Aaron Kimberly is a Canadian former nurse and conservative transgender activist. Kimberly is an advisor to SPLC-designated anti-trans hate group Genspect. Kimberly is a founder of conservative groups Gender Dysphoria Alliance and LGBT Courage Coalition (now LGB Courage Coalition).
Kimberly is cohost of the conservative podcast Transparency and has contributed to anti-trans group blog Reality’s Last Stand. Kimberly frequently testifies against gender affirming care for minors and promotes academic work that is frequently characterized as anti-trans.
Kimberly is especially interested in promoting disease models of gender diversity, including “gender dysphoria,” “autogynephilia,” and “autoandrophilia.” Kimberly has occasionally expressed interest in a personal “detransition,” or making additional gender changes.
Background
Aaron Kimberly was reportedly born in 1973. In a self-reported biography, Kimberly makes the following claims:
- “at age 19 I had surgery to remove a grapefruit-sized cyst from one of my ovaries”
- following a biopsy was reportedly diagnosed with “Ovotesticular Disorder of Sex Development (DSD)”
- Kimberly earned a bachelor’s degree from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
- in 2006 saw a documentary on mainstream TV about “trans kids” that led to a trans identification
- began medical transition that year at age 33
- in 2008 became a registered nurse/BScN wtih a specialty in Psychiatric Nursing
- worked in the mental health department at St Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, Canada, for 10 years
- In 2017 moved to Kelowna, Canada, to help launch a multidisciplinary youth clinic and do intake assessments
- consulted with the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA)’s Trans Care BC
- during this consulting, “I started to become confused and concerned about the current state of trans healthcare”
- began promoting studies by anti-trans psychologists Ray Blanchard, J. Michael Bailey, Kenneth Zucker, Lisa Littman, and Paul Vasey.
- “I was removed from the clinical mentorship mailing list, I was accused of using the listserv for anti-trans activism, our clinic was boycotted, and I was moved to another program”
- “this prompted me to create the Gender Dysphoria Alliance (GDA) in January 2021″
- was registered in British Columbia as a Practising RN from 2008 until that registration was canceled on April 1, 2023
Kimberly then enrolled in the Women’s and Gender Studies graduate program at University of Alberta.
Conservative activism
Kimberly began engaging in conservative activism in 2021 after being alarmed about how the clinic where Kimberly worked was treating trans and gender diverse youth. Kimberly explained to anti-trans activist Pamela Paul:
In 2021, Aaron Kimberly, a 50-year-old trans man and registered nurse, left the clinic in British Columbia where his job focused on the intake and assessment of gender-dysphoric youth. Kimberly received a comprehensive screening when he embarked on his own successful transition at age 33, which resolved the gender dysphoria he experienced from an early age.
But when the gender-affirming model was introduced at his clinic, he was instructed to support the initiation of hormone treatment for incoming patients regardless of whether they had complex mental problems, experiences with trauma or were otherwise “severely unwell,” Kimberly said. When he referred patients for further mental health care rather than immediate hormone treatment, he said he was accused of what they called gatekeeping and had to change jobs.
“I realized something had gone totally off the rails,” Kimberly, who subsequently founded the Gender Dysphoria Alliance and the L.G.B.T. Courage Coalition to advocate better gender care, told me.
In a profile provided to this site in June 2025, Kimberly stated:
My major influences are second wave lesbian feminism and early queer theory. In the early days (1990s), lesbians like Butler and Halberstam conceptualized the FTM experience as a form of female masculinity (eg. Halberstam’s book Female Masculinity, in which she included FTM as under the banner of lesbian masculinities). That’s still a view I hold, in my self-conception. My current work focuses on applications of radical feminism to transmen, looking for ways, throught a sex-realist perspective, at quality of life measures and the nature of our oppression as masculinized/male passing females.
2024 Stone Butch Disco collaboration
Stone Butch Disco is a Substack newsletter described as “a butch-femme lesbian feminist project: nerd comedy, experiential insights, & alt-academic analysis.”
In September 2024 members of the collective began collaborating on podcast episodes with Kimberly. By November, they announced a split in a since-deleted post:
Aaron repetitively focused conversation onto specific women that Aaron felt slighted by. Due to Rachel and Akiva’s personal histories in abusive relationships, they entertained conversation around uniquely butch vulnerabilities to abuse for a few weeks, culminating in an unreleased 6th podcast episode in which Aaron’s relationships with these women were discussed under the false premise that they were targeting Aaron. It became clear from conversations on and off the recording that Aaron’s treatment of women and especially feminine women was of serious concern. Despite the fact that Rachel requested that Aaron not post the 6th episode anywhere, including on Aaron’s personal channels, Aaron posted it to personal YouTube and Facebook accounts, and used pieces of the audio to harass women via direct message. We were lied to, manipulated, and used. Following these revelations, we removed Aaron from the Stone Butch Disco team.
Kimberly said via email in June 2025 that the announcement was removed “after legal action” because it contained false statements and defamation. Kimberly also stated “my lawyers have evidence that the Statements by both parties are false and defamatory.” This site has requested that evidence for inclusion here. Kimberly provided the following statement:
They fabricated a conspiracy that I only made friends with a couple of butch lesbians for the purpose of lying and manipulating them to harass women. No, I did not. When I left the courage coalition, I made new friendships outside that circle and we generated many ideas for projects that I was excited about, such as an archive about butch lesbians. I built the website. We were ready to launch it. Because I saw them as friends I confided in them some of what I had felt and was processing in regards to interactions I had with certain women. I needed someone to talk to because I was confused by aspects of what had occurred. I couldn’t talk to anyone in the network about it. Meanwhile, those women were plotting behind my back and finding ways to sabotage me in the dark
and taking disrespectful shots at me online to hint they were doing so. They shared private text messages, emails and secretly recorded conversations. They publicly accused me of having mental illness I don’t have and for doing things I didn’t do. I feel played by these women. I expect people to come honest. I fully own that I overstepped some boundaries but I was also misjudged and mistreated. They did psychological harm and when I spoke my truth in defence, they weaponized that against me too.
The mistake we (Stone Butch Disco) made is trying to engage those other women in a conversation via the podcast. Instead of engaging up front, they contacted the Stone Butch Disco and manipulated them into thinking I’d lied and manipulated them. No. I did not. There was no underhanded scheme going on, on my part, and I was severed from new friendships. I found myself caught in a trap of manipulation, and had to manipulate my way out of it. I’m not normally a manipulative person, at all. I’m blunt to a fault and despise head games. I’ve withdrawn myself entirely from the entire network to get my own head straight and stand in my own truth. I’m focussing on transmen and our needs. I’m not interested in playing dirty games.
My work is based on respectful conversations about ideas and needs. My ideas are not ones everyone agrees with, but people should not be threatened, intimidated, or coerced, simply for having different views, which aren’t motivated by hate.
I push back on all hateful activity. People are allowed to hate me. They are not allowed to hurt me just because they have feelings about what I believe.
And I mean you too Andrea. There are more constructive ways to negotiate needs and deal with fears, than tearing people down. I’m not playing this game. Both sides are playing dirty. Someone has to stay in the lane of having peaceful and honest conversations for problem solving. If you believe I’m harming you in some way, then let’s have a conversation. Because your way isn’t working. It just drives more hate.
Since you’ve publicized where I’m enrolled in an MA program, I’m sure you expect that everyone, both TERFs and the trans-queer community will hate me. What they’ll all find, is that I’m reasonable and easy to engage in respectful and honest conversations across multiple lines of disagreement. And I will expect to be treated with fairness and dignity in return. I will work hard and do well in academia to think things through with care.
I want to build and mend bridges with human beings on any side of the issue, and I will always preserve myself as a human being who has faults and strengths. My door is always open for honest people who aren’t trying to hurt anyone. I’m not afraid to kick the asses of trespassers (metaphorically speaking). I intend to live in peace.
If you publish any of this, you must post all of it in whole and exactly how I’ve stated it.
