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Aaron Kimberly is a Canadian former nurse and conservative transgender activist. Kimberly is an advisor to SPLC-designated anti-trans hate group Genspect. Kimberly is a founder of conservative groups Gender Dysphoria Alliance and LGBT Courage Coalition (now LGB Courage Coalition).

Kimberly is cohost of the conservative podcast Transparency. Kimberly frequently testifies against gender affirming care for minors and promotes academic work that is frequently characterized as anti-trans.

Kimberly is especially interested in promoting disease models of gender diversity, including “gender dysphoria,” “autogynephilia,” and “autoandrophilia.” Kimberly has occasionally expressed interest in a personal “detransition,” or making additional gender changes.

Background

Aaron Kimberly was reportedly born in 1973. In a self-reported biography, Kimberly makes the following claims:

  • “at age 19 I had surgery to remove a grapefruit-sized cyst from one of my ovaries”
  • following a biopsy was reportedly diagnosed with “Ovotesticular Disorder of Sex Development (DSD)”
  • Kimberly earned a bachelor’s degree from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design 
  • in 2006 saw a documentary on mainstream TV about “trans kids” that led to a trans identification
  • began medical transition that year at age 33
  • in 2008 became a registered nurse/BScN wtih a specialty in Psychiatric Nursing
  • worked in the mental health department at St Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, Canada, for 10 years
  • In 2017 moved to Kelowna, Canada, to help launch a multidisciplinary youth clinic and do intake assessments
  • consulted with the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA)’s Trans Care BC
  • during this consulting, “I started to become confused and concerned about the current state of trans healthcare”
  • began promoting studies by anti-trans psychologists Ray Blanchard, J. Michael Bailey, Kenneth Zucker, Lisa Littman, and Paul Vasey.
  • “I was removed from the clinical mentorship mailing list, I was accused of using the listserv for anti-trans activism, our clinic was boycotted, and I was moved to another program”
  • “this prompted me to create the Gender Dysphoria Alliance (GDA) in January 2021″
  • was registered in British Columbia as a Practising RN from 2008 until that registration was canceled on April 1, 2023

Kimberly then enrolled in the Women’s and Gender Studies graduate program at University of Alberta.

Conservative activism

Kimberly began engaging in conservative activism in 2021 after being alarmed about how the clinic where Kimberly worked was treating trans and gender diverse youth. Kimberly explained to anti-trans activist Pamela Paul:

In 2021, Aaron Kimberly, a 50-year-old trans man and registered nurse, left the clinic in British Columbia where his job focused on the intake and assessment of gender-dysphoric youth. Kimberly received a comprehensive screening when he embarked on his own successful transition at age 33, which resolved the gender dysphoria he experienced from an early age.

But when the gender-affirming model was introduced at his clinic, he was instructed to support the initiation of hormone treatment for incoming patients regardless of whether they had complex mental problems, experiences with trauma or were otherwise “severely unwell,” Kimberly said. When he referred patients for further mental health care rather than immediate hormone treatment, he said he was accused of what they called gatekeeping and had to change jobs.

“I realized something had gone totally off the rails,” Kimberly, who subsequently founded the Gender Dysphoria Alliance and the L.G.B.T. Courage Coalition to advocate better gender care, told me.

In a profile provided to this site in June 2025, Kimberly stated:

My major influences are second wave lesbian feminism and early queer theory. In the early days (1990s), lesbians like Butler and Halberstam conceptualized the FTM experience as a form of female masculinity (eg. Halberstam’s book Female Masculinity, in which she included FTM as under the banner of lesbian masculinities). That’s still a view I hold, in my self-conception. My current work focuses on applications of radical feminism to transmen, looking for ways, throught a sex-realist perspective, at quality of life measures and the nature of our oppression as masculinized/male passing females. 

2024 Stone Butch Disco collaboration

Stone Butch Disco is a Substack newsletter described as “a butch-femme lesbian feminist project: nerd comedy, experiential insights, & alt-academic analysis.”

In September 2024 members of the collective began collaborating on podcast episodes with Kimberly. By November, they announced a split in a since-deleted post:

Aaron repetitively focused conversation onto specific women that Aaron felt slighted by. Due to Rachel and Akiva’s personal histories in abusive relationships, they entertained conversation around uniquely butch vulnerabilities to abuse for a few weeks, culminating in an unreleased 6th podcast episode in which Aaron’s relationships with these women were discussed under the false premise that they were targeting Aaron. It became clear from conversations on and off the recording that Aaron’s treatment of women and especially feminine women was of serious concern. Despite the fact that Rachel requested that Aaron not post the 6th episode anywhere, including on Aaron’s personal channels, Aaron posted it to personal YouTube and Facebook accounts, and used pieces of the audio to harass women via direct message. We were lied to, manipulated, and used. Following these revelations, we removed Aaron from the Stone Butch Disco team.

