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The Sunday Times is a conservative British publication.

In 2022, they published a letter to the editor by conservative and anti-trans activists who oppose medical consensus for trans youth healthcare. It was titled “Press pause on Conversion Therapy Bill.” The bill would make non-affirming models of care illegal.

Signatories

Additional signers

  • Shahrar Ali, former deputy leader, Green Party
  • Martin Daubney, Deputy Leader of the Reclaim Party
  • Belinda de Lucy, commentator
  • Paola Diana, entrepreneur
  • Laura Dodsworth, writer
  • Kathleen Dooley
  • Jessica Fishburn, parent advocate
  • Laurence Fox, Leader of the Reclaim Party
  • Mary Garner, counsellor
  • Dr Az Hakeem, consultant psychiatrist and medical psychotherapist
  • Milli Hill, author
  • Dr Zoe Hollowood, Chair, Liberal Voice for Women
  • Jude Hunter, Genspect representative
  • Alison Jenner, Vice Chair, Liberal Voice for Women
  • Christina Jordan, former MEP
  • The Earl of Leicester
  • Juliet Line, mother
  • Graham Linehan, writer
  • Claire Lonergan, parent
  • Julia Mason, paediatrician
  • Lucy Masoud, barrister
  • Dr Julie Maxwell, community paediatrician
  • Maggie Mellon, founding member, Evidence Based Social Work Alliance
  • Harry Miller, ‘Fair Cop’
  • Professor Michele Moore
  • Baroness Morris of Yardley
  • Cheryl Lavinia Mulholland, psychotherapist
  • Dame Jenni Murray, broadcast journalist
  • Simon Myerson QC
  • Terry Patterson, psychodynamic counsellor
  • Alexandra Phillips, GB News presenter
  • Timothy Pitt-Payne QC
  • Calvin Robinson, commentator
  • Nigel Scott, secretary, Liberal Voice for Women
  • Maggie Siviter, social worker, children’s safeguarding
  • Dr Jacci Stoyle, former prison teacher
  • Evelyn Strasburger, parent
  • Lachlan Stuart, policy manager
  • Anna Telford, parent
  • Dr Val Thomas, psychotherapist, writer and co-founder of Critical Therapy Antidote
  • Leonore Tiefer, retired NYS licensed clinical psychologist
  • Gawain Towler, political consultant
  • Lisa Townsend, Police and Crime Commissioner for Surrey
  • Iris Walker, Councillor for Westhill and District
  • Lord Wasserman
  • Sinéad Watson, Genspect advisor
  • James Wells, former MEP
  • Robert Withers, Jungian psychoanalyst
  • Susan Zamecnik, registered nurse

References

Signatories (April 10, 2022) Press pause on Conversion Therapy Bill. The Sunday Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/press-pause-on-conversion-therapy-bill-g7vbtvc7h

Substack is a subscription newsletter publishing platform that is the service of choice for anti-transgender activists and media figures. The New Republic describes its power base as “white male contrarians with a talent for Twitter theatrics.”

Substack allows writers to make a living attacking trans people without the oversight or accountability that is in place at reputable media outlets. Substack also profits from promotion of other medical misinformation and conspiracy theories.

Background

Substack was founded in 2017 by Chris Best, Jairaj Sethi, and Hamish McKenzie.

The platform’s strategy for growth was based on inviting the most histrionic verified Twitter users to create newsletters.

Substacks with anti-trans content

The authors below have published generally anti-trans content on Substack:

Substacks with pro-trans content

The authors below publish generally pro-trans content on Substack:

Former Substacks

Substack Pro controversy

In March 2021, Substack revealed it paid advances for writers to create publications on its platform via a program called Substack Pro. The lack of transparency about this program and who had been paid led to widespread criticism.

Shortly before Jesse Singal’s 2021 book release, Singal’s Substack newsletter become a cause célèbre among the platform’s favored user base: “those who have already been well-served by existing media power structures.” The secretive Substack Pro program was accused of “perpetuating some of the industry inequities it claims to solve,” favoring these types of writers by luring them to the platform with large monetary advances. Substack had become the service of choice for several other prominent critics of the trans rights movement, “largely white, male contrarians with a talent for Twitter theatrics.”

On March 17, 2021, Adweek’s Mark Stenberg discussed Singal’s role in generating protests about Substack Pro:

Substack has drawn criticism for offering safe harbor to a number of writers, including writers Andrew Sullivan, Jesse Singal and Glenn Greenwald, whose opinions on issues surrounding race, transgender rights and censorship have been condemned by marginalized communities.

Stenberg, 2021

Singal has a long history of “sealioning,” a type of trolling via persistent requests, whenever Singal’s biased views about trans people are reported in the media. Singal will pursue all available avenues to get these reports modified or removed altogether. Following a “stealth edit,” Singal’s name was quietly removed from Adweek’s original text so it read “including some whose politics have been condemned by marginalized communities.” Even that was later removed.

Confirmed Pro deals

  • Matt Yglesias
  • Anne Helen Peterson
  • Casey Newton
  • Scott Alexander
  • Freddie deBoer
  • Nicholas Jackson
  • Ashley Feinberg
  • Grace Lavery
  • Alexis Coe

Unconfirmed/other

References

Lorenz, Taylor (October 28, 2024). How Substack’s follow feature betrays its original mission. User Mag https://www.usermag.co/p/how-substacks-follow-feature-betrays

Chang, Clio (Winter 2020). The Substackerati: Did a newsletter company create a more equitable media system—or replicate the flaws of the old one? https://www.cjr.org/special_report/substackerati.php

McKenzie, Hamish (March 12, 2021). “Why we pay writers”. Substack Blog. https://blog.substack.com/p/why-we-pay-writers

Paulas, Rick (March 14, 2021) Who are the Substack Pros? Investigating Substack https://domstack.substack.com/p/who-are-the-substack-pros

Silverman, Jacob (March 16, 2021). Facebook Has Found a New Way to Ruin Media. The New Republic. https://newrepublic.com/article/161736/facebook-found-new-way-ruin-media

Stenberg, Mark (March 17, 2021). Substack Pro Leads to Departures From Platform, Opportunities for Competitors. Adweek. https://www.adweek.com/media/having-a-substack-feels-dirty-substack-pro-announcement-leads-to-departures-from-the-platform-opportunities-for-competitors/

Wiener, Anna (28 December 2020). Is Substack the Media Future We Want? The New Yorker. Retrieved 11 February 2021. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/is-substack-the-media-future-we-want

Resources

Substack (substack.com)

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Frieda Klotz is an Irish-American writer and anti-transgender activist. Klotz launders anti-trans extremism about gender diverse youth into mainstream media outlets. Klotz has been cited by American anti-trans organizations supporting legislation harming our children.

Background

Frieda Marie Klotz was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1977 to Margaret Klotz and Frederick S. “Fred” Klotz, an American mathematician who died when Frieda was a child in an April 1988 Dublin cycle accident.

Klotz studied ancient Greek, earning a bachelor’s degree from Fred Klotz’s former employer Trinity College, Dublin, in 2000. Klotz then continued at University of Oxford, earning a master’s degree in 2001 and a doctorate in 2005. From 2005 to 2007 Klotz taught at King’s College London.

In 2007 Klotz began a long string of reviewing, editing, writing, fact-checking, and researching roles for Daily Telegraph, Euromoney, New York Times Syndicate, Irishcentral, journalism professor Susie Linfield, Salon, and New York Times Digital.

In 2011 Klotz co-edited The Philosopher’s Banquet with Katerina Oikonomopoulou. Klotz was then a contributor for The Chronicle Review, Forbes, Shimon Dotan at Roam Films, Irish Times, Prospect, The Guardian, Irish Echo, Irish Voice, the Irish Times, The Economist, MIT Sloan Management Review, Ireland’s Sunday Independent, and Diplomacy Dojo. Klotz has also written several white papers for the British government and the New York Times Company.

Klotz began attacking healthcare for transgender children while based in Brussels.

2022 Undark article

In 2022, Klotz began writing the first of many versions of the same article about gender diverse youth. These “cisgender person under siege” articles typically center a cisgender person as a hero facing assaults from “both sides.” For Klotz, the cis hero is Annelou de Vries and colleagues, and the two sides are:

  • Right-wing politicians, religious conservatives, and some health care associations are calling for medical treatment of teens to be banned or avoided if at all possible
  • Some activists and physicians say the protocol is too slow.

Klotz’s false equivalence between executing eliminationist policies and removing barriers to care is a hallmark of what biologist Julia Serano calls trans-suspicious reporting.

Klotz continues The Atlantic’s shameful leading role in “just asking questions.” This cognitive bias is called a framing effect. Here are Klotz’s questions:

But pediatric transgender medicine is a new field with a lot of questions yet to be answered by science. What is the long-term impact of blocking puberty on a young person’s health? Can practitioners correctly determine which youngsters will still identify as trans when they are adults? Do the psychological assessments contribute to children’s suffering by delaying access to puberty blockers and hormones? Why has the number of teens coming forward to receive transgender medical care, particularly those assigned female at birth, risen so dramatically in recent years?

