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Jerry T. Lawler is a conservative Catholic American psychologist who is involved in the “ex-transgender” movement. Similar to the ex-gay movement, it is a group of people who believe they have been cured of being trans, either through “desistance” or “detransition.” Lawler offers faith-based therapy to “cure” gender diverse people.

Background

Jerome Timothy Lawler was born in August 1942. Lawler earned a bachelor’s degree from University of Wisconsin Madison in 1964. Twenty-five years later Lawler returned to school, earning a master’s degree from San Jose State University in 1990 and a doctorate from California School of Professional Psychology in 1994.

Since 2017 Lawler has offered therapy as a Licensed Graduate Professional Counselor (LGPC) at Safe Harbor Christian Counseling in Glen Burnie, Maryland.

Anti-transgender activism

Lawler was a founding member of the International Association of Therapists for Desisters and Detransitioners, an anti-transgender front group focused on the “ex-transgender” movement. Lawler is also associated with Therapy First (and its predecessor Gender Exploratory Therapy Association) and Beyond Trans. Lawler was a signatory on the Beyond WPATH open letter criticizing WPATH, and WHO Decides, a petition critical of a World Health Organization panel on trans healthcare.

In 2024, Lawler published an anti-trans paper with Chan Kulatunga-Moruzi on healthcare for trans and gender diverse youth. That year, Lawler also testified in support of Maryland HB 722, along with Jamie Reed, Ismail Royer, Lisa Geraghty, and Henry Mosley.

References

Staff report (February 21, 2024 ). Bipartisan bill seeks to ban chemical, surgical gender and sex transition procedures on minors without parental consent. NottinghamMD.com nottinghammd.com/2024/02/21/bipartisan-bill-seeks-to-ban-chemical-surgical-gender-and-sex-transition-procedures-on-minors-without-parental-consent/

Coverage in anti-trans press

Sprinkle, Preston; Eddy, Paul (March 24, 2021). Less Than Affirming: Perspectives Beyond the Gender Affirmative-only Model of Care for Trans* and Gender Dysphoric People. Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender https://www.centerforfaith.com/blog/less-than-affirming-perspectives-beyond-the-gender-affirmative-only-model-of-care-for-trans-and

McCarthy, S.A. (February 23, 2024). Maryland Dems Back Bill Requiring Parental Consent for Gender Transition Procedures on Minors. The Washington Stand https://washingtonstand.com/news/maryland-dems-back-bill-requiring-parental-consent-for-gender-transition-procedures-on-minors

Selected anti-trans writing by Lawler

Kulatunga Moruzi C, Lawler J (2025). Frailties of Memory: Implications for Therapists Treating Gender Dysphoric Youth. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy  Volume 51, 2025 – Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1080/0092623X.2024.2406854

GETA signatories including Lawler (September 11, 2022). Re: Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex in Education Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance; RIN: 1870-AA16; Docket ID No. ED-2021-OCR-0166 https://www.therapyfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Attachment-1_GETA-Title-IX-Comment.pdf

Resources

Safe Harbor Christian Counseling (safeharbor1.com)

LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

International Association of Therapists for Desisters and Detransitioners (iatdd.com)

  • Dr Jerry T. Lawler [archive]
  • iatdd.com/dr-jerry-t-lawler

Beyond Trans (beyondtrans.org)

Therapy First (therapyfirst.org)

Crisis Magazine (crisismagazine.com)

Katie Herzog is an American author and podcaster best known for gender critical views and anti-transgender activism. Herzog co-hosts the anti-trans “drama” podcast Blocked and Reported with Jesse Singal. Herzog’s work includes

Note: for the trans-supportive artist born in 1979, see Katie Herzog and transgender people.

Background

Catherine Ronan “Katie” Herzog was born on May 18, 1983 in Asheville, North Carolina. Herzog’s parents are both emeritus professors who taught at Western Carolina University: Harold Albert “Hal” Herzog served as a psychology professor, and Mary Jean Ronan Herzog served as an education professor. Katie Herzog graduated from the University of North Carolina at Asheville with a bachelor’s degree in English literature and continued to graduate school before dropping out. Herzog has siblings.

Herzog has published writing in numerous outlets, listed below. Herzog got a start as a blogger on Tumblr and on a personal website. Herzog has attempted to delete much of this early work.

Herzog identifies as lesbian and lives in Washington state and North Carolina with spouse Janna Krein, a nurse.

Anti-trans activism at The Stranger

Herzog worked for Dan Savage as a freelancer for The Stranger, later serving as a staff writer from 2017 to 2020.

In 2017, Herzog wrote “The Detransitioners,” a piece critics considered a biased and flawed article supporting the ex-trans movement. The piece mentioned several people:

  • Brynn Tannehill, a trans journalist whose criticism of the ex-trans movement appears to have motivated Herzog’s piece
  • Marlo Mack, How to Be a Girl podcaster and supportive parent of a gender diverse child
  • John Otto, a happily transitioned trans man

Supporting Herzog’s views were several activists promoting the ex-trans movement:

  • James Cantor, a fellow gender critical troll in Toronto and promoter of many disease models of gender identity and expression
  • “Jackie” aka “Jackal,” a Seattle area resident who was 25 in 2017 and moderated detransinfo.tumblr.com
  • “Jane,” a Southern California resident who was 53 in 2017 and who joined the ex-trans movement after discovering radfem forums online
  • “Ryan,” who was 43 in 2017 and who underwent medical transition steps but was not socially transitioned at the time
  • “Cass,” who later came out as ex-trans whistleblower Ky Schevers

Schevers was deeply involved in the “gender critical” movement connected to trans-exclusionary radical feminism (TERF):

While hanging out among ourselves, I and other younger members of this scene would jokingly refer to ourselves and each other as “TERFs”, reclaiming what we viewed as a slur. Many of us got a kick out of having a secret life in a subculture outsiders (correctly) viewed as a hate group. We thought such people were ridiculous and misogynistic for seeing us as hateful and we frequently mocked them, acting as if they were ignorant, misled and/or overly sensitive. We would gather at a lesbian-owned coffee shop and complain about how trans activists were a threat to lesbian culture, talk about dangerous and disgusting “autogynephiles” trying to infiltrate “female-only” spaces, and the social forces supposedly pushing lesbians to “dis-identify from femaleness” and identify as trans. 

Schevers 2021

Herzog never updated the original piece or covered the subsequent developments. No one has ever independently confirmed Herzog’s claims about “Jackie,” “Jane,” or “Ryan,” and the only one independently confirmed has come out against Herzog’s article and its thesis. This is probably the prime example that Herzog is not an objective source for information on trans issues.

In response, some critics burned copies of The Stranger and distributed stickers that said “Katie Herzog (writer at the stranger) Is A Transphobe.” Herzog claims to have been ostracized by some friends. The New York Times and The New Republic described the reaction to “The Detransitioners” as an example of “cancel culture.”

In 2024, The Stranger allowed Schevers to set the record straight on Herzog’s coverage, but none of Herzog’s other sources have been independently verified.

Relationship with Jesse Singal

Herzog and anti-trans activist Jesse Singal joined forces after both of them wrote pieces promoting the ex-trans movement. Singal’s piece When a Child Says She’s Trans came out in The Atlantic in June 2018. Earlier that month. they both attended the first Heterodox Academy Open Minds Conference in New York, and Herzog logrolled Singal in The Stranger. In April 2019, Singal interviewed Herzog.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Herzog was furloughed and was no longer employed there as of 2020. In 2020, Herzog founded Permabanned Media LLC and in March began the podcast Blocked and Reported with Singal. In July, Singal and Herzog both signed “A Letter on Justice and Open Debate” for Harper’s. That letter was signed by a disproportionate number of anti-transgender extremists.

After leaving The Stranger

Since leaving The Stranger, Herzog has become more outspoken on anti-transgender topics. Herzog has spoken frequently about the alleged cultural shift away from “lesbian” as an identity, promoted the disputed diagnosis “rapid onset gender dysphoria,” and suggested that the increase in trans-identified people is part of a “social contagion.” Herzog has also gotten money and attention for claiming that medical schools are “denying biological sex” by presenting more inclusive and value-neutral scientific terminology. Herzog’s posts on the topic via intellectual dark web promoter Bari Weiss were tagged as unreliable self-published sources by the r/medicine forum on reddit, causing the usual suspects to claim they were being censored.

As with most people who claim to be “canceled,” Herzog has seen an enormous increase in media appearances on conservative and anti-transgender shows and platforms since 2017. They include

  • Kmele Foster
  • David Fuller
  • Andrew Gold
  • Glenn Greenwald
  • Inaya Folarin Iman
  • Vanessa Quirk
  • Scott Veritas

Drink Your Way Sober

In 2025, Herzog released a book titled Drink Your Way Sober, which outlined Herzog’s struggles with alcohol use and dependence. Herzog promotes the Sinclair Method, which involves taking the opioid inhibitor naltrexone.

The book was blurbed by a number of other reactionary centrists, including Hadley Freeman, Meghan Daum, Scott Barry Kaufman, Sam Harris, and Nick Gillespie.

References

Schevers, Ky (June 24, 2024). The Reality Behind the Story I Told The Stranger. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/queer-issue-2024/2024/06/05/79545098/the-reality-behind-the-story-i-told-the-stranger

Doyle, Jude Ellison S. (March 15, 2023). The making of a detransitioner. Xtra* https://xtramagazine.com/power/detransition-terf-movement-elisa-shupe-247592

Higgins, Eoin (August 8, 2022). What happened to Glenn Greenwald? The former trans ally now sides with right wing transphobia. Salon https://www.salon.com/2022/08/08/what-happened-to-glenn-greenwald-the-former-trans-ally-now-sides-with-right-wing-transphobia/

Schevers, Ky (March 25, 2021). The Reality Behind the Story I Told: What My Life was Like When I was Interviewed for the Stranger. Medium https://kyschevers.medium.com/the-reality-behind-the-story-i-told-what-my-life-was-like-when-i-was-interviewed-for-the-stranger-2508d595689d

Doyle, Jude Ellison S. (March 24, 2021). What’s So Scary About Detransitioning? GEN. https://gen.medium.com/whats-so-scary-about-detransitioning-a8340daf3132

Stahl, Lynne (March 19, 2021). The latest form of transphobia: Saying lesbians are going extinct. Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-latest-form-of-transphobia-saying-lesbians-are-going-extinct/2021/03/18/072a95fc-8786-11eb-82bc-e58213caa38e_story.html

Urquhart, Evan (February 1, 2021). An “Ex-Detransitioner” Disavows the Anti-Trans Movement She Helped Spark. Slate https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/02/detransition-movement-star-ex-gay-explained.html

Grant, Melissa Gira (November 6, 2019). Fixating on “Cancel Culture” in an Age of Transphobia. The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/155606/fxating-cancel-culture-age-transphobia

Lieberman, Hallie (May 3, 2019). Why Is Reporting on Trans Issues So Fraught? News-to-Table / Pressland https://medium.com/news-to-table/https-medium-com-news-to-table-why-is-reporting-on-trans-issues-so-fraught-c3b52b4b97c4

Serano, Julia (July 4, 2017). Why my piece won’t be appearing in The Stranger. https://juliaserano.blogspot.com/2017/07/why-my-piece-wont-be-appearing-in.html

Serano, Julia (June 30, 2017). Stop pitting detransitoners against happily transitioned people. https://juliaserano.blogspot.com/2017/06/stop-pitting-detransitoners-against.html

Coverage in anti-trans press

Yang, Wesley (August 11, 2022). The Reporter Who Lost and Gained Everything By Telling the Truth About People Who Aren’t Supposed to Exist. Year Zero https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/the-reporter-who-lost-and-gained

McFadden, Joey (August 26, 2024). (Il)liberal Gender Ideology Confuses Children and Stifles Discourse. Fair Observer https://www.fairobserver.com/politics/illiberal-gender-ideology-confuses-children-and-stifles-discourse/

McDermott, John (November 2, 2019). Those People We Tried to Cancel? They’re All Hanging Out Together. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/02/style/what-is-cancel-culture.html

Selected anti-trans writing by Herzog

Herzog, Katie (July 27, 2021). Med Schools Are Now Denying Biological Sex. The Free Press https://www.thefp.com/p/med-schools-are-now-denying-biological

Herzog, Katie (November 27, 2020). Where Have All The Lesbians Gone? They’re coming out as nonbinary or as men. The Weekly Dish https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/where-have-all-the-lesbians-gone-0a7

Herzog, Katie (February 4, 2020). Controversial Feminist Event at the Library Goes on Despite Threats, Interruptions, and Protests. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2020/02/04/42751372/controversial-feminist-event-at-the-library-goes-on-despite-threats-interruptions-and-protests

