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The Westminster Declaration is a 2023 open letter signed by many key anti-transgender extremists.

They claim to be a group of “free speech champions” who oppose the “censorship industrial complex.”

Background

According to an October 2023 announcement about the letter by Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi, Andrew Lowenthal, Leighton Woodhouse, amd Alex Gutentag, “In March of this year, two of us, Matt and Michael, testified to Congress about the existence of a Censorship Industrial Complex comprised of government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and Big Tech companies working together to suppress disfavored views and disfavored people.”

According to their website, “This declaration was the result of an initial meeting of free speech champions from around the world who met in Westminster, London, at the end of June 2023.”

Signatories

Alphabetically by surname:

• Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Human Rights Activist, Author, Netherlands
• James Allan, Professor of Law, University of Queensland, UK
• “Mia Ashton” [Mia Hughes], Journalist, Canada
• Julian Assange, Editor, Founder of Wikileaks, Australia
• Stella Assange, Campaigner, UK
• Diane Atkinson, Historian, Biographer, UK
• Jonathan Ayling, Chief Executive, Free Speech Union, New Zealand
• Xavier Azalbert, Investigative Scientific Journalist, France

• Marco Bassani, Political Theorist, Historian, Milan University, Italy
• Steven Berkoff, Actor, Playright, UK
• Jay Bhattacharya, Professor, Stanford, US
• Giorgio Bianchi, Independent Journalist, Italy
• Nigel Biggar, Chairman, Free Speech Union, UK
• Peter Boghossian, Philosopher, Founding Faculty Fellow, University of Austin, US
• Nellie Bowles, Journalist, USA
• Mathias Bröckers, Author, Journalist, Germany
• Dietrich Brüggemann, Filmmaker, Germany

• Paolo Cesaretti, Professor of Byzantine Civilization, University of Bergamo, Italy
• Melissa Chen, Journalist, Spectator, Singapore/US
• Robert Cibis, Filmmaker, Germany
• John Cleese, Comedian, Acrobat, UK
• Adam B. Coleman, Founder of Wrong Speak Publishing, US
• Alberto Contri, Mass Media Expert, Italy
• Adam Creighton, Journalist, Australia

• Richard Dawkins, Biologist, UK
• Alessandro Di Battista, Political Activist, Writer, Italy
• Nick Dixon, Comedian, UK
• Laura Dodsworth, Journalist and Author, UK

• Lee Fang, Independent Journalist, US
• Thomas Fazi, Independent Journalist, Italy
• Efrat Fenigson, Journalist, Podcaster, Israel
• Niall Ferguson, Historian, Stanford, UK
• Catherine Austin Fitts, The Solari Report, Netherlands
• Marcello Foa, Journalist, Former President of Rai, Italy
• Francis Foster, Comedian, UK
• Kmele Foster, Journalist, Media Entrepreneur, USA
• Claire Fox, Founder of the Academy of Ideas, UK
• Carlo Freccero, Television Author, Media Expert, Italy
• Dominic Frisby, Comedian, UK

• Juan Carlos Girauta, Politician, Spain
• Jill Glasspool-Malone, PhD., USA
• Sarah Gon, Director, Free Speech Union, South Africa
• David Goodhart, Journalist, Author, UK
• Matt Goodwin, Politics Professor, University of Kent, UK
• Glenn Greenwald, Journalist, US
• Julius Grower, Fellow, St. Hugh’s College, UK
• Ulrike Guerot, Founder of European Democracy Lab, Germany
• Sunetra Gupta, Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology, Oxford, UK
• Alex Gutentag, Journalist, US

• Jonathan Haidt, Social Psychologist, NYU, US
• Philip Hamburger, Professor of Law, Columbia, USA
• Julia Hartley-Brewer, Journalist, UK
• Chris Hedges, Journalist, Author, USA
• Ana Henkel, Independent Journalist, Brazil
• Heather E. Heying, Evolutionary Biologist, USA
• Jeremy Hildreth, Independent, UK
• Peter Hitchens, Author, Journalist, UK
• Coleman Hughes, Writer, Podcaster, USA
• Patrick Hughes, Artist, UK

• Jan Jekielek, Journalist, Canada
• Helen Joyce, Journalist, UK

• Izabella Kaminska, Journalist, The Blind Spot, UK
• Eric Kaufmann, Professor of Politics, Birkbeck, University of Buckingham, Canada
• Eve Kay, TV Producer, UK
• Aaron Kheiriaty, Psychiatrist, Author, USA
• Rueben Kirkham, Co-Director, Free Speech Union of Australia, Australia
• Konstantin Kisin, Author, UK
• Martin Kulldorf, Professor of Medicine (on leave), Harvard, US

• Holly Lawford-Smith, Associate Professor in Political Philosophy, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Catherine Liu, Cultural Theorist, Author, USA
• Isabella Loiodice, Professor of Comparative Public Law, University of Bari, Italy
• Carlo Lottieri, Philosopher, University of Verona, Italy
• Glenn Loury, Economist, USA
• Andrew Lowenthal, liber-net, Australia
• Greg Lukianoff, President and CEO Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, USA

• Dara Macdonald, Co-Director, Free Speech Union, Australia
• Robert W. Malone, MD, MS, USA
• Winston Marshall, Journalist, The Spectator, UK
• Paola Mastrocola, Writer, Italy
• Aaron Mate, Journalist, USA
• Iain McGilchrist, Psychiatrist, Philosopher, UK
• David McGrogan, Professor of Law, Northumbria University, UK
• Jacob Mchangama, Author, Denmark
• John McWhorter, Linguist, Columbia, Author, US
• Alan Miller, Together Association, UK
• Stefan Millius, Journalist, Switzerland
• Stephen Moore, Author and Analyst, Canada

• Michael Nayna, Filmmaker, Australia
• Micha Narberhaus, The Protopia Lab, Spain/Germany
• Leandro Narloch, Independent Journalist, Brazil
• Andrew Neish, KC, UK

• Brendan O’Neill, Journalist, UK
• James Orr, Associate Professor, University of Cambridge, UK

• Martina Pastorelli, Independent Journalist, Italy
• Dr. Jordan B. Peterson, Psychologist, Author, Canada
• Kira Phillips, Documentary Filmmaker, UK
• Jordi Pigem, Philosopher, Author, Spain
• Steven Pinker, Psychologist, Harvard, US
• Helen Pluckrose, Author, US
• Dirk Pohlmann, Journalist, Germany
• Nina Power, Writer, UK
• Nello Preterossi, Professor, University of Salerno, Scientific Director of the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies, Italy

• Jean F. Queralt, Technologist, Founder @ The IO Foundation, Malaysia/Spain

• Luca Ricolfi, Professor, Sociologist, Turin University, Italy
• Matt Ridley, Journalist, Author, UK
• Tim Robbins, Actor, Filmmaker, US
• Andrew Roberts, Historian, UK
• Piers Robinson, Organization for Propaganda Studies, UK
• Paul Rossi, Educator, Vertex Partnership Academics, US

• Gad Saad, Professor, Evolutionary Behavioral Scientist, Author, Canada
• Jeffrey D. Sachs, Columbia University, US
• Michele Santoro, Journalist, TV Host, Presenter, Italy
• Ben Scallan, Gript Media, Ireland
• Ben Schwarz, Journalist, USA
• Phil Shaw, Campaigner, Operation People, New Zealand
• Michael Shellenberger, Public, US
• Alex Sheridan, Free Speech Ireland
• Michael Shermer, Science Writer, US
• Jacob Siegel, Tablet, US/Israel
• Dr. James Smith, Podcaster, Literature Scholar, RHUL, UK
• Craig Snider, Independent, US
• Edward Snowden, Whistleblower, US
• Alan Sokal, Professor of Mathematics, UCL, UK
• Juan Soto Ivars, Author, Spain
• Doug Stokes, International Relations Professor, University of Exeter, UK
• Oliver Stone, Filmmaker, US
• Nadine Strossen, Professor of Law, NYLS, US

• Matt Taibbi, Journalist, US
• Andrew Tettenborn, Professor of Law, Swansea University,  UK
• Robert Tombs, Historian, UK
• Jeffrey Tucker, Author, USA

• Yanis Varoufakis, Economist, Greece
• Eli Vieira, Journalist, Genetic Biologist, Brazil

• Bret Weinstein, Evolutionary Biologist, USA
• Bari Weiss, Journalist, USA
• Leighton Woodhouse, Public, US
• Colin Wright, Evolutionary Biologist, USA

• Toby Young, Journalist, Free Speech Union, UK

• Andrea Zhok, Philosopher, University of Milan, Italy
• Slavoj Žižek, Philosopher, Author, Slovenia
• David Zweig, Journalist, Author, USA

References

Masnick, Mike ( October 24, 2023). ‘Twitter Files’ Hucksters Are Once Again Cosplaying as Free Speech Martyrs. Daily Beast https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitter-files-hucksters-are-cosplaying-as-free-speech-martyrs

Selected writing by signatories

Shellenberger. Michael; Taibbi. Matt; Lowenthal, Andrew; Woodhouse, Leighton; Gutentag, Alex (October 18, 2023). Introducing the Westminster Declaration. https://www.public.news/p/introducing-the-westminster-declaration

Resources

The Westminster Declaration (westminsterdeclaration.org)

Eric Kaufmann is a Canadian conservative academic and anti-transgender activist based in the United Kingdom. Kaufmann believes being trans is a “social contagion” and has passed its peak.

