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Joan Smith is a British writer, sex segregationist, and anti-transgender activist from the movement’s gender critical faction.

Background

Joan Alison Smith was born August 27, 1953. Smith attended University of Reading. Smith was on staff at The Sunday Times from 1979 to 1984.

Smith is author of the Loretta Lawson series of crime novels. Smith’s nonfiction books include Misogynies (1989), Different for Girls: How Culture Creates Women (1998), and Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists (2019).

In 2015, Smith was elected chair of Labour Humanists, a group promoting secularist policies and humanist values within the Labour party.

Smith was married to journalist Francis Wheen from 1985 to 1993 and was partners with politician Denis MacShane from 2003 to 2010.

Anti-transgender activism

In 2021, Smith was fired as Co-Chair of the Mayor of London’s Violence Against Women and Girls Board, a volunteer role held since 2013. The decision came after a governance review. Officials denied Smith’s claims that it was because of anti-trans activities.

Smith frequently writes anti-trans articles for UnHerd. Smith is a member of Sex Matters Advisory Group.

References

Brook, Libby (August 19, 2021). The Guardian London mayor’s office denies feminist activist’s claims over sacking https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/aug/19/london-mayors-office-denies-feminist-activists-claims-over-sacking

Smith Joan (August 20, 2021). Why did Sadiq Khan’s office fire me? UnHerd https://unherd.com/2021/08/why-did-sadiq-khans-office-fire-me/

Resources

UnHerd (unherd.com)

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Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

Giles Fraser is a British journalist, broadcaster and clergymember. Initially trans-supportive, Fraser says he became a TERF in response to tactics used against supporters of anti-transgender activist J.K. Rowling.

Background

Giles Anthony Fraser was born November 27, 1964 in Aldershot, Hampshire, England. Fraser studied at Newcastle University and Ripon College Cuddesdon, then earned a doctorate at University of Lancaster.

Fraser was ordained as a deacon in 1993 and as a priest in 1994. Fraser taught at Wadham College, Oxford, and Canon Chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral. Fraser is the author of Redeeming Nietzsche: On the Piety of Unbelief, How to Believe: Investigating Wittgenstein, and Christianity with Attitude.

Fraser hosts The Moral Maze and Thought for the Day on Radio 4. Fraser is a Vicar of St Anne’s, Kew, part of the Church of England.

Fraser has been married twice and has three children.

Anti-trans views

In 2015 Fraser wrote a column about how the church needs to welcome trans people. When interacting with trans people, Fraser uses their names and pronouns because “my default response is to affirm these decisions.”

Fraser’s opinion shifted in 2023. After anti-trans activist Suzanne Moore introduced Fraser to J.K. Rowling at an event at Italian restaurant Pino, the restaurant was vandalized and review-bombed online.

Fraser reportedly became a TERF after that. Fraser also revealed several anti-trans views:

I believe in limits, in the givenness of some things. And, it seems to me, biological sex is one of them. I find the use of medical technology to transgress these limits to be Faustian in its hubris. 

Because some transactivists now behave as though anything they can do for the cause is justified, however cruel: get people sacked, ruin their businesses, be vile to others online. The public sphere is becoming so unpleasant, so full of vitriol and accusation, that many of us just put on our tin hats and retreat from the conversation. To be honest, I have been quite content that my privilege has, until now, encouraged me to think that the best thing for me to do is to sit this one out and say nothing. I have been hiding behind this terribly convenient self-denying ordinance, leaving the likes of J.K. Rowling and Suzanne Moore to take all the heat, my courage being a few pathetic “likes” on Twitter.

References

Fraser, Giles (May 22, 2015). Why the church needs welcome services for people transitioning gender. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2015/may/22/why-church-needs-welcome-services-people-transitioning-gender

Fraser, Giles (June 9, 2022). How pasta made me a Terf. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2022/06/how-pasta-made-me-a-terf/

Resources

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Timandra Harkness is a writer and comedian who has some gender critical positions about transgender youth and anti-transgender activists.

Background

Harkness presents the BBC Radio 4 series, FutureProofing and How To Disagree. Harkness is author of Big Data: Does Size Matter?

In the show Brainsex, Harkness came to the correct conclusion that “brain sex” is one of many ways sex science is similar to race science: a misuse of science to justify oppression.

Anti-trans statements

Harkness has written in anti-trans publication UnHerd about supporting anti-trans activist Kathleen Stock.

