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Allan Stratton is a Canadian playwright and novelist. Stratton has been critical of several aspects of the trans rights movement.

Background

Stratton was born in 1951 in Stratford, Ontario. Stratton attended University of Toronto, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1973 and a master’s degree in 1974.

Beginning in 1977, Stratton has written several plays and novels. Stratton’s 2017 novel The Way Back Home features a transgender character named Zoe Bird.

Stratton is gay and married.

References

Stratton, Allan (August 29, 2022). A call for nuance and clarity on trans terminology. The Line https://theline.substack.com/p/allan-stratton-a-call-for-nuance

Stratton, Allan (22 June 2021 ). The ‘Gender Supremacist’ Threat to the Progressive Alliance: Part One of a Three-Part Series https://quillette.com/2021/06/22/the-gender-supremacist-threat-to-the-progressive-alliance-part-one-of-a-three-part-series/

Stratton, Allan (27 Jul 2021). Rescuing the Radicalized Discourse on Sex and Gender: Part Two of a Three-Part Series https://quillette.com/2021/07/27/rescuing-the-radicalized-discourse-on-sex-and-gender-part-two-of-a-three-part-series/

Stratton, Allan (21 Sep 2021). The Progressive Case for Renouncing Gender Extremism: Last of a Three-Part Series https://quillette.com/2021/09/21/the-progressive-case-for-renouncing-gender-extremism-last-of-a-three-part-series/

Stratton, Allan (April 29, 2022). If You Care About Trans Rights, Don’t Let Predators Pick Their Pronouns https://quillette.com/2022/04/29/predators-dont-get-to-pick-their-pronouns/

Stratton, Allan (June 16, 2022). Ricky Gervais Knows No Fear https://quillette.com/2022/06/16/ricky-gervais-knows-no-fear/

Stratton, Allan (3 Aug 2022). Dave Chappelle vs. the New Puritans. https://quillette.com/2022/08/03/dave-chappelle-vs-the-new-puritans/

Resources

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Cathy Young is a writer and anti-transgender activist.

Background

Yekaterina Jung was born on February 10, 1963 in Russia to Marina (born 1936) and Alexander Jung (1935–2011). Young’s family moved to the United States in 1980. Young became a naturalized US citizen in 1987 as Catherine Alicia Young and earned a bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University in 1988.

Young is a writer at The Bulwark, a cultural studies fellow at the Cato Institute, a columnist for Newsday, and a contributing editor to Reason.

Young has authored two books.

References

Young, Cathy (October 5, 2023). Toxic culture on the right or left is wrong. Newsday https://www.newsday.com/opinion/columnists/cathy-young/culture-wars-transphobia-lgbt-gender-transgender-anthropology-i0un1yec

Young, Cathy (May 18, 2023). Gender transition for children draws extreme views. Newsday https://www.newsday.com/opinion/columnists/cathy-young/transgender-gender-transition-greg-abbott-i0un1yec

Young, Cathy (March 30, 2023). Gender Politics and the Nashville Shooting. The Cato Institute https://www.cato.org/commentary/gender-politics-nashville-shooting

Young, Cathy (February 16, 2023). Transgender rights is a complex topic. Newsday https://www.newsday.com/opinion/columnists/cathy-young/transgender-rights-glaad-i0un1yec

Young, Cathy (June 21, 2022). Transgender rights require a more civil debate. Newsday https://www.newsday.com/opinion/columnists/cathy-young/transgender-rights-athletes-lia-thomas-swimming-i0un1yec

Young, Cathy (June 21, 2022). Dispatches from the (Trans)Gender Wars. Arc Digital https://www.arcdigital.media/p/dispatches-from-the-transgender-wars

Young, Cathy (June 13, 2022). Do Ohio Republicans Really Want to Use Genital Exams to Ban Trans Athletes? The Bulwark https://www.thebulwark.com/demystifying-the-high-school-trans-athlete-controversy/

Young, Cathy (April 18, 2022). The Messy Politics of Teaching Gender. The Bulwark https://www.thebulwark.com/the-messy-politics-of-teaching-gender/

Young, Cathy (December 24, 2021). The “Transgender Moment” Jumps the Shark. Arc Digital https://www.arcdigital.media/p/the-transgender-moment-jumps-the

Young, Cathy (Dec 26, 2019). Harry Potter and the Transgender Revolution. https://medium.com/arc-digital/harry-potter-and-the-transgender-revolution-926ad6519451

Young, Cathy (June 12, 2015). The feminist transgender debate — and its blind spots. Boston Globe https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/06/12/the-feminist-transgender-debate-and-its-blind-spots/XFWwZf741PJEBtSmIInhKI/story.html

Young, Cathy (June 12, 2015). Transgender rights & women’s rights. New York Daily News https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-transgender-rights-womens-rights-20210922-aul6f2ch75gd7dhvmluxwpbn6q-story.html

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Sabine Hossenfelder is a German author and YouTuber. Hossenfelder has occasionally attempted to summarize issues around gender including sex-segregated competitive sports and trans healthcare for minors, with varying levels of success.