Kaufmann has prepared reports on sex and gender minorities for anti-trans publications Quillette, UnHerd, and City Journal, as well as for anti-trans extremist Richard Hanania via Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology.

Background

Eric Peter Kaufmann was born May 11, 1970. Kaufmann’s parent Steve is a polyglot and diplomat. Kaufmann’s younger sibling Mark Kaufmann is a former hockey player and software developer.

Kaufmann attended Hillside Secondary, then earned a bachelor’s degree from University of Western Ontario in 1991. Kaufmann then attended The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), earning a master’s degree in 1994 and a doctorate in 1999.

Kaufman has studied transitions in politics, religion, and demography in Western cultures, particularly as it pertains to white populations and culture.

After teaching at University of Southampton from 1999 to 2003, Kaufmann served as Professor of Politics at Birkbeck, University of London from 2003 to 2023

Kaufmann left for the same appointment at University of Buckingham:

“After 20 years, I am leaving a full University of London professorship for the University of Buckingham. In January, I launch a new low-cost online course open to the public on Woke: the Origins, Dynamics and Implications of an Elite Ideology.

Why leave? My university’s uncertain financial position played a role, but I was also repelled by cancel culture and attracted by the chance to help build Buckingham as the only ‘free speech university’ in Britain.

Whereas the US has some 150 non-leftist research centres, nothing of this kind exists in Britain. In January I will therefore establish the Centre for Heterodox Social Science at Buckingham to pursue countercultural social science and humanities research.

Progressive conformity and cancel culture are distorting the teaching and research mission of universities. Between the extremely controversial and the progressive-controlled monoculture of academia is a vast and growing zone of unspoken truth.”

Kaufman (2023)

Anti-transgender activism

Kaufmann believes that being trans is a trend or social contagion that will eventually “peak.”

“Limiting the social spread of transgenderism (linked to worse life outcomes) is compatible with wanting truly transgender people to flourish. Those who insist the two are incompatible are committing an error known as the fallacy of composition.”

Kaufmann frequently appears in anti-trans platforms, including Debra Soh, Heterodox Academy, Coleman Hughes, Gad Saad, Matt Goodwin, Alex Kaschuta, Lotuseaters, and GBNews.

Centre for Heterodox Social Science

Kaufmann is director of the Centre for Heterodox Social Science at Buckingham University. Members include

• David Cowan
• Rakib Ehsan
• James Esses
• Matt Goodwin
• J.D. Haltigan
• Gorby Jandu
• Satoshi Kanazawa
• Rosie Kay
• James Kierstead
• Luke Martin
• Lawrence Patihis
• Neema Parvini
• Daniel Pitt
• David Rozado
• Jan van de Beek
• Chloe Ward
• Stephen Webb

References

Reed, Erin (October 15, 2025). Fact Check: No, There Is Not A New Survey Showing Trans Identity Is Decreasing. Erin In The Morning https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/fact-check-no-there-is-not-a-new

Coverage in anti-trans press

Staff report (May 31, 2022). Have we passed peak trans? UnHerd https://unherd.com/thepost/have-we-passed-peak-trans/

Selected anti-trans writing by Kaufmann

Kaufmann, Eric (October 14, 2025). Why are fewer young people identifying as trans? UnHerd https://unherd.com/newsroom/why-are-fewer-young-people-identifying-as-trans/

Kaufmann, Eric (August 29, 2023). Canada’s conservatives fight back against progressive school policies. UnHerd https://unherd.com/newsroom/parents-fight-back-against-canadas-progressive-policies/

Kaufmann, Eric (June 5, 2023). Don’t Take This Personally: How the fallacy of composition produces policy failure. City Journal https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-wests-culture-of-therapeutic-individualism

Kaufmann, Eric (June 14, 2022). Progressivism, Sexuality, and Mental Illness. Quillette https://quillette.com/2022/06/14/progressivism-sexuality-and-mental-illness/

Kaufmann, Eric (May 29, 2022). Born This Way? The Rise of LGBT as a Social and Political Identity. Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology https://www.cspicenter.com/p/born-this-way-the-rise-of-lgbt-as-a-social-and-political-identity

Kaufmann, Eric (November 1, 2021). Kathleen Stock won’t be the last. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2021/11/kathleen-stock-wont-be-the-last/

Media

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers and Eric Kaufmann (October 15, 2025). Deep dive: Is this the end of trans? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arZSl7CxCW4

TalkTV with Kevin O’Sullivan and Eric Kaufmann (June 24, 2024). Labour ‘Will Green Light Going Woke’ Over Trans Issues In Classroom | Eric Kaufmann. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1H77Sx5B1A

Jordan B Peterson with Eric Kaufmann (June 6, 2024). Women, Politics, Personality, and Self Esteem | Eric Kaufmann | EP 453. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyOSjWiVBFA

Peter Boghossian with Helen Joyce, Andy Ngo, and Eric Kaufmann (February 29, 2024). Helen Joyce, Andy Ngo, & Eric Kaufmann Talk Equality, Gender, & More | Spectrum Street Epistemology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJgaCZ8kfSg

Peter Boghossian with Helen Joyce and Eric Kaufmann (February 6, 2024). Gender Identity, Womanhood, & More! w/ Helen Joyce and Eric Kaufmann | Spectrum Street Epistemology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXQ1_KsqGjk

Lotuseaters Dot Com with Connor Tomlinson and Eric Kaufmann (December 15, 2023). Are Demographics Destiny? | Interview with Eric Kaufmann. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YWbKHXFhGU

National Conservatism (May 16, 2023). Eric Kaufmann | In Defense of Particularistic Nationalism | NatCon UK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVzUfl1RQU0

The Telegraph with Steven Edginton and Eric Kaufmann (December 16, 2022). Britain’s future is woke Canada if the Left wins culture war | Eric Kaufmann interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V3Ni8_8Z70

Aporia Podcast with Danielle Dillenschneider, Tim Dernlan, and Eric Kaufmann (November 7, 2022). Why are so many people identifying as LGBT? | Eric Kaufmann. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYPeR-JYsaw

CSPI with Richard Hanania and Eric Kaufmann (October 24, 2022). Identity and Elite Polarization | Eric Kaufmann & Richard Hanania. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUoE3PjeA4E

CSPI with Richard Hanania and Eric Kaufmann (June 16, 2022). Did the Great Awokening Cause the LGBT Rise? | Eric Kaufmann. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYYj5eL-Gl0

GBNews with Andrew Doyle, Eric Kaufmann, and Inaya Folarin Iman (June 12, 2022). Andrew Doyle is joined by Eric Kaufmann and Inaya Folarin Iman to discuss the rise in LGBT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIY-NuwxEs0

CSPI with Richard Hanania and Eric Kaufmann (Jun 6, 2022). How LGBT Are the Kids? | Eric Kaufmann & Richard Hanania. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8faEWAlkRDo

Resources

Eric Kaufmann (sneps.net)

Centre for Heterodox Social Science (heterodoxcentre.com)

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

• Eric Kaufmann

X/Twitter (x.com)

• epkaufm

Facebook (facebook.com)

• Eric Kaufmann
• facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063518229105

LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

• eric-kaufmann-82199a25

The Spectator World (thespectator.com)

• Eric Kaufmann
• thespectator.com/author/eric-kaufmann

UnHerd (unherd.com)

• Eric Kaufmann
• unherd.com/author/eric-kaufmann/

Bev Jackson is a Dutch anti-transgender activist. Jackson is a founder of UK anti-trans hate group LGB Alliance. Jackson contributed to anti-transgroupo blogs Spiked and The Critic.

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)

• BevJacksonAuth
• AllianceLGB

The Critic (thecritic.co.uk)

• Bev Jackson

Facebook (facebook.com)

• bevjacksonauthor
• LGBAllianceUK

Instagram (instagram.com)

• lgballiancefuture

YouTube (youtube.com)

• LGBAlliance

OV.UK (service.gov.uk)

• LGB Alliance filing history
• Company number 12338881

Spiked (spiked-online.com)

• Bev Jackson
• spiked-online.com/author/bev-jackson/

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 171: Poop and Protocol Jun 19
• Episode 170: Collective Punishment Jun 11 
• Episode 169: TERFs, Trannies, Crohnies, Bronchies, & Geezers May 27
• Episode 168: SSRIs, ADHD, and Medical Trends with Julia Mason, MD May 1 
• 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

Heterodorx (heterodorx.com)

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• heterodorx

Public is a Substack platform and podcast by anti-transgender extremist Michael Shellenberger.

Largely through the efforts of contributor Mia Hughes, Public has showcased many leading figures in anti-transgender extremism, including Az Hakeem, Julia Mason, Helen Joyce, Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT), “Michelle Alleva,” Bev Jackson, Kate Lockwood Harris, “Chloe Cole,” J. Michael Bailey, Stephanie Winn, “Christina Buttons,” Meghan Murphy, “K. Yang,” Women’s Declaration International, Peter Boghossian, and Stephen B. Levine.

