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Sally Chatterton is a British writer and anti-transgender extremist. Chatterton is editor of anti-trans publication UnHerd and is responsible for its consistent platforming of conservative and anti-trans voices.

Background

Chatterton earned a bachelor’s degree from Birmingham University in 1994 and earned a master’s degree from Institut Britannique, Paris in 1995.

Chatterton previously wrote for The Daily Telegraph and The Independent.

Chatterton was website editor for CapX, a publication of the right-wing Centre for Policy Studies.

Anti-transgender activism

Chatterton joined UnHerd in 2018. Chatterton has platformed dozens of conservative and anti-trans writers, including personally platforming Hannah Barnes and Kathleen Stock in attacks on trans healthcare for our children.

Media

UnHerd with Sally Chatterton and Kathleen Stock (October 19, 2023). Kathleen Stock: Inside Britain’s new trans clinics. UnHerd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QboHWVDCyDQ

UnHerd with Sally Chatterton and Hannah Barnes (March 2, 2023). Hannah Barnes: What went wrong at the Tavistock Centre. UnHerd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7ZqW6MxWxs

Resources

UnHerd (unherd.com)

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Muck Rack (muckrack.com)

Milo Yiannopoulos is a British right-wing extremist and troll. Yiannopoulos is a key figure in the alt-right and intellectual dark web movements.

Background

Milo Hanrahan was born on October 18, 1983 in Chatham, Kent, England to Catholic parents who soon divorced. Yiannopoulos is the surname of Milo’s subsequent stepparent.

Yiannopoulos attended University of Manchester and Wolfson College, Cambridge, but did not earn degrees from either. Yiannopoulos published works and photos as Milo Andreas Wagner around this time. Yiannopoulos founded Wrong Agency Limited in 2009. It dissolved in 2011.

Yiannopoulos wrote for the Catholic Herald and covered technology for the Daily Telegraph. There, Yiannopoulos developed a knack for clickbait and anti-progressive trolling. Yiannopoulos co-founded technology “drama” blog The Kernel and subscription newsletter The Nutshell with Stephen Pritchard. Following closure over unpaid debts, investor Berlin42 purchased the domain and settled all debts, relaunching The Kernel with Yiannopoulos as editor. In 2014, The Kernel was acquired by Daily Dot Media, and Yiannopoulos stepped down.

From 2014 to 2017, Yiannopoulos covered technology for Breitbart News. While there, Yiannopoulos was a key figure in Gamergate, a complex misogynistic online harassment campaign and right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game culture. Yiannopoulos was also a key figure in the 2016 presidential candidacy of Donald Trump.

Yiannopoulos left Breitbart in 2017, founded Milo Worldwide LLC, and self-published the book Dangerous after it was dropped by publisher Simon & Schuster after earlier comments Yiannopoulos made about pedophilia resurfaced. The ACLU filed suit on behalf of Yiannopoulos after transit ads for Dangerous were rejected by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority,.

In 2018, Yiannopoulos self-published the books How to Be Poor and How to Be Straight. In 2021 Yiannopoulos claimed to be an ex-gay and began fundraising to create a conversion therapy center in Florida. In 2023, Yiannopoulos was involved in the presidential campaign of Kanye West.

Anti-transgender activism

Yiannopoulos made countless inflammatory statements about transgender people during the 2010s, especially in connection with Donald Trump.

Here’s the dirty secret that only the progressive left doesn’t understand: Nobody cares about trannys. There aren’t any of them anywhere. No one cares. If you’re obsessed with gay issues, if you are gay and you go to gay clubs and you only read the left wing press, all you’ll ever hear about is “people want to cut their (expletives) off.” But the rest of the country doesn’t care. There just aren’t that many of them around. Who cares? And Donald Trump knows this, which is why it wasn’t damaging to him when he said he doesn’t care what bathroom Caitlyn Jenner uses, and it’s not damaging to him now when he’s gone the other direction and said he doesn’t want them in the military. No one in America actually cares, and Donald Trump instinctively understands this.

Mitchell (2017)

References

Mitchell, Conner (July 31, 2017). Yiannopoulos doesn’t hold back on transgender rights, women in military, more. The Palm Beach Post https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/politics/2017/07/31/yiannopoulos-doesn-t-hold-back/7089635007/ [archive]

Reynolds, Daniel (October 26, 2016). Milo Yiannopoulos Takes Transphobia on Tour. The Advocate https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/10/26/milo-yiannopoulos-takes-transphobia-tour

Anti-trans coverage

Long, Camilla (February 26, 2017). Milo Yiannopoulos is not so ‘funny and hot and right’ any more. The Australian https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-times/milo-yiannopoulos-the-pied-piper-of-hate-goes-up-in-flames/news-story/a302709bea5b6fdc571c3a025992f3ff

Lynskey, Dorian (February 21, 2017). The rise and fall of Milo Yiannopoulos – how a shallow actor played the bad guy for money. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/21/milo-yiannopoulos-rise-and-fall-shallow-actor-bad-guy-hate-speech

Williams-Grut, Oscar (June 2, 2013). The Kernel’s back to make new enemies. The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/the-kernel-s-back-to-make-new-enemies-8640597.html

Dunbar, Max (January 9, 2013). Milo Yiannopoulos and the Kernel. WordPress https://maxdunbar.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/milo-yiannopoulous-and-the-kernel/

Dowell, Ben (July 7, 2012). Milo Yiannopoulos – meet the ‘pit bull’ of tech media. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/jul/08/milo-yiannopoulos-kernel-technology-interview

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Wrong Agency Limited [UK]

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Sentinel Media Ltd [UK]

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The Kernel (kernelmag.com) [archive]

Milo Worldwide LLC

Milo Entertainment Inc.

Milo Inc.

Dangerous (dangerous.com) [archive 2017-2019]

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Daily Dot (dailydot.com)

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“Kiira Triea” aka Denise Magner was an American computer programmer, hoaxer, and troll. Magner was one of the worst transgender internet trolls of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, using many fake names and accounts to attack perceived enemies.

Magner was a key “autogynephilia” activist, primarily through the transkids.us hoax site and through collaborations with academic fraudsters Alice Dreger and J. Michael Bailey.

Like many “autogynephilia” activists, Magner was an eccentric hoarder living in desperate poverty. Dreger and Bailey are notorious for exploiting these kinds of people, who seek validation and attention from those they see as authority figures.

In this section:

Background

Magner falsely claimed to be born as late as 1964 in published interviews and writing. Magner was born September 2, 1951.

Magner claimed to have been a patient at Johns Hopkins Gender Identity Clinic in the mid-1970s, having genital surgery at age 14. Magner was not at Johns Hopkins at age 14. Magner did not have surgery at age 14. Magner did not know or interact with unethical sexologist John Money’s victim David Reimer in any way. There is no independent evidence that Magner was ever even at the Johns Hopkins clinic or the Psychohormonal Research Unit. It’s entirely possible Magner cobbled together this biography from relative Nancy Henley, who earned a Ph.D. there. Magner made countless other bogus biographical claims. Magner later tried to scrub these from the internet when the lies piled up so deep they began to contradict each other.

Magner died of cancer on November 2, 2012 at age 61.

Kiira Triea (right) with a non-transgender woman.
Kiira Triea (right) with a non-transgender woman.
Kiira Triea and swastika.
Kiira Triea posing by a swastika.

Trolling

Magner used a multitude of aliases and sockpuppet accounts during decades of trolling. The primary ones were:

  • Deni
  • Denise Tree
  • Kiira Triea (pronounced “KEER-uh TREE”)
  • Ariika Aeirt
  • Janelle Laren
  • Reykja Kirby Sigurdson
  • Stephanie Alexandra Velasquez
  • Gisle Benediktsson

Gender critical activism

Magner has been cited as evidence by those opposed to trans rights, including an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court:

Transgender advocates seek to expand sex to include a host of subjective criteria, such as a person’s “brain gender” and the child-rearing they receive,42 “social activities,”43 and even “[w]ho one dates.”44 One amicus asserts that gender is “fluid” with a “continuous dimension of masculinity/femininity”45 But these ideological factors cannot define what it means to be male or female.46

This was submitted by anti-trans groups that include:

  • The American College of Pediatricians
  • The Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture
  • The Christian Medical and Dental Associations
  • The National Catholic Bioethics Center

References

Cowan, Zagria (September 13, 2010). Kiira Triea (1951 – 2012) intersex/HSTS activist, guitarist, Linux geek. A Gender Variance Who’s Who https://zagria.blogspot.com/2010/09/kiira-triea-1951-2012-intersexhsts.html

-https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-107/113231/20190822134020283_18-107%20Amici%20BOM%20National%20Medical%20and%20Policy%20Groups.pdf

Bailey JM, [Magner D] (2007). What many transsexual activists don’t want you to know and why you should know it anyway. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 50, 521–534. https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2007.0041

Triea K, Diamond M, Reiner WG (2009). Results from a pediatric surgical center justify intervention in disorders of sex development. J Pediatr Surg 2009 Sep;44(9):1863; author reply 1863-4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2009.04.038

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Suzanne Moore is a British writer, sex segregationist, and anti-transgender activist. Moore is a key historic figure in British anti-trans media. Moore has written for several anti-traans publications, including New Statesman, The Independent, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and UnHerd.