Background

Sabine Hossenfelder was born September 18, 1976 in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany. Hossenfelder attended Goethe University Frankfurt, earning an undergraduate degree in mathematics in 1997 and a doctorate in physics in 2004. Hossenfelder has researched and taught at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, University of Arizona, University of California, the Perimeter Institute, the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics in Sweden, and the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies.

Hossenfelder began working as a popular science writer in 2006. Hossenfelder’s first Youtube video was in 2011.

Hossenfelder married Stefan Scherer in 2006. They have twins born in 2010.

Views on trans and gender diverse people

Hossenfelder views trans youth as a scientific debate rather than a debate about science and its historic misuses.

Hossenfelder uncritically uses many disease models created by behavior scientists to describe sex and gender minorities. Diseases were once widely accepted among scientists to describe gay and lesbian people, until they were forced to stop by activists. It is still socially acceptable among people like Hossenfelder to describe trans, intersex, and gender diverse people using disorders, diseases, and metaphors of impairment and disability.

Among the contested diseases and terms Hossenfelder uses are:

  • disorders of sex development
  • rapid-onset gender dysphoria
  • “gender dysphoria”
  • “gender dysphoria in children”
  • “social contagion”
  • comorbidities: trans people have other mental disorders
  • gender affirming care
  • “trapped in the wrong body”
  • “cutting off parts of the anatomy”
  • “some people are making a lot of money with this”
  • discusses puberty blockers risks, no discussion of benefits
  • “there are at present no high-quality studies that conclusively demonstrate these treatments are beneficial”
  • the shift in gender ratio among trans youth
  • “we don’t understand the long-term consequences”

YouTube

Videos include clickbait “just asking questions” titles:

“Trans athletes in women’s sports: Is this fair?” (2022)

  • This video looks at the field of sex science the way others use sports to make claims about race science. It does at least step back and take a big-picture look. Hossenfelder and I both believe that there is no long-term future for sex-segregated competitive sports.

“Is being trans a social fad among teenagers?” (2023)

  • This video is too caught up in a lot of unscientific assumptions about trans people being disordered and diseased.

Media

Rebecca Watson (May 4, 2023). Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder Screws up on Trans Kids’ Care. YouTube https://youtu.be/r6Kau7bO3Fw

Thurston, Ethel (May 13, 2023). Debunking Pseudoscience Attacking Trans Youth | RE: Sabine Hossenfelder. EssenceOfThought https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEw3YNSSi10

Thurston, Ethel (May 20, 2023). Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria Is A Nazi Relic | RE: Sabine Hossenfelder & Trans Youth. EssenceOfThought https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oymS48OpNQ

References

Hossenfelder, Sabine (June 13, 2022). Reviewing the science in the trans-athlete debate: Taking hormones levels playing field more for trans men than for trans women. https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2022/06/13/reviewing-the-science-in-the-trans-athlete-debate-taking-hormones-levels-playing-field-more-for-trans-men-than-for-trans-women/

Young, Cathy (June 13, 2022). Do Ohio Republicans Really Want to Use Genital Exams to Ban Trans Athletes? The Bulwark https://www.thebulwark.com/demystifying-the-high-school-trans-athlete-controversy/

Watson, Rebecca (May 5, 2023). Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder Screws up on Trans Kids’ Care. Skepchick https://skepchick.org/2023/05/physicist-sabine-hossenfelder-screws-up-on-trans-kids-care/

Resources

Sabine Hossenfelder (sabinehossenfelder.com)

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Lionel Shriver is an American writer and anti-transgender activist.

Background

Shriver was born on May 18, 1957 in Gastonia, North Carolina. Shriver is a self-described tomboy who grew up with an older and a younger sibling. Shriver took social transition steps as a minor, including a name change at 15. Shriver earned a bachelor’s degree from Barnard College and a master’s degree from Columbia University. Shriver has written eight novels and has been a columnist.

Anti-trans activism

Shriver frequently logrolls for other anti-trans activists and appears on conservative media outlets:

“Western media has moved on to an enthrallment with transgenderism bizarrely out of proportion to the statistical rarity of true gender dysphoria—though children and people generally being so suggestible, the condition will doubtless grow more common.”

Shriver was signatory on a 2020 Sunday Times open letter defending anti-trans extremist J.K. Rowling.

Shriver praised trans eliminationist Helen Joyce’s book Trans: “Reasonable, methodical, sane, and utterly unintimidated by extremist orthodoxy, Trans is a riveting read.” 

Via Washington Post:

Writing about transgender people either sends her down slippery-slope thinking — “We seem to be entering an era in which everything about ourselves that we don’t like is subject to revision” — or infantile cracks about pronouns and LGBTQ+ culture. (“A three-year-old bashing the keyboard would produce a more functional shorthand.”)

From a Times profile:

Shriver is “mystified” by the way in which the transgender debate has become so fraught, with death threats to writers and MPs. “The transgender thing just seems to make people completely crazy,” she says. “I just don’t think that what sex you are is that important. My sense of myself is not crucially female.”

As a teenager Shriver changed her name from Margaret Ann to Lionel because she was determined not to be eclipsed by her elder brother. “Women are supposed to be soft and nurturing and pliable and driven to please and looking out for others. Men are strong and determined, and goal driven and powerful. If you look at the stereotypes, anyone with any self-respect would want to be a man. I reject the stereotypes . . . I’m all for chucking them and one of my biggest problems with the transgender movement is it’s all about nailing them down.”

