Christina Hoff Sommers is an American author and anti-transgender activist. Sommers is critic of “gender feminism” or “victim feminism” and has supported many anti-trans activists over the years.
Background
Christina Marie Hoff Sommers was born on September 28, 1950 in Petaluma, California. Sommers earned a bachelor’s degree from New York University in 1971 and a doctorate in philosophy from Brandeis University in 1975.
After writing several works on ethics, Sommers began a career questioning “gender feminism,” a set of tenets central to third-wave feminism. Sommers went on to write several books on the subject:
Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women (1994)
The War Against Boys (2000)
Freedom Feminism: Its Surprising History and Why It Matters Today (2013)
Sommers married philosopher Frederic Tamler “Fred” Sommers (1923 â 2014). Sommers’ stepchild is philosopher Saul Tamler Sommers (born 1970).
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Danielle Ann Crittenden was born April 20, 1963 in Toronto, Ontario. Crittenden’s parents and stepparent are all writers. After graduating from Northern Secondary School in 1981, Crittenden began working as a writer. Crittenden wrote a column for the New York Post and was a contributor at The Huffington Post.
Crittenden married David Frum in 1988 and converted to Judaism. They have three children, Miranda Ann Frum (1991â2024), Nathaniel Saul Frum (born 1993) and Beatrice Sarah Worthy Frum (born 2001). Much of Crittenden’s subsequent writing was on cooking, lifestyle, and parenting.
Anti-transgender activism
Crittenden is one of the higher-end “mommy bloggers,” a genre of writers and readers highly susceptible to anti-transgender radicalization. Crittenden’s 1999 book What Our Mothers Didn’t Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman lays out Crittenden’s conservative views.
Crittenden is a biological essentialist and sex segregationist:
Denying or glossing over biological differences between men and women doesnât help anyone â least of all women. As [Hadley] Freeman and others have observed, the legal and institutional brunt of ignoring these differences falls most heavily upon women (we donât see transmen racing to be admitted to menâs prisons or compete in male sports, for example. Nor are transmen trying to cancel doctors who might recklessly assert their male patients more often than not possess prostate glands).
Crittenden further explained these positions to Inez Feltscher Stepman:
So thatâs kind of the thread that keeps on going through all the conversations weâre having today, and that weâve seen, I think, really magnified in these debates about trans, or there are 63 genders or whatever, that weâre trying again to deny any credibility to biological differences, to accept that there are biological differences. And the best way to deal with biological differences is to acknowledge them and think about how can we work with those to get the respect and equality and opportunities we all want as women, but without making the opposite sex the enemy. Also, without making the things we feel naturally as men or women somehow suspect or wrong or something we should suppress. If that makes sense.
Crittenden, Danielle (March 4, 2022). When The Sexes Blur There’s No Sex.The Femsplainers With Danielle Crittenden https://femsplainers.substack.com/p/when-the-sexes-blur-theres-no-sex
Frum, David (March 21, 2024) Miranda’s Last Gift.The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/05/david-frum-miranda-daughter-grief/677815/
Obituary (February 21, 2024). Miranda Frum.The Globe and Mail https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/theglobeandmail/name/miranda-frum-obituary?id=54427346
“Posie Parker” is a stage name of Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, a British anti-transgender extremist. Keen-Minshull is one of the most strident campaigners against trans rights in history. Keen-Minshull’s events often turn into tense standoffs due to gender-critical and fascist supporters.
Background
Kellie-Jay Nyishie Keen was born June 13, 1974 and grew up in Somerset with an older sibling. Keen earned a bachelor’s degree in theology from University of Leeds. Keen worked for Posie Parker photography, Cornhill Publishing (joining as a consultant in 1999), and GDS International.
Keen-Minshull married Ryan Miles Minshulll aka “Max Ford” (born 1974) in 2008. Minshulll runs DigiLive Events. They have four children: Roman, Artemus, Mabel, and Carter. They were all delivered as c-sections. The youngest was born in ~2008, three days after their marriage.
