Jennifer Lahl is an American nursing executive and anti-transgender activist. Lahl is is founder and president of The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network, an organization that opposes reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy.
In addition to opposing trans healthcare, Lahl opposes stem cell research, assisted suicide, egg and sperm donation, and surrogacy. Lahl calls these practices “egg and womb trafficking.”
Background
Jennifer D. Chenoweth was born on May 9, 1958, then earned a bachelor’s degree from California State University, Fullerton and a master’s degree from Trinity International University in 2000.
Lahl married marketing executive and church planter Daniel E. “Dan” Lahl (born October 7, 1956). Both attended Trinity International University. They have three children, Allison, Julia, and Katherine.
Jennifer Lahl has worked as a pediatric critical care nurse and administrator. Lahl’s California licenses were as a registered nurse (1982–2021) and public health nurse (1985–2019).
Lahl’s film projects have included:
Lines That Divide: The Great Stem Cell Debate (2009)
Eggsploitation (2010)
Anonymous Father’s Day (2011)
Breeders: A Subclass of Women? (2014)
Maggie’s Story (2015)
Compassion and Choice: Denied (2016)
#BigFertility: It’s All about the Money (2018)
Anti-transgender activism
Lahl produced the 2021 film Trans Mission: What’s the Rush to Reassign Gender? It is critical of gender affirming care for youth.
In 2022 Lahl produced a documentary on the ex-transgender movement The Detransition Diaries: Saving Our Sisters.
Caitlyn Jenner is an American media personality and Olympic gold medalist. Upon coming out as transgender in 2015, Jenner became the most famous transgender person alive. Jenner’s conservative views frequently cause tension with more progressive trans community members.
Background
Caitlyn Marie Jenner was born on October 28, 1949 in Mount Kisco, New York. Jenner attended high school in Sleepy Hollow, New York and Newtown, Connecticut. Jenner earned a bachelor’s degree from Graceland College in 1973. While there, Jenner played football until an injury forced a switch to decathlon. Jenner placed 10th in decathlon at the 1972 Summer Olympics. After that, Jenner dominated the event through the 1976 Summer Olympics. That gold medal and world record made Jenner a national hero.
Jenner secured many endorsement deals and began appearing in film and television regularly for the next 30 years. In 2007 Jenner’s family starred in the hit unscripted series Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
Jenner has been married three times and has six children and four stepchildren. Jenner was married to Kris Kardashian from 1991 to 2015. In 2015, as transition rumors swirled, Jenner was involved in a fatal car crash. Jenner and trans entrepreneur Sophia Hutchins met in 2015 and had a close personal and professional relationship until Hutchins’ death in 2025.
As a transgender public figure
Jenner’s coming out as trans caused a media frenzy, including appearances on magazine covers and many interviews in print and television. Jenner starred in the “unscripted” series I Am Cait with “friends” Jennifer Finney Boylan, Candis Cayne, Zackary Drucker, Chandi Moore, Jen Richards, Mimi Marks, and Kate Bornstein. Jenner also made a cameo on Transparent and continued appearing in film and television. Jenner was named one of 25 Glamour Women of the Year and received other recognitions, including the 2016 Time 100. In 2017 Jenner published a memoir, The Secrets of My Life, and had facial feminization surgery and bottom surgery. In 2017, Jenner founded the Caitlyn Jenner Foundation. The board included Andrea Metz, Nick Adams, and Zackary Drucker, with Sophia Hutchins as an executive.
Jenner made a number of controversial comments after coming out, such as joking that the hardest part about being a woman “is figuring out what to wear.” The glib sexist comments combined with the media attention led to a backlash among many conservatives and anti-transgender activists.
Jenner has continued to take conservative positions and make controversial comments about LGBT issues that have led to backlash from the community. Ellen Degeneres pressed Jenner about opposing gay marriage. Jenner’s comments about transgender athletes became a major talking point in 2021 during an unsuccessful run for California governor. In 2022 Jenner joined Fox News as an on-air contributor. In 2023 Jenner founded the Fairness First PAC “to keep boys out of women’s sports.”
Hontas Farmer is an American educator and “autogynephilia” activist. Farmer has an extensive online presence and has identified as a Muslim, Republican, physicist, “homosexual transsexual,” and sex worker. Farmer is part of the conservative trans community.
Hontas Farmer appearing on Fox News in a burqa in 2008.