References

Harvey, Chris (April 3, 2024). Lionel Shriver: ‘Transgenderism is a social mania.’ The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/lionel-shriver-mania-interview-transgenderism/

Wootton, Dan (May 3, 2022). Has it become trendy to be trans? Uncancelled / GBNews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB_jMq8hoUk

Shriver, Lionel (April 27, 2023). Is trans the new anorexia? UnHerd https://unherd.com/2023/04/is-trans-the-new-anorexia/

Athitakis, Mark (September 20, 2022). Lionel Shriver taunts the ‘culture police’ and more in her new book. Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/09/20/lionel-shriver-taunts-culture-police-more-her-new-book/

Sylvester, Rachel (September 10 2022) Lionel Shriver: ‘Which sex you are isn’t that important.’ The Times (London) https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lionel-shriver-which-sex-you-are-isnt-that-important-8vq8m0cwd

Shriver, Lionel (August 6, 2021). Trans purity test has lost touch with reality. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/trans-purity-test-has-lost-touch-with-reality-qw5vkzmtp

Shriver, Lionel (September 15, 2018). One discouraging word and you’re a transphobe. The Spectator https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/one-discouraging-word-and-you-re-a-transphobe/

Shriver, Lionel (April 21, 2016). Gender – good for nothing. Prospect https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/features/gender-good-for-nothing https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/essays/48719/gendergood-for-nothing

Resources

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Meghan Murphy is a Canadian writer and anti-transgender activist. Murphy’s projects Feminist Current and The Same Drugs are key anti-transgender resources.

Background

Meghan Emily Murphy was born November 30, 1978 and grew up in Vancouver. Murphy’s family was reportedly “not just left, but most left.” Murphy’s parents were a Marxist labour activist who served as a shop steward at Canada Post and a feminist who worked in arts administration. Murphy has a sibling.

Murphy said, “I have left the left because I don’t wish to be part of a cult.”

Rejecting femininity was fine, except that it developed into a disdain for “wives” and “mothers” who had predictively and passively capitulated to the patriarchy, choosing mundane lives for reasons I could not possibly imagine.

Murphy says this rightward political trajectory felt like being excommunicated:

The left disavowed me long ago for insisting that pornography and prostitution was not an empowering choice sexually liberated women make for fun and wealth, then again for understanding that penises are male and girls who cut their hair short and replace pink frilly dresses with bowler hats and mismatched high top converse are not “non-binary” or “trans” or “boys,” but simply little girls who don’t want to play by old-fashioned rules.

References

Murphy, Meghan (April 22, 2015). Laverne Cox’s objectified body ’empowers’ no oneFeminist Current https://www.feministcurrent.com/2015/04/22/laverne-coxs-objectified-body-empowers-no-one/ [archive]

Bindel, Julie (October 9, 2015). No platform: my exclusion proves this is an anti-feminist crusadeThe Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/09/no-platform-universities-julie-bindel-exclusion-anti-feminist-crusade [archive]

Greer, Darryl (November 3, 2016). Writer Quits Rabble Over Pulled BlogCanadaland http://www.canadalandshow.com/writer-quits-rabble/ [archive]

Signatories (May 11, 2015). Open letter to rabble.ca – Support Meghan Murphy suffered a misogynist campaign by the sex industry lobbySisyphe.org [archive]

Statement on review of Meghan Murphy petitionsrabble.ca. May 14, 2015. [archive]

Murphy, Meghan (September 7, 2016). Are we women or are we menstruators? Feminist Current https://www.feministcurrent.com/2016/09/07/are-we-women-or-are-we-menstruators/ [archive]

Murphy, Meghan (October 21, 2016). Hi friends. Just an overdue updateFacebook https://www.facebook.com/meghanemilymurphy/posts/10153849501632343 [archive]

Murphy, Meghan (June 21, 2017). Why a women-only spa in Toronto should not change its policy to accept trans womenCBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/women-only-spa-counterpoint-1.4170158 [archive]

(March 20, 2018). Interchange – Sex Politics: Meghan Murphy and the Feminist CurrentWFHB. https://wfhb.org/news/interchange-sex-politics-meghan-murphy-and-the-feminist-current/  [archive]

Authenticity & empathy: Meghan MurphyWoman’s Place UK (WPUK). https://womansplaceuk.org/2019/05/28/meghan-murphy-authenticity-empathy/ May 20, 2019. [archive]

Murphy, Meghan (July 22, 2019). The Yaniv scandal is the end-product of trans activismThe Spectator. [archive]

CTV Vancouver (January 11, 2019). Trans advocates rally against controversial feminist speaker Meghan MurphyCTV News. [archive]

Meghan Murphy Presents a Feminist Case Against Bill C-16 on YouTube

The Standing Senate Committee On Legal and Constitutional Affairs – EvidenceSenate of Canada. Parliament of Canada. May 10, 2017. [archive]

Legal and Constitutional Affairs – Meeting DetailSenate of Canada. Parliament of Canada. May 10, 2017. [archive]

