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Julie Burchill is a writer and anti-transgender activist. Burchill has written for anti-trans publications includin Spiked, The Spectator, and The Sun.

Background

Julie Burchill was born on July 3, 1959 in Bristol. After graduating Brislington Comprehensive School, Burchill began writing for New Musical Express in 1976. Burchill’s future spouse Tony Parsons took an interest in the 17-year-old. They soon married, and Burchill then started freelancing as a culture writer. They divorced in 1984.

Burchill did a lot of drugs and wrote a lot of obnoxious things through the 1980s. Burchill married Cosmo Landesman in 1985; that lasted 7 years. Burchill co-founded Modern Review with Landesman and anti-trans activist Toby Young, then had a brief affair with Charlotte Raven in the 1990s. Burchill also lost a big libel case and several writing gigs. From 1998 to 2003 Burchill had a weekly column at The Guardian, writing anti-Irish pieces and supporting the invasion of Iraq. Burchill made Channel 4’s 2003 poll of 100 Worst Britons. Burchill continued to fail upward, landing a gig at The Times until getting fired in 2007, then returning to the Guardian, then a gig at The Independent for 18 months.

One of Burchill’s children committed suicide in 2015. In 2025, Burchill was confined to a wheelchair following a spinal abscess.

Anti-transgender activism

In 2013, Burchill wrote an article for The Observer defending an anti-trans piece by Suzanne Moore. Burchill quipped it showed “chutzpah” to have one’s “cock cut off and then plead special privileges as women.” The article was later pulled, and the editor apologized. Anti-trans troll Toby Young later republished Burchill’s piece.

Burchill has since gone on to write many other anti-trans pieces.

References

Parsons, Vic (January 13, 2020). Anti-trans, anti-gay writer Julie Burchill says her 30-year cocaine habit was a ‘cheap thrill’ that she ‘gave up overnight.’ PinkNews https://www.thepinknews.com/2020/01/13/julie-burchill-cocaine-habit-anti-trans-gay-spectator-spiked-lasting-damage/

Letters (January 19, 2013). Prejudice: trans people shouldn’t have been subjected to such abuse. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2013/jan/20/the-big-issue-trans-burchill

Pritchard, Stephen (January 18, 2013). Julie Burchill and the Observer, The readers’ editor on why the paper was wrong to publish slurs against trans people The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/18/julie-burchill-and-the-observer

Mulholland, john (January 14, 2013). Statement from John Mulholland, editor of the Observer. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/14/1

Tatlock, John (January 14, 2013). “Nasty Idiotic Tripe”: Stand Against Julie Burchill’s Years Of Transphobia. The Quietus https://thequietus.com/articles/11108-julie-burchill-suzanne-moore-transphobia

Sweney, Mark (January 14, 2023). The Observer withdraws Julie Burchill column as editor publishes apology. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jan/14/observer-withdraws-julie-burchill-column

Kaveney, Roz (January 13, 2013). Julie Burchill has ended up bullying the trans community. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/13/julie-birchill-bullying-trans-community

Pearce, Ruth (2013). Transphobia in The Guardian: no excuse for hate speech. Lesbilicious http://www.lesbilicious.co.uk/transphobia-in-the-guardian-no-excuse-for-hate-speech/

Philipson, Alice (January 13, 2013). Lynne Featherstone calls for Observer’s Julie Burchill to be sacked following ‘disgusting rant’ against transsexuals. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9799113/Lynne-Featherstone-calls-for-Observers-Julie-Burchill-to-be-sacked-following-disgusting-rant-against-transsexuals.html

Anti-trans coverage

Bindel, Julie (March 19, 2018). Why you can’t rely on the news media to understand
 trans issues. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2018/03/cant-rely-news-media-understand-trans-issues/

Malnick, Edward (March 26, 2013). Julie Burchill entitled to ‘offend’ transsexuals, press watchdog rules. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9954733/Julie-Burchill-entitled-to-offend-transsexuals-press-watchdog-rules.html

Young, Toby (January 14, 2013). Here is Julie Burchill’s censored Observer article. The Telegraph http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyyoung/100198116/here-is-julie-burchills-censored-observer-article/ [archive]

Selected writing by Burchill

Burchill, Julie (May 31, 2023). They call me TERF for refusing to believe a woman can have a penis – well I’ve got a name for those who think opposite. The Sun https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/22539575/julie-burchill-called-terf-oxford-protests/