Background

Suzanne Lynn Moore was born on July 17, 1958 in Ipswich, Suffolk. Moore graduated Northgate Grammar School for Girls. Moore attended Middlesex University London (the Middlesex Poly) starting in 1982. Moore left the PhD program for work as a cultural critic at Marxism Today and the New Statesman. Moore has written for The Independent, The Mail on Sunday, The Guardian, and The Telegraph. Moore won the 2019 Orwell Prize. Two anthologies of Moore’s work have been published: Looking for Trouble (1991) and Head over Heels (1996).

Moore has three children.

Anti-trans activism

Moore had become notorious for provocative anti-transender statements on social media.

In 2013, a piece Moore had written for the 2012 anthology Red was reposted in New Statesman. It included this passage:

The cliché is that female anger is always turned inwards rather than outwards into despair. We are angry with ourselves for not being happier, not being loved properly and not having the ideal body shape – that of a Brazilian transsexual. 

After many objected to this passage, Moore doubled down with a response:

Gender, we thought, was just a performance, a social construct, though no one ever explained why we are compelled to repeat the same performance over and over. I had a baby, which was somehow more than “performative”. Others I knew had sex changes. Or transitioning, as it is now called. Mostly this seemed to be an obsession with secondary sexual characteristics: peeing sitting down if they had been a man, wearing horrible lumberjack shirts and refusing to wash up if they had been a woman. The radical fluidity of gender vaporised. Some trans people appeared to reinforce every gender stereotype going.

Julie Burchill wrote a defensei of Moore titled “Transsexuals should cut it out” that called trans women “bed-wetters in bad wigs” and “dicks in chicks’ clothing.” That piece was withdrawn by the editor, who apologized. Anti-trans troll Toby Young later republished Burchill’s piece.

Moore continued to make anti-trans comments on social media, occasionally leaving various platforms before returning.

In 2020, after historian Selina Todd spoke at a Woman’s Place UK event, Todd was disinvited from a National Women’s Liberation Conference celebration at Exeter College. In response, Moore published a Guardian column outlining several sex segregationist views:

The radical insight of feminism is that gender is a social construct – that girls and women are not fated to be feminine, that boys and men don’t have to be masculine. But we have gone through the looking-glass and are being told that sex is a construct. […]

The materiality of having a female body may mean rape or it may mean childbirth – but we still seek liberation from gender. In some transgender ideology, we are told the opposite: gender is material and therefore can be possessed by whoever claims it, and it is sex as a category that is a social construction. Thus, sex-based rights, protected in law, can be done away with. […]

Male violence is an issue for women, which is why we want single-sex spaces. Vulnerable women in refuges and prisons must be allowed to live in safe environments – the common enemy here is the patriarchy, remember? How did we arrive at a situation where there are shocking and rising numbers of teenage girls presenting at specialist clinics with gender dysphoria, while some who have transitioned are now regretful and infertile?

More than 200 politicians, journalists, and activists signed a letter denouncing the piece:

“We reject the argument put forward in a column by by Suzanne Moore in which she implies that advocating for trans rights poses a threat to cisgender women. The British Social Attitudes Survey (2017) found that a majority of the British public were supportive of transgender people, with women more likely to be in favour of trans rights than men. Moore’s column does not represent the views of the public, nor is it representative of the views of most women.”

After leaving the Guardian later that year, Moore revealed in UnHerd that Guardian editors had removed other anti-trans statements from pieces prior to publication.

Looking back, I see that by the late Eighties and early Nineties, I had already picked up on something that perturbed me. A denial of female biology, of our ability to name and define our experience. Some of this came from certain strands of postmodern theory where objective reality gives way only to multiple subjectivities. A kind of gender tourism became possible. Everyone could be everything. A new kind of feminism came into being, one in which flesh and blood women and our desires became somehow a bit dull. Feminism without women. Grow a child inside you and push it out of your body and tell me this is a construct. (NB: no one has to have children.) […]

No, what I most didn’t and don’t like is the erasing of female bodies and female voices and female experience and our ability to name it.

What I care about fundamentally is the right of women to meet in single sex spaces and assert themselves as a class, a sex class — one that is oppressed by a patriarchal system. By men, even sometimes the good ones. As for the bad ones, they are the ones who rape and kill trans folk, too.

Feminism has to be able to talk about bodies. Many of the advances women have made in my lifetime — reproductive rights, more choice over how we give birth, discussions of menstruation and menopause — depend on biology, the biology we were now told was irrelevant.

The Telegraph

In 2021, Moore joined The Telegraph as a columnist. Moore’s anti-trans content grew more strident and frequent over the years. In 2025, the vast majority of Moore’s columns were anti-trans rants.

References

Lewis, Sophie (Fall 2024). TERF Island: There have always been enemies inside the feminist camp. Lux Magazine https://lux-magazine.com/article/terf-island/

Thurlow, Claire (2024). ‘It’s just common sense’: A Critical Exploration of Contemporary Trans-Exclusionary Feminism. Cardiff University https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/169922/1/2024ThurlowCPhD.pdf

Maurice, Emma Powys (December 11, 2020). Suzanne Moore defends Boris Johnson’s ‘right’ to say Muslim women ‘look like letter boxes.’ PinkNews https://www.thepinknews.com/2020/12/11/suzanne-moore-bbc-newsnight-kirsty-wark-boris-johnson-muslim-free-speech/

Stone, Gemma (December 5, 2020). As Expected, Suzanne Moore has been silenced apparently. Medium https://medium.com/@notCursedE/as-expected-suzanne-moore-has-been-silenced-apparently-79e11798ceaa

Tobitt, Charlotte (November 17, 2020). Suzanne Moore leaves Guardian months after staff send letter of revolt over ‘transphobic content.’ PressGazette https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/suzanne-moore-leaves-guardian-months-after-staff-send-letter-of-revolt-over-transphobic-content/

Kim, Michelle Hyun (March 6, 2020). 200+ feminists sign letter denouncing anti-trans Guardian essay. them https://www.them.us/story/suzanne-moore-guardian-anti-trans

Parsons, Vic (March 5, 2020). Hundreds of feminists write to The Guardian rejecting argument that trans rights threaten women. PinkNews https://www.thepinknews.com/2020/03/05/the-guardian-anti-trans-editorial-feminists-letter-suzanne-moore-transphobia/

Forrester, Kate (March 3, 2020). Trans Woman Announces Resignation From The Guardian In Packed Staff Meeting Amid Transphobia Row: The woman is the third trans person in months to walk out of the newspaper – this time over a controversial column by Suzanne Moore. Huffpost UK https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/dfgdfgdfgfd_uk_5e5e7444c5b6732f50e8d509

Scotee, Scotee (October 29, 2015). Why are so many feminists transphobic? iid https://i-d.co/article/why-are-so-many-feminists-transphobic/

Rose, Katrina (January 17, 2013). Sounds Like a Threat to Me. TransAdvocate https://www.transadvocate.com/sounds-like-a-threat-to-me_n_8304.htm

Burnett, Dean (January 15, 2013). Julie Burchill, transphobia and hostility towards the victims of oppression. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2013/jan/15/julie-burchill-transphobia-hostility-victims-oppression

Sweeney, Mark (January 14, 2013). The Observer withdraws Julie Burchill column as editor publishes apology. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jan/14/observer-withdraws-julie-burchill-column

Roberts, Scott (January 11, 2013). Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore leaves Twitter following transphobic row. PinkNews https://www.thepinknews.com/2013/01/11/guardian-columnist-suzanne-moore-leaves-twitter-following-transphobic-row/

McCormick, Joseph (January 10, 2013). Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore refuses to apologise after accusations of transphobia. PinkNews https://www.thepinknews.com/2013/01/10/suzanne-moore-my-use-of-the-word-transsexual-in-an-article-was-irrelevant/

Anti-trans coverage

Jones, Owen (August 6, 2021). The lies of anti-trans rights activists need to be rebutted once and for all. Medium https://owenjones84.medium.com/the-lies-of-anti-trans-rights-activists-need-to-be-rebutted-once-and-for-all-2780ad5f908

Jones, Jane Clare (2021). Wokeism and the Left: Jane Clare Jones in Conversation With Suzanne Moore. The Radical Notion https://theradicalnotion.org/wokeism-and-the-left-jane-clare-jones-in-conversation-with-suzanne-moore/

Shields, Bevan (December 6, 2020). Cancelled Suzanne Moore speaks up on way out. The Sydney Morning Herald https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/don-t-go-into-journalism-if-you-just-want-to-be-liked-cancelled-suzanne-moore-speaks-up-on-way-out-20201204-p56kjv.html

Wilby, Peter (November 24, 2020). First Thoughts: How Suzanne Moore split the Guardian. New Statesman https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2020/11/first-thoughts-how-suzanne-moore-split-guardian

Driscoll, Margarette (November 25, 2020). Suzanne Moore: ‘I was betrayed and bullied for saying that women should not be silenced’The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/suzanne-moore-betrayed-bullied-saying-women-should-not-silenced/

Todd, Selina (November 21, 2020). Suzanne Moore defended my views on sex and identity. Now it’s my turn to stand up for her. The Times https://www.thetimes.com/uk/society/article/suzanne-moore-defended-my-views-on-sex-and-identity-now-its-my-turn-to-stand-up-for-her-xp3ztr5g9

Gordon, Amy; Robinson, James (November 17, 2020). Comment is free (unless you’re a ‘transphobe’): Death of free speech at the Guardian as columnist Suzanne Moore quits after 300 staff sign petition against her claim that gender is more than a ‘feeling.’ Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8958283/Columnist-Suzanne-Moore-quits-Guardian.html