Herzog, Katie (January 13, 2020). Amid Protests, Seattle Public Library Affirms Commitment to Free Speech. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2020/01/13/42551375/amid-protests-seattle-public-library-affirms-commitment-to-free-speech

Herzog, Katie (October 10, 2019). Supreme Court Case Makes Strange Bedfellows of Conservative Christians and Radical Feminists. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/10/10/41649666/supreme-court-case-makes-strange-bedfellows-of-conservative-christians-and-radical-feminists

Herzog, Katie (September 23, 2019). Is the Life Expectancy of Trans Women in the U.S. Just 35? No. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/09/23/41471629/is-the-life-expectancy-of-trans-women-in-the-us-just-35-no

Herzog, Katie (September 17, 2019). Cancel Culture: What Exactly Is This Thing? The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/09/17/41416013/cancel-culture-what-exactly-is-this-thing

Herzog, Katie (September 3, 2019). Adam Director Rhys Ernst on When Cancel Culture Comes For Your Work. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/film/2019/09/03/41280771/adam-director-rhys-ernst-on-when-cancel-culture-comes-for-your-work

Herzog, Katie (May 17, 2019). Social Media Companies Are Banning Extremists. Others Are Getting Caught in the Crossfire. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/articles/2019/05/17/40234886/social-media-companies-are-banning-extremists-others-are-getting-caught-in-the-crossfire

Herzog, Katie (April 18, 2019 ). The Government Doesn’t Need to Erase History. The Media Is Doing It for Them. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/media/2019/04/18/39941044/the-government-doesnt-need-to-erase-history-the-media-is-doing-it-for-them

Herzog, Katie (November 19, 2018). Study Claims Gender Nonconforming Children Were Different Gender in Their Past Lives. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/lgbtqitslfa/2018/11/19/35865090/study-says-gender-nonconforming-children-were-opposite-sex-in-past-lives

Herzog, Katie (September 6, 2018). “They” Is a Fine Pronoun, But It Ain’t Mine. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/articles/2018/09/06/31903785/they-is-a-fine-pronoun-but-it-aint-mine

Herzog, Katie (November 30, 2018). If the Future Is Nonbinary, It’s a Bleak One for Women. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/the-ladies/2018/11/30/36431918/if-the-future-is-nonbinary-its-a-bleak-one-for-women

Herzog, Katie (July 9, 2018). The Left’s Mischaracterizations of Jordan Peterson Will Make His Followers Turn Right. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/articles/2018/07/09/28930684/the-lefts-mischaracterizations-of-jordan-peterson-will-make-his-followers-turn-right

Herzog, Katie (June 19, 2018). Twitter, Trans Kids, Call-Out Culture, and a $10,000 Blunt. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/lgbtqitslfa/2018/06/19/27872645/twitter-trans-kids-call-out-culture-and-a-10000-blunt

Herzog, Katie (May 31, 2018). Wrongspeak Is a Safe Space for Dangerous Ideas. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/podcasts/2018/05/31/26879132/wrong-speak-is-a-safe-space-for-dangerous-ideas

Herzog, Katie (April 6, 2018). Kevin Williamson Has Terrible Ideas, But He Got One Thing Right. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/media/2018/04/06/26014612/kevin-williamson-has-terrible-ideas-but-he-got-one-thing-right

Herzog, Katie (January 23, 2018). Call-Out Culture Is a Toxic Garbage Dumpster Fire of Trash. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/language/2018/01/23/25741141/call-out-culture-is-a-toxic-garbage-dumpster-fire-of-trash

Herzog, Katie (December 5, 2017). Popular Leftist YouTuber ContraPoints Gets Caught Up in University of British Columbia Free Speech Debate. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/video/2017/12/05/25607468/popular-leftist-youtuber-contrapoints-gets-caught-up-in-university-of-british-columbia-free-speech-debate

Herzog, Katie (August 30, 2017). Philly Trans Health Conference Cancels Sessions on Detransitioning. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/lgbtqitslfa/2017/08/30/25382933/philly-trans-health-conference-cancels-sessions-on-detransitioning

Herzog, Katie (June 28, 2017). The Detransitioners: They Were Transgender, Until They Weren’t. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/features/2017/06/28/25252342/the-detransitioners-they-were-transgender-until-they-werent

Book

Herzog, Katie (2025). Drink Your Way Sober: The Science-Based Method to Break Free from Alcohol. BenBella Books, ISBN 978-1637747391

Media

Hard Knox with Amanda Knox and Katie Herzog (September 16, 2025). How to Drink Your Way Sober (Katie Herzog). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm07K3r5MrM

Modern Wisdom with Chris Williamson and Katie Herzog (September 13, 2025). A Controversial New Cure for Alcohol Dependence – Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3m3uCQQ72Y

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy and Katie Herzog (August 7, 2025). Drink Your Way Sober – Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzYZZdRKdoY

Stonger Weekly / Running Free with Jesse Carrajat, and Katie Herzog (August 4, 2025). Can You Drink Your Way Sober? | Katie Herzog, Author, Journalist, & Host of Blocked and Reported. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A52Y07JWbQ

Random Offense with Ethan Strauss and Katie Herzog (June 27, 2025). Episode 6 with Katie Herzog | Random Offense with Ethan Strauss. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHzwrdsMxAU

Brad Polumbo with Katie Herzog (May 17, 2025). “Gen Z is unhinged!”: Brad Polumbo & Katie Herzog talk TikTok & Cancel Culture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTKgdtxGYRE

Unaligned with Ana Kasparian and Katie Herzog (February 14, 2025). Culture Wars and Cancellations In The New Trump Era. Unaligned https://kasparian.substack.com/p/culture-wars-and-cancellations-in

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps and Katie Herzog (September 30, 2024). “The Alcoholism Myth” with Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfP51cO5Ilk

The Megyn Kelly Show with Megyn Kelly, Katie Herzog, and Jesse Singal (April 25, 2024). Free Speech vs. Harassment, and the State of “Cancel Culture,” with Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UexK-h5meVU

The Megyn Kelly Show with Megyn Kelly, Katie Herzog, and Jesse Singal (April 25, 2024). Are We Past the Worst of the Cancelations in Our Culture? With Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jDJcyzmQp4

The Megyn Kelly Show with Megyn Kelly, Katie Herzog, and Jesse Singal (April 25, 2024). Truth About “Trans Athletes” Bill in New Hampshire, with Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQic52fz-3E

Brad Polumbo with Katie Herzog (March 10, 2024). ‘The queer community KICKED me OUT!’ (ft. Katie Herzog). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p4avZ6ccUw

Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry and Katie Herzog (February 26, 2024). Will the Trans Craze Ever End? – Katie Herzog | Maiden Mother Matriarch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCJrIgQz09c

Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry and Katie Herzog (February 18, 2024). Where Have All the Lesbians Gone? – Katie Herzog | Maiden Mother Matriarch 53. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-WsqWMGxzU

Gender: A Wider Lens with Stella O’Malley, Sasha Ayad, and Katie Herzog (September 8, 2023). EP 130: Katie Herzog: Unblocked and Recorded. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vaI4NDcd4A

System Update witth Glenn Greenwald and Katie Herzog (January 24, 2023). How the Toxic Debates Around Trans Issues May Be Improving, with Katie Herzog | SYSTEM UPDATE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcM31UEGB0Y

A Special Place in Hell with Meghan Daum, Sarah Haider, and Katie Herzog (November 20, 2022). Katie Herzog Visits Hell. https://aspecialplace.substack.com/p/katie-herzog-visits-hell

Coleman Hughes with Katie Herzog (July 17, 2022). Defining Genders: What Does It Mean To Identify With a Gender? with Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4Kmn_feSCw

Coleman Hughes and Katie Herzog (July 16, 2022). The Pride Generation with Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruvlgINs70c

Coleman Hughes and Katie Herzog (July 10, 2022). “The Gender Identity Conversation” with Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExwWYLKqftc

Transparency with Aaron Kimberly, Aaron Terrell, and Katie Herzog (July 3, 2022). EP40 – I should send them a fruit basket – with Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3eZjJkNCRc

Real Time with Bill Maher, Andrew Sullivan, Katie Herzog, and Christine Emba (June 24, 2022). Overtime: Andrew Sullivan, Katie Herzog, Christine Emba | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7QITC__mV4

The Veritas Podcast with Scott Veritas and Katie Herzog (March 29, 2022). Navigating the Transgender Discourse Minefield | Katie Herzog | The Veritas Podcast #19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdbXEd_9Xkc

Lou Perez with Katie Herzog (February 24, 2022). The Lou Perez Podcast Episode 48 – Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej8VjfgAlgc

Rebel Wisdom with David Fuller and Katie Herzog (Ocober 20, 2021). Chappelle & Trans Activism, Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dlunZ082AA

Matt Lewis with Katie Herzog (October 13, 2021). Matt Lewis Interviews Katie Herzog about Dave Chappelle’s Netflix Special. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsQT5n61eg8

The Megyn Kelly Show with Megyn Kelly and Katie Herzog (October 4, 2021). Woke Push Against Biological Sex in the Medical Industry, with Katie Herzog | The Megyn Kelly Show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeU4BP8XzPU

spiked / The Brendan O’Neill Show with Brendan O’Neill and Katie Herzog (September 2, 2021). Wokeness is bad for your health, with Katie Herzog | The Brendan O’Neill Show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0o7_7CyjrI

Independent Women / High Noon with Inez Stepman and Katie Herzog (August 11, 2021). High Noon | Episode 15: Katie Herzog – On Woke Medicine and Moral Panic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4stsVkEupk

Andrew Sullivan with Katie Herzog and Jamie Kirchick (July 2, 2021). The problems with the “Q.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj_atHF9YZI

Trish Wood is Critical with Trish Wood and Katie Herzog (June 26, 2021). Katie Herzog Cancels Woke Medicine. https://www.trishwoodpodcast.com/podcast/episode-59-katie-herzog-cancels-woke-medicine

Free Speech Champions with Inaya Folarin Iman, Bari Weiss, Helen Lewis, Katie Herzog, and Mick Hume (May 22, 2021). Can truth survive the new journalism? Feat. Bari Weiss, Helen Lewis, Katie Herzog & Mick Hume. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2wz6SuQSuY

Useful Idiots with Matt Taibbi, Katie Halper, Jesse Singal, and Katie Herzog (March 22, 2021). Substack Cancel Wars With Jesse Singal & Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB6BIhnQJuo

System Updare with Glenn Greenwald and Katie Herzog (March 18, 2021). The Role of Claimed LGBT Identity in Political Discourse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt8BZzLFpzA

The Femsplainers with Danielle Crittenden, Christina Hoff Sommers and Katie Herzog (February 5, 2021). Katie Herzog: Why Lesbians Are Endangered. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GsBSpC4ZlE

Unregistered with Thaddeus Russell and Katie Herzog (January 16, 2021). Unregistered 148: Katie Herzog (VIDEO). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3JW-Djf2I

reNEWS with Amy Selwyn, Jonathan Haidt, Bari Weiss, Katie Herzog, and Suzanne Moore (January 15, 2021). Are Culture Wars Co-opting the Mainstream Narrative? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLRgTlsSg8M

Matt Lewis with Katie Herzog (November 9, 2020). Katie Herzog on What the Media and the Left Get Wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt1i_8k2g5E

spiked / Culture Wars with Andrew Doyle, Katie Herzog, and Jesse Singal (October 22, 2020). America is exhausted, with Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxVd-UyaSQg

Uncertain Things with Adaam James Levin-Areddy, Vanessa Quirk, and Katie Herzog (October 7, 2020). Why Everything Is a Culture War Thing (w/ Katie Herzog). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thoST58sb-A

The Unspeakable with Meghan Daum and Katie Herzog (September 27, 2020). #10 Katie Herzog On Why Exposing Social Media Hypocrisy Feels So Damn Good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_AOiAUiM1Q

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy and Katie Herzog (September 20, 2020). Walk-Ins Welcome Podcast #95 – Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWFA_NrI720

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy and Katie Herzog (September 3, 2020). Katie Herzog Never Expected the Concept of “Theybies” to Spread the Way It Ha‪s‬ https://ricochet.com/podcast/walk-ins-welcome-bridget-phetasy/katie-herzog-never-expected-the-concept-of-theybies-to-spread-the-way-it-has/

The Federalist with Ben Domenech and Katie Herzog (August 8, 2020). Journalist Katie Herzog On The Insanity Of Cancel Culture And False Media Narratives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WYPugy7nhM

Johnson, Jeremiah (August 7, 2020). Cancel Culture ft. Katie Herzog & Jesse Singal. The New Liberal Podcast https://www.patreon.com/posts/cancel-culture-38561642

Nonzero /Culturally Determined with Aryeh Cohen-Wade and Katie Herzog (July 15, 2020). Open Letters | Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Katie Herzog [Culturally Determined]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RdX6McwoOU

The Psychology Podcast with Scott Barry Kaufman, Katie Herzog, and Jesse Singal (July 9, 2020). Uncancellable with Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal || The Psychology Podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4yALKu3RrE

The Backchannel with Kmele Foster and Katie Herzog (July 1, 2020). Shattering the “White Fragility” Myth, with Kmele Foster and Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAdzsh0HsqM

Rebel Wisdom with David Fuller, Katie Herzog, and Jesse Singal (June 19, 2020). The Death of Journalism? Katie Herzog & Jesse Singal, Sensemaking Series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9AVo3jXjN8

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The Tim Dillon Show with Tim Dillon and Katie Herzog (June 14, 2020). #204 – Katie Herzog | The Tim Dillon Show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75N9DV8kGPg

My Northwest with Jason Rantz and Katie Herzog (June 11, 2020). Katie Herzog (Blocked and Reported host) on “cancel culture” in Seattle and at the New York Times. https://mynorthwest.com/1935924/cancel-culture-seattle-herzog/?