2024 MIT event
According to anti-trans philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith, Kimberly exhibited concerning behavior after the two met in 2024 at a debate also attended by anti-trans activists Alex Byrne and Alice Dreger. On February 3, 2025, Lawford-Smith posted:
On the 17th of April 2024, Alex Byrne & I took part in a debate at MIT. Our opponents were Aaron Kimberly and Alice Dreger. Alex and Alice took opposite sides on the question of whether sex is biological and binary, and Aaron and I took opposite sides on the question of whether gender identity should replace sex in social policy. Aaron & I had some friendly communications in the lead-up to the debate, much of which were me making suggestions as to a topic that we could disagree about productively. We met up for a couple of hours on the afternoon of the debate. At the time, Aaron was associated with the LGBT Courage Coalition, and I was occasionally doing freelance interviews for the LGB Alliance Australia. I figured it would be good to establish some kind of link between the two organizations.
Since April 2024 or so, I have been dealing with inappropriate and unwanted behaviour by Aaron Kimberly. This includes him repeatedly sending emails to my work address (after I had blocked him on Twitter); contacting my friends and colleagues about me; attempting to organize an in-person event to take place on my campus, at which I would be a speaker, without my permission or input; mischaracterizing our brief interaction to mutual acquaintances; publishing a full podcast episode mischaracterizing our interaction; posting three separate Substack articles about me (one sharing personal information about me and embedding deleted video content that I own the copyright to); sending huge volumes of messages to other people about me; and, most recently, contacting my employer. This has all been the aftermath of Aaron making several romantic advances toward me, which I rejected. To say he’s taken rejection badly would appear to be an understatement.
On February 22, 2025, Kimberly posted a lengthy response addressing many of Lawford-Smith’s claims and assertions about their interactions.
References
Staff report (April 15, 2026). GSJ student Aaron Kimberly wins award. University of Alberta https://www.ualberta.ca/en/womens-gender-studies/about-us/news/2026/gsj-student-aaron-kimberly-wins-award.html
Anti-trans coverage
Lawford-Smith, Holly (February 3, 2025). Aaron Kimberly: A Statement. https://hollylawford-smith.org/aaron-kimberly-a-statement/
Lawford-Smith, Holly (February 3, 2025). Tweet 4th February 2025 & email to my employer 31st January 2025.
Stone Butch Disco (January 2, 2025). S2 E2: “We’re living in a post postmodern world, get your sh** together!” https://stonebutchdisco.substack.com/p/s2-e2-were-living-in-a-post-postmodern-a4e
Staff (November 25, 2024). Ending our relationship with Aaron Kimberly. Stone Butch Disco https://stonebutchdisco.substack.com/p/ending-our-relationship-with-aaron [deleted – archive]
Paul, Pamela (February 2, 2024). Opinion: As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/opinion/transgender-children-gender-dysphoria.html
TT Exulansic on Odysee (February 27, 2022). Church of the Maculate Conception: Schrödinger’s Testicle [deleted]
“Laval, Mary” (July 26, 2021). Transition in hindsight: Aaron Kimberly’s story. Genspect https://genspect.org/transition-in-hindsight-aaron-kimberlys-story/
Selected writing by Kimberly
Bell, Keira; Kimberly, Aaron (November 10, 2025). The Myth of ‘Detransition’: There’s no going back for “detransitioned” butches—only learning to live on a strange little island. Reality’s Last Stand https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/the-myth-of-detranstion
Kimberly, Aaron (May 27, 2025). Sex and Violence: What the Data on Trans Offenders Really Show. Reality’s Last Stand https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/sex-and-violence-what-the-data-on
Kimberly, Aaron (February 22, 2025). Holy, Holly! In response to Holly Lawford-Smith. https://www.aaronkimberly.com/holly-lawford-smith
Kimberly, Aaron (June 26, 2022). GUEST OP-ED: What nobody told me about transition, but should have. True North https://tnc.news/2022/06/26/aaron-kimberly-transition-oped/
Kimberly, Aaron (2003). Autoportrait. Journal of Homosexuality https://doi.org/10.1300/J082v43n03_20
Media
Ellin Jimmerson with Aaron Kimberly (April 7, 2026). Aaron Kimberly, Feminism & Transmen, Ep. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnpv6NbHndg
Aaron Kimberly (March 21, 2026). Conference Presentation – Experiences of Sexual Assault Among Transmen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArcjEzgyxrw
In Response with Joey T. McFadden (March 12, 2025). Sex, Gender, & Politics – #14. https://joeytmcfadden.substack.com/p/sex-gender-and-politics
Something For Everybody with Aaron Machbitz (January 28, 2025). #333 – Aaron Kimberly – Understanding the Trans Experience: Integrators vs. Disruptors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aMF7VrWRi8
The Lesbian Mafia (December 23, 2024). Luigi’s Mom, Cream Puffs & Oh Canada w/ Aaron Kimberly. https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/thelesbianmafia/episodes/2024-12-23T19_20_12-08_00
Gender: A Wider Lens with Stella O’Malley and Sasha Ayad (November 9, 2024). Dysphoria Means Something Different to Different People with Aaron Kimberly. https://www.widerlenspod.com/p/dysphoria-means-something-different
Gender: A Wider Lens with Stella O’Malley and Sasha Ayad (November 8, 2024). 192 – Paving a Way Back for Detrans Lesbians, with Aaron Kimberly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ_gsbzVCXE
Heterodorx with Nina Paley and Corinna Cohn (October 30, 2024). Aaron Kimberly Look-a Like a Man. https://heterodorx.com/podcast/episode-150-aaron-kimberly-look-a-like-a-man/
The Lesbian Mafia (October 10, 2024). Reconciling Gender: Aaron Kimberly’s Transition, Detransition, & Whistleblowing. https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/thelesbianmafia/episodes/2024-10-09T22_54_54-07_00
The Lesbian Project Podcast (May 24, 2024). Episode 28 FREE – a chat with Aaron Kimberly; plus the music of Chappell Roan, and bars (again). [unavailable]
Gender: A Wider Lens with Stella O’Malley and Sasha Ayad (October 6, 2023). Premium: Bonus Conversation with Aaron Kimberly. https://www.widerlenspod.com/p/bonus-conversation-with-aaron-kimberly
Gender: A Wider Lens with Stella O’Malley and Sasha Ayad (October 6, 2023). 135 – Intersex, Identity, & Ideology with Aaron Kimberly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfVwd6cnZtM
Calmversations with Benjamin Boyce and Jamie Reed (August 24, 2023). The Corruption of Gender Medicine | with Aaron Kimberly & Jamie Reed. [original title: Challenging Gender Medicine from Within, with Jamie Reed & Aaron Kimberly] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LJjOCiFkdY
The Unspeakable Podcast with Meghan Daum (June 20, 2023). When Queer Theory Meets Medical Practice: Aaron Kimberly On The Crisis In Transgender Health Care. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT3BTIC4dPc
The Rupa Subramanya Show (April 13, 2023). The reality of transitioning from a trans man (Ft. Aaron Kimberly). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RInhdKI5mcA
BROADVIEW with Lisa Selin Davis (March 3, 2023). Heterodox Trans People #4: The Aarons. https://www.broadview.news/p/heterodox-trans-people-4-the-aarons
In Context with Gregor S. Thomson (October 14, 2022). Episode 28 – Gender Dysphoria/Trans Issues with Aaron Kimberly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M99KkuyMhUE
TT Exulansic on Odysee (February 27, 2022). Metoidioplasty Moments: Double Fistula. https://odysee.com/@Exulansic:d/Metoidioplasty-Moments-Double-Fistula:c
The MARS Show (January 6, 2022). #147 Gender Dysphoria Alliance with Aaron Kimberly & Aaron Terrell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwbiuJ22EeA
Calmversations with Benjamin Boyce (October 27, 2021). s04e17 | Being A Woman Being A Man | A Transitioner’s Tale, with Aaron Terrell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS2rLY_jVQI
The Just Checking In Podcast with Freddie Cocker (August 8, 2021). JCIP #90 – Aaron Kimberly. https://soundcloud.com/venthelpuk/jcip-90-aaron-kimberly
Calmversations with Benjamin Boyce (July 24, 2021). s03e102 | Bullying in the Trans Community, with Aaron Kimberly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIDwOk-bvtE
The MARS show (July 15, 2021). #135 Aaron Kimberly on the reality of transition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1gZ_xoMjZc
Calmversations with Benjamin Boyce (May 20, 2021). s03e81 | How Queer Theory Interferes with Good Therapy, with Aaron Kimberly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcjBDi-ZRLA
Resources
Aaron Kimberly (aaronkimberly.com)
Gender Dysphoria Alliance (genderdysphoriaalliance.com) [archive]
Lesbros Project (lesbrosproject.com) [archive]
X/Twitter (x.com)
Substack (substack.com)
Facebook (facebook.com)
YouTube (youtube.com)
TikTok (tiktok.com)
Sinéad Watson is a Scottish ex-transgender activist. Watson gets money and attention by making it harder for others to access trans healthcare. Watson is affiliated with anti-transgender hate group Genspect.
