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Maria Keffler is an American anti-transgender activist. Keffler is part of the “parental rights” faction of anti-transgender activists.

Background

Maria Lee Schlatter was born July 2, 1970 and attended Purdue University, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1992 and a master’s degree in 1994. Schlatter taught in Japan from 1995 to 1999, then worked for a year at Sea Life Park Hawaii in Waimanalo Beach.

Keffler is married to Aaron B. Keffler (born September 20, 1974), currently a Senior Engineer at Science and Technology Associates. Keffler has been a homemaker since 2003, when oldest child Christopher was born. Keffler and spouse live in Arlington, Virginia with their three children. Keffler has volunteered for the parent-teacher association at Arlington Public Schools. Keffler self-publishes via Smashwords and KDP.

Keffler also runs a knitting business called Wylde & Plumb and is active on Ravelry and other knitting platforms.

Anti-transgender activism

Keffler is a co-founder of Partners for Ethical Care (PEC), an American anti-transgender front group. Keffler is also a co-founder of non-profit Advocates Protecting Children and the website Arlington Parent Coalition.

Keffler is the author of multiple self-published books, including 

  • Desist, Detrans & Detox: Getting Your Child Out of the Gender Cult (2021)
  • Transing Our Children (2021) [with Erin Brewer]
  • Year-In-Review: the Entirely True Histories of a Perfectly Wretched Family (2013)

Keffler and Erin Brewer have also produced two video series, Commonsense Care for parents of trans-identified children, and Teacher Talks for educators.

References

Keffler, Maria (April 5, 2019). Gender politics don’t belong in the classroom, but Title IX protections do. Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/local-opinions/gender-politics-dont-belong-in-the-classroom-but-title-ix-protections-do/2019/04/05/1cd1a156-5561-11e9-9136-f8e636f1f6df_story.html Parents should decide what their children learn about sexuality and gender

Resources

Advocates Protecting Children (advocatesprotectingchildren.org)

Partners for Ethical Care (partnersforethicalcare.com)

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Jennifer Dellasega is an American anti-transgender activist. She is a co-founder of Partners for Ethical Care (PEC), an American anti-transgender front group. They are part of the “parental rights” faction of anti-transgender activists.

Anti-trans activism

According to Krohn’s testimony:

We found out our daughter was being socially transitioned by her elementary school teacher and therapist when she was in 5th grade at 10/11 years old. The therapist and teacher were using male pronouns and a new made up name. This was something my child was trying on like a teen would have tried a style like punk or goth in years past. The problem is that it’s hard to get out of once they go down this road, for many reasons, not the least of which are the adults who are encouraging them.

[…]

We removed our daughter’s access to the internet and took her out of public school and found her a therapist who explored with our daughter what might be causing her discomfort. she is now comfortable knowing she is a girl. The exploratory therapist worked in partnership with us and treated us as a whole family unit. Our daughter is now happy and flourishing and we are stronger and closer as a family. If we had not removed our daughter from all of the influences that were affirming her as a boy at age 10 or 11, she could likely have gone down the path of medicalization. I believe school and medical and mental health professionals would have encouraged it. I have learned that I cannot trust these blindly-affirming professionals with my daughter’s medical and mental well-being.

References

Dellasega, Jennifer (March 20, 2023). Testimony opposing House Bill 2002. https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2023R1/Downloads/PublicTestimonyDocument/68314

Erin Brewer is an American anti-transgender activist who has authored several anti-trans works. Brewer is a key figure from the “parental rights” faction of anti-trans activism. Brewer co-founded anti-trans front groups Partners for Ethical Care, the Compassion Coalition, and Advocates Protecting Children.

Background

Erin K. Player was born in January 1967 and grew up in Salt Lake City. Brewer claims to be a “former ‘trans kid’ who was talked back to reality by talk therapy.”

In first grade, my elementary school teacher Ms. Hicken asked the school psychologist to evaluate me. She was concerned because I insisted I was a boy. I wore my brother’s hand me downs. I cut my hair short. I was verbally aggressive to both adults and my classmates. I was physically aggressive with the other children. In addition, I profoundly hated my female anatomy.

Brewer earned a bachelor’s degree from Hampshire College in 1990. Brewer returned to school at Utah State University, earning a master’s degree in 2000 and a doctorate in 2004. Brewer works as a Project Coordinator at Utah State University.

Following a first marriage, Brewer went by Erin Edwards. Brewer is currently married to Kevin Brewer (born 1955) and lives in Logan, Utah.

