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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 ā€” 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 ā€” 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 ā€” Buck Angel
  • The Same Drugs Interview: Meghan Murphy and Karen Tumajz cancel themselves
  • The Same Drugs Interview: The Benjamin Boyce Story
  • The Same Drugs Interview: Arielle Scarcella isn’t afraid of being cancelled
  • The Same Drugs: Episode 12 ā€” Tiger Queens
  • The Same Drugs Interview: Brendan O’Neill on the COVID lockdowns
  • The Same Drugs Interview: Mike Nayna on grievance studies & the trouble with social justice activism
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  • The Same Drugs Interview: Nancy Jo Sales on the false promises of
  • NOW PLAYING
  • The Same Drugs Interview: Toby Young on Free Speech, No Platforming, and Social Media Censorship
  • The Same Drugs Interview: Jon Kay on COVID, the lockdowns, and how to get the perfect frosted tips
  • The Same Drugs: Coleman Hughes on race, racism, police violence, and Black Lives Matter
  • The Same Drugs: Zaid Jilani on racism, riots, defunding the police, privilege theory, and Amy Cooper
  • The Same Drugs: Jon Kay on Tom Cotton, Wendy Mesley, the CBC, and the disintegration of media
  • The Same Drugs: MK Fain on trashing and infighting in feminism
  • The Same Drugs: Lisa Marchiano on new religions and activism
  • The Same Drugs: Jen Gerson holds the line
  • The Same Drugs: James Lindsay still thinks 2+2=4
  • The Same Drugs: Stuart Parker on identitarianism and the current state of the left
  • The Same Drugs: Bret Weinstein explains everything
  • The Same Drugs: Abigail Shrier on girls and the trans trend
  • The Same Drugs: Brendan O’Neill on Covid lockdowns, Trump, Big Tech, and Samuel Paty
  • The Same Drugs: Mark Crispin Miller on propaganda, masks, and academic freedom
  • The Same Drugs: Brittany Talissa King on BLM, polarization, and the power of conversation
  • The Same Drugs: Weird bodies, bad women, and flawed feminism
  • The Same Drugs: Vincent Emanuele is on the left, despite the left
  • The Same Drugs: Peter Hitchens wishes you an angry Christmas, not a merry one

2021

  • It’s not a good thing that Trump was banned from Twitter
  • The Same Drugs: Tom Slater on free speech, Big Tech, and Trump
  • The Same Drugs: Matt Taibbi wants a better media channel for a less polarized America
  • The Same Drugs: Helen Pluckrose on postmodernism, feminism, and Cynical Theories
  • The Same Drugs: Do Trudeau’s new travel restrictions violate the Charter?
  • The Same Drugs: Ani O’Brien on the problem with modern feminism
  • The Same Drugs: Heather Heying on gender identity, Twitter, and the lab leak theory
  • Why I was banned from Twitter
  • The Same Drugs: The thought police are here for Harry Miller
  • The Same Drugs: Ian Leslie on how to disagree (except about The Beatles)
  • The Same Drugs: Debunking myths about gender identity with Colin Wright
  • The Same Drugs: Jodi Shaw is fighting a ‘racially hostile’ environment at Smith College
  • The Same Drugs: Lindsay Shepherd on diversity, exclusion, and the free speech crisis on campus
  • The Same Drugs: Jonathan Kay on rape, due process, and the Steven Galloway case
  • Cancellation can be a blessing
  • The Same Drugs: CJ Hopkins on The New Normal
  • The Same Drugs: Ayaan Hirsi Ali on modern feminism and her new book, Prey
  • The Same Drugs: Jay Cameron on Bill C-10ā€”the Liberal’s attempt to regulate Canadians’ online speech
  • The Same Drugs: Nancy Jo Sales on her life in the dating app inferno
  • The Same Drugs: Danielle Crittenden Frum on feminism, marriage, and gender roles in the modern world
  • The Same Drugs: Trans activists want to force BC courts to adopt “preferred pronouns”
  • The Same Drugs: Bill Ottman on the problems with social media and how we can fix them
  • The Same Drugs: Richie Hardcore on porn, masculinity, Muay Thai, and becoming a better person
  • It’s harder to have critical conversations about porn because of third wave feminism
  • Richie Hardcore on how to talk to kids about porn
  • The Same Drugs: Carole Hooven on testosterone and the male body
  • The Same Drugs: Jeanna Hoch is a stripper who found radical feminism
  • Are men able to compartmentalize more easily than women?
  • The Same Drugs: Helen Joyce takes on gender identity in her new book, ‘Trans’
  • There are different reasons people transition
  • The Same Drugs: Karin Litzcke on why the PPC could be the alternative Canadians are looking for
  • The Same Drugs: Jake Shields tells us what he really thinks
  • A hunter gatherer’s guide to love, sex, and dating, with Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying
  • Porn creates a kind of sexual autism
  • The Same Drugs: Bonnie Snyder on the politicization of education
  • The Same Drugs: Are incels the dangerous misogynists we thought?
  • What’s wrong with hormonal birth control
  • The Same Drugs: Pete Zaborszky on creating alternative social media platforms

2022

  • Is Australia turning into a dictatorship?
  • Alexandra Marshall on politics in Australia and encroaching totalitarianism in her country
  • Garrett Jonsson of Fight the New Drug on why you should stop using porn
  • Why are we trying so hard to normalize porn?
  • BJ Dichter on the Canadian truckers’ #FreedomConvoy
  • Frances Widdowson was fired as a professor at Mount Royal University for questioning ‘woke’ ideas
  • Justin Trudeau invokes the Emergency Act in an attempt to curtail democracy ā€” what does this mean?
  • This is a class war: Trish Wood on the Covid response, the media, and disdain for the working class
  • Everything wrong in Western democracy today is as a result of a failed news media
  • Haunted by phantom honking’: Jon Kay on the Freedom Convoy and Trudeau’s Canada
  • What is the reality of life under communism?
  • Francis Foster: “I think we all went insane”
  • Francis Foster on communism, fear-mongering, and what it means to be a good man
  • Jake Shields on Jiu-Jitsu, masculinity, and Will Smith
  • Katie Herzog on the botched case of Florian Jaeger, #MeToo’d despite being cleared of all ‘charges’
  • Michelle Evans is standing up for parents (and kids!) in Texas
  • Daryl Davis on why you should make friends with your enemies
  • Mike Solana on political censorship, social media, and thought crime
  • “If the underlying sin of the capitalist is greed, the underlying sin of the socialist is envy”
  • Drunk on power? Sarah Hepola on blackouts, binge drinking, alcoholism, and women
  • Keri Smith on Leaving the Social Justice Cult
  • Taylor Silverman on being a female skateboarder and standing up for fair competition in her sport
  • Colin Wright was banned from PayPal and Etsy for standing for reality
  • Isn’t that the ultimate privilege? To just sit around and be offended?
  • Women Leaving the Left
  • Yannis Pappas on wokeness, YouTube, and why people become comics
  • Journalism used to be about questioning authority
  • Batya Ungar-Sargon on how journalism went woke
  • The truth behind Canada’s “mass graves” story
  • Terry Glavin on fake mass graves and Trudeau’s woke lies
  • Kevin Bardosh on the consequences of Covid policy in Canada
  • Is Trudeau following the tyrant’s manual?
  • Canada’s road to Beijing ā€” John Carpay on the Trudeau government’s move towards a digital ID
  • Do feminists have good reason to criticize Matt Walsh?
  • West is Best: Konstantin Kisin reminds us not to take the West for granted, despite elite cynicism
  • The way to overcome arguments for censorship is with curiosity
  • Greg Lukianoff is making free speech great again
  • It might be the first time I ever vote Conservative
  • I’ve never experienced this level of division in Canada before’ ā€” Tara Henley on leaving the CBC
  • Erin Friday on why we need to stop transitioning kids now
  • Socially transitioning your child is abusive ā€” it’s a lie’
  • Americans are being misled about meat ā€” finding ethical meat is hard, but Ben Spell wants to help
  • Ben Spell: If you control the food, you control the people
  • Vancouver is Dying’ ā€” Aaron Gunn on Vancouver’s growing drug and crime problem
  • David “El Necio” Diaz on bare knuckle boxing and changing your life
  • David “El Necio” Diaz fought his demons and won
  • Pamela Garfield-Jaegar is bringing truth to therapy
  • “They’re weaponizing a half truth”
  • Genevieve Gluck on the truth behind the trans trend [Reduxx]
  • How to outrage everyone: Jimbob’s Savage Memes refuse to pick sides
  • Jennifer Sey left a corporate career she loved to tell the truth
  • “From the beginning, none of it made sense”: Jennifer Sey on why she spoke out against the lockdowns
  • Tristan Hopper on everything wrong with Canada in 2022