Klotz then rattles off the litany of risks and complications recited by conservatives:

  • “desistance”
  • bone loss
  • brain development
  • genital atrophy (with an assumption of vaginoplasty)
  • medical consent
  • reproductive viability

For the “right-wing politicians, religious conservatives, and some health care associations” engaged in an assault on trans rights and autonomy we have a couple of sentences about:

  • The Heritage Foundation
  • Family Policy Alliance

All the usual suspects advocating “careful therapeutic assessments” and banning informed consent before age 26 are presented as the centrist position:

For the “some activists and physicians” side, we have:

  • Diane Ehrensaft
  • Diane Chen
  • VU Gender (Mis)Treatment
  • Jack Turban
  • Aidan Key
  • Florence Ashley

2023 Atlantic article

Klotz wrote the same article for The Atlantic the following year, but with Finland and Norway added as countries with concerns. This article tries to shore up an alleged clinical distinction between young children and “adolescent-onset gender dysphoria,” a euphemism for the fake disease “rapid-onset gender dysphoria.”

New clinicians

New journalists

  • Jan Kuitenbrouwer
  • Peter Vasterman
  • Kaya Bouma
  • Ellen de Visser

New activists and politicians

  • Michiel Verkoulen
  • Sam van den Berg

Response by Marieke Kuypers

A group of journalists have been hitting the same talking points as their English-speaking counterparts. As trans journalists and researchers work to stay on top of the flood of anti-transgender propaganda being being laundered into “centrist” publications, journalist Marieke Kuypers has given a first-blush overview of the Dutch political situation. Kuypers’ Twitter thread is below. More on this soon.

  • A quick thread for any English speakers about something I’ve been afraid of ever since the publication of a Dutch article about the Dutch Approach that was heavily biased. It’s been used as more evidence of this “increasing” concern in an Atlantic piece
  • Because I’ve been looking into anti-trans targeting of The Dutch Approach, I recognize the author. Frieda Klotz’s article on the same topic from last year was published on GLP, which is a Monsanto front – the article https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2022/06/27/transitioning-transgender-teenagers-are-not-new-this-dutch-clinic-has-been-doing-it-for-decades/……- GLP: https://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Genetic_Literacy_Project
  • The same article by Klotz on Undark, a website tied to GLP: https://undark.org/2022/04/06/the-evolution-of-pediatric-transgender-medicine/……About the link between Undark and GLP:
  • Kuitenbrouwer and Vasterman are not qualified to judge gender care. One is a media sociologist, the other a columnist. Kuitenbrouwer is rabidly transphobic, calling the “trans-movement bloodthirsty”. They were also on a Genspect sponsored podcast
  • For some of Kuitenbrouwer’s massively transphobic work, check out these articles:
  • Vasterman shared the Undark article by the same author as the Atlantic piece, Frieda Klotz in april last year
  • Uitstekend gedocumenteerd overzichtsverhaal over de oorsprong van the Dutch approach, wereldwijd overgenomen maar nu onder vuur: “A Dutch clinic pioneered transgender medical care for kids, shaping decades of research amid criticism from all sides.” https://undark.org/2022/04/06/the-evolution-of-pediatric-transgender-medicine/
  • To make the connection even more complete, Kuitenbrouwer apparently knew about the Volkskrant article before it was published, according to this tweet in which he says there’s an article coming about the Dutch approach. Did he influence the article? https://twitter.com/kuitenbrouwer/status/1627664286280519682?s=20
  • I also spoke to someone who was interviewed for the article and retracted their story once they read the article. The told me and I have evidence that the authors spoke to anti-trans activist Michael Biggs. How much influence did he have?
  • The influence of anti-trans groups does seem obvious, they even link to one in the Volkskrant article referencing SEGM as a “group of 120 doctors”. It does not have 120 members who are doctors, but about a dozen, amongst them Michael Biggs
  • “SEGM is an ideological organization without apparent ties to mainstream scientific organizations. Its 14 core members are a small group of repeat players in anti-trans activities – a fact that the SEGM website does not disclose” Volkskrant ook niet
  • The Volkskrant also talks to dr. Kaltiala who spread the debunked social contagion (ROGD) story and was a witness in Florida, and is linked to SEGM as well https://genderanalysis.net/entity/riittakerttu-kaltiala-heino/
  • Furthermore, the detransitioner in the story matches (same process, ages of treatment, same very specific story about a back surgery and the account proudly retweeted the article) the Twitter account of someone who was invited by anti-trans group Genspect to a detrans house
  • I’m rushing the analysis I was already writing about the Volkskrant article and how it was influenced by anti-trans groups and will try to publish a translated version as soon as possible and add it to this thread once it’s finished.
  • Want to know what dr. De Vries thinks? Here are her own words in the book about the Dutch Approach by Alex Bakker:
  • This is a critical response to the article by the Dutch Transgender Network. They link to a pdf with extensive references, you can throw that in Google translate as well using the documents tab …https://www-transgendernetwerk-nl.translate.goog/belangenorganisaties-trekken-aan-de-bel-over-onzorgvuldige-journalistiek/?_x_tr_sl=nl&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=nl&_x_tr_pto=wapp
  • Oh look Kuitenbrouwer seems to admit he “crossed paths” with the Dutch journalists. (I wasn’t sacked by the way, shows how reliable this guy’s info is)
  • Ahw I think he doesn’t like me so he blocked me. Here’s a screenshot
  • So apart from Vasterman &Kuitenbrouwer being unqualified & transphobic, Frieda Klotz fails to mention that contrary to the moral panic about the increase in “girls” (trans boys) in the most recent Dutch research (2022) the ratio has actually reversed to more trans women
  • You can find this recent research (in Dutch) here. Another interesting finding in light of the moral panic: years long waiting lists are causing mental distress (mostly in the form of depressive or suicidal feelings) for 70% of the group that was surveyed https://zorgvuldigadvies.nl/wp-content/upl

Klotz’s anti-trans writings

Klotz, Frieda (April 6, 2022). The fractious evolution of pediatric transgender medicine. Undark https://undark.org/2022/04/06/the-evolution-of-pediatric-transgender-medicine/

Klotz, Frieda (June 27, 2022). Transitioning transgender teenagers are not new. This Dutch clinic has been helping them for decades. Genetic Literacy Project https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2022/06/27/transitioning-transgender-teenagers-are-not-new-this-dutch-clinic-has-been-doing-it-for-decades/

Klotz, Frieda (March 24, 2023). Book review: Behind the demise of the Tavistock Gender Clinic. Undark https://undark.org/2023/03/24/book-review-time-to-think/

Klotz, Frieda (April 28, 2023). A teen gender-care debate is spreading across Europe. The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/04/gender-affirming-care-debate-europe-dutch-protocol/673890/

References

Transgender Netwerk Nederland (March 10, 2023). Belangenorganisaties Trekken Aan De Bel Over Onzorgvuldige Journalistiek [Interest groups are sounding the alarm about careless journalism] https://www.transgendernetwerk.nl/belangenorganisaties-trekken-aan-de-bel-over-onzorgvuldige-journalistiek/

Irish Mathematical Society Bulletin 21 (December 1988), p. 6.

Resources

Frieda Klotz (friedaklotz.com)

X/Twitter (x.com)

Genetic Literacy Project (geneticliteracyproject.org)

WordPress (wordpress.com)

LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

Muck Rack (muckrack.com)

reddit is a social network of communities focused on different topics (subreddits). It was a service of choice for anti-trans communities until the site implemented strict rules about posting anti-trans content. It is also an important supportive resource for trans and gender diverse people.

Supportive subreddits

A wide range of subreddits offer information and support for sex and gender minorities.

Mainly positive/affirming groups include:

I have created maps of subreddits for a number of underserved communities. These include nonnbinary people as well as the eunuch, “sissy,” “tomboy,” and salmacian communities, among others.

Toxic subreddits

Before the platform took decisive action, reddit was the social media service of choice for the “gender critical” anti-transgender movement.

Many subreddits contained anti-trans content but were not dedicated solely to transphobic hate. In some cases, like r/moderatepolitics, the moderators have banned discussions of “Gender Identity and the Transgender Experience.”

The following subreddits have had significant amounts of anti-transgender content:

Toxic trans subreddits

Some subreddits are popular among toxic trans and gender diverse people, including

  • r/transgendercirclejerk
  • r/4tran
  • r/ttttrans
  • r/GenderCynical
  • r/honesttransgender
  • r/transmedical
  • r/truscum

Other banned anti-trans subreddits

These were specifically targeting trans and gender diverse people. Many were recreated at voat, SaidIt, Ovarit, 4W, Spinster.xyz, Raddle, Throat, Lemmy, etc.