Media

Brewer’s anti-trans books include:

  • Gender Confusion: A Personal Story of Childhood Gender Dysphoria (2018)
  • Childhood Gender Dysphoria: The Fallacy of Affirmation (2019)
  • Transing Our Children (2021) [with Maria Keffler]
  • Always Erin (2021)
  • Parenting in a Transgender World: A Handbook and The Case Against Affirming A Gender Confused Child (2022)

Brewer has also written a number of books on traditionalist and anti-feminist themes:

  • Degrading Boys: The Feminarchy’s War Against Masculinity (2018)
  • #not Me!: Working Together to Stop the Victimization of Women and the Vilification of Men (2018)
  • Victim Makers: How Victim Rights Advocates Disempower Women and Vilify Men (2018)
  • Tristan’s Eyes: A Story of Abuse, Neglect, and Murder at a Home Daycare (2018)
  • Let’s Teach Boys…: Not to Be Rapists (2018)
  • False: The False Narrative Fueling The Current Hysteria About Sexual Assault (2018)
  • Under The Cloak (2019)
  • Homemaking: Stories of an Urban Homesteader (2019)

Brewer and Maria Keffler have produced two video series, Commonsense Care, for parents of trans-identified children; and Teacher Talks, for educators.

In 2018 Brewer started a YouTube channel called “Truth Is The New Hate Speech” which features anti-trans content and prominent anti-trans activists.

References

Staff report (2019). Featured Author: Erin Brewer. Meridian Magazine https://latterdaysaintmag.com/author/erin-brewer/

Brewer, Erin (September 25, 2019). Opinion: Why a Former “Trans” Kid Pleads with Utah Officials “Don’t Ban Therapy.” Meridian Magazine https://latterdaysaintmag.com/why-a-former-trans-kid-pleads-with-utah-officials-dont-ban-therapy/

Resources

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Jeannette Cooper is an American anti-transgender activist. After losing parental custody, Cooper co-founded anti-trans front group Partners for Ethical Care. Cooper is known as Jeannette Srivastava outside of anti-trans activism.

Background

Jeannette Michelle Cooper was born on November 6, 1977 and grew up in southeastern Ohio. Cooper earned a bachelor’s degree in 2000 from Kalamazoo College and a master’s degree from Michigan State University in 2005. Cooper then taught English and did technical writing. Cooper married Prashant Srivastava (born 1978), and they had one child together.

Cooper founded an organization called Immigrants to Women Empowered Chicago in 2008 and ran it until 2014. Since 2013 Cooper has been involved in homeschooling. In 2015 Cooper enrolled in a doctorate program at DePaul University.

Cooper and Srivastava divorced in 2015. In 2019, when their 12-year-old child began going by Ash and using xe/xyr pronouns, Cooper’s ex-spouse filed for full custody, stating that Ash was “no longer mentally or emotionally safe” around Cooper.

Despite group family therapy sessions, Cooper still opposed any medical transition steps for Ash, stating:

“But the thing that I clearly am not complying with is this concept that good parenting means that you affirm a child’s claim that there is something wrong with their body. I’m not willing to do that. I don’t think that’s good parenting.”

Cooper runs a private anti-trans Facebook group called Parents of Transgender/Non-binary Kids, Teens, and Young Adults.

Cooper has provided testimony in several states supporting anti-trans legislation, including Florida, Ohio, and Kentucky.

References

Reed, Erin (November 29, 2023). Ohio Trans Ban Proponents Push Family Rejection, Conversion Therapy For Trans People In Hearing. Erin in the Morning https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/ohio-trans-ban-proponents-push-family

Cooper, Jeannette (March 14, 2023). 03 14 2023 Jeannette Cooper Testimony for KY HB470. https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/CommitteeDocuments/362/22848/03%2014%202023%20Jeannette%20Cooper%20Testimony%20for%20KY%20HB470.pdf

Schemmel, Alec (August 1st 2022). Mother who questioned 12-year-old daughter’s gender transition loses custody battle. https://fox17.com/news/nation-world/mother-who-questioned-12-year-old-daughters-gender-transition-loses-custody-battle

Bolar, Kelsey (July 26, 2022). Chicago Mother Loses Custody of Her Daughter—For Insisting That Her Daughter Is A Girl. Independent Women’s Forum https://www.iwf.org/identity-crisis-jeannette/