Tasker, John Paul (May 12, 2017). Transgender rights bill threatens ‘female-born’ women’s spaces, activists sayCBC News. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. [archive]

Robertson, Dylan C (May 30, 2017). Senate committee rejects motion to narrow trans bill’s scopeDaily Xtra. [archive]

Twitter-ban feminist defends transgender views ahead of Holyrood meetingBBC News. May 22, 2019. [archive]

Sitwell, Ros (May 24, 2019). Hundreds of women gather in London to discuss sex and genderMorning Star. [archive]

Meghan Murphy: Canadian feminist’s trans talk sparks uproar”BBC News. October 30, 2019. [archive]

Wells, Georgia (February 11, 2019). Writer Sues Twitter Over Ban for Criticizing Transgender PeopleThe Wall Street Journal. [archive]

Prengel, Kate (November 24, 2018). Meghan Murphy: 5 Fast Facts You Need to KnowHeavy. [archive]

Robertson, Julia Diana (November 27, 2018). Twitter Bans Meghan Murphy, Founder of Canada’s Leading Feminist WebsiteAfterEllen [archive]

Brean, Joseph (February 12, 2019). ‘Yeeeah it’s him’: Vancouver writer sues Twitter over its rule against misgendering trans peopleNational Post [archive]

Brean, Joseph (October 29, 2019). Meghan Murphy, the woman behind trans wars breaking out at the public libraryNational Post [archive]

Matt, Naham (February 12, 2019). Feminist Writer Sues Twitter After She Tweets ‘Men Aren’t Women’ and Gets BannedLaw & Crime [archive]

Fry, Madeline (July 10, 2019). This journalist lost her lawsuit against Twitter for banning her account, but she’s not giving upWashington Examiner [archive]

Davis, Wendy (June 13, 2019). Twitter Defeats Lawsuit By Journalist Banned For ‘Misgendering’Digital News Daily. MediaPost [archive]

Grant, Melissa Gira (November 22, 2022). Elon Musk’s Anti-Trans Twitter RegimeThe New Republic

Binder, Matt (November 22, 2022). Elon Musk is reinstating banned Twitter accounts. Here’s who’s backMashable

Compton, Julie (January 14, 2019). ‘Pro-lesbian’ or ‘trans-exclusionary’? Old animosities boil into public viewNBC News. [archive]

Hoard, KC (October 29, 2019). Hundreds protest controversial Toronto Public Library event featuring Meghan MurphyThe Globe and Mail. [archive]

Wadhwani, Ashley (July 23, 2019). Vancouver Public Library banned from Pride parade after allowing controversial speakerSurrey Now-Leader. [archive

Ritchie, Kevin (October 18, 2019). Toronto Public Library facing Pride ban over Meghan Murphy eventNOW. [archive]

Rider, David (October 17, 2019). John Tory ‘disappointed’ Toronto library allowing event with writer accused of being anti-transgenderToronto Star. [archive]

Resources

Meghan Murphy (meghanmurphy.ca)

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Hadley Freeman is an American-British journalist best known for manipulating notable authors into making statements about trans issues that they later must disavow. Freeman’s interviews with Margaret Atwood and Judy Blume both required the authors to issue statements.

Background

Hadley Clare Freeman was born May 15, 1978 in New York City. As an adolescent, Freeman was hospitalized several times for self-imposed food restrictions. Freeman read English literature at St Anne’s College, Oxford.

Freeman wrote for The Guardian starting in 2000 and is a contributor of anti-trans publication UnHerd.

Freeman and sports writer Andy Bull have three children.

References

Mack, Daniel (April 17, 2023). Judy Blume Blasted An Article Linking Her To J.K. Rowling’s Anti-Trans Views As “Bullshit.” BuzzFeed News https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/judy-blume-transgender-jk-rowling-hadley-freeman

Milton, Josh (February 19, 2022). ‘Gender critical’ journalist tries to grill Margaret Atwood on trans rights. It backfires, badly. PinkNews https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/02/19/margaret-atwood-hadley-freeman-trans-gender-critical/

Levin, Sam; Chalabi, Mona; Siddiqui, Sabrina (2 November 2018). Why we take issue with the Guardian‘s stance on trans rights in the UKThe Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/02/guardian-editorial-response-transgender-rights-uk

Persio, Sofia Lotto (3 November 2018). Guardian US journalists denounce newspaper’s “transphobic” editorialPinkNews https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/11/03/guardian-transphobic-editorial-concern/

Hansford, Amelia (20 January 2023). Journalist Hadley Freeman condemned for ‘dangerous’ comments about suicidal trans kids. PinkNews https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/01/10/hadley-freeman-suicidal-trans-youth/

Valens, Ana (2 April 2018). There’s nothing feminist about attacking trans womenThe Daily Dot https://www.dailydot.com/irl/attacking-trans-women-feminist/

Ewens, Hannah (16 June 2020). Inside the Great British TERF WarVice https://www.vice.com/en/article/889qe5/trans-rights-uk-debate-terfs

Freeman, Hadley (26 June 2021). People have told me I’m on the wrong side of history, but I still want to be their friendThe Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jun/26/people-have-told-me-i-am-on-the-wrong-side-of-history-but-i-still-want-to-be-their-friend

