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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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Fox News is a conservative American media organization that publishes consistently anti-transgender content. 2025 analysis revealed that Fox News covered anti-trans executive orders from the Trump Administration twice as much as other outlets.

On-air personalities

A number of former and current on-air personalities at Fox News are noted to anti-transgender activism, including:

  • Maria Bartiromo
  • Tucker Carlson
  • Kellyanne Conway
  • Ben Domenech
  • Greg Gutfeld
  • Sean Hannity
  • Brit Hume
  • Caitlyn Jenner
  • Brian Kilmeade
  • Tomi Lahren
  • Mark Levin
  • Jesse Watters

References

Adamczeski, Ryan (March 12 2025 ). Fox News covers transgender issues almost twice as much as other major networks. The Advocate https://www.advocate.com/news/fox-news-transgender-coverage

McNeill, Zane (March 12, 2025). Trump’s Anti-Trans Orders Get Most Airtime on Fox News, Report Finds. Truthout https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-anti-trans-orders-get-most-airtime-on-fox-news-report-finds/

Baragona, Justin (11 March 2025 ). New analysis reveals the extent of Fox News’ obsession with Trump’s anti-trans orders. The independent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-transgender-executive-orders-fox-news-cnn-b2712988.html

Tirrell, Alyssa [with Harrison Ray & Rob Savillo] (March 11, 2025). Fox News outstripped CNN and MSNBC in first month covering Trump’s anti-trans executive orders. Median Matters https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-outstripped-cnn-and-msnbc-first-month-covering-trumps-anti-trans-executive-orders

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Janice Turner is a British writer and anti-transgender extremist. Turner is a key historical figure in the oppression of trans and gender diverse people.

Background

Turner was born April 8, 1964 in Wakefield and attended University of Sussex. Turner edited several publications before freelancing as a columnist focusing on media criticism.

Anti-transgender activism

Turner joined The Times and began writing dozens anti-trans articles. Turner has supported other anti-trans extremists, including JK Rowling, Abigail Shrier, Jesse Singal, and Kathleen Stock.

References

07454-18 Belcher v The Times. Independent Press Standards Organisation https://www.ipso.co.uk/rulings-and-resolution-statements/ruling/?id=07454-18

Staff report (April 26, 2019). Activist loses IPSO complaint against Janice Turner column in Times about trans suicides. Press Gazette https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/activist-loses-ipso-complaint-against-janice-turner-times-column-about-trans-suicides/

Selected anti-trans writing by Turner

Turner, Janice (July 7, 2023). Lesbian tribunal win is good news for us all: Victory over trans charity Mermaids strikes a blow for pluralism and against the creeping tyranny of the gender lobby. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lesbian-tribunal-win-is-good-news-for-us-all-9x8kn9ngk

Turner, Janice (May 31, 2023). We hid in a broom cupboard: my mad day at Oxford with Kathleen Stock. It took police and three security guards to get her there — but this week the gender-critical academic spoke at the Oxford Union. Janice Turner went with her. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/oxford-union-kathleen-stock-trans-gender-debate-2023-zk85xm50l

Turner, Janice (April 7, 2023). Let’s settle this toxic matter once and for all: Crucial restatement of the facts of biological sex is a challenge that Keir Starmer and Labour can’t afford to duck. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lets-settle-this-toxic-matter-once-and-for-all-k7vx5cshm

Turner, Janice (February 24, 2023). Trans U-turn is belated victory for free speech: After years of all but ignoring an epidemic of gender dysphoria, The New York Times will allow journalists to report it. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/trans-u-turn-is-belated-victory-for-free-speech-bk3jb32xg

Turner, Janice (February 14, 2023). Time to Think by Hannah Barnes review — exposing the collapse of Tavistock’s gender clinic. This dogged, brave investigation shows what happens when self-righteous ideologues capture a field of medicine. Review by Janice Turner The Times. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/time-to-think-by-hannah-barnes-review-the-inside-story-of-the-collapse-of-the-tavistock-s-gender-clinic-z7wwj9rtw

Turner, Janice (February 10 2023). Schools fuel trans angst by sidelining parents. Teachers are happy to keep a child’s name-change secret — Gillian Keegan must end this cruel betrayal of families. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/schools-fuel-trans-angst-by-sidelining-parents-60fq85x95