Kimberly said via email in June 2025 that the announcement was removed “after legal action” because it contained false statements and defamation. Kimberly also stated “my lawyers have evidence that the Statements by both parties are false and defamatory.” This site has requested that evidence for inclusion here. Kimberly provided the following statement:

They fabricated a conspiracy that I only made friends with a couple of butch lesbians for the purpose of lying and manipulating them to harass women. No, I did not. When I left the courage coalition, I made new friendships outside that circle and we generated many ideas for projects that I was excited about, such as an archive about butch lesbians. I built the website. We were ready to launch it. Because I saw them as friends I confided in them some of what I had felt and was processing in regards to interactions I had with certain women. I needed someone to talk to because I was confused by aspects of what had occurred. I couldn’t talk to anyone in the network about it. Meanwhile, those women were plotting behind my back and finding ways to sabotage me in the dark

and taking disrespectful shots at me online to hint they were doing so. They shared private text messages, emails and secretly recorded conversations. They publicly accused me of having mental illness I don’t have and for doing things I didn’t do. I feel played by these women. I expect people to come honest. I fully own that I overstepped some boundaries but I was also misjudged and mistreated. They did psychological harm and when I spoke my truth in defence, they weaponized that against me too. 

The mistake we (Stone Butch Disco) made is trying to engage those other women in a conversation via the podcast. Instead of engaging up front, they contacted the Stone Butch Disco and manipulated them into thinking I’d lied and manipulated them. No. I did not. There was no underhanded scheme going on, on my part, and I was severed from new friendships. I found myself caught in a trap of manipulation, and had to manipulate my way out of it. I’m not normally a manipulative person, at all. I’m blunt to a fault and despise head games. I’ve withdrawn myself entirely from the entire network to get my own head straight and stand in my own truth. I’m focussing on transmen and our needs. I’m not interested in playing dirty games. 

My work is based on respectful conversations about ideas and needs. My ideas are not ones everyone agrees with, but people should not be threatened, intimidated, or coerced, simply for having different views, which aren’t motivated by hate. 

I push back on all hateful activity. People are allowed to hate me. They are not allowed to hurt me just because they have feelings about what I believe.

And I mean you too Andrea. There are more constructive ways to negotiate needs and deal with fears, than tearing people down. I’m not playing this game. Both sides are playing dirty. Someone has to stay in the lane of having peaceful and honest conversations for problem solving. If you believe I’m harming you in some way, then let’s have a conversation. Because your way isn’t working. It just drives more hate. 

Since you’ve publicized where I’m enrolled in an MA program, I’m sure you expect that everyone, both TERFs and the trans-queer community will hate me. What they’ll all find, is that I’m reasonable and easy to engage in respectful and honest conversations across multiple lines of disagreement. And I will expect to be treated with fairness and dignity in return. I will work hard and do well in academia to think things through with care. 

I want to build and mend bridges with human beings on any side of the issue, and I will always preserve myself as a human being who has faults and strengths. My door is always open for honest people who aren’t trying to hurt anyone. I’m not afraid to kick the asses of trespassers (metaphorically speaking). I intend to live in peace. 

If you publish any of this, you must post all of it in whole and exactly how I’ve stated it. 

2024 MIT event

According to anti-trans philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith, Kimberly has exhibited concerning behavior after the two met in 2024 at a debate also attended by anti-trans activists Alex Byrne and Alice Dreger. On February 3, 2025, Lawford-Smith posted:

On the 17th of April 2024, Alex Byrne & I took part in a debate at MIT. Our opponents were Aaron Kimberly and Alice Dreger. Alex and Alice took opposite sides on the question of whether sex is biological and binary, and Aaron and I took opposite sides on the question of whether gender identity should replace sex in social policy. Aaron & I had some friendly communications in the lead-up to the debate, much of which were me making suggestions as to a topic that we could disagree about productively. We met up for a couple of hours on the afternoon of the debate. At the time, Aaron was associated with the LGBT Courage Coalition, and I was occasionally doing freelance interviews for the LGB Alliance Australia. I figured it would be good to establish some kind of link between the two organizations. 

Since April 2024 or so, I have been dealing with inappropriate and unwanted behaviour by Aaron Kimberly. This includes him repeatedly sending emails to my work address (after I had blocked him on Twitter); contacting my friends and colleagues about me; attempting to organize an in-person event to take place on my campus, at which I would be a speaker, without my permission or input; mischaracterizing our brief interaction to mutual acquaintances; publishing a full podcast episode mischaracterizing our interaction; posting three separate Substack articles about me (one sharing personal information about me and embedding deleted video content that I own the copyright to); sending huge volumes of messages to other people about me; and, most recently, contacting my employer. This has all been the aftermath of Aaron making several romantic advances toward me, which I rejected. To say he’s taken rejection badly would appear to be an understatement.