Singh, Anita (5 December 2022). Hadley Freeman: ‘Atmosphere of fear’ governs Guardian trans coverageThe Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/12/05/hadley-freeman-atmosphere-fear-governs-guardian-trans-coverage/

Resources

Books

  • The Meaning of Sunglasses: And a Guide to Almost All Things Fashionable (2008)
  • Be Awesome: Modern Life for Modern Ladies (2013)
  • Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies (and Why We Don’t Learn Them from Movies Anymore) (2016)
  • House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family (2020)
  • Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia (2023)

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

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Journalisted (journalisted.com)

UnHerd (unherd.com)

Julie Bindel is a British author and anti-transgender activist.

References

About Julie Bindel

Grew, Tony (7 November 2008). Celebs split over trans protest at Stonewall AwardsPinkNews https://web.archive.org/web/20110629093225/http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-9523.html

Burns, Christine (23 November 2004). Transsexual People and the Press: Collected Opinions from Transsexual People Themselves (PDF).  https://web.archive.org/web/20100927062232/http://pfc.org.uk/files/Transsexual_People_and_the_Press.pdf Press for Change. p. 10. [archive]

McNab, Claire Re: UK: Gender benders, bewareThe Guardian https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20061116120000/http://www.pfc.org.uk/pfclists/news-arc/2004q1/msg00061.htm

Denham, Jess (17 September 2013). Death threats force feminist campaigner out of university debateThe Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/student/news/death-threats-force-feminist-campaigner-out-of-university-debate-8821362.html

Mayes, Ian (14 February 2004). A change, of courseThe Guardian.https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/feb/14/pressandpublishing.comment

Minou, C. L. (1 February 2010). Julie Bindel’s dangerous transphobiaThe Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/feb/01/julie-bindel-transphobia

Ardehali, Rod (14 October 2015). ‘Stepford student’ culture threatening free speechThe Daily Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/student-life/11930441/Stepford-student-culture-threatening-free-speech.html

Faye, Sean (19 February 2016). If you don’t like no-platforming, maybe it’s you who’s the ‘special snowflake’The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/if-you-dont-like-no-platforming-maybe-its-you-whos-the-special-snowflake-a6884026.html

By Julie Bindel

Bindel, Julie (14 March 2007). An end to genderThe Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/mar/14/juliebindel

Bindel, Julie (31 January 2004). Gender benders, bewareThe Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jan/31/gender.weekend7

Bindel, Julie (1 August 2007). My trans missionThe Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/aug/01/mytransmission

Bindel, Julie (2008). 2008 Statement from Julie Bindel. Idge of Reason https://idgeofreason.wordpress.com/2013/09/12/2008-statement-from-julie-bindel/

Bindel, Julie (8 October 2008). It’s not me. It’s youThe Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/nov/08/lesbianism

Resources

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Nina Paley is an American animator and anti-transgender extremist.

Paley is involved in the free culture and “gender critical” movements.

Background

Nina Carolyn Paley was born May 3, 1968 in Urbana, Illinois. Paley’s parent Hiram Paley was a mathematician.

Paley graduated from University High School in 1986 and attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for two years before dropping out.

Paley began publishing comics at a young age before moving into animation in 2002 following a divorce.

Paley directed the animated features Sita Sings the Blues (2008) and Seder-Masochism (2018). After having many problems navigating legal clearance for music recorded in the 1920s by Annette Hanshaw, Paley got involved in the free culture movement. Paley releases work under a copyleft license and has created work supporting intellectual property reform.

Paley has been active in debates about overpopulation and has done work for the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement.

Anti-trans activism

Paley identifies as gender critical and has made a number of controversial comments about gender identity and expression.

In 2020, Paley was one of 58 signatories to an open letter defending author and anti-transgender activist J.K. Rowling. A number of the signatories have been involved in gender critical activism.

In 2021, Paley and Corinna Cohn started the podcast Heterodorx to discuss gender controversies. In 2023 Paley created a set of playing cards featuring extremists and outliers in recent gender controversies.

References

Merli, Melissa (May 18, 2008). First movie ‘a full-time job’ for Uni High grad, illustratorThe News-Gazette http://www.news-gazette.com/living/2008-05-18/first-movie-full-time-job-uni-high-grad-illustrator.html

Merli, Melissa (October 21, 2012). Studio Visit: Nina PaleyThe News-Gazette http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2012-10-21/studio-visit-nina-paley.html

Merli, Melissa (June 13, 2013). Urbana artist Paley putting quilt art on displayThe News-Gazette http://www.news-gazette.com/arts-entertainment/local/2013-06-13/urbana-artist-paley-putting-quilt-art-display.html

Merli, Melissa (August 10, 2014). Paley’s ‘This Land Is Mine’ a viral hitThe News-Gazette http://www.news-gazette.com/arts-entertainment/local/2014-08-10/paleys-land-mine-film-viral-hit.html

Ramanathan, Lavanya (September 25, 2008). An Ancient Tale, Newly AnimatedThe Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/24/AR2008092404245.html

