Imara Jones is an American journalist. Jones was named to the Time 100 list of most influential people of 2023.
Background
Jones was born on May 9, 1972 and grew up in the Atlanta area.
Jones earned a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University in 1994 and a master’s degree from The London School of Economics and Political Science.
Jones held posts at Viacom, which included work on the campaign “Know HIV/AIDS and Fight for Your Rights: Protect Yourself” which garnered two EMMY Awards and a Peabody Award.
Jones was a Soros Equality Fellow and chaired the first-ever UN High-Level Meeting on Gender Diversity.
Jones’ Translash podcast did a limited series titled “The Anti-Trans Hate Machine: A Plot Against Equality.” The series profiles a number of key anti-trans activists. Season 2 examines how through “the disinformation ecosystem constructed by the Christian Nationalist movement, anti-trans lies are laundered through some of the biggest and most respected news rooms in the country, and how this effort creates a world where the existence of trans people is questioned.”
Coan, Jamie Shearn (April 25, 2019). Imara Jones.New York Trans Oral History Project https://nyctransoralhistory.org/content/uploads/2021/12/NYC-TOHP-Transcript-144-Imara-Jones_UPDATED.pdf
2003 Peabody Awards Know HIV/AIDS and Fight For Your Rights: Protect Yourself Campaigns https://peabodyawards.com/award-profile/know-hiv-aids-and-fight-for-your-rights-protect-yourself-campaigns/ https://vimeo.com/160099072
Steve Sailer is an American far-right activist, white nationalist, and anti-transgender extremist. Sailer created the Human Biodiversity Institute, an organization dedicated to eugenic ideology.
Background
Ernest Steven “Steve” Sailer was born on December 20, 1958 and was adopted soon after by Ernest Rudolph Sailer (1917–2012) . Sailer grew up in Los Angeles and earned a bachelor’s degree from Rice University in 1980, followed by an MBA at UCLA in 1982.
From 1982 to 2000, Sailer worked at Chicago-based SymphonyIRI Group (now IRI).
Sailer and spouse Carole Rita (Guse) Sailer (born 1959) have two children, Matthew Leonard Sailer (born 1985) and Peter Ernest Sailer (born 1992).
Connection to J. Michael Bailey
When psychologist J. Michael Bailey published anti-trans book The Man Who Would Be Queen in 2003. Steve Sailer’s “Roster of Human Biodiversity Discussion Group” linked many of Bailey’s reviewers back to before Bailey had published what became the book online in 2000.
Michael Bailey: A psychologist at Northwestern, Bailey is a leading researcher into homosexuality, and one of the handful of realists on this subject where moralizing (whether of the religious or politically correct variety — “Gays: Sinners Against God or Victims of Society?”) is standard.
Wonderfully readable book on gay males and transsexuals, August 16, 2003
Reviewer: Steve Sailer (see more about me) from Studio City, CA
United States Please note that this book has been the subject of an organized smear campaign among transsexuals, which accounts for most of unhinged reviews you’ll see below.
Professor Bailey is the chairman of the psychology department at Northwestern and probably the leading researcher into homosexuality in America.
The first two thirds of the book are about male homosexuals, who, as you’ll note, aren’t complaining. It briskly reviews most of the scientific evidence on male homosexuality, which shows that most of the stereotypes about gay men tend to be more or less true on average. I’ve studied this issue for years, and everything I’ve ever seen points to the validity of Bailey’s conclusions about male homosexuals.
Bailey has outraged transexuals by publishing in the last third of the book in highly readable form the evidence that has been mounting for a number of years in scientific journals that the standardized explanation of transsexualism — “I always felt like a girl on the inside, even when I was a linebacker, then a Navy SEAL, then the most feared corporate raider on Wall Street” — is not very persuasive. Bailey suggests that male to female transsexuals tend to fall into one of two categories — extremely effeminate homosexuals or masculine men who have an odd fetish called autogynephilia, which is a kind of heterosexual narcissism.
Is this true? Beats me. My main exposure to transsexualism is the wonderful travel writer James/Jan Morris’ memoir “Conundrum,” which repeats the “I always felt like a girl” party line. It struck me at the time that Morris’ descriptions of how he was a military officer, an adventurer, and fathered five children while feeling like a girl on the inside sure sounded bogus, but I hadn’t heard at the time the alternative explanation of autogynephilia. Anyway, it would be easy to see why nobody would want to be associated with autogynephilia.
In sum, a fascinating and informative book that a well-organized pressure group doesn’t want you to read. What better reason to read it?
Of course, the article ignores the truth about male to female transsexuals, as discovered by leading Canadian sexologist Ray Blanchard. All that stuff about, “Even when I was captain of the football team, I always felt like a girl on the inside,” is in most cases a cover story. In reality, most cases fall into two categories. The first are extremely effeminate homosexuals who want to attract a Real (i.e., straight) Man, and figure their only chance is to become a quasi-Real Woman. The second are what Blanchard calls “autogynephiles.” These are, in effect, narcissists who become overwhelmingly attracted, quasi-heterosexually, to the idea of themselves as a beautiful woman. They classically start out dressing up in their mother’s lingerie and, uh, amorously admiring themselves in front of the mirror. That’s kind of embarrassing to explain, so they settled on this “I feel like a girl on the inside” party line. But don’t expect to read that in the NYT.