Background
Watson was born in ~1991 and reports being repeatedly sexually assaulted as a teen.
Watson made a gender transition as an adult. Watson socially transitioned at age 20 and began medical transition at age 24. Watson had top surgery at age 26. In October 2019, at age 28, Watson made additional changes in identity and expression.
Rather than taking personal responsibility for medical decisions made as an adult, Watson blames “the trans lobby.” According to a post by anti-trans activist Julie Bindel:
Watson self-referred to the Sandyford in 2014, having spent time in a psychiatric unit following a severe mental breakdown. “I burned my house down while trying to kill myself,” she says, “and made out to the doctor it was because I was really a trans man and needed to transition. That was bullshit.” Watson was suffering from depression, dependent on alcohol, and struggling to accept that she was a lesbian.
Ex-trans activism
According to a 2021 post by Lee Leveille of Health Liberation Now!:
Sinéad Watson is a detransitioned woman from Scotland who has been featured on BBC Scotland’s The Nine. She was one of the co-organizers of the #DetransAwarenessDay campaign and serves as an advisor for the parent advocacy group Genspect. Genspect is led by Stella O’Malley, who has also founded the Gender Dysphoria Support Network (GDSN) and is a founding member of Thoughtful Therapists alongside James Esses and James Caspian. Like [Mary E.] McAlister [of the Child & Parental Rights Campaign], O’Malley has also claimed that talk therapy isn’t used as a form of conversion therapy, a fact contested by research from international experts on conversion practices. Watson, in her advocacy to oppose the proposed conversion therapy ban in Scotland, reiterated O’Malley’s claims and argued that “if exploratory talk therapy is deemed conversion therapy, it’s not a kindness and will result in countless others like myself who have been harmed[.]” She also serves as the advisor for the Gender Dysphoria Alliance, a peer-run group comprised primarily of trans men who advocate for higher restrictions on transition-related care. Gender Dysphoria Alliance was denounced by No Conversion Canada and University-Rosedale Greens for its claims that Green Party electoral candidate Tim Grant signed their “pledge” opposing conversion therapy bans that cover talk therapy. The claim was initially repeated by Genspect though it has since been corrected.
Prior to her detransition, Watson was a transmedicalist YouTuber who went by the pseudonym “Yorick.” In previous videos she asserted that by supporting their children in exploring their identities, parents (particularly mothers) of trans youth are perpetrating child abuse. She has also confessed to “enjoying a lot of [the] content” of the alt-right YouTubers Steven Crowder, Dave Cullen/Computing Forever, and Black Pigeon Speaks, though she took issue with their interviews with Walt Heyer. In her video “Let’s Talk About Sex Reassignment Regret,” she rejected Heyer’s use of his personal story to oppose trans health care. Calling attention to the fact that Heyer is not a licensed professional who’s “status as a rehabilitated trans person is paying well[,]” she expressed frustration at how “the anti-trans movement is treating him as a poster boy and probably raining praise on him.” This opens questions about her recruitment of legal counsel that frequently cites him, including within the very brief they filed, to help her oppose trans health coverage in Arizona.
References
Stone, Gemma (March 21, 2022). Former Anti-SJW YouTuber Gets Shoutout From JK Rowling. Medium https://medium.com/@notCursedE/former-anti-sjw-youtuber-gets-shoutout-from-jk-rowling-af98a0da49b0
Cook, James (February 10, 2020). The dividing lines over Scotland’s gender laws. BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-51445579
Anti-trans coverage
Bindel, Julie (May 3, 2024). GENDER OP HELL : I had surgery to become a man but regretted it so I changed back to a woman five years later – now my body Is ruined. The Sun https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/27720466/gender-transition-surgery-regret-body-ruined/
Thomas, Kim (April 29, 2023). The troubling truth about ‘gender affirming’ mastectomies. The Spectator https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-troubling-truth-about-gender-affirming-mastectomies/
Bindel, Julie (September 15, 2022). Scotland’s Tavistock must fall. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2022/09/scotlands-tavistock-must-fall/
Bayswater Support (February 19, 2021). Detransition Story: Watson. https://www.bayswatersupport.org.uk/detransition-story-watson/
“Laval, M.” (September 9, 2021). Canada Votes 2021: Party positions on gender. Genspect https://genspect.org/canada-votes-2021-party-positions-on-gender/
Selected writing by Watson
Watson, Sinéad (August 2, 2023). The trans lobby pushed me to have a double mastectomy and I bitterly regret it. That’s why Costa’s advert is so dangerous. Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12366421/The-trans-lobby-pushed-double-masectomy-bitterly-regret-Thats-Costas-advert-dangerous-writes-SINEAD-WATSON-detransitioned-woman-double-mastectomy.html
Media
Andy Ngo Live with Andy Ngo and Sinéad Watson (November 1, 2022). ‘I wish I could feel my chest’: Ex-trans shares her story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p90K88EdOXs
Transparency with Aaron Kimberly, Aaron Terrell, and Sinéad Watson (September 4, 2022). EP47 – It’s Ms. Watson, thank-you – with Sinead Watson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBnPzgwD9B8
GBNews with Dan Wootton and Sinéad Watson (August 11, 2022). ‘Why have we been experimenting on children?’ | Sinead Watson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPB3UJreqqc
Genspect / GBNews with Stella O’Malley and Sinéad Watson (August 1, 2022). Genspect advisors Stella O’Malley and Sinéad Watson discuss the closure of the Tavistock on GB News. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mseopbrwz0s
Genspect with Alex Phillips, Stella O’Malley, and Sinéad Watson (Jul 30, 2022). Reflections on the closure of the Tavistock: Sinéad Watson in conversation with Stella O’Malley. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr3z34RW_h0
Genspect with Sinéad Watson (April 6, 2022). Detrans Awareness Day Webinar 2022 – Sinéad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF8PCghKTl8
The Cauldron with Lisa, Denise, Claire and Sinéad Watson (January 21, 2022). The Cauldron – Lisa, Denise and Claire interview Sinead Watson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8EXYgcoPPs
GBNews with Alex Phillips and Sinéad Watson (December 7, 2021). ‘Exploratory therapy would have saved me a lot of pain,’ says Sinead Watson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp7d9guHmm4
LGB Alliance with Malcolm Clark, Helen Joyce, Tanya Carter, Kate Grimes, Az Hakeem, and Sinéad Watson (November 13, 2021). Session 1: Lies, Gender Identity & Stereotypes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01YzVihxjI0
The Mess We’re In with Graham Linehan, Helen Staniland, “Arty Morty,” and Sinéad Watson (November 10, 2021). The Mess We’re In Ep. #94: Sinead Watson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho-982j4CLU
Merched Cymru with Az Hakeem and Sinéad Watson (October 5, 2021). Webinar: Transition and Detranstion with Dr Az Hakeem and Sinead Watson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrjogH-WAxg
Make More Noise with Keira Bell, Sinéad Watson, “Bec Wonders,” “Lu Lu” and “DJ Lippy” (July 20, 2021). Free speech and the nature of gender transition. A conversation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltPrAbHuuVw
Sinéad Watson (July 1, 2021). Ramblings of a detransitioned woman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj9dImEgNqI
Labour Women’s Declaration and Sinéad Watson (May 22, 2021). Sinead Watson, detransitioned woman, on devastating impact of gender clinic’s “affirmative model.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyMbTd1crgs
Sinéad Watson (March 12, 2021). Detrans Awareness Day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS1sgrVrET0
Staff report (February 10, 2020). Sinead is worried about a possible change in the law. BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-scotland-51453612
Videos by or about “Yorick”
Azazel (February 13, 2018). Freedom of Speech on University Campuses (Yorick Re-Upload). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRmzHVdIGmQ
Azazel (January 12, 2018). The Genderfluid Generation (Yorick Re-Upload). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqgN3CGhUfM
Azazel (January 10, 2018). ‘Transtrenders’ – Milo Stewart (Yorick Re-Upload). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxaMhoaEYiQ
Azazel (November 28, 2017). My Beef with Ben Shapiro (Yorick Re-Upload). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjdD3PezPAw
Azazel (November 7, 2017). The Rise of the Transgender Child (Yorick Re-Upload). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmJlbal3_QQ
Azazel (November 7, 2017). Let’s Talk About Sex Reassignment Regret (Yorick Re-Upload). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5Rs3_MRFZM
Azazel (November 7, 2017). Casual Transphobia: Can Words Kill? (Yorick Re-Upload). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMvcORJZars
Magdalen Berns (October 10, 2016). Debunking Myths about “Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminism” (“TERF”). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UafsVsUYTjI
Resources
Genspect (genspect.org)
X/Twitter (x.com)
Gender Dysphoria Alliance (genderdysphoriaalliance.com) [archive]
Substack (substack.com)
YouTube (youtube.com)
UK LGBT Archive (lgbthistoryuk.org)
Pamela Paresky is an American psychologist and anti-transgender activist. Paresky is affiliated with anti-trans hate group Genspect and the sex segregationist Independent Council on Women’s Sports. Paresky is also affiliated with anti-trans groups Free Speech Union, Academic Freedom Alliance, Open Therapy Institute, and FAIR in Medicine. Paresky has contributed to a number of anti-trans publications, including Quillette, Reality’s Last Stand, and The Guardian. Paresky frequently collaborates with other anti-trans authors, including Cory Clark, Nadine Strossen, Jonathan Haidt, and Greg Lukianoff.
