverse people.

Background

BuzzFeed was founded in 2006 as a news aggregator focusing on viral content. It soon became one of the primary clickbait sites, known for quizzes, listicles, and effectively strip mining the internet for content.

In 2011, they founded BuzzFeed News, which continued until 2023. During that time, anti-trans activists Virginia Hughes and Azeen Ghorayshi worked there together before moving to the New York Times.

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The Guardian is a British media organization. Their transgender coverage has been criticized for anti-trans bias.

Background

The Guardian published an anti-trans piece by Julie Bindel in 2004. Over the following years, the paper became increasingly anti-trans in its stance. A 2018 letter to the editor by anti-trans activist Kathleen Stock and others led to complaints and protests. In 2020, anti-trans contributor Suzanne Moore left following an incendiary piece attacking social constructionist views about sex. More than 200 politicians, journalists, and activists signed a letter denouncing the piece. Moore later said many other comments had been removed because of “denial of female biology.” In 2021, The Guardian censored a comment by Judith Butler:

The Terfs (trans exclusionary radical feminists) and the so-called gender critical writers have also rejected the important work in feminist philosophy of science showing how culture and nature interact (such as Karen Barad, Donna Haraway, EM Hammonds or Anne Fausto-Sterling) in favor of a regressive and spurious form of biological essentialism. So they will not be part of the coalition that seeks to fight the anti-gender movement. The anti-gender ideology is one of the dominant strains of fascism in our times. So the Terfs will not be part of the contemporary struggle against fascism, one that requires a coalition guided by struggles against racism, nationalism, xenophobia and carceral violence, one that is mindful of the high rates of femicide throughout the world, which include high rates of attacks on trans and genderqueer people.

The anti-gender movement circulates a spectre of “gender” as a force of destruction, but they never actually read any works in gender studies. Quick and fearful conclusions take the place of considered judgments. Yes, some work on gender is difficult and not everyone can read it, so we have to do better in reaching a broader public. As important as it is, however, to make complex concepts available to a popular audience, it is equally important to encourage intellectual inquiry as part of public life. Unfortunately, we are living in anti-intellectual times, and neo-fascism is becoming more normalized.

2018 open letter

In 2018 an open letter by critics of the Gender Recognition Act included many key anti-transgender extremists. They are reordered alphabetically by surname below.

  • Sophie Allen, Lecturer in Philosophy, Keele University
  • Rosalind Barber, English & Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths, University of London
  • Chetan Bhatt, Professor of Human Rights, Sociology, London School of Economics
  • Michael Biggs, Associate Professor in Sociology and Fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford
  • Diane Brewster (Retired. ex University of Sussex and Open University)
  • Heather Brunskell-Evans, Academic, Writer and Political Commentator
  • Catherine Butler, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Bath
  • Richard Byng, Professor in Primary Care Research, University of Plymouth
  • Alex Byrne, Head of Linguistics and Philosophy Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • W Burlette Carter, Professor of Law Emeritus, The George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC
  • Jackie Cassell, Head of the Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
  • Clare Chambers, Reader in Philosophy, University of Cambridge
  • John Collins, Philosophy, University of East Anglia
  • Sophia Connell, Philosophy, Birkbeck College London
  • Stephen Cowden, Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Coventry University
  • Rosie Dias, Associate Professor, History of Art, University of Warwick
  • Debbie Epstein, Professor of Cultural Studies in Education, School of Education, University of Roehampton, London
  • Rosa Freedman PhD, LLM, LLB, Professor of Law Conflict and Global Development, Director Global Development Division, Co-Director United Nations and Global Order Research Programme, University of Reading
  • John Gardner FBA, Professor of Law and Philosophy, All Souls College, Oxford
  • Richard Garside, Director, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Open University
  • Leslie Green, Philosophy of Law, Balliol College, Oxford
  • Liz Guy, School of Computing, Engineering & Mathematics, University of Brighton
  • Mike Hannis, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Humanities (Ethics and Sustainability), Bath Spa University
  • PM Higgins, Honorary Research Fellow, Royal Holloway University of London; former Professor of Music, University of Nottingham; former KĂ€the-Leichter Visiting Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Vienna
  • Emma Hilton, University of Manchester (honorary)
  • Sian Hindle, Senior Lecturer, School of Jewellery, Birmingham City University
  • Sheila Jeffreys, Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne
  • Robert Jensen, School of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin [emeritus]
  • Jane Clare Jones, independent scholar
  • Julia Jordan, Department of English Language and Literature, UCL
  • Holly Lawford-Smith, Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy, University of Melbourne
  • Mary Leng, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of York
  • H. Susana Marinho, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, University of Lisbon
  • Susan Matthews, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Roehampton
  • Ruth McGinity, Lecturer in Educational Leadership and Policy, Institue of Education, UCL
  • Laura McGrath, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of East London
  • Michele Moore, Patient Safety Academy, University of Oxford
  • Maureen O’Hara, Senior Lecturer in Law, Solicitor, Coventry University
  • Kathryn Oliver, Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  • Jo Phoenix, Chair in Criminology, The Open University
  • David Pilgrim, Honorary Professor of Health and Social Policy, University of Liverpool
  • Eva Poen, Lecturer in Economics, University of Exeter
  • Rupert Read, Reader in Philosopher at UEA, and Chair of Green House
  • Kathleen Richardson, Professor of Ethics and Culture of Robots and AI, Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University
  • Paul Sagar, Lecturer in Political Theory, Department of Political Economy, King’s College London
  • Sophie Scott, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL
  • Lesley Semmens, Senior Lecturer (retired), School of Computing, Leeds Beckett University
  • Holly Smith, UCL Institute of Education
  • Kathleen Stock, Philosophy, University of Sussex
  • Judith Suissa, UCL Institute of Education
  • Alice Sullivan, Sociology, University College London
  • Sian Sullivan, Centre for Environmental Humanities, Bath Spa University
  • Georgia Testa, Teaching Fellow, School of Philosophy, Religion, and History of Science, University of Leeds
  • Patrick Turner, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Bath Spa University
  • Jo Waugh, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, York St John University