Interview: Are stereotypes of homosexuals true? by Steve Sailer — To paraphrase Mark Twain, everybody talks about sexual orientation, but Michael Bailey is one of the few scientists who rigorously researches it. The Northwestern University psychology professor is among the most respected figures in the field of objectively investigating homosexuality.
Gay gene or gay germ? (17 August 2003) http://www.vdare.com/sailer/gay_gene.htm
Pinker’s Progress logrolling for Steven Pinker
http://www.vdare.com/sailer/pinker_progress.htm
Steve was a fellow at the conservative Hudson Institute.
Since it was his shot at the big time, his presentation to Margaret Thatcher and some Hudson Institute people probably best sums up his worldview (see a synopsis below).
Sailer writes for UPI, the formerly objective press consortium now bankrolled by conservative Sun Myung Moon.
Ray Blanchard was one of the very first people to sign on with Steve’s Biodiversity group, no doubt because of Sailer’s prominent role in assisting Canada’s positive eugenics programs through psychology (following the groundbreaking eugenics work of psychologist Charles Kirk Clarke, as in Canada’s anti-trans Clarke Institute). The British/Canada connection is an interesting one.
The Catholic church (via Paul McHugh?) has been churning out a lot of position papers on this matter lately, though Sailer holds views antithetical to most Catholic doctrine. He suggests that the quaint notion that we are all equal in a spiritual sense or the US Constitution’s quaint claim that “all men are created equal” need to be done away with as we enter the “Age of Galton,” which he sees as the next big paradigm shift.
Francis Galton coined the term “eugenics,” was a sort of protopsychologist, and a criminologist who invented the concept of fingerprinting. Steve’s Human Biodiversity group seeks to gather the far-flung diaspora of thinkers and fields influenced by Galton’s undeniably brilliant but ideologically volatile contributions.
Sailer seems to see himself as an evangelist of Galton’s, though he has put a decidedly unusual ideological spin to eugenics. He has fused Marx and Darwin into an ideology in which he seems to advocate a sort of genetic division of labor, taking most examples from sports. He envisions a society of genetic classes each assigned to do what they do best, sort of an antithesis of Marx’s classless society. He also notes that traditional eugenics programs (i.e. genocide and sterilization) are in place in China, and that we are poised to lose the eugenics “arms race” if we don’t implement our own eugenics programs pronto.
He sees those advocating Galtonian principles of eugenics as suffering a sort of religious persecution, getting kicked out of universities and generally reviled. Sailer’s isn’t your Fuhrer’s eugenics, this is a kinder, gentler eugenics!
Presentation to Margaret Thatcher
Sailer presented to Margaret Thatcher at a Hudson Institute event.
“To Lady Thatcher and three dozen other distinguished guests at the Hudson Institutes’ Thatcher Weekend conference on “Will the 21st Century Be the American Century?” Today, I’ll discuss the long run impact of the biotechnology revolution.”
[Sailer starts of with an example of positive eugenics, in which a family screened embryos to avoid having a second child with cystic fibrosis.]
“Should we ban every genetic manipulation? Or just the ones that would be socially deleterious? But, how would we know which ones are which? Or should we let the free market rip? Or should we subsidize enhancements for the poor and, uh, genetically-challenged?”
[Sailer claims we’ve moved from Marx’s obsession with “accidents of birth” (i.e. Class into which you were born) to Darwin’s “accidents of conception.”]
“In the West, outspoken Darwinian scientists like Edward O. Wilson, Arthur Jensen, J.P. Rushton, and Chris Brand have been the victims of assault, threat, riot, firing, censorship, character assassination, and constant harassment. […] What, by the way, is “human biodiversity?” It’s primarily biological differences in sex, race, and — to some debatable extent — sexual orientation. Just as studying the biodiversity of animals is interesting, aesthetically pleasing, and important to society, so is studying the fascinating biodiversity of humans. I take seriously the multiculturalist slogan “Celebrate Diversity.” Unfortunately, multiculturalists don’t. In practice, the diversicrats try to cover up human biodiversity. […] Consider the French-inspired post-modernist rebellion against science, knowledge, nature, and objective reality. […] The new prestige of evolutionary biology encouraged egalitarians to discard that corny creed of spiritual equality – and to adopt the shiny new scientific hypotheses that humans are physically and mentally uniform. And that, paradoxically, put progressive egalitarians on a collision course with Darwinian science. […] The human race is strengthened by its diversity, as long as we are allowed to specialize in what we do best and trade with people with different strong suits. That’s Ricardian economics 101.”
[An economic model of international trade introduced by David Ricardo to explain the pattern and the gains from trade in terms of comparative advantage. It assumes “perfect competition” (i.e. No affirmative action or economic handicapping for poor countries) and a single factor of production: labor, with constant requirements of labor per unit of output that differ across countries.]