Cooper, Jeannette (May 19, 2022). Testimony in Favor of HB 454. https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/cm_pub_api/api/unwrap/general_assembly_134/chamber/134th_ga/ready_for_publication/committee_docs/cmte_h_families_aging_1/testimony/cmte_h_families_aging_1_2022-05-19-0900_1395/hb454.jeannette.cooper.proponent.pdf

Media

Laura Ingraham (February 22, 2024). Iliinois mom: this bill has it absolutely backwards. The Ingraham Angle / Fox News https://www.foxnews.com/video/6347423516112

Shannon Adcock (February 21, 2024). Protect the Kids Episode 2 with Guest Jeannette Cooper. Awake Illinois https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chDPZpNCqFU

Thistle Pettersen (October 7, 2023). Feminists working with the Right | WLRN Edition 90 with Ann Menasche, Jeannette Cooper, Holly Hart, & Fran Luck. Women’s Liberation Radio News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FTX3_CabqM

Thistle Pettersen (October 1, 2023). Jeannette Cooper, Holly Hart, Ann Menasche & Fran Luck DISCUSS Feminists Working with the Right. Women’s Liberation Radio News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24jUF-UAYtU

Newsmax (September 26, 2023). Society wants to separate parents from children based on gender: Jeannette Cooper | National Report. Newsmax https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGZVOPDWc7Q

Ohio State Legislature (June 16, 2023). Ohio SAFE Act – Session 2f – Jeannette Cooper (International Partners for Ethical Care). Thoughts on Things and Stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo2GSDltNRk

IWF (August 29, 2022). Identity Crisis: How Gender Ideology Took Away a Mother From Her Daughter for Three Years. Independent Women’s Forum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu9a_HW1Uqw

Allie Beth Stuckey (August 2, 2022). Losing Custody of Your ‘Trans’ Daughter | Guest: Jeannette Cooper | Ep 653. Relatable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEaMt8yA4II

Mark McDaniel (July 29, 2022). Chicago Mom Jeannette Cooper Loses Custody Of Child After DENIAL To Affirm ‘NEW’ Gender. Not By Sight News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzZkplO7XRg

Isabella Malbin (May 19, 2022). Losing Custody: A Frontline Story with Mother Jeannette Cooper. Whose Body Is It https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msQiLI4kJm4

Emiliann Lorenzen (March 29, 2022). Jeanette Cooper WLRN Interview. Women’s Liberation Radio News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kccMikTx968

DoFemCo (January 18, 2022). Jeannette Cooper. Congreso Internacional DoFemCo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmNWiR8wOLw

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Geoffrey Miller is an American evolutionary psychologist who holds a number of fringe views that are sex segregationist and anti-transgender.

Anti-transgender activism is a family business; Miller’s spouse Diana Fleischman is also an anti-trans activist.

Background

Geoffrey Franklin Miller was born on April 23, 1965 in Cincinnati, Ohio. After earning a bachelor’s degree in biology and psychology from Columbia University in 1987, Miller earned a doctorate in cognitive psychology from Stanford University in 1994. Miller took a position at University of New Mexico in 2001 and has written a number of books:

  • The Mating Mind (2001)
  • Mating Intelligence (2008)
  • Spent (2009)
  • Mate (2015)

Miller and Diana Fleischman married in 2019 and have one child.

Anti-trans activism

Miller is a proponent of “autogynephilia.”

Miller hosts the Mating Grounds podcast.

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Suzy Weiss is an American cultural critic and anti-transgender activist. Weiss’ work focuses on maintaining sex segregation and attacking healthcare for gender diverse youth.

Background

Suzanne Lee “Suzy” Weiss was born July 6, 1995. Parents Lou and Amy Weiss run Weisslines, a flooring retailer. Weiss’ sibling is intellectual dark web promoter Bari Weiss. Weiss grew up in Pittsburgh and graduated from Taylor Allderdice High School in 2013.

In 2013, Weiss wrote a piece for Bari’s former employer The Wall Street Journal about being rejected from colleges for being a straight white person with normal abilities and habits. The piece received widespread negative attention, and Weiss later claimed it was “satire.”

Weiss then earned a bachelor’s degree from University of Michigan in 2018.

While in high school, Weiss served as a US Senate page, followed by college internships at STATE Bags, Zola.com, Funny or Die, The Heymann Brothers, and Ogilvy & Mather.

Weiss was a reporter for the New York Post from 2018 to 2023, then joined Bari Weiss’ publication in 2021.

Anti-trans activism

In 2021, Weiss wrote a negative piece about transgender athlete Lia Thomas.