Turner, Janice (January 27 2023). There’s a better way to treat trans prisoners. Feminists have long warned of the dangers of male-bodied rapists in women’s jails and Scotland proves them right. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/theres-a-better-way-to-treat-trans-prisoners-cz939bmbk

Turner, Janice (January 20, 2023). ‘It might never happen, love’ is no basis for law. Debate over SNP’s gender self-ID bill has opened the floodgates to furious men who cannot bear to hear our opinion. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/it-might-never-happen-love-is-no-basis-for-law-kqc68cm8d

Turner, Janice (December 12, 2022,). JK Rowling launches sex abuse centre for women only. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jk-rowling-new-service-women-sexual-violence-8k570kdt2

Turner, Janice (December 2, 2022). Women who can’t define a woman are sunk. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/women-who-cant-define-a-woman-are-sunk-chq8qc68n

Turner, Janice (December 14, 2022). Someone who never loses out? That’s a man. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/someone-who-never-loses-out-thats-a-man-k9djv572x

Turner, Janice (November 18, 2022). Nicola Sturgeon’s gender law is another blow to women. The Scottish government’s fast-track route to self-ID fails to protect the vulnerable and is out of tune with the times. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nicola-sturgeons-gender-law-is-another-blow-to-women-5hvglzvhb

Turner, Janice (October 28 2022). There’s more to womanhood than high heels: The idea that Eddie Izzard can flick between ‘boy mode’ and ‘girl mode’ whenever he feels like it is a self-serving travesty. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/theres-more-to-womanhood-than-high-heels-nqft78d5q

Turner, Janice (July 29, 2022). Gender clinics face scrutiny of science at last. Hilary Cass’s report vindicates the many whistleblowers who for years had raised concerns about the Tavistock Centre. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/gender-clinics-face-scrutiny-of-science-at-last-q900wkrth

Turner, Janice (June 28, 2022). What went wrong at the Tavistock clinic for trans teenagers? Since 2010, the number of teenage girls referred to the Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service has increased by 5,000 per cent. Now former patients and staff members are speaking out. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/what-went-wrong-at-the-tavistock-clinic-for-trans-teenagers-v5cfcw77n

Turner, Janice (June 3, 2022). Civil servants are being fed gender drivel. What passes as ‘training’ on trans issues turns out to be anti-scientific nonsense with little regard for existing laws. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/civil-servants-are-being-fed-gender-drivel-kkxv6zhc2

Turner, Janice (February 11, 2022). Keir Starmer can’t keep hiding in the gender wars. Feminist Labour members who face a Maoist inquisition over their ‘lack of remorse’ finally have an ally in Tony Blair. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/keir-starmer-cant-keep-hiding-in-the-gender-wars-ffzk2qdh6

Turner, Janice (January 28, 2022). At last, there’s a champion for women’s rights. Self-ID campaigners have grown used to getting their way but the equality commission has now drawn a line in the sand. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/at-last-theres-a-champion-for-womens-rights-mlt5s95pk

Turner, Janice (December 24, 2021). Let’s celebrate the bravery of JK Rowling. The billionaire author could easily have stayed silent in the argument over sex and gender but, like a handful of other courageous women, she refuses to deny material reality. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lets-celebrate-the-bravery-of-jk-rowling-xf2f392t7

Turner, Janice (November 19, 2021). Professor Kathleen Stock and the toxic gender debate. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/professor-kathleen-stock-and-the-toxic-gender-debate-8lbp9jwl9

Turner, Janice (July 31, 2021). Be more Samoan to avoid Olympic injustice. We can learn about fairness from the islanders who have lost out since trans women were allowed to compete against females. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/be-more-samoan-to-avoid-olympic-injustice-s22rkn0rw

Turner, Janice (January 23, 2021). War of words risks wiping women from our language. he US has joined a growing list of countries seeking to eradicate the language of biological sex in order to appease the influential trans lobby, says Janice Turner. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/war-of-words-risks-wiping-women-from-our-language-djhp2mwjg T

Turner, Janice (December 30, 2020). Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier review — resisting the ‘transgender craze.’ This fearless book shows how girls’ bodies have become collateral damage in adult culture wars, says Janice Turner. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/irreversible-damage-by-abigail-shrier-review-resisting-the-transgender-craze-8mzrt3gk9

Turner, Janice (February 21, 2020).  Giving puberty blocker to ‘trans’ children is a leap into the unknown. A landmark legal review will examine claims that confused young people are being subjected to a giant medical experiment, says Janice Turner. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/giving-puberty-blocker-to-trans-children-is-a-leap-into-the-unknown-x3g37sb7f