Laura VanZee Taylor is an American anti-transgender activist who directed the 2023 anti-trans project No Way Back as “L. E. Dawes.” After Taylor’s child came out as trans, Taylor created a propaganda piece about the ex-transgender movement. Taylor and producer Penka Kouneva are responsible for including convicted sex offender David Arthur Kendall as one of the ex-trans activists they featured.

Background

Laura Elinor Van Zee was born August 26, 1970, grew up in Medford, Oregon, then earned a bachelor’s degree from Lewis & Clark College in 1992 and a master’s degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1994.

VanZee Taylor’s husband Jason Daniel Taylor (born 1970) is an executive at Facebook/Meta. They met in college, married in 1992, and have two children: Occidental College student Elinor “Ellie” Taylor and a teen who came out as trans, which sparked VanZee Taylor’s anti-trans activism.

VanZee Taylor was a creative director for Hallmark Cards in Missouri before becoming a stay-at-home parent. In 2010, after a “a mini-midlife crisis” at age 40, VanZee Taylor began making videos.

Previous media

  • I Am Maris (ROCO Films 2017) profiles Maris Degener, a yoga instructor who experienced significant body image issues as a teen
  • Walk Through This (2018) profiles Sara Schulting Kranz, whose spouse came out as bisexual 17 years into their marriage
  • “If Siri Was a Mom” (2016) showcases Whitney Cicero / The New Stepford
  • “Somewhere” (2014) features VanZee Taylor’s family

VanZee-Taylor styles both fake and real names in numerous ways:

  • L. E. Dawes
  • L.E. Dawes
  • L E Dawes
  • LE Dawes
  • Laura VanZee
  • Laura Van Zee
  • Laura V. Taylor
  • Laura VanZee-Taylor
  • Laura VanZee Taylor
  • Laura Van Zee Taylor

Anti-transgender activism

VanZee Taylor became involved in anti-transgender activism because their younger child identified as gender diverse. VanZee Taylor then connected with other unsupportive parents from the anti-trans “parental rights” movement:

COVID-19 had been hard on my youngest. Previously an extroverted, active and affectionate boy, over the lockdown he became quiet, easily agitated and withdrawn. He spent most of his time online. Then he told us he was transgender.

He said he wanted puberty blockers and then he would go on estrogen. He matter-of-factly stated that he didn’t plan on getting “bottom surgery,” but would probably want electrolysis, voice training and facial feminizing surgery such as a tracheal shave. He knew our insurance would cover it all.

My husband and I were shocked at his pronouncement. Not because we are transphobic, but because our son had never exhibited any discomfort with his body or identity. […]

I joined a local support group with more than 100 members for parents of kids with rapid-onset gender dysphoria. Hearing their stories, with so many similarities to ours, I couldn’t help but think that something other than kids finding their authentic selves was going on here. […]

And that is why I made this film. Even if my community disapproves. Even if I have to use a pseudonym to protect my son.

In the course of attacking 300,000 American children, VanZee Taylor outed their own child in the Dallas Morning News in 2023, even though their child was not out at school.

VanZee Taylor claims “I have to use a pseudonym to protect my son,” apparently feeling the best way to protect this teen was to divulge deeply personal family information in a major newspaper to promote anti-transgender propaganda.

In June 2023, this site revealed the identities of VanZee Taylor and producer Penka Kouneva and helped get theatrical screenings at AMC canceled.

As of 2024, their trans child Ruby Taylor is out, transitioned, and in college. Kouneva’s child has also transitioned. Despite this, Kouneva and Taylor continue to post anti-trans propaganda online, primarily on the 2022affirmation account.

References

Dawes, L. E. (February 17, 2023). OPINION Filmmaker: I believed in gender affirming care. Then I saw what happened to my son. Dallas Morning News https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2023/02/18/i-made-a-film-about-transgender-kids-that-doesnt-align-with-my-politics/

KOBI-TV (April 18, 2018). Five on 5 – Laura VanZee Taylor – Film Maker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzgUen2rQq0

Osborne, Matt (February 19, 2023). Affirmation Generation: The Lies Of Transgender Medicine. The Distance https://www.thedistancemag.com/p/affirmation-generation-the-lies-of

PITT (February 21, 2023). AFFIRMATION GENERATION, an original documentary. Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT). https://pitt.substack.com/p/affirmation-generation-an-original

Resources

Peanut Monkey Films (peanutmonkeyfilms.com)

Laura VanZee (lauravanzee.com)

No Way Back (nowaybackfilm.com)

Affirmation Generation (affirmationgenerationmovie.com) [archive]

Vimeo (vimeo.com)

IMDb (imdb.com)

Facebook (facebook.com)

YouTube (youtube.com)

Twitter (twitter.com)

Instagram (instagram.com)

TikTok (tiktok.com)

LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

ROCO Films (rocofilms.com)

Walk Through This (walkthroughthis.com) [archive starts in 2018]

Open Corporates (opencorporates.com)

Heterodorx is a podcast about gender identity and expression. It is hosted by gender critical artist Nina Paley and conservative trans activist Corinna Cohn. It is unusual among podcasts for inviting on people with wide-ranging political positions and views, with a majority of them from the gender critical movement of anti-transgender activists.

Episodes

2025

  • Episode 167: American Taxpayer Appreciation Episode Apr 18
  • Episode 166: Illin’, Chillin’, & Gettin’ That Bill In Apr 11
  • Episode 165: Did We Win Yet? Mar 26 
  • Episode 164: Nina’s Brain Breaks Itself Mar 12
  • Episode 163: Cori’s Breasts Break The Internet Mar 12 
  • The Straight-Inclusive Queer Majority with Rio Veradonir Feb 26
  • Executive Order 14168 Feb 14 
  • The Ideological Capture of Tech with Bryan Lunduke Jan 30
  • Desecrating the PFLAG Jan 23 
  • Lesbians, Law, and Bicycles with Glenna Goldis Jan 15

2024

  • The Trouble With Parents with Stephanie Winn Dec 27, 2024 
  • Artificial Intelligence with Chris Waites
  • Judging US v Skrmetti with Judge TERF Nov 28
  • Next year in Jerusalem? Nov 21
  • Post Election Derangement and Schadenfreude Nov 14
  • Fear of a Woke Bike Mechanic Nov 4
  • Aaron Kimberly Look-a Like a Man Oct 30
  • The Academic Freedom Closet with Cory Clark Oct 21
  • Hurricane Gender downgraded to Tropical Depression Gender Oct 10
  • Richard Hanania Hates His Audience Sep 25
  • Science Fiction with Jon Del Arroz Sep 14
  • Queering the Law with Judge TERF Sep 4
  • Anti-Culture, Bee Stings, and the IOC Aug 11
  • Gender in the Church with Brandon Showalter Aug 6
  • The Age of Bourgeois Guilt with Gary Saul Morson Jul 26
  • No More Mrs. Nice Guy with Candice Jackson Jul 15
  • Armed and Gay and Running for President with Chase Oliver Jul 4
  • Ideology Obscuring Orientation with Jules Louise Jun 27
  • The Gospel of Disenchantment with Corinna and Nina Jun17
  • Man of Steele with Eli Steele Jun13
  • Palestinian Heterodoxy with John Aziz May 27
  • Is Brianna Wu Based? Part Two May 10
  • Is Brianna Wu Based? Part One May 10
  • Butching It Up with Nina and Corinna May 6
  • A Light Unto the School Districts with Dr. Tabia Lee Apr 29
  • California Nightmares with Beth Bourne Apr 19
  • Structure and Coherence with J.D. Haltigan Apr 5
  • “A Path to Inclusion” with Cyd Zeigler Mar 28
  • Autoandrophilia with Aaron Terrell Mar 20
  • Taking Action with Ellen Daehnick Mar 9
  • Mitigating the Damage with Jamie Reed Mar 1
  • TERF-Tranny Alliances with Eva Kurilova and Lois Cardinal Feb 24
  • Safeguarding, Lesbophobia, and DARVO Feb 15
  • Alpacne! with Jennifer Lahl Feb 7
  • Welcome to the Gender Wars, Dr. Gary Francione! Jan 28
  • Unblinded by the Light with Ray Alex Williams Jan 18
  • Rosie Kay Believes in The Power of the Arts Jan 8