People

Contributors to Public include:

• Jay Bhattacharya
• Peter Boghossian
• Chris Bray
• Christina Buttons
• Matthew B. Crawford
• Alex Gutentag
• Gabrielle Haigh
• Mia (Ashton) Hughes
• Helen Joyce
• Iabella Kaminska
• Julie Kelly
• Andrew Lowethal
• Beige Luciano-Adams
• Bethany Mandel
• Andrew Mohar
• Stephen Moore
• Asra Q. Nomani
• Brendan O’Neill
• Nina Power
• Madeleine Rowley
• Ben Scallan
• Abigail Shrier
• Phoebe Smith
• Rupa Subramanya
• Matt Taibbi
• Leighton Woodhouse

Resources

Substack (substack.com)

• public.substack.com

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

• Guest: “Chloe Cole” 10th November 2023

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

• Guest: Linda Blade 3rd November 2023 

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

• Wilfred Reilly 20th October 2023

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

• Guest: Aaron Kimberly Oct 5, 2023

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

• Guest: Peter Boghossian Sep 22, 2023

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

• Guest: Corinna Cohn Sep 15th, 2023

130 – Katie Herzog: Unblocked & Recorded

• Guest: Katie Herzog Sep 8th, 2023

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

• Guest: Julia Mason Aug 25th, 2023

ANNOUNCEMENT | Weekend of Workshops Discount Offer

• 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

• Guest: Sara Stockton Aug 4th, 2023

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

• Guest: Alex Capo Jul 28th, 2023

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

• Guest: Calvin Lunt Jul 21st, 2023

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

• Guest: J. Michael Bailey Jul 12th, 2023

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

• Guest: Kate Goonan Jul 7th, 2023

120 — Pioneer Series: Researching Sexual Behaviors with James Cantor

• Guest: James Cantor Jun 30th, 2023

119 — Who Gets Embroiled in the Gender Debates

• Jun 23rd, 2023

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

• Guest: Zhenya Abbruzzese Jun 16th, 2023

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

• Guest: J. Michael Bailey Jun 2nd, 2023

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

• Guest: “Eliza Mondegreen” May 26th, 2023

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

• Guests: Julia Mason and Stephen Levine May 19th, 2023

113 — Gender A Wider Lens LIVE from Ireland

• Guests: Lisa Marchiano, with Helen Joyce, Colin Wright, Maya Forstater, Jessie Mannisto, Lisa Selin Davis, Malcolm Clark, Laura Becker, Adrian from LGB Alliance, Wesley Yang May 12th, 2023

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

• Guest; Jamie Reed May 5th, 2023

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

• Helen Joyce Apr 28th, 2023

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

• Guests: Joe Burgo and Alasdair Gunn Mar 31st, 2023

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

• Guest: Hannah Barnes Mar 3rd, 2023

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

• Guest: Michael Biggs Feb 10th, 2023

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

• Wesley Yang Jan 27th, 2023

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

• Guest: Jesse Singal Jan 13th, 2023

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

• Guest: Leor Sapir Jan 6th, 2023

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

• Guests: Lisa Marchiano and Joe Burgo Nov 18th, 2022

95 — How We Think About Sex: Leonore Tiefer

• Guest: Leonore Tiefer Nov 11th, 2022

94 — WPATH’s Bizarre 8th Standards of Care

• Nov 4th, 2022

93 — A Takedown of Gender Politics with Wesley Yang

• Guest: Wesley Yang Oct 28th, 2022

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

• Guest: Ritchie Herron Sep 30th, 2022

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

• Guest: Leor Sapir Sep 23rd, 2022

87 — Medical Technology & Ethics w Jennifer Lahl

• Guest: Jennifer Lahl Sep 16th, 2022

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

• Guest: Denise Caignon Aug 26th, 2022

83 — Trans Widow: Off the Grid with Shannon Thrace

• Guest: “Shannon Thrace” Aug 19th, 2022

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

• Guest: Tony Attwood Aug 12th, 2022

81 – An Unlikely Court Case w/ Maya Forstater

• Guest: Maya Forstater Aug 5th, 2022

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

• Guest: Stephanie Davies-Arai Jul 15th, 2022

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

• Guest: Joe Burgo Jun 10th, 2022

72 – Disenchanted by Transition

• Jun 3rd, 2022

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

• Guest: Jesse Singal May 27th, 2022

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

• Guest: Paul L. Vasey Mar 25th, 2022

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

• Guest: Anne Lawrence Mar 18th, 2022

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

• Thomas D. Steensma and Annelou de Vries Mar 11th, 2022

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

• Guest: Susan Bradley Mar 4th, 2022

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

• Guest: Az Hakeem Feb 25th, 2022

63 – Pioneers: Mid-Series Analysis

• Feb 18th, 2022

62 – Pioneers Series: Adolescent Identity with Riittakerttu Kaltiala

• Guest: Riittakerttu Kaltiala Feb 11th, 2022

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

• Guest: Ray Blanchard Feb 4th, 2022

60 – Pioneers Series: We Contain Multitudes with Stephen Levine

• Guest: Stephen Levine Jan 28th, 2022

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

• Guest: Kenneth Zucker Jan 21st, 2022

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

• Guest: J. Michael Bailey Jan 14th, 2022

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

• Guest: Paul L. Vasey Jan 7th, 2022

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

• Guest: Lisa Selin Davis Dec 24th, 2021

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

• Guest: Lisa Marchiano Dec 17th, 2021

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

• Guest: Lisa Littman Dec 3rd, 2021

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

• Guest: Debbie Hayton Nov 26th, 2021

50 – When Gender Hits the Holidays

• Nov 19th, 2021

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

• Guest: Benjamin Boyce Nov 12th, 2021

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

• Guest: Helena Kerschner Oct 22nd, 2021

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

• Guest: Helena Kerschner Oct 15th, 2021

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

• Guest: Aaron Terrell Oct 8th, 2021

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

• Guest: Helen Joyce Sep 17th, 2021

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

• Guest: Claire Graham Aug 27th, 2021

37 – Womanhood: A Conversation with Milli Hill

• Guest: Milli Hill Aug 20th, 2021

36 – Talking Testosterone with Carole Hooven

• Guest: Carole Hooven Aug 13th, 2021

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

• Guest: Jessie Mannisto Jul 23rd, 2021

32 – Stereotypes

• Jul 16th, 2021

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

• Guest: Heather Brunskell-Evans Jul 9th, 2021

30 — Sasha & Stella Answer Your Questions: Part 2

• Jul 2nd, 2021

29 – Conversion Therapy: A Conversation with Bob Withers

• Guest: Bob Withers Jun 25th, 2021

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

• Guests: Marcus Evans and Sue Evans Jun 11th, 2021

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

• Guest: “Angus Fox” / Alasdair Gunn Apr 30th, 2021

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’?

• Guest: Timothy Courtois Feb 19th, 2021

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

• Guest: Buck Angel Jan 29th, 2021

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

• Guest: Will Malone Jan 8th, 2021

4 – Why Do People Seek a New Identity?

• Jan 1st, 2021

2020 episodes

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

• Guest: “Arty Morty” Dec 25th, 2020

2 – Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria

• Dec 18th, 2020

1 – Trans: Identity vs Dysphoria

• Dec 18th, 2020

Gender: A Wider Lens Trailer

• Nov 30th, 2020

“Arty Morty” is the stage name of Robbie Luster, a Canadian bar manager and anti-transgender extremist. Luster is best known for being sidekick to anti-trans extremist Graham Linehan and for co-founding LGB Alliance Canada.

“Arty Morty” is originally a pseudonym that refers to a Sherlock Holmes case.

Self-reported background

note: Luster’s self-reported biographical claims below have not been independently confirmed and should not be treated as facts.

Robbie James Luster was reportedly born in the United States, claiming “my Canadian mother was in the US when she gave birth to me.” Luster claimed this parent, who reportedly died in January 2023, “endured terrible abuse from my late father.”

Luster claimed: “I’ve been a prison rights (and reform) advocate ever since my father was murdered when I was a child and the man who murdered him was sentenced to death,” adding “My father was shot in the head.”

In the late 1990s, Luster reportedly worked at a Toronto bar frequented by trans people.

Independently confirmed details

In the 2010s, Luster was general manager at TRANZAC (originally Toronto Australia New Zealand Club), a nonprofit performing arts venue. Luster stepped down from the manager role in 2018 but continued working at the venue.

In around 2017, Luster moved into public housing managed by Toronto Community Housing Corporation. In March 2024, Luster wrote: “Right now as I write this, I’m sitting in my rental apartment, which has been in a state of construction for over a year. My landlord, an agency of the City of Toronto, has mired my building in a dodgy renovation contract with dubious claims to improve energy efficiency. The project managers evaded building code standards in order to slash costs — even going so far as to doctor the engineering plans in an attempt to circumvent regulators. Now, years of planning and tens of millions of dollars later, the work is halted and my apartment’s stuck in limbo. I’m sitting here writing this amid a heap of exposed wiring, hole-riddled drywall, and mechanical equipment where the finished walls and ceiling of my living room should be.” In June 2024, Luster spoke to CBC about the issue using the pseudonym “Robbie James.”

Anti-trans activism

The Mess We’re In

As “Arty Morty,” Luster was an original sidekick on Graham Linehan’s anti-trans podcast, The Mess We’re In.

YouTube channel

In February, 2020, Luster began a “Arty Morty” YouTube channel that has included interviews with other anti-trans extremists, including

• Az Hakeem
• “Eleanor” unaccepting parent
• “Billboard Chris”
• Debbie Hayton
• “Duncan”
• “Emma”
• Linda Blade
• Fred Sargeant
• Graham Linehan

Guest appearances

“Arty Morty” has appeared as a guest in interviews with other anti-trans extremists, including Benjamin Boyce, Sasha Ayad, and Stella O’Malley.

