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Jennifer Pritzker is an American investor and philanthropist who focuses on military causes. Pritzker is the first out transgender billionaire.

Background

Jennifer Natalya Pritzker was born on August 13, 1950 in Chicago, Illinois. Pritzker has two siblings and two half-siblings. Pritzker’s family founded the Hyatt hotel chain and controlled a diversified holding company that was sold to Berkshire Hathaway in 2013. In 2023 the family’s net worth was estimated at about $37 billion, with Jennifer Pritker’s share around $2 billion.

At age 23, Pritzker enlisted in the army, rising to the rank of sergeant. Pritzker earned a bachelor’s degree in 1979 from Loyola University of Chicago, then returned to the Army to serve as a commissioned officer until 1985. Pritzker then served in the Army Reserves and Illinois Army National Guard until 2001 rising to rank of lieutenant colonel.

In 1995, Pritzker founded the nonprofit Tawani Foundation. In 1996 Pritzker founded wealth management firm Tawani Enterprises. In 2003 Pritzker founded the Pritzker Military Library. Pritzker is involved in a number of private equity and national security ventures.

Pritzker has been married three times and has three children. Pritzker came out as transgender in 2013.

Transgender philanthropy

In 2003, the Tawani Foundation made a $1.35 million donation to the Palm Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, to study the feasibility of transgender people serving in the military and in the ranks of police and fire departments.

In 2016, through Tawani Foundation, Pritzker gave a $2 million donation to create the world’s first endowed academic chair of transgender studies, at the University of Victoria in British Columbia; Aaron Devor was chosen as the inaugural chair.

Pritzker was a major Republican donor until the party began sustained legislative attacks on transgender people un Donald Trump.

Some anti-transgender activists, including Rick Wiles, Jennifer Bilek, and Helen Joyce, have concocted a conspiracy theory that a cabal of Jewish billionaires including Pritzker are behind the transgender movement.

References

ADL (January 24, 2023). Antisemitism & Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate Converge in Extremist and Conspiratorial Beliefs. Center on Extremism https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/antisemitism-anti-lgbtq-hate-converge-extremist-and-conspiratorial-beliefs

Butler, Jack (June 28, 2022). The Money behind the Transgender Movement. National Review https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-money-behind-the-transgender-movement/

Dodds, Io (June 26, 2022). How paranoia over trans rights became catnip for QAnon and the far right. The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/transgender-far-right-qanon-violence-b2108235.html

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

Joyce, Helen (August 8, 2021). Trans Activism’s Long March through Our Institutions. National Review https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/08/trans-activisms-long-march-through-our-institutions/

Leveille, Lee (July 5, 2021). The Mechanisms of TAnon: Where it Came From. Health Liberation Now! https://healthliberationnow.com/2021/07/05/the-mechanisms-of-tanon-where-it-came-from/

Lorber, Ben; Greenesmith, Heron (April 28, 2021). Antisemitism Meets Transphobia. The Progressive https://progressive.org/magazine/antisemitism-meets-transphobia-greenesmith-lorber/

Leveille, Lee (April 12, 2021). The Mechanisms of TAnon: What is “TAnon”? Health Liberation Now! https://healthliberationnow.com/2021/04/12/the-mechanisms-of-tanon-what-is-tanon/

Resources

Pritzker Military Museum and Library (pritzkermilitary.org)

Tawani Ventures (tawaniventures.com)

Tawani Foundation (tawanifoundation.org)

LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

The Daily Signal is a conservative American media organization. By 2025, they had published over 2,500 anti-trans posts.

Background

The Heritage Foundation started a blog called The Foundry in 2008. In 2014, The Foundry was redirected to The Daily Signal (dailysignal.com) in June 2014. In June 2024, it became an independent publication.

Ad Fontes Media rates The Daily Signal in the Strong Right category of bias and as Unreliable, Problematic in terms of reliability. 

Resources

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

The Daily Signal (dailysignal.com)

  • Transgender
  • https://www.dailysignal.com/?s=transgender

Heritage Foundation (heritage.org)

  • The Foundry
  • blog.heritage.org (2008–2014 – archive]

X/Twitter (x.com)

YouTube (youtube.com)

Facebook (facebook.com)

Instagram (instagram.com)

Truth Social (truthsocial.com)

Susan Evans is a British psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Evans was a key critic of trans healthcare for gender diverse youth at the Tavistock. The clinic was later closed.