Massie, Alex (November 16, 2020). Suzanne Moore’s departure is a sad day for the GuardianThe Spectator https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/suzanne-moore-s-departure-is-a-sad-day-for-the-guardian

Bindel, Julie (March 19, 2020). The appalling treatment of Suzanne Moore. UnHerd https://unherd.com/newsroom/the-appalling-treatment-of-suzanne-moore/

O’Neill, Brendan (March 10, 2020). In defence of Suzanne Moore: Trans women are not women and that’s all there is to it. Spiked https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/03/10/in-defence-of-suzanne-moore/

Gray, Lachlan Moffet (Mar 8, 2020). Guardian staff blast ‘anti-trans’ column. The Australian https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/guardian-staff-blast-suzanne-moores-antitrans-column/news-story/702cef6025f63387602273aaf6904ac9

Massie, Alex (March 7, 2020). The row over Suzanne Moore is a test for the Guardian’s liberal credentials. The Spectator https://spectator.com/article/the-row-over-suzanne-moore-is-a-test-for-the-guardian-s-liberal-credentials/

Strudwick, Patrick (March 6, 2020). Hundreds Of Staff At The Guardian Have Signed A Letter To The Editor Criticising Its “Transphobic Content.” Buzzfeed News https://www.buzzfeed.com/patrickstrudwick/guardian-staff-trans-rights-letter

Editors (March 4, 2020). Letters: Differing perspectives on transgender rights. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/04/differing-perspectives-on-transgender-rights

Rolland, Gonzague (February 12, 2021). Suzanne Moore, the disliked ex-witch of the “Guardian.” CTRLZ https://ctrlzmag.com/suzanne-moore-the-disliked-ex-witch-of-the-guardian/

Selected writing by Moore

Moore, Suzanne (December 29, 2025). This must be the year Britain finally kills off trans ideology. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/29/suzanne-moore-year-finally-kill-trans-ideology/

Moore, Suzanne (December 22, 2025). No wonder the NHS is in crisis when nurses are forced to deny biology. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/22/nurses-are-forced-to-deny-biology/

Moore, Suzanne (November 24, 2025). Wes Streeting said he’d protect children from the trans contagion. It was a lie. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/24/puberty-blocker-trial-betrayal-streeting-must-stop/

Moore, Suzanne (November 12, 2025). The Olympics is finally turning its back on trans nonsense. Now others must do the same. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/12/the-olympics-is-finally-turning-its-back-on-trans-nonsense/

Moore, Suzanne (November 5, 2025). The BBC’s trans lies are grotesque. I’m not paying the licence fee. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/05/bbc-trans-lies-grotesque-not-paying-licence-fee/

Moore, Suzanne (October 16, 2025). Only one side of the trans ‘debate’ blocks free speech and uses violence. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/16/trans-book-banning-hypocrites-causing-violence/

Moore, Suzanne (September 29, 2025). Emma Watson’s treatment of JK Rowling exposes her as a deluded hypocrite. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/29/emma-watson-jk-rowling-trans-rights/

Moore, Suzanne (September 22, 2025). Zarah Sultana is right, Jeremy Corbyn does have a woman problem. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/22/zarah-sultana-jeremy-corbyn-woman-problem/

Moore, Suzanne (September 2, 2025). The arrest of gender-critical Graham Linehan is insane. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/02/gender-critical-graham-linehan-arrest-free-speech/

Moore, Suzanne (August 27, 2025). If we can’t trust the BBC to stop calling obviously male criminals ‘women’, we will go elsewhere. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/27/bbc-wants-trust-stop-calling-male-criminals-women/

Moore, Suzanne (August 6, 2025). Bra-buying is excruciating enough without ‘help’ from trans M&S workers. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/06/young-girls-bras-marks-and-spencers-trans-workers/

Moore, Suzanne (July 21, 2025). I admit to being a ‘Terf’: Tired of Explaining Reality to Fools. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/21/i-admit-to-being-a-terf/

Moore, Suzanne (July 14, 2025). Why is the NHS spending hundreds of thousands of pounds attacking women? The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/14/sandie-peggie-tribunal-nhs-trans-row-suzanne-moore/

Moore, Suzanne (June 30, 2025). The trans rights grift is over. The sooner everyone accepts that the better. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/30/the-supreme-courts-trans-ruling-is-the-new-brexit/

Moore, Suzanne (June 2, 2025). The BBC is spouting gender nonsense again with its new trans drama. When will it learn? The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/02/what-it-feels-like-for-a-girl-bbc-trans-paris-lees/

Moore, Suzanne (May 28, 2025). Woke barrister Jolyon will find JK Rowling a far tougher opponent than the fox he beat to death. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/28/jolyon-maugham-accuses-jk-rowling-of-anti-feminism/

Moore, Suzanne (May 13, 2025). A woman saying no to trans ideology should be enough. In the NHS it isn’t. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/13/a-woman-saying-no-to-trans-ideology-should-be-enough/

Moore, Suzanne (April 28, 2025). Finally, we’re screening ‘trans’ children for autism – but let’s not swap one mania for another. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/28/trans-children-autism-overdiagnose-neurodivergence/

Moore, Suzanne (April 24, 2025). Alastair Campbell’s attempt to argue against the Supreme Court ruling is just embarrassing. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/24/alastair-campbell-thinks-women-fighting-trans-activism/

Moore, Suzanne (Aoril 21, 2025). I will never stop arguing for women’s rights – even when the trans lobby call me the enemy. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2025/04/21/what-happened-to-womens-rights/

Moore, Suzanne (April 16, 2025). The courts have spelled out what our politicians are too scared to say. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/16/courts-spelled-out-what-politicians-are-too-scared-to-say/

Moore, Suzanne (April 15, 2025). The Supreme Court ruling on what it means to be a woman is a chance to take back our rights. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/15/suzanne-moore-equality-law-revamp-definition-of-a-woman/

Moore, Suzanne (March 25, 2025). The woke institutions backpedalling on trans ideology owe the public a huge apology. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/25/woke-institutions-backpedalling-on-trans-ideology/

Moore, Suzanne (March 21, 2025). The Bad Column. Five Years On… Letters from Suzanne https://suzannemoore.substack.com/p/the-bad-column-five-years-on

Moore, Suzanne (February 17, 2025). Why would any woman work for the NHS after this nurse’s experience? The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/17/woman-work-nhs-nurse-experience/

Moore, Suzanne (February 15, 2025). Female-only app founder Sall Grover: ‘I’ve been called a “Nazi bigot” for my trans views.’ The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/15/female-only-app-founder-sall-grover-trans-views/

Moore, Suzanne (February 11, 2025). It’s shameful that it has taken Nigel Farage to kill off Labour’s trans obsession. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/11/nigel-farage-has-killed-labour-trans-obsession/

Moore, Suzanne (January 29, 2025). Trump’s ban on gender transitioning has turned the tide on an indefensible cult. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/29/trump-ban-gender-transitioning-turned-the-tide-cult/

Moore, Suzanne (December 17, 2024). Time wasted on trans ideology has meant more pregnant women dying under the NHS. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12/17/time-wasted-on-trans-ideology-means-pregnant-women-dying/

Moore, Suzanne (December 10, 2024). The trans cult is crumbling in Europe – now America needs to catch up. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12/10/the-trans-cult-is-crumbling-in-europe-america-must-catch-up/

Moore, Suzanne (November 12, 2024). Alastair Campbell is mansplaining what women have been telling him for a decade. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/12/alastair-campbell-rest-is-politics-mansplains-women-trans/

Moore, Suzanne (November 12, 2024). The ‘male menopause’ is the peak of our institutions’ ‘biology is not real’ insanity. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/12/the-nhs-is-failing-women-its-their-male-menopause-policy/

Moore, Suzanne (October 29, 2024). Clare Balding is wrong – mixed-sex sport will only ostracise women. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/29/clare-balding-mixed-sex-sport-women-trans-athletes/

Moore, Suzanne (September 24, 2024). Labour can’t be trusted to protect women – they can’t even define one. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/24/labour-party-conference-womens-rights-trans-starmer/

Moore, Suzanne (August 26, 2024). Roxanne Tickle proves that trans rights now trump women’s rights. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/08/26/roxanne-tickle-proves-trans-rights-now-trump-womens-rights/

Moore, Suzanne (August 12, 2024). Seb Coe could be the saviour of women’s sport – and put an end to the ridiculous gender rows. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/08/12/seb-coe-ioc-president-olympics-gender-parity-womens-sport/

Moore, Suzanne (August 1, 2024). A woman has been punched by a biological male – is this what we now call sport? The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/08/01/angela-carini-imane-khelif-italian-boxer-punched/

Moore, Suzanne (July 16, 2024). Wes Streeting will suffer unhinged abuse simply for protecting children. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/07/16/wes-streeting-suffer-unhinged-abuse-protecting-children/

Moore, Suzanne (June 25, 2024). If Keir actually listened to women, I’d have more time for his morally superior ‘feminist’ posturing. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/06/25/sir-keir-labour-womens-rights-general-election-2024/

Moore, Suzanne (June 5, 2024). I won’t vote Tory, but there’s a good reason Labour haven’t won me over yet. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/06/05/not-vote-tory-labour-protect-womens-rights/