Turner, Janice (September 21, 2019). Cult of gender identity is harming children. The idea that biological sex can be ignored is now so pervasive that the BBC is peddling it to primary school pupils. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cult-of-gender-identity-is-harming-children-pjvbkjzxq

Turner, Janice (October 20, 2018). Suicides should never be a political weapon. The Times. https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/activist-loses-ipso-complaint-against-janice-turner-times-column-about-trans-suicides/

Turner, Janice (September 8, 2018). Trans rapists are a danger in women’s jails. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/trans-rapists-are-a-danger-in-women-s-jails-5vhgh57pt

Turner, Janice (June 30, 2018). This gender battle is harder to solve than Brexit. Long-promised consultation on trans rights will show how fierce the arguments are and how vulnerable both sides feel. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/this-gender-battle-is-harder-to-solve-than-brexit-0jc0pn867

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

Turner, Janice (November 11 2017). Meet Alex Bertie, the transgender poster boy. More girls are changing their gender from female to male than ever before. And it’s YouTube star Alex Bertie’s example that they’re following. What’s behind the surge in numbers? Janice Turner investigates. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/meet-alex-bertie-the-transgender-poster-boy-z88hgh8b8

Turner, Janice (September 16, 2017). The battle over gender has turned bloody: Women who believe that their rights are threatened by transgender activists now find themselves at risk of assault. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-battle-over-gender-has-turned-bloody-2wpkmnqhh

Turner, Janice (July 29, 2017). How do you solve a problem like men in women’s changing rooms, Maria? The Tory champions plans to make gender switching a matter of ‘self-definition.’ The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-men-in-women-s-changing-rooms-maria-v3hhxmk3p

Turner, Janice (May 14, 2016). The trans lobby peddles a pink and blue world. Being a girl who likes trucks or a boy who wears nail polish doesn’t make you gender fluid, it just makes you human. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-trans-lobby-peddles-a-pink-and-blue-world-j3kqmv8lk

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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Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) is an American media watchdog organization that monitors and reports on media issues.

Transgender topics

CJR has published a number of pieces involving opinion, criticism, and analysis of transgender coverage in the media, like this piece from Alexandria Neason:

Controversial stories like Jesse Singal’s cover story for The Atlantic, on how parents of transgender teens approach their desire to personally or medically transition, come to mind. The story was fact checked, but according to many readers, journalists, and activists in the trans community, was transphobic—and all wrong. The difference between fact and truth is yet another example of why newsrooms, and publishing houses, desperately need to invest in employing and representing diverse writers, editors, agents, and fact checkers alike.

References

Neason, Alexandria (January 25, 2019). The perils of publishing without a fact-checking net. Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/analysis/journalism-book-fact-checking-jill-abramson.php

Ad Fontes (2025). Columbia Journalism Review Bias and Reliability. https://adfontesmedia.com/columbia-journalism-review-bias-and-reliability/

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Pew Research Center project on Journalism & Media is an American media watchdog organization that monitors and reports on media issues. Pew was previously called the Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ).

Selected trans coverage

Rachel Minkin, Juliana Menasce Horowitz, Luona Lin and Dana Braga (May 29, 2025). The Experiences of LGBTQ Americans Today. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2025/05/29/the-experiences-of-lgbtq-americans-today/

Staff report (May 20, 2025). 3. Views of how much discrimination transgender people, gay and lesbian people, women and men face in the U.S. https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/05/20/views-of-how-much-discrimination-transgender-people-gay-and-lesbian-people-women-and-men-face-in-the-u-s/

Staff report (February 26, 2025). Americans have grown more supportive of restrictions for trans people in recent years. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/02/26/americans-have-grown-more-supportive-of-restrictions-for-trans-people-in-recent-years/

Juliana Menasce Horowitz (January 24, 2025). U.S. teens are less likely than adults to know a trans person, more likely to know someone who’s nonbinary. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/01/24/us-teens-are-less-likely-than-adults-to-know-a-trans-person-more-likely-to-know-someone-whos-nonbinary/

Carrie Blazina and Chris Baronavski (September 15, 2022). How Americans view policy proposals on transgender and gender identity issues, and where such policies exist. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/09/15/how-americans-view-policy-proposals-on-transgender-and-gender-identity-issues-and-where-such-policies-exist/