Scott, A.O. (December 24, 2009). Legendary Breakups: Good (Animated) Women Done Wrong in IndiaThe New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/25/movies/25sita.html

Bell, Melissa (April 6, 2012). Online leaders look to create offline experiencesThe Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/2012/04/05/gIQAUH5E0S_story.html

Dey, Jim (May 7, 2019). Furor over gender issues puts Urbana artist’s film in crosshairsThe News-Gazette https://www.news-gazette.com/news/jim-dey-furor-over-gender-issues-puts-urbana-artists-film-in-crosshairs/article_5a620967-c4dd-5b70-b86d-5729e2097134.html

Hellen, Nicholas (September 27, 2020). Literati rally to JK Rowling’s defence in row over Cormoran Strike bookThe Sunday Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/literati-rally-to-jk-rowlings-defence-in-row-over-cormoran-strike-book-vk5frvvj0

Resources

Nina Paley (ninapaley.com)

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

Isabella Malbin is an American anti-transgender activist and former birth worker.

Malbin is also an artist, hypnotist, podcaster, and snake charmer.

Background

Isabella A. Malbin was born on August 14, 1991 and graduated from LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. While attending Rhode Island School of Design, Malbin claims to have been “groomed into transgender ideology.”

The Isabella A. Malbin Trust fund was a shareholder in the Texas-based Simon C. Cornelius Partnership Ltd.

Malbin reportedly became concerned about value-neutral language after hearing a Caesarean section referred to as a belly birth. In March of 2020, a fertility education program dismissed Malbin for refusing to use gender-inclusive language such as people who menstruate or people with uteruses. Malbin claims the dismissal was for using the terms mother and woman

Malbin frequently collaborates with other gender critical activists and maintains lists of “TERF approved” resources. Malbin and Mary Lou Singleton sell a $149.00 membership that includes a program called “Inoculating Our Children Against Transgender Ideology.”

Podcast

Malbin began the Whose Body Is It podcast in 2020. It contains “interviews with radical women raising consciousness on the harms of transgender ideology, pornography, prostitution, the medical industrial complex.”

2023

  • 85. Escaping Sex Trafficking in the Age of “Sex Work is Work” │ Olivia Ballard
  • 84. Children Can’t Consent │ Charlie’s Story
  • 83. A Holistic & Spiritual Approach to Infertility │ Kristin Hauser
  • 82. False Promises & Exploitation: The Truth about IVF & Surrogacy │ Marche’s Story
  • 81. Standing for Women’s Sex Based Rights at NYC Pride 2023 │ K. Yang
  • 80. What has porn done to us? │ Serendipiti Day
  • 79. Navigating Betrayal & Belonging Post Mastectomy & Breast Implant Illness │ Dr. Amanda Savage Brown
  • 78. Detransition and Grow with Leigh Janet Marshall
  • 77. ‘The Second Colonization’: The Impact of Gender Identity on Māori People with Michelle Uriarau
  • 76. (Preview) What You Need to Know about the Medicated Shooters Headed to Our Schools with Robbie Rose
  • 75. A New Look at Reproductive Sovereignty, Raising Boys and Recovering Our Instincts with Amy Ebert
  • 74. The Ethics of Assisted Reproductive Technology with Jennifer Lahl
  • 73. ‘Indigenous Feminism Redefined’ with Cherry Smiley
  • 72.  Sexual Politics for Women with Julia Beck
  • 71. Gender Critical Comedy & Speaking Out in The Age of Trans with A Swags
  • 70. Will the NYTimes finally admit they know what a woman is? Debrief with Amanda Stulman
  • 69. From Bio Queen to Jewish Convert: Deborah’s Story
  • 68. Radical Feminist Collectives and Direct Action Strategies with Jesika Gonzalez
  • 67. Learning the Language of Your Body with Kelly Love
  • 66. Healing After Transgender Indoctrination & Medicalization with Emma Eden