References

Smee, Michael (June 14, 2024). TCHC lowers man’s ceiling below city standard. CBC https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/tchc-lowers-man-s-ceiling-below-city-standards-1.7234196

Girard, Gabe (undated). Sanctum // Inferred Views :: The Tranzac. Weird Canada https://weirdcanada.com/posts/sanctum-inferred-views-the-tranzac

Dagan, Dri (February 27, 2012). The Devil’s Music. The Whole Note https://www.thewholenote.com/index.php/newsroom/beatcolumns-sp-2121861476/intheclubsjazz2/15783-the-devils-music

Anti-trans coverage

White, Sasha (March 5, 2021). “A Lot of Adult Gays and Lesbians Quietly, Secretly Agree” -Arty Morty. Plebity https://www.plebity.org/article/a-lot-of-adult-gays-and-lesbians-quietly-secretly-agree-arty-morty/

Selected writing by Luster

[Luster, Robbie] (March 8, 2024). Forget it, Jake. It’s Canada. Arty Morty’s Substack https://artymorty.substack.com/p/forget-it-jake-its-canada

[Luster, Robbie] (July 26, 2022). Keeping the Faith: Gays played a major part in the founding of trans ideology, but over the last 25 years it’s become a religion that has completely run us over. Arty Morty’s Substack https://artymorty.substack.com/p/keeping-the-faith

Media

CBC with “Robbie James” (June 14, 2024). Toronto Community Housing lowers resident’s ceiling below city standards. https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6423582

Gender: A Wider Lens with Stella O’Malley, Sasha Ayad, and “Arty Morty” (December 25, 2020). EPISODE 3 – Feminine Boy to Gay Man: A conversation with Arty Morty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-THqe2_0XE

Resources

YouTube (youtube.com)

• artymorty

X/Twitter (x.com)

• artymortyarty

Substack (substack.com)

• artymorty
• Arty Morty’s Substack
• artymorty.substack.com

Instagram (nstagram.com)

• robbie_j_l

Gettr (gettr.com)

• artymortyarty

Urban Dictionary (urbandictionary.com)

• Robbie Luster
• urbandictionary.com/author.php?author=Robbie%20Luster

TRANZAC (tranzac.org) [archive]

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

On-air personalities

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

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

References

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

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

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

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

Resources

Fox News (foxnews.com)

• Transgender
• foxnews.com/search-results/search#q=transgender

Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/)

• Fox News

X/Twitter (x.com)

• FoxNews

Facebook (facebook.com)

• /FoxNews

YouTube (youtube.com)

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Instagram (instagram.com)

• foxnews

Katie Herzog is an American author and podcaster best known for gender critical views and anti-transgender activism. Herzog co-hosts the anti-trans “drama” podcast Blocked and Reported with Jesse Singal. Herzog’s work includes

• promoting disease models:
  • “rapid onset gender dysphoria” (ROGD) and its “social contagion” model of trans identity
• promoting the “ex-trans” movement:
  • “desistance“
  • “detransition“
• never correcting or updating reporting on former ex-trans activist Ky Schevers
• sex segregationism regarding sports, incarceration, and other remaining sex-segregated institutions
• signing the anti-trans Harper’s Letter with J.K. Rowling and other anti-trans activists
• criticizing value-neutral and gender-neutral language like pronouns and inclusive medical terminology
  • claiming that medical schools are “denying biological sex”
• promoting separatist and binary ideas of sex and sexuality
• criticizing nuanced and nonbinary ideas of sex and sexuality
• promoting LGB separatism and the “lesbian erasure” conspiracy theory

Note: for the trans-supportive artist born in 1979, see Katie Herzog and transgender people.

Background

Catherine Ronan “Katie” Herzog was born on May 18, 1983 in Asheville, North Carolina. Herzog’s parents are both emeritus professors who taught at Western Carolina University: Harold Albert “Hal” Herzog served as a psychology professor, and Mary Jean Ronan Herzog served as an education professor. Katie Herzog graduated from the University of North Carolina at Asheville with a bachelor’s degree in English literature and continued to graduate school before dropping out. Herzog has siblings.

Herzog has published writing in numerous outlets, listed below. Herzog got a start as a blogger on Tumblr and on a personal website. Herzog has attempted to delete much of this early work.

Herzog identifies as lesbian and lives in Washington state and North Carolina with spouse Janna Krein, a nurse.

Anti-trans activism at The Stranger

Herzog worked for Dan Savage as a freelancer for The Stranger, later serving as a staff writer from 2017 to 2020.

In 2017, Herzog wrote “The Detransitioners,” a piece critics considered a biased and flawed article supporting the ex-trans movement. The piece mentioned several people:

• Brynn Tannehill, a trans journalist whose criticism of the ex-trans movement appears to have motivated Herzog’s piece
• Marlo Mack, How to Be a Girl podcaster and supportive parent of a gender diverse child
• John Otto, a happily transitioned trans man

Supporting Herzog’s views were several activists promoting the ex-trans movement:

• James Cantor, a fellow gender critical troll in Toronto and promoter of many disease models of gender identity and expression
• “Jackie” aka “Jackal,” a Seattle area resident who was 25 in 2017 and moderated detransinfo.tumblr.com
• “Jane,” a Southern California resident who was 53 in 2017 and who joined the ex-trans movement after discovering radfem forums online
• “Ryan,” who was 43 in 2017 and who underwent medical transition steps but was not socially transitioned at the time
• “Cass,” who later came out as ex-trans whistleblower Ky Schevers

Schevers was deeply involved in the “gender critical” movement connected to trans-exclusionary radical feminism (TERF):

While hanging out among ourselves, I and other younger members of this scene would jokingly refer to ourselves and each other as “TERFs”, reclaiming what we viewed as a slur. Many of us got a kick out of having a secret life in a subculture outsiders (correctly) viewed as a hate group. We thought such people were ridiculous and misogynistic for seeing us as hateful and we frequently mocked them, acting as if they were ignorant, misled and/or overly sensitive. We would gather at a lesbian-owned coffee shop and complain about how trans activists were a threat to lesbian culture, talk about dangerous and disgusting “autogynephiles” trying to infiltrate “female-only” spaces, and the social forces supposedly pushing lesbians to “dis-identify from femaleness” and identify as trans. 

Schevers 2021

Herzog never updated the original piece or covered the subsequent developments. No one has ever independently confirmed Herzog’s claims about “Jackie,” “Jane,” or “Ryan,” and the only one independently confirmed has come out against Herzog’s article and its thesis. This is probably the prime example that Herzog is not an objective source for information on trans issues.

In response, some critics burned copies of The Stranger and distributed stickers that said “Katie Herzog (writer at the stranger) Is A Transphobe.” Herzog claims to have been ostracized by some friends. The New York Times and The New Republic described the reaction to “The Detransitioners” as an example of “cancel culture.”

In 2024, The Stranger allowed Schevers to set the record straight on Herzog’s coverage, but none of Herzog’s other sources have been independently verified.

Relationship with Jesse Singal

Herzog and anti-trans activist Jesse Singal joined forces after both of them wrote pieces promoting the ex-trans movement. Singal’s piece When a Child Says She’s Trans came out in The Atlantic in June 2018. Earlier that month. they both attended the first Heterodox Academy Open Minds Conference in New York, and Herzog logrolled Singal in The Stranger. In April 2019, Singal interviewed Herzog.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Herzog was furloughed and was no longer employed there as of 2020. In 2020, Herzog founded Permabanned Media LLC and in March began the podcast Blocked and Reported with Singal. In July, Singal and Herzog both signed “A Letter on Justice and Open Debate” for Harper’s. That letter was signed by a disproportionate number of anti-transgender extremists.

After leaving The Stranger

Since leaving The Stranger, Herzog has become more outspoken on anti-transgender topics. Herzog has spoken frequently about the alleged cultural shift away from “lesbian” as an identity, promoted the disputed diagnosis “rapid onset gender dysphoria,” and suggested that the increase in trans-identified people is part of a “social contagion.” Herzog has also gotten money and attention for claiming that medical schools are “denying biological sex” by presenting more inclusive and value-neutral scientific terminology. Herzog’s posts on the topic via intellectual dark web promoter Bari Weiss were tagged as unreliable self-published sources by the r/medicine forum on reddit, causing the usual suspects to claim they were being censored.

As with most people who claim to be “canceled,” Herzog has seen an enormous increase in media appearances on conservative and anti-transgender shows and platforms since 2017. They include

• Sasha Ayad

• Alexander Beiner
• Benjamin Boyce

• Aryeh Cohen-Wade
• Corinna Cohn
• Danielle Crittenden

• Meghan Daum
• Tim Dillon
• Ben Domenech
• Andrew Doyle

• Kmele Foster
• David Fuller

• Andrew Gold
• Glenn Greenwald

• Jonathan Haidt
• Katie Halper
• Heather Heying
• Coleman Hughes
• Mick Hume

• Inaya Folarin Iman

• Scott Barry Kaufman
• Megyn Kelly
• Aaron Kimberly
• Jamie Kirchick

• Adaam James Levin-Areddy
• Helen Lewis
• Matt Lewis

• Bill Maher
• Phoebe Maltz Bovy
• Suzanne Moore
• Meghan Murphy

• Stella O’Malley
• Brendan O’Neill

• Nina Paley
• Lou Perez
• Louise Perry
• Bridget Phetasy
• Brad Polumbo

• Vanessa Quirk

• Kat Rosenfield
• Thaddeus Russell

• Dan Savage
• Amy Selwyn
• Jesse Singal
• Christina Hoff Sommers
• Inez Stepman
• Ethan Strauss
• Andrew Sullivan
• Josh Szeps

• Matt Taibbi
• Aaron Terrell
• Michael Tracey

• “Scott Veritas”

• Bret Weinstein
• Bari Weiss

Drink Your Way Sober

In 2025, Herzog released a book titled Drink Your Way Sober, which outlined Herzog’s struggles with alcohol use and dependence. Herzog promotes the Sinclair Method, which involves taking the opioid inhibitor naltrexone.