“Similarly, one easy way for America to improve its human resources through immigration reform. Like Canada, we should just admit those likely to most benefit and least burden our current citizenry. Instead, who gets in depends primarily on family reunification, a euphemism for nepotism. […] Eugenics has a terrible reputation, much of it deserved. Until recently, eugenics in action mostly consisted of governments murdering people they didn’t like, as in Nazi Germany, or sterilizing them, as in Socialist Sweden. […] In contrast, today’s eugenics consists of couples freely choosing to improve their own children.”
[Sailer fails to mention Asians screening for female fetuses and aborting them, etc.]
“Will voluntary eugenics bring about utopia, or a Brave New Nightmare? It all depends on what impact these changes in gene frequencies have on society. Fortunately, we have a huge storehouse of data available to base predictions upon: namely, the vast amounts of existing genetic diversity. Unfortunately, we now discourage and even persecute scholars who try to study it.”
[Sailer advocates breeding a subset for intelligence because “In 1997 some high-IQ cancer researchers saved me from a painful death.”]
“Canada discriminates more in favor of intelligent immigrants than the United States. Which country has benefited more?”
[Sailer then goes on a Galtonian reverie about sex difference, where men are “natural” leaders, and women are “nurturing.”]
“But IQ is just one aspect. Consider how free market Galtonism may widen the gap between the sexes. People who want to choose their child’s sex will likely want to choose their genes so that they get boyish boys and girlish girls. They’ll crank up their sons’ testosterone levels to get athletic, square-jawed, hard-charging, natural leaders of men. But what will be the impact on society if the new generation of men are manlier on average? We might get some insights from studying the African-American community, since, as shown by their sports domination, they tend toward greater masculinity. […] Conversely, those parents who choose daughters, will tend to prefer higher estrogen levels to produce lovely, nurturing young ladies who will give them grandchildren and take care of them in their old age. […] When this is understood, it will increase demands for banning genetic technologies. Already, professional activists for the disabled worry that embryo selection will put them out of business by creating healthier people. […] Likewise, feminist organizations will go through the roof once they figure out that reproductive liberty would mean even more little girls who’d much prefer to play house than softball. […] However, just as eugenics was favored in the past by leftist busybodies like Beatrice and Sidney Webb, progressive pressure groups may well someday give up on banning eugenics and flip back to demanding mandatory re-engineering of human nature. Pacificists and multiculturalists will want to chop out our penchant for violence and ethnocentrism. Feminists will demand that the government redesign men to better appreciate women like themselves. Environmentalists will want to delete our desire for the internal combustion engine. “Why can’t people just stay in one place, like a tree?” If socialism failed because it conflicts with human nature, why not change human nature to make Marxism possible?”
(slide 51 is a full screen of Hilary Clinton clones, clearly the greatest threat humanity faces)
“Whether eugenics is officially banned or socialized, people will still try to make their own choices about their own kids. And that’s why God created the Cayman Islands. But these black market babies will out-compete their government-controlled rivals so badly, that governments will have to strike back. […] Unencumbered by post-Christian ethics, the Chinese government recently passed a pre-1945-style eugenics law calling for the sterilization of ‘morons.’ If China uses genetic enhancements while the West either bans them or pursues a politically correct re-engineering of human nature, the inevitable result within a few generations would be Chinese economic, and thus military, global hegemony. The weapons scientist and evolutionary theorist Gregory Cochran points out that ‘We cannot opt out of this biological arms race any more than we could opt out of the nuclear arms race.’”
Bailey on Sailer (2018)
At a 2018 coference held by anti-trans group FIRE, J. Michael Bailey wrote:
I was, for example, investigated by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which accused me of being part of an intellectual cabal that “tries to turn back the clock on sex, gender and race using eugenics and controversial genetic theories” (Dreger, 2008). The investigation was another prompted by the transwomen trying to ruin my life. The evidence for these particular charges was my participation in a Listserv begun by journalist Steve Sailer to discuss aspects of “biodiversity,” including sex, gender, and race. Many fine, heterodox, minds were on that Listserv, and I am proud to have been among them. The idea that the SPLC should attempt to discourage membership on private email lists because it disapproves of topics discussed on them is representative of what the SPLC has become.
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Razib Khan is a Bangladeshi-American writer and anti-transgender activist. Khan comes to anti-trans “sex science” via “race science” and is best known for laundering extremist views about race into mainstream media.
Khan hopes to usher in the “second age of eugenics” through genetic screening and manipulation to increase “good” traits and eliminate “bad” traits. Many of Khan’s like-minded colleagues consider being trans and gender diverse to be undesirable traits to be eliminated from the gene pool.
Newamul K. “Razib” Khan was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1977. Khan’s family moved to the US in 1982. Khan lived in upstate New York as a child before the family moved to Oregon.
Khan earned two bachelor’s degrees from University of Oregon in 2000 and 2006. While there, Khan wrote a blog called Razib’s Rants, which later became Gene Expression. Following graduate work at UC Davis, Khan was a software engineer before receiving money from Ron Unz to write about hereditarian and eugenic topics.