Harkness also stated opposition to gender affirming healthcare for transgender youth:

I support the rights of trans people to equal treatment. I don’t support encouraging teenagers into irreversible medical interventions by telling them they’re in the “wrong body” because they don’t fit narrow gender stereotypes. So I won’t sign this letter.

References

Harkness, Timandra (October 13, 2021). The hounding of Kathleen Stock. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2021/10/the-hounding-of-kathleen-stock/

worldwrite (November 12, 2011). Sex in the brain: do men and women think differently? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ6ygnNsH8o

Resources

Timandra Harkness (timandraharkness.com)

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Mary Harrington is a British author and anti-transgender activist.

Background

Mary E. Harrington grew up in Kings Langley and graduated from Oxford in 2002.

“In 2005, I changed my name to Sebastian, because the internet told me to. That was a fairly eccentric thing to do 15 years ago. Now, it seems like everyone’s at it.”

Harrington worked in marketing from 2006 to 2020, specializing in marketing for the shipping industry. Harrington is a contributing editor at anti-trans publication UnHerd.

Harrington is author of the 2023 book Feminism Against Progress.

References

Trinko, Katrina (April 30, 2023) Did the Pill and the Digital World Fuel Transgenderism? The Daily Signal https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/04/30/mary-harrington-feminism-against-progress-author-talks-transgenderism/

McBain, Sophie (March 8, 2023). Mary Harrington: “Make sex consequential again.” The journalist and author on what liberal feminism gets wrong. New Statesman https://www.newstatesman.com/encounter/2023/03/mary-harrington-interview-make-sex-consequential

Selected anti-trans writing by Harrington

Harrington, Mary (February 19, 2024). New study: trans youth not at elevated risk of suicide. UnHerd https://unherd.com/newsroom/new-study-trans-youth-not-at-elevated-risk-of-suicide/

Harrington, Mary (December 1, 2023). Ultra-Processed People. Reactionary Feminist https://reactionaryfeminist.substack.com/p/ultra-processed-people

Harrington, Mary (September 14, 2023). The Statistic No One’s Allowed To Study: Why are so many transgender prisoners sex offenders? Reactionary Feminist

Harrington, Mary (July 17, 2023). NHS mental health app ‘Kooth’ is a danger to girls. UnHerd https://unherd.com/newsroom/nhs-mental-health-app-kooth-is-a-danger-to-girls/

Harrington, Mary (July 23, 2023). Which orifice? What organs? Who cares? Reactionary Feminist https://reactionaryfeminist.substack.com/p/which-orifice-what-organs-who-cares

Harrington, Mary (June 12, 2023). California laws fundamentally redefine the family. UnHerd https://unherd.com/newsroom/california-laws-fundamentally-redefine-the-family/

Harrington, Mary (May 12, 2023). The Hyperpalatable Human What AI-generated burger adverts tell us about male-to-male transsexuals. Reactionary Feminist https://reactionaryfeminist.substack.com/p/the-hyperpalatable-human

Harrington, Mary (April 17, 2023). From the UN to SNL, how institutions fall to trans activism. UnHerd https://unherd.com/thepost/from-the-un-to-snl-how-institutions-fall-to-transactivism/

Harrington, Mary (April 3, 2023). New laws confirm the sacred principle of bodily self-creation UnHerd https://unherd.com/thepost/new-laws-confirm-the-sacred-principle-of-bodily-self-creation/

Harrington, Mary (March 29, 2023). What Posie Parker learnt from Brexit: Every campaign needs its shock troops. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2023/03/what-posie-parker-learnt-from-brexit/

Harrington, Mary (March 2, 2023). Why Progress isn’t feminist. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2023/03/why-progress-isnt-feminist/

Harrington, Mary (March 2, 2023). Dylan Mulvaney’s new face is only the beginning UnHerd https://unherd.com/thepost/dylan-mulvaneys-new-face-is-only-the-beginning/

Harrington, Mary (January 5, 2023). Why are incels turning themselves into girls? UnHerd https://unherd.com/thepost/why-are-incels-turning-themselves-into-girls/

Harrington, Mary (October 28, 2022). Scotland’s new gender bill imperils the Union. UnHerd https://unherd.com/thepost/scotlands-new-gender-bill-imperils-the-union/

Harrington, Mary (October 28, 2022). Can you really be non-binary? UnHerd https://unherd.com/2022/08/what-does-it-mean-to-be-non-binary/

Harrington, Mary (May 30, 2022). Landmark trans cases show who the men really are. UnHerd https://unherd.com/thepost/landmark-trans-cases-show-who-the-men-really-are/