2022

  • 65. Time to Awaken with Ora Nadrich (Preview)
  • 64. Feminism & The First Amendment with Marissa Darlingh
  • 63. Fighting Female Genital Mutilation with Hibo Wardere
  • (Preview) Seeking Justice For A Generation Betrayed with Kim Mack Rosenberg
  • 62. Unpacking Common Myths & Misconceptions About Indigenous Two-Spirit & Third Genders (Inside Look!)
  • 61. The Challenges of Organizing Women-Only Events with Samantha Berg
  • 60. What the hell happened in NYC? Full debrief of Speaker’s Corner Event w/ Amy Sousa & K. Yang
  • 59. How to Protect a Gender Non-Conforming Daughter with Charlotte Reedy
  • 58. Kellie-Jay Keen (aka Posie Parker) in Austin! Recap of the Speakers Corner & VIP Terf Cocktail Hour
  • 57. From Chronic Illness and Trans Ideology to Embodiment: Rae’s Story
  • 56. ‘Being & Being Bought’: Prostitution & Surrogacy through a Socialist Feminist Lens w/ Kajsa Ekman
  • 55. Disease is not a Punishment: A Dive into German New Medicine with Dr. Melissa Sell
  • 54  Why Pelvic Health is a Feminist Issue with Adelaide Meadow
  • 53. Sex Dolls, Robots & Woman Hating with Australian Writer and Activist Caitlin Roper
  • 52. Defamation, DARVO, and What Happens When Men Are Welcomed into Women’s Spaces with Kate Rose
  • 51. The Status of a Mother with Israeli Artist, Activist and Twin Mom, Shira Richter
  • 50. Radical Feminism, Women’s Festivals & Unpacking BDSM with Serendipiti Day
  • (Preview) What’s the deal with Two-Spirit and Third Gender
  • 49. The UN Is Pushing Female Erasure on a Global Scale w/ Former Trans Rights Activist, K. Yang
  • 48. The Dark History of “Transgender Medicine”, WPATH & Child Castration w/ Genevieve Gluck
  • (Panel) Women Leaving The Left: A Panel Discussion for the Politically Homeless
  • 47. The Devastating Psychological Effects of Gender Ideology in Child Development & Society w/ Amy Sousa
  • 46. What Will Happen to Women if Medical Abortion is Criminalized? w/ Mary Lou Singleton
  • 45. Losing Custody: A Frontline Story with Mother Jeannette Cooper
  • 44. Confronting My Pediatrician For Injecting Me With Experimental “Medicine”
  • 43. Getting Your Daughter Out of The Trans Cult: Jennifer’s Success Story
  • 42. My Zoom Ambush: A Tale to Remember (audio only)
  • 41. Transgender Ideology in Schools, Loss of Parental Rights and Taking Action with Michelle Evans
  • 40. Full Body Nourishment & Healing After Hysterectomy with Suuzi Hazen
  • 39. [missing]
  • 38. The Dangers of They/Them-ing Children with Belle Cardinal
  • 37. Trans Identities, Dissociative Identity Disorder & The Fragmented Self with Annika Mongan
  • 36. Roxie, a Dominatrix Turned Radical Feminist Tells All
  • 35. The Racist Origins of ‘Gender Neutral’ Language & Women’s Bodies as Currency w/ Dr. Suzanne Vierling
  • 34. The Abolition of Sex with Kara Dansky
  • 33. Emelie’s De-transition & Path to Self-Acceptance
  • 32. Ultra-Sex or De-Sex with Alix Aharon
  • 31. The Brutal Reality of Porn & Prostitution with Elly Arrow

2021

  • 30. How It All Began with Meghan Murphy
  • 29. The Reality of Men in Women’s Prisons with Amie Ichikawa
  • 28. The Attack on Our Sexed Bodies with Jennifer Bilek
    • (Clip) “Nobody can be ‘transphobic’ because ‘trans’ is an ad campaign.” -Jennifer Bilek
  • 27. The MRC-5 – Transgender Connection with Robbie Rose Part 2
  • 26. Gaslighting Mothers, Transgenderism and Vaxxine Injury with Robbie Rose Part 1
  • 25. Resisting Groupthink: Gender Identity & The New Normal w/ TheDeprogrammerXX -PART 3
  • 24. Revealing the LGBT-PEDO Connection w/ TheDeprogrammerXX – PART 2
  • 23. Exposing The Trans Agenda w/ TheDeprogrammerXX – PART 1
  • 22. From Transgender to Transhuman with Athena of @WildWilingWisdom
  • 21. Why is Transgender Porn Immune from Public Scrutiny? with Genevieve Gluck
  • 20. Documenting the Harms of Transgenderism with Jennifer Lahl
  • 19. Audrie’s Detransition: A Redemption Story
  • 18. The Truth About Castration Fetishes & Puberty Blockers with Genevieve Gluck
  • 17. Driving Smart Women Mad | Cancelled for Saying WOMAN | Part 1
  • 16. Sexuality Erasure with Joey Brite and MrMenno
  • 15. Getting Cancelled & Gender Dysphoria with Stella Perrett
  • 14. The TRUTH about Sissy Hypno Porn with Genevieve Gluck
  • 13. Transgenderism, Feminism, and Covid with Yolande Norris-Clark
  • 12. ‘This is a time to act’ with Courtney Piper CatEarth
  • 11. “This is An Emergency”: Protecting Women and Girls with Kara Dansky

2020

  • 10. Transhumanism & Autogynephilia with Jennifer Bilek:
  • 9. Fired for Standing For Women with Sasha White
  • 8. The Value of Women-Only Spaces with Emilee Saldaya
  • 7. The Truth about Planned Parenthood & Transgenderism with Alix Aharon
  • 6. Willow’s Transition and De-transition
  • 5. Sissy Hypno Porn & Transgenderism: Angela Shares Her Story
  • 4. Radical Feminism & Gender Ideology Extremism with Rhea M. Riley
  • 3. You’re not a hateful bitch: A message to women who oppose trans ideology.
  • 2. My Indoctrination into Trans Ideology
  • 1. Transgender Ideology, The Birth World & Holding the Line for Women & Girls ∣ Courtney Piper CatEarth

References

Macdonald, Jocelyn (July 22, 2022). Why Are Trans Activists Appropriating Two-Spirit Identities? AfterEllen https://afterellen.com/why-are-trans-activists-appropriating-two-spirit-and-identities/