Evans and spouse Marcus Evans co-authored the 2021 book Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults.

Evans is involved with SPLC-designated hate group Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM).

Background

Evans worked for 12 years at the Tavistock in the Adult Department, Youth Gender Identity Service and for the Portman Clinic in Probation officer supervision and as Programme Organiser and senior clinical lecturer. Evans was also a Senior Fellow of the University of East London.

Evans has been a member of the British Psychotherapy Foundation, London Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Service, and the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC). 

2021 book

The following people are mentioned in the acknowledgements:

We are grateful to the following people who have generously given their time and expertise to the development of this book: Annie Pesskin, Ian Williamson, Richard Stephens, Margot Waddell, Frances Grier, and Ema Syrulnik, as well as all our colleagues at the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine. We are grateful to Kate Pearce at Phoenix for offering to publish this book.

2022 Tavistock closure

Evans was involved in the attacks on gender affirming care for gender diverse you at the Tavistock clinic, a federally funded gatekeeping facility with unethically long wait times due to underfunding.

Evans’ version of things was reported via anti-trans activist Bari Weiss:

I was a nurse working on a team that recklessly prescribed puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to kids. I blew the whistle in 2005. Now the government is finally listening.

References

Evans, Sue (August 4, 2022). How Tavistock Came Tumbling Down. The Free Press https://www.thefp.com/p/how-tavistock-came-tumbling-down

Resources

Evans Psychotherapy (evanspsychotherapy.co.uk)

X/Twitter (x.com)

Facebook (facebook.com)

Natalie Wynn is an American cultural critic whose YouTube channel Contrapoints won a 2022 Peabody Award in the Immersive & Interactive category.

Background

Wynn was born on October 21, 1988 in Arlington, Virginia and grew up in nearby Vienna. Wynn’s parent William is a psychology professor at Georgetown, and parent Marian is a doctor. Wynn has two siblings who also went to Georgetown.

Wynn studied piano at Berklee College of Music, earned a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University in 2012, and a master’s degree from Northwestern University, then decided not to pursue a doctorate. Wynn did gig work before becoming a video essayist in 2008. Wynn’s work is considered part of “BreadTube,” a loose affiliation of YouTubers who posted videos to challenge right-wing views on subjects.

In 2016, Wynn began the ContraPoints channel. In 2017, Wynn came out as trans and removed all pre-transition videos. In 2020 Wynn came out as lesbian.

Video essays

2024

  • Twilight

2023

  • The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling

2022

  • The Hunger

2021

  • Envy
  • J.K. Rowling

2020

  • Voting
  • Justice
  • Cringe
  • Shame
  • Canceling

2019

  • Opulence
  • Men
  • “Transtrenders”
  • Beauty
  • Gender Critical
  • The Darkness
  • “Are Traps Gay?”

2018

  • The Apocalypse
  • Pronouns
  • The Aesthetic
  • Incels
  • The West
  • Tiffany Tumbles
  • Jordan Peterson

2017

  • What’s Wrong with Capitalism (Part 2)
  • America: Still Racist
  • Autogynephilia
  • What’s Wrong with Capitalism (Part 1)
  • Violence
  • Degeneracy
  • The Left
  • Decrypting the Alt-Right: How to Recognize a Fascist

References

Weiss, Max (June 2024). Who Exactly Is Natalie Wynn? Baltimore Magazine https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/artsentertainment/natalie-wynn-viral-baltimore-youtuber-profile/

Peabody Awards (2023). ContraPoints: Natalie Wynn (YouTube) https://peabodyawards.com/award-profile/contrapoints/

Nancy Jo, Sales (June 17, 2021). ‘The internet is about jealousy’: YouTube muse ContraPoints on cancel culture and compassion. The Guardian. [archive] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jun/17/contrapoints-natalie-wynn-youtube-interview