Background
Pamela Beth Prestyn Paresky was born on February 16, 1967 to David Paresky and Linda Sue (Kotzen) Paresky.
Paresky earned a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University in 1990, a master’s degree from Pepperdine University in 1994, and a doctorate from University of Chicago in 2005.
Paresky was an aspiring actor and musician. Paresky met and married Hugh Zuker, and they moved to Aspen, Colorado. Zuker became a sheriff’s deputy in Aspen, the president of Mountain Rescue Aspen, and a victim of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. They have one adult child, Jared Aiden Zuker (born 1999).
As Pamela Zuker, Paresky authored the 2010 book A Year of Kindness.
Anti-transgender activism
Paresky has served as a Senior Fellow at the Network Contagion Research Institute and as primary researcher for The Coddling of the American Mind by anti-trans activists Greg Lukianoff of FIRE and Jonathan Haidt of Heterodox Academy.
On Substack, Paresky promoted many anti-trans, conservative, and ex-trans activists, including:
References
Green, Emma (May 17, 2023). A Club for the Cancelled. The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/the-party-is-cancelled
Gardner-Smith, Brent (December 18, 2017). Citing ‘vitriol,’ Zuker drops out of sheriff’s race. Aspen Daily News https://www.aspendailynews.com/citing-vitriol-zuker-drops-out-of-sheriff-s-race/article_c685d182-8017-5626-b2d8-c7c84f2e2c0d.html
Phillips Academy Class of 1985 (Spring 1996). Class Notes. https://www.panix.com/~chris/notes.htm [archive]
Selected writing by Paresky
Paresky, Pamela (January 27, 2026). Just Semantics: How the use of psychological jargon can undermine law. Reality’s Last Stand https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/just-semantics
Paresky, Pamela (July 6, 2025). The Psychological War on Women: Women’s rights and the restoration of consent. Habits of a Free Mind https://paresky.substack.com/p/the-psychological-war-on-women?utm_source=publication-search
Paresky, Pamela et al (November 13, 2024). Instructing animosity: How DEI pedagogy produces the hostile attribution bias. https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/Instructing-Animosity_11.13.24.pdf original url https://networkcontagion.us/wpcontent/uploads/Instructing-Animosity_11.13.24.pdf [not archived]
Paresky, Pamela (August 30, 2024). Lies, Damned Lies, And Bullshit: And what the hell are “vibes”? Habits of a Free Mind https://paresky.substack.com/p/lies-damned-lies-and-bullshit
Paresky, Pamela (July 30, 2024). Elon Musk Says He Was “Essentially Tricked” Into Transitioning His Son: Pressure to medically transition children and the availability of gender surgeries for minors continue in the U.S. despite pediatric gender transition being all but banned in much of Europe. Habits of a Free Mind https://paresky.substack.com/p/elon-musk-says-he-was-essentially
Strossen, Nadine; Paresky, Pamela (November 21, 2023). Choose Counterspeech Over Cancel Culture. TiIME https://time.com/6338140/israel-hamas-free-speech-cancel-culture/
Strossen, Nadine; Paresky, Pamela (October 18, 2023). Even Antisemites Deserve Free Speech. The Free Press https://www.thefp.com/p/even-antisemites-deserve-free-speech
Paresky, Pamela and signatories (May 5, 2023). Open Letter in Support of Dr. Kenneth Zucker and the Need to Promote Robust Scientific Debate. FAIR in Medicine https://www.fairforall.org/open-letters/archives-of-sexual-behavior/
Clark, C. J., Jussim, L., Frey, K., Stevens, S. T., al-Gharbi, M., Aquino, K., Bailey, J. M., Barbaro, N., Baumeister, R. F., Bleske-Rechek, A., Buss, D., Ceci, S., Del Giudice, M., Ditto, P. H., Forgas, J. P., Geary, D. C., Geher, G., Haider, S., Honeycutt, N., … von Hippel, W. (2023). Prosocial motives underlie scientific censorship by scientists: A perspective and research agenda. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(48). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2301642120
Paresky, Pamela (July 30, 2022). Europe Becomes More Cautious About Pediatric Gender Medicine While California Doubles Down. Habits of a Free Mind https://paresky.substack.com/p/europe-becomes-more-cautious-about
Paresky, Pamela (May 4, 2022). The Op-Ed That Went Viral And The Trans Woman Who Wrote It. Habits of a Free Mind https://paresky.substack.com/p/the-op-ed-that-went-viral-and-the
Paresky, Pamela; Abrams, Samuel J. (November 19, 2021). Sex and Politics on Campus: Campus censoriousness varies by party, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/happiness-and-the-pursuit-leadership/202111/sex-and-politics-campus
Paresky, Pamela (July 13, 2018). In 2018, Being Conservative Became a Microaggression: Arguing that a woman can play a trans man in a film got an article retracted. Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/happiness-and-the-pursuit-of-leadership/201807/in-2018-being-conservative-became-a
Media
Genspect with Stella O’Malley and Pamela Paresky (February 24, 2024). If People Speak the Truth the Whole House of Cards Falls – Pamela Paresky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgob5_pWWaM
Genspect with Benjamin Boyce, Pamela Paresky, Lisa Selin Davis, Ben Appel, and “Christina Buttons” (November 25, 2023). What the Left Media WON’T Tell You About the Trans Movement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHQfd-sdTVQ
Save Women’s Sports Australasia / ICONS / ICFS with Dina McMillan, Pamela Paresky, Riley Gaines, Paula Scanlan, Holly LaVesser, and Kylee Alons (August 3, 2023). Sports Panel with Dr Dina McMillan & Dr Pamela Paresky at the ICONS & ICFS Intl Women’s Sport Summit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yg9pUmPtnA
Resources
Open Therapy Institute (opentherapyinstitute.org)
A Year of Kindness (ayearofkindness.com) [archive]
MultiGenerational Counseling Services (multigenerationalconsulting.com)
Free Mind Foundation (freemindfoundation.org)
- originally Aspen Center for Child Development (aspenchd.org)
- later Aspen Center for Human Development (aspencenterforhumandevelopment.org) [archive]
- About Us: Pamela Paresky, PhD, Director
- aspencenterforhumandevelopment.org/about-us.php [archive]
Institute for Humane Studies (theihs.org)
- Pamela Paresky, Fellow
- theihs.org/about-ihs/ihs-distinguished-fellows/previous-fellows/pamela-paresky [archive]
Network Contagion Research Institute (networkcontagion.us)
- Pamela Paresky, Senior Research Fellow
- networkcontagion.us/leadership-team/ [archive]
The Institute on the Formation of Knowledge (ifk.uchicago.edu)
Quillette (quillette.com)
The Guardian (theguardian.com)
X/Twitter (twitter.com)
Hugh Zuker for Pitkin County Sheriff (hughforsheriff.com/) [archive]
Hugh Zuker (zuker.org) [archive]
Psychology Today (psychologytoday.com)
Johns Hopkins Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute (snfagora.jhu.edu)
Facebook (facebook.com)
Substack (substack.com)
LinkedIn (linkedin.com)
Jewish Institute for Liberal Values (jilv.org) [archive]
- About: Dr. Pamela Paresky, Chair
- jilv.org/about/ [archive]
- renamed North American Values Institute (navivalues.org)
Muck Rack (muckrack.com)
Sander Rietveld is a Dutch anti-transgender activist. Rietveld directed the 2023 anti-trans media piece “Het transgenderprotocol.” It was so one-sided that one of the subjects, Lucy Kortikasari, came out against Rietveld’s deceptive and biased practices.