Sweeney, Chris (January 14, 2022). ‘My job is to help women give birth, but I was banned from using the word “mother.”’ RT https://www.rt.com/uk/542475-gender-inclusive-language-perinatal-services/

Appearances

With Benjamin Boyce

  • PreggerU: Tales of a Birthing Coach | with Isabella Malbin (February 25, 2022)
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8N4T9S3MBI
  • All The Birthing People | with Isabella Malbin (January 11, 2021)
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfbTDtzEv_s

With Meghan Murphy

  • Live! Is challenging gender identity racist? Feat. Isabella Malbin and K. Yang-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWeKqlVMugw
  • The Same Drugs live stream: Isabella Malbin on bodily autonomy and expanding the abortion debate
  • -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS5LZ_vRQZc

With Chris Sweeney

  • Is it wrong to use the term mother? Trans debate in birth world. #trans #birthing
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7ibgQUAd0k
  • https://rumble.com/vsnhir-i-was-banned-from-using-the-word-mother-isabella-malbin.html

With Women’s Declaration International

  • Living the Declaration, Article 2: Motherhood Is an Exclusively Female Status. 5/26/22
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fiaVTczjb0

With Sasha White and M. K. Fain

  • Radical Truths with Isabella Malbin (August 9, 2021)
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQSQ8-ET3zc

Resources

Whose Body Is It (whosebodyisit.com)

YouTube (youtube.com)

X/Twitter (x.com)

Instagram (instagram.com)

Doula Match (doulamatch.net)

  • Isabella Malbin [inactive]
  • http://doulamatch.net/profile/14617

Romio (romio.com)

  • Isabella Malbin [inactive]
  • https://romio.com/l/new-york-city/user-profile/isabella-malbin/

Rod Dreher is a conservative American author who frequently publishes anti-transgender articles.

Background

Raymond Oliver Dreher, Jr. was born February 14, 1967 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His father was a leader in the Ku Klux Klan and was involved in local politics through those connections.

Dreher earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Louisiana State University in 1989.

Dreher was a media critic for The Washington Times and New York Post before becoming an editor for the National Review.

The American Conservative

Dreher was a contributor to The American Conservative from 2008 to 2023. Dreher’s salary was covered by Howard Ahmanson, Jr., and his work had no editorial oversight.

According to Vanity Fair, the arrangement began to unravel in 2021, when Dreher published a vivid description of a Black elementary school classmate’s uncircumcised penis: “All us boys wanted to stare at his primitive root wiener when we were at the urinal during recess, because it was monstrous.” Two years later, Ahmanson had enough:

Some of Dreher’s commentary on the gay and transgender communities also proved off-putting to Ahmanson, such as his lurid musings on anal sexrectal bleeding, and the “partially rotted off” nose of a gay man who contracted monkeypox. “At some point, he basically decided, ‘This is too weird,’” the source, paraphrasing Ahmanson, explained to me. “‘I don’t want to read this or pay for this anymore.’”

Dreher advocates for what he calls the “Benedict Option,” where conservative Christians segregate from sex and gender minorities via intentional communities.

Anti-transgender writings

The Guardian described Dreher as “a man who appears to view fomenting transgender panic more as a vocation than a job.”

Articles include:

  • The Coming Storm Over Trans ‘Tuskegee Experiment’
  • How GOP Helped Big Trans Conquer South Dakota
  • Trans Tyranny: The Dangerous New Phase
  • Building Trans America
  • The Cost Of Waging World War Trans
  • Trans Propaganda, Blue And Red
  • Trans Totalitarianism: Time For Moral Panic
  • This Diabolical Moment

References

Ecarma, Caleb (March 10, 2023). How Rod Dreher’s blog got a little “too weird” for The American Conservative. Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/03/rod-dreher-blog-weird-american-conservative

Wilson, Jason (July 28, 2017). ‘Biology is not bigotry’: conservative writers react to ban on trans troopsThe Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/28/conservative-writers-trump-transgender-troops-ban-military-writing

Dreher, Rod (October 4, 2021). Gary Shteyngart’s ‘gentile region.’ The American Conservative https://www.theamericanconservative.com/gary-shteyngart-circumcision-gentile-region/

), known as ,[1] is an American writer and editor living in a self-imposed exile[2] in Budapest, Hungary. He was a columnist with The American Conservative for 12 years, ending in March 2023, and remains an editor-at-large there.[3] He is also author of several books, including How Dante Can Save Your Life, The Benedict Option, and Live Not by Lies. He has written about religion, politics, film, and culture in National Review and National Review Online, The Weekly Standard, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications.

He was a film reviewer for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and chief film critic for the New York Post. His commentaries have been broadcast on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, and he has appeared on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, Court TV, and other television networks.[4]

Resources

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

Books

  • Crunchy Cons: How Birkenstocked Burkeans, Gun-Loving Organic Gardeners, Evangelical Free-Range Farmers, Hip Homeschooling Mamas, Right-Wing Nature Lovers, and Their Diverse Tribe of Countercultural Conservatives Plan to Save America (Or at Least the Republican Party) (2006)
  • The Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life (2013)
  • How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History’s Greatest Poem (2015)
  • The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation (2017)
  • Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents (2020)