Burchill, Julie (October 12, 2022). What incels and trans activists have in common. Spiked https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/10/12/what-incels-and-trans-activists-have-in-common/

Burchill, Julie (April 19, 2018). I knew I was right
 The Spectator https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/i-knew-i-was-right/

Burchill, Julie (November 27, 2015). Is a ‘Transgender Day Of Remembrance’ really necessary? The Spectator https://spectator.com/article/is-a-transgender-day-of-remembrance-really-necessary/

Burchill, Julie (January 13, 2013). Transsexuals should cut it out. The Observer http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jan/13/transsexuals-should-cut-it-out [not archived] republished by Toby Young at http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyyoung/100198116/here-is-julie-burchills-censored-observer-article/ [archive]

Media

The New Culture Forum with Peter Whittle and Julie Burchill (November 28, 2021). Why I Loathe The Woke: Puritanical Joyless Snobs Who Despise the Working Class — Julie Burchill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQktUT_avj4

Zinnia Jones (January 14, 2013). The crass hypocrisy of Julie Burchill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL2tlA7QsqY

Uni Huddersfield (January 23, 2013). Dr Surya Monro on Julie Burchill and transgender discrimination – University of Huddersfield. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwq_ggD8Cz4

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Tom Chivers is a British science writer and anti-transgender activist. Chivers was the science editor at UnHerd when they published numerous unscientific articles about sex, gender, and biology. Chivers and podcast co-host Stuart Ritchie frequently logroll for anti-trans activist Jesse Singal.

Note: for the British poet and archaeologist born in 1983, see thisisyogic.com

Background

Thomas “Tom” / “Tommy” Chivers began writing for The Telegraph in 2007. Chivers was science editor at UnHerd from 2018 to 2022, then became a science writer at the i newspaper.

Chivers has written for the Times, the Observer, the Guardian, politics.co.uk, New Scientist, CNN, Wired, Smithsonian Air & Space, and BuzzFeed UK.

Chivers is author of The Rationalist’s Guide to the Galaxy (2019), How to Read Numbers (2021), and Everything is Predictable (2024).

Anti-trans activism

Setting aside some questionable pieces on “Thai transvestites” and what-not, Chivers’ first salvo in anti-transgender activism was a 2014 piece criticizing Kevin Williamson for using Laverne Cox to assert that trans women are not women:

This, Williamson would no doubt claim, is the-emperor-has-no-clothes telling-it-like-it-is. “Sex is a biological reality,” he points out, unarguably. Indeed it is. No amount of surgery or hormone therapy will allow Cox to become pregnant, no terms of address will turn that stubborn Y chromosome into a second X. That is, indeed, a simple fact of human biology.

But who disagrees with that? No one. Williamson’s fearless truthsaying is, in fact, a fatuous statement of the obvious, dressed up as iconoclasm.

Chivers appended a note in 2016, adding: “In fact some people DO dispute that sex is a biological reality.” While some people might take issue with the term “biological reality,” the central issue is that what we call “sex” describes a collection of traits. This collection of traits includes potential gamete production, chromosomes, hormones, and anatomy, which often align but sometimes do not. Saying that this collection of traits is a binary is inaccurate and unscientific. It erases a lot of natural human variation, particularly regarding people with differences of sex development.

Chivers characterizes biologists who use value-neutral terms and conceptualizations as engaging in “science denial.” Chivers defends the term “biological sex ” and supports anti-transgender reparative therapy.

Chivers is situated within the right-wing media landscape in the UK:

The UK has an increasing number of small but influential online-only media, in addition to the websites, apps and podcasts of many of the titles listed above. On the political right, sites like Conservative Home, Spiked, UnHerd, CapX, Reaction and The Spectator’s Coffee House blog are sources of right-wing opinion and debate but play relatively little role in breaking news stories.