Michael Tracey with Katie Herzog (June 11, 2020). When did all left-wing activists become trans? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGo4glpvGYc

Calmversations with Benjamin Boyce and Katie Herzog (April 1, 2020). Quarantine Conversations: Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfLoXgrfiio

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We The Internet TV with Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying, and Katie Herzog (February 7, 2020). We The Internet TV Live in Portland with Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying, and Katie Herzog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1sqivHa3sA

DarkHorse with Bret Weinstein and Katie Herzog (November 14, 2019). Katie Herzog | Bret Weinstein’s DarkHorse Podcast #6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjELREOrtDc

The Versus Media Podcast with Stephen L. Miller and Katie Herzog (November 3, 2019). Episode 2 – The Very Cancelled Katie Herzog. https://millerversusmedia.substack.com/p/episode-2-the-very-cancelled-katie-aea

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Abigail Shrier is an American author and anti-transgender extremist. Shrier is a key historical figure in the oppression of trans and gender diverse youth.

Shrier is author of the 2020 book Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters and testified against the Equality Act before Congress in 2021. Shrier has contributed to numerous anti-trans publications, including The Wall Street Journal and group blogs Quillette and The Free Press. Shrier was affiliated with PragerU and is a fellow of Manhattan Institute, an anti-trans think tank.

Background

Abigail Brett Krauser Shrier was born June 21, 1978 and grew up in College Park, Maryland. Shrier’s parents are Sherrie L. Krauser, a judge of the Circuit Court of Maryland, and Peter B. Krauser, a judge of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals and former chair of the Maryland Democratic Party.

Shrier attended Sheridan School and Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School. After earning a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University in 2000, Shrier earned a bachelor’s degree from Oxford in 2002. Shrier then earned a law degree from Yale University in 2005. After clerking for Judith W. Rogers and Chief Justice Aharon Barak of the Supreme Court of Israel, Shrier was admitted to the New York Bar in 2006 and the California Bar in 2007. Shrier was an associate attorney at Irell & Manella from 2006 to 2008 before becoming a full-time writer in 2009. Shrier’s California license became inactive in 2009.

Shrier is a registered Republican and married wealth manager Zachary Loren Shrier in 2007.

Anti-trans activism

Shrier’s anti-trans activism focuses on:

Wall Street Journal (2018–2021)

From 2018 through 2021, Shrier wrote opinion pieces for the Wall Street Journal. Topics included:

Selected articles by Shrier:

Irreversible Damage (2020)

In January 2019, Shrier published a opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal promoting “rapid onset gender dysphoria.” Titled “When Your Daughter Defies Biology: The burden of mothers whose children suffer from ‘rapid onset gender dysphoria,” that article claims that increase in trans visibility is part of a “social contagion.” The piece received so much response that Shrier turned it into a book for conservative publisher Regnery. The op-ed was first promoted by Shrier’s PragerU colleague Candace Owens, followed by Ben Shapiro at the Daily Wire and Benjamin A. Boyce at Calmversations.

The book’s cover depicts a young girl with a void where her reproductive organs would be. One historian linked it to Nazi propaganda. The book was blurbed by other key anti-trans extremists, including:

Following the book’s release on June 30, 2020, Shrier appeared on BlazeTV with Steve Deace and on the podcast Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy. Amazon declined to run ads for the book on their site, which led to claims of censorship.

Shrier and the book got an enormous boost on July 16 after Shrier appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience. Philip Ellis noted in Men’s Health:

“Shrier invalidated the lived experience of trans and nonbinary kids and teens, and made numerous dangerous, entirely unsound false equivalencies. She compared transitioning among teenagers to historic adolescent phenomena such as eating disorders, self-harm, and (bafflingly) the occult, calling this age group ‘the same population that gets involved in cutting, demonic possession, witchcraft, anorexia, bulimia.’ She even described wanting to transition as a ‘contagion’ with the potential to infect other children with the same ideas, drawing yet more scientifically baseless parallels with eating disorders.”

Target briefly pulled the book in response to concerns, which led to more claims of censorship. Several book launches were canceled, leading to more claims of censorship. Several local libraries faced backlash after including it. After lawyer Chase Strangio posted support for banning the book, conservatives claimed this was the view of Strangio’s employer, the ACLU. Some translators refused to translate the book into other languages. In July 2021, the American Booksellers Association apologized after including the book in a monthly mailing.

The book is notable for how a network of anti-trans academics and media figures worked together to present Shrier as a free speech martyr being “candeled” by the “trans mob,” similar to how the 2003 anti-trans book The Man Who Woould Be Queen was promoted.

Quillette (2020–present)

Around the time Irreversible Damage was released, Shrier began posting self-promotional pieces on anti-trans group blog Quillette, including:

The Free Press (2021–present)

Shrier’s friend Bari Weiss hired Shrier to write for anti-trans group blog The Free Press in 2021. On October 5 of that year, Shrier published a piece featuring Erica Anderson and Marci Bowers where they “sound off on puberty blockers, ‘affirmative’ care, the inhibition of sexual pleasure, and the suppression of dissent in their field.” Many of Bowers’ peers were stunned by the report, and both WPATH and USPATH released a statement in the wake of negative community response.

References

Gessen, M (November 22, 2024). What Democrats Are Getting Wrong About Transgender Rights. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/opinion/trans-rights-donald-trump.html alt title: The Secret Behind America’s Moral Panic

Cass Eris (April 26, 2024). Introduction to “Bad Therapy”, Abigail Shrier’s latest book. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDR64_LVojI

Staff report (December 6, 2023). Japan firm nixes translation of U.S. Book questioning trans surgery. Kyodo News https://english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/45155

Jones, Imara (July 26, 2023). Episode 4: ‘A Voice for Anti-Trans, Mass Media’ | The Anti-Trans Hate Machine. Translash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv0bTrNdBNo Transcript https://translash.org/articles/a-voice-for-anti-trans-mass-media-animated-short/

Harkov, Lahav (May 23, 2023). Trans activists shut down book launch, sparking free speech debate. The Jerusalem Post https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/article-743968

Fox, Max (October 26, 2022). Learning From the “Bad Gays” of History. The Nation https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/bad-gays-podcast-interview/

Hsu, V. J. (2022). Irreducible Damage: The Affective Drift of Race, Gender, and Disability in Anti-Trans Rhetorics. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 52(1), 62–77. https://doi.org/10.1080/02773945.2021.1990381

Bokat-Lindell, Spencer (April 8, 2021). How Trans Children Became a Political Football. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/opinion/transgender-children-sports-medical.html

Samantha Lux (April 1, 2021). Reacting To A Transphobic Prager U Video ft. Abigail Shrier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uou_PDNmoCo

Cass Eris (January 1, 2021). “Irreversible Damage” – Introduction, from a cognitive psychologist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OLNEiECN24

  • (Jan 29, 2021). Rapid-onset gender dysphoria? | “Irreversible Damage” from a cognitive psychology perspective

Eckert AJ (July 18, 2021). Irreversible Damage to the Trans Community: A Critical Review of Abigail Shrier’s Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters (Part Two). Science-Based Medicine https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/irreversible-damage-to-the-trans-community-a-critical-review-of-abigail-shriers-book-irreversible-damage-the-transgender-craze-seducing-our-daughters-part-two/

 Iati, Marisa (July 16, 2021). Booksellers association apologizes for ‘violent’ distribution of ‘anti-trans’ title. The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/07/16/irreversible-damage-anti-trans-booksellers-association/

Italie, Hillel (July 15, 2021). Booksellers association apologizes for anti-trans mailing. AP News https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-entertainment-business-arts-and-entertainment-amazoncom-inc-26035c9ee8c2720d1bd2dc7983b035f3

Eckert AJ (July 4, 2021). Irreversible Damage to the Trans Community: A Critical Review of Abigail Shrier’s Irreversible Damage (Part One). Science-Based Medicine https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/irreversible-damage-to-the-trans-community-a-critical-review-of-abigail-shriers-book-irreversible-damage-part-one/

Lovell, Rose (July 2, 2021). Abigail Shrier’s Irreversible Damage: A Wealth of Irreversible Misinformation. Science-Based Medicine https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/abigail-shriers-irreversible-damage-a-wealth-of-irreversible-misinformation/

Novella, Steven (June 30, 2021). The Science of Transgender Treatment. Science-Based Medicine https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-science-of-transgender-treatment/

Ryan, Haley (May 30, 2021). Pride breaks with Halifax libraries after controversial book kept on shelves. CBC https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/pride-breaks-with-halifax-libraries-after-controversial-book-kept-on-shelves-1.6045823

Gill-Peterson, Jules (April 5, 2021). Transgender Childhood Is Not a ‘Trend.’ New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/opinion/transgender-children.html

Ferguson CJ (January 19, 2021). A Review of “Irreversible Damage” by Abigail Shrier. Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/checkpoints/202101/review-irreversible-damage-abigail-shrier

Fonseca, Sarah (January 17, 2021). The Constitutional Conflationists: On Abigail Shrier’s ‘Irreversible Damage’ and the Dangerous Absurdity of Anti-Trans Trolls. Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-constitutional-conflationists-on-abigail-shriers-irreversible-damage-and-the-dangerous-absurdity-of-anti-trans-trolls/

Sarcasmnation (December 31, 2020). Abigail Shrier Is Yelling ‘Fire’ In A Crowded Theater. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vDtohokRJY

Tracy, Matt (November 13, 2020). Bigots Swarm Twitter as Target Flip-Flops on Transphobic Book. Gay City News https://www.gaycitynews.com/bigots-swarm-twitter-as-target-flip-flops-on-transphobic-book/

Turban, Jack (December 6, 2020). New Book “Irreversible Damage” Is Full of Misinformation. Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/political-minds/202012/new-book-irreversible-damage-is-full-of-misinformation

Factora, James (November 17, 2020). Target Removed a Transphobic Book From Shelves — Then Replaced It a Day Later. them https://www.them.us/story/target-transphobic-book-removed-irreversable-damage-abigail-shrier

Valens, Ana (November 16, 2020). Target restocked a transphobic book because of money—not “censorship.” The Daily Dot https://www.dailydot.com/irl/target-transphobia-book/

Valens, Ana (November 13, 2020). Bari Weiss Defends Transphobic Book Pulled From Target. The Daily Dot https://www.dailydot.com/irl/bari-weiss-transphobic-book-target/

Quah, Nicholas (November 3, 2020). Should Spotify Be Responsible for What Joe Rogan Does? Vulture https://www.vulture.com/2020/11/spotify-responsible-joe-rogan.html

Cox, Joseph; Maiberg, Emanuel (September 16, 2020). Spotify CEO Defends Keeping Transphobic Joe Rogan Podcasts Online. VICE https://www.vice.com/en/article/spotify-joe-rogan-transphobic/

Ellis, Philip (July 22, 2020). Joe Rogan Is Spreading Transphobic Hate Speech and It’s Putting Lives in Danger. Men’s Health https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a33391944/joe-rogan-abigail-shrier-interview-transphobia/

Princess JelyFish (August 30, 2020). I Read Abigail Shrier’s Book So You Didn’t Have To. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W54nEWcoWvk

Jella Joie (July 29, 2020). Joe Rogan X Abigail Shrier Transgender Podcast Reaction/Commentary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPJ-EZhig1Q