2023

  • Shannon Thrace was married to a man who decided he wanted to be a woman
  • Peter Boghossian on how to have tough conversations and change minds in a world that avoids Benjamin Dichter on how truckers ended the pandemic
  • What’s the connection between porn and sexual predators?
  • Jared Klickstein on our misguided approach to homelessness and addiction
  • Jared Klickstein on the “cosmic consequences” that helped him overcome addiction
  • Is the homelessness problem really about a lack of housing?
  • Is Landmark Forum a cult?
  • Are kids that aren’t allowed to medically transition really at higher risk for suicide?
  • Lots of girls don’t feel ‘feminine’ ā€” it doesn’t mean you’re a boy
  • Michael Shellenberger on how the left got climate change, addiction, and prostitution wrong
  • Do leftist activists just hate civilization?
  • The left claims to care about victimsā€”why don’t they care about victims of the sex trade?
  • Mary Harrington thinks feminism needs to go backwards, not forward
  • The pill has not been good for women
  • Matt Thornton on martial arts, self-defense, and building a healthier relationship to violence
  • How can you tell who is a threat and how can you protect yourself?
  • How can you recognize people with character disorders and avoid them?
  • What kind of man can’t handle Jiu Jitsu?
  • Why is the Canadian government trying to regulate what you see online?
  • The PDGA banned transwomen from competing as women after an anonymous survey of members
  • Why I moved away from the ‘feminist’ label and ‘feminism,’ the ideology
  • Jon Kay on trans players in disc golf, Dylan Mulvaney’s girlhood, misgendering, feminism, and more!
  • LIVE: Batya Ungar-Sargon on what the hell is going on in media these LIVE with Amy Sousa and K. Yang: Women’s spaces, realities, and sports
  • Robin Dunbar on friendsā€”the cure for all that ails us
  • Karin Litzcke is an ex-NDP supporter now running for the Conservative Party of BC
  • Women fight back! Live with K. Yang and Isabella Malbin
  • Can mental health issues be cured with a pill?
  • Shannon Hayes on choosing happiness over ‘success’
  • An ex-john opens up about buying sex and why he became an advocate against the sex trade
  • Mike Nayna on bullshit PhDs, viral racism, and The Reformers
  • Blindsight is 2020: Gabrielle Bauer on the Covid dissenters
  • Siddharth Kara on sex trafficking and the horrors of modern slavery in cobalt mines
  • April Hutchinson is a Canadian powerlifter who refuses to lose her sport to men
  • Live from Canada! With Canada’s preeminent lesbian, Eva Kurilova
  • ‘These are not morally equivalent things’ ā€” Batya Ungar-Sargon on Hamas’ attack on Israel
  • FULL INTERVIEW: Don’t turn your humanity over to the machine
  • ‘This is punishment for dissent’ ā€” C.J. Hopkins: tried for satire in Germany
  • Philip Slayton on free speech in Canada, antisemitism, and what it means to be a Jew
  • Climate change isn’t everything

Maud Maron is an American lawyer and anti-transgender activist.

Maron is Executive Director of anti-trans organization Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (FAIR) and holds the following positions:

  • supports sex segregationism
  • opposed trans athletes participating in competitive sex-segregated sports
  • supports disease models of gender diversity like “rapid onset gender dysphoria“
  • opposes value-neutral language like “sex assigned at birth”
  • supports noted transphobe J.K. Rowling

Background

Maud Jane Maron was born on June 9, 1971 in New York, New York. Maron earned a bachelor’s degree from Barnard College in 1993 and earned a law degree from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University in 1998. Maron was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1999. Maron’s career experience includes working as an Attorney with the Legal Aid Society. 

Maron is married to private equity executive Juan Pablo Pallordet and has four children: Clara Pallordet (born ~2005), Lucio Pallordet (born ~2006), Liam Pallordet (born ~2010), and Magnus Pallordet (born ~2016).

Maron began collaborating with Bari Weiss and Suzy Weiss to further their political aims around COVID.

Maron claims to have been cancelled in 2021 for opposing critical race theory in New York public schools.

ThirdRail

Maron is founder of ThirdRail, a consultancy created to “facilitate innovation, leadership, and strategy sessions designed to breakthrough thinking without fear of judgment.” The participants include several prominent anti-trans activists:

Anti-transgender views

Maron is a sex segregationist who opposes transgender athletes. Maron also claims to have been cancelled in 2022 for supporting ā€œsingle-sex spacesā€ and opposing changes to Title IX,

Staying silent when activists and politicians insist “trans women are women” has real world consequences for real women. The truth is, trans women are biologically male and they should be treated with dignity, love and respect. But many trans activists insist on language that erases the reality of biological women. Their desire to transcend biology, no matter how heartfelt, does not, and cannot, require me to lie or teach a generation of children a falsehood.

Girls and young women are being swept up in a social contagion which has them believing they are men. Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, in which young women with no early childhood expression of gender dysphoria suddenly identify as trans, has spiked in the last decade. 