In 2010, Khan co-founded the group blog Brown Pundits with Zachary L. Zavidé and Omar Ali. Khan has also promoted an “intellectual brown web.”
In 2015, the New York Times announced they had contracted with Khan to write monthly pieces, but they rescinded the offer following protests.
Podcast
Khan has platformed a number of anti-trans guests, including:
Cussins, Jessica (June 26, 2014). Quantified and Analyzed, Before the First Breath. Center for Genetics and Society https://www.geneticsandsociety.org/biopolitical-times/quantified-and-analyzed-first-breath
Khan, Razib (June 18, 2008). Curing the Gay.Unz Review https://www.unz.com/gnxp/curing-the-gay/
Seth Dillon is an American media executive and anti-transgender extremist.
Dillon is CEO of the Babylon Bee, a satire site banned from Twitter for anti-trans content. The account was reinstated by Elon Musk.
Dillon has also partnered with Chaya Raichik to support Raichik’s transphobic Libs of TikTok account.
Background
Seth Michael Dillon was born on January 5, 1983 in Washington D.C. to Mitchell Wayne “Mitch” Dillon and Faith Barnett Dillon and grew up in an itinerant religious family. Reverend Mitch Dillon wrote the 2010 book Beyond Earthbound Dreams. Dillon has two siblings, including photographer and entrepreneur Daniel R. “Dan” Dillon (born 1985), who is also a colleague.
Dillon earned a degree from Palm Beach Atlantic University in 2004. Dillon is involved in the following business entities:
Babylon Bee Media, LLC
Dillon Asset Management LLC
Dillon Venture Capital LLC
Libs of Tik Tok LLC
Optisearch Marketing LC
Venture Tech LLC
Veritas Publishing LLC
Volentric LLC
Several operate out of the same business complex Dillon owns on Indiantown Road in Jupiter, Florida.
Dillon and spouse Tara Lynn Dillon have two children and live in in Juno Beach, Florida.
Graham, Jennifer (November 10, 2021). How a preacher’s son made The Babylon Bee sting.Deseret News https://www.deseret.com/2021/11/10/22770662/how-a-preachers-son-made-the-babylon-bee-sting-politics-fakenews-evangelical-fox-news-jokes-humor
Andrea James is an American filmmaker and consumer activist. James is author of this site and this profile, which is written in the style of all other profiles on this site.
Background
Andrea Jean James was born on January 16, 1967 in Wisconsin. James and sibling Greg (born 1969) were adopted. Their parent Nancy (born 1937) worked at several nonprofits, and their parent Warren (1934–2016) ran a small farm before taking several roles at a steel mill.
James grew up in Franklin, Indiana, earned a bachelor’s degree at Wabash College in 1989, then earned a master’s degree at the University of Chicago in 1990. James then worked in advertising in Chicago at the Chicago Tribune and several ad agencies.
Transgender Map
During gender transition, James developed several early online consumer resources for trans people, including tsroadmap.com, the predecessor to this website. As described in the 2018 book The Remarkable Rise of Transgender Rights, online activism was an important moment for democratizing information: “These services also allowed transgender individuals, like Andrea James, to share information without the filters of doctors, therapists, and other gatekeepers.”
Media activism
James moved to Los Angeles in 2003 and produced several popular instructional videos with Calpernia Addams, covering voice, makeup, facial feminization surgery, and coming out. They also produced and performed in the first all-transgender production of The Vagina Monologues in 2004. In 2008, James helped produce and appeared in the first dating show with trans-attracted suitors, with Addams as the first out transgender star.
James served on the boards of Outfest and TransYouth Family Allies and has consulted on, helped produce, directed, and appeared in many film and television projects with trans themes, including Transamerica (2005), Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She (2005), Beautiful Daughters (2006), Transamerican Love Story (2008), Transcendent (2015), Original Sin: Sex (2016), Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric (2017), Whirlybird (2020), Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps (2020), and The Ts Madison Experience (2021).
James helped produce Living Things (2014), a drama on veganism. James has also directed projects on LGBTQ adoptions, including the children’s film Family Restaurant (2012) and the Showtime special Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy (2015).
James published the 2006 overview “A defining moment in our history.” The community response was described as “one of the most organized and unified examples of trans activism to date.”
The American trans rights movement entered a decadent phase following the election of Barack Obama. Following two decades of remarkable political gains, complacency and infighting reached a peak in late 2014, and both media coverage and public opinion began to turn negative.