Fleishman, Jeffrey (June 12, 2019). Transgender YouTube star ContraPoints tries to change alt-right minds. Los Angeles Times. [archive] https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-st-transgender-youtuber-contrapoints-cultural-divide-20190612-story.html

McCrea, Aisling; Robinson, Nathan J. (June 9, 2019). Interview: Natalie Wynn of ContraPoints. Current Affairs. [archive] https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/06/interview-natalie-wynn-of-contrapoints

Mark, Clifton (January 6, 2019). ContraPoints Is Political Philosophy Made for YouTube. The Atlantic. [archive] https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/01/contrapoints-political-philosophy-natalie-wynn-youtube/579532/

N.B. (December 20, 2018). The transgender populist fighting fascists with face glitter. The Economist. [archive] https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/12/21/the-transgender-populist-fighting-fascists-with-face-glitter

Marantz, Andrew (November 19, 2018). The Stylish Socialist Who Is Trying to Save YouTube from Alt-Right Domination. The New Yorker. [archive] https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/the-stylish-socialist-who-is-trying-to-save-youtube-from-alt-right-domination

Cross, Katherine (August 24, 2018). The Oscar Wilde of YouTube fights the alt-right with decadence and seduction. The Verge. [archive] https://www.theverge.com/tech/2018/8/24/17689090/contrapoints-youtube-natalie-wynn

Robinson, Nathan J. (May 6, 2018). God Bless ContraPoints. Current Affairs. [archive] https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/05/god-bless-contrapoints

Resources

Contrapoints (contrapoints.com)

YouTube (youtube.com/)

Patreon (patreon.com)

X/Twitter (x.com)

Facebook (facebook.com)

Candace Owens is a conservative American writer and anti-transgender activist. Owens is part of a group of conspiracy theorists involved in “transvestigations,” where they make claims that public figures are secretly transgender.

Background

Candace Amber Owens was born on April 29, 1989. Owens grew up in Stamford, Connecticut, graduated from Stamford High School, and attended University of Rhode Island, dropping out before completing a degree. After an internship at Vogue, Owens worked at a private equity firm in administration.

Owens married George Farmer in 2019. They have two children.

In 2021, Owens joined The Daily Wire and hosted Candace, a political talk show. Owens left Daily Wire in March 2024, reportedly over remarks about Israel.

Anti-transgender activism

In 2017, Owens supported banning transgender people without bottom surgery from serving in the United States military.

In 2022, Owens falsely claimed the Robb Elementary School shooter could be transgender.

In 2022, Owens described Drag Queen Story Hour as “child abuse,” adding that parents who take their children “should have their children taken away from them.”

In 2022, Owens said that society would benefit by discriminating more against transgender and non-binary people.

In 2023, Owens said “It is worse than Jim Crow laws because we are mutilating the bodies of children. […] It is Frankenstein. These are human experiments that are being performed on children.”

In February 2025 Owens released Becoming Brigitte, a “transvestigation” into Brigitte Macron, First Lady of France and spouse of French president Emmanuel Macron. Owens concludes that Brigitte Macron is trans, and there’s a vast conspiracy to keep this information hidden.

References

Smith, Ian (February 4, 2025). Why are false rumours about Brigitte Macron being transgender resurfacing? MSN https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/why-are-false-rumours-about-brigitte-macron-being-transgender-resurfacing/ar-AA1yom8r

Staff report (April 6, 2023). Candace Owens says the existence of trans people is “worse than Jim Crow laws.” Media Matters for America https://www.mediamatters.org/candace-owens/candace-owens-says-existence-trans-people-worse-jim-crow-laws

Assunção, Muri (December 13, 2022). Candace Owens calls for discrimination against trans, nonbinary people: ‘Society would be safer if we discriminated more’. New York Daily News https://www.nydailynews.com/snyde/ny-cancace-owens-discrimination-trans-nonbinary-people-sam-brinton-20221213-irewcydb2jg4bgwgdarw2jgupi-story.html

Sardarizadeh, Shayan; Devlin, Kayleen (May 27, 2022). Texas shooting: How false rumours spread that gunman was trans. BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/61607042