Moore, Suzanne (May 21, 2024). Another win against the trans lobby shows why Starmer’s gender plans are all wrong. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/05/21/edinburgh-rape-crisis-centre-trans-lobby-starmer-gender/

Moore, Suzanne (May 6, 2024). Don’t trans activists get it? Single-sex loos are about privacy not gender. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/05/06/suzanne-moore-single-sex-toilets-privacy/

Moore, Suzanne (April 30, 2024). Stonewall’s guidance on gender doesn’t stand up in law. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/04/30/stonewall-guidance-no-basis-in-law-gender-critical-tribunal/

Moore, Suzanne (April 23, 2024). People are in denial following the Cass report – it’s like deprogramming cult members. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/04/23/suzanne-moore-cass-review-report-cult/

Moore, Suzanne (April 9, 2024). Trans children have been lied to by adults – the Cass report may now see the legal dam break. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/04/09/cass-report-trans-children-have-been-lied-to-by-adults/

Moore, Suzanne (April 5, 2024). JK Rowling’s victory over Humza Yousaf’s hate crime laws is a victory for all women. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/04/05/jk-rowling-courage-snp-scotland-hate-crime-law-humza-yousaf/

Moore, Suzanne (March 17, 2024). Denying Sex, Denying Death: Reflections on the last four years. Letters from Suzanne https://suzannemoore.substack.com/p/denying-sex-denying-death

Moore, Suzanne (March 12, 2024). Our worst fears about gender treatment have been confirmed in leaked documents. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/03/12/leaks-us-gender-group-wpath/

Moore, Suzanne (March 5, 2024). I won’t sacrifice my safety just so a trans woman feels validated. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/03/05/transgender-men-women-hampstead-ponds-women-safety/

Moore, Suzanne (January 30, 2024). I don’t need my sexuality affirmed at a railway station – I just want the trains to run on time. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/01/30/london-bridge-pride-column-trains-virtue-signalling/

Moore, Suzanne (January 16, 2024). In Scotland no one can define gender identity – so how can the country legislate for it? The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/01/16/scotland-gender-identity-sex-transgender-yousaf-roddick/

Moore, Suzanne (December 12, 2023). Why can’t people accept that some trans women are just conmen? The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/12/12/some-transgender-women-conmen-self-id-scotland/

Moore, Suzanne (October 31, 2023). The Welsh government’s fixation on trans issues is baffling. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/10/31/welsh-government-fixation-trans-issues-baffling/

Moore, Suzanne (September5, 2023). Even private chats can get you cancelled by gender ideologues. The Telegraphhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/09/05/roisin-murphy-moloko-cancelling-no-private-conversation/

Moore, Suzanne (August 18, 2023). Banning free speech in the name of inclusivity and diversity is the Fringe’s sickest joke. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comedy/comedians/graham-linehan-edinburgh-fringe-banning-free-speech/

Moore, Suzanne (July 31, 2023). Why did Jacqueline Rose erase women? Her attack on biological sex is patriarchy in drag. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2023/07/why-did-jacqueline-rose-erase-women/

Moore, Suzanne (July 29, 2023). Sir Keir Starmer has changed his trans self ID stance – but he needs his MPs to follow. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/07/29/sir-keir-starmer-labour-trans-policy-duffield-russell-moyle/

Moore, Suzanne (June 27, 2023). I long defended the BBC, but I can’t justify the licence fee anymore. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/06/27/bbc-tv-license-refuse-to-pay/

Moore, Suzanne (June 8, 2023). ‘Terf’ is the ultimate slur against women. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/terf-ultimate-slur-against-women-transphobia-feminism/

Moore, Suzanne (May 30, 2023). The cult of gender ideology is finally disintegrating. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/05/30/the-cult-of-gender-ideology-finally-crumbling/

Moore, Suzanne (April 18, 2023). Our hospitals are not safe places for women. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/04/18/our-hospitals-are-not-safe-for-women/

Moore, Suzanne (April 11, 2023). Even the trans lobby can’t override biology in sport. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/04/11/lia-thomas-transgender-swimmer-riley-gaines-sport-biology/

Moore, Suzanne (April 4, 2023). Keir Starmer’s mishandling of the trans debate is an open goal for the Tories. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/04/04/keir-starmer-trans-debate-labour-women-gender/

Moore, Suzanne (March 1, 2023). The ‘reactionary feminist’ who rails against progress – and the pill. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/reactionary-feminist-who-rails-against-progress-pill/

Moore, Suzanne (February 21, 2023). Thank god, younger generations are finally turning their back on the ridiculous woke agenda. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/02/21/thank-god-gen-z-finally-turning-back-ridiculous-woke-agenda/

Moore, Suzanne (February 14, 2023). Time to Think review: the book that tells the full story of the Tavistock’s trans scandal. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/time-think-review-book-tells-full-story-tavistocks-trans-scandal/

Moore, Suzanne (January 24, 2023). The Scottish Gender Recognition row has caused some particular nasties to crawl out. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/01/24/trans-activists-giving-men-even-power-women/

Moore, Suzanne (January 23, 2023). Women, get ready to fight for our rights this year. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/01/03/women-get-ready-fight-rights-year/

Moore, Suzanne (December 13, 2022). JK Rowling is right – safe spaces for women must be protected. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/12/13/jk-rowling-right-safe-spaces-women-must-protected/

Moore, Suzanne (December 6, 2022). The Guardian is hiding the truth about trans. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/12/06/guardian-hiding-truth-trans/

Moore, Suzanne (November 28, 2022). Transgender Jesus? The Church has much more important things to worry about. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/11/28/transgender-jesus-church-has-much-important-things-worry/

Moore, Suzanne (November 15, 2022). Even the New York Times is waking up to the truth about trans. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/11/15/even-new-york-times-waking-truth-trans/

Moore, Suzanne (September 27, 2022). It’s not transphobic to question child chest binding. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/09/27/not-transphobic-question-child-chest-binding/

Moore, Suzanne (August 15, 2022). We should have defended JK Rowling when we had the chance. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/08/16/should-have-defended-jk-rowling-when-had-chance/

Moore, Suzanne (August 2, 2022). Labour’s trans-rights policy is looking increasingly absurd. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/08/02/labours-trans-rights-policy-looking-increasingly-absurd/

Moore, Suzanne (July 28, 2022). We will look back with horror at this mutilation of children done in the name of medicine. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/28/will-look-back-horror-mutilation-children-done-name-medicine/

Moore, Suzanne (May 31, 2022). The sexual revolution has backfired on women. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/05/31/sexual-revolution-came-cost-modern-mary-whitehouse-right/

Moore, Suzanne (May 17, 2022). Trans rights ‘activists’ give protesters a bad name. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/05/17/trans-rights-activists-give-protesters-bad-name/

Moore, Suzanne (April 26, 2022). If Stonewall doesn’t represent a woman like Allison Bailey, then who is it for? The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/04/26/stonewall-doesnt-represent-woman-like-allison-bailey/

Moore, Suzanne (April 15, 2022). How the Guardian enables Owen Jones: Trans people are pawns in his narcissistic war. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2022/04/how-the-guardian-enables-owen-jones/

Moore, Suzanne (April 11, 2022). The truth about my raucous lunch with JK Rowling. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/truth-raucous-lunch-jk-rowling/

Moore, Suzanne (March 29, 2022). In war zones there’s no doubt what a woman is. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/03/29/war-zones-no-doubt-woman/

Moore, Suzanne (March 10, 2022). When did ‘woman’ become the hardest word to define? The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/did-woman-become-hardest-word-define/

Moore, Suzanne (March 8, 2022). Let’s be honest on International Women’s Day – we have gone backwards, not forwards. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/03/08/honest-international-womens-day-have-gone-backwards-not-forwards/

Moore, Suzanne (February 22, 2022). JK Rowling is too big to cancel – so now the Left wants to pretend she never existed. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/02/22/jk-rowling-big-cancel-now-left-wants-pretend-never-existed/

Moore, Suzanne (February 1, 2022). Our ‘inclusive’ world is anything but – it excludes women, renames us and disappears us. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/02/01/inclusive-world-anything-excludes-women-renames-us-disappears/

Moore, Suzanne (January 11, 2022). Vulnerable women are the ones who are suffering in the trans-identified male row. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/01/11/vulnerable-women-ones-suffering-trans-identified-male-row/

Moore, Suzanne (December 21, 2021). The year we gave up on reality: Some lies matter more than others. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2021/12/the-year-we-gave-up-on-reality/

Moore, Suzanne (December 14, 2021). To think you can undermine women’s rights and disappear JK Rowling is magical thinking. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2021/12/14/think-can-undermine-womens-rights-disappear-jk-rowling-magical/

Moore, Suzanne (October 26, 2021). Today, even a game of bingo can be turned into a trans issue. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2021/10/26/today-even-game-bingo-can-turned-trans-issue/

Moore, Suzanne (October 14, 2021). This is not a trans issue – we must all stand up for free speech. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2021/10/14/not-trans-issue-must-stand-free-speech/

Moore, Suzanne (October 9, 2021). Universities have a moral duty to defend dissident academics like Kathleen Stock. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/10/09/universities-have-moral-duty-defend-dissident-academics-like/

Moore, Suzanne (September 28, 2021). Does Mrs Starmer have a cervix? … and other questions I have about Labour’s woman problem. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2021/09/28/does-mrs-starmer-have-cervix-questions-have-labours-woman-problem/