Harrington, Mary (October 20, 2021). Welcome to Team TERF, Margaret Atwood UnHerd https://unherd.com/thepost/welcome-to-the-team-margaret-atwood/

Harrington, Mary (September 14, 2021). The Gender Resistance. First Things https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2021/09/the-gender-resistance

Harrington, Mary (September 1, 2021). Trans activism has mummy issues. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2021/09/the-trans-war-on-motherhood/

Harrington, Mary (May 6, 2021). Nobody wins the gender wars. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2021/05/nobody-wins-the-gender-wars/

Harrington, Mary (May 6, 2021). The trans lobby is finally meeting resistance. UnHerd https://unherd.com/thepost/the-trans-lobby-is-finally-meeting-resistance/

Harrington, Mary (December 9, 2020). For me, self-identification was a con. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2020/12/for-me-self-identification-was-a-con/

Resources

Reactionary Feminist (reactionaryfeminist.com)

Substack (substack.com)

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Jacob Siegel is an American writer and critic of gender affirming healthcare.

Background

Jacob Rosenberg “Jake” Siegel was born November 13, 1980 to sociologist Jan Rosenberg Siegel and academic Frederick Fein “Fred” Siegel, (1945–2023), a progressive turned senior fellow at conservative think tank the Manhattan Institute.

Siegel served in the US Army, then commanded the New York Army National Guard Alpha Company, 1st Battalion 69th Infantry.

Siegel worked at The Daily Beast, where sibling Harry served as a senior editor. Siegel is an author and co-editor with Roy Scranton of Fire and Forget: Short Stories From the Long War, by Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. Siegel has written for The New York Times, Tablet, Politico, the New York Daily News, The Baffler, Vice, and the National Endowment for the Humanities

Siegel is senior editor of News and The Scroll, Tablet’s daily afternoon news digest.

References

Siegel, Jacob (May 6, 2022). Did hipsters start the gender wars? UnHerd https://unherd.com/2022/05/how-hipsters-started-the-gender-wars/

Siegel, Jacob (June 15, 2022). The Evil of Banality. The Scroll https://thedailyscroll.substack.com/p/the-evil-of-banality

Moulton, David (March 9, 2023). The Great Transitioning. Tablet https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/great-transitioning [Moulton thanked Siegel for his help with this]

Siegel, Harry; Siegel, Jacob (May 13, 2023). Pop: The private life of the public intellectual: Memories of Fred Siegel’s loving legacy from his sons Harry and Jacob. New York Daily News https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-fred-siegel-harry-jacob-sons-20230513-x75suvkdbjasvd2zhlnlufl5su-story.html

Roberts, Sam (May 11, 2023). Fred Siegel, Urban Historian and a Former Liberal, Is Dead at 78. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/11/nyregion/fred-siegel-dead.html

Resources

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Gareth Roberts is a gay British writer and anti-transgender activist.

Background

Gareth John Pritchard Roberts was born June 5, 1968. Roberts attended King Alfred’s College (now the University of Winchester) and Liverpool Polytechnic (now Liverpool John Moores University).

Roberts published the 1997 gay erotic novel The Velvet Web under the pseudonym Christopher Summerisle. Roberts wrote for British soap operas Brookside, Coronation Street, and Emmerdale. Roberts also wrote several books and episodes within the Doctor Who franchise and a number of sitcoms.

Anti-transgender activism

On September 3, 2017, Roberts posted to Twitter, “I ❀ how trannies choose names like Munroe, Paris and Chelsea. It’s never Julie or Bev is it?” Later Roberts added, “It’s almost like a clueless gayboy’s idea of a glamorous lady. But of course it’s definitely not that.”

In 2019 Roberts was dropped from a Doctor Who project due to the 2017 comments and released a statement. Roberts described the 2017 tweets as “cheerful vulgarity” and laid out various “opinions on transgenderism”:

I don’t believe in gender identity. It is impossible for a person to change their biological sex. I don’t believe anybody is born in the wrong body.

I think it’s wrong to – write a falsehood into law; compel people by law to speak words they do not believe; rewrite the law to remove women’s biological sex-based rights and protections; reinforce gender stereotypes; medicalise children who don’t conform to gender stereotypes. That’s it.

Roberts then began litigating these anti-transgender views on UnHerd and other anti-trans platforms.