Yurcaba, Jo; Goggin, Ben; Collins, Ben (May 25, 2022). Trans woman’s photo used to spread baseless online theory about Texas shooter. NBC News https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/trans-womans-photo-used-spread-baseless-online-theory-texas-shooter-rcna30511

Alcorn, Chauncey (June 23, 2018). Critics call out Candace Owens’ transphobic views and want Kanye West, Caitlyn Jenner to do the same. Mic [archive] https://mic.com/articles/189887/critics-call-out-candace-owens-transphobic-views-and-want-kanye-west-caitlyn-jenner-to-do-same

Bernstein, Joseph (May 15, 2018). The Newest Star of the Trump Movement Ran a Trump-Bashing Publication – Less Than Two Years Ago. BuzzFeed [archive] https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/the-newest-star-of-the-trump-movement-ran-a-trump-bashing

Resources

GLAAD Accountability Project (glaad.org/gap)

Candace Owens (candaceowens.com)

X/Twitter (x.com)

Facebook (facebook.com)

YouTube (youtube.com)

Instagram (instagram.com)

Angel Eduardo is an American anti-transgender activist.

Background

Angel Lemuel Eduardo was born in March 1985 and grew up in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Eduardo earned a bachelor’s degree from New Jersey City University in 2008 and a master’s degree from Hunter College in 2015.

Eduardo was in the band Blue Food from 2008 to 2016 and contributed to NewsCult.com while doing research for TitleVest. Eduardo the wrote for Action Without Borders (also known as Idealist) from 2019 to 2021.

Eduardo has been a columnist for Center for Inquiry since 2020, and advisor for Greenhouse Scholars since 2022.

Anti-transgender activism

In 2021, Eduardo defended a transphobic special by Dave Chappelle.

Since 2022, Eduardo has been writing for anti-trans publication Quillette.

Eduardo joined Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism in 2022, quickly rising to board chair.

Eduardo joined Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression as a senior writer in 2023.

Eduardo joined the Institute for Liberal Values as an advisor in 2023.

References

Eduardo, Angel (October 27, 2021). ‘The Closer’ Isn’t About Laughing at Trans People. It’s About Laughing at Yourself | Opinion. Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/closer-isnt-about-laughing-trans-people-its-about-laughing-yourself-opinion-1643101

Resources

Angel Eduardo (angeleduardo.com)

X/Twitter (x.com)

LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

Bev Jackson is a Dutch anti-transgender activist. Jackson is a founder of UK anti-trans hate group LGB Alliance.

Jackson promotes the conspiracy theory that trans people and gender recognition based on self-identification are erasing or eradicating lesbians.

Background

Beverley Ruth Jackson was born in June 1951. At 11 years old, Jackson reportedly experienced antisemitism at a new school. 

Jackson studied math at the London School of Economics. Jackson was a founding member of the UK Gay Liberation Front, the only woman to attend the first GLF meeting in October 1970:

I was a student at LSE. I started there in 1969, I was studying maths, and I walked down the corridor and I saw a poster which said: “First meeting of the UK Gay Liberation Front.” It was the most astonishing thing because I had to translate it in my head as to what it might mean. I had heard that “Gay” was a new word for homosexual, and I knew “Liberation” was about freedom and “Front” sounded a bit militant. It sounded very exciting and I thought “I think I want to be on there that sounds right.” I went to this first meeting and there were 19 men there, and just one woman – me – so I was immediately voted on to the steering committee.

[…] I was among the minority of lesbians who decided to work within gay liberation; most lesbians worked within women’s liberation because of feeling more in common with other women’s issues. The fact of lesbians being doubly oppressed both as women and as homosexuals is just a really important part of understanding what it means to be a lesbian. 

Jackson has worked as a translator and writer. In 2015 Jackson was mostly involved with refugee rights, writing A Month with Starfish, a book about volunteering to aid refugees for a month on the island of Lesbos.

Anti-trans activism

In late 2016 Jackson began criticizing transgender youth and was surprised that other disagreed. Jackson’s radicalization happened in 2018 when Angela Wild went to the front of the Pride march with the “Get the L Out” group.

Jackson wrote a letter to Stonewall president Ruth Hunt expressing concerns “about young lesbians having nowhere to meet, not being able to call themselves lesbians any more, about the way in which people were encouraging children to think that they might be born in the wrong body and a whole range of other concerns that really worried me.” The letter was ignored.