Moore, Suzanne (September 21, 2021). To be a woman in the public eye today means pricing in the vitriol. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2021/09/21/woman-public-eye-today-means-pricing-vitriol/

Moore, Suzanne (September 14, 2021). How did the Tories become the only party to protect women? The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2021/09/14/did-tories-become-party-protect-women/

Moore, Suzanne (August 30, 2021). The Manchester Pride video shows you can now be ‘the wrong kind of gay.’ The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2021/08/30/manchester-pride-video-shows-can-now-wrong-kind-gay/

Moore, Suzanne (August 2, 2021). Laurel Hubbard’s Olympic quest hasn’t helped trans rights. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2021/08/02/laurel-hubbards-olympic-quest-hasnt-helped-trans-rights/

Moore, Suzanne (July 13, 2021). If we can’t use the word ‘woman’ about childbirth, we’re in trouble. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2021/07/13/cant-use-word-woman-childbirth-trouble/

Moore, Suzanne (June 10, 2021). Maya Forstater’s victory injects some good sense into the toxic trans debate. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/10/maya-forstaters-victory-injects-good-sense-toxic-trans-debate/

Moore, Suzanne (May 29, 2021). It’s wrong to erase women for the rights of others. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2021/05/25/wrong-erase-women-rights-others/

Moore, Suzanne (March 30, 2021). The women’s vote counts – so why don’t women? The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/womens-vote-counts-dont-women/

Moore, Suzanne (March 15, 2021). What today’s young women should learn from older generations. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/can-turn-moment-movement-women/

Moore, Suzanne (March 8, 2021). I don’t know what the point of International Women’s Day is any more. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/dont-know-point-international-womens-day/

Moore, Suzanne (February 27, 2021). Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life, review: Jordan Peterson is back with a self-help book that is not here to hug you better. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/beyond-order-12-rules-life-review-jordan-peterson-back-self/

Moore, Suzanne (February 9, 2021). The only wrong way to be a woman these days is to stand up for women’s rights. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/wrong-way-woman-days-stand-womens-rights/

Moore, Suzanne (January 19, 2021). The kindest among us are the quietest about it. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/kindest-among-usare-quietest/

Moore, Suzanne (November 25, 2020). Why I had to leave The GuardianUnHerd https://unherd.com/2020/11/why-i-had-to-leave-the-guardian/

Moore, Suzanne (August 3, 2020). If we can’t define what a woman is, how can we organise politically? The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/03/define-what-a-woman-is-organise-politically-suzanne-moore

Moore, Suzanne (June 11, 2020). Who decided that letting posh young actors police my womanhood was progress? The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/decided-letting-posh-young-actors-police-womanhood-progress/

Moore, Suzanne (March 10, 2020). I wish everyone raw strength, however they identify. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/10/i-wish-everyone-strength-however-they-identify-suzanne-moore

Moore, Suzanne (March 2, 2020). Women must have the right to organise. We will not be silencedThe Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/society/commentisfree/2020/mar/02/women-must-have-the-right-to-organise-we-will-not-be-silenced

Moore, Suzanne (February 14, 2020). The trans rights charter is another way for Labour to put women in their place. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/02/14/trans-rights-charter-another-way-labour-put-women-intheir-place/

Moore, Suzanne (April 8, 2018). Jacqueline Rose’s book offers a clear-sighted analysis of what it means to be a mother. New Statesman https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2018/04/jacqueline-rose-s-book-offers-clear-sighted-analysis-what-it-means-be-mother

Moore, Suzanne (September 5, 2016). Suzanne Moore: Why I was wrong about men. You can’t hate them all, can you? Actually, I can. New Statesman https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2016/09/suzanne-moore-why-i-was-wrong-about-men

Moore, Suzanne (October 8, 2015). When you receive death threats online, it’s good to know who has your back. The Guardian https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/2015/10/when-you-receive-death-threats-online-its-good-know-who-has-your-back

Moore, Suzanne (July 3, 2015). When I worked at Marxism Today, my desire to earn a living proved to be somewhat déclassé. The Guardian https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/07/when-i-worked-marxism-today-my-desire-earn-living-proved-be-somewhat-d-class

Moore, Suzanne (January 8, 2013). Seeing red: the power of female anger. New Statesman https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/01/seeing-red-power-female-anger [archive]

Moore, Suzanne (January 9, 2013). I don’t care if you were born a woman or became one. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/09/dont-care-if-born-woman

Books

Media

Tufty / Woman’s Hour with Suzanne Moore (December 12, 2022). Suzanne Moore discusses JK Rowling’s Beira’s Place on Woman’s Hour. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGMomyUSJ9A

The Telegraph with Steven Edginton and Suzanne Moore (October 15, 2021). Suzanne Moore on left-wing “puritanism” & threats to free speech | Off Script. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l586S4zuzVo

Woman’s Place UK with Suzanne Moore and Kathleen Stock (May 8, 2021). A Woman’s Place in a Material World (Suzanne Moore & Kathleen Stock) remastered audio. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEAxgliyygM

ReNEWS with Suzanne Moore (April 29, 2021). ReNEWS Culture Wars conversation, with guest Suzanne Moore on identity politics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2UPeEOXBF8

The Mess We’re In with Graham Linehan, “Arty Morty,” Helen Staniland, and Suzanne Moore (December 18, 2020). The Mess We’re In Ep. #27: Suzanne Moore! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNOMeqmhnes

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers and Suzanne Moore (November 24, 2020). Suzanne Moore: driven out of the Guardian by the trans row. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSVd36xEplY

Novara Media / The Fix with Suzanne Moore (November 12, 2017). Interview with Suzanne Moore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0TmGq1bfso

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Substack (substack.com)

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Orwell Foundation (orwellfoundation.com)

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John McWhorter is an American linguist and anti-transgender activist. McWhorter’s first public foray into discussing trans issues was banned by YouTube for violations of their hate speech policies.

Background

John Hamilton McWhorter V was born on October 6, 1965 in Philadelphia. McWhorter’s parents were both educators. McWhorter earned a bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University in 1985, a master’s degree from New York University, and a doctorate from Stanford University in 1993. McWhorter taught at Cornell University from 1993 to 1995 and at University of California, Berkeley from 1995 to 2003. McWhorter then joined the conservative Manhattan Institute. In 2008 McWhorter took a teaching position at Columbia University.

Views on trans issues

McWhorter has made a case for singular they as a gender neutral pronoun.

In 2023, McWhorter and Glenn Loury had anti-transgender activist Mark Goldblatt on to discuss Goldblatt’s transphobic book I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism. YouTube removed the episode for violation of their terms of service.

McWhorter stated:

We are supposed to reform our sense of what a man and a woman are. And I think any idiot knows that there is a biological business with the chromosomes. Nobody’s going to deny that.

When Loury asked about transgender youth, McWhorter said:

My gut sense is that we’re allowing people to make decisions like that too early. I haven’t thought deeply about it because the topic is so disturbing and frightening and doesn’t apply to me just yet, but my sense is that we need to consider that people are not mentally mature until they’re about 25.

And of course the counter argument is that, “Yes, but by then certain things are already irreversible.” And I would say, “Well maybe that’s the way it has to be.” That’s my gut sense of it.

And in general, the recreational ease with which one can be called “transphobic” these days is something that I am radically opposed to, as one might predict.

Regarding evolving use of the terms man and woman, McWhorter differed from Goldblatt:

But I must admit, once again I’m the weird one here because I can’t… maybe it’s probably because I’m a linguist and I study language change… I can’t quite get what’s wrong with the fluidity of those terms in our modern times.

McWhorter later related a story about speaking with a trans woman:

About eight years ago, I was at a thing, and there was somebody who was talking to me at a certain length, knew some of my work. This was somebody who was certainly born with a Y chromosome, and needed a bit of a shave, and was speaking in a voice higher than what would be normal, and I’m sure this person was used to speaking that way, but that’s not how their voice would have come out if you woke them up in the middle of the night. And this person had long hair and was wearing a nice summer dress and high heels, and this person thought of themselves as a woman. And of course, a part of me, being somebody born in 1965, was thinking, “This is a man acting like a woman.” I can’t help thinking it. But this person thought of themselves as a woman. And I thought my job is to open my mind to the idea that this person is a woman, although this person shaves, this person– the past is clearly obvious, but this is a woman. You’re saying that I should’ve thought. “This person on that score needs help.”

Goldblatt made a case that trans people are deluded and mentally ill, and that refining and updating terms like man and woman involve forcing others to “deny reality.”

Loury reuploaded the episode to Substack after the hate speech violation.

References

Schuessler, Jennifer; Harris, Elizabeth A. (July 7, 2020). Harper’s Letter: Artists and Writers Warn of an ‘Intolerant Climate.’ – The Reaction Is Swift. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/arts/harpers-letter.html

Selected writing by McWhorter

McWhorter, John (September 21, 2021). Gender Pronouns Are Changing. It’s Exhilarating. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/opinion/gender-pronouns-they.html

McWhorter, John and signatories (July 7, 2020). A Letter on Justice and Open Debate. Harper’s https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/

McWhorter, John (September 4, 2018). Call Them What They Wants. The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/the-new-they/568993/

McWhorter, John (April 30, 2013). The Royal They. The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/112896/tyranny-pronouns-fighting-singular-they

Media

Loury, Glenn (April 24, 2023) John McWhorter and Mark Goldblatt – I Feel, Therefore I Am. The Glenn Show https://glennloury.substack.com/p/john-mcwhorter-and-mark-goldblatt

Editor’s Note: YouTube took down the video of the above conversation, claiming that it violates their community standards. 