Michael Lipka and Patricia Tevington (July 7, 2022). Attitudes about transgender issues vary widely among Christians, religious ‘nones’ in U.S. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/07/07/attitudes-about-transgender-issues-vary-widely-among-christians-religious-nones-in-u-s/

Kim Parker, Juliana Menasce Horowitz, and Anna Brown (June 28, 2022). Americans’ Complex Views on Gender Identity and Transgender Issues. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2022/06/28/americans-complex-views-on-gender-identity-and-transgender-issues/

Anna Brown (June 7, 2022). About 5% of young adults in the U.S. say their gender is different from their sex assigned at birth. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/06/07/about-5-of-young-adults-in-the-u-s-say-their-gender-is-different-from-their-sex-assigned-at-birth/

Anna Brown, Juliana Menasce Horowitz, Kim Parker and Rachel Minkin (June 7, 2022). The Experiences, Challenges and Hopes of Transgender and Nonbinary U.S. Adults. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2022/06/07/the-experiences-challenges-and-hopes-of-transgender-and-nonbinary-u-s-adults/

Rachel Minkin and Anna Brown (July 27, 2021). Rising shares of U.S. adults know someone who is transgender or goes by gender-neutral pronouns. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/07/27/rising-shares-of-u-s-adults-know-someone-who-is-transgender-or-goes-by-gender-neutral-pronouns/

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Charlotte Allen is an American author and anti-transgender activist. A conservative Catholic, Allen has written articles critical of the transgender rights movement, including a puff piece on transphobic psychologist J. Michael Bailey for The Weekly Standard. Joseph Epstein from that publication had previously characterized Bailey as a “pimp” who arranges voyeuristic sex tours and demonstrations for people like Allen. Bailey earned Epstein’s opprobrium and Allen’s interest after arranging a live “fucksaw” demonstration for a since-cancelled human sexuality class.

Background

Charlotte Irene Low Allen was on born April 7, 1943 in Jacksonville, Florida. Allen’s parent Elmer Carlton Low (1907-2000) was born in New York City and practiced personal injury law there before moving to Pasadena in 1943. Low was president of the California Trial Lawyers Association and wrote two books and some opinion pieces for the Los Angeles Times.

Allen’s spouse Donald Fraser Allen (born May 1, 1945) graduated from University of Toronto Faculty of Law and was a member of the California Bar from 1981 through 1997.

Charlotte Allen’s education and credentials:

  • Stanford University (B.A. 1965) classics and English
  • Harvard University (M.A. 1967)
  • University of Southern California (J.D. 1974)
  • State Bar of California (1974 through 1992)
  • Catholic University of America (Ph.D. 2011) medieval and Byzantine studies

Allen served as Law Editor for The Los Angeles Daily Journal from 1980 to 1985, then was appointed Senior Editor, Law at conservative publication Insight on the News at its founding in 1985. That publication closed in 2008. Allen has worked as a freelance writer for publications including:

  • Los Angeles Daily Journal
  • Insight on the News
  • Weekly Standard
  • Lingua Franca
  • Washington Post
  • Wall Street Journal
  • Atlantic Monthly
  • Commentary
  • New Republic
  • American Spectator
  • Los Angeles Times
  • New York Times
  • Washington Times
  • Insight
  • City Journal
  • Washington Monthly
  • First Things

Allen’s 2011 dissertation is titled Thirteenth-Century English Religious Lyrics, Religious Women, And the Cistercian Imagination. Allen is author of the 1998 book The Human Christ: The Search for the Historical Jesus.

My 2015 letter to Allen’s editors

Dear Weekly Standard editorial team:

Charlotte Allen contacted me for a story profiling J. Michael Bailey, a controversial psychologist with whom she was recently socializing in Chicago. You may recall a 2011 piece about Bailey in your publication which characterizes him as a “pimp” who arranges voyeuristic sex tours and demonstrations for interested parties like Ms. Allen.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/lower-education_554092.html?page=1

For your records, I told Ms. Allen that understanding and reporting her story hinges on speaking directly with Danny Ryan, a child whose case report Bailey published in his 2003 book The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism. 

My condition for participating was that Ms. Allen speak with Danny Ryan directly. I fear that is not going to happen. I’m concerned she’s going to mischaracterize both the controversy and my involvement in it, given that her attached questions to me contain inaccurate interpretations of events.