References

Maron, Maud (September 12, 2021). Staying Silent When You Disagree With Woke Lies Gives Them Power. We Must Speak Up Opinion. Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/staying-silent-when-you-disagree-woke-lies-gives-them-power-we-must-speak-opinion-1628057

Campanile, Carl (July 11, 2022). Congress candidate Maud Maron says Democrats ā€˜canceledā€™ her over transgender stance. New York Post https://nypost.com/2022/07/11/congress-candidate-maud-maron-says-democrats-canceled-her-over-transgender-stance/

Alexander, Harriet (July 13, 2021). Public defender who opposed critical race theory being taught in NYC schools claims she was forced out of her job at the Legal Aid Society because ‘she is white’ and after ‘McCarthy’ style attack labeled her racist. Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9782647/Public-defender-claims-forced-job-Legal-Aid-Society-McCarthy-style-attack.html

Campanile, Carl (February 15, 2022). Mandate foe Maud Maron hoping for AOC-like defeat of NY Rep. Carolyn Maloney. New York Post https://nypost.com/2022/02/15/maud-maron-hoping-for-aoc-like-defeat-of-rep-carolyn-maloney/

Weiss, Suzy (February 8, 2022). ā€˜Hell hath no fury like an angry momā€™ ā€” Meet the nationā€™s new political power. New York Post https://nypost.com/2022/02/08/meet-nations-new-political-power-a-coalition-of-angry-moms/

Resources

Maud Maron (maudmaron.com)

ThirdRail (thirdrail.co) [archive]

Place NYC (placenyc.org)

Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (fairforall.org)

X/Twitter (x.com)

LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

Instagram (instagram.com)

Facebook (facebook.com)

Federalist Society (fedsoc.org)

Lisanne Anderson is an American amateur photographer and “autogynephilia” activist. Anderson created and maintained The Autogynephilia Resource website between 2004 and 2012 and was one of the three people responsible for about two-thirds of all the content on the mainĀ ā€œautogynephiliaā€ discussion group before it was banned by Yahoo.

Background

Lisanne Ferne Anderson was born on January 11, 1956 and is a native and lifelong resident of Brooklyn, New York. Anderson has extensively documented Brooklyn neighborhoods and collects historical artifacts related to the borough.

Like Canadian counterpartĀ Willow Arune, Anderson is on disability for some unspecified ailment and is a well-known internetĀ kook. Anderson variously claims to have mild to moderate cerebral palsy, scoliosis, or anxiety disorders which leave Anderson unable to work. Anderson has “detransitioned” at least once in 1995 and was once married.

Anderson has previously had conversations and arguments online from 1998 to 1999 with Lori Anjou, a sockpuppet Anderson created.

“Autogynephiia” activism

Despite being one of the major proponents of the disease, Anderson said on 13 June 2004, “I am not autogynephilicā€¦ I believe that all views have credibility, but that those who attempt to silence those who disagree with them lose some of their credibility in doing so.”

All views do have credibility to someone who can argue with an alter ego online. This biography documents and contextualizes the statements made by all parties in this matter, so there’s a historical record of who said what when this fake disease is finally discredited.

Proponents featured on autogynephilia.org included:

Anderson on “autogynephilia”

From “About This Website” on autogynephilia.org:

Since I made the decision three years ago to involve myself with the question of Autogynephilia I have been constantly asked why I have placed myself in such a position. Indeed, there have been times when I have wondered so myself. The intensity of hatred shown towards anyone who considers autogynephilia to be scientifically sound would make most people pause in their tracks. But the realization that the causative factor for their animosity is often fear makes it imperative to provide a venue for the dissemination of factual information about the theory.

My initial step was to involve myself with the creation of an e-mail discussion list on Autogynephilia. My hope was to create a dialogue between those on both sides of the controversy regarding the theory. However, it was during this time that Autogynephilia was becoming a focal point of politicalism within the transsexual community, and civil discussion was becoming quite difficult. One of the casualties of this environment was my own neutrality. As the arguments against Autogynephilia grew more emotional, and the decision was made by some of more visible members of the community to extract an ounce of blood from advocates of the theory I found myself compelled to speak out against such excesses. Along the way I came to believe that the motivations of these individuals came more from self-aggrandizement than concern.

Their attempts at discrediting the theory had the result of increasing awareness of it. I cannot answer with certainty whether this was an unexpected outcome, or one which the leaders had no concern towards; their only true goal was increasing their own public profile.

The need for factual information on Autogynephilia became quite plain. The source for such information would have to be those who are most familiar with it, and best able to explain it precisely and clearly.

Since the Internet (and its various search engines) makes it relatively easy to find material on almost any subject a web site devoted to Autogynephilia would be invaluable. This despite the fact that there was some intelligent content already available.

Resources

The Autogynephilia Resource (autogynephilia.org) [2004ā€“2012 – archive]

Flickr (flickr.com)

Pinterest (pinterest.com)

Amy Eileen Hamm is a Canadian nurse and anti-transgender extremist.

Hamm co-founded anti-trans group Canadian Women’s Sex-Based Rights (caWsbar). Hamm was fired in 2025 following a hearing brought by the nursing regulatory board, which found that Hamm publicly identified as a nurse while engaging in anti-transgender activity.

Background

Hamm earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Thompson Rivers University, followed by a bachelor’s degree in nursing from University of British Columbia in 2012.

Hamm worked for 7 months as a psychiatric nurse in Vancouverā€™s Downtown East Side. Hamm then became a nurse educator in the psychiatric unit at a hospital in Richmond (part of Vancouver Coastal Health). Hamm resides in New Westminster, British Columbia.

In 2011, Hamm responded to the question “If you could live in a certain time period and place what would it be?” Hamm said:

1950s, small-town ‘merica. I could go for some “ignorance is bliss”. I’d be a stupid housewife with a stupid optimistic outlook on life.

Hamm (2011)

Hamm ended up in a much more modern clichƩ. Hamm is divorced and has children. Hamm has discussed being a single parent and the stigma involved:

It has been a few years since I left my marriage, and I did end up meeting someone wonderful. In the time between, I realized that single motherhood is the largest unquestioned stigma of my era. It can be achingly lonely andā€”if you let it get to youā€”it can crush your self-esteem.

Hamm (2023)

Anti-transgender activism

Hamm is a sex segregationist who co-founded gender critical group Canadian Women’s Sex-Based Rights (caWsbar) in 2019. Hamm claims to be fighting “the harms that gender-identity ideology was inflicting on women and children.”

In 2021 and 2022 Hamm and “Esme Vee” hosted Gender Critical Story Hour podcast. Episodes include:

  • 0 – trailer
  • 1 – Meghan Murphy (February 21, 2021)
  • 2 – Marguerite Stern (February 22, 2021)
  • 3 – Laoise UĆ­ Aodha de BrĆŗn (February 23, 2021)
  • 4 – Barbara Kay (February 24, 2021)
  • 5 – Graham Linehan (February 28, 2021)
  • 6 – Heather Mason and Madeline Riversong (March 20, 2021)
  • 7 – Linda Blade (June 4, 2021)
  • 8 – Bad Women: Amy & Esme (June 20, 2021)
  • 9 – Cancel Club: Amy & Esme (July 26, 2021)
  • 10 – Heather Mason and Linda Blade (April 7, 2022)
  • 11 – Sue-Ann Levy (April 26, 2022)
  • 12 – The Haters Inside the Canadian “Anti-Hate” Network (July 25, 2022)
  • 13 – How Far Can They Go: Are we reaching peak trans? (September 29, 2022)

Hamm and Holly Stamer co-founded GIDYVR, an anti-trans speaker series based in Vancouver. Their first event at the Vancouver Public Library on January 10, 2019 featured Meghan Murphy, Fay Blaney, and Lee Lakeman, moderated by Mary-Lee Bouma. Vancouver Public Library Chief Librarian Christina de Castell issued a statement about the event.

Hamm is best known for purchasing billboards that say “I ā™„ JK Rowling” with Chris Elston. They have been quickly removed for being a reference to anti-transgender views of transphobic author J.K. Rowling.