Background
Rietveld earned a master’s degree from Leiden University in 1999. Rietveld did investigations at Netwerk from 2004 to 2010.
Rietveld authored the 2021 book Nieuwe kruisvaarders [New Crusaders] about connections between orthodox Christianity and far right populism.
Rietveld is host of the podcast ZEMBLA.
Anti-transgender activism
Rietveld directed Het transgenderprotocol. Personnel included:
- Sander Rietveld – director
- Rosalyn Saab – research
- Roelof Bosma – eindredactie
- Manon Blaas – eindredactie
- bnnvara.nl/zembla
- Zembla Podcast
- Mindkorrelatie.nl
Subjects
References
Reed, Erin (October 30, 2023). What To Watch For When Invited To A Documentary On “Trans Issues.” Erin in the Morning https://open.substack.com/pub/erininthemorn/p/what-to-watch-for-when-invited-to
Rietveld, Sander (2021). Nieuwe kruisvaarders: de heilige alliantie tussen orthodoxe christenen en radicaal-rechtse populisten. Prometheus, ISBN 978-9044645163
Resources
TikTok (tiktok.com)
X/Twitter (x.com)
BNNVARA (bnnvara.nl)
Wesley Yang is an author and anti-transgender extremist. Yang has written for several anti-trans publications, including Tablet and The Guardian. Yang is affiliated with anti-trans hate group Genspect.
Background
Yang was born on October 3, 1974 and grew up in New Jersey.
Yang attended Rutgers University from 1993 to 1997. Yang began freelance writing in 2005. From 2011 to 2013, Yang was a contributing editor at New York. Since 2017 Yang has been a columnist at Tablet. In 2018 Yang became a contributing editor at Esquire.
Yang is author of the 2018 book The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays. That book includes Yang’s provocative 2008 piece on mass shooter Seung-Hui Cho.
Yang coined the term “successor ideology.,” which was popularized by other reactionary centrists and conservatives. Yang describes it as “authoritarian Utopianism that masquerades as liberal humanism while usurping it from within.”
In 2022 Yang, spouse, and child were living in Montreal.
Anti-transgender activism
Yang got explicity involved in anti-transgender activism in around 2022 through Jesse Singal, Lisa Selin Davis, and “Eliza Mondegreen.” Yang cites anti-trans activism in Sweden and Finland as what finally provided cover for coming out as anti-trans. Yang walked around with anti-trans extremist “Billboard Chris” and found that nearly everyone agreed with the anti-trans messages Billboard Chris wears, yet still claims that anti-trans views are “heterodox.” Yang also had an extensive conversation with anti-trans extremist Leor Sapir.
Yang was a guest of Stella O’Malley and Sasha Ayad on their anti-trans podcast Gender: A Wider Lens in 2022 and was announced as a speaker at their 2023 Genspect conference.
Yang operated the Year Zero blog and podcast on Substack. Guests and contributors include:
References
Berger, Adam (September 26, 2024). The Anti-Transgender Extremist on Campus this Weekend. The Skidmore News https://skidmorenews.com/new-blog/2024/9/26/the-anti-transgender-extremist-on-campus-this-weekend
Lin, Alexander (March 2022). The Former Essayist: On the decline of Wesley Yang. Strange Matters https://strangematters.coop/wesley-yang-souls-of-yellow-folk-review/
Coverage in anti-trans press
West, Ed (June 23, 2020). As a conservative, I mourn the loss of liberalism. UnHerd https://unherd.com/thepost/as-a-conservative-i-mourn-the-loss-of-liberalism/
Selected anti-trans writing by Yang
Yang, Welsey, Ackerman, Jenny Poyer (October 7, 2023). What Did You Do During the Transgender Social Contagion? Year Zero https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/what-did-you-during-the-transgender
Yang, Wesley; “Moonlit Piglet” (October 3, 2023). The LGB and the T: What these distinct and often conceptually opposed movements share in common beside an institutional Borg force teaming them. Year Zero https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/the-lgb-and-the-t
Yang, Wesley; Sedosa, Sophia (September 12, 2023). Psychologists are not legally required to affirm the gender identities of their patients. Year Zero https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/psychologists-are-not-legally-required
“Moonlit Piglet” (Aug 29, 2023). No One is Being “Outed” When Districts Decline to Deceive Parents About Their Children. Year Zero https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/no-one-is-being-outed-when-districts
Dinur, Rona; Yang, Wesley (August 23, 2023). The Legal Megalomania of Intersectionality, Year Zero https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/the-legal-megalomania-of-intersectionality
Yang, Wesley (August 18, 2023). “It’s possible to criticize and raise questions about pediatric gender medicine today in a way that was not possible even six months ago. We have definitely turned a corner.” Year Zero https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/its-possible-to-criticize-and-raise
Yang, Wesley; Ackerman, Jenny Poyer (August 3, 2023). What is Chris [Hayes] Thinking [interviewing Chase Strangio]? Year Zero https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/what-is-chris-thinking
Duarte, José; Yang, Wesley (Jul 28, 2023). Rigging the Science: On the Collateralized Debt Obligation of Transgender “Science.” Year Zero https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/rigging-the-science
Yang, Wesley with “Anna” and Brette” (Jun 03, 2023). “I have over 200 death threats/hate messages saying that your daughter tried to kill herself because of you, you should just kill yourself instead.” Interview With a Desister and Her Mother. Year Zero https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/i-have-over-200-death-threatshate
Burgo, Joseph (May 12, 2023). Autogynephilia and the Sexualization of Shame: On The AGP’s Dreadful Plight and Dreadful Triumph. Year Zero https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/autogynephilia-and-the-sexualization
Yang, Wesley (Feb 14, 2023). Stunning and Brave New World: How Gender is Lived Today, Part 1. Year Zero https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/stunning-and-brave-new-world
Yang, Wesley (September 24, 2019). America’s New Sex Bureaucracy: How campus Title IX courts’ guilty-until-proven-innocent subversion of due process is a harbinger of a dangerous wider shift in liberalism. Tablet https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/americas-new-sex-bureaucracy
Yang, Wesley (October 18, 2018), The Emperor’s Woke Clothes. Campus Week: How did an elite, repressive minority policing speech and culture through political correctness come to browbeat the American democratic majority? Tablet https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/political-correctness-minority
Yang, Wesley (May 28, 2018). The Shocking Truth About Jordan Peterson: How the Twitter mobs choose their targets. Tablet https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/jordan-peterson
Yang, Wesley (February 26, 2018). The Bari Weiss Pile-On: How the micro-grievances of different immigrant classes reflect a broader problem in our conception of race in America. Tablet https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/bari-weiss-mirai-nagasu
Yang, Wesley (January 8, 2018). Henry Louis Gates Jr. Brilliantly Anticipated Today’s Illiberal Movement to Ban Hate Speech. A return to the early-1990s origins of victimization in identity politics, then—and now—a distraction from the real challenges of structural and institutional racism in America. Tablet https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/henry-louis-gates-ban-hate-speech
Yang, Wesley (Winter 2008). The Face of Seung-Hui Cho. n+1 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-6/essays/face-seung-hui-cho/
Media
Genspect with Stella O’Malley and Wesley Yang (February 24, 2024). How did all of these untruths become truths? – Wesley Yang. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8464tKgXns
Genspect with Wesley Yang (November 18, 2023). A Rising Generation Has ALREADY Been Indoctrinated – Wesley Yang. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5I5NVYuafo
Year Zero with Wesley Yang and Leor Sapir (September 17, 2023). “I think the infusion of this ideology into our institutions, into our public life, is ultimately unsustainable.” https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/i-think-the-infusion-of-this-ideology