Background
Hontas Freeman Farmer was born in July 1980. Farmer has stated the given name Hontas is an abbreviation of Pocahontas. It is also a given name previously used in Farmer’s family. As with many African Americans, Farmer has claimed Native American ancestry. Farmer grew up in the Chicago area and attended Proviso West High School in Hillside.
In 1998, Farmer was arrested and given a psychiatric evaluation for allegedly threatening to shoot up the high school after being turned down by a girl for the prom. Local police also confiscated two firearms from Farmer’s family home. Farmer was allegedly bullied in high school with the nickname “The Unabomber.”
As an adult, Farmer began using the alternative name Aisha Abd Al-Rashid, including on the cover of Farmer’s 2008 self-published book Quantum Space-Time Dynamics (ISBN 978-0578007328).
Farmer earned a bachelor’s degree from Northern Illinois University in 2005 and a master’s degree from DePaul University in 2013.
Farmer has subsequently worked as a tutor and taught in adjunct positions in the Chicago City Colleges system as well as at College of DuPage and Elmhurst University. Farmer has also been involved in union organizing, serving as an officer representing other part-time educators via the City Colleges Contingent Labor Organizing Committee (CCCLOC), part of Region 67 of the Illinois Education Association (IEANEA), the state-level union of the National Education Association.
In 2019, Farmer filed a lawsuit against Randall Miller, an apparent colleague of Farmer’s.
Online activity
Farmer has been a major forum contributor on the transkids.us hoax site, the Hung Angels forum, Wikipedia, and the Science 2.0 blogging platform. Farmer has used a number of usernames, including:
BrendaQG
Hfarmer
Hontasfx
Lucasain
Smartgirl62
Gravitygirl62
Zahara_TS
Aisha_a_ts
“Autogynephilia” activism
Farmer became heavily involved in Wikipedia editing of “autogynephilia” and related concepts in 2006.
In 2008, Farmer gained access to the apartment of economist Deirdre McCloskey through McCloskey’s assistant Beth while McCloskey was out of town. McCloskey is a prominent critic of “autogynephilia.” Via Farmer’s blog:
Dr. McCloskey on the other hand. I have an impression of her based on seeing her home and hearing people around UIC talk about her and compare her to me (when they thought I couldn’t hear them). According to Beth her RA who is watching her house Dr. McCloskey was in south Africa. There are those at UIC who call her Dierdre McKrazy and say she is pushy and mannish. Having seen her house that surprises me a bit. A persons home says allot about them. Dr McCloskey’s Condo in downtown Chicago is quite nice, quite large and very comfortable looking. On the inside the furnishings are of good classic taste which would be expected of a lady of her age and means. Walking in I felt like Gill Chesterton seeing Frasier’s condo for the first time, very impressed. It is actually two condo’s joined by stairs. A large part of one is devoted to her personal library which is quite extensive. My friend Beth, a PhD. Student in philosophy’s job for the summer is to put that large library in order. A notable and surprising thing to me was that Dr. McCloskey has a copy of “The man Who Would Be Queen”.
At the 2009 Transgender Day of Remembrance vigil in Chicago, Farmer approached “Juanita,” one of the trans women featured in the transphobic book The Man Who Would Be Queen by J. Michael Bailey. Farmer was wearing a burqa and asked several questions that prompted “Juanita” to alert the community about Farmer’s questioning.
Teresa Binstock was an independent researcher based in Colorado. Binstock was best known for hypotheses about causes of autism, including suggestions that vaccines may be connected. Binstock also had connections to Denise Magner / “Kiira Triea” (1951–2012), former owner and author of the transkids.us hoax site.
Background
Teresa Christine Binstock was born February 12, 1944. Several articles from 1961 suggest that Binstock grew up in Hammond, indiana, graduated from Roosevelt Military Academy in Aledo, Illinois, then attended Purdue University Calumet Center. Binstock was also reportedly involved in folk music around that time.
Binstock reportedly earned a bachelor’s degree, claiming a major in mathematics as well as minors in physics, chemistry, creative writing, literature, and philosophy. The school and year were not specified in self-supplied biographies. Binstock claimed to have been accepted into 3 graduate departments, changed direction, then went into making a living at art. Binstock reportedly conducted 8 years of independent research at University of Colorado Health Science Center (UCHSC) and The Children’s Hospital in Denver. Binstock’s mentors were reportedly psychiatrist Gordon Farley, MD and pediatrician Randi Hagerman, MD, a Fragile X syndrome specialist.