References

Hurley, Lee (May 30, 2023). Exclusive: Guardian writers and editor set up group to make Guardian more transphobic. TransWrites https://transwrites.world/guardian-writers-and-editor-set-up-group-to-make-guardian-more-transphobic/

Tani, Max (April 3, 2023). Inside the Guardian’s civil war over trans coverage. Semafor https://www.semafor.com/article/04/02/2023/inside-the-guardians-civil-war-over-trans-coverage

Wareham, Jamie (Jun 11, 2022). The Guardian faces boycott from LGBTQIA+ journalists. QueerAF https://www.wearequeeraf.com/the-guardian-faces-boycott-from-lgbtqia-journalists/

Akrivos D (2022). Transgender reporting in the British press: editorial standards and discursive harms in the post-Leveson era. Journal of Media Law Volume 14, 2022 – Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1080/17577632.2022.2153216

Stone, Gemma (June 7, 2021). The Guardian is Transphobic. Medium https://medium.com/@notCursedE/the-guardian-is-transphobic-eebd0d5ea63a

Gleeson, Jules (September 7 2021 ). Judith Butler: ‘We need to rethink the category of woman.’ The Guardian https://amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/sep/07/judith-butler-interview-gender pre-censored version: archive

Higgins, Eoin (November 5, 2021). The Guardian Tries To Intimidate Me Into Retracting My Article About Transphobia in Their Newsroom. The Flashpoint https://eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/the-guardian-tries-to-intimidate

Higgins, Eoin (September 9, 2021). The Guardian’s Censoring of Judith Butler Part of a Pattern, Current and Former Staffers Say. The Flashpoint https://eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/the-guardians-censoring-of-judith

Higgins, Eoin (September 7, 2021). Guardian Pulls Judith Butler’s Comments On “Gender-Critical” Anti-Trans Movement. The Flashpoint https://eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/guardian-pulls-judith-butlers-comments

Kearns, Madeleine (January 3, 2022). The Guardian’s Trans Problem. National Review https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-guardians-trans-problem/

Tobitt, Charlotte (November 17, 2020). Suzanne Moore leaves Guardian months after staff send letter of revolt over ‘transphobic content.’ Press Gazette https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/suzanne-moore-leaves-guardian-months-after-staff-send-letter-of-revolt-over-transphobic-content/

Powys Maurice, Emma (March 3 2020). Yet another trans person dramatically quits The Guardian amid bitter transphobia row. PinkNews https://www.thepinknews.com/2020/03/03/the-guardian-another-trans-person-quits-transphobia-coverage-row/

Moore, Suzanne (November 25, 2020). Why I had to leave The Guardian. UnHerd. https://unherd.com/2020/11/why-i-had-to-leave-the-guardian/

Moore, Suzanne (March 2, 2020). Women must have the right to organise. We will not be silenced. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/society/commentisfree/2020/mar/02/women-must-have-the-right-to-organise-we-will-not-be-silenced

Editors (March 4, 2020). Letters: Differing perspectives on transgender rights. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/04/differing-perspectives-on-transgender-rights

Strudwick, Patrick (August 15, 2019). The Guardian Newspaper Has Lost Two Trans Employees Over Its Reporting On Trans Issues. Buzzfeed https://www.buzzfeed.com/patrickstrudwick/two-transgender-employees-quit-guardian-transphobia

Sam Levin, Mona Chalabi and Sabrina Siddiqui (November 2, 2018). Why we take issue with the Guardian’s stance on trans rights in the UK. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/02/guardian-editorial-response-transgender-rights-uk

Gleeson, Jules Joanne (October 21, 2018). On The Guardian’s Transphobic Centrism. New Socialist https://newsocialist.org.uk/on-the-guardians-transphobic-centrism/

Open letter (October 16, 2018). Aademics are being harassed over their research into transgender issues. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/oct/16/academics-are-being-harassed-over-their-research-into-transgender-issues

Moore, Suzanne (January 9, 2013). I don’t care if you were born a woman or became one. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/09/dont-care-if-born-woman

Bindel, Julie (January 30, 2004). Gender benders, beware. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jan/31/gender.weekend7

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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.

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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)

Transgender Tapestry is an American media organization for the transgender community. It was published as a printed news source from 1979 to 2008. It is an important historical document of the trans community. Before the proliferation of online resources, it was an important source of information and connection for the transgender community.

Founded by Merissa Sherrill Lynn and published as a newsletter by the Tiffany Club as The TV-TS Tapestry, it was later called Tapestry and The Tapestry Journal before becoming Transgender Tapestry, a quarterly magazine published by the International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE).

Of note was its contemporary coverage of the the 2003 controversy around the publication of The Man Who Would Be Queen by J. Michael Bailey. Key coverage includes:

The Ups and Downs of J. Michael Bailey. Transgender Tapestry #104, Winter 2004, p. 53.

Concerns about Dr. Anne Lawrence. Transgender Tapestry; Spring 2004, Issue 105, p. 13.

Resources

The Digital Transgender Archive (digitaltransgenderarchive.net)