The book was blurbed by a number of other reactionary centrists, including Hadley Freeman, Meghan Daum, Scott Barry Kaufman, Sam Harris, and Nick Gillespie.

References

Schevers, Ky (June 24, 2024). The Reality Behind the Story I Told The Stranger. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/queer-issue-2024/2024/06/05/79545098/the-reality-behind-the-story-i-told-the-stranger

Doyle, Jude Ellison S. (March 15, 2023). The making of a detransitioner. Xtra* https://xtramagazine.com/power/detransition-terf-movement-elisa-shupe-247592

Higgins, Eoin (August 8, 2022). What happened to Glenn Greenwald? The former trans ally now sides with right wing transphobia. Salon https://www.salon.com/2022/08/08/what-happened-to-glenn-greenwald-the-former-trans-ally-now-sides-with-right-wing-transphobia/

Schevers, Ky (March 25, 2021). The Reality Behind the Story I Told: What My Life was Like When I was Interviewed for the Stranger. Medium https://kyschevers.medium.com/the-reality-behind-the-story-i-told-what-my-life-was-like-when-i-was-interviewed-for-the-stranger-2508d595689d

Doyle, Jude Ellison S. (March 24, 2021). What’s So Scary About Detransitioning? GEN. https://gen.medium.com/whats-so-scary-about-detransitioning-a8340daf3132

Stahl, Lynne (March 19, 2021). The latest form of transphobia: Saying lesbians are going extinct. Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-latest-form-of-transphobia-saying-lesbians-are-going-extinct/2021/03/18/072a95fc-8786-11eb-82bc-e58213caa38e_story.html

Urquhart, Evan (February 1, 2021). An “Ex-Detransitioner” Disavows the Anti-Trans Movement She Helped Spark. Slate https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/02/detransition-movement-star-ex-gay-explained.html

Grant, Melissa Gira (November 6, 2019). Fixating on “Cancel Culture” in an Age of Transphobia. The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/155606/fxating-cancel-culture-age-transphobia

Lieberman, Hallie (May 3, 2019). Why Is Reporting on Trans Issues So Fraught? News-to-Table / Pressland https://medium.com/news-to-table/https-medium-com-news-to-table-why-is-reporting-on-trans-issues-so-fraught-c3b52b4b97c4

Serano, Julia (July 4, 2017). Why my piece won’t be appearing in The Stranger. https://juliaserano.blogspot.com/2017/07/why-my-piece-wont-be-appearing-in.html

Serano, Julia (June 30, 2017). Stop pitting detransitoners against happily transitioned people. https://juliaserano.blogspot.com/2017/06/stop-pitting-detransitoners-against.html

Coverage in anti-trans press

Yang, Wesley (August 11, 2022). The Reporter Who Lost and Gained Everything By Telling the Truth About People Who Aren’t Supposed to Exist. Year Zero https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/the-reporter-who-lost-and-gained

McFadden, Joey (August 26, 2024). (Il)liberal Gender Ideology Confuses Children and Stifles Discourse. Fair Observer https://www.fairobserver.com/politics/illiberal-gender-ideology-confuses-children-and-stifles-discourse/

McDermott, John (November 2, 2019). Those People We Tried to Cancel? They’re All Hanging Out Together. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/02/style/what-is-cancel-culture.html

Selected anti-trans writing by Herzog

Herzog, Katie (July 27, 2021). Med Schools Are Now Denying Biological Sex. The Free Press https://www.thefp.com/p/med-schools-are-now-denying-biological

Herzog, Katie (November 27, 2020). Where Have All The Lesbians Gone? They’re coming out as nonbinary or as men. The Weekly Dish https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/where-have-all-the-lesbians-gone-0a7

Herzog, Katie (February 4, 2020). Controversial Feminist Event at the Library Goes on Despite Threats, Interruptions, and Protests. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2020/02/04/42751372/controversial-feminist-event-at-the-library-goes-on-despite-threats-interruptions-and-protests

Herzog, Katie (January 13, 2020). Amid Protests, Seattle Public Library Affirms Commitment to Free Speech. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2020/01/13/42551375/amid-protests-seattle-public-library-affirms-commitment-to-free-speech

Herzog, Katie (October 10, 2019). Supreme Court Case Makes Strange Bedfellows of Conservative Christians and Radical Feminists. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/10/10/41649666/supreme-court-case-makes-strange-bedfellows-of-conservative-christians-and-radical-feminists

Herzog, Katie (September 23, 2019). Is the Life Expectancy of Trans Women in the U.S. Just 35? No. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/09/23/41471629/is-the-life-expectancy-of-trans-women-in-the-us-just-35-no

Herzog, Katie (September 17, 2019). Cancel Culture: What Exactly Is This Thing? The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/09/17/41416013/cancel-culture-what-exactly-is-this-thing

Herzog, Katie (September 3, 2019). Adam Director Rhys Ernst on When Cancel Culture Comes For Your Work. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/film/2019/09/03/41280771/adam-director-rhys-ernst-on-when-cancel-culture-comes-for-your-work

Herzog, Katie (May 17, 2019). Social Media Companies Are Banning Extremists. Others Are Getting Caught in the Crossfire. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/articles/2019/05/17/40234886/social-media-companies-are-banning-extremists-others-are-getting-caught-in-the-crossfire

Herzog, Katie (April 18, 2019 ). The Government Doesn’t Need to Erase History. The Media Is Doing It for Them. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/media/2019/04/18/39941044/the-government-doesnt-need-to-erase-history-the-media-is-doing-it-for-them

Herzog, Katie (November 19, 2018). Study Claims Gender Nonconforming Children Were Different Gender in Their Past Lives. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/lgbtqitslfa/2018/11/19/35865090/study-says-gender-nonconforming-children-were-opposite-sex-in-past-lives

Herzog, Katie (September 6, 2018). “They” Is a Fine Pronoun, But It Ain’t Mine. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/articles/2018/09/06/31903785/they-is-a-fine-pronoun-but-it-aint-mine

Herzog, Katie (November 30, 2018). If the Future Is Nonbinary, It’s a Bleak One for Women. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/the-ladies/2018/11/30/36431918/if-the-future-is-nonbinary-its-a-bleak-one-for-women

Herzog, Katie (July 9, 2018). The Left’s Mischaracterizations of Jordan Peterson Will Make His Followers Turn Right. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/articles/2018/07/09/28930684/the-lefts-mischaracterizations-of-jordan-peterson-will-make-his-followers-turn-right

Herzog, Katie (June 19, 2018). Twitter, Trans Kids, Call-Out Culture, and a $10,000 Blunt. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/lgbtqitslfa/2018/06/19/27872645/twitter-trans-kids-call-out-culture-and-a-10000-blunt

Herzog, Katie (May 31, 2018). Wrongspeak Is a Safe Space for Dangerous Ideas. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/podcasts/2018/05/31/26879132/wrong-speak-is-a-safe-space-for-dangerous-ideas

Herzog, Katie (April 6, 2018). Kevin Williamson Has Terrible Ideas, But He Got One Thing Right. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/media/2018/04/06/26014612/kevin-williamson-has-terrible-ideas-but-he-got-one-thing-right

Herzog, Katie (January 23, 2018). Call-Out Culture Is a Toxic Garbage Dumpster Fire of Trash. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/language/2018/01/23/25741141/call-out-culture-is-a-toxic-garbage-dumpster-fire-of-trash

Herzog, Katie (December 5, 2017). Popular Leftist YouTuber ContraPoints Gets Caught Up in University of British Columbia Free Speech Debate. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/video/2017/12/05/25607468/popular-leftist-youtuber-contrapoints-gets-caught-up-in-university-of-british-columbia-free-speech-debate

Herzog, Katie (August 30, 2017). Philly Trans Health Conference Cancels Sessions on Detransitioning. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/lgbtqitslfa/2017/08/30/25382933/philly-trans-health-conference-cancels-sessions-on-detransitioning

Herzog, Katie (June 28, 2017). The Detransitioners: They Were Transgender, Until They Weren’t. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/features/2017/06/28/25252342/the-detransitioners-they-were-transgender-until-they-werent

• Schevers, Ky (June 24, 2024). The Reality Behind the Story I Told The Stranger. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/queer-issue-2024/2024/06/05/79545098/the-reality-behind-the-story-i-told-the-stranger
• Herzog, Katie (July 3, 2017). A Response to the Uproar Over My Piece, “The Detransitioners.” The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/lgbtqitslfa/2017/07/03/25262759/a-response-to-the-uproar-over-my-piece-the-detransitioners

Book

Herzog, Katie (2025). Drink Your Way Sober: The Science-Based Method to Break Free from Alcohol. BenBella Books, ISBN 978-1637747391

Media

Hard Knox with Amanda Knox and Katie Herzog (September 16, 2025). How to Drink Your Way Sober (Katie Herzog). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm07K3r5MrM

Modern Wisdom with Chris Williamson and Katie Herzog (September 13, 2025). A Controversial New Cure for Alcohol Dependence – Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3m3uCQQ72Y