Binstock was reportedly diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome by UCHSC post-doc fellow Cynthia Naseem Ahmed Smith, M.D., “who presented me and two other Aspies at a Grand Rounds at USHSC in 1997.” Binstock frequently published on the topic of autism and Asperger’s.
Binstock was founder of the Institute for Molecular Introspections in 1997. It was later administratively dissolved. Binstock was also registered agent for Raven Intellections starting in 2003.
Binstock died on January 27, 2021 in Colorado.
Sex development and gender
In 1998 Binstock co-authored a paper with “Kiira Triea” (aka Denise Magner) and Heike Bödeker (aka Heike Spreitzer). Though cited as a co-author initially, in later versions of the article, Binstock’s name was dropped from author list without explanation.
Binstock has also published on the etiology of gender identity and sexual orientation, proposing a variant of the “gay germ” hypothesis (a viral cause) for the latter. In 2000, “Kiira Triea” wrote:
A biologist named Teresa Binstock actually has found what may be the actual biological reason for transsexuality or a very strong piece of the puzzle. The TS people I’ve told of her work seem uninterested though perhaps because it seems not to have any “essentialist” appeal.
Binstock has been cited by those who propose a genetic cause for gender diversity as well. The Council for Responsible Genetics has cited Binstock’s paper in their Genetic Determinism and Sexual Orientation bibliography. They monitor abuses of genetics via Gene Watch.
Though Binstock did not publicly acknowledge being transgender, there is evidence this was the case. One book describes Binstock thus:
Teresa, in her mid-fifties, looked something like an aging mountain woman. Six feet tall and dressed in sensible shoes and a full-length skirt, her long gray-blond hair was braided into pigtails.
Binstock never seemed to have identified as intersex, though some of Binstock’s writings support the model that gender diversity is a form of intersex.
Teresa Binstock
Former contact information
Teresa Binstock Researcher in Developmental and Behavioral Neuroanatomy Institute for Molecular Introspections Box 1788, Estes Park CO 80517
Binstock T (2004). Increased susceptibility to adverse effects from vaccinations. IOM Immunization Safety Review: Vaccines and Autism, February 9, 2004. http://www.vaccinationnews.com/sites/default/files/DailyNews/2004/February/Binstock7.pdf [no archive]
Bernard S, Enayati A, Roger H, Binstock T, Redwood L (2002). The role of mercury in the pathogenesis of autism. Mol Psychiatry. 2002;7 Suppl 2:S42-3 https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.mp.4001177
Binstock T, Hoffmann J, Rivera M, Nelson S, Crook J. Fragile X and the Amygdala: Cognitive, Interpersonal, Emotional, and Neuroendocrine Considerations. Poster presented at: 11th International Fragile X Conference; July 2008; St. Louis, MO. https://doi.org/10.13140/2.1.1761.2163
McCandless, Jaquelyn; Teresa Binstock; Jack Zimmerman (2002). Children with starving brains: A Medical Treatment Guide for Autism Spectrum. Bramble Books, ISBN 978-1883647179. Binstock worked as science editor on the book. archive https://archive.org/details/childrenwithstar00jaqu
Bernard S, Enayati A, Redwood L, Roger H, Binstock T (2001). Autism: a novel form of mercury poisoning. Med Hypotheses. 2001 Apr;56(4):462-71. https://doi.org/10.1054/mehy.2000.1281
Bernard S, Enayati A, Binstock T, Roger H, Redwood L, McGinnis W (2000). Autism: A unique type of mercury poisoning. SafeMinds https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Autism_Unique_-Type_-of_-Mercury_-Poisoning.pdf
Binstock T (2001). Anterior insular cortex: linking intestinal pathology and brain function in autism-spectrum subgroups. Medical Hypotheses. 2001 Dec;57(6):714-7. https://doi.org/10.1054/mehy.2001.1440
Bödeker, Heike; Triea, Kiira; Binstock, Teresa (October 1, 1998). Native vs. White Sex Cosmologies: Sex and Gender Variability vs. Variance in Inter- vs. Intracultural Perspective. Yumtzilob.