On February 22, 2025, Kimberly posted a lengthy response addressing many of Lawford-Smith’s claims and assertions about their interactions.

References

Kimberly, Aaron (February 22, 2025). Holy, Holly! In response to Holly Lawford-Smith. https://www.aaronkimberly.com/holly-lawford-smith

Lawford-Smith, Holly (February 3, 2025). Tweet 4th February 2025 & email to my employer 31st January 2025.

Lawford-Smith, Holly (February 3, 2025). Aaron Kimberly: A Statement. https://hollylawford-smith.org/aaron-kimberly-a-statement/

Stone Butch Disco (Jan 02, 2025). S2 E2: “We’re living in a post postmodern world, get your sh** together!” https://stonebutchdisco.substack.com/p/s2-e2-were-living-in-a-post-postmodern-a4e

Staff (November 25, 2024). Ending our relationship with Aaron Kimberly. Stone Butch Disco https://stonebutchdisco.substack.com/p/ending-our-relationship-with-aaron [deleted]

Paul, Pamela (February 2, 2024). Opinion: As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/opinion/transgender-children-gender-dysphoria.html

TT Exulansic on Odysee (February 27, 2022). Church of the Maculate Conception: Schrödinger’s Testicle [deleted]

Laval, Mary (July 26, 2021). Transition in hindsight: Aaron Kimberly’s story. Genspect https://genspect.org/transition-in-hindsight-aaron-kimberlys-story/

Selected writing by Kimberly

Kimberly, Aaron (June 26, 2022). GUEST OP-ED: What nobody told me about transition, but should have. True North https://tnc.news/2022/06/26/aaron-kimberly-transition-oped/

Kimberly, Aaron (2003). Autoportrait. Journal of Homosexuality https://doi.org/10.1300/J082v43n03_20

Media

In Response with Joey T. McFadden (March 12, 2025). Sex, Gender, & Politics – #14. https://joeytmcfadden.substack.com/p/sex-gender-and-politics

Something For Everybody with Aaron Machbitz (January 28, 2025). #333 – Aaron Kimberly – Understanding the Trans Experience: Integrators vs. Disruptors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aMF7VrWRi8

The Lesbian Mafia (December 23, 2024). Luigi’s Mom, Cream Puffs & Oh Canada w/ Aaron Kimberly. https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/thelesbianmafia/episodes/2024-12-23T19_20_12-08_00

Gender: A Wider Lens with Stella O’Malley and Sasha Ayad (November 9, 2024). Dysphoria Means Something Different to Different People with Aaron Kimberly. https://www.widerlenspod.com/p/dysphoria-means-something-different

Gender: A Wider Lens with Stella O’Malley and Sasha Ayad (November 8, 2024). 192 – Paving a Way Back for Detrans Lesbians, with Aaron Kimberly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ_gsbzVCXE

Heterodorx with Nina Paley and Corinna Cohn (October 30, 2024). Aaron Kimberly Look-a Like a Man. https://heterodorx.com/podcast/episode-150-aaron-kimberly-look-a-like-a-man/

The Lesbian Mafia (October 10, 2024). Reconciling Gender: Aaron Kimberly’s Transition, Detransition, & Whistleblowing. https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/thelesbianmafia/episodes/2024-10-09T22_54_54-07_00

The Lesbian Project Podcast (May 24, 2024). Episode 28 FREE – a chat with Aaron Kimberly; plus the music of Chappell Roan, and bars (again). [unavailable]

Gender: A Wider Lens with Stella O’Malley and Sasha Ayad (October 6, 2023). Premium: Bonus Conversation with Aaron Kimberly. https://www.widerlenspod.com/p/bonus-conversation-with-aaron-kimberly

Gender: A Wider Lens with Stella O’Malley and Sasha Ayad (October 6, 2023). 135 – Intersex, Identity, & Ideology with Aaron Kimberly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfVwd6cnZtM

Calmversations with Benjamin Boyce and Jamie Reed (August 24, 2023). The Corruption of Gender Medicine | with Aaron Kimberly & Jamie Reed. [original title: Challenging Gender Medicine from Within, with Jamie Reed & Aaron Kimberly] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LJjOCiFkdY

The Unspeakable Podcast with Meghan Daum (June 20, 2023). When Queer Theory Meets Medical Practice: Aaron Kimberly On The Crisis In Transgender Health Care. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT3BTIC4dPc