Jackson has said of trans women:

Look: you can be a lovely gentle male and you can wear dresses and you can call yourself Lilian and it’s absolutely fine. But you’re still a male and you can imagine you might be all sorts of things, but you’re still a male.

The final straw for Jackson was when Stonewall opposed ex-transgender activist Keira Bell, who sued the Tavistock GIDS Clinic.

After a meeting commemorating the 50th anniversary of Gay Liberation Front was cancelled, Jackson and Kate Harris decided to have a secret meeting to start LGB Alliance. “But everyone kept the secret. Not one of the 70 people we invited gave away the meeting at which we formed LGB Alliance.”

Jackson remains committed to separatism for lesbian and gay people:

Gay men and lesbians need spaces of their own and they have a right to spaces of their own – and that we have to say this now in 2021 is an absolute outrage. We could really lose a lot here if we don’t stand together and fight against this madness.

References

Power, Nina (January 24, 2023). The Trans War on Tomboys. Compact Magazine https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-trans-war-on-tomboys/

Gentleman, Amelia (July 6, 2023). Mermaids v LGB Alliance: who was involved in tribunal case? The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/jul/06/mermaids-v-lgb-alliance-whos-involved-in-tribunal-ruling

Bawer, Bruce (September 12, 2022). How Amsterdam ceased to be gay heaven: The city is becoming Islamicized and gay people are paying the price. Spectator World https://thespectator.com/topic/how-amsterdam-ceased-to-be-gay-heaven/

Bridle, David (February 18, 2021). The first woman in the Gay Liberation Front in 1970 is fighting again for lesbian and gay rights in 2021. Lesbian and Gay News https://lesbianandgaynews.com/2021/02/the-first-woman-in-the-gay-liberation-front-in-1970-is-fighting-again-for-lesbian-and-gay-rights-in-2021/

Parsons, Vic (Augist 21 2020). LGB Alliance founder defends working with anti-abortion, anti-LGBT+ Heritage Foundation in resurfaced tweets. PinkNews https://www.thepinknews.com/2020/08/21/lgb-alliance-founder-bev-jackson-heritage-foundation-tweets/

Wansell, Geoffrey (November 1970). Homosexuals demonstrate for equal rights. The Times

Selected writing by Jackson

Jackson, Bev (October 12, 2023). There is no such thing as a ‘trans lesbian. Spiked https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/10/12/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-trans-lesbian/

Jackson, Bev (September 18, 2023). Banning ‘trans conversion therapy’ is a threat to gay kids. Spiked https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/09/18/banning-trans-conversion-therapy-is-a-threat-to-gay-kids/

Jackson, Bev (January 18, 2025). Cotton ceiling 2.0 Straight men should not be trying to seduce lesbians. The Critic https://thecritic.co.uk/cotton-ceiling-2-0/

Jackson, Bev (July 13, 2023). LGB Alliance will never be silenced. Spiked https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/07/13/lgb-alliance-will-never-be-silenced/

Jackson, Bev (May 12, 2023). Who took the SO out of SOGI? The UN bumbles on gender identity. The Critic https://thecritic.co.uk/who-took-the-so-out-of-sogi/

Jackson, Bev (July 23, 2022). CNN’s optical delusion: How American progressives get “TERF Island” wrong. The Critic https://thecritic.co.uk/cnns-optical-delusion/

Media

“Eliza Mondegreen” and Jenny Poyer Ackerman (December 21, 2024). Episode 20, featuring Bev Jackson. UnMuted https://jennypoyerackerman.substack.com/p/listen-to-episode-20-with-bev-jackson

Resources

A Month with a Starfish (amonthwithstarfish.com)

LGB Alliance (lgballiance.org.uk)

The Distance Magazine (thedistancemag.com)

X/Twitter (x.com)

The Critic (thecritic.co.uk)

Facebook (facebook.com)

Instagram (instagram.com)

YouTube (youtube.com)

OV.UK (service.gov.uk)

Spiked (spiked-online.com)

Róisín Michaux is an Irish anti-transgender activist based in Brussels who claims to be “researching the explosion of the gender identity movement in EU/global institutions.”