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy and Katie Herzog (August 7, 2025). Drink Your Way Sober – Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzYZZdRKdoY

Stonger Weekly / Running Free with Jesse Carrajat, and Katie Herzog (August 4, 2025). Can You Drink Your Way Sober? | Katie Herzog, Author, Journalist, & Host of Blocked and Reported. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A52Y07JWbQ

Random Offense with Ethan Strauss and Katie Herzog (June 27, 2025). Episode 6 with Katie Herzog | Random Offense with Ethan Strauss. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHzwrdsMxAU

Brad Polumbo with Katie Herzog (May 17, 2025). “Gen Z is unhinged!”: Brad Polumbo & Katie Herzog talk TikTok & Cancel Culture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTKgdtxGYRE

Unaligned with Ana Kasparian and Katie Herzog (February 14, 2025). Culture Wars and Cancellations In The New Trump Era. Unaligned https://kasparian.substack.com/p/culture-wars-and-cancellations-in

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps and Katie Herzog (September 30, 2024). “The Alcoholism Myth” with Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfP51cO5Ilk

The Megyn Kelly Show with Megyn Kelly, Katie Herzog, and Jesse Singal (April 25, 2024). Free Speech vs. Harassment, and the State of “Cancel Culture,” with Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UexK-h5meVU

The Megyn Kelly Show with Megyn Kelly, Katie Herzog, and Jesse Singal (April 25, 2024). Are We Past the Worst of the Cancelations in Our Culture? With Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jDJcyzmQp4

The Megyn Kelly Show with Megyn Kelly, Katie Herzog, and Jesse Singal (April 25, 2024). Truth About “Trans Athletes” Bill in New Hampshire, with Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQic52fz-3E

Brad Polumbo with Katie Herzog (March 10, 2024). ‘The queer community KICKED me OUT!’ (ft. Katie Herzog). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p4avZ6ccUw

Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry and Katie Herzog (February 26, 2024). Will the Trans Craze Ever End? – Katie Herzog | Maiden Mother Matriarch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCJrIgQz09c

Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry and Katie Herzog (February 18, 2024). Where Have All the Lesbians Gone? – Katie Herzog | Maiden Mother Matriarch 53. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-WsqWMGxzU

Gender: A Wider Lens with Stella O’Malley, Sasha Ayad, and Katie Herzog (September 8, 2023). EP 130: Katie Herzog: Unblocked and Recorded. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vaI4NDcd4A

• (Jan 19, 2024). Bonus Conversation with Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC_IDOa97YM

System Update witth Glenn Greenwald and Katie Herzog (January 24, 2023). How the Toxic Debates Around Trans Issues May Be Improving, with Katie Herzog | SYSTEM UPDATE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcM31UEGB0Y

A Special Place in Hell with Meghan Daum, Sarah Haider, and Katie Herzog (November 20, 2022). Katie Herzog Visits Hell. https://aspecialplace.substack.com/p/katie-herzog-visits-hell

Coleman Hughes with Katie Herzog (July 17, 2022). Defining Genders: What Does It Mean To Identify With a Gender? with Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4Kmn_feSCw

Coleman Hughes and Katie Herzog (July 16, 2022). The Pride Generation with Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruvlgINs70c

Coleman Hughes and Katie Herzog (July 10, 2022). “The Gender Identity Conversation” with Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExwWYLKqftc

Transparency with Aaron Kimberly, Aaron Terrell, and Katie Herzog (July 3, 2022). EP40 – I should send them a fruit basket – with Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3eZjJkNCRc

Real Time with Bill Maher, Andrew Sullivan, Katie Herzog, and Christine Emba (June 24, 2022). Overtime: Andrew Sullivan, Katie Herzog, Christine Emba | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7QITC__mV4

• [Clip] The End of Roe. v. Wade | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMgGwFX2KEs

The Veritas Podcast with Scott Veritas and Katie Herzog (March 29, 2022). Navigating the Transgender Discourse Minefield | Katie Herzog | The Veritas Podcast #19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdbXEd_9Xkc

Lou Perez with Katie Herzog (February 24, 2022). The Lou Perez Podcast Episode 48 – Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej8VjfgAlgc

Rebel Wisdom with David Fuller and Katie Herzog (Ocober 20, 2021). Chappelle & Trans Activism, Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dlunZ082AA

Matt Lewis with Katie Herzog (October 13, 2021). Matt Lewis Interviews Katie Herzog about Dave Chappelle’s Netflix Special. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsQT5n61eg8

The Megyn Kelly Show with Megyn Kelly and Katie Herzog (October 4, 2021). Woke Push Against Biological Sex in the Medical Industry, with Katie Herzog | The Megyn Kelly Show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeU4BP8XzPU

spiked / The Brendan O’Neill Show with Brendan O’Neill and Katie Herzog (September 2, 2021). Wokeness is bad for your health, with Katie Herzog | The Brendan O’Neill Show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0o7_7CyjrI

Independent Women / High Noon with Inez Stepman and Katie Herzog (August 11, 2021). High Noon | Episode 15: Katie Herzog – On Woke Medicine and Moral Panic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4stsVkEupk

Andrew Sullivan with Katie Herzog and Jamie Kirchick (July 2, 2021). The problems with the “Q.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj_atHF9YZI

Trish Wood is Critical with Trish Wood and Katie Herzog (June 26, 2021). Katie Herzog Cancels Woke Medicine. https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/podcast/episode-59-katie-herzog-cancels-woke-medicine

Free Speech Champions with Inaya Folarin Iman, Bari Weiss, Helen Lewis, Katie Herzog, and Mick Hume (May 22, 2021). Can truth survive the new journalism? Feat. Bari Weiss, Helen Lewis, Katie Herzog & Mick Hume. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2wz6SuQSuY

Useful Idiots with Matt Taibbi, Katie Halper, Jesse Singal, and Katie Herzog (March 22, 2021). Substack Cancel Wars With Jesse Singal & Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB6BIhnQJuo

System Updare with Glenn Greenwald and Katie Herzog (March 18, 2021). The Role of Claimed LGBT Identity in Political Discourse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt8BZzLFpzA

The Femsplainers with Danielle Crittenden, Christina Hoff Sommers and Katie Herzog (February 5, 2021). Katie Herzog: Why Lesbians Are Endangered. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GsBSpC4ZlE

Unregistered with Thaddeus Russell and Katie Herzog (January 16, 2021). Unregistered 148: Katie Herzog (VIDEO). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3JW-Djf2I

reNEWS with Amy Selwyn, Jonathan Haidt, Bari Weiss, Katie Herzog, and Suzanne Moore (January 15, 2021). Are Culture Wars Co-opting the Mainstream Narrative? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLRgTlsSg8M

Matt Lewis with Katie Herzog (November 9, 2020). Katie Herzog on What the Media and the Left Get Wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt1i_8k2g5E

spiked / Culture Wars with Andrew Doyle, Katie Herzog, and Jesse Singal (October 22, 2020). America is exhausted, with Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxVd-UyaSQg

Uncertain Things with Adaam James Levin-Areddy, Vanessa Quirk, and Katie Herzog (October 7, 2020). Why Everything Is a Culture War Thing (w/ Katie Herzog). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thoST58sb-A

The Unspeakable with Meghan Daum and Katie Herzog (September 27, 2020). #10 Katie Herzog On Why Exposing Social Media Hypocrisy Feels So Damn Good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_AOiAUiM1Q

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy and Katie Herzog (September 20, 2020). Walk-Ins Welcome Podcast #95 – Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWFA_NrI720

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy and Katie Herzog (September 3, 2020). Katie Herzog Never Expected the Concept of “Theybies” to Spread the Way It Ha‪s‬ https://ricochet.com/podcast/walk-ins-welcome-bridget-phetasy/katie-herzog-never-expected-the-concept-of-theybies-to-spread-the-way-it-has/

The Federalist with Ben Domenech and Katie Herzog (August 8, 2020). Journalist Katie Herzog On The Insanity Of Cancel Culture And False Media Narratives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WYPugy7nhM

Johnson, Jeremiah (August 7, 2020). Cancel Culture ft. Katie Herzog & Jesse Singal. The New Liberal Podcast https://www.patreon.com/posts/cancel-culture-38561642

Nonzero /Culturally Determined with Aryeh Cohen-Wade and Katie Herzog (July 15, 2020). Open Letters | Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Katie Herzog [Culturally Determined]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RdX6McwoOU

The Psychology Podcast with Scott Barry Kaufman, Katie Herzog, and Jesse Singal (July 9, 2020). Uncancellable with Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal || The Psychology Podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4yALKu3RrE

The Backchannel with Kmele Foster and Katie Herzog (July 1, 2020). Shattering the “White Fragility” Myth, with Kmele Foster and Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAdzsh0HsqM

Rebel Wisdom with David Fuller, Katie Herzog, and Jesse Singal (June 19, 2020). The Death of Journalism? Katie Herzog & Jesse Singal, Sensemaking Series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9AVo3jXjN8

• PhilosophyInsights (June 19, 2020). [Edit] The Moral Panic and the Corruption of Journalism. YouTube / PhilosophyInsights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjT9NVOQW10 [deleted]

The Tim Dillon Show with Tim Dillon and Katie Herzog (June 14, 2020). #204 – Katie Herzog | The Tim Dillon Show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75N9DV8kGPg

• [Clip] Katie Herzog On Being A Heretic In The Gay Community. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpCbEr4agf8

My Northwest with Jason Rantz and Katie Herzog (June 11, 2020). Katie Herzog (Blocked and Reported host) on “cancel culture” in Seattle and at the New York Times. https://mynorthwest.com/1935924/cancel-culture-seattle-herzog/?