Parsons, Vic (June 23, 2020). Amazon refuses to advertise renowned anti-trans journalist’s book suggesting trans teens are a ‘contagion’. PinkNews https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/23/amazon-abigail-shrier-book-refuse-adverts-regnery-publishing/

Boylan, Jennifer Finney (January 8, 2019). Coming Out as Trans Isn’t a Teenage Fad. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/opinion/trans-teen-transition.html

Staff report (June 10, 2007). Achievement and Reasonable Pride. PrawfsBlawg https://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/2007/06/achievement_and.html

Coverage in anti-trans press

Editors (December 17, 2024). Abigail Shrier Was Vilified. Now She’s Been Vindicated. The Free Press https://www.thefp.com/p/abigail-shrier-was-vilified-youth-gender-care

Williamson, Elizabeth (February 3, 2024). ‘My Heart Sank’: In Maine, a Challenge to a Book, and to a Town’s Self-Image. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/03/us/libraries-book-bans.html

Bazelon, Emily (March 17, 2023). The Battle Over Gender Therapy. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/15/magazine/gender-therapy.html

Gil, Vincent E. (January 2023). Review: Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters. On Knowing Humanity Journal 7(1), January 2023  https://doi.org/10.18251/okh.v7i1.182

Paul, Pamela (July 24, 2022). There’s More Than One Way to Ban a Book. New York Times https://nytimes.com/2022/07/24/opinion/book-banning-censorship.html

Hall, Harriet (July 2021). Gender Dysphoria in Adolescents. https://www.skepdoc.info/gender-dysphoria-in-adolescents/

O’Donovan, Caroline (June 1, 2022). Amazon employees protest the sale of books they say are anti-trans. The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/01/amazon-trans-pride-month-books-protest/

Long, Katherine Anne (May 3, 2021). Amazon overrules employees’ calls to stop selling book questioning mainstream treatment for transgender youth. The Seattle Times https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-overrules-employees-calls-to-stop-selling-book-questioning-controversial-treatment-for-transgender-youth/

Strimpel, Zoe (April 30, 2022). Abigail Shrier: Taking on the trans lobby has made me Public Enemy No 1. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/abigail-shrier-taking-trans-lobby-has-made-public-enemy-no-1/

Hall, Harriet (June 17, 2021). Trans Science: A review of Abigail Shrier’s Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters. Skeptic https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/trans-science-review-of-abigail-shier-irreversible-damage-transgender-craze-seducing-our-daughters/

Kirchick, James (March 31, 2021). The Disintegration of the ACLU. Tablet https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-disintegration-of-the-aclu-james-kirchick

Beattie, Tina (March 10, 2021). No Turning Back. The Tablet https://www.thetablet.co.uk/books/10/19579/no-turning-back-polemicist-abigail-shrier-on-transgenderism

Hourican, Emily (January 17, 2021). Girls who would be boys: The rise in teen gender dysphoria. The Irish Independent https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/girls-who-would-be-boys-the-rise-in-teen-gender-dysphoria-39975855.html

Cater, Nick (January 30, 2021). Queer Teen Craze. The Spectator Australia https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/01/queer-teen-craze/

Patterson, Christina (January 3, 2021). Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier review — the risks of transgender activism. The Sunday Times https://www.thetimes.com/article/irreversible-damage-by-abigail-shrier-review-the-risks-of-transgender-activism-tmlwhpdm9

Turner, Janice (December 30, 2020). Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier review — resisting the ‘transgender craze.’ The Times https://www.thetimes.com/article/irreversible-damage-by-abigail-shrier-review-resisting-the-transgender-craze-8mzrt3gk9

Staff report (December 3, 2020). Cold comforts – Our books of the year. The Economist https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2020/12/03/our-books-of-the-year

Staff (November 26, 2020). Miss gender – A book on transitioning girls is denounced as transphobic. The Economist https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/11/26/a-book-on-transitioning-girls-is-denounced-as-transphobic

Pavia, Will (November 21, 2020). Author Abigail Shrier faces threats after warning of trans epidemic. The Sunday Times https://www.thetimes.com/world/article/author-abigail-shrier-faces-threats-after-warning-of-trans-epidemic-sd6qjt8ww

Halon, Yael (November 16, 2020). Author accuses Target of caving to ‘woke activists’ by briefly pulling book deemed ‘transphobic’ on Twitter. Fox News https://www.foxnews.com/media/abigail-shrier-book-deemed-transphobic-target-pulls

Steele, Anne (October 31, 2020). Joe Rogan’s Podcast Sparks Tensions Inside Spotify. The Wall Street Journal https://archive.today/20201031153328/https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-rogans-podcast-sparks-tensions-inside-spotify-11604156400

Kearns, Madeleine (October 19, 2020). The Beginning of Gender. National Review https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2020/10/19/transgender-craze-harms-young-women-especially/

Riley, Naomi Schaefer (June 16, 2020). The Trans Cult. Commentary https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/naomi-schaefer-riley/transgender-children-craze/

Golden, Sheri (2020). Review of Abigail Shrier’s (2020) Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters. Journal of Human Sexuality Alliance for Therapeutic Choice and Scientific Integrity Volume 11, p. 122ff https://www.journalofhumansexuality.com/_files/ugd/ec16e9_0946e401cbb54e20a6f78207667dc190.pdf

Selected anti-trans material by Shrier

Shrier, Abigail (2024). Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up. Sentinel, ISBN 978-0593542927

Shrier, Abigail (August 9, 2021). A Pediatric Association Stifles Debate on Gender Dysphoria: Doctors who question the orthodoxy won’t be allowed to set up a booth at its annual conference. Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/opinion/pediatric-association-gender-dysphoria-children-transgender-cancel-culture-11628540553

Shrier, Abigail (June 2021). Gender ideology run amok. Imprimis June/July 2021 | Volume 50, Issue 6/7 https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/gender-ideology-run-amok/ reprint: https://endeavourforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/2022-12-01_EFN_No180_Dec2022.pdf

Shrier, Abigail (May 31, 2021). Male Inmates in Women’s Prisons: If Congress passes the Equality Act, California’s dangerous policy would go nationwide. Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/opinion/male-inmates-in-womens-prisons-11622474215

Shrier, Abigail (May 14, 2021). To Be Young and Pessimistic in America: Generation Z is lonelier than millennials and more reluctant to embrace the responsibilities and joys of adulthood. Life online seems to be a reason. Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/opinion/to-be-young-and-pessimistic-in-america-11621019488

Shrier, Abigail (March 15, 2021). Equality Act testimony. (video) https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Shrier%20EQUALITY%20ACT%20TESTIMONY%20-%20%203-15-21.pdf

Shrier, Abigail (January 22, 2021). Joe Biden’s First Day Began the End of Girls’ Sports. Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/opinion/joe-bidens-first-day-began-the-end-of-girls-sports-11611341066

Shrier, Abigail (November 15, 2020). Does the ACLU Want to Ban My Book?: Target stopped selling it in response to two Twitter complaints. A professor even wants to burn it. Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/opinion/does-the-aclu-want-to-ban-my-book-11605475898

Shrier, Abigail (November 7, 2020). Gender Activists Are Trying to Cancel My Book. Why is Silicon Valley Helping Them? Quillette https://quillette.com/2020/11/07/gender-activists-are-trying-to-cancel-my-book-why-is-silicon-valley-helping-them/

Shrier, Abigail (July 8, 2020). Discovering the Link Between Gender Identity and Peer Contagion. Quillette https://quillette.com/2020/07/08/discovering-the-link-between-gender-identity-and-peer-contagion/

Shrier, Abigail (June 22, 2020). Amazon Enforces ‘Trans’ Orthodoxy: The company won’t allow a publisher’s ads for my skeptical book. Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-enforces-trans-orthodoxy-11592865818

Shrier, Abigail (June 2020). Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters. Regnery, ISBN 978-1684510313

Shrier, Abigail (May 3, 2019). Standing Against Psychiatry’s Crazes: In 1979 Dr. Paul McHugh closed the sex-change clinic at Johns Hopkins. In the ’80s he testified against phony ‘recovered memories.’ He hasn’t given up the fight. Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/standing-against-psychiatrys-crazes-11556920766

Shrier, Abigail (March 26, 2019). The Transgender War on Women: The Equality Act sacrifices female safety in restrooms, locker rooms and even domestic-violence shelters. Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-transgender-war-on-women-11553640683

Shrier, Abigail (January 6, 2019). When Your Daughter Defies Biology: The burden of mothers whose children suffer from ‘rapid onset gender dysphoria.’ Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-your-daughter-defies-biology-11546804848

Shrier, Abigail (August 29, 2018). The Transgender Language War: California threatens to jail health workers who refuse to use ‘preferred’ pronouns. Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-transgender-language-war-1535582272

Media supporting Shrier

The Spectator with Freddy Gray and Abigail Shrier (March 11, 2025). The truth about child therapy – Abigail Shrier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVvkO8CsYPA

Macdonald-Laurier Institute with Coleman Hughes, Mia Hughes, and Abigail Shrier (January 17, 2025). Coleman Hughes and Abigail Shrier on Identity, Speech, and Policy / MLI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0Vt3EkSjvs

PragerU with Marissa Streit and Abilgail Shrier (Aug 7, 2024). Have America’s Classrooms Become Profit Centers for the Mental Health Industry? | Real Talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGXDZXpNHvI

PowerfulJRE with Joe Rogan and Abigail Shrier (June 27, 2024). Joe Rogan Experience #2109 – Abigail Shrier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTNjc8HyOaE

Gad Saad (April 2, 2024). My Chat with Abigail Shrier, Bestselling Author of “Bad Therapy” (THE SAAD TRUTH_1665). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzMNVGluc0E

Gender: A Wider Lens with Stella O’Malley, Sasha Ayad, and Abigail Shrier (June 14, 2024). Bad Therapy and Irreversible Damage with Abigail Shrier | Episode 168. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xxrs1VrE38

Real Time with Bill Maher, Matt Welch, and Abigail Shrier (June 7, 2024). Overtime: Matt Welch, Abigail Shrier | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW9_J76MQRE

Ben Shapiro (May 5, 2024). Resisting Indoctrination | Abigail Shrier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qNK7jN9vdo

Chris Williamson (April 20, 2024). Debating Therapy Culture & Gen Z – Abigail Shrier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5YuHvB2eso

Reason TV with Nick Gillespie and Abigail Shrier (April 10, 2024). Stop obsessing over our children’s happiness | Abigail Shrier | The Reason Interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwfIKOrWXCk

Real Alex Clark (April 4, 2024). “Therapy Is Preventing Kids From Growing Up.” – Author Abigail Shrier | The Spillover. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_7Me9clH4g

Praxis Circle (March 29, 2024). Warning to Parents: The Value Vacuum Is Hurting Your Kids | Abigail Shrier Interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjfWAW3sqjg

Andrew Klavan (March 27, 2024). Why Gen Z Struggles So Much With Mental Health | With Abigail Shrier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYXLeFU8ocs

UnHerd with Flo Read and Abigail Shrier.(March 19, 2024). Abigail Shrier: How therapy culture creates victims. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJMhyG50N-Y

Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry (March 17, 2024). The Mental Health Industrial Complex – Abigail Shrier | Maiden Mother Matriarch 61. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaIWsR0Qlac

Glenn Beck (March 16, 2024). Is Too Much Therapy Hurting Our Kids? | Abigail Shrier | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 213. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubnyW3kkhE0

Manhattan Insights with Yael Hungerford and Abigail Shrier (March 7, 2024). Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up | A Conversation with Abigail Shrier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHBILSnloCc

Spiked with Brendan O’Neill and Abigail Shrier (March 7, 2024). Abigail Shrier: Bad therapy is hurting our kids. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYy28tK5z_0

Allie Beth Stuckey (March 6, 2024). How Gentle Parenting Hurts Kids | Guest: Abigail Shrier | Ep 963. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s0PO57rs00

Coleman Hughes (March 1, 2024). Is Therapy Bad for You? with Abigail Shrier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvBk5huq8w0

Jordan B Peterson (February 29, 2024). Bad Therapy, Weak Parenting, Broken Children | Abigail Shrier | EP 427. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4roLI_Gb12I

Bridget Phetasy (February 29, 2024). Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren’t Growing Up – Abigail Shrier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIAlYi22b08

“YOUR WELCOME” with Michael Malice (February 28, 2024). “YOUR WELCOME” with Michael Malice #300: Abigail Shrier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sw87u86i2E