2023

  • Esprit de Corpse Dec 8
  • Librarians Losing Their Spine, with Penny Hummel Nov 20
  • Ladies’ Autogynephilia Chat with Shannon Thrace
  • “Ask a Zionist” with Rabbi Jonathan Greenberg
  • “Ask an Anti-Zionist” with Andy the Anti-Zionist
  • The Wrong Sort of Everything with Bev Jackson
  • The Darkest Humor
  • The Art of Dissident Feminists with J Berns
  • Taking The Weird Path with Saya Hillman
  • Listener Questions!
  • Left Wing Heresy with Lisa Selin Davis
  • Heather Brunskell-Evans is (a) TERF*
  • How the Internet Lost its Backbone, with Joshua Moon
  • Corinna and Nina talk ICONS
  • Pediatric Disenchantment with Julia Mason, MD
  • To Speak or Not to Speak? with Olivia
  • Doin’ the 12-Step with Ben Appel
  • Gender of Champions with Kim Jones
  • Open Wounds
  • Alasdair Gunn: It’s Fun To Play Scrabble With A Linguist
  • Ask an Autogynephile! with Phil Illy
  • The Heterodorx get Blocked and Reported with Katie Herzog and Jessie Singal
  • Incorrigible? with Zander Keig
  • Therapy Talk with James Esses
  • Speaking and Thinking with Helen Joyce
  • The CAIS Files [Jo]
  • How to Speak, How to Listen, and How to Comply
  • The View from Canada with Stuart Parker
  • No-Makeup Tips with Holly Lawford-Smith
  • Elaine Miller: Behind the Merkin
  • Dialing Down the Misanthropy with Heather Heying
  • Circling the Rhetorical Drain with Alex Byrne and Carole Hooven
  • Nina Gets Canceled (Again) & Corinna Predicts the Future

2022

  • Alice Dreger vs. Colin Wright
  • Good Trans, Bad Trans with Katy Montgomerie
  • Gays Against Groomers with Michael
  • Ask A Marxist! with Ben Burgis
  • Hoaxes, Wokeses, and Other Folkses with Wilfred Reilly
  • Julie Bindel Defines Feminism
  • The We Hate Hate Speech Speech with Helen Dale
  • The Un-Flat World of Simon Edge
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • Gimme That Old-Time Transsexualism with Buck Angel
  • Tell Us How You Really Feel, Corinna
  • Stephanie Winn is Some Kind of Therapist
  • The Parts We Play with Ben Appel
  • Walking the Talk with Doc Stock
  • Auntie Kate, Uncle Nina, and Mx Cohn – with Kate Bornstein
  • Adult Human Weirdos
  • Virtual Late-Night Dorm Room with Lev Polyakov
  • Fediverse Follies with Alex Gleason
  • Maud Maron, TERF for Congress
  • An Education on Education with Dr. Lyell Asher
  • Truscum Talk with Evie
  • Gods, GITs, and Religion with Colette Colfer
  • Cathy Brennan Doesn’t Care What You Think
  • Ask an Endocrinologist! with Dr. William Malone
  • Gender, Government, and Law with Candice Jackson
  • Practical Politics with Natasha Chart
  • Gender Warfare with Billboard Chris
  • Can We Blame Women For Lousy Men?
  • The Joy of Intelligent Disagreement with Ryan Anderson
  • Extra Bonus Raw and Unedited Rantings
  • Voluntary Human Extinction with Les U. Knight
  • BioTrans with Kikomi
  • Listener Questions
  • Autogynephilia with J Michael Bailey
  • Calm and Wreasonable Colin Wright
  • Potty Mouths
  • Cynthia Breheny Literally Erases by Drawing
  • MK Fain Wants to Keep Fighting
  • Bully-Proofing the Grown-ups with Stella O’Malley
  • Tokens of the Apocalypse
  • True Faith with Aaron Rabinowitz
  • Cancel Klatch with Razib Khan
  • Upperhand Mars and Team TERF’s Moving Goalposts
  • Carole Hooven
  • GAMPs, Pr0n, trans, and the Conservation of Evil

2021

  • The Heterodorx 2021 Year in Review
  • Alice Dreger’s Middle Finger*
  • Elizabeth Hungerford
  • The Grift Episode
  • Abolishing Gender, not Sex, with Kara Dansky
  • Bad Science with Maneesh Yadav
  • Down the Motherhood Well with Lisa Marchiano
  • How Inclusive is Misogyny?
  • Woke Antisemitism with Andrew Pessin
  • Gettin’ Philosophical with Alex Byrne
  • Goin’ Tribal with Derrick Jensen
  • Return of the Fox
  • Meghan Murphy and the “Mean Girls” of Feminism
  • Back from Break!
  • America’s Most Undercompensated Detranssexual with Grace Lidinsky-Smith
  • Trano-a-Trano with Grace Lavery
  • Homosexual Heterodorkery with Angus Fox
  • Olympic Sarcasm
  • Trash Talk
  • Karen Davis Isn’t Kidding
  • What If We Win?
  • True Trans, Good Trans, TRUSCUM, Authentic Trans, Imitation Crab, and Basketballs
  • Serious Sixty and Sarcasmagoria
  • A Black Band-Aid for White Guilt with Chris Waites
  • The Dorx Don’t Save The World
  • Metamodernism with Greg Dember
  • With Allies Like These, Who Needs Axes?
  • Against Allies
  • Dorking Out With Jayson Graham
  • Kickin’ it Old-Skool with Miranda F@%#*&g Yardley
  • Anger Management for Online Stupidity
  • I.P. Everywhere! Featuring Guest Heterodork Stephan Kinsella
  • Heterodorx Gets Schooled by MK Fain
  • Guest Heterodork Alex Gleason, the Johnny Appleseed of Social Networks
  • ©ommunity $tandards
  • The Gender Critical Movement is Dead. Long Live the Gender Critical Movement!
  • Personality Disorders Are Valid
  • TERF-War Inside Baseball and Rural Intersectionality
  • Everyone Expects the Spanish Inquisition
  • Senator is a Slur
  • TERF vs. Tranny
    • Microphones are Things
    • Hey Stoners…
    • Uh, Um, Y’know…
    • Double Ungood

Resources

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Gender: A Wider Lens is a podcast that platforms conservative and anti-transgender activists. It is hosted by anti-trans extremists Stella O’Malley and Sasha Ayad.

2025 episodes

Join Us for Monthly Live & Unfiltered Events with Sasha and Stella – Feb 25th, 2025

205 – What’s Next for Sasha Ayad, Stella O’Malley, and the Gender A Wider Lens Podcast? – Feb 14th, 2025

Premium: There Are a Lot of Doctors Too Focused on Their Own Political Goals – Feb 8th, 2025

204 – Clementine Breen Sues Famous Gender Doctor, After Rushed Medical Transition – Feb 7th, 2025

Premium: The DSM’s Flimsy Criteria for Gender Dysphoria – Feb 1st, 2025

203 – Gender Clinicians Should Take the Family’s Input Into Account, with Marieke den Ouden – Jan 31st, 2025

Premium: How “Trans” Has Changed Over the Years – Jan 25th, 2025

202 – Detransitioned After Three Decades as a Trans Man, with Jessi – Jan 24th, 2025

“Mercilessly Attacked” for Not Wanting to Transition Children, with Rep. Shawn Thierry – Jan 17th, 2025

Premium: Saving the Relationship Without Losing Yourself – Jan 11th, 2025

200 – ROGD Boys Exist! with Lydia – Jan 10th, 2025

Premium: Is Trans Ideology a Surrogate Religion? with Winston Marshall – Jan 4th, 2025

199 – Life After Mumford & Sons with Winston Marshall – Jan 3rd, 2025

2024 Episodes

198 – The Trans Inclusion Controversy That Took Over La Leche League with Helen Joyce & Marian Tompson – Dec 20th, 2024

197 – We Have a BIG Announcement! – Dec 13th, 2024

Premium: Why Are Therapists Transing Away the Gay? – Dec 7th, 2024

196 – Are Puberty Blockers the Next Consumer Fraud Scandal? with Glenna Goldis – Dec 6th, 2024

195 – The Autogynephilia Controversy with Phil Illy – Nov 29th, 2024

Premium: Never Outlaw Homeschooling! – Nov 23rd, 2024

194 – How the Gender Agenda Captured Iceland, with Eldur Smári Kristinsson – Nov 22nd, 2024

Premium: Being Male or Female is Not a Feeling State – Nov 16th, 2024

193 – Frauds, Fetishes, and Frameworks in Today’s Trans Movement, with Dr. Az Hakeem – Nov 15th, 2024

Dysphoria Means Something Different to Different People – Nov 9th, 2024

192 – Paving a Way Back for Detrans Lesbians, with Aaron Kimberly – Nov 8th, 2024

Premium: “People Have the Right to Not Have a Gender Identity” – Nov 2nd, 2024

191 – Holding the Line on Liberal Values, with Helen Pluckrose and Carrie Clark – Nov 1st, 2024

Premium: Does Physical Strength Help Build Psychological Strength? with April Hutchinson – Oct 26th, 2024

190 – From Addict to Champion to Activist, with April Hutchinson – Oct 25th, 2024

189 – What Happened at the Genspect Conference in Lisbon – Oct 18th, 2024

Premium: How to Break Through Thought-Stopping Cliches – Oct 12th, 2024

188 – Why Do People Double Down in the Face of Contrary Evidence? – Oct 11th, 2024

187 – Gender: A Wider Lens Live from Lisbon with Billboard Chris – Oct 4th, 2024

Premium: We Need More Whistleblowers to Come Forward – Sep 28th, 2024

186 – Courage is Contagious, with Whistleblower Vanessa Sivadge – 

Sep 27th, 2024

185 – Tales From Genderland with Julie Bindel – Sep 20th, 2024

Premium: When Did Everything Become A Matter of Life or Death? – Sep 14th, 2024

184 – Chanting, Humming, and Silencing–The Attack on Free Speech in NYC Schools with Maud Maron – Sep 13th, 2024