References

Gunz, Rafaella (September 17, 2017). Doctor Who writer Tweeted a transphobic comment and the internet is not having it. Gay Star News https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/doctor-writer-tweeted-transphobic-comment-internet-not/

Jusino, Teresa (September 5, 2017). Doctor Who Writer Gareth Roberts Talks Vile, Ignorant Trash About Trans Women. The Mary Sue https://www.themarysue.com/doctor-who-writer-gareth-roberts-talks-vile-ignorant-trash-about-trans-women/

Farrow, Max (September 4, 2017). ‘Doctor Who’ Writer Gareth Roberts Tweets Controversial Comments Online. geeks.media https://geeks.media/doctor-who-writer-gareth-roberts-tweets-controversial-comments-online

Flood, Alison (June 5, 2019). Doctor Who anthology drops writer over transgender remarks. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/05/doctor-who-anthology-writer-transgender-tweets-gareth-roberts

Selected writing by Roberts

Roberts, Gareth (May 19, 2022). After 12 long hours, I have been freed from Twitter prison. UnHerd https://unherd.com/thepost/after-12-long-hours-i-have-been-freed-from-twitter-jail/

Roberts, Gareth (October 27, 2021). Is the BBC finally standing up to gender ideologues? UnHerd https://unherd.com/thepost/is-the-bbc-finally-standing-up-to-gender-ideologues/

Roberts, Gareth (October 15, 2021). Stephen Nolan’s Stonewall documentary is unmissable. UnHerd https://unherd.com/thepost/stephen-nolans-stonewall-documentary-is-unmissable/

Roberts, Gareth (September 10, 2021). Judith Butler’s toxic nonsense. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2021/09/judith-butlers-toxic-nonsense/

Roberts, Gareth (August 13, 2021). The BBC erases homosexuality with the stroke of a pen. UnHerd https://unherd.com/thepost/the-bbc-erases-homosexuality-at-the-stroke-of-a-pen/

Roberts, Gareth (June 17, 2021). So you’ve been cancelled? Here’s what to expect. UnHerd https://unherd.com/thepost/so-youve-been-cancelled-heres-what-to-expect/

Roberts, Gareth (June 14, 2019). How I was cancelled by Doctor Who. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2019/06/how-dr-who-fans-became-its-overlords/

Roberts, Gareth (June 4, 2019). Statement on BBC Books and Transgenderism. Medium [archive] https://web.archive.org/web/20190604101854/https://medium.com/@zmangareth/statement-on-bbc-books-and-transgenderism-dd7ad0c9231a

Resources

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Spectator (spectator.co.uk)

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Will Lloyd is a British journalist who writes for several anti-transgender publications. Lloyd is commissioning editor and writer at New Statesman.

Background

Lloyd earned a bachelor’s degree from University of Bristol in 2015 and an advanced degree from University of Oxford in 2020. Lloyd wrote for The Tab and freelanced before joining UnHerd in 2021. Lloyd joined New Statesman in 2023.

Writing on trans issues

In writing about Jan Morris, Lloyd says:

Asked about the pushback against the trans movement in 2017, an increasingly ancient Morris said our “moment is messy, but I think more and more people will move to my condition”. She believed it was possible that “everyone has the potential to have both genders in them”.

Jan Morris was an early adopter of an ideology that has swept across the Western world in the past 30 years. Conundrum has never been out of print. Morris’s belief — born from the collapse of empire, engineered to replace her imperial faith — that gender is ineffable and innate, are becoming commonplace in institutional settings. When Morris died, one of the leading tributes came from the chief executive of the Tavistock Clinic’s Gender Identity Development Service.

Is this simply fashion? Is this ideology “cronyistic” as Helen Joyce, and other gender-critical writers have suggested? Some feminists argue that gender-identity ideology will be abandoned “when it is no longer in the ascendent”, the politicians and tech billionaires will junk the pronouns in their emails, biology will reassert itself, and women will no longer have penises.

References

Lloyd, Will (October 19, 2022). Jan Morris: prophet of our gender troubles. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2022/10/the-prophet-of-our-gender-troubles/

Lloyd, Will (February 15, 2023). Hannah Barnes: Inside the collapse of the Tavistock gender clinic. New Statesman https://www.newstatesman.com/encounter/2023/02/hannah-barnes-inside-collapse-tavistock-gender-clinic-lgbtq-transgender-nhs

Resources

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Substack (substack.com)

UnHerd (unherd.com)

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Malcom Kyeyune is a conservative Swedish writer and anti-transgender activist. Kyeyune has described transgender rights as “gender Lysenkoism.”