Year Zero with Wesley Yang and and Anna Slatz (September 2, 2023). [Part One} “When you had written me, and you were like, ‘Can you give me the top 10 craziest stories?’ That was actually a challenge. I truly couldn’t think of which ones to prioritize.” https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/when-you-had-written-me-and-you-were
Year Zero with Wesley Yang and Michael Biggs (August 1, 2023). Professor Michael Biggs on Woke Inquistions at Oxford and Exposing Bad Gender Science. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEfZvJi-xa0
Year Zero with Wesley Yang and Joseph Burgo (July 28, 2023). Joseph Burgo on autogynephilia, the state of psychotherapy, ROGD, and challenging WPATH. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9lhPyA7CAI
Year Zero with Wesley Yang, “Eliza Mondegreen,” Lisa Selin Davis, and Corinna Cohn (June 21, 2023). In the Belly of the Gender Beast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBChnNon0Ec
Year Zero with Wesley Yang and “Jennifer” (November 10, 2022). ROGD mom of 10-year old daughter socially transitioned by teacher behind her back speaks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_sSZdW5glA
Year Zero with Wesley Yang, Joey Brite and a Christian Homeschooling Mother (November 10, 2022). You’re never gonna be a man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNi9HpaE4y8
Year Zero with Wesley Yang and “Chloe Cole” (November 5, 2022). Puberty blocked at 12, testosterone at 13, double mastectomy at 15 Detransitioned at 18: Chloe Cole. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRAlOsEe5uw
Stella O’Malley and Sasha Ayad (October 28, 2022). EPISODE 93 – A Takedown of Gender Politics: Wesley Yang. Gender: A Wider Lens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOZE820t1V4
Year Zero with Wesley Yang and Julia W. Mason (October 22, 2022). Julia Mason, MD on The Sudden Surge in Transgender Identifying Girls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U8SFJkGpds
Year Zero with Wesley Yang and “Billboard Chris” (September 23, 2022). On the Road With Billboard Chris at Brown University. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0egAye2bD6c
Year Zero with Wesley Yang and “Billboard Chris” (September 17, 2022). Billboard Chris Debates Gender Ideology at the Lincoln Memorial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlacNs0b6Jw
Year Zero with Wesley Yang and “Billboard Chris” (September 17, 2022). On the Road With Billboard Chris. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp4S3ciCdWQ
Resources
Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
X/Twitter (x.com)
Substack (substack.com)
LinkedIn (linkedin.com)
Patreon (patreon.com)
Medium (medium.com)
YouTube (youtube.com)
Tablet (tabletmag.com)
The Guardian (theguardian.com)
Harper’s (harpers.org)
New York (nymag.com)
Air Mail (airmail.news)
The Chronicle of Higher Education (chronicle.com)
Claire Lehmann is an Australian writer and anti-transgender activist. Lehmann is a key figure in the so-called intellectual dark web, described as a gateway to the far right. Lehmann is founding editor of anti-trans publication Quillette, also classified a pathway to right-wing radicalization.
Background
Claire (Jensen) Lehmann was born on July 18, 1985 and grew up in Adelaide, South Australia. Lehmann earned a bachelor’s degree from University of Adelaide in 2010. Jensen married Harold M. “Harry” Lehmann at age 27 and dropped out of graduate school when their first child was born in 2013.
Lehmann worked from 2011 to 2014 as a Policy Research Assistant at Australian College of Nursing and from 2015 to 2016 as a communications officer at National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance.
Lehmann has contributed to other anti-trans publications, including Rebel News, The Australian, The Dispatch, and Colin Wright’s Reality’s Last Stand.
Anti-transgender activism
Lehmann founded Quillette in October 2015. It was incorporated in Australia as Quillette Pty Ltd in 2018.
Lehman profiled anti-trans psychologist Lee Jussim in 2015.
Lehmann began writing for alt-right publication Rebel News in 2017.
References
Engber, Daniel (January 8, 2019). Free Thought for the Closed-Minded: Quillette pretends to be a platform for debate. It’s actually a soapbox for self-pity. Slate https://slate.com/technology/2019/01/quillette-claire-lehmann-intellectual-dark-web.html
Thielman, Sam (November 29, 2019). Villains: Steve Brodner illustrates some of the worst offenders in the disinformation world. Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/special_report/villains-disinformation-steve-brodner.php
Lester, Amelia (November 11, 2018). The Voice of the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’ Claire Lehmann’s online magazine, Quillette, prides itself on publishing ‘dangerous’ ideas other outlets won’t touch. How far is it willing to go? Politico Magazine https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/11/intellectual-dark-web-quillette-claire-lehmann-221917/
Selected anti-trans writing by Lehmann
Lehmann, Claire (June 2, 2023). Trans Activists Have No Right to Pervert the English Language. Reality’s Last Stand https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/trans-activists-have-no-right-to
Lehmann, Claire (December 4, 2015). How a Rebellious Scientist Uncovered the Surprising Truth About Stereotypes. Quillette https://quillette.com/2015/12/04/rebellious-scientist-surprising-truth-about-stereotypes/
Lehmann, Claire (May 19, 2023). Trans activists have no right to pervert the English language, writes Claire Lehmann. The Australian https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/trans-activists-have-no-right-to-pervert-the-english-language-writes-claire-lehmann/news-story/a3809b3716c4c068c629e5df6b5224a9?amp&nk=13b72df8027fed82dcbc8a39446b952c-1684445053 [archive]
Lehmann, Claire (June 23, 2023). Why Queensland’s gender IDs are a dangerous defiance of science. The Australian https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/why-queenslands-gender-ids-are-a-dangerous-defiance-of-science/news-story/02b5575c2baae36536ebacc2ea48de15 [archive]
Lehmann, Claire (April 24, 2017). “Transgender is the new black”: More teens than ever want to “try out” a different sex. A Brisbane psychiatrist who works in a gender clinic has reported that many adolescents are now coming to him with the aim of “trying out” transgenderism. Rebel Media https://www.therebel.media/_transgender_is_the_new_black_teens_beg_to_try_out_a_different_sex [archive]
Lehmann, Claire (May 16, 2017). Platform for misandrist “screeds” ends, with death of feminist Fairfax Media. Rebel Media https://www.therebel.media/platform_for_misandrist_screeds_ends_with_death_of_feminist_fairfax_media [archive]
Lehmann, Claire (May 7, 2017). Nick Gillespie: Today’s universities are “constipated and stultified.” Rebel Media https://www.therebel.media/no_longer_a_place_for_dangerous_ideas_universities_constipated_and_stultified [archive]
Lehmann, Claire (May 2, 2017). Third wave feminist hypocrisy: “Deep down, they know they’re wrong” Daisy Cousens, freelance writer for the Spectator Australia and Quadrant Magazine, is a critic of third wave feminism. Rebel Media https://www.therebel.media/third_wave_feminist_hypocrisy_deep_down_they_know_they_re_wrong [archive]
Lehmann, Claire (April 13, 2017). Transgender athletes crush females: It’s “violence against women.” Last month, New Zealand transgender weight lifter Laurel Hubbard dominated, setting records in the women’s international competition held in Melbourne Australia. Rebel Media https://www.therebel.media/transgender_athletes_crush_females_it_s_violence_against_women [archive]
Lehmann, Claire (April 7, 2017). Here’s the real reason banks are suddenly launching “social justice” campaigns: HSBC has just announced that they will be offering their customers 10 gender neutral pronouns for their trans and non gender binary customers. Rebel Media https://www.therebel.media/here_s_the_real_reason_banks_are_suddenly_launching_social_justice_campaigns [archive]
Lehmann, Claire (February 27, 2017). How Libertarian Students Can Save Universities From Victimhood Culture. Rebel Media https://www.therebel.media/how_libertarian_students_can_save_universities_from_victimhood_culture [archive]
Lehmann, Claire (February 13, 2017). Why the old Left was better than the new Left. Rebel Media https://www.therebel.media/how_new_left_abandoned_old_left_s_fight_to_defend_liberal_values [archive]
Lehmann, Claire (May 29, 2015*). Feminism Must Be Reclaimed From Radicals. Quillette http://quillette.com/2015/05/29/feminism-must-be-reclaimed-from-radicals/ *note: this date is prior to the blog’s October 2015 founding.