Sitch & Adam Show with “Adam Friended” and “PSA Sitch” (October 30, 2022). John Oliver GASLIGHTS Trans Children – Debunking “Last Week Tonight” LIES LIES LIES : Show 215. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLFlZ4XnpbI

Misha Petrov (September 9, 2022). The “Transgender Epidemic” – Why So Many Young Girls Are Transitioning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ0x5xJL_X8

Turning Point USA with Alex Clark and Abigail Shrier (April 1, 2022). Abigail Shrier exposes the TRUTH to Parents about the Trans Movement in Schools Across America. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3Rj5SIbfvw

FAIR with Bion Bartning, Abigail Shrier, Colin Wright, Zander Keig, Carrie Mendoza, Candice Jackson, & Miriam Grossman (Dec 17, 2021). FAIR’s Gender Webinar with Abigail Shrier, Colin Wright, Zander Keig, and more! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XYzCE1ph5s

John Anderson Media (August 6, 2021). Abigail Shrier | Social Contagion and Gender Identity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlekg5imwjQ

Glenn Beck (July 16, 2021). Trans Activism Will End Your Parental Rights | Abigail Shrier | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 110. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlGxrN7SLeU

ReasonTV with Nick Gillespie and Abigail Shrier (July 13, 2021). Abigail Shrier Worries Teenage Gender Transitions Lead to ‘Irreversible Damage.’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk-1iqa1jbY

Matt Walsh (July 6, 2021). The Transgender Craze Seducing America: An Interview With Author Abigail Shrier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ2I_pzOvJU

Gad Saad (June 24, 2021). Tomorrow’s Guest, Abigail Shrier, Has Sent Me Into Hiding (THE SAAD TRUTH_1263). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69vd_uB8vPM

Hillsdale College (May 12, 2021). Science, the Transgender Phenomenon, and the Young | Abigail Shrier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWbxIFC0Q2o

PragerU with Georgia Howe and Abigail Shrier (May 7, 2021). Transgenderism: The Unintended Victims | Interviews. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGfYOPFrvXU

PragerU with Abigail Shrier (March 29, 2021). Are Schools Telling Girls to Become Boys? | 5 Minute Video | PragerU. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7bMJd_QAXs

Jordan B Peterson (March 22, 2021). Irreversible Damage? | Abigail Shrier | EP 159. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSKQfATa-1I

PBS NewsHour (March 17, 2021). WATCH LIVE: Senate Judiciary committee holds hearing on Equality Act for LGBTQ rights. https://youtu.be/iK7eOudkkZg?t=4486

Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University (February 15, 2021). C-SPAN Book TV: Irreversible Damage. https://www.c-span.org/program/book-tv/irreversible-damage/589785

TRIGGERnometry with Konstantin Kisin, Francis Foster, and Abigail Shrier (January 24, 2021). Abigail Shrier: “The Trans Issue Shouldn’t Be Political.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uqht5dcJAI

Skeptic with Michael Shermer and Abigail Shrier (Feb 27, 2021). Michael Shermer w/ Abigail Shrier—Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFQKFYPL0tc

The Babylon Bee with Kyle Mann, Ethan Nicolle, and Abigail Shrier (January 12, 2021). Abigail Shrier Interview: The Truth Behind Trans Children. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C6YTHGg0fA

The Rubin Report with Dave Rubin and Abigail Shrier (December 20, 2020). Exposing the Reality of the Transgender Craze in Teen Girls | Abigail Shrier | WOMEN | Rubin Report. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIFdWhRwfFg

Quillette with Jonathan Kay and Abigail Shrier (December 6, 2020). PODCAST 126: Abigail Shrier on Her New Book About Peer Contagion and Gender Dysphoria. https://quillette.com/2020/12/06/podcast-126-abigail-shrier-on-her-new-book-about-peer-contagion-and-gender-dysphoria/

Mellen Baker (November 25, 2020). Book review: Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rafnOvvkRNc

Ben Shapiro (November 22, 2020). Abigail Shrier | The Ben Shapiro Show Sunday Special Ep. 108. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uSlmfp7euo

Family Research Council with Tony Perkins and Abigail Shrier (October 30, 2020). Abigail Shrier details the heartbreaking dangers of the transgender movement on young girls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl3WyPtnFTU

The Same Drugs with Meghan Murphy and Abigail Shrier (October 16, 2020). The Same Drugs: Abigail Shrier on girls and the trans trend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c7G4dGBGFI

Benjamin Boyce with Debra Soh and Abigail Shrier (October 1, 2020). The Gender Trap | with Dr. Debra Soh & Abigail Shrier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNhn2ufmSVg

“Waffling Willow” (September 5, 2020). “Irreversible Damage” by Abigail Shrier || Intro (Book Review by FtM Detransitioner). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PllbYA56Uzg

Isaac Butterfield (September 3, 2020). The Transgender Craze – Abigail Shrier – The Butterfield Effect Podcast 041. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD4jyEBjmKQ

Graham Linehan (August 26, 2020). A chat with Abigail Shrier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH5wKHxF-bA

Wild at Heart with Morgan Snyder and Abigail Shrier (August 11, 2020). Become Good Soil Interview – Abigail Shrier on Dignity Restored to Masculinity and Feminity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrNRypyrRyc

The Federalist with Emily Jashinsky and Abigail Shrier (July 31, 2020). Why Transgenderism Is Exploding Among Teenage Girls: Abigail Shrier Explains. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH_-p0oPtXA

Patrick Coffin (July 21, 2020). 190: The Trans Attack On Our Daughters with guest Abigail Shrier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91-uj-6CezM

Andrew Klavan (July 19, 2020). Abigail Shrier On The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-6JoXKvaVg

PowerfulJRE with Joe Rogan and Abigail Shrier (July 16, 2020). Joe Rogan Experience #1509 – Abigail Shrier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtftWcgXjdg

Bridget Phetasy (July 15, 2020). Walk-Ins Welcome Podcast #86 – Abigail Shrier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GikPmEv6_UE

BlazeTV with Steve Deace and Abigail Shrier (July 7, 2020). The Second Wave Scam | Guest: Abigail Shrier | 7/7/20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bHFvHA8iHc

Benjamin A. Boyce (July 4, 2020). What’s the Matter with Girls Today? | with Abigail Shrier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdtxUcvkJWA

Ben Shapiro (June 28, 2020). How the Supreme Court Transgender Ruling is Harming Women, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86t46InP3qw

Save Women’s Sports Fox Nation with Bill McGurn, Rachel McKinnon, Jaycee Cooper, and Abigail Shrier (March 5, 2021). Abigail Shrier on Fox Nation with Rachel McKinnon and Jaycee Cooper (2019). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PIkN1uH3Jo

PragerU with Candace Owens and Abigail Shrier (June 2, 2019). The Candace Owens Show: Abigail Shrier. https://soundcloud.com/user-579946570/the-candace-owens-show-abigail-shrier

PragerU with Abigail Shrier (April 15, 2019). Preferred Pronouns or Prison | 5 Minute Video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn5opUFNs-I

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Bari Weiss is an American opinion writer, author, and key historical figure in promoting and platforming anti-transgender extremism. Weiss is founder of anti-trans group blog The Free Press. In 2025, Weiss sold the blog to Paramount and was named editor-in-chief of CBS News.

While at the New York Times, Weiss popularized the intellectual dark web (IDW), a group of public intellectuals whose reactionary and anti-progressive views are also often anti-trans. The IDW has been described as “a gateway to the far right.”

Weiss has platformed, appeared with, promoted, and logrolled for other anti-transgender extremists and activists, including J.K. Rowling, Alice Dreger, Jesse Singal, Katie Herzog, Abigail Shrier, Sue Evans, Suzy Weiss, Julie Bindel, Hannah Barnes, Carole Hooven, Leighton Woodhouse, Michael Shellenberger, J. Michael Bailey, Aaron Sibarium, Maud Maron, Jamie Reed, Andrew Sullivan, Lisa Selin Davis, and Helen Lewis.

Background

Bari M. Weiss was born March 25, 1984 to Lou and Amy Weiss, owners of Weisslines, a flooring retailer. Weiss has three siblings, including anti-trans activist Suzy Weiss. Weiss grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After high school, Weiss lived in Israel for about a year through the Nativ College Leadership Program sponsored by United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.

Weiss earned a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University in 2007.

Weiss is a prominent activist in pro-Zionist causes, a self-described “Zionist fanatic.” An article in Jewish Currents noted that “Weiss has a long history of claiming to support free speech while trying to curtail the speech of Palestinian rights advocates.” While at Columbia in 2004, Weiss helped promote but does not appear in the video Columbia Unbecoming, a collection of testimonies from 14 students who felt they were not able to express pro-Zionist views freely at Columbia University and Barnard College. The film was backed by The David Project, a pro-Israel group based in Boston that became Hillel in 2019. In December 2004 Weiss was involved in creating the organization Columbians for Academic Freedom, which targeted several professors in Columbia’s Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC) department. Weiss stated that Columbia Unbecoming was edited to include published comments by the targeted professors: “We put the mentions of the publications in the film to expose the racism of these professors.” Three of the targeted professors took leaves of absence following a Columbia investigation that largely cleared them of wrongdoing. In 2006, Weiss was editor of The Columbia Current, a student publication about Jewish affairs.

A 2005 article in the Columbia Blue and White noted:

Her name has become a buzzword in the suspended but probably not defunct MEALAC intimidation scandal. But once more, for the record, it is Bari Weiss, C’07. It began with a skimpy documentary from Boston-based Zionist group The David Project, which featured several Columbia students accusing Middle East Studies professors of intimidation. But the debate has since sprawled to include defenders of Israel and Palestine, students’ rights and professors’ rights, what constitutes academic freedom, and has pitched one small chunk of passionate students against another. As one of four founders of the controversial students’ rights group Columbians for Academic Freedom (CAF), and the only one yet to graduate, Bari seems next in line to succeed her new boyfriend and former General Studies Student Body President Ariel Beery, G’05, as the voice of slighted students everywhere.

Even though Bari has been to Israel about a dozen times, and deferred coming to Columbia for a year to work on a kibbutz, she doesn’t fit perfectly into what some conservative and Zionist activists seek in a talking head. For one thing, Bari wants to see a Palestinian state. Moreover, her activist work as the founder of the Columbia Coalition for Sudan may prevent her from becoming the new face of the Ziorganizers.

In 2007, while living in Israel on a Dorot Fellowship, Weiss wrote for Haaretz and The Forward. From 2011 to 2013, Weiss served as a senior editor at Tablet, then worked at the Wall Street Journal from 2013 to 2017. From 2017 until resigning in 2020, Weiss was a staff writer and editor for the opinion section of the New York Times.

While at the New York Times, Weiss published a 2018 puff piece promoting the “renegades” and “heretics” of the intellectual dark web. Anti-trans historian Alice Dreger backed out just prior to publication. People Weiss mentions in the piece include Sam Harris, Eric Weinstein, Bret Weinstein, Dave Rubin, Heather Heying, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Douglas Murray, Maajid Nawaz, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Christina Hoff Sommers, Joe Rogan, Candace Owens, Milo Yiannopoulos, Charlie Kirk, Richard Dawkins, Claire Lehmann, Debra Soh, Michael Shermer, Steven Pinker, Stefan Molyneux, Mike Cernovich, Alex Jones, Charles Murray, and Kanye West.

Am I a member of this movement? A few months ago, someone suggested on Twitter that I should join this club I’d never heard of. I looked into it. Like many in this group, I am a classical liberal who has run afoul of the left, often for voicing my convictions and sometimes simply by accident. This has won me praise from libertarians and conservatives. And having been attacked by the left, I know I run the risk of focusing inordinately on its excesses — and providing succor to some people whom I deeply oppose.

Weiss authored the 2019 book How to Fight Anti-Semitism. The tactics Weiss learned though pro-Zionism reflect the similar tactics Weiss has used to attack trans rights, framing it as a “free speech” debate where anti-trans activists are fearless truth-tellers being oppressed and “cancelled” by “illiberal” opponents.

After anti-trans extremist Elon Musk bought Twitter in October 2022. Musk soon gave several writers access to internal Twitter documents. Dubbed the “Twitter Files,” the findings were released over the next several months. Authors were Bari Weiss as well as Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, Lee Fang, David Zweig, Alex Berenson, and Paul D. Thacker. Weiss published the second installment, on Twitter’s “visibility filtering” practices, on December 8, 2022. Then on December 12, 2022, Weiss published the fifth installment, regarding suspension of President Donald Trump’s Twitter account around the time of the January 6, 2021 United States Capitol attack.

Weiss was married to Jason Kass from 2013 to 2016 and married Nellie Bowles in 2021. They have two children.