Background

Malcom Kyeyune was born on December 19, 1987. Kyeyune is part of the steering council for the conservative think tank Oikos. Kyeyune identifies as a Marxist, but socialist/Marxist colleagues suspended Kyeyune from Sweden’s Young Left party as a result of conflicts within the Left Party.

References

Kyeyune, Malcom (June 24, 2022). The Rise of Gender Lysenkoism. Compact https://compactmag.com/article/the-rise-of-gender-lysenkoism

Resources

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

X/Twitter (x.com)

UnHerd (unherd.com)

Muck Rack (muckrack.com)

Joe Burgo is an American author and anti-transgender extremist. Burgo runs the anti-trans website Beyond WPATH, which is critical of mainstream healthcare organization WPATH. Burgo promotes “gender exploratory therapy” (GET) as well as gender identity change efforts (GICE), practices that are outlawed in California. Burgo is an advisor for anti-trans groups like Genspect and others.

Burgo appears in conservative and anti-trans media, including Daily Caller, Daily Wire, Benjamin Boyce, Wesley Yang, and Roger McFillin.

Background

Joseph Mark “Joe” Burgo was born on May 6, 1955. Burgo is from Taft, California, graduated from Inglewood High School, and got a bachelor’s degree in English from UCLA.

Burgo holds graduate diplomas from California Graduate Institute (CGI) in West Los Angeles. California’s Board of Psychology stated that CGI was an unaccredited institution from 1976 to 2008. CGI was merely approved by the now-defunct California Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education, but not accredited. As journalist Jeff Walker noted:

CGI’s repeated pleas for accreditation have been rebuffed because it lacks a sufficient number of full-time staff, a decent library, and other features that students of the thousands of accredited albeit mediocre colleges throughout North America take for granted. In prestige this Ph.D. is, aside from the mail-order variety, rockbottom.

Walker (2012)

Burgo has written a number of books about narcissism and shame.

Burgo was in a “heterosexual marriage” for 17 years and has three children. Burgo then married Michael George Eha (born September 1953), a publicist associated with Me Rep Inc. and Michael Eha & Associates. They have been together since about 2003 and split their time between Palm Springs and London.

Anti-transgender activism

Burgo stated in 2023:

One of my children is trans-identified and alienated from me. And that was my introduction to this space back in 2014, and it’s part of the reason I started getting interested in things like autogynephilia, because I just took a deep dive into everything about trans, trying to find out everything. And then I found out that there was this thing called autogynephilia, which seemed stunning to me. I’d never heard of it before, and read The Man Who Would Be Queen and Blanchard, and more recently read Anne Lawrence’s work. And I look at these guys… I suppose it’s partly because my journey has been about making peace with myself as a man, feeling better about my own masculinity, which oddly I feel better about in my gay life than I did in my heterosexual life… my ostensibly heterosexual life.

Yang (2023)

Burgo is convinced that trans people are driven to transition by narcissism and/or shame, particularly shame about being gay. Burgo promotes the “ex-transgender” movement, similar to the ex-gay movement. Anti-trans therapists call a shift in gender identity or expression “desistance” for children and “detransition” for adults. Via Slate:

Genspect also supports an organization called Our Duty, which has stated that “it should be the objective of any advanced civilization presented with this problem to TARGET 100% DESISTANCE, and as early as possible.” Desistance means when someone stops identifying as transgender and pursuing medical transition.

When asked for an interview, GETA team member Joseph Burgo—who is also vice-director of Genspect—said that he and the rest of the GETA team declined to comment.

Santoro (2023)

Burgo is very upset about being forbidden to practice “gender exploratory therapy” because California made it illegal:

In California, where I’m licensed to practise as a clinical psychologist, law prohibits me from engaging ‘in sexual orientation change efforts with a patient under 18,’ which includes alternative ‘gender expressions’. For this reason, I must turn away the many distraught parents who reach out for help with their gender nonconforming, autism spectrum, or gay and lesbian children who have recently become trans-identified. To do otherwise would expose me to potential malpractice lawsuits and challenges to my licensure, a vulnerability which trans-rights activists do not hesitate to exploit in order to intimidate those who question the affirmative-care model.

Burgo wrote in the conservative Daily Caller:

For the troubled young men in my psychotherapy practice who have de-transitioned — that is, lived for a number of years as if they were women and then reverted to their biological sex — their female identity represented such as idealized false self. By imagining themselves to be female, my clients had taken flight from a shame-ridden self which was felt to be defective, damaged, and beyond repair. When this defensive new identity finally broke down, they found themselves engulfed in pain, confusion and shame, and as a result sought professional help.