The Rupa Subramanya Show (April 13, 2023). The reality of transitioning from a trans man (Ft. Aaron Kimberly). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RInhdKI5mcA

BROADVIEW with Lisa Selin Davis (March 3, 2023). Heterodox Trans People #4: The Aarons. https://www.broadview.news/p/heterodox-trans-people-4-the-aarons

In Context with Gregor S. Thomson (October 14, 2022). Episode 28 – Gender Dysphoria/Trans Issues with Aaron Kimberly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M99KkuyMhUE

TT Exulansic on Odysee (February 27, 2022). Metoidioplasty Moments: Double Fistula. https://odysee.com/@Exulansic:d/Metoidioplasty-Moments-Double-Fistula:c

The MARS Show (January 6, 2022). #147 Gender Dysphoria Alliance with Aaron Kimberly & Aaron Terrell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwbiuJ22EeA

Calmversations with Benjamin Boyce (October 27, 2021). s04e17 | Being A Woman Being A Man | A Transitioner’s Tale, with Aaron Terrell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS2rLY_jVQI

The Just Checking In Podcast with Freddie Cocker (August 8, 2021). JCIP #90 – Aaron Kimberly. https://soundcloud.com/venthelpuk/jcip-90-aaron-kimberly

Calmversations with Benjamin Boyce (July 24, 2021). s03e102 | Bullying in the Trans Community, with Aaron Kimberly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIDwOk-bvtE

The MARS show (July 15, 2021). #135 Aaron Kimberly on the reality of transition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1gZ_xoMjZc

Calmversations with Benjamin Boyce (May 20, 2021). s03e81 | How Queer Theory Interferes with Good Therapy, with Aaron Kimberly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcjBDi-ZRLA

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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:

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The Unz Review (unz.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.

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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

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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.

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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)

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.

Amy Beth Bloom (born June 18, 1953) is an American author, producer, and therapist. She is author of the 2002 nonfiction book Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Cross-dressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude.

Background

Bloom’s mother Sydelle was a psychotherapist and writer. Her father Murray was an author of books and magazine articles.

Bloom earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Theater/Political Science from Wesleyan University in 1975 and her Masters Degree in Social Work from Smith College in 1978.

She has authored several fiction books and was creator of the 2007 television drama State of Mind.

Normal (2002)

The book is expanded from her April 2002 Atlantic Monthly article “Conservative Men in Conservative Dresses.” Bloom has several points of contact with the community.

  • A Dignity Cruise to Catalina Island
  • The Fall Harvest 2000 gender convention in St. Louis
  • Tri-Ess leaders Jane Ellen and Mary Francis Fairfax

She quotes psychologist Ray Blanchard, who says: “They emulate the women they want to be – some kind of confusion between attraction to a sexual object and being the object.” When Bloom mentioned that she’s been told that crossdressing is relaxing for its practitioners, Blanchard was quick to shut that down:

‘Of course it’s not relaxing,’ Blanchard says, with some heat. ‘Heels and makeup and a wig and a corset? It’s preposterous. Even women don’t find that relaxing. Relaxing is a pair of sweatpants, clothing that doesn’t even feel like clothing. Cross-dressers want to normalize this, to have it seen as relaxation and self-expression.’

Bloom seems to agree:

Crossdressers wear their fetish, and the gleam in their eyes, however muted by time or habit, the unmistakable presence of a lust being satisfied or a desire being fulfilled in that moment, in your presence, even by your presence, is unnerving. The mix of the crossdressers’ own arousal and anxiety and our responsive anxiety and discomfort is more than most of us can bear.

Bloom concludes of the crossdressers she met:

There is no innate grasp of female friendship, of the female insistence on relatedness, of the female tradition of support and accommodation for one’s partner and of giving precedence to the relationship overall.

Nancy Nangeroni complained in an open letter to The Atlantic that the piece was a “glib caricature.” J. Michael Bailey recommended it in his book The Man Who Would Be Queen because it “angered many autogynephiles.”

References

Bloom, Amy (2002) Conservative Men in Conservative Dresses. The Atlantic; April 2002, Vol. 289 Issue 4, p. 94.

Nangeroni, Nancy (April 15, 2002). An open letter to the editor of The Atlantic Monthly. https://www.gendertalk.com/open-letter-bloom/

Bloom, Amy (2002). Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Cross-dressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude. Random House ISBN-13: 978-0679456520

Staff report (May 1, 1977). Amy Bloom Fiancee Of Dr. James D. Moon. New York Times.

Staff report (September 16, 2007). Amy Bloom and Brian Ameche. New York Times.

Resources

Amy Bloom (amybloom.com)

IMDb (imdb.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)