Hamm’s writing has appeared in conservative and fascist publications including the Post Millennial, The New Westminster Times, Human Events, and Quillette.

Disciplinary hearing

In 2022 the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) initiated a disciplinary hearing against Hamm:

Between approximately July 2018 and March 2021, you made discriminatory and derogatory statements regarding transgender people, while identifying yourself as a nurse or nurse educator. These statements were made across various online platforms, including but not limited to, podcasts, videos, published writings and social media.

BCCNM (2022)

Hamm reportedly rejected a proposed settlement from the college that would have included a two-week license suspension and social media training.

Hamm was represented by Lisa Bildy and Karen Bastow of Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF). JCCF brought in anti-trans activists James Cantor, Kathleen Stock, and Linda Blade to testify on Hamm’s behalf in 2023.

On March 13, 2025, the College found that Hamm, while identifying herself as a member of the medical profession, made statements that were ā€œuntruthful and unfair as they challenge the existence of transgender women, argue for less constitutional protection for transgender women, and are designed, in part, to elicit fear, contempt and outrage against members of the transgender community.ā€

Tabs 4, 24, 28 and S3 of the Extract were found to be violative:

  • Tab 4: Responded stated ā€œtrans activists determined to infiltrate or destroy women-only spaces.ā€ Respondent also stated that Vancouver Womenā€™s Shelter [VRR] will ā€œsurely (and maddeningly) face continued backlash from trans activists determined to infiltrate or destroy women-only spaces. The women of VRR, however, are clearly up to the taskā€. […] The suggestion that trans activists are seeking to ā€œinfiltrate or destroyā€ women-only spaces strongly connotes illegal, aggressive, and improper conduct and mischaracterizes transgender women seeking access to support services available to cisgender women in crisis situations as dangerous individuals. The Panel finds that the statement is not true nor is it fair to transgender women.
  • Tab 24: in her article entitled ā€œOn feeling like a womanā€. The Respondent states ā€œthere is no abscondingā€ from female bodies, the feeling of being a woman does not exist, and there is no ā€œincantation or initiation that can transcend bodily reality.ā€ The Panel finds that these statements are untrue and unfair to transgender women as they deny the possibility that that an individual born into a male body can feel like a woman and effectively deny the existence of transgender women.
  • Tab 28: In a book review entitled ā€œReview: ā€˜Love Lives Here ā€“ A Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family,ā€ Respondent refers to the ā€œfalsehood that babies can be ā€˜born in the wrong bodyā€™ or that humans can change their sexā€. She asserts that everyone ā€œwho believes in wrong bodies or innate gendersā€ would rather devastate a child than acknowledge that men cannot become transgender women, that gender identity ideology is akin to a Satanic Panic craze, that lesbians do not have penises, that a gender soul does not exist, and that men cannot literally become women. […] These statements, which appear to be designed to elicit fear, contempt and hostility towards the transgender community, particularly transgender women
  • S3 of the Extract: Respondent makes several statements in the context of the YouTube interview entitled, ā€œThe Same Drugs Live with Amy Hamm on I heart JK Rowlingā€. As the Respondent is asked in the interview about the background to the billboard, those comments must be considered in conjunction with the billboard itself and J.K. Rowlingā€™s essay. The billboard message must be assessed from the perspective of a ā€œreasonable person in the claimantā€™s circumstancesā€ […] From the perspective of a transgender person, the essay contains some references that could be interpreted as portraying them as a risk to cisgender women and girls and predatory. Such characterizations unquestionably elicit fear and hostility towards transgender people.

On March 27, 2025, Hamm reported being fired without severance from Vancouver Coastal Health.

References

Ruttle, Joseph (March 13, 2025). B.C. nurse committed professional misconduct with transgender commentary, hearing rules. Vancouver Sun https://vancouversun.com/news/bc-nurse-misconduct-transgender-commentary-hearing-rules

British Columbia College of Nurses & Midwives (March 13, 2025). In the matter of a Discipline Hearing under s. 38 of the Health Professions Act, RSBC 1996, c 183 between British Columbia College of Nurses & Midwives and Amy Eileen Hamm. https://bccnm.ca/Documents/complaints/2025_03_13_BCCNM_Hamm_Decision.pdf

Higgins, Michael (Jan 23, 2023). Michael Higgins: B.C. nurse Amy Hamm is being persecuted for believing in biology. National Post https://nationalpost.com/opinion/michael-higgins-amy-hamm-is-being-persecuted-for-believing-in-biology

Lindsay, Bethany (October 23, 2023). Nurse’s ‘discriminatory and derogatory’ comments on transgender people at issue in B.C. hearing. CBC https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-amy-hamm-disciplinary-hearing-1.7005480

Lindsay, Bethany (October 24, 2023). Controversial psychologist tells B.C. hearing he feels a duty to speak out on transgender issues. CBC https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-amy-hamm-disciplinary-hearing-oct-24-1.7007014

Lindsay, Bethany (October 25, 2023). Lawyer says contentious psychologist will ‘dispel the myth’ that B.C. nurse’s comments harm trans people. CBC https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-amy-hamm-disciplinary-hearing-oct-25-1.7008318

Lindsay, Bethany (November 3, 2023). Nurse tells B.C. hearing she’s not transphobic, but calls gender identity ‘metaphysical nonsense.’ CBC https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-amy-hamm-disciplinary-hearing-nov-3-1.7018573

Pawson, Chad (September 12, 2020). I Love J.K. Rowling sign makes brief, controversial appearance in Vancouver. CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/i-love-j-k-rowling-sign-makes-brief-controversial-appearance-in-vancouver-1.5722244

Takeuchi, Craig (September 12th, 2020). Transphobia concerns prompt East Vancouver billboard supporting J.K. Rowling to be covered up. The Georgia Straight https://www.straight.com/living/transphobia-concerns-prompt-east-vancouver-billboard-supporting-jk-rowling-to-be-covered-up

Christina de Castell (January 27, 2020). Statement from VPLā€™s Chief Librarian regarding March 21 GIDYVR event. Vancouver Public Library https://www.vpl.ca/statement-on-gidyvr-event

Publications by Hamm

Hamm, Amy Eileen (June 22, 2023). On the stigma of single motherhood. Substack https://preta6.substack.com/p/on-the-stigma-of-single-motherhood

Hamm, Amy Eileen (February 14, 2023). Teaching UBC Medical Scholars that Biological Sex is a ā€˜Colonial Imposition.ā€™ Quillette https://quillette.com/blog/2023/02/14/teaching-ubc-medical-students-that-biological-sex-is-a-colonial-imposition/

Hamm, Amy Eileen (April 8, 2022). Iā€™m Being Investigated by the British Columbia College of Nurses Because I Believe Biological Sex Is Real. Quillette https://quillette.com/2022/04/08/im-being-investigated-by-the-british-columbia-college-of-nurses-because-i-believe-biological-sex-is-real/

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Grace Lidinsky-Smith is an “ex-transgender” activist. Lidinsky-Smith’s work has been cited by conservative psychologist Erica Anderson and others seeking to restrict access to healthcare for gender diverse youth and young adults.

Background

Lidinsky-Smith “detransitioned” after making a gender transition as an adult that included hormones and top surgery.

Lidinsky-Smith then became active in anti-trans organizations like Gender Care Consumer Advocacy Network (GCCAN).