Meanwhile, the militant trans-identified male continues shoring up his idealized false self. He insists he’s no different from and deserves the same rights and privileges as biological females. When others insist upon the reality of biological sex and assert that trans women aren’t actually women, he feels persecuted; on some level, this challenge to his sense of self may even feel life-threatening. His envy of biological women — for embodying the idealized state he longs for but can never truly reach — may lead to vindictive and physical assaults upon their persons. He wants to destroy them and the truth they embody.

References

Santoro, Helen (May 02, 2023). How Therapists Are Trying to Convince Children That They’re Not Actually Trans. Slate https://slate.com/technology/2023/05/gender-exploratory-therapy-trans-kids-what-is-it.html

California State Postsecondary Education Commission (March 16, 1987). Changes in California State Oversight of Private Postsecondary Education Institutions. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED285479.pdf

Barrett, Stephen (February 15, 2007). California Psychology Schools That Were Approved But Not Accredited Between 1991 and 2016. CredentialWatch https://quackwatch.org/credential/non/california_approved/

California Board of Psychology (2003). Unaccredited California Approved Schools: A History and Current Status Report. https://web.archive.org/web/20070216203504/http://www.psychboard.ca.gov/licensing/unaccredited.htm

Walker, Jeff (2012). Ayn Rand Cult, p. 156. ISBN 9780812698190

Burgo, Joseph (April 14, 2023). Are Trans Rights Activists Victims — Or Bullies? Daily Caller https://dailycaller.com/2023/04/14/opinion-are-trans-rights-activists-victims-or-bullies-dr-joseph-burgo/

EPISODE 73 – Shame Narcissism and the Transition Fantasy w Joe Burgo -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqLEGg6e5zc

Burgo, Joseph (August 16, 2022). The ‘Failed’ Boy. Genspect https://genspect.org/the-failed-boy/

Burgo, Joseph (May 5, 2023). In Flight from Manhood. Genspect https://genspect.org/in-flight-from-manhood/

Buttons, Christina (October 19, 2022). New Declaration Launches Opposition To Leading Transgender Health Association. Daily Wire https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-declaration-launches-opposition-to-leading-transgender-health-association

Yang, Wesley (July 28, 2023). Joseph Burgo on autogynephilia, the state of psychotherapy, ROGD, and challenging WPATH. Year Zero with Wesley Yang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9lhPyA7CAI

Resources

Joseph Burgo (josephburgo.com)

After Psychotherapy (afterpsychotherapy.com)

Beyond WPATH (beyondwpath.org)

Genspect (genspect.org)

Gender Exploratory Therapy Association (genderexploratory.com)

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Kirsty Entwistle is a psychologist who supports the “ex-transgender” movement, an anti-trans project similar to the ex-gay movement. Entwistle also promotes a form of delayed transition for gender diverse youth called “gender exploratory therapy.”

Background

Entwhistle earned a bachelor’s degree from University College London (UCL) in 2003, then earned a post graduate diploma from University of Bolton in 2009. Entwistle earned a doctorate at UCL in 2013.

Entwistle worked in several NHS services in the UK: a paediatric psychology service in Cambridge, an adult secondary care psychology service in London and the gender identity development service for under 18s in Leeds.

Entwhitle is based in Portugal.

Anti-transgender activism

Entwhitle is a founding member of the International Association of Therapists for Desisters and Detransitioners (IATDD), an anti-transgender front group. Its members are key figures in “gender critical” anti-transgender activism.

IATDD supported the “ex-transgender” movement, people who describe themselves as “desisters” and “detransitioners.” They sell their services to parents who do not want their children to make a gender transition, known as the “parental rights” movement.

Entwhitle maintains the website Detrans Foundation with Anastassis Spiliadis.

References

Entwistle K (2020). Debate: Reality check – Detransitioner’s testimonies require us to rethink gender dysphoria. Child and Adolescent Mental Health https://doi.org/10.1111/camh.12380

Resources

Detrans Foundation (detransfoundation.com)

HCPC UK (hcpc-uk.org)

  • Kirsty Entwistle
  • PYL31852

IATDD (iatdd.com) [archive]

  • Dr Kirsty Entwistle [archive]
  • iatdd.com/dr-kirsty-entwistle

Dr Kirsty Entwistle Psychologist (uk-portugal-psychologist.com)

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