“Call-out culture” ringleader Parker Molloy began criticizing prominent trans entertainers and drag artists, including Laverne Cox, Candis Cayne, Our Lady J, Jen Richards, Calpernia Addams, and RuPaul. James wrote a piece about Molloy’s own history of hurling profanity, slurs, and abuse toward LGBTQ community members. James also criticized GLAAD board members Jennifer Finney Boylan and Christina Kahrl for enabling Molloy and pushing a toxic strain of respectability politics via GLAAD. Molloy’s fans created an open letter attacking James and Addams. It was signed by over 300 trans people and their supporters, including Laurelai Bailey, Aleshia Brevard, Kelli Anne Busey, April Daniels, Eli Erlick, Fallon Fox, Amelia June Gapin, Mirah Gary, Julie Rei Goldstein, Gina Grahame, “Kat Haché,” Aoife Emily Hart, Kelsie Brynn Jones, “Zinnia Jones,” Christina Kahrl, Jayna L-Ponder, Greta Gustava Martela. Morgane Oger, Shadi Petosky, Joelle Ruby Ryan, Autumn Sandeen. Dana Lane Taylor, and Cristan Williams. The open letter is frequently cited by anti-trans activists and is approvingly quoted by Alice Dreger in the 2015 anti-trans book Galileo’s Middle Finger.
In 2003, James created an early interactive map of key figures in media and academia engaged in anti-transgender activism, revising it through 2010.
Following publication of an egregiously biased 2018 cover story by Jesse Singal in The Atlantic on the burgeoning ex-transgender movement, James began working on The Transphobia Project, a long-term effort to document the key media figures and platforms engaged in propagating biased content and misinformation about gender identity and expression.
References
Haimson, Oliver L. (2025). Trans Technologies. The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262551861
Davenport, T. (2025). Uncomfortable trans care politics: transnormativity, institutional abandonment, and the obligation to care in New York City. Gender, Place & Culture, 32(8), 1227–1247. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369x.2025.2477578
Hiscott, Rebecca (June 26, 2019). This Is What Transphobia in the Media Looks Like. Kickstarter Magazine https://medium.com/kickstarter/this-is-what-transphobia-in-the-media-looks-like-3b9da535322e
When The Atlantic published its July/August 2018 cover story on transgender youth, Andrea James was among the chorus of trans writers and activists who excoriated it for being biased. “Editor Jeffrey Goldberg published it despite many warnings that it was likely to be a dog whistle, a kind of bias that most people won’t notice,” she says.
The article focused on the disputed concept of “desistance,” which views gender nonconforming children as having a disease to be cured, delegitimizing the experiences and struggles of the majority of trans youth. “It also came out that elite journalists” — including the author of the Atlantic piece — “were excluding transgender journalists from backchannels where they were discussing coverage,” James says.
Bolded sections removed after complaint by Jesse Singal
Taylor, Jami K; Lewis, Daniel C.; Haider-Markel, Daniel P. (2018). The Remarkable Rise of Transgender Rights. University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0472074013 [full text]
Reynolds, Daniel (December 24, 2014), The 10 Best LGBT Documentaries of 2014.The Advocate https://www.advocate.com/year-review/2014/12/24/10-best-lgbt-documentaries-2014?pg=6
Kellaway, Mitch (July 16, 2014), Trans Women Share Wisdom ‘By Us, For Us’.The Advocate https://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2014/07/16/trans-women-share-wisdom-us-us
Jones, Zinnia (April 14, 2014). 100-Plus Trans Women Stand Against Calpernia Addams and Andrea James: An Open Letter. HuffPost https://www.huffpost.com/entry/calpernia-addams-andrea-james_b_5146415 alt url https://www.transadvocate.com/open-letter-200-trans-women-and-transfeminine-people-stand-against-calpernia-addams-and-andrea-james_n_13507.htm
Busey, Kelli; Abernathy, Marti (April 9, 2014). Open letter to Andrea James and Calpernia Addams.TransAdvocate https://www.transadvocate.com/open-letter-to-andrea-james-and-calpernia-addams_n_13412.htm
Kearns, Michael (2008). Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.Frontiers, 2008, 26(20). https://web.archive.org/web/20080209122436/http://www.frontierspublishing.com/2620/features/feat4.html
Addams, Calpernia; James, Andrea (July 22, 2003). Transformations.The Advocate https://books.google.com/books?id=SmUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA12
Books
James, Andrea (2017). The gift of fearlessness. In Craggs, Charlie [editor] To My Trans Sisters. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, ISBN 978-1785923432
James, Andrea; Thornton, Deanna [editors] (2014). Letters For My Sisters: Transitional Wisdom In Retrospect. Transgress Press, ISBN 978-1499342031
Erickson-Schroth, Laura [editor]; James, Andrea [advisor] (2014). Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community. Oxford University Press ISBN 9780199325351
Media
Trans IRL with Samantha and Andrea James (August 20, 2020). Ep. 36: Andrea James. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u9ps5EUxU8
The Deeper End with Donna Rose, Diana Fronterhouse, and Andrea James (October 20, 2016). Ep 012 – Andrea James. http://www.thedeeperend.com/?p=78 [archive]
Wabash on My Mind with Richard Paige and Andrea James (Octoober 26, 2015). Andrea James ’89. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/andrea-james-89/id855321475?i=1000355568732
Hopper, Douglas (March 5, 2006). Helping Transgender Women Find a New Voice.All Things Considered, NPR https://www.npr.org/2006/03/05/5246222/helping-transgender-women-find-a-new-voice original url https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5246222
GenderTalk with Nancy Nangeroni, Gordene MacKenzie, and Andrea James (September 13, 2004). Program # 477: Andrea James. https://www.gendertalk.com/radio/programs/450/gt477.shtml
GenderTalk with Nancy Nangeroni, Gordene MacKenzie, Andrea James, and Calpernia Addams (June 9, 2003). Program # 413: Calpernia Addams and Andrea James. https://www.gendertalk.com/radio/programs/400/gt413.shtml
Deep Stealth Productions (2002). Finding Your Female Voice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u399BgzMTs&list=PL0CCD9AF3C587C9A2
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Jessica Simpson, formerly known as Jessica Yaniv, is a Canadian litigant and troll known for several controversies regarding sexuality and gender identity.