Premium: “It Took War for Me to Contend With My Own Reality” – Sep 11th, 2024

183 – Running From Rockets and Walking Toward Womanhood, with Maia Poet – Sep 10th, 2024

Why Aren’t More Philosophers Delving Into Gender-Affirming Care? – Sep 7th, 2024

182 – What Exactly is a “Transcendent Sense of Gender”? with Alex Byrne – Sep 6th, 2024

Premium: When the Ideology Wanes, But the Dysphoria Remains – Aug 31st, 2024

181 – From Activist to Apostate–A Twisty-Turny “Gender Journey,” with Tali – Aug 30th, 2024

Premium: Parenting A Son with AGP Traits – Aug 28th, 2024

180 – The Many Roots and Presentations of Gender Dysphoria in Males – Aug 28th, 2024

Premium: Boys Need to be Taught About Sacred Masculinity – Aug 24th, 2024

179 – Healing From Sissy Porn and Gender Dysphoria with Shane Cole – Aug 23rd, 2024

Premium: Standing Up for Women in Sports Again and Again, with Jennifer Sey – Aug 17th, 2024

178 – How Brands Influence Culture (For Better or Worse) with Jennifer Sey – Aug 16th, 2024

Premium: How the Danish Rainbow Council Influenced Politics – Aug 10th, 2024

177 – How Gender Ideology Came to Denmark with Jesper Rasmussen – Aug 9th, 2024

Premium: Radical Acceptance is Ice for the Soul with Lynn Chadwick – Aug 3rd, 2024

176 – Funding Lawsuits for Detransitioners with Lynn Chadwick – Aug 2nd, 2024

Premium: What Happens to Mothers and Babies When You Put Cross-Sex Hormones in the Mix? – Jul 27th, 2024

175 – What Really Happens to a Female Body on Testosterone? with Elaine Miller – Jul 26th, 2024

174 – How Porn Can Influence the Desire to Transition, with Forrest – Jul 19th, 2024

Premium: How Gender Ideology Has Infiltrated Art and Culture | with N3VLYNNN – Jul 13th, 2024

173 – Why Are Trans Activists Rewriting History? with N3VLYNNN – Jul 12th, 2024

Premium: “The Lesbian Community Doesn’t Feel Like it Exists Anymore” – Jul 6th, 2024

172 – Arielle Isaac Norman Knows More Than Dave Chappelle – Jul 5th, 2024

171 – Breaking News: The Latest WPATH Scandal, with Lisa Selin Davis – Jul 1st, 2024

Premium: Children Have the Right to Know Their Body is Not Their Enemy – Jun 29th, 2024

170 – The Legal, Emotional and Physical Consequences of Secret Social Transition with Vernadette Broyles – Jun 28th, 2024

Premium: There’s a Struggle for Attention When Your Dad is Trans – Jun 22nd, 2024

169 – Growing up with a Trans Parent, with Emma Thomas from Children of Transitioners – Jun 21st, 2024

Premium: The Trouble with Big Trauma, with Abigail Shrier – Jun 15th, 2024

168 – Bad Therapy and Irreversible Damage with Abigail Shrier – Jun 14th, 2024

Premium: What Can We Learn from Other Legal Precedents? – Jun 8th, 2024

167 – Dawn of the Detransitioner Lawsuits, with Josh Payne – Jun 7th, 2024

Premium: The Top Five Common Mistakes Estranged Parents Make – Jun 1st, 2024

166 – Dr. Joshua Coleman and How Parents Can Heal or Prevent Estrangement – May 31st, 2024

Premium: I’m Glad I Was a Girl in the 70s | Meghan Daum – May 25th, 2024

165 – Meghan Daum Wants Women To Stop Silencing Themselves – May 24th, 2024

Premium: Is It Asexuality, or Is It Anti-Depressants? with Freya India – May 18th, 2024

164 – Gen Z and the Agony of a Screen-based Life with Freya India – May 17th, 2024

Premium: “Men Should Not Be Induced to Produce Something from Their Nipples, That Some People Want to Call Milk” – May 11th, 2024

163 – Trans Ideology is a Restriction of Freedom, Not an Expansion of It, with Heather Heying – May 10th, 2024

Premium: Are Teens Replacing Friends with Therapists? – May 4th, 2024

162 – The Over-treatment of Young People – May 3rd, 2024

Premium: I Was Not Looking to Be An Activist with Tamara Pietzke – Apr 27th, 2024

161 – The Unlikely Whistleblower with Tamara Pietzke – Apr 26th, 2024

Premium: “People Aren’t Born into Some Special Category of Person Called Trans” – Apr 20th, 2024

160 – People Deserve Better Than This “Gender-Affirming Care” with Christina Buttons – Apr 19th, 2024

Premium: When “Helpful” Treatments Harm Patients – Apr 13th, 2024

159 – From Opioids to Gender, How Harmful Policies Scale in our Modern Healthcare System with Dr. Carrie Mendoza – Apr 12th, 2024

Premium: The Ancient Link Between Religion and Mutilation – Apr 6th, 2024

158 – The Little-Known Shocking History of Gender Identity Ideology with Malcolm Clark – Apr 5th, 2024

Premium: From Transmaxxing to Transhumanism – Mar 30th, 2024

157 – Is Our Culture Incentivizing Men to Transition? with Sascha Bailey – Mar 29th, 2024

Premium: How Has WPATH Responded to the Leaked Files? – Mar 23rd, 2024

156 – “WPATH Has No Respect for Medical Ethics” with Mia Hughes – Mar 22nd, 2024

Premium: Tales of a Canceled Evolutionary Biologist – Mar 16th, 2024

155 – Loop de Loops and Deepities of Sex and Gender with Colin Wright – Mar 15th, 2024

Premium: Bringing Androgyny Back – Mar 13th, 2024

154 – “My Entire Childhood Was Medicalized” with Scarlet – Mar 12th, 2024

Premium: Talking About Medical Ethics and the AAP Conference with Laura Becker – Mar 9th, 2024

153 – Why Smart, Quirky, Artistic Girls Take Up the Transition Fantasy w/Laura Becker – Mar 8th, 2024

Premium: Silencing, Shaming and Scapegoating with Kathleen Stock – Mar 2nd, 2024

152 – Trapped in a Language Cul-De-Sac with Kathleen Stock – Mar 1st, 2024

Premium: Like a Daydream Out of a Science Fiction Novel – Feb 24th, 2024

151 – “These Doctors Have Forgotten the Meaning of Medicine” with Dr. Eithan Haim – Feb 23rd, 2024

Premium: The Weaponization of Female Empathy with Dr. Leor Sapir – Feb 17th, 2024

150 – The Consumerism of Gender-Affirming Care with Leor Sapir – Feb 16th, 2024

Premium: Letting Go of the False Promise – Feb 10th, 2024

149: Walking My ROGD Daughter Through Desistance with January Littlejohn – Feb 9th, 2024

Premium: What to do When Kids Cling to their Dysphoria – Feb 3rd, 2024

148 – Identity Indoctrination & the Black Hole of Gender – Feb 2nd, 2024

2023 episodes

147 – Can We Win the Gender Culture War in 2024? – Dec 22nd, 2023

Premium: How can I address my 9-year-old daughter’s growing belief in non-binary gender identities? – Dec 15th, 2023

146 – Myths, Misconceptions, and Exaggerations about Gender – Dec 15th, 2023

Premium: Is gender a framework which limits people’s ability to express themselves fully? – Dec 8th, 2023

145 – Things ROGD Parents Need to Hear (even if they don’t want to) – Dec 8th, 2023

Premium: Graham Linehan shares how he talks about gender ideology IRL? – Dec 1st, 2023

144 – “Glinner is a TERF” with Graham Linehan – Dec 1st, 2023

Premium: Sarah Holmes shares how she talks about “gender” in day to day life – Nov 24th, 2023

143 – The Battle Over the Word Woman with Sarah Holmes – Nov 24th, 2023

142 – When Gender Hits the Holidays Part 2 – Nov 21st, 2023

Premium: Bonus Conversation with Dr. Jillian Spencer – Nov 17th, 2023

141 – Silenced for Asking Questions About Gender Medicine with Dr. Jillian Spencer

  • Guest: Jillian Spencer 17th November 2023

140 – Gender: A Wider Lens Live from Denver with Chloe Cole

139 – Sex, Politics, and Double-Standards in Women’s Sports with Coach Linda Blade

138 – The Emotional Lives of Parents Caught in the Gender Maelstrom

  • 27th October 2023 

137 – Conspiracy Theories, Hoaxes, and the Detransition Time Bomb with Wilfred Reilly

136 – Gender as a Communication, It’s Not What You Think with Maggie Goldsmith

  • Guest: “Maggie Goldsmith” of PITT Oct 12, 2023

135 – Intersex, Identity, & Ideology with Aaron Kimberly

134 – Genspect’s “The Bigger Picture” Comes to Denver

  • Oct 3, 2023

133 – Is Trans REALLY the New Gay?