I provided her the attached article explaining why both Bailey and his book have been widely condemned. Bailey had published an earlier version of his book without incident, and the 2003 response happened because:

  • 1) it was fraudulently marketed as science by the National Academy of Sciences.
  • 2) it became a cure narrative about gender-nonconforming children.

Bailey’s attacks on my children in his book were just part of his concurrent attacks on gender-nonconforming children, which also included “academic” presentations where he displayed videos and images of young children without their knowledge or consent in a manner that generated laughter from his audiences. Bailey also boasts that he can categorize these children sexually and can tell the kinds of sexual partners they will like. Ms. Allen seems focused on a long-deleted satire in which I showed how Bailey’s leering depictions and two-type sexualized categorization of my children would seem inexcusable if done to his own.

Bailey’s colleagues believe that gender-nonconforming children require “curing” in order to prevent what they consider a “bad outcome,” a gender transition. Most children who display gender-non-conforming behavior do not seek a gender transition later, and this outcome occurs without any intervention. Bailey’s colleagues make money by selling anxious parents on services they claim will cure many children. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health has stated such services are “no longer considered ethical.” Others are more pointed, condemning such services as “disturbingly close to reparative therapy for homosexuals” and “simply child abuse.”

Hundreds of children have been through these aversion programs championed by Bailey’s friend Kenneth Zucker, and not one has later come forward to talk about how it helped them. Danny Ryan is the most famous report of a cured child, yet no one has ever followed up directly with him to confirm Bailey’s published claims independently.

Danny Ryan has remarkable parallels to David Reimer, a case report by Bailey’s ideological nemesis John Money. The David Reimer case proved to be false when independently investigated. Some reporters continue to repeat Bailey’s claims about Danny Ryan uncritically, with no independent confirmation. Science and journalism proceed from evidence and facts, and there is no independent evidence that Bailey’s published facts about Danny Ryan are true.

Given that other case reports in Bailey’s book turned out to be inaccurate upon independent follow-up, the Weekly Standard has a unique opportunity to report this story accurately instead of taking Bailey at his word. Similar hard-hitting reporting on David Reimer brought John Money’s work into disrepute and made the career of the journalist who broke the story. A generation of children suffered because no one bothered to confirm Money’s claims, and I can’t sit by as another reporter is poised to miss the point of why Bailey has been criticized by people of every political persuasion.

Thanks for your time, and I would very much appreciate confirmation that you have received this note.

Sincerely, Andrea James
[email protected]
cc: Charlotte Allen
Attachments (2): 

  • 1. Charlotte Allen emails (PDF)
  • 2. Fair Comment, Foul Play: Populist Responses to J. Michael Bailey’s Exploitative “Controversies” (PDF)

Allen’s puff piece about Bailey ran with no mention of his exploitation of our children and a lawyerly defense of his “fucksaw” demonstration.

The Man Who Would Be Queen was deemed “salacious bigotry” by Andrea James, a 48-year-old Hollywood consultant who is the most persistently aggressive of the transgender activists. James spearheaded campaigns to have Northwestern censure and perhaps fire Bailey (unsuccessful), and to discredit Bailey as a credible academic expert on transgender subjects (extremely successful). 

Allen claims I declined to be interviewed “in a prolific series of Bailey-dissing emails.” Allen notes my criticism of Anne Lawrence, Ray Blanchard, and Kenneth Zucker. Zucker was fired later that year, and the clinic where Zucker and Blanchard were employed was closed following an investigation spurred by legislation that made anti-transgender reparative therapy illegal.

References

Epstein, Joseph (March 21, 2011). Lower Education: Sex toys and academic freedom at Northwestern. Weekly Standard https://www.weeklystandard.com/joseph-epstein/lower-education

Allen, Charlotte (March 2, 2015). The Transgender Triumph. Weekly Standard. https://www.weeklystandard.com/charlotte-allen/the-transgender-triumph

Allen, Charlotte (March 4, 2019). Trans men erase women. First Things https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/03/trans-men-erase-women

Hawkins, JA (January 1951). Elmer Low Family of Pasadena. Pasadena Museum of History https://calisphere.org/item/8de4632c37e661ae4ba402f4006bf984/

Hess, Amanda (March 12, 2008). Charlotte Allen Interview. Washington City Paper https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/city-desk/blog/13054285/charlotte-allen-interview

Staff report (August 17, 2000). Elmer C. Low; Headed State Trial Lawyers Assn. Los Angeles Times. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-aug-17-me-5965-story.html

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Jennifer Bilek is an American writer and anti-transgender extremist. Bilek hosts The 11th Hour podcast and site.