Media
Unsupervised Learning with Razib Khan and Claire Lehmann (July 27, 2025). Claire Lehmann: after the Intellectual Dark Web. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUwQSvwGzto
Network State Podcast with Balaji Srinivasan and Claire Lehmann (July 16, 2025). Claire Lehmann on the Internet Century. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCoegnhTaDs
The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan and Claire Lehmann (May 9, 2025). Claire Lehmann On Staying Independent. https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/claire-lehmann-on-staying-independent
The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk and Claire Lehmann (May 1, 2025). Claire Lehmann on The Psychology Behind Wokeness. https://www.persuasion.community/p/claire-lehmann-on-the-psychology
Centre for Independent Studies with Tom Switzer, Louise Perry, and Claire Lehmann (March 28, 2025). Biological reality vs progressive ideals | Louise Perry & Claire Lehmann. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hN7T2L4f1g alt url https://www.cis.org.au/commentary/video/biological-reality-vs-progressive-ideals-louise-perry-claire-lehmann/
The Free Press / Honestly with Bari Weiss, Brianna Wu, Claire Lehmann, and Batya Ungar-Sargon (February 25, 2025). DEBATE: Will Trump’s Blunt Approach End the Ukraine War? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L59ypLV8HIg
Quillette with Claire Lehmann and Michael Shellenberger (December 2, 2024). Censorship, Pharmaceuticals & Nuclear Energy: Michael Shellenberger & Claire Lehmann in Conversation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz-lenJ0T0U
Quillette with Claire Lehmann and Michael Shellenberger (November 29, 2024). Australia’s Misinformation Bill & Under 16s Social Media Ban: Michael Shellenberger & Claire Lehmann. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUFb6J7zE5c
Quillette with Iona Italia and Claire Lehmann (September 30, 2024). Speeches from Quillette’s Claire Lehmann and Iona Italia at the Quillette Social in Sydney (2024). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHr5QZiC7fk
Melody Rachel (June 18, 2024). Why I Challenge Left-Wing Dogma – Claire Lehmann. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH4tCCZj49I
Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (May 23, 2024). Was The Sexual Revolution A Mistake? | Claire Lehmann & Louise Perry | ARC Off-Stage Conversation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE02p5y6ofY
Mercatus Center with Tyler Cowan and Claire Lehmann (November 21, 2023). Claire Lehmann on Speaking Freely | Conversations with Tyler. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA01e5B9aOI
Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry and Claire Lehmann (November 5, 2023). Biological Denialism – Claire Lehmann | Maiden Mother Matriarch 38. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyuham3HjMY
Quillette with Claire Lehmann and Zoe Booth (June 27, 2023). It’s Hip to be “Trad.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIHtTRgXucA
Quillette with Claire Lehmann and Zoe Booth (June 8, 2023). Quillette’s Bias. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxBKpbvBM6o
Unsupervised Learning with Razib Khan and Claire Lehmann (October 17, 2022). Claire Lehmann: An Australian at the heart of the heterodox web. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkFn1yno7r4
Newsmax Australia with Nick Cater and Claire Lehmann (September 13, 2022). Cancel culture will lead to society’s downfall: Claire Lehmann | Nick Cater. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI_mJ9sboAE
Newsmax Australia with Nick Cater and Claire Lehmann (September 13, 2022). Lefitst ideologies have infiltrated science and medicine: Claire Lehmann | Nick Cater. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r41cbsM605I
Coleman Hughes with Claire Lehmann (August 26, 2022). Quillette, IDW, and Conspiracy with Claire Lehmann. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGNScV9wYo4
Jordan B Peterson with Claire Lehmann (April 11, 2022). Quillette’s Founder: Starting The Most Controversial Magazine In The World | Claire Lehmann | EP 243. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psmPAXGGHoU
Centre for Independent Studies (April 11, 2021). Cancel Culture Crusades | Claire Lehmann. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9IzVjiHTQ8
UnHerd / Lockdown TV with Freddie Sayers (February 19, 2021). Claire Lehmann: Facebook has made a bad miscalculation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kjSUai1E9I
Sky News Australia / Inside the News with Rita Panahi and Claire Lehmann (December 17, 2020). Treatment for children with gender ambiguity ‘shouldn’t be hyjacked by activists.’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jnhFOOUq8Q
TRIGGERnometry with Konstantin Kisin, Francis Foster, and Claire Lehmann (August 23, 2020). “Activism Has No Place in Journalism” – Claire Lehmann. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfx8krJ6N3A
John Anderson with Claire Lehmann (Mar 5, 2020). Free Thought | Claire Lehmann. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKXqbiHa4Yo
Sky News Australia / The Friday Show with Rita Panahi and Claire Lehmann (October 4, 2019). Activist academics are not scholars: Claire Lehmann. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ13W8fQ29A
Rebel Wisdom with David Fuller and Claire Lehmann (April 17, 2019). Claire Lehmann & Quillette, Thinking Differently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMTrywlKnW4
The Rubin Report with Dave Rubin and Claire Lehmann (September 28, 2018). Free Thought, Outrage, & the Alt Right | Claire Lehmann | MEDIA | Rubin Report. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afmxd42UNZA
The Rubin Report with Dave Rubin and Claire Lehmann (September 26, 2018). Respecting Ideas, Even Dangerous Ones (Pt. 1) | Claire Lehmann | MEDIA | Rubin Report. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMXYeD6xeRs
Minds Podcast with Brian. Dimitri, and Claire Lehmann (July 8, 2018). Claire Lehmann on Quillette Magazine, Mythcon, Social Politics and More. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QABvZrUxd8
The Dissenter with Ricardo Lopes and Claire Lehmann (May 17, 2018). #26 Claire Lehmann: Quillette, Leadership in the Feminine, Ethical Journalism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDRiIm0SBL8
Jordan B Peterson with Claire Lehmann (March 10, 2018). Quillette: Discussion with Founder/Editor Claire Lehmann. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUs72-WqmwI
Rebel News with Mark Latham, Gavin McInnes, and Claire Lehmann (August 9, 2017). Mark Latham’s Outsiders: Google vs. Free Speech (Guests Gavin McInnes, Claire Lehmann). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS1MEEf9Wcc
Rebel News (May 16, 2017). Claire Lehmann: Rabid feminist Fairfax Media is dying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATWwGClglno
Rebel News with Ezra Levant and Claire Lehmann (April 30, 2017). Claire Lehmann: Why I was blacklisted by Australian media. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-R0iyvEzKU
Rebel News (February 13, 2017). Why the old Left was better than the new Left. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr1vkFM2kfo
Michael Tracey with Claire Lehmann (October 20, 2016). MT + Claire Lehmann. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdBRXont25Y
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Aaron Terrell is a conservative American transgender activist opposed to US medical consensus on care for gender diverse youth.
Terrell is affiliated with the website Gender Dysphoria Alliance and co-hosts the Transparency podcast.
Background
Terrell was born in ~1984 and grew up in a conservative Evangelical Christian environment.
Terrell self-identifies as having a controversial disease called “autoandrophilia”: “I found gay men most attractive, and fantasized about being one.” Terrell transitioned in ~2011 and lives in the Pacific Northwest.