  • Sep 29, 2023

132 – How To Have Impossible Conversations About Gender with Peter Boghossian

131 – Facing Futility: You Can’t Actually Change Sex, with Corinna Cohn

130 – Katie Herzog: Unblocked & Recorded

129 – Is “Gender-Affirming Care” an Oedipus Trap

  • Sep 1st, 2023

128 – As Weird as a Chicken Crying: AAP Statement on Pediatric Gender Transition with Dr. Julia Mason

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  • Aug 22nd, 2023

127 – Help! Gender Is a Mess at My School: For Teachers, Counselors, & Administrators

  • Aug 18th, 2023

126 – Hot Takes: Sasha & Stella Revisit Controversies from Season 3

  • Aug 11th, 2023

125 – From Gender Expert to Skeptical Dissenter with Sara Stockton

124 – A Culture of Desistance: Schools and Gender w/ Alex Capo

123 – Drag, Drinking and Taking off the Mask with Calvin Lunt

122 – We Wrote a Book: When Kids Say They’re Trans | A Guide for Thoughtful Parents

  • Jul 14th, 2023

Follow-Up Episode: 116 Part II – Retraction w/ Dr. Michael Bailey

121 – Practical Advice for Managing Gender Identity in Schools with Dr. Kate Goonan

120 — Pioneer Series: Researching Sexual Behaviors with James Cantor

119 — Who Gets Embroiled in the Gender Debates

  • Jun 23rd, 2023

118 – Prioritizing Expensive & Invasive Interventions: American Healthcare w/ Zhenya Abbruzzese

117 – Gender, Parents, and Public Schools with Kate Parker

  • Guest: Kate Parker Jun 9th, 2023

116 — Identity Politics vs. The Pursuit of Knowledge with Dr. Michael Bailey

115 — How Online Communities Shape Thought, Desire, and Doubt about Transition: with Eliza Mondegreen

114 — The Dutch Protocol: A Deprivation of Sexual Development with Julia Mason and Stephen Levine

113 — Gender A Wider Lens LIVE from Ireland

112 — Jamie Reed: “Every Ethical Line I Drew Was Walked On… We Are Hurting People”

Flashback Episode | 41 – Trans: A Conversation with Helen Joyce

111 — Affirmation Therapy: Necessary, But Not Sufficient

  • Apr 21st, 2023

110 — Pathologizing Normal: The Lure of Identity Labels & Diagnoses

  • Apr 14th, 2023

109 — What If We Are All Wrong: A Mother’s Regret with Rose

  • Guest: “Rose” Apr 7th, 2023

108 — Genspect Vision: The Bigger Picture with Joe Burgo & Alasdair Gunn

107 — What Your Teen is Trying to Tell You

  • Mar 24th, 2023

106 — Detransition Awareness: Beyond Identity & Political Narratives

  • Mar 17th, 2023

105 — From Rejecting the Body to Finding Female w/ Victoria Smith

  • Guest: Victoria Smith Mar 10th, 2023

104 — No Time to Think with Hannah Barnes: The Downfall of GIDS at the Tavistock

103 — Follow the Gender-brick Road: from Bi to Pan to Trans

  • Feb 24th, 2023

102 — Dutch Journalists: Words Matter…The Media’s Influence to Share or to Silence

  • Guests: Jan Kuitenbrouwer and Peter Vasterman Feb 17th, 2023

101 — Michael Biggs on Puberty Blockers: From Curiosity to Exposé

100 — Falling Down the Gender Rabbit Hole: A Tale of Two Therapists

  • Feb 3rd, 2023

TOP 5 of 2022 Countdown: #1 EP 93 – A Takedown of Gender Politics with Wesley Yang

TOP 5 of 2022 Countdown: #2 EP 69 – Pioneers Series: Post-Series Analysis & Break!

  • Jan 20th, 2023

TOP 5 of 2022 Countdown: #3 EP 71 — Gender: The American State of Affairs with Jesse Singal

TOP 5 of 2022 Countdown: #4 EP 88 – Gender: Philosophy, Institutions, and Policy with Leor Sapir

TOP 5 of 2022 Countdown: #5 EP 66 – Pioneers Series: Where it All Started – The Dutch Researchers Steensma & De Vries

  • Thomas Steensma & Annelou De Vries Jan 2nd, 2023

2022 episodes

99 — Detransitioned & Damaged by the Dutch Protocol: Teiresias

  • Guest: “Teiresias” Dec 9th, 2022

98 — StoicMom: Using Her Child’s Trans Identity for Personal Individuation

  • Guest: “StoicMom” Dec 2nd, 2022

97 — The Freedom to Believe or Not To with Rev. Bernard Randall

  • Guest: Bernard Randall Nov 25th, 2022

96 — Official Launch: Clinical Guide for Therapists Working with Gender-Questioning Youth

95 — How We Think About Sex: Leonore Tiefer

94 — WPATH’s Bizarre 8th Standards of Care

  • Nov 4th, 2022

93 — A Takedown of Gender Politics with Wesley Yang

92 — Brian Belovitch: From Boy to Girl to Woman to Man

  • Guest: Brian Belovitch Oct 21st, 2022

91 — Uncovering the GIDS Disaster: Dr. Dave Bell

  • Guest: Dave Bell Oct 14th, 2022

90 — Tomboy at Tavistock: Ellie’s Desistance Story

  • Guest: “Ellie” Oct 7th, 2022

89 – Ritchie’s Detransition: The Myth of Adult Invulnerability

88 – Gender: Philosophy, Institutions, and Policy with Leor Sapir

87 — Medical Technology & Ethics w Jennifer Lahl

86 – Hormones & Identity with Bob Ostertag

  • Guest: Bob Ostertag Sep 9th, 2022

85 — Mother-Daughter Story: “I Didn’t Want to be Yours Anymore” w/ Dr. Maggie Goldsmith

  • Guest: “Maggie Goldsmith” Sep 2nd, 2022

84 — Denise Caignon From 4thWaveNow: The View From Behind the Scenes

83 — Trans Widow: Off the Grid with Shannon Thrace

82 – ASD & Gender: Who am I? with Dr. Tony Attwood

  • Guest: Tony Attwood Aug 12th, 2022

81 – An Unlikely Court Case w/ Maya Forstater

80 — Desistance Part II — Advice for Parents

  • Jul 29th, 2022

79 – Gender Identity: Literally False, Metaphorically True with Dr. Bret Alderman

  • Guest: Bret Alderman Jul 21st, 2022

78 — Affirming Reality for Kids with Stephanie Davies-Arai

77 — Desistance Pt 1 — Accepting Reality: Now vs Then

  • Jul 8th, 2022

76 — Detransition Part II — The Emerging Picture in Research

  • Jul 1st, 2022

75 – Borderline Personality: Distorted Attempts to Integrate – A Conversation w/ Lisa Duval

  • Guest: Lisa Duval Jun 24th, 2022

74 – Detransition – Part 1: Going Back & Moving Forward

  • Jun 17th, 2022

73 – Shame, Narcissism, and the Transition Fantasy w/ Joe Burgo

72 – Disenchanted by Transition

  • Jun 3rd, 2022

71 – Gender: The American State of Affairs with Jesse Singal

70 – We’re Back! — Parents Lost in a Medical Scandal

  • May 20th, 2022

69 – Pioneers Series: Post-Series Analysis & Break!

  • Apr 1st, 2022

68 – Pioneers Series: Cultural Misunderstandings with Paul L. Vasey

67 – Pioneers Series: Men Trapped in Men’s Bodies, with Anne Lawrence

66 – Pioneers Series: Where It All Started – The Dutch Researchers Steensma & De Vries

65 – Pioneers Series: Gender – The Big Picture with Susan Bradley

64 – Pioneers Series: Psychotherapy Pre- and Post-Transition with Az Hakeem

63 – Pioneers: Mid-Series Analysis

  • Feb 18th, 2022

62 – Pioneers Series: Adolescent Identity with Riittakerttu Kaltiala

61 – Pioneers Series: Autogynephilia: Myth and Meaning with Ray Blanchard

60 – Pioneers Series: We Contain Multitudes with Stephen Levine

59 – Pioneers Series: 46 Years of Treating GD in Kids with Kenneth Zucker

58 – Pioneers Series: Male Sexuality with Michael J. Bailey

57 — Pioneers Series: Male Femininity w/Paul L. Vasey

2021 episodes

56 – New Year’s Resolutions & Introducing the “Pioneers Series”

  • Dec 31st, 2021

55 – Who Gets to Decide What’s Normal: A Conversation w/ Lisa Selin Davis

54 – Finding a Therapist for Your Gender-Questioning Teen: A Conversation W/ Lisa Marchiano