References

Jones, Kevin J. (Jun 29, 2021). ā€˜Gender transitionā€™ regret deserves a voice, says former patient. Catholic News Agency https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/248192/gender-transition-regret-deserves-a-voice-says-former-patient

Lidinsky-Smith, Grace (June 25, 2021). There’s No Standard for Care When it Comes to Trans Medicine Opinion Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/theres-no-standard-care-when-it-comes-trans-medicine-opinion-1603450

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith is an American writer, designer, and transgender rights activist. Smith is a pioneer in online trans resources and created what became the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance.

Background

Gwendolyn Ann “Gwen” Smith was born July 22, 1967. Smith attended Pasadena City College, then began doing desktop publishing and digital design under the entity designstylestudios. Smith was an early adopter in online communities, rising to Programming Director at America Online’s onQ community, which later merged with PlanetOut.

Smith has been involved with the game Second Life since its release in 2003 and since 2019 has offered high-end professional support to the game’s power users.

Smith is married to Bonnie “Bon” Smith and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Transgender activism

Starting in 1992, Smith was the driving force behind making America Online (AOL) trans-friendly, lobbying them to change anti-trans policies. Smith developed and maintained a repository of information and resources on AOL and hosted many chats. Smith developed the Transgender Community Forum (TCF), which AOL forced to close.

In 1998, Smith founded the Remembering Our Dead Project to document anti-trans murders. That project evolved into the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance.

In 2000, Jamison Green, Dallas Denny, Jessica Xavier, Gwen Smith, Penni Ashe Matz, and Sandra Cole launched the nonprofit Gender Education and Advocacy (GEA) at the website gender.org.

Smith has written and edited for many publications, including LGBTQ Nation, The New Civil Rights Movement, and Genderfork. Smith has written a column titled “Transmisisons” for the Bay Area Reporter since 2000.

Smith designed the accompanying booklet and attended our 2004 all-transgender benefit performance of The Vagina Monologues.

Smith is subject of the 2017 book Trans/Active: A Biography of Gwendolyn Ann Smith.

This site (transgendermap.com) is dedicated to Smith and Melanie Anne Phillips for their key roles in early online resources for the community.

References

Leveque, Sophia Cecilia (2017). Trans/Active: A Biography of Gwendolyn Ann Smith. ISBN 9781618460448

Burns, Katelyn (November 20, 2019). Founder Gwendolyn Ann Smith on the 20th Anniversary of Transgender Day of Remembrance. Vogue. https://www.vogue.com/article/gwendolyn-ann-smith-interview-transgender-day-of-remembrance

Inkster, Andy (2008). Gwendolyn Ann Smith (1967ā€“). In LGBTQ America Today: An Encyclopedia. ISBN 978-0313339905

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Sierra Weir is an American ex-transgender activist who posts gender critical content online using the handle “Exulansic.” Weir gets money and attention by making it harder for others to access trans health services.

If you are transgender, gender diverse, or supportive of the LGBTQ community, do not support Weir’s business. There are many better voice practice and voice therapy options.

Background

Sierra Dullea Weir was born in April 1987.

In 2008, Weir studied Turkish for a year at Middle East Technical University in Turkey. Weir earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 2011. Weir then earned a master’s degree from San Jose State University in 2015. Weir identified as transgender for about four years, then as non-binary:

I lived as a trans man for several years, in community with other gender non-conforming people in the Bay Area, where the culture is open to non-traditional expressions of identity. I went to UC Berkeley, where Judith Butler, author of the seminal Gender Trouble, teaches, and where I majored in Gender and Womenā€™s Studies. At one point, a significant other and I (both trans men at the time) attended a brunch with a group that included Julia Serano, a trans woman biologist whose book Whipping Girl argues that transphobia is a form of misogyny and that rights for trans people must be central to feminism. 

Weir practiced speech therapy at Jewett & Associates, at a middle school via Staffing Options and Solutions, and at Nova Health Therapies. Weir founded Say the Word Speech Therapy in 2018.

Anti-transgender activism

Weir is now part of the gender critical and ex-transgender movements.

Under the pseudonyms “Exulansic” aand “TT Exulansic,” Weir has appeared on Savage Minds, Lou Perez, TRIGGERnometry, Benjamin Boyce, and other anti-trans shows.

References

TT Exulansic (April 8, 2021). How Gender Atheism Saved My Body. The American Mind https://americanmind.org/salvo/how-gender-atheism-saved-my-body/

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Dan Savage is an American author and activist. Savage has been glitter-bombed many times for anti-transgender views. Some of Savage’s views have evolved following criticism.

Savage has written about sex and relationships since the 1990s and has supported the work of many gender critical and transphobic public figures. Savage has also been involved in a number of important projects that have improved the lives of sex and gender minorities, including trans people.

Background

Daniel Keenan “Dan” Savage (born October 7, 1964) grew up in a Catholic household in Chicago. Savage graduated with a theater degree from University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, then moved to Germany for two years before moving to Madison, Wisconsin.

In 1991 The Onion founder Tim Keck told friend Savage about a plan to start The Stranger, an alternative newspaper in Seattle. Savage suggested writing a sex and relationship advice column. The title was proposed as Hey Faggot!, but Keck refused to use that title, so they settled on Savage Love. For years, all answered letters started with “Hey Faggot!” as the greeting. The column was syndicated, and Savage dropped the greeting in 1999 when the column started accepting emailed questions.

Savage moved to Seattle for the job. Under the stage name “Keenan Hollahan,” Savage also founded Seattle’s Greek Active Theater, producing reimagined classics in the mid-1990s. Savage was active in the Seattle theater scene until around 2003.

Savage created the It Gets Better project in 2010 with spouse Terry Miller. They were married in Canada in 2005 and remarried in the US when it was legalized. They have one child. The nonprofit has helped many trans and gender diverse young people through its message. The nonprofit’s President Paul Dien and founding member Seth Levy have noted that Savage is no longer involved in the project day to day:

“I don’t agree with what he has said, and I think it’s important to call out our privileges,ā€ said Dien. ā€œI think in our communities, cisgender white folks do have that privilege, and it’s okay to talk about when people are wrong or offensive to other parts of our community. And I think it’s important to have those discussions.ā€

ā€œI really can’t comment on whatever Danā€™s relationship with the trans community is; that’s been a complicated one for a long time,ā€ added Levy. ā€œAll I know is that as a co-founder with them and having done a lot of work with them over the years, he’s done a lot for that community, often through this project. And so I hope at the end of the day, that’s what people start to understand, is that we’ve all really been trying to fight the same fight, even if we don’t always get along along the way.ā€

Ennis (2021)

Controversies

Savage’s strong opinions and acerbic tone have been criticized by numerous groups.

Biphobia allegations

Savage’s support of transphobic psychologist J. Michael Bailey and like-minded sexologists has caused the greatest reputational harm. Savage uncritically repeated Bailey’s claims that bisexual men don’t exist, and Savage told gay men “DON’T MESS AROUND WITH BISEXUALS” and likened bisexuality to ā€œincest and dog-fucking.ā€

It was ā€œthe way most gay men were at the time, and it was shitty,ā€ Savage says now. ā€œA lot of my hostility to bi guys early was because I dated bi guys who were gay closet cases who felt superior to the gay men that they were dating, because they werenā€™t 100 percent polluted by gayness.ā€ Over the years, ā€œpushback from my readersā€ and some new bi lovers helped change his mind.