Background
Jessica Serenity Simpson was born June 12, 1987. While attending Kwantlen Polytechnic University in 2008, Simpson called for a National Sex Day and promised free condoms to participants. After over 140,000 people joined the event’s Facebook group, Simpson said it was a marketing stunt.
Simpson ran a tech review website called Trusted Nerd while working at call centers and doing tech support as JY Knows It Business Consulting. Simpson ran the social media for pop music siblings Cimorelli, originally to get rid of impostors, but was apparently posting on behalf of the group from around 2010 to 2017. Louise Nussac, a fan of Cimorelli, was also involved in working with the group and alleged that Simpson engaged in inappropriate activity while managing the accounts. Nussac also alleged that Simpson was behind a string of personal attacks.
Teenager Jessica Rumpel reportedly filed an anonymous tip against Simpson to a Canadian child exploitation tipline, but no charges came from the complaint. Simpson claims the inappropriate messages were by an impersonator or were not sent to Rumpel.
Simpson was a frequent participant in Langley township council meetings, often on gender-related controversies. In 2019 Simpson unsuccessfully proposed a topless “all-bodies swim” at a Langley Township public pool for ages 12 and up, with parents and guardians prohibited.
Simpson’s antics have been widely covered in conservative media and among anti-transgender activists, most notably by Rebel News. Simpson and critics were fond of trolling each other on social media, leading to several temporary and permanent suspensions. Anti-trans extremist Meghan Murphy unsuccessfully sued Twitter to reinstate a personal account following a fight with Simpson. Murphy’s account was later reinstated by anti-transgender troll Elon Musk. Anti-trans author and activist Lindsay Shepherd was briefly banned from Twitter in 2019 after exchanging insults with Simpson.
Litigation and legal issues
Simpson has been described as a “prolific litigant” who often uses AI to write legal complaints, some of which refer to non-existent legal cases.
In 2016, Simpson sued Vancouver Playhouse for $24,000 after reportedly inhaling smoke from burned sage at an event. The case was settled for $500.
Beginning in 2018, Simpson filed human rights complaints against at least 15 businesses, alleging anti-trans discrimination. Most were waxing salons run by Asian immigrants who declined to wax Simpson’s scrotum and pubic area. At least two businesses later closed. Simpson acknowledged making racist remarks to some salon employees. In 2019, a human rights tribunal ruled against Simpson and demanded $6,000 in restitution, upheld on appeal. They found that Simpson had directed racist remarks at some salon operators and was motivated by money and revenge. Simpson’s appeal was rejected.
In 2019, Simpson was arrested after brandishing a prohibited taser during a YouTube debate with conservative troll Blaire White. RCMP seized two tasers during the arrest. Simpson was found guilty, then sentenced to probation and a firearms prohibition. Simpson sued Langley township and filed complaints against the RCMP, alleging mistreatment while in detention.
Anti-trans extremist Amy Hamm also got into a dispute with Simpson, who accused Hamm of assault. Hamm then sued for defamation.
In 2020, Simpson filed more complaints, but those were later dropped. During the media circus, Simpson attacked conservative troll Keean Bexte of Rebel News and was found guilty of the assault in 2022.
Simpson also filed a complaint against Canada Galaxy Pageant after they did not allow Simpson to compete. The case was dismissed in 2025.
In December 2020, the RCMP charged Simpson with mischief and uttering threats during a dispute with anti-transgender troll Chris Elston. Simpson also enrolled at Simon Fraser University that year.
In 2021 Simpson sued Fraser Health and the Provincial Health Services Authority for allegedly revealing personal health information.
In 2021, Simpson sued lBC Emergency Health Services for $2,100, claiming a paramedic had damaged Simpson’s stove when they put their bag on it. That year, the Langley fire department stated they would charge Simpson for any future calls for service. They said Simpson had engaged in “inappropriate and lewd conduct” during dozens of non-emergency calls for help getting out of the bathtub.
A suit Simpson brought against Rebel News was dismissed under anti-SLAPP statutes.
Simpson also lodged nine small claims cases against the Langley strata corporation where Simpson lives.
In 2022, Simpson sued a pharmacy for not allowing Simpson to enter with a “service dog.” Simpson lost the case.