53 – You Affirmed Your Child’s Gender… How to Roll Back

  • Dec 10th, 2021

52 – Gender Dysphoria & Detransition Research: A Conversation W/ Dr. Lisa Littman

51 – Clearing of the Pink Mist: A Conversation w/ Debbie Hayton

50 – When Gender Hits the Holidays

  • Nov 19th, 2021

49 – Archives of an Epidemic: A conversation w/ Benjamin Boyce

48 – When an Adult You Love Transitions

  • Nov 5th, 2021

47 – When Parents Disagree

  • Oct 29th, 2021

46 – Helena Part II: Advice for Parents from a Former Trans Kid

45 – Helena Part 1: Social Justice, Fandoms & FtM Gay Boys

44 – Multiple Meanings of Gender Dysphoria: A Conversation with Aaron Terrell

43 – Sasha & Stella Answer Your Questions: Part 3

  • Oct 1st, 2021

42 – ROGD and the Struggle to Grow Up

  • Sep 24th, 2021

41 — Trans: A Conversation with Helen Joyce

40 — Social Transition: A Powerful Psychosocial Intervention

  • Sep 10th, 2021

39 – Nonbinary Identities

  • Sep 3rd, 2021

38 – DSDs and the “Sex Spectrum”: A conversation w/ Claire Graham

37 – Womanhood: A Conversation with Milli Hill

36 – Talking Testosterone with Carole Hooven

35 – Communicating About Gender: Translating Between Parent & Child

  • Aug 6th, 2021

34 – Gender Dysphoria & Suicide

  • Jul 30th, 2021

33 – Beyond the ‘Gifted’ Label: A Conversation w/ Jessie Mannisto

32 – Stereotypes

  • Jul 16th, 2021

31 – Silencing Thought: A Conversation with Heather Brunskell-Evans

30 — Sasha & Stella Answer Your Questions: Part 2

  • Jul 2nd, 2021

29 – Conversion Therapy: A Conversation with Bob Withers

28 – Behind the Curtain: Wrapping Up Gender Exploratory Therapy

  • Jun 18th, 2021

27 – Marcus and Sue Evans both worked as clinicians in the Tavistock Centre in London for many years. Noticing red flags since the early 2000s, Sue was the first whistle-blower in the Tavistock Centre and Marcus resigned as its governor

26 – Behind the Curtain: Depth Work in Gender Exploratory Therapy – Part II

  • Jun 4th, 2021

25 – Behind the Curtain: Depth Work in Gender Exploratory Therapy

  • May 28th, 2021

24 – Behind the Curtain: Getting Started In Gender Exploratory Therapy

  • May 21st, 2021

23 – Sasha & Stella Answer Your Questions

  • May 14th, 2021

22 — An Unexpected Gender Evolution: A Conversation with Lauren

  • Guest: “Lauren” May 7th, 2021

21 – Gender Dysphoria in Boys: Part 2 — A Conversation with Angus Fox

20 – Gender Dysphoria in Boys: Part 1

  • Apr 23rd, 2021

19 – ADHD & Gender Dysphoria

  • Apr 16th, 2021

18 – COVID, Dysphoria & Listener Shout-Outs

  • Apr 9th, 2021

17 – Autism and Gender Dysphoria

  • Apr 2nd, 2021

16 – Gender Dysphoria: What It’s Like For Parents

  • Mar 26th, 2021

15 – One Detrans Voice: A Conversation with Carol

  • Guest: “Carol” Mar 19th, 2021

14 – The REAL Ways to Manage Gender Dysphoria

  • Mar 12th, 2021

13 – Are Brilliant People More Likely Trans?

  • Mar 5th, 2021

12 – Identity vs Role Confusion in Adolescence

  • Feb 26th, 2021

11 – Sex Therapy & Education: why are all the therapists ‘affirming’?

10 – Queer Theory: Subverting Life’s Categories

  • Feb 12th, 2021

9 – The Politicization of Gender

  • Feb 5th, 2021

8 – TransGenerational Wisdom: A conversation with Buck Angel

7 – Collective Collusion

  • Jan 22nd, 2021

6 – Gender Intervention: Treatment or Experiments?

  • Jan 15th, 2021

5 – Hormonal Interventions — from Fringe to Mainstream: A conversation with Dr. Will Malone

4 – Why Do People Seek a New Identity?

  • Jan 1st, 2021

2020 episodes

3 – Feminine Boy to Gay Man: a Conversation With Arty Morty

2 – Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria

  • Dec 18th, 2020

1 – Trans: Identity vs Dysphoria

  • Dec 18th, 2020

Gender: A Wider Lens Trailer

  • Nov 30th, 2020

The Washington Post is an American media organization. It is considered a paper of record for the United States, along with The New York Times.

Washington Post has covered trans issues with several important initiatives, including the 2023 KFF/The Washington Post Trans Survey.

In December 2024, the Post signaled a significant shift from objectivity that reflected relentless laundering of anti-trans extremism into mainstream media. The Editorial Board presented gender-affirming care for minors as a controversy where “the medical questions have not been properly resolved,” citing “scientists’ failure to study these treatments slowly and systematically.”

Leadership

  • Sally Buzbee, Executive Editor
  • Krissah Thompson, Managing Editor
  • Justin Bank, Managing Editor
  • Barbara Vobejda, Managing Editor
  • Monica Norton, Deputy Managing Editor
  • Mark W. Smith, Deputy Managing Editor
  • Scott Vance, Deputy Managing Editor
  • Liz Seymour, Deputy Managing Editor (Newsroom operations, standards and planning)
  • Ann Gerhart, Senior Visual Enterprise Editor
  • Erika Allen, Head of Audience Strategy and Growth
  • Coleen O’Lear, Head of Curation and Platforms
  • Carla Broyles, Senior Career Development Editor
  • Sommer Mathis, Senior Recruiting Editor
  • Terrell Mizell, Senior Recruiting Consultant
  • Matea Gold, National Editor
  • Phil Rucker, Deputy National Editor
  • Douglas Jehl, Foreign Editor
  • Jennifer Amur, Deputy Foreign Editor
  • Mike Semel, Local Editor
  • Maria Glod, Deputy Local Editor
  • Ben Williams, Features Editor
  • Hank Stuever, Deputy Features Editor
  • Tara Parker-Pope, Wellness Editor
  • Anjuman Ali, Deputy Wellness Editor
  • Lori Montgomery, Business Editor
  • Damian Paletta, Deputy Business Editor
  • Christina Passariello, Deputy Business Editor
  • Jeff Leen, Investigations Editor
  • David Fallis, Deputy Investigations Editor
  • Eric Rich, Deputy Investigations Editor
  • Jason Murray, Sports Editor
  • Matthew Rennie, Deputy Sports Editor
  • Zachary Goldfarb, Climate and Environment Editor
  • Juliet Eilperin, Deputy Climate and Environment Editor
  • Meghan Hoyer, Data Reporting Director
  • Anu Narayanswamy, Deputy Data Editor
  • Micah Gelman, Director of Editorial Video
  • David Bruns, Executive Producer
  • Lauren Saks, Executive Producer
  • MaryAnne Golon, Photography Director
  • Robert Miller, Deputy Photography Director
  • Dudley Brooks, Deputy Photography Director
  • Sandra Stevenson, Deputy Photography Director
  • Courtney Rukan, Multiplatform Editing Chief
  • Brian Cleveland, Deputy Multiplatform Editor
  • Nora Simon, Deputy News Service Editor
  • Kenisha Malcolm, Curation Desk Editor
  • Anne Bartlett, Live Editing Chief
  • Charity Brown, Deputy Newsroom Product Director
  • Keith McMillan, General Assignment Editor
  • Herman Wong, Deputy General Assignment Editor

Assessments

Statista

“The Washington Post’s credibility fared relatively well in 2022, with a survey revealing that 48 percent of respondents believed the publication to be very or somewhat credible. The Washington Post’s credibility rating was slightly lower than that of The New York Times, and the paper also lost out to The Wall Street Journal in this regard.”

Ad Fontes Media (adfontesmedia.com)

Ad Fontes Media rates Washington Post in the Skews Left category of bias and as Generally Reliable/Analysis OR Other Issues in terms of reliability. 

  • https://adfontesmedia.com/washington-post-bias-and-reliability/
  • Reliability: 38.15
  • Bias: -8.75

NewsGuard (newsguardtech.com)

  • Standards met:
  • Standards failed:
  • as of 1 January 2020

Contributors

The following people have had writing about trans issues published in the Washington Post.

Letters of note

  • Rachel Cornwell and Liz Matthews

2023 defense of New York Times’ transphobia

In 2023, media critic Erik Wemple published a defense of the New York Times during their anti-trans coverage crisis.

2024 editorial critical of youth gender medicine

In December 2024, the Post signaled a significant shift that reflected relentless laundering of anti-trans extremism into mainstream media.

Without citing any recent research finding low regret rates or citing any countries that have reaffirmed the benefits of gender affirming care for minors, the editorial notes “at least some patients who transitioned later experience regret and suffer the fate the treatments were supposed to avoid: a body that doesn’t match their gender identity.”