Maher, Bill (October 22, 2021). Andrew Yang & John McWhorter on Dave Chappelle and “Transphobia.” Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAUUgxQPwM0

Resources

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

David French is an American lawyer, writer, and anti-transgender extremist.

French is an initial signatory of the anti-trans 2017 Nashville Statement by the Council on Biblical Manhood & Womanhood.

In 2023, Kathleen Kingsbury and Patrick Healy brought French on to the notoriously anti-trans Opinion section at the New York Times. Their decision was a major event in the Times’ anti-transgender coverage crisis of the 2020s.

Background

David Austin French was born on January 24, 1969 in Opelika, Alabama.

French earned a bachelor’s degree from Lipscomb University in 1991 and a law degree from Harvard in 1994.

French has been a prominent conservative activist. French served as legal counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice and the Alliance Defending Freedom. French was president of Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) until 2005. From 2007 to 2014 French served in the Army as a judge-advocate general officer stationed in Iraq.

Following discharge, French wrote for National Review from 2015 to 2019 and was a senior fellow at the National Review Institute. French is a senior editor for The Dispatch and has authored several books.

French and spouse Nancy live in Franklin, Tennessee and have three adult children.

2017 Nashville Statement

French was a signatory of the anti-gay and anti-trans Nashville Statement. Other anti-trans signatories include:

Anti-trans writing

In 2022, French wrote in The Dispatch:

“I’m a person who believes in the traditional Christian doctrines of marriage and sexual morality. I don’t believe in sex outside of marriage between a man and a woman. I don’t agree that trans men are “men” or that trans women are “women,” and while I strive to treat every person I encounter with dignity and respect, I don’t use preferred pronouns because their use is a form of assent to a system of belief to which I don’t subscribe.”

References

Staff report (January 4, 2023). GLAAD responds to New York Times hiring anti-LGBTQ attorney as opinion columnist. GLAAD https://glaad.org/releases/glaad-responds-new-york-times-hiring-anti-lgbtq-attorney-opinion-columnist/

Anti-trans coverage

Kingsbury, Katie; Healy, Patrick (January 3, 2023). David French Joins The Times as an Opinion Columnist. New York Times Company https://www.nytco.com/press/david-french-joins-the-times-as-an-opinion-columnist/

Selected writing by French

French, David (October 2, 2022). When Culture Wars Go Way Too Far: State efforts to break families over transgender issues threaten foundational American rights. The Dispatch https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/frenchpress/when-culture-wars-go-way-too-far/

Resources

The Dispatch (thedispatch.com)

Nancy French (nancyfrench.com)

The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (cbmw.org)

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

X/Twitter (x.com)

National Review (nationalreview.com)

New York Times (nytimes.com)

Facebook (facebook.com)

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John Higgon is a British psychologist and anti-transgender activist. Higgon is supportive of the disputed diagnosis “rapid onset gender dysphoria” and supports “gender exploratory therapy,” a form of non-affirming care for trans youth. Higgon is involved with SPLC-designated hate group Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM), which led to the creation of conversion therapy lobby group Genspect. Higgon is a member of Thoughtful Therapists, another conversion therapy lobby group. Higgon was convener of ScotPag, the version of Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender for Scotland.

Background

Higgon earned a doctorate from University of Edinburgh in 1999.

Higgon is a psychologist with Dumfries & Galloway Health & Social Care. Much of Higgon’s work is with older patients.

Anti-transgender activism

Higgon was one of several signatories who praised the Cass Review that finally closed the UK’s inefficient Tavistock youth gender clinic and opened the door for decentralized care for gender diverse youth. Higgon and friends celebrated the closure for different reasons in a response. Co-signers were:

  • Angela Dixon, GP
  • Dr David Bell, Retired Consultant Psychiatrist
  • Dr Lucy Griffin, Consultant Psychiatrist
  • Dr Seth Bhunoo, Consultant Psychiatrist
  • Dr Sallie Baxendale, Consultant Neuropsychologist. Honorary Associate Professor UCL
  • Dr Az Hakeem, Consultant Psychiatrist. Hon Clinical associate professor UCL
  • Dr Louise Irvine, GP
  • Dr John Higgon, Consultant Clinical neuropsychologist
  • Dr Madeleine Ni Dhalaigh, GP
  • Dr Robin Ion, Senior lecturer in mental health nursing
  • Bob Withers, Analytical Psychotherapist
  • Prof David Pilgrim, Chartered Clinical Psychologist
  • Dr Maja Bowen [aka “Isidora Sanger”/”la scapigliata”]
  • Dr Tessa Katz, GP
  • Dr Ellen Wright, GP

Higgon wrote:

We think the current guidelines effectively prohibit psychologists from taking a questioning approach and applying ethical practice in these situations. The absence of a robust evidence base supporting psychological and medical intervention is a concern in this rapidly growing population, leaving significant gaps in our understanding of many relevant issues. The disproportionate increase in presentations of females to services, the phenomenon of so-called Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria, the voices of individuals who have desisted or detransitioned, and the experiences of those for whom existing treatments have been of value must all be addressed in the search for quality research informing best-evidence practice. Such research can only be conducted in an environment that is open to discussion in a respectful and professionally inquisitive manner.

In 2023, Higgon was convener of ScotPAG (Scottish Professionals Advising on Gender). Higgon outlined its origins: “Some of us CAN-SG members who are based in Scotland found ourselves talking about the situation in Scotland and the need to engage with Scottish institutions, most obviously the Scottish government, about gender healthcare.:

Higgon was also a signatory on WHO Decides, a petition protesting Florence Ashley and others in a working group announced by the World Health Organization. Higgon also signed the Protecting Puberty petition deisgned to halt clinical trials of puberty blockers in the UK.

References

Reed, Erin (August 23, 2022). Hunter Schafer, Transmedicalism, And The Real Responsibility For Anti-Trans Laws. Erin In The Morning https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/hunter-schafer-transmedicalism-and

Selected writing by Higgon

Higgon et al (December 14, 2025). Plea to halt the Pathways Puberty Blocker Trial. via BPSwatch https://bpswatch.com/2025/12/15/plea-to-wes-streeting-to-halt-the-puberty-blocker-trial/ also via CAN-SG at https://can-sg.org/2025/12/18/open-letter-to-wes-streeting-on-the-pathways-puberty-blockers-trial/

Higgon, John (July 3, 2025). EDI – where did it all go wrong? BPSwatch https://bpswatch.com/2025/07/03/edi-where-did-it-all-go-wrong/

Higgon et al (December 7, 2024). Open Letter to Health Secretary: Concerns About NHS Puberty Blocker Study. Genspect UK https://genspect.org/open-letter-to-health-secretary-concerns-about-nhs-puberty-blocker-study/

Higgon et al (April 19, 2024). [Open letter to UK Prime Minster demanding public inquiry into trans healthcare]. via The Christian Institute https://www.christian.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Public_Inquiry_Letter-1.pdf

Higgon, John (November 17, 2023). Reason, facts, talking and learning. Dr John Higgon on our interview with Dr Rob Agnew; with his response. The British Psychological Society https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/reason-facts-talking-and-learning

Higgon, John (October 15, 2023). ScotPAG’s history as a group of concerned professionals. ScotPAG https://www.scotpag.com/post/scotpag-s-history-as-a-group-of-concerned-professionals

Higgon et al (August 3, 2022). Time for honest reflection, not defence. The British Psychological Society https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/time-honest-reflection-not-defence

David Bell, Lucy Griffin, Seth Bhunoo, Sallie Baxendale, Az Hakeem, Louise irvine, John Higgon, Madeleine Ni Dhalaigh, Robin Ion, Bob Withers, David Pilgrim, Maja Bowen, Tessa Katz, Ellen Wright (2022). Comment: Review of gender identity services for children and young people. BMJ 2022; 376:o629 https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o629

Higgon et al (January 4, 2021). Open letter to the BBC regarding inaccurate and unethical reporting on Bell vs. Tavistock. via Christian Medical Fellowship https://www.cmf.org.uk/12529-2/

Staff report (April 8, 2020). Specialist HD Staff Appointed to Support Families in Dumfries & Galloway. Scottish Huntington’s Association https://hdscotland.org/specialist-hd-staff-appointed-to-support-families-in-dumfries-galloway/

Higgon et al (September 3, 2020). Freedom of expression around diversity guidelines. The British Psychological Society https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/freedom-expression-around-diversity-guidelines

Resources

Dumfries and Galloway Health and Social Care (dghscp.co.uk)

ScotPAG (scotpag.com)

ResearchGate (researchgate.net)

YouTube (youtube.com)

X/Twitter (x.com)

Michelle Forcier is an American pediatrician who specializes in sexual health and gender identity for adolescents.

Background

Michelle Marie Forcier earned a bachelor’s degree from Brown University in 1987, followed by a medical degree from University of Connecticut School of Medicine in 1992. In 1997 Forcier earned a master’s degree from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health. Forcier did a pediatric residency at University of Utah, followed by fellowships at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Planned Parenthood Central North Carolina, and Department of Family Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine.