Anti-trans activism
Keen-Minshull is listed as a leader of three entities:
Woman By Definition Ltd (incorporated 2020, dissolved 2021)
Keen-Minshull is also a special advisor to anti-trans organization Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF).
Out-of-home ad campaigns
In 2018 Keen-Minshull paid for a billboard in Liverpool that said “woman, wÊmÉn, noun, adult human female,” a slogan used by anti-transgender activists. It was taken down following complaints. Keen-Minshull then had the same message placed in Leeds, which was also taken down.
In 2020 Keen-Minshull paid for a poster that said “I â„ JK Rowling” to run in an Edinburgh railway station before it was taken down. This inspired Chris Elston and Amy Hamm to do the same thing in Vancouver. It also inspired Speak Up For Women in New Zealand to place billboards in 2021 that said “adult human female.”
Social media
Keen-Minshull has been temporarily and permanently restricted on various social media platforms.
In 2018 gender critical organization Woman’s Place UK said they would no longer be working with Keen-Minshull. Others have expressed similar concerns due to Keen-Minshull’s association with right-wing and fascist activists.
In 2019 Keen-Minshull and Julia Long recorded themselves verbally abusing trans HRC press secretary Sarah McBride at the US Capitol. HRC then criticized religious conservative group The Heritage Foundation for their role in bringing the two to their event. Keen-Minshull has also published attacks on Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre director Mridul Wadhwa, who is trans.
Keen-Minshull and allies have held anti-trans rallies in Manchester, Bristol, Brighton, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Glasgow. Following a 2020 WoLF conference in New York, Keen-Minshull went to Atlanta for the NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming Championship to protest trans swimmer Lia Thomas. Keen-Minshull then scheduled appearances in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland (cancelled), Tacoma, Austin, Chicago, New York, and Belfast. Following a Melbourne event that was attended by Nazis, Keen-Minshull’s Wellington event shut down early and required a police escort due to the thousands of counter-protestors, one of whom doused Keen-Minshull with tomato soup.
After returning to the UK, Keen-Minshull announced the creation of the Party of Women in order to run for office.
Media
Keen-Minshull is a favored source among right-wing and anti-transgender activists:
Keen-Minshull has said about cisgender women who support trans rights:
Each and every one of you women who stand in my wayâeach and every one of youâlet me just tell you, you will be annihilated. Because I genuinely donât lose.
Andy Cuong NgĂŽ was born on April 6, 1986 and grew up in Portland, Oregon. NgĂŽ earned a bachelor’s degree from UCLA in 2009.
NgĂŽ came out as gay around age 30.
In 2015, NgĂŽ enrolled in graduate school at Portland State University. NgĂŽ was fired from student newspaper Portland State Vanguard in 2017 after allegedly misrepresenting statements made at a protest.
NgĂŽ covered leftist student protests at Evergreen State University. After that, NgĂŽ became well-known for covering Antifa activity in the Pacific Northwest. NgĂŽ would frequently attend protests and publish mugshots of those arrested. NgĂŽ is author of the 2021 book Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy.
Anti-transgender activism
NgĂŽ was suspended from Twitter in 2019 for a tweet disputing rates of violence against trans people.
In 2021, Ngo revealed that sex offender Darren Agee Merager was the suspect in an incident at Wi Spa in Los Angeles. Merager identifies as a trans woman and was accused by Wi Spa guests of indecent exposure while nude in a sex-segregated part of the spa. The incident was initially declared a hoax by some people who covered it, and it led to tense protests.