Background

Michaux reportedly grew up experiencing poverty in a housing estate in a single-parent home.

Michaux “wrote for culture magazines in Belgium and abroad” before becoming a “Twitter TERF.”

Michaux is married and is a parent of children, one of whom was born in 2012.

Anti-transgender activism

Michaux writes anti-trans pieces for Substack, UnHerd, 4W, The Critic, and Reduxx.

Michaux says, “I am militant about stopping paediatric transgender transition.”

Working with right-wing media polemicist Roisin Michaux they seem to be the people promoting and hosting SFW followers from the mainland UK.

Peaked podcast

In 2023 and 2024, Michaux hosted a podcast that ran for 11 episodes.

  • Ireland: new priestly caste, new child abuse scandal May 3, 2024
  • Germany to vote on the wildest, weirdest self-id bill yet April 11, 2024
  • Did liberté ideals ripen France for trans? March 26, 2024
  • Italian girls haven’t escaped the gender meatgrinder March 16, 2024
  • Ireland’s constitutional woman-ectomy March 7, 2024
  • Wilders or women – who saved the Dutch from genderwang? Feb. 23, 2024
  • The worrying silence on Germany’s self-ID bill Feb. 16, 2024
  • Sex-clowning around in Slovakia Jan. 28, 2024
  • The trans lobby rolls into rural Ireland July 19, 2023
  • A date with a puberty blocker doctor July 17, 2023

References

Wallace, Freda (September 8, 2023). Terf Ireland / Emerald Vile. Inside the Hate Cult. Medium https://medium.com/@missfredawallace/terf-ireland-emerald-vile-f5a8b039e66f

Wallace, Freda (September 1, 2023). The Anti Science of Unherd- Dehumanisation 101. Medium https://medium.com/@missfredawallace/dehumanisation-24996b5686ae

Taln_Reich (December 2, 2022). Róisín Michaux [continued]. Fundies Say The Darndest Things https://fstdt.com/TCJ$N6R5HY$68

Taln_Reich (December 1, 2022). Róisín Michaux. Fundies Say The Darndest Things https://fstdt.com/W9RG.5BJY$S6K

Selected writing by Michaux

Michaux, Róisín; El-Nagashi, Faika; Zobnina, Anna (January 15, 2025). The EU is refusing to change course on gender: While national governments see sense on gender identity, Brussels goes full-speed ahead. The Critic https://thecritic.co.uk/the-eu-is-refusing-to-change-course-on-gender/

Michaux, Róisín (September 7, 2023). Abuses of affirmation: Inside the communities of trans mums. The Critic https://thecritic.co.uk/abuses-of-affirmation/

Michaux, Róisín (September 7, 2023). The plot to redefine conversion therapy. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2023/06/how-the-un-perverted-conversion-therapy/

Michaux, Róisín (August 30, 2023). The new front in the war against HIV. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2023/08/the-new-front-in-the-war-against-hiv/

Michaux, Róisín (June 16, 2023). Gender critical in Geneva: Yet another failed attempt to silence women. The Critic https://thecritic.co.uk/gender-critical-in-geneva/

Michaux, Róisín (January 17, 2023). You Meet More Perverts When You’re Poor. 4W https://4w.pub/you-meet-more-perverts-when-poor/

Michaux, Róisín (November 30, 2022). These Men Were Promised Lesbians. 4W https://4w.pub/these-men-were-promised-lesbians/

Michaux, Róisín (October 5, 2022). Trans Activists’ Speeches to Be Streamed into Classrooms of 15k Irish Schoolgirls. 4W https://4w.pub/stream-trans-activists-irish-girls/

Michaux, Róisín (September 22, 2022).Brighton: This is what #NoDebate looks like. 4W https://4w.pub/brighton-this-is-what-nodebate-looks-like/

Michaux, Róisín (September 22, 2022). Castrated ‘Eunuchs’ are Trans, Need Affirming care, says Professional Body. 4W https://4w.pub/castration-added-transgender-care/