Anti-transgender efforts

Weiss was a key figure in securing funding for anti-trans group Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism.

Weiss is also a founder of the University of Austin, a college conceived in 2021 by Joe Lonsdale, Pano Kanelos, Niall Ferguson, and Weiss. Anti-trans activists who have been listed as associated with the school include Coleman Hughes, Michael Shellenberger, Peter Boghossian, Richard Dawkins, Rob Henderson, Sohrab Ahmari, Jonathan Haidt, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Glenn Loury, Kathleen Stock, Andrew Sullivan, Steven Pinker, Caitlin Flanagan, Nadine Strossen, Tyler Cowen, and Larry Summers. One event sponsored by the school was a “debate” between Deirdre McCloskey and Kathleen Stock in which they largely agreed.

Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press (formerly Common Sense) and the host of the podcast Honestly. The Free Press has been described as “best known for anti-trans fearmongering.” In a 2024 New York Times profile, Matt Flegenheimer wrote:

Ms. Weiss and Ms. Bowles resettled in Los Angeles, telling associates it was a respite from the pitilessness of New York.

She assembled a small staff and promised to cover stories that others ignored while affording grace to those with whom she clashed.

At an early team retreat, where Ms. Weiss asked the group to share something that informed their values, she chose a clip from “Transparent,” the 2010s television series with a trans protagonist, which she said she found moving despite what she assumed were political differences with the show’s creator.

“Bari said that she’d chosen it because she never wanted to forget the humanity of those with whom she vehemently disagrees,” said an attendee, Megan Phelps-Roper, a former member of the Westboro Baptist Church (and now fierce opponent of its bigoted teachings) who worked with Ms. Weiss.

Podcast

Weiss began a podcast in 2021 titled Honestly with Bari Weiss and frequently has guests on to discuss their gender critical views, including:

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Urquhart, Evan (March 2, 2023). What is Bari Weiss’ “Free Press”? Assigned Media https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/what-is-the-free-press

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Urquhart, Evan (December 9, 2022). The Anti-Trans Hate Account That Bari Weiss Says Is Yet Another Right-Wing Voice Censored by Twitter. Slate https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/twitter-files-bari-weiss-libsoftik-elon-musk.html

Weiss cites the platform’s treatment of Libs of TikTok, a Twitter account that remains active despite its connection to multiple acts of terror and intimidation from far-right extremists, including multiple bomb threats against a children’s hospital. This portrayal of Libs of TikTok as representative of accounts posting conservative views is alarming. […]

Weiss may be best known for a column introducing “the intellectual dark web,” a group of anti-progressive types fixated on the concept of cancel culture and the idea that liberals routinely censor conservative ideas. With the Twitter Files, she describes herself leading a team that has been given “broad and expanding access” to Twitter’s internal documents and communications. This group includes opinion writer Abigail Shrier, who is best known for writing Irreversible Damage, a book opposing transition for female-assigned people on the grounds that an unproven social contagion is the root cause of transmasculine identities.

It is unsurprising that this team highlighted the treatment of an account notorious for its anti-trans activity. But Libs of TikTok goes far beyond expressing political opinions about transgender issues. That would certainly be allowed under Twitter’s policies, which exist to curb harassment, violence, and hate speech, not opinions. In fact, Libs of TikTok has repeatedly highlighted specific individuals, events, and institutions with inflammatory language, often falsely suggesting they are guilty of heinous acts against young children. The account’s spotlight has repeatedly resulted in harassment and violent threats toward the individuals involved, in a process typically referred to as stochastic terrorism. Those targeted include doctors and hospitals that provide gender-affirming care for youth, teachers and schools with inclusive policies, and all-ages or youth-focused drag events.

Contrary to the extremist rhetoric, gender-affirming care is supported by all mainstream medical organizations as potentially lifesaving for young people with gender dysphoria. It is also perfectly possible to speak with children about the existence of transgender people and about families headed by same-sex parents in an age-appropriate, nonsexual way.

Winters, Kelley (October 9, 2021). Transgender Affirmation in Retrograde. Trans Policy Reform Blog https://transpolicyreform.wordpress.com/2021/10/09/transgender-affirmation-in-retrograde/

Gill-Peterson, Jules (September 13, 2021). From Gender Critical to QAnon: Anti-Trans Politics and the Laundering of Conspiracy. Stated disavowal of their own bias doesn’t account for how liberals rhetorically shelter political violence. New Inquiry https://thenewinquiry.com/from-gender-critical-to-qanon-anti-trans-politics-and-the-laundering-of-conspiracy/

Greenwald, Glenn (March 8 2018). NYT’s Bari Weiss Falsely Denies Her Years of Attacks on the Academic Freedom of Arab Scholars Who Criticize Israel. The Intercept_ https://theintercept.com/2018/03/08/the-nyts-bari-weiss-falsely-denies-her-years-of-attacks-on-the-academic-freedom-of-arab-scholars-who-criticize-israel/

Roth, Jordan (May 26, 2005). An academic freedom fighter. Jerusalem Post https://www.proquest.com/docview/319478492?sourcetype=Newspapers alt url [full text] https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/an-academic-freedom-fighter

Swindler, Josie (September 2005). Campus Characters. [p. 5-6] The Blue and White https://s3.amazonaws.com/BWARCHIVE/2005/sep05.pdf

Coverage in anti-trans press

Stiles, Andrew (October 7, 2025). Liberal Media, Activists Silent as Bari Weiss Makes LGBT History at CBS News. Washington Free Beacon https://freebeacon.com/media/liberal-media-activists-silent-as-bari-weiss-makes-lgbtq-history-at-cbs-news/

Testa, Jessica (October 6, 2025). How Bari Weiss Won: At The Free Press, she battled “wokeness” and buddied up with billionaires. Now she’s the editor in chief of CBS News. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/business/media/bari-weiss-free-press-cbs-news.html

Flegenheimer, Matt (August 11, 2024). Bari Weiss Knows Exactly What She’s Doing. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/11/business/media/bari-weiss-free-press.html

Selected writing by Weiss

Weiss, Bari (July 15, 2023). When Ideology Corrupts Medicine—and How One Reporter Exposed it. A conversation with Hannah Barnes about the medical scandal at Tavistock, the UK’s flagship youth gender clinic. The Free Press https://www.thefp.com/p/when-gender-ideology-corrupts-medicine-tavistock

Weiss, Bari (July 14, 2020). Resignation letter. https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter [archive]

Stephens, Bret; Weiss Bari (October 10, 2018). Why Is Israel Scared of This Young American? New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/opinion/israel-lara-alqasem-bds.html

In March, the writer Andrew Sullivan described each of us as a “Zionist fanatic of near-unhinged proportions.” It was a cheap shot. The word “near” should not have been a part of the sentence.

Otherwise, we happily plead guilty as charged.

Weiss, Bari (May 8, 2018). Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/opinion/intellectual-dark-web.html

Weiss, Bari (September 12, 2017). Opinion: A Political Conservative Goes to Berkeley. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/12/opinion/conservative-berkeley-ben-shapiro.html

There’s no question that Ben Shapiro loves to provoke college students. He once brought a diaper to a campus speech to offer to “self-indulgent pathetic children who can’t handle anyone with an opposing point of view.” In another, while entertaining a question from a young woman who called for greater sensitivity toward transgender people, he shot back: “If I call you a moose are you suddenly a moose?”

Yet this sharp-tongued Never Trumper was also, according to the Anti-Defamation League, by far the most bullied Jewish journalist of 2016

Weiss, Bari (August 1, 2017). When Progressives Embrace Hate. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/opinion/womens-march-progressives-hate.html

We just saw what happens to legitimate political parties when they fall prey to movements that are, at base, anti-American. That is true of the populist, racist alt-right that helped deliver Mr. Trump the White House and are now hollowing out the Republican Party. And it can be true of the progressive “resistance” — regardless of how chic, Instagrammable and celebrity-laden the movement may seem. 

Weiss, Bari (November 16, 2004). In the Name of Academic Freedom. Columbia Spectator https://www.columbiaspectator.com/2004/11/16/name-academic-freedom/

Book

Weiss, Bari (2019). How to Fight Anti-Semitism. Crown, ISBN 978-0593136058

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Jesse Singal is an American podcaster, cultural critic, and anti-transgender activist. Singal launders anti-transgender extremism into mainstream media and is a prominent figure in America’s transphobic moral panic.

See this biography for background. After initially working at progressive publications, Singal found success criticizing progressive public policy, media, and medicine. Singal then began getting even more money and attention by attacking transgender people, especially gender diverse youth.

Singal’s activism against the trans rights movement centers on several anti-transgender tactics:

Singal seeks to influence healthcare decisions about our minors with the same rhetoric and tactics used by activists who seek to restrict reproductive healthcare options like contraception and abortion. Singal attempts to disrupt conversations between healthcare providers and the families they serve by demanding more gatekeeping.

Singal focuses on childhood “desistance” and adult “detransition,” two disputed conceptualizations of people whose gender identity or expression shifts over time. These cure narratives and regret narratives are collectively known as the ex-trans movement. These narratives are vastly over-represented in media coverage of trans issues, but Singal’s coverage often suggests to credulous audiences that these narratives don’t get represented enough.

Singal frequently gets money and attention by exploiting anxiety about trans and gender diverse minors, which gets framed as “concern.” Singal then gets more money and attention by implying that opponents and critics are incompetent, dishonest, or even dangerous. Biologist Julia Serano has described this as the “Dregerian narrative,” named after Singal’s role model, anti-transgender historian Alice Dreger.

Singal has gained a reputation for “sealioning,” or persistent and aggressive challenges to criticism. Singal typically focuses on a critic’s minor error, omission, or word choice and uses that detail to derail the larger points made about Singal’s work. Singal uncritically promotes any supporters, defending these ideological allies by challenging their critics with the same persistent and aggressive tactics.

Singal’s tactics have been especially harmful to trans journalists, writers, cultural critics, and experts. Through immense privilege and nepotistic connections, Singal has access to opportunities and backchannel conversations where trans people are often excluded. Singal holds forth in these trans-exclusionary spaces as an expert on “tricky science stuff,” while implying that trans people cannot competenetly discuss trans issues. Singal claims to be an edgy iconoclast willing to speak up against “activists,” which Singal uses as a thought-terminating pejorative against any trans critic.

Bad-faith cultural critics often become part of the story they attempt to cover. In The Anti-Trans Hate Machine, journalist Imara Jones outlined Singal’s historically significant role in attacks on hundreds of thousands of trans and gender diverse children. Singal is the inspiration for this site’s decade-long Transphobia Project. That project seeks to show that there are many ethical journalists, public intellectuals, cultural critics, and other creators of knowledge and culture who are capable of addressing controversial gender issues in fair and value-neutral ways.

Singal is a compulsive X/Twitter user who self-published over 125,000 posts, an average of about 35 posts a day for ten years. Singal’s reputation for online histrionics and causing harm to the trans community grew, and Singal soon began exploring other self-publishing options. In November 2017, Singal started a Medium account that mostly addressed topics related to trans people and to Twitter. In January 2019, Singal started a Substack newsletter titled Singal-Minded. In March 2020 Singal began a lucrative “drama” podcast called Blocked and Reported with anti-transgender troll Katie Herzog. These platforms generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue each year and allow Singal to continue this pattern of behavior without any editorial oversight or accountability.

In 2024, Singal joined Bluesky and quickly became the most blocked user in this history of the platform due to anti-trans trolling. Users made several efforts to get Singal banned from the platform.

Anti-trans activists like Jesse Singal are an enormous resource drain for a persecuted minority like the trans community. Singal is a once-in-a-generation problem for our children. We owe it to them to focus our limited resources on minimizing the profound harm Singal is causing. It is literally Singal’s business to derail the trans rights movement, and business is booming.

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Julian Vigo is an author and sex segregationist involved in gender critical activism.

Podcast

Vigo’s Savage Minds podcast often features activists in the gender critical movement. Guests include:

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Joey Brite is an American ex-transgender activist who organized an anti-transgender conference in 2020 and is an executive producer of the 2023 anti-trans film No Way Back (originally Affirmation Generation). Director Laura VanZee-Taylor, producer Penka Kouneva, and executive producer Brite are responsible for including convicted sex offender David Arthur Kendall as one of the ex-trans activists featured.

Background

Alicia Nancy Neff was born in February 4, 1955 in Los Angeles to Charles “Bud” Neff and Carolyn Jeannette Neff. Neff’s father was a musician who ran Neff’s Paint and Wallpaper in Anaheim, and Alicia Neff graduated from Anaheim High School in 1972.