Forcier is or has been licensed in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, North Carolina, Illinois, South Carolina, Alabama, and Utah. Forcier has taught at Duke University, University of North Carolina, and Northwestern University. Since 2009 Forcier has taught at Brown University.

Forcier is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and offers training on LGBTQ+ child and adolescent mental health for the American Medical Association (AMA). Forcier joined the AMA in 2016.

Forcier married pediatrician Geoffrey Abbott “Geoff” Allen (born 1961). They have one child.

Transgender care and public-facing work

Forcier is known to many from an appearance in the 2022 anti-trans propaganda piece What Is a Woman? In it, Forcier earnestly explains why affirming models of care for minors are the American medical consensus. Many people who enjoy anti-trans extremist Matt Walsh’s bad-faith interview tactics found the exchange entertaining.

Forcier was named in lawsuits filed by ex-trans activists Layton Ulery and Isabelle Ayala. Forcier was voluntarily dismissed from the Ulery lawsuit by the plaintiff in May 2025. The Ayala case was dismissed in June 2025.

References

Rogers, Kristen (March 15, 2024). What to know about puberty blockers. CNN https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/15/health/puberty-blockers-explained-nhs-wellness

Ring, Trudy (July 27, 2023). Three Who Were in Matt Walsh’s Anti-Trans Film Say They Were Deceived. The Advocate https://www.advocate.com/transgender/matt-walsh-what-is-a-woman-deceptive

Norton, Amy (January 19, 2023). Hormonal Therapies Are Boosting the Mental Health of Trans Youth. U.S. News & World Report https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2023-01-19/hormonal-therapies-are-boosting-the-mental-health-of-trans-youth

Knox, Liam (September 25, 2022). Attack on Vanderbilt Clinic Has Ripple Effects. Inside Higher Ed https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/09/26/trans-health-clinic-weathers-political-firestorm

Petrow, Steven (March 7, 2017). Civilities: Taking all your questions about transgender teens with Brown U. expert Dr. Michelle Forcier and Steven Petrow. Washington Post https://live.washingtonpost.com/civilities-with-steven-petrow-20170307.html

Crandall, Brian (June 7, 2016). RI doctor leads effort on caring for transgender children. WJAR https://turnto10.com/news/local/ri-doctor-leads-effort-on-caring-for-transgender-children

Rupp, William (August 20, 2011). ‘This Old House’ Picks ‘Happy Renters.’ Patch https://patch.com/rhode-island/barrington/this-old-house-picks-happy-renters

Coverage in anti-trans press

Staff report (June 9, 2025). UpToDate is Out-of-Date on Child Sex Change Interventions. Do No Harm https://donoharmmedicine.org/2025/06/09/uptodate-is-out-of-date-on-child-sex-change-interventions/

Solas, Nicole (February 20, 2024). Detransitioners Sue Rhode Island Medical Provider And Persistent Public School Agitator. Daily Wire https://www.dailywire.com/news/detransitioners-sue-rhode-island-medical-provider-and-persistent-public-school-agitator

Ryan, Benjamin (December 5, 2023). Lawsuits by Regretful ‘Detransitioners’ Take Aim at Medical Establishment’s Support for Gender-Transition Treatments for Minors. New York Sun https://www.nysun.com/article/lawsuits-by-regretful-detransitioners-take-aim-at-medical-establishments-support-for-gender-transition-treatments-for-minors

Sapir, Leor (October 31, 2023). Is the AAP Placing Its Own Members at Risk? New lawsuits and a panel on gender and sexuality at the American Academy of Pediatrics’ recent conference signal trouble for pediatricians who rely on its guidance. City Journal https://www.city-journal.org/article/is-the-aap-placing-its-own-members-at-risk

Lamb, Matt (October 26, 2023). Two women damaged by ‘gender transitions’ sue prominent pro-transgender doctors. LifeSite News https://assets.lifesitenews.com/news/women-gender-transitions-sue-doctors/?utm_source=most_recent&utm_campaign=catholic

Perkins, Faith (October 26, 2023). Gender detransitioner sues prominent doctors she says pushed her into it. The Lion https://readlion.com/another-gender-detransitioner-sues-prominent-doctors-she-says-pushed-her-into-it/

Tilley, Caitlin (October 26, 2023). Autistic woman, 20, sues American Academy of Pediatrics over claims she was rushed onto transgender hormone-warping drugs – despite suffering from a number of  mental health conditions. Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12671149/american-academy-pediatrics-transgender-detransition-lawsuit-isabelle-ayala.html

Hunter, Heather (October 25, 2023). Detransitioner sues American Academy of Pediatrics for medical malpractice in historic lawsuit. Washington Examiner https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2751078/detransitioner-sues-american-academy-of-pediatrics-for-medical-malpractice-in-historic-lawsuit/

Potter, Will (October 21, 2023). EXCLUSIVE: Lesbian detransitioner with multiple personality disorder who escaped cult sues medics who prescribed her testosterone after deciding she was transgender, causing painful and permanent side effects. Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12654975/Detransitioner-multiple-personality-gender-reassignment.html

Kornick, Lindsey (June 13, 2023). Doctor defends giving transgender treatments to 8 and 10-year-olds: ‘Respect kids as individuals.’ Fox News https://www.foxnews.com/media/doctor-defends-giving-transgender-treatments-8-10-year-olds-respect-kids-individuals

Singal, Jesse (July 2018). When a child says she’s trans. The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-a-child-says-shes-trans/561749/

Selected publications by Forcier

Sherer, I., & Forcier, M. (2025). Stress in Gender-Diverse Youth. In Signs & Symptoms in Pediatrics. American Academy of Pediatrics https://doi.org/10.1542/9781610028219-74

Forcier, Michelle; Olson-Kennedy, Johanna (2022 with updates). Gender development and clinical presentation of gender diversity in children and adolescents. UpToDate https://www.uptodate.com/contents/gender-development-and-clinical-presentation-of-gender-diversity-in-children-and-adolescents

Van Schalkwyk, Gerrit ; Turban, Jack L.; Forcier, Michelle (2020). Pediatric Gender Identity: Gender-affirming Care for Transgender & Gender Diverse Youth. Springer, ISBN 9783030389093

Hodax, J. K., Wagner, J., Sackett-Taylor, A. C., Rafferty, J., & Forcier, M. (2020). Medical Options for Care of Gender Diverse and Transgender Youth. Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, 33(1), 3–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpag.2019.05.010

Rafferty, J. R., Donaldson, A. A., & Forcier, M. (2020). Primary Care Considerations for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youth. Pediatrics In Review, 41(9), 437–454. https://doi.org/10.1542/pir.2018-0194

Panagiotakopoulos, L., Chulani, V., Koyama, A., Childress, K., Forcier, M., Grimsby, G., & Greenberg, K. (2020). The effect of early puberty suppression on treatment options and outcomes in transgender patients. Nature Reviews Urology, 17(11), 626–636. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41585-020-0372-2

Wagner, J., Sackett-Taylor, A. C., Hodax, J. K., Forcier, M., & Rafferty, J. (2019). Psychosocial Overview of Gender-Affirmative Care. Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, 32(6), 567–573. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpag.2019.05.004

Jain, J., Kwan, D., & Forcier, M. (2019). Medroxyprogesterone Acetate in Gender-Affirming Therapy for Transwomen: Results From a Retrospective Study. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 104(11), 5148–5156. https://doi.org/10.1210/jc.2018-02253

Forcier M, Brown JD, Brown, RT (2018). LGBTQ Youth: Enhancing Care for Gender and Sexual Minorities. American Academy of Pediatrics https://watermark02.silverchair.com/aap_9781610021371-all_front_matter.pdf

Samuel E, Forcier M (2015). Acute medical care for the transgender patient. In Sex and Gender in Acute Care Medicine, Ed: McGregor AJ, Choo EK, Becker BM. NY Cambridge University Press, 2015: 216-229, ISBN 9781107668164

Agnieszka J, Forcier M (September 2016). Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Youth: Psychosocial and Medical Considerations. Rhode Island Medical Journal http://rimed.org/rimedicaljournal/2016/09/2016-09-31-adolescent-janicka.pdf

Forcier, Michelle (2015). Lecture, Pediatric and Adolescent Gender Care, Web Seminar, Fenway Health Center, Boston, MA

Forcier, Michelle (2014). Services for Transgender Youth in Primary Care Settings. Society for Teachers in Family Medicine, US

Forcier, Michelle (2014). Puberty Blockers for Use in Transgender Children, Medical Advisory Meeting, Chicago, IL

Forcier, Michelle (2014). Transgender Health Panel, Gender Spectrum East, Baltimore, MD

Forcier, Michelle; Haddad, Emily (2013). Health care for gender variant or gender non-conforming children. Rhode Island Medical Journal Apr;96(4):17-21.

Forcier, Michelle (2012).Transgender is a Pediatric Opportunity: Pediatric Endocrine Nursing Society meeting, Orlando, FL

Media

Brown University (November 27, 2023) Trans Youth Now Series: Michelle Forcier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onR2ctah3UE

Healio (October 18, 2019). AAP supports ‘gender-affirming care’ for youth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4qlSOdu6MI

NBC Nightly News (April 21, 2015). One Doctor Explains the Journey for Kids Who Are Transitioning. https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/one-doctor-explains-the-journey-for-kids-who-are-transitioning-431478851632

TODAY (April 23, 2015). Experts answer questions about transgender kids. https://www.today.com/video/experts-answer-questions-about-transgender-kids-432814659705

NBC News (April 21, 2015). One Doctor Explains the Journey for Kids Who Are Transitioning. https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/one-doctor-explains-the-journey-for-kids-who-are-transitioning-431478851632

Resources

Brown University (brown.edu)

LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

Instagram (instagram.com)

Lifespan (lifespan.org) [archive]

Note: this profile previously misstated Forcier’s name at birth and spouse. This site regrets the errors.