Bilek was a scheduled participant in a 2017 panel that claimed transgender people are “a homophobic element introduced by the 1% to control homosexuality, reinstate male supremacy, and utilize gay children as fodder for scientific experimentation.”

Background

Jennifer Bilek was born on October 22, 1958 and grew up in New York City. Bilek trained at Woodstock School of Art. Bilek has worked as a hairstylist for children and young people as the businesses Get Coiffed and My Little Sunshine.

Bilek also paints portraits.

Anti-trans activism

In 2017, left-wing conference Left Forum announced that Jane Wheeler (under the name Jane Chotard) would chair a June 4th panel titled “Misery for Profit: Who is Funding the Transgender Movement and the Impact on LGB.” The synopsis stated:

We will be showing that the immense funding funneled to the transgender movement is coming from giant pharmaceutical and biotechnology Industries and what their aim is. We will also be showing how the corporately controlled media is interfaced with these same Industries and are blocking any alternative to the pro-trans propaganda now being disseminated. We will be showing that the transgender movement is not in fact a civil rights issue, but a business arrangement and an advertising arm of these industries. We will cover the implications of this on the LGB community and show how transgender is a political coup, positioned as an ally alongside the LGB, but are actually a homophobic element introduced by the 1% to control homosexuality, reinstate male supremacy, and utilize gay children as fodder for scientific experimentation.

Left Forum, cited in Riedel (2017)

Participants and provided bios:

  • Jane Chotard: Chair and speaker
    • “Jane Chotard is an out lesbian for over 30 years, mother of two teenage boys, past healthcare attorney, currently works to provide better care services to patients and residents facing serious illnesses and end-of-life issues.”
  • Jennifer Bilek: Panel organizer and speaker
    • “Jennifer Bilek is a bisexual artist/activist/writer living in NYC for a lot longer than is probably healthy.”
  • Taylor Fogarty: Speaker
    • “Taylor Fogarty is a Brooklyn dwelling twenty-something year old who writes about feminism and politics.” Twitter: @theloudlesbian

The panel was canceled following protests.

References

Van Maren, Jonathon (March 16, 2024). How a Handful of Billionaires Created the Transgender ‘Movement’: An Interview with Jennifer Bilek. The European Conservative https://europeanconservative.com/articles/interviews/how-a-handful-of-billionaires-created-the-transgender-movement-an-interview-with-jennifer-bilek/

Bilek, Jennifer (March 3, 2023). Humanity for Sale. The American Mind https://americanmind.org/features/soul-dysphoria/humanity-for-sale/

Bilek, Jennifer (June 14, 2022). The Billionaire Family Pushing Synthetic Sex Identities (SSI). Tablet https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/billionaire-family-pushing-synthetic-sex-identities-ssi-pritzkers

Bilek, Jennifer (June 1, 2021). Foundations Are Setting the Transgender Agenda and Targeting Children. The American Conservative https://www.theamericanconservative.com/foundations-are-setting-the-transgender-agenda-and-targeting-children/

Bilek, Jennifer (April 5, 2021). CNN Versus Biological Reality. The American Conservative https://www.theamericanconservative.com/cnn-versus-biological-reality/

Bilek, Jennifer (July 27, 2020). How LGBT Nonprofits and Their Billionaire Patrons Are Reshaping the World. The American Conservative https://www.theamericanconservative.com/how-lgbt-nonprofits-and-their-billionaire-patrons-are-reshaping-the-world/

Bilek, Jennifer (October 9, 2020). Not Just a Tattoo: Transgenderism Attacks Our Fundamental Humanity. The American Conservative https://www.theamericanconservative.com/not-just-a-tattoo-transgenderism-attacks-our-fundamental-humanity/

Malbin, Isabella (December 17, 2020). Jennifer Bilek: Transhumanism & Autogynephilia. Whose Body Is It https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kQ_o0G7D38

Bilek, Jennifer (January 21, 2020). The billionaires behind the LGBT movement. First Things https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2020/01/the-billionaires-behind-the-lgbt-movement

Riedel, Sam (July 7, 2017). Why Trans Activists Can’t Trust The Left. The Establishment https://medium.com/the-establishment/why-trans-activists-cant-trust-the-left-3bfa22928ddd

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