Anderson (2021)

Bailey and friends magically “discovered” bisexuality as soon as they got a payment from The American Institute of Bisexuality. Savage supported Bailey’s claims about that “discovery” as well.

Transphobia allegations

Then there are the transphobic slurs that frequently appeared in Savage Love over the first 20-odd years, along with some gender nonaffirming advice about trans people and cheap jokes about the appearance of trans women. Savage told me that he used those words in the same spirit as he invited readers to call him a ā€œfaggot.ā€ He offered a similar explanation when, at a much-covered event at the University of Chicago in 2014, he was challenged by a trans student who objected to his continued use of the slurs while talking about the slurs, and wrote a scorched-earth takedown of the student in the Stranger. (Savage now uses the phrase ā€œt-slurā€ instead of saying the word out loud.)

Anderson (2021)

Savage says those views have evolved:

ā€œHow do you disprove a charge like youā€™re transphobic? Iā€™m not afraid of trans people. […] I certainly have had a journey in the last 20 yearsā€‰ā€”ā€‰as have we allā€‰ā€”ā€‰on trans issues. When I started writing Savage Love 20 years ago, and you can yank quotes 15, 18 years ago and flat them up today and say, ā€˜You know, thatā€™s transphobic,ā€™ Iā€™d probably agree with you. 15 years ago I didnā€™t know as much as I know nowā€‰ā€”ā€‰nor did anybody.ā€

Badash (2014)

Savage is one of the few people to reify “autogynephilia,” writing in 2010: “You might want to google autogynephilia. Not saying thatā€™s where youā€™re at or headed, donā€™t know enough about it to endorse it, but . . . it seemed relevant.” Gender critical and anti-trans people Savage has platformed and supported include:

Here Savage cites Singal’s promotion of conservative clinician Erica Anderson as evidence Singal is not transphobic.

There is a tendency among this collection of people to back each other up and logroll for each other when accused of acting against the best interests of the trans community. Let’s hope that changes in the future, as their monopolization of media opportunities by shutting out trans critics is one of the key ways they perpetuate harm.

References

Rude, Mey (March 24, 2021). Cis Men Like Jesse Singal, Dan Savage Don’t Decide What’s Transphobic. The Advocate https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/3/24/cis-men-jesse-singal-dan-savage-dont-decide-whats-transphobic

Badash, David (April 29, 2014). Dan Savage Does Not Hate You. The New Civil Rights Movement. https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2014/04/dan_savage_does_not_hate_you/

Anderson, LV (September 23, 2021). Dan Savage Revolutionized Sex. Then the Revolution Came for Him. Slate https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/09/dan-savage-advice-savage-love-criticism-interview.html

Savage, Dan (December 2, 1999). Gay Ol’ Time. Savage Love https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=2686 [archive]

Abad-Santos, Alexander (November 3, 2011). Dan Savage: Queer-on-Queer Glitter-Bombing Victim. The Wire via The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/11/dan-savage-queer-queer-glitter-bombing-victim/335921/

Lowder, J. Bryan (November 4, 2011). Did Dan Savage Deserve to be Glitter-Bombed?. Slate. http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2011/11/04/did_dan_savage_deserve_to_be_glitter_bombed_.html

Dan Savage Gets Glitterbombed, Called Transphobic At University Of Oregon. The Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/02/dan-savage-glitterbombed-oregon-transphobia-_n_1071627.html

Hill-Meyer, Tobi (November 2, 2011). Dan Savage Gets Glitter Bombed for Being Transphobic. The Bilerico Project. http://www.bilerico.com/2011/11/dan_savage_gets_glitter_bombed_for_being_transphob.php

Hill-Meyer, Tobi (November 14, 2011). Dan Savage Glittered Again, Student Arrested. The Bilerico Project. http://www.bilerico.com/2011/11/dan_savage_glittered_again_student_arrested.php

Oommen, Isaac (January 21, 2012). Dan Savage Glitterbombed. Vancouver Media Co-op. http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/photo/dan-savage-glitterbombed/9681

Schmidt, Christine (May 30, 2014). Comments at IOP spark controversy. [archive] Chicago Maroon http://chicagomaroon.com/2014/05/30/comments-at-iop-spark-controversy/

University of Chicago Institute of Politics (May 27, 2014). IOP Statement on Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion. http://politics.uchicago.edu/news/entry/iop-statement-on-commitment-to-diversity-inclusion

Johnson, Andrew (June 5, 2014). UChicago Students: Dan Savage’s Use of ‘T-Slur’ Made Us Feel ‘Unsafe’. National Review http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/379649/uchicago-students-dan-savages-use-t-slur-made-us-feel-unsafe-andrew-johnson

Soave, Robby (June 9, 2014). Dan Savage Stands Up to the Speech Police, Defends His Use of ‘Tranny’, Reason http://reason.com/blog/2014/06/09/dan-savage-stands-up-to-the-speech-polic

Savage, Dan (2014). About That Hate Crime I Committed at University of Chicago Slog”. The Stranger http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/06/07/about-that-hate-crime-i-committed-at-university-of-chicago

Ennis, Dawn (May 3, 2021). ā€˜It Gets Betterā€™ Gets New Leadership. Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawnstaceyennis/2021/05/03/it-gets-better-gets-new-leadership/

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Dylan Mulvaney is an American media personality who documented the first year of gender transition in a popular video series called “Days of Girlhood.”

Background

Mulvaney was born December 29, 1996 in San Diego, California, grew up in Southern California, and earned a bachelor’s degree from University of Cincinnati in 2019.

Mulvaney performed in the musical The Book of Mormon on its national tour, as well as in other musical theatre productions. Mulvaney also was brought up from the audience to dance with a friend at the Ellen show and appeared as a contestant on The Price Is Right.

“Days of Girlhood”

At the start of the pandemic, Mulvaney began posting comedy videos on social media. Mulvaney quickly amassed a large following after the “Day One of Being a Girl” post went viral on TikTok. Mulvaney was soon doing many endorsement deals and sponsored posts. Several of Mulvaney’s videos sparked criticism, including one about tampons, one about Ulta cosmetics, one about wearing tight clothing to “normalize the bulge,” and several where Mulvaney dressed up as a young girl.

In October 2022, Mulvaney was invited to speak with Joe Biden at the White House, which led to significant backlash from conservatives, including conservative trans people like Caitlyn Jenner.

Following 2022 facial feminization surgery, Mulvaney did a face reveal of the results in January 2023. At the 2023 Grammy Awards, Mulvaney talked over Laverne Cox while filming their first introduction. Though Mulvaney had solicited Cox’s advice, Mulvaney was clearly not listening, leading a number of prominent trans people to comment on the dynamics of the encounter.

In March 2023 Mulvaney held the live fundraising event Dylan Mulvaney’s Day 365 Live! to celebrate one year since starting transition. Those who showed Mulvaney support, including cisgender allies like Drew Barrymore, faced criticism.

In April 2023 Mulvaney made sponsored posts for Bud Light and Nike. The Nike post showed Mulvaney exercising in their sports bra and sparked more criticism from anti-trans people. The Bud Light posts promoted an NCAA March Madness giveaway and revealed the brand had made a customized Bud Light can with Mulvaney’s face on it.