Michael Tracey with Katie Herzog (June 11, 2020). When did all left-wing activists become trans? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGo4glpvGYc

Calmversations with Benjamin Boyce and Katie Herzog (April 1, 2020). Quarantine Conversations: Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfLoXgrfiio

Nonzero with Kat Rosenfield, Phoebe Maltz Bovy, and Katie Herzog (March 12, 2020). Critiquing “Ugh-Men” Feminism | Kat Rosenfield, Phoebe Maltz Bovy, & Katie Herzog [Feminine Chaos]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4593zo615iE

We The Internet TV with Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying, and Katie Herzog (February 7, 2020). We The Internet TV Live in Portland with Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying, and Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1sqivHa3sA

• (March 24, 2020) [Clip] Katie Herzog on Gender Dysphoria | We The Internet TV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI74qaL4w_s

DarkHorse with Bret Weinstein and Katie Herzog (November 14, 2019). Katie Herzog | Bret Weinstein’s DarkHorse Podcast #6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjELREOrtDc

The Versus Media Podcast with Stephen L. Miller and Katie Herzog (November 3, 2019). Episode 2 – The Very Cancelled Katie Herzog. https://millerversusmedia.substack.com/p/episode-2-the-very-cancelled-katie-aea

Singal-Minded with Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog (April 19, 2019) Singal-Minded, The Interview: Katie Herzog. Substack / Singal-Minded. https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/singal-minded-the-interview-katie

The Same Drugs with Meghan Murphy and Katie Herzog (February 8, 2019). Taking the white pill: Katie Herzog refuses to be put into a box. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR5DmKCjgVg

Unregistered with Thaddeus Russell and Katie Herzog (January 11, 2019). Episode 74: Katie Herzog. http://www.thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/74

Nonzero with Kat Rosenfield and Katie Herzog (December 4, 2018). Gender Transitions, Identity, and Catpeople | Kat Rosenfield & Katie Herzog [Feminine Chaos]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTo7o1sTHMs

Nonzero Clips / Culturally Determined with Aryeh Cohen-Wade and Katie Herzog (July 29, 2018). Jordan Peterson and Detransitioning | Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Katie Herzog [Culturally Determined]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IRAKuB1JI8

Resources

Trans Data Library (transdatalibrary.org)

• Katie Herzog
• transdatalibrary.org/person/katie-herzog

Katie Herzog (katieherzog.info) [archive]

Katie Herzog (katieherzog.org) [archive]

Drink Your Way Sober (drinkyourwaysober.com)

Twenty Twenty Hindsight (twentytwentyhindsight.com) [archive removed]

Tumblr (tumblr.com)

• Babes of NPR
• babesofnpr.tumblr.com [archive removed]
• Don’t Ask, Do Tell
• https://dontaskdotell.tumblr.com/

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

• Katie Herzog
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Herzog [deleted – archive]
• Articles for deletion/Katie Herzog
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Katie_Herzog

LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

• Katie Herzog

Muck Rack (muckrack.com)

• Katie Herzog

X/Twitter (x.com)

• kittypurrzog
• BabesofNPR [deleted – archive]
• krherzog [deleted – archive]
• TheBARPod

Instagram (instagram.com)

• kittypurrzog

Splice Today (splicetoday.com)

• Katie Herzog
• splicetoday.com/authors/Katie%20Herzog [removed from archives]
• splicetoday.com/profiles/katie-herzog [archive]

Thought Catalog (thoughtcatalog.com)

• Katie Herzog
• thoughtcatalog.com/author/katie-herzog/ [archive]

Substack (substack.com)

• katieherzog
• Moose Nuggets
• moosenuggets.substack.com
  • Chapter One: “And then I met Janna, the woman who would become my wife, and not only did I change my mind about dog fanatics, I’m ashamed to say I even became one myself.”
• Blocked and Reported
• blockedandreported.org
• alt url: blockedandreported.substack.com

The Free Press (thefp.com)

• Katie Herzog
• thefp.com/w/katie-herzog

LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

• katie-herzog-948b5298

The Stranger (thestranger.com)

• Katie Herzog articles

Medium / Arc Digital (medium.com / arcdigital.media)

• kherzog (2015-2016)
• katieherzog (2020)

Portland Mercury (portlandmercury.com)

• Katie Herzog articles

The Atlantic (theatlantic.com)

• Katie Herzog articles

Salon (salon.com)

• Katie Herzog articles

Mother Jones (motherjones.com)

• Katie Herzog articles

Buzzfeed News (buzzfeednews.com)

• Katie Herzog articles

The Guardian (theguardian.com)

• Katie Herzog articles

Slate (slate.com)

• Katie Herzog articles

Grist (grist.org)

• Katie Herzog articles

Reason (reason.com)

• Katie Herzog articles

This profile originally misstated Herzog’s birthday. In 2025, this site phased out AI illustrations after artist feedback. The previous illustration is here.

Your Welcome is a podcast founded in 2017 by troll “Michael Malice.” Guests include many key figures in conservative and anti-transgender activism.

Below is a full episode list through 2023.

2023

• Dave Smith and Will Chamberlain December 20, 2023
• Alex Jones December 13, 2023
• Ian Crossland and Jack Angeli-Chansley December 6, 2023

• James Lindsay November 29, 2023
• Dinesh D’Souza November 21, 2023
• Magatte Wade November 15, 2023
• Dave Landau November 8, 2023
• Luke Rudkowski November 1, 2023

• Moms for Liberty Tina Descovich October 25, 2023
• Kurt Schlichter October 18, 2023
• Cody Wilson & Jessica Solce October 11, 2023
• Dave Smith October 4, 2023

• Scott Adams September 27, 2023
• Kurt Metzger September 20, 2023
• Cenk Uygur September 13, 2023
• Ethan Van Sciver September 6, 2023

• Chaya Raichik (“Libs of TikTok”) August 30, 2023
• Gabriel Shipton August 23, 2023
• Gad Saad August 16, 2023
• Jake Angeli August 9, 2023
• Destiny August 2, 2023

• Carol Roth July 26, 2023
• Matt Lewis July 19, 2023
• Amanda Milius July 12, 2023
• Robert Barnes July 5, 2023

• Cody Wilson June 28, 2023
• Joseph McBride June 21, 2023
• Dave Rubin June 14, 2023
• Raheem Kassam June 7, 2023

• Roseanne Barr May 31, 2023
• Dave Smith & Konstantin Kisin May 24, 2023
• Andy Ngo May 17, 2023
• James O’Keefe May 10, 2023
• Martin Shkreli May 3, 2023

• Vivek Ramaswamy April 26, 2023
• Dave Landau April 20, 2023
• Konstantin Kisin April 12, 2023
• Kmele Foster April 5, 2023

• Jack Posobiec March 29, 2023
• Natalie Sideserf March 22, 2023
• Karol Markowicz March 16, 2023
• Carpe Donktum March 8, 2023
• Dave Smith March 1, 2023

• Bridget Phetasy February 22, 2023
• Yeonmi Park February 15, 2023
• Kari Lake February 8, 2023
• Colin Moriarty February 1, 2023

• Mike Cernovich January 25, 2023
• Roger Stone January 18, 2023
• Curtis Yarvin and Dave Smith January 11, 2023
• Carl Benjamin January 4, 2023

2022

• Tom Woods December 28, 2022
• Alex Stein December 21, 2022
• Alex Jones December 15, 2022
• Jimmy Dore December 7, 2022

• Ben Askren November 30, 2022
• Lora Logic November 23, 2022
• Dave Smith November 16, 2022
• Razib Khan November 9, 2022
• James O’Keefe November 2, 2022

• Ryan James Girdusky October 26, 2022
• Antoine Vaillant October 19, 2022
• Sour Patch Lyds October 12, 2022

• Matt Iseman September 28, 2022
• James Lindsay September 21, 2022
• David Pietrusza September 14, 2022
• Lou Perez September 7, 2022

• Seamus Coughlin August 31, 2022
• Auron MacIntyre August 24, 2022
• Robert Barnes August 17, 2022
• Dave Smith August 10, 2022
• Charlie Kirk August 3, 2022

• Alex Jones July 27, 2022
• Kari Lake July 20, 2022
• Kurt Schlichter July 13, 2022
• Sara Gonzales July 6, 2022

• Glenn Greenwald June 29, 2022
• Blaire White June 22, 2022
• Marc Andreessen June 15, 2022
• Dave Smith June 8, 2022
• Angela McArdle June 1, 2022

• Eric July May 25, 2022
• Hotep Jesus May 18, 2022
• Dave Smith May 11, 2022
• Sydney Watson May 4, 2022

• Douglas Murray April 27, 2022
• Ian Crossland April 20, 2022
• Geoffrey Miller April 13, 2022
• Buck Sexton April 6, 2022

• Dave Rubin March 30, 2022
• Aaron Berg March 23, 2022
• Lauren Southern March 16, 2022
• Curtis Yarvin March 9, 2022
• Mike Cernovich March 2, 2022

• Lily Tang Williams February 23, 2022
• Dave Smith February 16, 2022
• Thaddeus Russell February 9, 2022
• Corey DeAngelis February 2, 2022

• Count Dankula January 26, 2022
• Cody Wilson January 19, 2022
• Dave Smith January 12, 2022