Activism
In 2021 Terrell was reportedly radicalized by J.K. Rowling.
Terrell co-founded the Gender Dysphoria Alliance website in 2020.
References
Sahakian, Teny (August 10, 2023). A trans man asked this simple question about kids at a trans conference. He was kicked out. Fox News https://www.foxnews.com/media/trans-man-asked-simple-question-kids-trans-conference-kicked
Media
Calmversations with Benjamin Boyce and Aaron Terrell (October 27, 2021) Being A Woman Being A Man | A Transitioner’s Tale, with Aaron Terrell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS2rLY_jVQI
Calmversations with Benjamin Boyce and Aaron Terrell (May 27, 2023). Fatal Flaws in “Gender Affirming” Care | with Eliza Mondegreen & Aaron Terrell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f2-a7fY9Zc
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“Phil S. Illy” is the stage name of Phil Hutchinson, an American circus performer and “autogynephilia” activist.
Hutchinson proposes “autoheterosexuality” as a more value-neutral term that includes two controversial concepts: “autogynephilia” (AGP) and “autoandrophilia” (AAP).
Background
Philip M. “Phil” Hutchinson was born on September 5, 1987 to Christopher Hutchinson and Sandra L. (Ille) “Sandy” Hutchinson. Hutchinson grew up in Schenectady, New York and has a sibling Steven N. “Steve” Hutchinson.
Hutchinson’s stage name is a pun on a family name, Ille, as well as a pun of “Phil Is Silly” or “Phil’s Silly.”
Activism
Hutchinson is active on reddit under the username gockstar. The term “gock” is slang among a subset of trans and gender diverse gamers for “girlcock.”
Hutchinson is author of of the 2023 book Autoheterosexual: Attracted to Being the Other Sex. “Autogynephilia” activist and disgraced anesthesiologist Anne Lawrence said Hutchinson’s “amateurish book disrespects my research.” The foreword is by right-wing philanthropist Andrew Conru, who has funded several “autogynephilia” projects.
Other “autogynephilia” activists praised it, although many use fake names like the author. These include J. Michael Bailey, Kevin J. Hsu, Zack M. Davis, Aaron Terrell, “Kristina C,” ex-trans activist Laura Reynolds, “James L.,” and “Tracing Woodgrains.”
“Autogynephilia” as a taxonomy appeals to a very specific type of person: neurodiverse, fixated on collecting and categorizing, socially isolated/eccentric, rigid thinking.
Hutchinson was invited to the 2023 anti-transgender conference “The Puzzle of Sexual Orientation” founded by Lee Ellis.
In 2023 Hutchinson attended the anti-transgender Genspect conference, leading to significant controversy:
We had a photographer who was diligently taking photos at the event and one of the photos taken was of two attendees, Laura Becker, a detransitioned woman, and Phil Illy, a man in a dress. Phil is unusual – he is a self-confessed autogynephile who has written a book that puts forward his conceptualisation of autogynephilia (a paraphilia that refers to a male’s propensity to be sexually aroused by the thought of himself as a female) and redefines it as ‘autoheterosexuality’. Phil did not speak at the conference nor did he sell his book there.
O’Malley (2023)
Critics pointed out that the disease “autogynephilia” is considered by its creators to be a sexual disorder that involves nonconsenting adults or the suffering and humiliation of others. Hutchinson’s “public display of fetish” is akin to someone who exposes themselves to others for sexual gratification, according to the anti-trans extremists with whom Hutchinson associates.
Others pointed out that Hutchinson’s book advocates for awareness and recognition of autoerotic expressions of race, age, species, and ability. O’Malley removed Hutchinson’s book from Genspect’s recommended reading list after learning that Hutchinson supported youth transition.
According to the Daily Dot, Hutchinson is also involved in activism around race change to another, or RCTA:
Author Phil Illy has studied race dysphoria and transracialism, including by surveying people who identify as transracial.
Based on this work and academic research on the subject, Illy believes that RCTA is very similar to race dysphoria despite members of transracial communities rejecting the comparison.
“RCTA refers to imagining oneself as another race or having an enduring wish to be another race,” he told the Daily Dot. “It happens when a person’s race-based attraction includes the desire to be the race they love.”
Illy said that many people he interviewed who identify as transracial describe racial dysphoria in starkly negative terms.
Nejam (2023)
References
Nejam, Abderrahemane (September 1, 2023). Race change to another, explained. Daily Dot https://www.dailydot.com/news/race-change-to-another/
O’Malley, Stella (November 11, 2023). The Split. Genspect https://genspect.org/the-split/
Media
Leslie Elliott and Shannon Thrace (November 12, 2023). A Civil Dialogue about Autogynephilia, with Phil Illy & Shannon Thrace -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM6lWJ6cJsk
Nathan Ferguson (August 19, 2023). The Two Types of Trans w/ Phil Illy | Street Epistemology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khBR6rMksxY
Oren Amitay and Malini Ondrovcik (Jun 21, 2023). Autoheterosexual Pt 1: Redefining Autogynephilia | Awake at the Wheel | Phil Illy | Ep 16https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmU3a-PcYS0
Benjamin Boyce (June 16, 2023). Autogynephilia’s Impact on Intimacy | with Phil Illy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPBFfINW4A0
Benjamin Boyce (Feb 16, 2023). Autogynephilia: The Sexual Orientation Fueling Transition | with Phil Illy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyy5bpIUwEE
Aaron Kimberly and Aaron Terrell (Feb 5, 2023). EP55 – Autohetero – with Phil Illy Gender Dysphoria Alliance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eU69WNSOjo
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“Bridget Phetasy” is the stage name of Bridget A. Walsh, an American writer and anti-transgender activist.
Walsh has written for numerous anti-trans publications, including The Spectator, The Federalist, Quillette, UnHerd, and The Atlantic.
Background
Bridget Anna Walsh was born November 16, 1978. Walsh’s parents divorced in 1991. Walsh reportedly struggled with cocaine, alcohol, ecstasy, and marijuana use until around age 35.
Greeting card company Phetasy LLC was created in Rhode Island in 2004 by Bridget A. Walsh. Phetasy was trademarked in 2005. Walsh went bankrupt soon after, at age 27.
Walsh hosts Dumpster Fire and the podcast Walks-Ins Welcome.
References
“Phetasy, Bridget” (June 22, 2023) Why Pride lost the public: ‘Gays and women are bearing the brunt of the gender ideology nonsense.’ The Spectator https://thespectator.com/topic/pride-lost-public-lgbt-trans-children/
“Phetasy, Bridget” (June 22, 2023). Why women need to feel fear: Our instincts aren’t bigoted — they’re essential. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2023/09/why-women-need-to-feel-fear/
Media
“Bridget Phetasy” with Helen Joyce (October 19, 2023). They’re Sterilizing Gay Kids – Helen Joyce – WiW 225 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahS0VjJNaew
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Alex Gutentag is an American writer and anti-transgender activist. Gutentag is associated with anti-trans activist Michael Shellenberger.
Background
Alexandra Kyra Ryan-Gutentag was born on September 6, 1990 to Eduardo Gutentag (born 1947) and Constance “Connie” Ryan (born 1950). Gutentag grew up in Oakland, California and earned a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University.
Gutentag worked in special education for eight years in New York City and was a Special Day Class teacher in Oakland Unified Schools before becoming a writer.
Gutentag has written for Tablet and Compact. Gutentag collaborated with Shellenberger at the organization Environmental Progress and on The Twitter Files reports into the platform’s COVID misinformation policies.
Anti-transgender activism
Gutentag has written anti-trans work for Public, a reflection of founder Michael Shellenberger’s immersion into anti-trans activism.
Selected writing by Gutentag
Alex Gutentag and Madeleine Rowley (September 11, 2023). California May Take Children From Parents Who Oppose Their Gender Transition. Public https://public.substack.com/p/california-may-take-children-from
Michael Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag (May 8, 2023). World on cusp of woke totalitarianism as governments act to end free speech. National Post https://nationalpost.com/opinion/world-on-cusp-of-woke-totalitarianism-as-governments-act-to-end-free-speech
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