For a citation with Binstock’s name included, see Gerds, Heike (2004). Living Beyond the Gender Trap: Concepts of Gender and Sexual Expression Envisioned by Marge Piercy, CherrĂe Moraga and Leslie Feinberg. Shaker, ISBN 9783832233594. Note, p. 247.
version with Binstock’s name removed: http://web.archive.org/web/20040718154038/http://www.2tough.com/~kiira/cisae/yumtzilob.html
Bolte, ER (1998). Autism and Clostridium Tetani: An Hypothesis. Medical Hypotheses, vol. 51, 1998, pages 133-144. [Binstock served as science editor] https://doi.org/10.1016/s0306-9877(98)90107-4
Binstock TC (May 11, 1997). Changing the autism paradigm: a critique of Kemper & Bauman’s speculations regarding in-utero timing” Bit.listserv.autism, (posts 13491, 13493, 13494, 13495, and 13496). Formerly available at Autism Research Monographs, http://www.jorsm.com/binstock [no archive]
Binstock TC (1995). Fragile X and the Amygdala: Cognitive, Interpersonal, Emotional, and Neuroendocrine Considerations. Developmental Brain Dysfunction.abstract https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-0029549969&origin=inward&txGid=9330c60a277f986a8d4aebd890788ac7
Resources
Institute for Molecular Introspections (amnix.com/~imi2dnvr/) [no archive]
Sam Hope is a British counsellor and trauma specialist who works with our community.
Background
Hope graduated from North Warwickshire and Hinckley College in 2004 with Certificates in Counselling Skills, Therapeutic Counselling, and an Advanced Diploma in Humanistic Counselling. In 2007 Hope earned a PTLLS (Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector) from South Notts College, followed by a master’s degree in trauma studies at University of Nottingham in 2013. Hope also holds a Diploma in Supervision Studies from Open College.
Hope is an Accredited Member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP).
Dr. Wimon earned a diploma in general surgery in 1992 and in plastic and reconstructive surgery in 1995. She trained in the plastic surgery department at Stanford Medical Center in 1997 and Swiss Paraplegic Centre in Nottwil, Switzerland in 1998.
Credentials
Fellow of International College of Surgeons. (FICS)
Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons of Thailand. (FRCS(T))
Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons of Thailand.
Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons of Thailand.
Asian Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons. (ASPRS)
Oriental Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons. (OSAPS)
She previously practiced at Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital.
Dr. Sukit earned his medical degree at Siriraj Hospital, Thailand in 1985. He the studied Plastic Surgery at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital earning his certification in 1991. He has practiced at Yanhee International Hospital since 1999.
Board Certified Plastic Surgeon Member
International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS) Member
Association of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery of Thailand Member
Association of Plastic & Aesthetic Surgery of Thailand
I am working in the field of Plastic and Cosmetic surgery since 1979. I am practising in New Delhi since 1987. I am a Senior Consultant in Plastic Surgery at Holy Family hospital and Mool Chand hospital. New Delhi. India Sex change surgery- Male to FemaleCase selection – Once the psychiatrist has certified surgery can be undertaken. Person should be essentially healthy. Preoperative – The surgery is to be done under General anaesthesia. The penis is degloved out. Testis is removed. A small piece of Glans and prepucial skin hood is taken out based on the vessels/nerve and is used to create new clitoris. The urethra is brought out in the front below the propsed clitoris . A hole is created in front of the anal opening. The degloved penis is inverted into it to create a new vagina. The desired depth and size of vagina needs to be discussed in advance. If needed skin is added to this penile skin tube to add to the diameter. The scrotal skin is tailored to make the Labia. Dressings are applies. Urinary catheter is put in. Postoperative- The patient should take full bed rest and let the tissues heal up. Most of the sutures are removed in 10 days. Others would dissolve away. Recovery – the new vagina is healed well in three weeks and should become soft in 3- 6 months. Do not rush for physical relationship till it all healed and softened. The new vagina will not have any self lubricating mechanism. These factors will have to be kept in mind at the time of physical relationship. Also it will be skin lined blind end tube. This skin will need cleaning / hygiene like the rest of the body skin.
Consumer experiences (most recent first)
Vaginoplasty with Fang RH
Contact information:
Address: Department of Surgery Veterans General Hospital, No. 201, Sec. 2, Shih-Pai Road, Taipei 112, Taiwan
Phone: 886 -2 -28712121 Department of Surgery 886-2-28757100
Fang, R.-H., Chen, C.-F., and Ma, S. (1992) A new method for clitoroplasty in male-to-female sex reassignment surgery. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 89(4): 679-682.
Plast Reconstr Surg. 2003 Aug;112(2):511-4. Anatomic study of vaginal width in male-to-female transsexual surgery. Fang RH, Chen TJ, Chen TH.