In 2022, Weiss wrote a sympathetic profile of ex-transgender activist “Chloe Cole.”

References

Weiss, Suzy (April 19, 2022). The testosterone hangover. The Free Press https://www.thefp.com/p/the-testosterone-hangover

Weiss, Suzy (February 21, 2022). Watching Lia Thomas win. The Free Press https://www.thefp.com/p/watching-lia-thomas-win

Weiss, Suzy (February 24, 2021). Transgender twins undergo double sex change surgery. New York Post https://nypost.com/2021/02/24/transgender-twins-undergo-double-sex-change-surgery/

Weiss, Suzy Lee (March 29, 2013). To (All) the Colleges That Rejected Me. Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324000704578390340064578654

Gachman, Dina (April 3, 2013). Suzy Lee Weiss and the Age of Entitlement. Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/dinagachman/2013/04/03/suzy-lee-weiss-and-the-age-of-entitlement/?sh=4e1c0b2e2bbc

Staff report (April 4, 2013). ‘Entitled’ high school senior sparks a firestorm of anger after she writes a scathing open letter to the Ivy League schools that rejected her. Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2304083/Suzy-Lee-Weiss-Entitled-high-school-senior-sparks-firestorm-writing-biting-open-letter-Ivy-League-schools-rejected-her.html

Kim, Eun Kyung (April 4, 2013). Op-ed attacking colleges that rejected her was ‘satire,’ student says. TODAY https://www.today.com/news/op-ed-attacking-colleges-rejected-her-was-satire-student-says-1c9212432 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u0twc_pW6M

Chandler, Adam (April 4, 2013). Suzy Lee Weiss Fires Back on the Today Show. Tablet https://www.tabletmag.com/tags/suzy-lee-weiss

Goldenberg, Kira (April 2, 2013). College rejection clickbait. Columbia Journalism Review https://archives.cjr.org/the_kicker/suzy_lee_weiss_wall_street_jou.php

Media

Leighton Woodhouse (May 26, 2022).  Suzy Weiss on Youth Gender Transition and Other Stuff. Social Studies https://leightonwoodhouse.substack.com/p/suzy-weiss-on-youth-gender-transition

Wall Street Journal (April 1, 2013). The College Rejects Club – WSJ Opinion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFGnpxKIdLg

Megyn Kelly (July 1, 2022). The Weaponization of #MeToo and the Takedown of an Important Scientist, with Suzy Weiss. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5DPnWFMfaQ

Jerry Coyne (February 21, 2022). Suzy Weiss on swimmer Lia Thomas, and the chilling of dissent. https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2022/02/21/suzy-weiss-on-swimmer-lia-thomas-and-the-chilling-of-dissent/

Bari Weiss (March 6, 2022). Watching Lia Thomas Win. Honestly with Bari Weiss https://podcasts.apple.com/hu/podcast/watching-lia-thomas-win/id1570872415?i=1000553066075

Katie Herzog (February 10, 2024) Episode 202: The Red House on Mississippi (with Suzy Weiss). Blocked and Reported https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/episode-202-the-red-house-on-mississippi

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Heather B. Armstrong was an American “mommy blogger” nicknamed “dooce.” After one of Armstrong’s children began identifying as nonbinary, Armstrong made a number of anti-transgender statements.

Background

Heather Brooke Hamilton was born July 19, 1975, grew up in a Mormon household in Memphis, Tennessee, and was sexually assaulted shortly before earning a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University in 1997.

After marrying web designer Jon Armstrong and and starting to blog in 2001, Heather Armstrong was terminated in 2002 after colleagues learned they were discussed on the blog. The couple had two children: Leta Elise (born 2004), and Marlo Iris (born 2009). In 2009 Armstrong published a memoir, appeared on Oprah, and was named one of “30 most influential women in media” by Forbes.

In 2012, the couple divorced. As social media began to replace blogging, Armstrong’s readership began to dwindle, leading to struggles with depression. Armstrong began a relationship with Utah internet executive Pete Ashdown. In 2019 Armstrong published The Valedictorian of Being Dead. Armstrong underwent medically induced comas to treat depression. In 2021 Armstrong went sober.

Anti-transgender views

Writers and readers of the “mommy blogging” genre have been particularly susceptible to anti-transgender radicalization. In 2022, Armstrong posted a long piece full of anti-trans views after Armstrong’s younger child began identifying as nonbinary.