Bud Light immediately faced bomb threats and boycotts after conservative demagogues like Tucker Carlson and anti-trans groups decided to make an example of the beer. Anti-trans troll Matt Walsh made such pointed and cruel personal attacks that Walsh’s YouTube channel was demonetized. In the first weeks, several conservative entertainers joined the boycott, Bud Light sales dropped about 25% year over year, two ABInBev marketing executives were ousted, the stock was downgraded by several firms, and Senator Ted Cruz announced a planned investigation into whether the brand was marketing to underage audiences. ABInBev released a noncommittal statement and a poorly received patriotic ad, announced they would buy back unsold beer, and hired conservative consultants to help with a rebrand. Bud Light lost its place as America’s favorite beer, ABInBev laid off hundreds of employees, and North American organic sales dropped $1.4 billion. The fiasco instantly became one of the worst marketing blunders in history and a setback for national brands supporting trans inclusion or offering brand endorsements to trans people.

Facing extreme overexposure, Mulvaney reduced the frequency of posting and announced an upcoming book. In June 2023 Mulvaney reflected on the first three months of the controversy:

ā€œWhat transpired from that video was more bullying and transphobia than I could have ever imagined. For months now, Iā€™ve been scared to leave my house. I have been ridiculed in public. Iā€™ve been followed. And I have felt a loneliness that I wouldnā€™t wish on anyone. And Iā€™m not telling you this because I want your pity. I am telling you this because if this is my experience, from a very privileged perspective, know that it is much much worse for other trans people.ā€

Jones (2023)

In 2023 Attitude magazine honored Mulvaney as Woman of the Year.

To mark the 2024 anniversary of starting transition, Mulvaney posed with Lady Gaga and shared several messages with fans. In 2025, Mulvaney released the book Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer and announced a podcast called The Dylan Hour.

References

Mulvaney, Dylan (2025). Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer. Harry N. Abrams, ISBN 978-1419770395

Huston, Caitlin (March 5, 2025). Dylan Mulvaney Launches Podcast With Lemonada Media. Hollywood Reporter https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/dylan-mulvaney-podcast-lemonada-media-1236154656/

Editors (March 20, 2025). Behind the scenes at Dylan Mulvaney’sĀ AdvocateĀ cover shoot. The Advocate https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/dylan-mulvaney-advocate-cover-shoot

Puckett-Pope, Lauren; Gaffney, Adrienne (March 14, 2025). Dylan Mulvaney and Laverne Cox on What It Means to Be a Trans ā€˜Itā€™ Girl. Elle https://www.elle.com/culture/books/a64135694/dylan-mulvaney-laverne-cox-interview-paper-doll-trans-it-girl/

Factora, James (March 12, 2025). Hereā€™s What Dylan Mulvaney Learned on Her Ayahuasca Trip. them https://www.them.us/story/dylan-mulvaney-paper-doll-late-bloomer-book-ayahuasca-trip-details

Sanders, Wren (June 6, 2023). Dylan Mulvaney Is Ready for Life After ā€œGirlhood.ā€ them. https://www.them.us/story/dylan-mulvaney-life-after-girlhood-now-awards-2023

VanHoose, Benjamin (March 1, 2025). How Dylan Mulvaney ‘Healed’ After Bud Light Scandal: I’m ‘a Thousand Times Stronger’ Now (Exclusive). People https://people.com/dylan-mulvaney-stronger-two-years-after-bud-light-controversy-exclusive-11687040

Lange, Maggie (February 18, 2025). Dylan Mulvaney Dreams of Privacy. Really. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/style/dylan-mulvaney-paper-doll-book.html

Jones, CT (June 29, 2023). Trans Influencer Dylan Mulvaney Breaks Her Silence on Bud Light Controversy. Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/dylan-mulvaney-trans-bud-light-controversy-1234780871/

Bellware, Kim; Javaid, Maham (April 6, 2023). She’s on Bud Light cans and all over the internet. Who is Dylan Mulvaney? The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/06/dylan-mulvaney-transgender-influencer-tiktok/

Billson, Chantelle (October 17, 2022). Beauty giant Ulta bombarded with transphobic hate over video of trans woman. PinkNews [archive] https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/17/ulta-beauty-trans-dylan-mulvaney/

Miller, Julius (June 1, 2022). Dylan Mulvaney On Transitioning and Becoming a TikTok ‘Trailblazer’. lamag.com. [archive] https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/dylan-mulvaney-on-transitioning-and-becoming-a-tiktok-trailblazer/

Malkin, Marc (March 9, 2023). TikTok Star Dylan Mulvaney Recalls Coming Out as Trans at Age 4, Tells Trans Youth: ‘There Is a Light at the End of the Tunnel’. Variety. [archive] https://variety.com/2023/digital/podcasts/tiktok-dylan-mulvaney-transgender-1235547512/

Dellatto, Marisa (November 22, 2022). ‘#BoycottTampax’ Trends On Twitter After Viral Tweet From Tampon Company. Forbes [archive]

Iftikhar, Asyia (October 27, 2022). Caitlyn Jenner joins right-wing pile-on of trans TikToker Dylan Mulvaney. PinkNews [archive] https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisadellatto/2022/11/22/boycotttampax-trends-on-twitter-after-viral-tweet-from-tampon-company/?sh=7a5ab1ba72a9

Holpuch, Amanda (April 14, 2023). Behind the Backlash Against Bud Light’s Transgender Influencer. New York Times [archive] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/14/business/bud-light-boycott.html

St. Martin, Emily (March 14, 2023). Drew Barrymore sat on the floor with trans TikToker Dylan Mulvaney. Online turmoil ensued. Los Angeles Times. [archive] https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2023-03-14/drew-barrymore-dylan-mulvaney-transgender-online-hate

Coen, Susie; Corless, Blathnaid (April 7, 2023). Sharron Davies calls for Nike boycott after trans influencer promoted its sports bra. The Telegraph [archive] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/07/sharron-davies-dylan-mulvaney-nike-transgender-bra-boycott/

Williamson, Harriet (April 15, 2023). Budweiser targeted by bomb threats as right-wing snowflakes keep raging over Dylan Mulvaney collab. PinkNews https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/15/budweiser-bomb-threats-dylan-mulvaney-bud-light/

Picchi, Aimee (April 25, 2023). Maybelline faces boycott over partnership with Dylan Mulvaney. CBS News. [archive] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/maybelline-dylan-mulvaney-boycott/

Ziady, Hanna (February 29, 2024). Bud Light boycott likely cost Anheuser-Busch InBev over $1 billion in lost sales. CNN https://www.advocate.com/business/has-bud-light-lost-sales

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Chris Elston is a Canadian anti-transgender activist. Elston is best known for purchasing or wearing signs with anti-transgender messages. Elston gets money and attention by trying to provoke responses from trans and gender-diverse people and their supporters. Elston has been arrested, banned from venues, and involved in numerous legal disputes.

Elston is one of several “parental rights” activists who appear in public holding or wearing anti-transgender signs, including January Littlejohn and “Sidewalk Steve.”