Michaux, Róisín (September 13, 2022). The Forstater Verdict Has Wider Reach than You Think. 4W https://4w.pub/forstater-verdict-wider-reach/

Michaux, Róisín (August 31, 2022). Advocates for “Whores’” Rights Shut Down Prostitution Suvivors’ Event in Berlin. 4W https://4w.pub/prostitution-survivors-event/

Media

Paul Boonefaes (July 2, 2023). Roisin Michaux on The Based in Belgium Podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw9A241uNao

Women’s Declaration International (WDI) (January 25, 2023). No data, no problem? Róisín Michaux on dangers of Belgium self ID laws. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpiknHBmkkk

Resources

X/Twitter (x.com)

Substack (substack.com)

LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

4W (4w.pub)

UnHerd (unherd.com)

Reduxx (reduxx.info)

The Critic (thecritic.co.uk)

Muck Rack (muckrack.com)

YouTube is a social media platform that has both benefited and harmed trans people.

It has been an important place for transgender YouTubers to share their experiences and views.

It has also been a pipeline for anti-trans radicalization.

Ribeiro 2019 study

“Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube” examines how YouTube algorithms in the 2010s infected viewers with recommendations from the alt-right, alt-lite, and intellectual dark web. The kinds of radicalization included anti-trans radicalization. Below are the channels analyzed.

Alt-right channels

  • AltRight.com 
  • AmRen Podcasts
  • AmRenVideos
  • Ayla Stewart Wife w/ A Purpose
  • Baked Alaska 2
  • Black Pigeon Speaks
  • Bre Faucheux
  • CounterCurrentsTV
  • Darkstream
  • Faith J Goldy
  • James Allsup
  • Jason Kessler
  • Jean-François Gariépy
  • Johnny Monoxide
  • MW Live
  • Matt Forney
  • MillennialWoes
  • NPI / Radix
  • Red Ice TV
  • Staying Woke
  • The Golden One
  • The Reality Calls Show
  • Traditionalist Worker Party
  • Voxiversity
  • augustussolinvictus
  • iambakedalaska
  • Alt Right
  • Alt-Right Tankie
  • American Pride
  • American Pride 2
  • ArktosOnline
  • Augustus Invictus for US Senate
  • AustralianRealist
  • Be Open MInded
  • BigCatKayla Livestreams
  • Charles Zeiger
  • Corpus Mentis
  • Dismantle The Matrix
  • Dissident View
  • Engländer
  • Jan Kerkoff
  • Mark Collett
  • Matthew North
  • Nacionalista Blanco del SoCal
  • Nationalist Media Network
  • No White Guilt
  • Patrick Slattery
  • Real McGoy
  • Revcon Media
  • Stand Up Europe

Alt-lite channels

  • America First with Nicholas J Fuentes
  • Andy Warski
  • Blonde in the Belly of the Beast
  • Brittany Pettibone
  • Computing Forever
  • Gavin McInnes
  • Laura Loomer
  • Lauren Chen
  • Lauren Southern
  • MILO
  • Mike Cernovich
  • Nick Fuentes Clips
  • No Bullshit
  • No Bullshit 2
  • Paul Joseph Watson
  • Rebel Canada
  • Rebel Edge
  • Rebel Media
  • Stefan Molyneux
  • StevenCrowder
  • Styxhexenhammer666
  • The Thinkery
  • Vee
  • 6oodfella
  • A1Cvenom
  • AIU-Resurrection
  • AltRight Truth
  • AustralianNeoCon1
  • BlazeTV
  • Brave New World
  • Bull Brand
  • Carpe Donktum
  • Christopher Anderson
  • Daily Caller
  • DailyCallerVideo
  • DailyKenn
  • Dinesh D’Souza
  • DoctorRandomercam
  • Domination Station
  • Harrison Hill Smith
  • Jacob Wohl
  • Kelly Day
  • Leo Stratton
  • Liberty Machine News
  • Luke Ford
  • Luke Ford Livestreams
  • Make Cringe Great Again
  • News2Share
  • On The Offensive
  • Oppressed Media

Intellectual dark web channels

2025 Bloomberg report

Broadcasters also mentioned transgender identity in roughly 3 out of 10 videos, with hosts Bet-David and Rogan discussing the topic in more than half of their most-viewed videos. The podcasters and their guests — particularly comedians — often portrayed trans people as aberrant, and reinforced ideas of a gender binary.