Titled “America is wrong,” it revealed Armstrong was deeply involved in the “parental rights” faction of anti-transgender activists. Armstrong created a standalone page called “Trans Central Station” and solicited “desistance” and “detransition” narratives from “ex-transgender” activists:

Desisters and Detransitioners, America needs your stories.

You can trust that I will not censor you or expose you in any way. You are safe here.

You can make up a name and leave any field blank. We all just need to hear from you.

What do you wish you had known before you began to question your biological gender?

The pages were soon removed and Armstrong replaced them with a poem prefaced with this:

Your children are asking you through their behavior, “Why are you agreeing with me when I am telling you that I hate myself?” Remember that and consider it every day for the rest of your lives.

[emphasis in original]

The revelations had a significant impact on Armstrong’s reputation. Armstrong died by suicide on May 9, 2023.

References

Armstrong, Heather (2009). It Sucked and Then I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown, and a Much Needed Margarita. ISBN 978-1416936015

Armstrong, Heather (August 10, 2022). America is wrong. Dooce https://dooce.com/2022/08/10/america-is-wrong/ [archive]

Armstrong, Heather (August 10, 2022). Trans central station. Dooce https://dooce.com/trans-central-station/ [archive]

Armstrong, Heather (August 14, 2022). The silver lining. Dooce https://dooce.com/trans-central-station/ [archive]

Rosenblatt, Kalhan (May 10, 2023). Heather Armstrong, founder of mommy blog Dooce, dies at 47. NBC News https://www.nbcnews.com/news/heather-armstrong-dooce-blog-dies-rcna83777

Italie, Leanne (May 10, 2023). Mommy blogger Heather Armstrong, known as Dooce to fans, dead at 47. AP News https://apnews.com/article/dooce-heather-armstrong-dead-83c8f4812bda1766301793ea3afb02cb

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Germaine Greer is an Australian author and anti-transgender activist from the second-wave radical feminist faction.

Most of Greer’s hatred is directed at trans women, including:

Background

Greer was born 29 January 1939 in Melbourne. Greer’s parent lived under an assumed identity as an adult. Greer’s family was Catholic, but Germaine Greer longed to assume a Jewish identity as an adolescent. Greer learned Yiddish, joined a Jewish theatre group, dated Jewish people, and reportedly “felt Jewish.”

After graduating from convent school, Greer earned a bachelor’s degree from University of Melbourne, a master’s degree from University of Sydney and a doctorate in English from Newnham College, Cambridge.

Greer was sexually assaulted in college, which strongly influenced Greer’s thinking and writing on sex and gender.

In 1968, Greer began teaching at University of Warwick. Greer was officially married to Paul du Feu from 1968 to 1973, but Greer cheated on du Feu seven times in the first month, and they separated. Greer wrote for Oz and co-founded Suck, a “new pornogrqaphy” venture based around sexual liberation that sometimes depicted graphic nonconsensual sex. Suck published a nude photo of Greer, prompting Greer to resign.

In 1970 Greer published The Female Eunuch, an important second-wave feminist text. Greer said, “I don’t like women. I probably share in all the effortless and unconscious contempt that men pour on women.” Greer had notable debates with Norman Mailer, William F. Buckley, and others throughout a steady string of television appearances.

Greer founded the Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature as part of her work to reclaim women’s cultural contributions. Through the 1990s Greer continued to write about women’s issues.

Anti-transgender activism

Greer has made many inflammatory comments about trans people. One chapter of Greer’s 1999 book The Whole Woman is titled “Pantomime Dames.” In keeping with the views presented in The Female Eunuch, Greer wrote:

Governments that consist of very few women have hurried to recognise as women, men who believe that they are women and have had themselves castrated to prove it, because they see women not as another sex but as a non-sex.

She added: “When a man decides to spend his life impersonating his mother (like Norman Bates in Psycho), it is as if he murders her and gets away with it.”

Greer protested the appointment of trans physicist Rachael Padman to a women’s college and Glamour magazine’s 2015 Woman of the Year honor given to Caitlyn Jenner.