Urquhart, Evan (June 14, 2023) Did Andy Ngo coin âTRANTIFAâ?Assigned Media https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/did-trantifa-originate-with-andy-ngo
Gais, Hannah (September 11, 2019). The Making of Andy Ngo.Jewish Currents https://jewishcurrents.org/the-making-of-andy-ngo/
NgĂŽ, Andy (September 2, 2021). Sex offending suspect claims transgender harassment in Wi Spa case.New York Post https://nypost.com/2021/09/02/charges-filed-against-sex-offender-in-wi-spa-casecharges-filed-against-sex-offender-in-notorious-wi-spa-incident/ [alt headline: Charges filed against Darren Agee Merager in Wi Spa case]
Ngo, Andy (May 12, 2017). Fired for Reporting the Truth. National Review https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/05/free-speech-islam-portland-state-vanguard-editor-fired-tweets/
Caroline Farrow is a British writer and anti-transgender extremist.
Background
Farrow attended Brentwood School, Essex and New Hall School in Chelmsford, Essex.
Farrow worked as an accountant before working as an airline flight crew member. In 2010 Farrow began a pro-Catholic blog. Farrow has served as campaign director for the far-right lobby group CitizenGo.
Farrow is married to a priest named Robin and has five children. They live in Ash, Surrey.
Anti-transgender activism
Farrow has posted on anti-trans trolling site Kiwi Farms as Caroline Farrow, without a pseudonym, which is very unusual. After Farrow made a number of anti-trans comments during a debate with Susie Green on Good Morning Britain, an investigation was opened. Farrow complained about being investigated on a 2019 Quillette podcast hosted by Toby Young.
In 2022 Farrow was arrested at home after many years of harassing, doxxing, and misgendering Stephanie Hayden. Surrey Police said:
âOn Monday, 3 October, officers attended an address in the Guildford area as part of an investigation into allegations of malicious communications (sending of indecent, grossly offensive messages, threats, or information) and harassment. A 48-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of both offences. A number of electronic devices were seized as potential evidence from this address under section 19 of PACE. Where an offence is alleged to have been committed on an electronic device, for example, it may hold a key piece of evidence and may routinely be seized during an investigation. The woman was taken to Guildford police station where she was interviewed. She has now been released under investigation and inquiries remain ongoing.â
In October 2023, Farrow announced that CPS were not proceeding with prosecution because “the evidential test has not been met.”
Gallagher, Ian (October 9, 2022). Minute by Orwellian minute: Trans row mother-of-five Caroline Farrow recounts her ordeal at the hands of the Twitter police who, she says, should be out fighting REAL crime, after she was arrested for allegedly posting ‘malicious’ comments online. Daily Mail
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 (1917â2012) . 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 Constitutionâs quaint claim that âall men are created equalâ need to be done away with as we enter the âAge of Galton,â 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 Institutesâ Thatcher Weekend conference on âWill the 21st Century Be the American Century?â Today, Iâll 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 weâve moved from Marxâs obsession with âaccidents of birthâ (i.e. Class into which you were born) to Darwinâs âaccidents of conception.â]
“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 âhuman biodiversity?â Itâs 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 âCelebrate Diversity.â Unfortunately, multiculturalists donât. 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. Thatâs 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 didnât like, as in Nazi Germany, or sterilizing them, as in Socialist Sweden. […] In contrast, todayâs 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 childâs sex will likely want to choose their genes so that they get boyish boys and girlish girls. Theyâll crank up their sonsâ 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 whoâd 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. âWhy canât people just stay in one place, like a tree?â 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 thatâs 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.’â
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 âtries to turn back the clock on sex, gender and race using eugenics and controversial genetic theoriesâ (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 âbiodiversity,â 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.
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 preacherâs 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 (1934â2016) 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.
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), 1227â1247. 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. âEditor Jeffrey Goldberg published it despite many warnings that it was likely to be a dog whistle, a kind of bias that most people wonât notice,â she says.
The article focused on the disputed concept of âdesistance,â which views gender nonconforming children as having a disease to be cured, delegitimizing the experiences and struggles of the majority of trans youth. âIt also came out that elite journalistsâ â including the author of the Atlantic piece â âwere excluding transgender journalists from backchannels where they were discussing coverage,â James says.
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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
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 â 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