Thirty percent of videos discussing transgender identity also mention children. Hosts criticized public schools for letting children explore their gender identity, and staunchly opposed gender-affirming care for minors. According to the American Medical Association, physicians providing gender-affirming care are bound by their ethical duty to act in a patient’s best interest, and clinical guidelines help them carefully consider whether care is medically necessary for improving the physical and mental health of patients.

In one April 2024 discussion on Fridman’s show, the former US Representative Tulsi Gabbard argued that advocating for the rights of transgender individuals infringed on the rights of women. “They,” said Gabbard, referring to Democrats, “are actively pushing for boys who identify as girls to compete against girls in sports. Changing our language so that the word woman, the identity of being a woman, is essentially being erased from our society.” As she spoke, Fridman, dressed in his signature dark suit, listened intently.

The arguments have already built support for sweeping policy changes across the nation. In 15% of videos mentioning transgender identity, hosts also mentioned sports, arguing that it is inappropriate for transgender and intersex athletes to compete. In January, House lawmakers passed a Republican-led bill that would prohibit federally funded schools from allowing transgender students to participate on sports teams that align with their gender identity.

Studied podcasters

  • Adin Ross – Adin Live
  • Andrew Schulz – Flagrant
  • The Nelk Boys – Full Send Podcast
  • Logan Paul – Impaulsive
  • Joe Rogan – The Joe Rogan Experience
  • Lex Fridman – The Lex Fridman Podcast
  • Patrick Bel-David – PBD Podcast
  • Shawn Ryan – Shawn Ryan Show
  • Theo Von – This Past Weekend

References

Davey Alba, Leon Yin, Julia Love, Ashley Carman, Priyanjana Bengani, Rachael Dottle, Elena Mejía (January 22, 2025). The Second Trump Presidency, Brought to You by YouTubers. Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-youtube-podcast-men-for-trump/

Ribeiro MH, Ottoni R, West R, Almeida VAF, Meira W (2019). Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube. arXiv.org (PDF) https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08313

Lewis, Rebecca (September 18, 2018). Alternative Influence: Broadcasting the Reactionary Right on YouTube. Data & Society https://datasociety.net/library/alternative-influence/

“Mr. Menno” is the stage name of Menno Kuijper, a Dutch anti-transgender extremist and separatist based in the UK.

Background

Menno Kuijper was born June 19, 1976. Kuijper held numerous roles in marketing and social media from 1996 to 2012. From 2012 to 2021 Kuijper was head of design and production at mobile marketing firm Gappt.

Menno appeared in theatrical productions before focusing exclusively on anti-trans content. Performances include Brixton Batty Boy (2012).

Anti-trans activism

Since 2022 Kuijper has been director of communications for anti-trans group The Gay Men’s Network.

Kuijper considers the trans rights movement to be “gender woo woo,” promoting the outdated terminology “homosexual male” and other binary ideas about traits and behaviors.

In 2022 Kuijper created a “sea shanty” for queer trans-exclusionary group LGB Alliance.

Also in 2022, Kuijper showed up to an anti-trans “Save Our Sex Jubilee campaign” in a black morph suit and a diaper with a sign that said “Right Side of History.” Kuijper was apparently mocking black bloc protesters who interrupted the anti-trans “Standing for Women” protest in Manchester earlier that month. Transphobes mocked those protesters online as “Black Pampers,” a play on Black Panthers. Kuijper insisted it was not a blackface performance.

Kuijper appears in the 2023 anti-trans proaganda series Uncomfortable Truths.

Kuijper has appeared in the media with other anti-trans extremists, including Graham Linehan, joey brite, and Isabella Malbin.

References

Milton, Josh (June 2, 2022). Anti-trans protester wears black morph suit and nappy in bizarre stunt. PinkNews https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/06/02/anti-trans-denies-blackface-nappy-mr-menno/

Kuijper, Menno (August 15, 2012). Brixton Batty Boy Polari http://www.polarimagazine.com/tag/menno-kuijper/

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