The Same Drugs is an anti-transgender show by gender critical activist Meghan Murphy. Many guests are also anti-transgender activists.

2018

  • I’m starting a YouTube channel! Please support my work!
  • Update on my upcoming talk on gender identity ideology and women’s rights

2019

  • Graham Linehan on Twitter, trans activism, and why he won’t just shut up
  • Desperately Seeking Nuance: Meghan Daum on identity politics and the elusive nuanced conversation
  • Lisa Marchiano on emotional fragility and the medicalization of feelings
  • Taking the white pill: Katie Herzog refuses to be put into a box
  • I’m suing Twitter — here’s why
  • Debate: Does trans activism negatively impact women’s rights?
  • Jesse Singal on YA fiction fueds, identitarianism, gender dysphoria, and bad journalists on Twitter
  • Lionel Shriver on the cultishness of the left and having unpopular opinions
  • Can women legally be compelled to handle male genitals?
  • Gender Identity: What Does It Mean for Society, the Law, and Women — A talk by Meghan Murphy
  • Melissa Derby on the victim/oppressor narrative and intergenerational trauma
  • Heather Mason on the transferring of males to women’s prisons in Canada

2020

  • The Same Drugs Interview — Buck Angel
  • The Same Drugs Interview: Meghan Murphy and Karen Tumajz cancel themselves
  • The Same Drugs Interview: The Benjamin Boyce Story
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2021

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2022

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Michael Shermer is an American writer and anti-transgender activist. Shermer has devoted considerable space for anti-trans views in the publication Skeptic and on the podcast The Michael Shermer Show.

Background

Michael Brant Shermer was born September 8, 1954 in Los Angeles, California. Shermer earned a bachelor’s degree form Pepperdine in 1976 and a master’s degree in psychology from California State University, Fullerton in 1978. Shermer got involved in competitive cycling during this time.

Shermer earned a doctorate from Claremont Graduate University in 1991. Shermer helped found the Skeptics Society in 1991. Shermer has taught at Glendale Community College, Occidental College, and Chapman University.

For 18 years Shermer was a monthly columnist for Scientific American. Shermer has been dogged by accusations of sexual misconduct since 2013. Shermer has produced and appeared in a number of television shows about science and pseudoscience.

Anti-transgender activism

Shermer is especially angry about transgender athletes, trans and gender diverse youth, WPATH, and how Scientific American has gone “woke” due to their coverage of trans issues.

Shermer has also promoted and published anti-trans writings of other “gender critical” activists:

References

Tavris, Carol (April 17, 2023). Behind the Rhetoric: The Untold Story of “Gender-Affirming” Clinics. Skeptic Volume 27 Number 1 https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/behind-rhetoric-untold-story-of-gender-affirming-clinics/

McCaffree K, Saide A (March 7, 2023). Trans, Identity and Institutional Controversies. Research Report: PADS-002 https://www.skeptic.com/research-center/reports/Research-Report-PADS-002.pdf

Hall, Harriett (June 9, 2022). A transgender controversy. Skeptic Volume 27 Number 1 https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/transgender-controversy/

Davis, Lisa Selin (May 25, 2022). Trans Matters: An Overview of the Debate, Research, and Policies. Skeptic Volume 27 Number 1 https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/trans-matters-overview-debate-research-policies/

Tavris, Carol (January 25, 2022). Trans Reality: “I Didn’t Know There Was Another Side.” Skeptic https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/transgender-reality-i-didnt-know-there-was-another-side/

Selected anti-trans writing by Shermer

Shermer, Michael (November 14, 2024). Postmortem 2024. Skeptic https://michaelshermer.substack.com/p/postmortem-2024

Shermer, Michael (March 14, 2024). Death by Theory. Skeptic https://michaelshermer.substack.com/p/death-by-theory

Shermer, Michael (June 11, 2024). What’s It Like to Be Trans? [letter from a conservative transmedicalist] Skeptic https://michaelshermer.substack.com/p/whats-it-like-to-be-trans

Shermer, Michael (July 8, 2022). What is a Woman, Anyway? Skeptic https://michaelshermer.substack.com/p/what-is-a-woman-anyway

Shermer, Michael (March 7, 2024). Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Redux—WPATH Edition. Skeptic https://michaelshermer.substack.com/p/extraordinary-popular-delusions-and

Shermer, Michael (December 9, 2021). Trans Athletes and Conflicting Rights. Skeptic https://michaelshermer.substack.com/p/trans-athletes-and-conflicting-rights

Media

Michael Shermer (). EPISODE # 160 Abigail Shrier — Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters. The Michael Shermer Show https://www.skeptic.com/michael-shermer-show/abigail-shrier-irreversible-damage-transgender-craze-seducing-our-daughters/

Michael Shermer (August 27, 2024). Are We Confused About Social Justice? (Helen Pluckrose). The Michael Shermer Show

Michael Shermer (May 14). Nellie Bowles — Reporting From the Frontlines of the Culture Wars The Michael Shermer Show

Michael Shermer (September 21). Colin Wright – Biology vs. Gender Ideology: The Science Behind the Debate. The Michael Shermer Show

Michael Shermer (September 15). Matt Ridley, Steven Pinker, and Michael Shermer Challenge Conventional Narratives. The Michael Shermer Show

Michael Shermer (August 17). Bones, Bias, and Backlash: Elizabeth Weiss on the Politicization of Anthropology. The Michael Shermer Show https://www.skeptic.com/michael-shermer-show/elizabeth-weiss-politicization-of-anthropology/

Michael Shermer (August 6). Richard Dawkins on Genetic Insights Into the History of Life. The Michael Shermer Show

Michael Shermer (). 461: Helen Pluckrose — Principled Strategies for Surviving and Defeating Critical Social Justice. https://www.skeptic.com/michael-shermer-show/helen-pluckrose-principled-strategies-for-surviving-defeating-critical-social-justice/

Michael Shermer (). Aella — From a Christian Upbringing to Sex Work

Michael Shermer (). Bradley Campbell — How to Think About Social Justice

Katherine Brodsky — How to Find and Free Your Voice in the Age of Outrage

Michael Shellenberger Explains Government Censorship of Social Media

Ayaan Hirsi Ali Converted to Christianity

Yascha Mounk — Identity Politics and its Discontents

Greg Lukianoff & Rikki Schlott — Cancel Culture and What to Do About It

Gad Saad — The Saad Truth About Happiness

Christopher Rufo Decodes Cultural Shifts in America

Umut Özkirimli — How the Left Can Make Its Way Back From Woke

Jean Twenge — Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents, and What They Mean for America’s Future

Bethany Mandel — How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence & Indoctrinating a Generation

Valerie Fridland — Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English

Gerald & Patricia Posner on Evil

Louise Perry — The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

Meghan Daum — The Problem With Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars

Marty Klein — Sex Matters

Andrew Doyle — How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World

Sabine Hossenfelder — Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions

Konstantin Kisin — An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West

Helen Joyce — Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality

Frans De Waal on Sex and Gender Across the Primate Spectrum

Douglas Murray on The War on the West: Race, Politics, and Culture

Cathy Young — The Russian Riddle Wrapped in a Ukrainian Mystery Inside an American Enigma

Jesse Singal on Why Fad Psychology Can’t Cure Our Social Ills 

Dave Rubin — Left, Right, and Woke, based on his book Don’t Burn This Country: Surviving and Thriving in Our Woke Dystopia

Elizabeth Weiss on Woke Archaeology and Erasing the Past

Batya Ungar-Sargon Batya Ungar-Sargon — Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy

Sally Satel on Addiction, the Opioid Crisis, Deaths of Despair, and How Psychiatry Has Gone Woke

Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein on evolution and the challenges of modern life, based on their new book A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century

Steven Pinker on Rationality: What it is, Why it Seems Scarce, Why it Matters

Richard Dawkins on evangelizing for evolution, science, skepticism, philosophy, reason, and rationality, based on his new book Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science

Carole Hooven on T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us

Bari Weiss & Bion Bartning on Their New Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism

David Buss — When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault

Jordan Peterson & Michael Shermer on Science, Myth, Truth, and the Architecture of Archetypes

Niall Ferguson — Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

John McWhorter — The Elect: Neoracists Posing as Antiracists and their Threat to a Progressive America

John McWhorter — The Elect: Neoracists Posing as Antiracists and their Threat to a Progressive America

Abigail Shrier — Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters

Greg Lukianoff — How Free is Free Speech?

Debra Soh — The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths About Sex and Identity in Our Society

Gad Saad — The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

Scott Barry Kaufman — Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization

Dave Rubin — Don’t Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

Douglas Murray — The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity

Geoffrey Miller — Virtue Signaling: Essays on Darwinian Politics and Free Speech

Peter Boghossian — How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide

Ben Shapiro — The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great

Dr. Gad Saad — Doing Gad’s Work

Dr. Jonathan Haidt — The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

Amy Alkon — Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence

Dr. Jonathan Haidt — Coming Apart

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