As an adult, Neff began using the names Alicia Brite and Joey Brite, usually styled joey brite. Brite and a songwriting partner began performing original “women’s music.” Brite also worked in set design and theatrical props, eventually becoming lighting assistant for an independent film company “that churned out lesbian porn for theatrical release.”

Brite has kept a connection with the paint and wallpaper industry since the late 1980s, operating an interior paint consultancy called The COLOR Effect since 1995.

Brite was a DJ at KPFA in Berkeley from 1983 to 1985. Brite was associated with Mills College from 2001 to 2003, working as a liaison for Fremont High School. In 2004 Brite began producing events and fundraisers and started handling social media for several artists.

In 2020, Brite described conservative trans people Blaire White, Scott Newgent, Fionne Orlander, and Buck Angel as the “four horsemen of the gender critical apocalypse.”

Brite continues working in production, incorporating Small Pockets Productions LLC in California in 2020 and Behind the Curtain Productions Inc in New York in 2022.

2020 conference

On August 8, 2020, Brite held the “Can I Get a Witness” conference. It was dedicated to the memory of Magdalen Berns and featured many prominent anti-transgender activists:

  • Wall Street Journal writer Abigail Shrier and Author of the recently published Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
  • Therapist Sasha Ayad M. Ed., LPC at Inspired Teen Therapy
  • Investigative writer and blogger Jennifer Bilek
  • Jane Wheeler, President of Rethink Identity Medicine Ethics, Inc.
  • Lawyer Kara Dansky
  • Don Smith, an outraged citizen from Sweden
  • Endocrinologist Quentin Van Meter
  • Lesbian film director Catherine Crouch
  • Filmmaker and activist Vaishnavi Sundar
  • In Conversation: Stephanie Davies-Arai from Transgender Trend and radical lesbian critic Julia Long
  • Health journalist Jamila Bey
  • Sydney Wright, a detransitioned woman
  • Eugenia Rodrigues, Founder of No Corpo Certo (Brazilian Campaign Against Transing Kids)
  • Julia Diana Robertson, Senior Editor at The Velvet Chronicle
  • Women Are Human Founder (remaining anonymous for her own protection)
  • Spinster founder MK Fain
  • Youtuber The Deprogrammer (remaining anonymous or her own protection)
  • Thistle Pettersen from Women’s Liberation Radio News
  • In Conversation: Sports Coach Linda Blade and Save Women’s Sports founder Beth Stelzer
  • Feminist Current founder and pod-caster Meghan Murphy
  • Mother turned activist Lynn Meagher
  • Epidemiologist Hacsi Horvath, a detransitioned man
  • Sherri Golden, a lesbian who was attacked at the 2018 San Francisco annual Dyke March
  • Writer Donovan Cleckley
  • Doula Courtney Catearth
  • Alicia Strada, who was attacked by other women for her views on gender identity
  • The TERF Exhibit Founder Sam Reitger (remaining anonymous for her own protection)

In a 2021 recap of anti-trans developments, Brite cited highlights from Jennifer Bilek, Lierre Keith, Sasha Ayad, Stella O’Malley, MK Fain, Eugenia Rodrigues. Keira Bell, Declaration on Women’s Sex-Based Rights, LGB Alliance, KS Jolly in Feminist Current, Jo Brew, Bernadette O’Malley, Women’s Liberation Front, Tulsi Gabbard, Save Women’s Sport, Josephine Bartosch, Courtney Catearth, Karen Davis of You’re Kiddin’, Right?, Mr Menno, SEGM, Abigail Shrier, JK Rowling, and Alix Aharon of of Partners for Ethical Care.

References

Brite, Joey (October 2, 2020). The Four Horsemen of the Gender-Critical Apocalypse. Uncommon Ground https://uncommongroundmedia.com/the-four-horsemen-of-the-gender-critical-apocalypse/

[Obituary] (April 19, 2013). Charles Neff. Orange County Register https://obits.ocregister.com/us/obituaries/orangecounty/name/charles-neff-obituary

[Obituary] (March 15, 2016). Carolyn Jeannette Neff. Orange County Register https://obits.ocregister.com/us/obituaries/orangecounty/name/carolyn-neff-obituary?id=16292068

Pettersen, Thistle (2021). Highlights of 2020 with Joey Brite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLj9sOvfhCA WLRN Edition 57: Radical Feminism 2020 https://womensliberationradionews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/edition-57-interview-with-joey-brite-transcript.pdf

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Laura VanZee Taylor is an American anti-transgender activist who directed the 2023 anti-trans project No Way Back as “L. E. Dawes.” After Taylor’s child came out as trans, Taylor created a propaganda piece about the ex-transgender movement. Taylor and producer Penka Kouneva are responsible for including convicted sex offender David Arthur Kendall as one of the ex-trans activists they featured.

Background

Laura Elinor Van Zee was born August 26, 1970, grew up in Medford, Oregon, then earned a bachelor’s degree from Lewis & Clark College in 1992 and a master’s degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1994.

VanZee Taylor’s husband Jason Daniel Taylor (born 1970) is an executive at Facebook/Meta. They met in college, married in 1992, and have two children: Occidental College student Elinor “Ellie” Taylor and a teen who came out as trans, which sparked VanZee Taylor’s anti-trans activism.

VanZee Taylor was a creative director for Hallmark Cards in Missouri before becoming a stay-at-home parent. In 2010, after a “a mini-midlife crisis” at age 40, VanZee Taylor began making videos.

Previous media

  • I Am Maris (ROCO Films 2017) profiles Maris Degener, a yoga instructor who experienced significant body image issues as a teen
  • Walk Through This (2018) profiles Sara Schulting Kranz, whose spouse came out as bisexual 17 years into their marriage
  • “If Siri Was a Mom” (2016) showcases Whitney Cicero / The New Stepford
  • “Somewhere” (2014) features VanZee Taylor’s family

VanZee-Taylor styles both fake and real names in numerous ways:

  • L. E. Dawes
  • L.E. Dawes
  • L E Dawes
  • LE Dawes
  • Laura VanZee
  • Laura Van Zee
  • Laura V. Taylor
  • Laura VanZee-Taylor
  • Laura VanZee Taylor
  • Laura Van Zee Taylor

Anti-transgender activism

VanZee Taylor became involved in anti-transgender activism because their younger child identified as gender diverse. VanZee Taylor then connected with other unsupportive parents from the anti-trans “parental rights” movement:

COVID-19 had been hard on my youngest. Previously an extroverted, active and affectionate boy, over the lockdown he became quiet, easily agitated and withdrawn. He spent most of his time online. Then he told us he was transgender.

He said he wanted puberty blockers and then he would go on estrogen. He matter-of-factly stated that he didn’t plan on getting “bottom surgery,” but would probably want electrolysis, voice training and facial feminizing surgery such as a tracheal shave. He knew our insurance would cover it all.

My husband and I were shocked at his pronouncement. Not because we are transphobic, but because our son had never exhibited any discomfort with his body or identity. […]

I joined a local support group with more than 100 members for parents of kids with rapid-onset gender dysphoria. Hearing their stories, with so many similarities to ours, I couldn’t help but think that something other than kids finding their authentic selves was going on here. […]

And that is why I made this film. Even if my community disapproves. Even if I have to use a pseudonym to protect my son.

In the course of attacking 300,000 American children, VanZee Taylor outed their own child in the Dallas Morning News in 2023, even though their child was not out at school.

VanZee Taylor claims “I have to use a pseudonym to protect my son,” apparently feeling the best way to protect this teen was to divulge deeply personal family information in a major newspaper to promote anti-transgender propaganda.

In June 2023, this site revealed the identities of VanZee Taylor and producer Penka Kouneva and helped get theatrical screenings at AMC canceled.

As of 2024, their trans child Ruby Taylor is out, transitioned, and in college. Kouneva’s child has also transitioned. Despite this, Kouneva and Taylor continue to post anti-trans propaganda online, primarily on the 2022affirmation account.

References

Dawes, L. E. (February 17, 2023). OPINION Filmmaker: I believed in gender affirming care. Then I saw what happened to my son. Dallas Morning News https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2023/02/18/i-made-a-film-about-transgender-kids-that-doesnt-align-with-my-politics/

KOBI-TV (April 18, 2018). Five on 5 – Laura VanZee Taylor – Film Maker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzgUen2rQq0

Osborne, Matt (February 19, 2023). Affirmation Generation: The Lies Of Transgender Medicine. The Distance https://www.thedistancemag.com/p/affirmation-generation-the-lies-of

PITT (February 21, 2023). AFFIRMATION GENERATION, an original documentary. Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT). https://pitt.substack.com/p/affirmation-generation-an-original

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“Shannon Thrace” is the pen name of Shae Ramsey, an American author, IT professional, and anti-transgender activist. Ramsey is part of the “trans widow” movement of people upset that their spouses and romantic partners made a gender transition. Ramsey is affiliated with anti-trans hate group Genspect.

Ramsey has used a number of aliases, including:

  • “Shannon Thrace”
  • “Sharon Thrace”
  • “Tracy Shannon”
  • Sharon Ramsey
  • Shannon Ramsey
  • Shae Ramsey
  • transwidow

Background

Sharon G. “Shae” Ramsey was reportedly born on July 4, 1968 (some sources report July 3). Ramsey attended Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis, earning a bachelor’s degree in 2007 and a master’s degree in 2019. Ramsey worked at Key-Art Publishing from 1998 to 2003, managing websites. From 2003 to 2006, Ramsey worked at University Information Technology Services for Indiana University. Ramsey was SharePoint administrator for Hill-Rom from 2008 to 2011. From 2012 to 2013, Ransey was a consultant at PCMS Datafit (now Flooid), then from 2013 to 2014 was a SharePoint administrator at Cincinnati Bell Technology Solutions. from 2014 to 2015, Ramsey was a systems administrator at RoundTower Technologies, and from 2015 to 2016 was a SharePoint administrator at Cigna Healthcare. In 2016, Ramsey joiined Eli Lilly and Company as an IT specialist.

Anti-transgender activism

Thrace was reportedly married for about 14 years to someone who came out as trans around age 40. Their relationship fell apart over the following 18 months. Thrace originally published under the pseudonym “Sharon Thrace.”

In 2016, Ramsey contributed a chapter titled “Destruction of a Marriage: My Husband’s Descent into Transgenderism” to the book Female Erasure, edited by Ruth Barrett.

In 2017, Ramsey spoke at TEDxMaastricht about being married to and ultimately divorcing “Jamie,” who made a gender transition.

In 2022, Ramsey released the book 18 Months: A Memoir of a Marriage Lost to Gender Identity. The book was blurbed by Ben Appel, Lisa Selin Davis, Heather Heying, Helen Joyce, Jonathan Kay, Eva Kurilova, Meghan Murphy, Stella O’Malley, and Nina Paley.

In 2024, Ramsey was named as an advisor to anti-trans hate group Genspect.