References

Greer, Germaine (1999). The Whole Woman. London: Transworld Publishers Ltd. p. 64. ISBN 978-0385720038

Garner, Clare (25 June 1997). Fellows divided over don who breached last bastion. The Independent. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/fellows-divided-over-don-who-breached-last-bastion-1257781.html

Q&A: Germaine Greer revives an old controversy about what constitutes a real woman. ABC News. 11 April 2016. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-11/q&a-germaine-greer-weighs-in-sexuality-transgender/7318024

Ditum, Sarah (13 May 2018). Genderquake failed. Now for a proper trans debate. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/13/genderquake-failed-now-for-a-proper-trans-debate

Morris, Steven (18 November 2015). Germaine Greer gives university lecture despite campaign to silence her. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/nov/18/transgender-activists-protest-germaine-greer-lecture-cardiff-university

Germaine Greer: Transgender women are ‘not women’. BBC News. 24 October 2015. https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-34625512/germaine-greer-transgender-women-are-not-women

De Freytas-Tamura, Kimiko (24 October 2015). Cardiff University Rejects Bid to Bar Germaine Greer. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/world/europe/cardiff-university-rejects-bid-to-bar-germaine-greer.html

Lehmann, Claire (27 October 2015). Germaine Greer and the scourge of ‘no-platforming’. ABC News. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-27/lehmann-greer-and-the-no-platforming-scourge/6887576

Campbell, Beatrix; et al. (14 February 2015). We cannot allow censorship and silencing of individuals. The Observer. Archived from the original on 13 October 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181013014630/https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2015/feb/14/letters-censorship

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Gad Saad is a Lebanese-Canadian marketing professor and anti-transgender activist involved in the intellectual dark web, a gateway to the far right.

Background

Gad Saad was born October 13, 1964 in Lebanon. Saad’s Jewish family fled during the civil war in 1975 and moved to Montreal.

Saad attended McGill University, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1988 and a master’s degree in 1990. Saad then attended Cornell University, earning another master’s degree in 1993 and a doctorate in 1994.

Saad teaches marketing at Concordia University and is known for promoting evolutionary psychology. Saad has authored several books and articles and writes a blog on Psychology Today. Saad’s YouTube channel and podcast are titled The Saad Truth.

Anti-transgender activism

When psychologist Jordan Peterson refused to use gender-neutral pronouns for transgender people, Saad invited Peterson on The Saad Truth. The episode was extremely popular and started Saad on an anti-trans crusade.

Saad has appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience many times, often discussing Saad’s trolling and provocations about gender identity and expression.

References

Factora, James (November 2, 2021). Area Cis Man Makes Up a Trans Person to Get Mad About. them https://www.them.us/story/gad-saad-barista-pronouns-twitter

Klein, Joshia (28 Jan 2023). Prof. Gad Saad Mocks Woke Ideology by Humorously Coming Out as ‘Proud’ Gay Man of Wife Now Identifying as Man. Breitbart https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/01/28/prof-gad-saad-mocks-woke-ideology-by-humorously-coming-out-as-proud-gay-man-of-wife-now-identifying-as-man/

Laroche, Michel; Saad, Gad; Cleveland, Mark; Browne, Elizabeth (2000). “Gender Differences in Information Search Strategies for a Christmas Gift”. Journal of Consumer Marketing. 17 (6): 500–522. https://doi.org/10.1108/07363760010349920.

Media

Piers Morgan (May 15, 2023). “Men Can Have A 9-Inch Penis And Be A Woman!” Gad Saad On Gender Identity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzij1LDo2x0

Joe Rogan Experience (December 19, 2018). #1218: Joe Rogan & Gad Saad on Gender Dysphoria. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nU6ckg2a1c

The Saad Truth (February 11, 2018). #587: Dr. Gad Saad and Sarina Singh Tackle the Transgender Issue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F6Xhn3YAVE

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Raquel Rosario Sánchez is an anti-transgender activist involved in anti-trans group Woman’s Place UK.

Background

Raquel M. Rosario Sanchez is from the Dominican Republic. Rosario Sanchez has published work in Meghan Murphy’s Feminist Current, The Critic, and Quillette.

2018 University of Bristol incident

Rosario Sanchez began a PhD course at the University of Bristol in January 2018 with a focus on online communities for men who pay for sex. Itb is part of Rosario Sanchez’s work ending violence against girls and women. 

In November 2017 Woman’s Place UK asked Rosario Sanchez to chair its upcoming meeting in Bristol, scheduled for 8 February 2018. During protests, Rosario Sanchez claimed that the university had failed to protect them from a “hate campaign” over the event.

Rosario Sanchez unsuccessfully sued the school.

References

Staff report (21 April 2022). Raquel Rosario Sanchez loses legal case over trans rights protests. BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-61179937

Staff report (11 February 2022). University of Bristol not ‘uncomfortable’ disciplining trans activist. BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-60352546

Resources

Raquel Rosario Sánchez (raquelrosariosanchez.com)

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