In 2023, Simpson took action against BC Emergency Health Services for flagging Simpson as a “mental health concern” who “can be unpredictable and abusive to responders, may also have weapons in apt.” In dismissing the case and ordering Simpson to pay $1,620, the decision noted that Simpson made 53 calls to BC ambulance in 20 months, over 30 of which involved police backup.
In 2023 Simpson was found guilty of public mischief for falsely setting off a fire alarm and sentenced to 18 months probation. Simpson set off the alarm at the retirement home where parent Miriam Yaniv lives. Simpson’s “service dog” Rexy was not behaving at the facility, which led to a confrontation that culminated in Simpson calling 911 and setting off the fire alarm. In 2024 Simpson’s request to have probation conditions lifted was denied. Following the ruling Simpson hurled racial slurs and verbal abuse at anti-trans reporter Drea Humphrey of Rebel News.
In 2024, Simpson was added to a class action suit against Quaker Oats after the company removed products from shelves during a recall. Simpson was later removed.
In 2025, Simpson’s mortgage company began foreclosure procedures. Court documents alleged Simpson was avoiding being served legal papers.
In 2025, Simpson filed a human rights complaint against gas station owners Hung Long Enterprises for refusing entry to Simpson and dog Rexy. Simppson claimed Rexy was a service dog. The case was dismissed.
The website Meow Mix (meowmix.online) maintains a running update of Simpson’s lawsuits and legal issues.
References
note: many stories below include deadnaming and anti-transgender sentiment.
Small, Reid (May 26, 2022). Transgender activist Yaniv found guilty of assaulting journalist. Western Standard https://www.westernstandard.news/bc/watch-transgender-activist-yaniv-found-guilty-of-assaulting-journalist/article_f6c746be-dd34-11ec-932e-4bf58217e946.html
The Canadian Press (August 10, 2008). Unzip and unwind, says National Sex Day organizer. CTV News https://www.ctvnews.ca/unzip-and-unwind-says-national-sex-day-organizer-1.315017 [archive]
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.
In 2022, Lidinsky-Smith was featured in the anti-trans propaganda video The Detransition Diaries by Jennifer Lahl and Kallie Fell, as well as in their 2024 book by the same name.
In 2023, Lidinsky-Smith was featured in the anti-trans book Gender Madness by “Oli London.”
In the 2024 book Bad Ink: How The New York Times Sold Out Transgender Teens, Riki Wilchins noted that Azeen Ghorayshi included Lidinsky-Smith in a piece about teens choosing top surgery, even though Lidinsky-Smith was not a teen:
Ghorayshi also gratuitously introduced Grace Lidinsky-Smith, who transitioned as an adult at age 23 and then detransitioned later. So it turns out this cautionary tale is not about a minor and thus irrelevant to the topic at hand.
She didn’t bother to mention that Lidinsky-Smith is president of Gender Care Consumer Advocacy Network, an organization which promotes blanket bans on both youth and adult care, state monitoring of all affirming care, and malpractice lawsuits against care providers. GCCAN also claimed that top surgery is marketed “like cigarette companies used to market tobacco to children.”⁴⁶⁶ ⁴⁶⁷ ⁴⁶⁸ ⁴⁶⁹
Lidinsky-Smith was also featured on 60 Minutes, where Lesley Stahl briefly interviewed a single, unnamed happy trans teen before devoting the bulk of the segment to detransition and regret. She also did not disclose Lidinsky-Smith’s leadership of GCCAN.⁴⁷⁰ ⁴⁷¹ ⁴⁷²
Anllo, L. (2025). Challenges of Sexual Life after Detransition: Trauma, Disenfranchised Grief, and Unmet Needs. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 51(6), 639–651. https://doi.org/10.1080/0092623x.2025.2531167
Lahl, Jennifer; Fell, Kallie (2024). The Detransition Diaries. Ignatius Press, ISBN 978-1621646372
“London, Oli” (2023). Gender Madness: One Man’s Devastating Struggle with Woke Ideology and His Battle to Protect Children.Skyhorse Publishing, ISBN 978-1510778061
Ferguson, Samuel D. (2023). Does God Care about Gender Identity? Crossway, ISBN 978-1433591150
James, Sharon (September 24, 2021). The Hidden Harm of Gender Transition. The Gospel Coalition https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/hidden-harm-gender-transition/
Branham earned a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University in 2018 and a graduate certificate from University of Kansas in 2022. Following a stint at a dog daycare facility, in 2022 Branham took a job at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis as an animal research technician.
From the GCCAN site:
Grace Branham is a post-operative detransitioner who received gender care from the ages of 15 to 21. S/he did not feel adequately supported by providers before, during, or when ending treatment and believes all consumers deserve high-quality care whether they are considering transition, in the process, or detransitioning. S/he hopes GCCAN’s work will help providers better understand the varied experiences of consumers so they may better serve sexuality- and gender-diverse communities.
Corinna Cohn is an American software developer who identifies as transsexual and gender critical. Cohn frequently appears in media to share conservative opinions and criticize various aspects of the trans rights movement.
In 2018 Cohn was triggered by Twitter’s revised policies that prohibited deadnaming and misgendering trans and gender diverse people. Cohn began making media appearances soon after.