References

Kay, Jonathan (October 16, 2022). Once a Man, Never a Woman. Quillette https://quillette.com/blog/2022/10/16/not-a-woman/

Lisa Selin Davis (October 16, 2022). The Other Woman Was Himself. Broadview https://lisaselindavis.substack.com/p/the-other-woman-was-himself

Books

“Thrace, Sharon” (2016). Destruction Of A Marriage: My Husband’s Descent Into Transgenderism. In Barrett, Ruth [editor] Female Erasure: What You Need To Know About Gender Politics’ War On Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights. Tidal Time Publishing, ISBN 978-0997146707

“Thrace, Shannon” (2022). 18 Months: A Memoir of a Marriage Lost to Gender Identity. Firebush Books, ISBN 979-8986693804

Media

Genspect with “Shannon Thrace,” Judith Hunter, and Emma Thomas (February 5, 2025). The Dark Side of Gender Affirmation: Families Share Their Pain – Panel Discussion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBrBFzaKAuY

The Distance with Eva Kurilova, Matt Osborne, and “Shannon Thrace” (December 17, 2024). Shannon Thrace Could Not Make It Work: A Transwidow Tells All. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuolcNpjS3k

Lime Soda Films (August 30, 2024). Behind The Looking Glass – FIRST EVER Documentary about the Wives & Children of Trans-Identified Men. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frffv2sB8zE

The Federalist Radio Hour with Emily Jashinsky and “Shannon Thrace” (May 1, 2024). When Gender Ideology Hits Home: How One Woman’s Marriage Fell Apart. https://www.spreaker.com/episode/when-gender-ideology-hits-home-how-one-woman-s-marriage-fell-apart–58211070

The Umbrella Hour with An Goldbauer, Zander Keig, and “Shannon Thrace” (February 8, 2024). [Interview with “Shannon Thrace”]. https://ukhealthradio.com/blog/episode/shannon-thrace-is-a-writer-cultural-critic-and-it-professional-and-the-author-of-18-months-a-memoir-of-a-marriage-lost-to-gender-identity/

Genspect with “Shannon Thrace” (January 29, 2024). Transition Was NOT Appropriate for My Ex-Husband – Shannon Thrace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ0YKZztTak

Calmversations with Benjamin Boyce and “Shannon Thrace” (December 30, 2023). Widowed by Transition | with Shannon Thrace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcectihIg5c

the radical center with Leslie Elliott Boyce, Jennifer Friend, Deborah Knox, and “Shannon Thrace” (December 11, 2023). A Marriage Lost to Gender Identity: Solid Ground #47 with Guest Shannon Thrace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbkEeiSDqQg

Feminists in Struggle with Ann Menasche and “Shannon Thrace” (December 4, 2023). Feminist Book Talk: A Marriage Lost to Gender Identity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtu3758Iu4k

Heterodorx with Nina Paley, Corinna Cohn, and “Shannon Thrace” (November 14, 2023). Episode 117: Ladies’ Autogynephilia Chat with Shannon Thrace. https://heterodorx.com/podcast/117-shannon-thrace/

the radical center with Leslie Elliott Boyce, “Phil Illy,” and “Shannon Thrace” (November 12, 2023). A Civil Dialogue about Autogynephilia, with Phil Illy & Shannon Thrace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM6lWJ6cJsk

Pete A Turner with “Shannon Thrace” (July 12, 2023). Shannon Thrace – 18 Months. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F1jljnJhFo

Cut The Bull with Wilfred Reilly, Charles Love, Shemeka Michelle, and “Shannon Thrace” (June 9, 2023). Cut The Bull – S3-Ep. 22 – Shannon Thrace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opcqpJMtyfI

BROADview with Lisa Selin Davis and “Shannon Thrace” (March 21, 2023). Live Chat with Shannon Thrace. https://www.broadview.news/p/live-chat-with-shannon-thrace

Women’s Declaration International with “Shannon Thrace” (February 14, 2023). Shannon Thrace, A Trans Widow Speaks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYGd0O8d9W4

Trans Widow Ute Heggen (January 8, 2023). Trans Widow Interview~Shannon Thrace on Meghan Murphy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOqCH3PeZTs

The Same Drugs wirh Meghan Murphy and “Shannon Thrace” (January 4, 2023). Shannon Thrace was married to a man who decided he wanted to be a woman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D46OW0zvO4

Quillette with Jonathan Kay and “Shannon Thrace” (December 6, 2022). How I Became a Transwidow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZw_QGUbvTc

Gender: A Wider Lens with Stella O’Malley, Sasha Ayad, and “Shannon Thrace” (August 19, 2022). EPISODE 83 – Trans Widow – Off the Grid: Shannon Thrace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCgH94MyxOA

OurVoices with Kristen Kalbli and “Shannon Thrace” (February 2022). S5 Ep 2: The Impact of Gender Transition on Sex. https://ourpath.org/ourpath_podcast/s5-ep-2-the-impact-of-gender-transition-on-sex/

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Mia Hughes, aka “Mia Ashton” and “Mia Sedley,” is a Canada-based British writer and anti-transgender extremist.

Hughes is associated with anti-trans group Canadian Women’s Sex-Based Rights (caWsbar) and is closely associated with American anti-trans extremist Michael Shellenberger. Hughes is key author of The WPATH Files, a 2024 propaganda piece funded by Environmental Progress featuring Hughes’ distorted explanations of non-public communication by WPATH members. Hughes is associated with anti-trans hate group Genspect as Director of Genspect Canada and is a Senior Fellow at Canada’s conservative Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Hughes co-hosts anti-trans podcast Beyond Gender with Genspect founder Stella O’Malley.

Background

Hughes is from Cheshire, a rural county south of Liverpool and Manchester.

Hughes taught in Taiwan for almost ten years after college. Hughes met a Canadian citizen there, and they married there and had their first child there. Hughes and spouse moved to Ottawa in around 2011 and now have three children. Hughes was a stay-at-home parent who began homeschooling their children: “I got to spend a precious decade with my children while they were young.”

Hughes has published under several names, including:

  • “Mia Sedley”
  • “Mia Ashton”
  • “Mia Hughes”

Hughes has written for anti-trans publications The Post Millennial, The Critic, Lesbian and Gay News, Environmental Progress, and Gender Dissent.

Anti-transgender activism

Hughes was radicalized by a tweet by J.K. Rowling on December 19, 2019 that supported anti-trans activist Maya Forstater:

Hughes stated in 2022:

There were signs that I wasn’t truly woke, and then it was a very rapid change from the tweet, JK’s tweet. I read it and I just couldn’t understand what all the fuss was about. And I even asked woke friends, I went into it on Facebook: “I don’t see what the fuss is about.” And that was the first time that I experienced something of a pile-on, where they were all calling her a TERF and trying to show me why it was hateful, and I just couldn’t see why it was hateful at all. And so I plunged down a rabbit hole that possibly I wish I’d never gone down. Then I emerged as a fully fledged TERF. I was outraged about what I had learned and just started tweeting about it.

“Ashton” (2022)

Hughes was soon suspended by Twitter for anti-transgender posts, then created a new ban evasion account.

Hughes writes for anti-trans extremist Michael Shellenberger. A profile at the non-profit Environmental Progress stated Hughes focused on “the controversy of pediatric medical transition and how trans rights collide with the rights of women and the LGB community.” Shellenberger retained Hughes to write at the for-profit Substack and podcast called Public. Hughes has contributed the majority of anti-trans content there. Hughes continues to do anti-trans work under the aegis of Environmental Progress, including The WPATH Files, a 2024 propaganda piece featuring Hughes’ distorted explanations of non-public communication by WPATH members.

Maëlys McArdle profiled Hughes in 2023:

Mia is a founding member of caWsbar, an advocacy group focused on one issue: denying trans people rights. It was part of a wave of anti-trans organizations using the sex-based rights dog whistle. She along with a local group of bigots are linked to multiple transphobic incidents in Ottawa, which I’ve previously covered here, here, here, and here.

Mia Ashton participated in the mob along with National Post columnist Rupa Subramanya and another active member of that local group, @MrsDrBee on Twitter.

McArdle (2023)

Beyond Gender

In 2025, Hughes launched the anti-trans podcast Beyond Gender with Stella O’Malley and Bret Alderman.

References

Lourenco, Denio (August 13, 2025). This Canadian think tank is claiming ‘victory’ over anti-trans legislation: The Macdonald-Laurier Institute routinely publishes material targeting trans rights. Xtra* https://xtramagazine.com/power/politics/macdonald-laurier-institute-think-tank-policy-trans-275781

Gingerich, Mia (April 3, 2024). San Fransicko author Michael Shellenberger laid out a plan to attack the scientific consensus behind gender-affirming care. Some mainstream outlets took the bait. Media Matters https://www.mediamatters.org/sinclair-broadcast-group/san-fransicko-author-michael-shellenberger-laid-out-plan-attack-scientific

Urquhart, Evan (March 5, 2024). Actually Nothing: The Non-Starter Non-Story of the WPATH Files. Assigned Media https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/wpath-nothingburger-waste-of-time

McArdle, Maëlys (June 11, 2023). Anti-trans mob in Ottawa. https://www.maelys.bio/2023/06/anti-trans-mob-in-ottawa/

Kelleher, Patrick (Mar 28 2022). Gender-critical outlet Lesbian and Gay News shuts down due to lack of support and advertising. PinkNews https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/03/28/lesbian-gay-news-shut-down-david-bridle/

Coverage in anti-trans press

Levy, Sue-Ann (April 25, 2022). Women’s rights activist warns gender dysphoria has become an epidemic. True North https://tnc.news/2022/04/25/levy-womens-rights-activist-warns-gender-dysphoria-has-become-an-epidemic/

Linehan, Graham (April 24, 2022). One woman’s guide to peaking the wokest of the woke. https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/one-womans-guide-to-peaking-the-wokest

Selected anti-trans writing by Hughes

Hughes, Mia (July 7, 2025). Mia Hughes: Alberta judge relies on myth that gender drugs are lifesaving. National Post https://nationalpost.com/opinion/mia-hughes-alberta-judge-relies-on-myth-that-gender-drugs-are-lifesaving

Hughes, Mia (June 6, 2025). Mia Hughes: Canadian Medical Association wants to force Alberta to ignore science on gender care. National Post https://nationalpost.com/opinion/mia-hughes-canadian-medical-association-wants-to-force-alberta-to-ignore-science-on-gender-care

Hughes, Mia (May 19, 2025). Mia Hughes: Nova Scotia ignores growing evidence against youth gender affirming care. National Post https://nationalpost.com/opinion/mia-hughes-nova-scotia-ignores-growing-evidence-against-youth-gender-affirming-care

Hughes, Mia (April 24, 2025). Mia Hughes: Canada must launch review of paediatric gender clinic practices. National Post https://nationalpost.com/opinion/mia-hughes-canada-must-launch-review-of-paediatric-gender-clinic-practices

Hughes, Mia (April 24, 2025). Mia Hughes: Canada’s courts must protect women’s sex-based rights, like the U.K. National Post https://nationalpost.com/opinion/mia-hughes-canadas-courts-must-protect-womens-sex-based-rights-like-the-u-k

Hughes, Mia (April 18, 2025). HUGHES: Canadian Paediatric Society’s journal follows gender ideology and ignores the science. Toronto Sun https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/hughes-canadian-paediatric-societys-journal-follows-gender-ideology-and-ignores-the-science

Hughes, Mia (March 18, 2025). How gender activists stole the media, distorted medicine, and hurt Canadian kids. Inside Policy https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/how-gender-activists-stole-the-media-distorted-medicine-and-hurt-canadian-kids-mia-hughes-for-inside-policy/

Hughes, Mia (February 17, 2025). Mia Hughes: Kids deserve more than slogans when it comes to gender medicine. National Post https://nationalpost.com/opinion/kids-deserve-more-than-slogans-when-it-comes-to-gender-medicine

Hughes, Mia; Copeland, Peter (January 27, 2025). Canada must follow the Brits—and the science—and ban puberty blockers. The Hub https://thehub.ca/2025/01/27/mia-hughes-and-peter-copeland-canada-must-follow-the-brits-and-the-science-and-ban-puberty-blockers/

Hughes, Mia; Copeland, Peter (December 10, 2024). Prison-onset gender dysphoria – a new low for women’s dignity: Mia Hughes and Peter Copeland for Inside Policy. Inside Policy https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/prison-onset-dysphoria-a-new-low-for-womens-dignity-mia-hughes-and-peter-copeland-for-inside-policy/

Hughes, Mia (March 4, 2024). The WPATH Files. Environmental Progress https://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/wpath-files

Media

Genspect (January 29, 2025). There is no such thing as a transgender child. – Mia Hughes. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VCg-VKwoZRs

The Epoch Times (November 4, 2024). Leaked Files Reveal Trans Medicine Harms: Mia Hughes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IZLTTtO1EU

Genspect (November 2, 2024). How Misguided Diagnoses Fuel Irreversible Harm – Mia Hughes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBLFvzDZAU8

Stanford Classical Liberalism Initiative (October 24, 2024) Classical Liberalism Seminar – Mia Hughes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_JZXzocqd8

Andrew Gold (May 19, 2024). 410. Is Transgender A Mental Illness? – Mia Hughes. On the Edge with Andrew Gold https://www.patreon.com/posts/is-transgender-104543977

Stephanie Winn (Some Kind of Therapist) (April 29, 2024). 107. Exposing Gender Malpractice: Mia Hughes on the WPATH Files, Medical Ethics, & Informed Consent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HebkVt5GDIU

Macdonald-Laurier Institute with Aaron Wudrick and Mia Hughes (April 25, 2024). How a trans activist group undermined medical science / Aaron Wudrick and Mia Hughes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7CjBc3102g

Gender: A Wider Lens (March 23, 2024). Premium: How Has WPATH Responded to the Leaked Files?

Gender: A Wider Lens (March 21, 2024). “WPATH Has No Respect for Medical Ethics” with Mia Hughes | Episode 156. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikM6ziYLb4c

Meghan Daum and Sarah Haider (March 10, 2024). Activists in Charge: Major Disregard for Ethics at Transgender Health Authority Revealed. A Special Place in Hell https://aspecialplace.substack.com/p/activists-in-charge-major-disregard

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  • Mia Ashton
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