Signaling their desire to have a politically-appointed non-expert review similar to the UK’s disastrous Cass Review, the Post urged a US non-expert review “overseen by scientists who are not gender medicine practitioners.”

They cited the following:

  • the British Cass Review by anti-trans pediatrician Hilary Cass and the subsequent ban of puberty blockers for trans minors (but not cis minors)
  • the report by the Norwegian Healthcare Investigation Board (UKOM) criticizing gender affirming care as “experimental”
  • the report by Swedish anti-trans activist Mikael Landén et al criticizing gender affirming care as “experimental”
  • a paper by Carmichael et al, ignoring that overall patient experience was positive, focusing instead on psychological function, which The Post characterized as “lackluster results”
  • anti-trans activist Jesse Singal’s blog post critical of a New England Journal of Medicine paper on psychosocial functioning, in which The Post claimed NEJM “massaged the results”
  • an Economist piece attacking WPATH
  • a Boston Globe piece about psychologist Amy Tishelman’s lawsuit against Boston Children’s Hospital
  • a New York Times piece by anti-trans activist Azeen Ghorayshi attacking pediatrician Johanna Olson-Kennedy

Anti-trans activists lauded the editorial, including Leor Sapir, Jesse Singal, Benjamin Ryan, Lisa Selin Davis, and Partners for Ethical Care. The editorial was praised by consistently anti-trans conservative platforms, including National Review, Catholic Vote, Ovarit, and X.

The authors were:

  • Mary Duenwald
  • James Hohmann
  • Charles Lane, Deputy Opinion Editor 
  • Eduardo Porter
  • Keith B. Richburg
  • David Shipley, Opinion Editor 
  • Stephen Stromberg, Deputy Opinion Editor 

2025 editorial praising Trump’s HHS report

In 2025, the Trump Administration’s Department of Health & Human Services published a report designed to give cover for banning transgender healthcare for minors. The Post’s Editorial Board described it as “a careful, thorough and definitely skeptical tour through the subject,” adding that “it makes a legitimate case for caution that policymakers need to wrestle with.”

The authors were

  • Mary Duenwald
  • Robert Gebelhoff
  • James Hohmann
  • Megan McArdle
  • Eduardo Porter
  • Keith B. Richburg
  • David Shipley, Opinion Editor 
  • Stephen Stromberg, Deputy Opinion Editor 

References

Wilchins, Riki (December 20, 2024). The Anti-Care Playbook. Assigned Media https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/washington-post-anti-care-playbook

Lazine, Mira (December 16, 2024). Opinion: Washington Post Editorial Board Misleadingly Attacks Care Of Trans Youth. Erin in the Morning https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/opinion-washington-post-editorial

Schorr, Isaac (December 16, 2024). Washington Post Editorial Board Declares There Is ‘Reason to Worry’ About Transgender Treatments for Kids. Mediaite https://www.mediaite.com/news/washington-post-editorial-board-declares-there-is-reason-to-worry-about-transgender-treatments-for-kids/

Berry, Susan (December 18, 2024). Washington Post admits subjecting children to ‘transgender medicine’ not based on ‘science.’ Catholic Vote https://catholicvote.org/washington-post-admits-subjecting-children-to-transgender-medicine-not-based-on-science/

Butler, Jack (December 17, 2024). Transgender Skepticism from . . . the Washington Post? National Review https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/transgender-skepticism-from-the-washington-post/

Selected anti-trans publications

Editorial Board (May 11, 2025). Good questions about transgender care: The authors of a new HHS report make a case against pediatric gender transition. Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/11/transgender-care-pediatric-transition/

Editorial board (December 15, 2024). Look to science, not law, for real answers on youth gender medicine. Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/12/15/skrmetti-case-youth-transition-trans-supreme-court/ alt title: Opinion | Skrmetti court case won’t settle questions about youth gender medicine.

Resources

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WorldCat (worldcat.org)

Joseph Ladapo is a Nigerian-American physician who was a key figure in banning trans youth healthcare in Florida.

Background

Joseph Abiodun Ladapo was born on December 16, 1978 in Nigeria. At age 5, Ladapo and family moved to the Uniter States.

Ladapo earned a bachelor’s degree from Wake Forest University in 2000, then attended Harvard, earning a medical degree and a doctorate. After working in New York City, Ladapo was appointed a tenured professor at UCLA.

During the COVID pandemic, Ladapo became known among convervatives for views on vaccines and other protocols. In 2021, Ladapo was appointed Surgeon General of Florida by Governor Ron DeSantis.

Anti-transgender activism

Ladapo has carried out anti-trans policies promoted by DeSantis, most notably SB 254, a law prohibiting gender-affirming medical treatment for minors and restricting access to care for trans adults.

Transgender Floridians brought Doe v. Ladapo to challenge this law.

Via Zinnia Jones:

We now know that the state was covertly assisted in this effort by the leadership of the anti-trans group Genspect, Child & Parental Rights Campaign lawyer Vernadette Broyles, and Riittakerttu Kaltiala of Finland’s Tampere University youth gender clinic; Hilary Cass of NHS England’s Cass Review also privately expressed an interest in the sham report against gender-affirming care commissioned by Florida’s AHCA. Several individuals worked behind the scenes with Patrick Hunter, a leading member of the anti-trans Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine (SEGM). After being appointed by Governor Ron DeSantis to the Board of Medicine, Hunter arranged for extensive anti-trans testimony from SEGM associates to be submitted to the Boards of Medicine and Osteopathy. 

Jones (2023)

Ladapo has also appeared on a number of anti-trans platforms, including Tim Pool, Megyn Kelly, Glenn Beck, Epoch Times, Newsmax, Dennis Prager, Charlie Kirk, and Debra Soh.

References

Doe v. Ladapo (4:23-cv-00114) District Court, N.D. Florida https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67082532/doe-v-ladapo/

Jones, Zinnia (November 29, 2023). New trial exhibits in Doe v. Ladapo: DOH worked with Genspect leaders Stella O’Malley and Joe Burgo in July 2022; Hilary Cass met SEGM’s Patrick Hunter to discuss Florida’s anti-trans report; Jamie Reed’s attorney Vernadette Broyles chose the lineup of detransitioners speaking at the Board of Medicine. Gender Analysis https://genderanalysis.net/2023/11/new-trial-exhibits-in-doe-v-ladapo-doh-worked-with-genspect-leaders-stella-omalley-and-joe-burgo-in-july-2022-hilary-cass-met-segms-patrick-hunter-to-discuss-floridas-ant/

 Migdon, Brooke (April 20, 2022). Florida health dept. says gender-affirming care should not be provided to minors. The Hill https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/3274150-florida-health-dept-says-gender-affirming-care-should-not-be-provided-to-minors/


Riley, John (December 27, 2023). DeSantis Spread Misinformation to Limit Trans Health Care, Judge Says. MetroWeekly https://www.metroweekly.com/2023/12/desantis-spread-misinformation-to-limit-trans-health-care-judge-says/

Izaguirre, Anthony (June 3, 2022). Transgender youth treatment under fire in Florida again. AP https://apnews.com/article/health-florida-cultures-medicaid-government-and-politics-68065d8560f7cb68ea4fd8e57e848295

Caputo, Marc (June 2, 2022). DeSantis moves to ban transition care for transgender youths, Medicaid recipients. NBC News https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/desantis-moves-ban-transition-care-transgender-youth-medicaid-recipien-rcna31736

Alfonseca, Kiara (March 23, 2023). Florida parents file lawsuit against state transgender youth care ban. ABC News https://abcnews.go.com/US/florida-parents-file-lawsuit-state-transgender-youth-care/story?id=98086864

This is about the politics of media coverage of sex and gender minorities. For media resources to assist in a gender transition, please go to Resources.

Journalism

Social media

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Homeland Security / University of Dayton study

The United States Department of Homeland Security’s Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP) Grant Program commissioned a report from University of Dayton on how extremists use media to recruit new members.

While the report was focused on white nationalism and christofascism, many key anti-trans media outlets were included:

Tier 1:

  • Fox News
  • The Heritage Foundation
  • American Conservative Union Foundation
  • Natonal Rifle Association
  • Christian Broadcasting Network
  • John Birch Society
  • American Tea Party
  • Republican Party

Tier 2

Tier 3

  • American Renaissance
  • National Policy Institute
  • Stormfront
  • Daily Stormer
  • Sonnenrad
  • Kekistan flag / chan culture
  • Blood & Honour
  • American Nazi Party
  • American Identity Movement
  • Identitarian Lambda
  • Patriot Front

Tier 4

  • Aryan Nations
  • Atomwaffen Division
  • Sturmabteilung
  • National Socialist Legion

Controversies

I am currently working on a wide-ranging project on this topic, based on a major media controversy from 2003:

References

University of Dayton () PREVENTS-OH https://udayton.edu/artssciences/ctr/hrc/extremism/extremism-prevention.php