In 2021 Cohn and fellow gender critical activist Nina Paley began the podcast Heterodorx.
In 2022 Cohn published a regret narrative in the Washington Post, suggesting that minors and young adults considering transition should “slow down.” Cohn has expressed the following regrets:
“a lifetime set apart from my peers”
“I wasn’t old enough to make that decision”
“I have resigned myself to never finding a partner”
“became a medical patient and will remain one for the rest of my life”
“intercourse never became pleasurable”
“I’m still working out how much regret to feel”
Via Media Matters for America:
Cohn, who hosts the podcast Heterodorx, has recently begun to put her anti-trans views into action. In late January, Cohn spoke in front of the Indiana House of Representatives in favor of HB 1041, a legislative effort that Cohn claimed would “strengthen the rights for girls and young women competing in sport” by excluding trans student athletes from competition. In her testimony, Cohn defined herself as “a transsexual,” arguing that her “sex is male, and neither science nor medicine can change that.” In the months since, Cohn has served as an expert and a witness for legislative efforts to restrict gender-affirming care in both Alabama and Ohio.
Cohn signed her testimony to the Ohio General Assembly as the secretary and treasurer of Gender Care Consumer Advocacy Network. GCCAN was founded in 2019 under the stated mission “to empower recipients of gender transition-related care to become healthy and whole,” but it has rapidly aligned itself with the right-wing campaign against gender-affirming care policies, with Cohn serving as a board member.
Downard, Whitney (February 22, 2023). Anti-trans medical care bill passes Senate committee. Indiana Capital Chronicle https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2023/02/22/anti-trans-medical-care-bill-passes-senate-committee/
Steve Hammer and Chuck Workman (September 3, 2003). 30 under 30: Innovators in the arts.Nuvo https://www.nuvo.net/arts/30-under-30-innovators-in-the-arts/article_c99ebd9c-ae71-5c71-93dd-4f0f26bc75bc.html
Stella O’Malley is a conservative Irish therapist and anti-transgender extremist. O’Malley is a global ringleader in the modern ex-transgender and gender critical movements and a major supporter of anti-transgender efforts worldwide.
O’Malley founded anti-trans hate groupGenspect. O’Malley frequently collaborates with American clinician Sasha Ayad and anti-trans extremist Mia Hughes to uplift other conservative and anti-transgender voices.
Do not under any circumstances go to Stella O’Malley for any counseling, trans or otherwise. If you are a minor forced to see O’Malley, do everything in your power to end the sessions and find supportive local resources instead.
Background
O’Malley was born on November 16, 1973. O’Malley grew up with three siblings in the Dublin area in a household where at least one parent was alcoholic.
O’Malley and spouse Henry Thompson, a construction contractor, live in Birr, County Offaly with their two children Róisín Thompson (born November 9, 2007) and Muiris Thompson (born August 5, 2009). O’Malley’s self-described parenting style is “impatient, moody and cranky” with “a very low threshold for ordinary whining.”
O’Malley was host of the 2018 propaganda piece Trans Kids: It’s Time To Talk. It features conservative and anti-trans activists, including James Caspian, Heather Brunskell-Evans, Venice Allan, Miranda Yardley, and people from the ex-trans movement
O’Malley is connected to a number of anti-trans organizations, most of which are just part of a web farm with reciprocal links to make O’Malley’s allies and their fringe ideologies seem more widespread and influential than they are.
In 2023 O’Malley co-authored the anti-trans book When Kids Say They’re Trans: A Guide for Parents with Sasha Ayad and Lisa Marchiano.
In 2024, when Texas politician Shawn Thierry lost the Democratic primary and joined Genspect as director of political strategy in the US. An article noting the announcement said:
Genspect has also been accused by medical experts and organizations of relying on junk science to support their stance. O’Malley, for instance, has falsely claimed that there are links between peer pressure, pornography and gender dysphoria. Genspect has also partnered with groups such as the right-wing Alliance Defending Freedom, and argues that no one under the age of 25 should be allowed to transition because their brains “haven’t yet fully matured.”
In 2025, O’Malley criticized how the “the gender-critical woke” have been attacking anti-trans activists who share O’Malley’s conservative politics. According to O’Malley, “the gender-critical woke are liberal and left-wing. It is only on the issue of gender identity that the gender-critical woke break ranks with their fellow progressives.” O’Malley added:
In 2025, O’Malley filed a defamation suit against the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP) and therapist Leonie O’Dowd, citing a article in the Winter 2024 issue of The Irish Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy titled “Providing therapeutic space to transgender and non-binary clients.” That article correctly noted that Genspect has taken “an anti-trans stance” in its activism.
Harris, Siobhan (April 25, 2024). Europe and the Puberty Blocker Debate.Medscape https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/europe-and-puberty-blocker-debate-2024a1000831
Pang, K. C., Giordano, S., Sood, N., & Skinner, S. R. (2021). Regret, informed decision making, and respect for autonomy of trans young people. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, 5(9), e34–e35. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2352-4642(21)00236-4