2021

• Ethan Nicolle December 23, 2021
• Glenn Beck December 16, 2021
• Dave Smith December 9, 2021
• Chris Williamson December 2, 2021

• Mark Hemingway November 24, 2021
• Robert Barnes November 17, 2021
• James Lindsay November 3, 2021

• Carl Benjamin October 25, 2021
• Ben Domenech October 18, 2021
• Jesse Lee Peterson October 11, 2021
• Debra Soh October 4, 2021

• Siraj Hashmi September 28, 2021
• Yaron Brook September 21, 2021
• Maxime Bernier September 14, 2021
• Kurt Schlichter September 7, 2021

• Dave Smith August 24, 2021
• Curtis Yarvin August 10, 2021
• Ron Coleman August 3, 2021

• Dave Smith July 27, 2021
• Kmele Foster July 20, 2021
• Carol Roth July 13, 2021
• Alex Jones July 6, 2021

• Dave Smith June 29, 2021
• Adam Curry June 22, 2021
• Elizabeth Spiers June 15, 2021
• Jack Posobiec June 8, 2021
• Dave Smith June 1, 2021

• Eliza Bleu May 25, 2021
• David Pietrusza May 18, 2021
• Kristin Tate May 11, 2021
• Dave Smith May 4, 2021

• Mark Pellegrino April 27, 2021
• Corey DeAngelis April 13, 2021
• Dave Smith April 6, 2021

• James Lindsay March 30, 2021
• Tim Young March 23, 2021
• Bridget Phetasy March 16, 2021
• Dave Smith March 9, 2021
• Madison Cawthorn March 1, 2021

• Justin Amash February 23, 2021
• Lauren Chen February 16, 2021
• Yeon-mi Park February 9, 2021
• Dave Smith February 2, 2021

• Tom Woods January 26, 2021
• Lauren Southern January 19, 2021
• Chris Williamson January 12, 2021
• Dave Smith January 5, 2021

2020

• Adrianne Curry December 22, 2020
• Dave Smith December 15, 2020
• Mike Cernovich December 8, 2020
• Tom Woods December 1, 2020

• Glenn Greenwald November 24, 2020
• Dave Smith November 17, 2020
• Phil Labonte November 10, 2020
• Chris DeRose November 3, 2020

• Douglas Murray October 27, 2020
• Kurt Metzger October 20, 2020
• Dave Smith October 20, 2020
• Dave Smith October 20, 2020
• Laura Loomer October 6, 2020

• Joe Machi September 29, 2020
• Dave Smith September 23, 2020
• Tucker Max September 16, 2020
• Cody Wilson September 8, 2020
• Mikhaila Peterson September 1, 2020

• Chrissie Mayr August 24, 2020
• Stu Burguiere August 18, 2020
• Ashley St. Clair August 11, 2020
• Thaddeus Russell August 4, 2020

• Dave Smith July 23, 2020
• Chrissie Mayr July 21, 2020
• Dave Smith July 14, 2020
• Kurt Schlichter July 7, 2020

• Dave Smith June 30, 2020
• Dave Smith June 24, 2020
• Dave Smith June 23, 2020
• Dave Smith June 16, 2020
• Dave Smith June 9, 2020
• Dave Smith June 2, 2020

• Edward Stringham May 26, 2020
• Dave Smith May 19, 2020
• Dave Smith May 11, 2020
• Dave Smith May 5, 2020

• Dave Rubin April 29, 2020
• Dave Smith April 22, 2020
• Dave Smith April 15, 2020
• Dave Smith April 7, 2020

• Tom Woods March 31, 2020
• Jessica Tarlov March 24, 2020
• Mollie Hemingway March 17, 2020
• Matt Taylor March 10, 2020
• Amanda Lenox March 3, 2020

• Lou Perez February 18, 2020
• Matt McClowry February 11, 2020
• Geno Bisconte February 4, 2020

• Ethan Suplee January 30, 2020
• Dave Landau January 23, 2020
• Lisa De Pasquale January 16, 2020
• Buck Sexton January 9, 2020
• Richard Aldous January 2, 2020

2019

• Heidi Matthews December 26, 2019
• Kmele Foster December 19, 2019
• Arthur Herman December 12, 2019
• Joe DeVito December 5, 2019

• David Pietrusza November 28, 2019
• Jason Stapleton November 21, 2019
• Jack Posobiec November 14, 2019
• Zuby November 7, 2019

• Dave Smith October 29, 2019
• Mark Hyman October 22, 2019
• John Carney October 15, 2019
• Big “Jay” Oakerson October 8, 2019
• Terry Schappert October 1, 2019

• Karol Markowicz September 24, 2019
• Andrew Pollack & Max Eden September 17, 2019
• Dan Soder September 10, 2019
• Dave Landau September 3, 2019

• Zac Amico August 27, 2019
• Hotep Jesus August 20, 2019
• Ben Howe August 13, 2019
• Vit Jedlicka August 6, 2019

• Charlie Nash July 30, 2019
• Bridget Phetasy July 23, 2019
• Thaddeus Russell July 16, 2019
• Melissa Chen July 9, 2019
• Ben Domenech July 2, 2019

• Janae Marie Kroc June 25, 2019
• Luis J. Gomez June 18, 2019
• Lyn Ulbricht June 11, 2019
• Joey Salads June 4, 2019

• Ethan Nicolle May 28, 2019
• Ethan Suplee May 21, 2019
• [no guest] May 14, 2019

• Michael Wolf April 30, 2019
• Faith Goldy April 30, 2019
• Brandon Straka April 23, 2019
• Nick Searcy April 16, 2019
• Titania McGrath April 9, 2019
• Will Chamberlain April 2, 2019

• David Reaboi March 26, 2019
• Nick Monroe March 19, 2019
• Ron Coleman. March 12, 2019
• Bill Schulz and Joanne Nosuchinsky March 5, 2019

• John DeVore February 26, 2019
• Kristin Tate February 19, 2019
• Dave Smith February 12, 2019
• Maj Toure February 5, 2019

• Dick Manitoba January 29, 2019
• Michael Tracey January 22, 2019
• Jake Sabawini January 15, 2019
• Nomiki Konst January 8, 2019
• Tom Woods January 1, 2019

2018

• Allum Bokhari December 25, 2018
• Brandon Svarc and Bahzad Trinos December 18, 2018
• Count Dankula December 11, 2018
• Lux Alptraum December 4, 2018

• Imam Tawhidi November 27, 2018
• Anthony Cumia November 20, 2018
• Justin Silver November 13, 2018
• Marion Smith November 6, 2018

• Arthur Herman October 30, 2018
• Juanita Broaddrick October 23, 2018
• Ralph Sutton October 16, 2018
• Stephen Miller October 9, 2018
• Kurt Schlichter October 2, 2018

• Hans-Hermann Hoppe September 25, 2018
• Robert Epstein and Matt Taylor September 18, 2018
• David Pietrusza September 11, 2018
• Shane O’Mara September 4, 2018

• Rucka Rucka Ali August 28, 2018
• John Stossel August 21, 2018
• Freddy Lim August 14, 2018
• Matt Welch & Tom Woods August 7, 2018

• Mike Cernovich July 31, 2018
• Jessica Tarlov July 24, 2018
• Cody Wilson July 17, 2018
• Lauren Southern July 10, 2018
• Cathy Young July 3, 2018

• Ryan Holiday June 26, 2018
• Joe Machi June 19, 2018
• Scott Adams June 12, 2018
• Anthony Cumia June 5, 2018

• Stephan Kinsella May 29, 2018
• Geno Bisconte May 23, 2018
• Bethany Mandel May 16, 2018
• Lux Alptraum May 9, 2018
• Hotep Jesus May 2, 2018

• Aaron Berg April 25, 2018
• Kevin Gutzman April 18, 2018
• Karol Markowicz April 11, 2018

• Ed March 28, 2018
• March 21, 2018 Kristin Tate
• Pat Flynn March 14, 2018
• Tom Woods March 7, 2018

• [no guest] February 28, 2018
• Dave Rubin February 21, 2018
• Matt Iseman February 14, 2018
• Dan Gluck and Serge Becker February 7, 2018

• Frederick Bouchardy January 31, 2018
• [no guest] January 24, 2018 A Night for Freedom Mike Cernovich, Gavin McInness, Stefan Molyneux, Owen Benjamin
• Buck Sexton January 17, 2018
• Matt Welch January 10, 2018
• Owen Benjamin January 3, 2018

2017

• John DeVore December 27, 2017
• Ed Stringham December 20, 2017
• Janice Erlbaum December 13, 2017
• Brett Veinotte December 6, 2017

• Arthur Herman November 29, 2017
• Luis J. Gomez November 22, 2017
• Laura Loomer November 15, 2017
• David Pietrusza November 8, 2017
• Jeremie Ruby-Strauss November 1, 2017

• Tim Pool October 25, 2017
• Maddox October 18, 2017
• Kirsten Haglund October 11, 2017
• [no guest] October 4, 2017

• Lisa De Pasquale September 27, 2017
• Tom Ciccotta September 20, 2017
• Dave Smith September 13, 2017
• Stephen Miller September 6, 2017

• Gavin McInnes August 23, 2017
• Eliza Orlins August 16, 2017
• Thaddeus Russell August 9, 2017
• John Basedow August 2, 2017

• Don Caldwell July 26, 2017
• Kmele Foster July 19, 2017
• [no guest] July 12, 2017

• Jay Irwin (4chan) June 28, 2017
• Tom Shillue June 21, 2017
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