Background

Christopher David Elston was born in 1976. Elston has used a number of nicknames, including

  • Christoph Elston
  • Christophe Elston
  • Chris Elston
  • Billboard Chris

Elstonā€™s spouse Sheree Lynn (Peacock) Elston earned a bachelorā€™s degree from Simon Fraser University in 2003, followed by a masterā€™s degree in education from Simon Fraser in 2007. Sheree Elston was a schoolteacher before becoming an administrator at Semiahmoo Trail elementary school in South Surrey, British Columbia. The Elstons have been members of Village Church, an evangelical Christian church with a location in Surrey. Their older child Arya was born in 2010, followed by Mila. Both children are involved in the same local sport.

Scientology

Around age 20, Elston became involved in Scientology while traveling in Ireland. Elston joined the organizationā€™s elite Sea Org, a group of Scientologyā€™s most dedicated members, in March of 1996. Because of that zeal and fervor, Elston was soon assigned to the Church of Scientologyā€™s Saint Hill Manor property in East Grinstead, West Sussex. The location is called Scientologyā€™s Advanced Organization & Saint Hill United Kingdom. It is an 18th-century manor originally purchased by L. Ron Hubbard in 1959 and later renovated as a Scientology museum. Elston was reportedly assigned to run the Hubbard Communications Office (HCO) in the Continental Liaison Office (CLO).

In June 1997, Elston was a witness to the death of 17-year-old Sea Org member Russell Dienes. Elston was part of a car procession hurrying to work at Saint Hill. Dienes pulled in front of an oncoming truck, causing Dienes’ death and the serious injury of teen passengers Thilo Gnass and Frederik Zengel.

Elston remained with Scientology for almost two years:

I joined the Sea Org in March 96, worked their 100 hour weeks and escaped in the middle of the night Dec. 98 when I was told I couldnā€™t go home on a visit to see my parents. Passport and plane ticket had been seized. 

Elston returned to Canada and reportedly was the subject of an ā€œSP Declare,ā€ a document outlining why Scientology designates Elston as a Suppressive Person, or Anti-Social Personality. Elston has been involved in anti-Scientology activism ever since.

Insurance career

After moving to Vancouver, British Columbia, Elston took a job as an investment advisor at Canaccord Capital (later named Canaccord Financial, now called Canaccord Genuity). Elston worked there from 2001 to 2008, then was a Financial Advisor at Raymond James from 2008 to 2014. After founding Elston Insurance Agency in 2014 and selling insurance, Elston began generating significant income and media coverage from anti-transgender activism. After Elston’s insurance license expired in 2022, Elston began doing anti-trans activism full-time.

Anti-transgender activism

Elston pivoted from anti-Scientology activism to anti-transgender activism following several controversies in the Vancouver area.

Jessica Yaniv aka Jessica Simpson

  • Elston got involved in several controversies related to Jessica Yaniv, now known as Jessica Simpson, a frequent litigant who used anti-discrimination laws to bring numerous complaints against local businesses. Simpson identifies as transgender and brought many complaints against waxing practitioners who would not wax Simpson’s genitals.
  • In December 2020, the Western Standard reported that the Langley Royal Canadian Mounted Police had charged Simpson with mischief and uttering threats in relation to an incident in October 2020 concerning Elston.

I ā™„ JK ROWLING

  • Elston met nurse and anti-transgender extremist Amy Hamm at a Simpson hearing. They began purchasing billboards with the slogan “I ā™„ JK ROWLING,” a reference to British author J. K. Rowling’s anti-transgender activism. British anti-trans extremist Posie Parker had purchased similar out-of-home ads. Elston’s first one was taken down following complaints. Elston got the nickname “Billboard Chris” soon after.

Elston has been arrested for disturbing the peace after showing up to pro-trans events wearing provocative anti-transgender messages like “Gender ideology does not belong in schools,” and “No child is born in the wrong body,” and “Children cannot consent to puberty blockers.” Elston is no longer allowed on the street around the Vancouver art gallery where Elston was arrested.

Elston’s goal is to be verbally or physically assaulted, which has happened several times. Elston then uses video of those encounters to get money and attention.

References

Grochowski, Sarah (October 26, 2020). Man behind controversial J.K. Rowling billboard arrested at Vancouver protest ā€“ but not for protesting. Vancouver Is Awesome https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/vancouver-news/man-behind-controversial-jk-rowling-billboard-arrested-at-vancouver-protest-but-not-for-protesting-2823471

UBC Students Against Bigotry (October 24, 2020)

“Christophe Elston, the transphobic insurance agent who hangs out with known fascist “John Southern,” showed up to yesterday’s Mi’kmaw solidarity rally for some reason. He was briefly detained by the VPD, and had his “I ā™„ JK Rowling” sandwich board taken away.”

Slatzism (March 13, 2021). https://twitter.com/Slatzism/status/1370761412008611847

Naylor, Dave (December 31, 2020). Transgender activist Yaniv wanted by police in BC. The Western Standard. Wildrose Media Corp. [archive] https://www.westernstandardonline.com/2020/12/transgender-actvist-yaniv-wanted-by-police-in-bc/

Naylor, Dave (February 6, 2021). Yaniv accused of calling fire department dozens of times, making lewd remarks. The Western Standard [archive] https://westernstandardonline.com/2021/02/yaniv-accused-of-calling-fire-department-dozens-of-times-making-lewd-remarks/

Cupp, Anne Renner (March 26, 2018). [Scientology discussion page] https://www.facebook.com/groups/1097697983669219/posts/1407298826042465/?comment_id=1407325562706458&reply_comment_id=1408239902615024

“Chris Elston ingratiates himself to people to gather personal information on them and the moment they cross him, it gets splashed across the internet. He’s a known serial offender and it’s always women. Always. Ginger has been hoodwinked by a master at his craft. I was too, once. […] Maybe her new BFF who is a financial advisor should coach her on that, when he’s not too busy harassing other women.”

Hays, Gabriel (April 1, 2023). WATCH: Conservative activist bloodied and bruised at pro-trans rally in Canada: ā€˜Police did nothing.ā€™ Fox News https://www.foxnews.com/media/watch-conservative-activist-bloodied-bruised-pro-trans-rally-canada-police-did-nothing

Media appearances

With Tucker Carlson

  • Billboard Chris: This is the ‘biggest child abuse scandal’ in modern medicine
  • https://www.foxnews.com/video/6311077938112
  • Appearance following Vancouver incident (April 4, 2023) [cancelled]

With Benjamin Boyce

With Wesley Yang

With Tim Pool

  • Civil War ERUPTS Inside FBI As Agents DEMAND Director Be FIRED w/Billboard Chris
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMteDh3xqc0

With James Klug

  • Talking With Child Mutilation Advocates Part 1 & 2 w/ @BillboardChris
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO8XJhzLdW4
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAv6Zv1OOIY

With Zuby

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfZg7SnMawY

With Viva Frei

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJU40JaXSC0

With The Daily Signal

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRh-biRMTv8

With Alex Stein

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29RKeRh8UxE

With Family Research Council

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7To2NBZNObk

With Vivek Ramaswamy

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIlH9mafM30

With Jennifer Lahl

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEHwo6Hrtlk

Resources

Billboard Chris (billboardchris.com)

Insurance Council of BC (portal.insurancecouncilofbc.com)

YouTube (youtube.com)

Gettr (gettr.com)

X/Twitter (x.com)