CMDS (2021)

Podcast

In July 2023, Chivers and Ritchie launched The Studies Show, a podcast on controversial scientific issues. The podcast was later rebranded in September 2025 as Science Fictions, which is the title of a 2020 book by Ritchie. Episodes include:

References

Center for Media, Data and Society (November 2021). Media Influence Matrix: United Kingdom. https://cmds.ceu.edu/sites/cmcs.ceu.hu/files/attachment/basicpage/1923/mimukfinalreport_0.pdf

Selected writing by Chivers

Chivers, Tom (December 7, 2021). Trans counselling is not conversion therapy. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2021/12/trans-counselling-is-not-conversion-therapy/

Chivers, Tom (December 10, 2019). Of course biological sex exists. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2019/12/yes-of-course-biological-sex-exists/

Chivers, Tom (December 10, 2019). The Left’s science denial. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2021/09/the-lefts-science-denial/

Chivers, Tom (April 2, 2015). 25 Quite Unexpected Facts About Sex. Buzzfeed https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomchivers/facts-about-sex

Chivers, Tommy (June 1, 2014). Whether or not Laverne Cox is a woman is not a question of biology; it’s a question of language. https://tommychivers.wordpress.com/2014/06/01/whether-or-not-laverne-cox-is-a-woman-is-not-a-question-of-biology-its-a-question-of-language/

Tom Chivers (June 1, 2008). Thai transvestites compete in Miss Tiffany Universe. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2061631/Thai-transvestites-compete-in-Miss-Tiffany-Universe.html

Media

Science Fictions with Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie (November 26, 2025). Unpaywalled: Jonathan Haidt vs. social media. https://sciencefictionspod.substack.com/p/unpaywalled-jonathan-haidt-vs-social

The Studies Show with Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie (July 7, 2025). Paid-only Episode 21: Psychological sex differences. https://sciencefictionspod.substack.com/p/paid-only-episode-21-psychological

The Studies Show with Tom Chivers, Stuart Ritchie, and Jesse Singal (May 12, 2025). Paid-only Episode 20: The Studies Show LIVE with Jesse Singal. https://sciencefictionspod.substack.com/p/paid-only-episode-20-the-studies

The Studies Show with Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie (December 30, 2024). Un-paywalled: Youth gender medicine & the Cass Review. https://sciencefictionspod.substack.com/p/un-paywalled-youth-gender-medicine

The Studies Show with Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie (December 9, 2024). Paid-only Episode 15: Sex and sport: The battle of the sexes. Or is it “genders”? https://sciencefictionspod.substack.com/p/paid-only-episode-15-sex-and-sport

The Studies Show with Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie (September 16, 2024). Paid-only Episode 12: Jonathan Haidt vs. social media. https://sciencefictionspod.substack.com/p/paid-only-episode-12-jonathan-haidt

The Studies Show with Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie (August 26, 2024). Episode 47: The 25 year old brain. https://sciencefictionspod.substack.com/p/episode-47-the-25-year-old-brain

The Studies Show with Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie (August 19, 2024). Paid-only Episode 11: Sex education. https://sciencefictionspod.substack.com/p/paid-only-episode-11-sex-education

The Studies Show with Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie (April 23, 2024). Paid-only Episode 7: Youth gender medicine & the Cass Review. https://www.thestudiesshowpod.com/p/paid-only-episode-7-youth-gender

The Studies Show with Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie (January 22, 2024). Paid-only Episode 4: Male and female brains. https://sciencefictionspod.substack.com/p/paid-only-episode-4-male-and-female

The Studies Show with Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie (December 4, 2023). Episode 19: Science and politics. https://sciencefictionspod.substack.com/p/episode-19-science-and-politics

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Douglas Murray is a conservative British author and anti-transgender activist.

Background

Douglas Kear Murray was born July 16, 1979 in London. Murray graduated from Oxford. In 2006 Murray wrote a book defending neoconservatism. Murray was director of Centre for Social Cohesion, but conflicts about their anti-immigration and anti-Islamist stances forced the organization to merge into the Henry Jackson Society after Murray left.

Murray has written for most major anti-trans publications, including The Spectator, The Telegraph, National Review, The Wall Street Journal, UnHerd, and the New York Post. In February 2022, Murray became a Fox News contributor. Murray is a fellow at the National Review Institute.

Anti-transgender activism

Murray identifies as gay and aligns with the faction of anti-trans queer conservatives.

Murray has said that it is a lie that a man can become a woman. In September 2020, during an appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Murray compared accepting trans people to “late-empire sign of things falling apart”. Murray believes there is no such thing as non-binary gender.

Murray’s 2019 book The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity has a section called Trans. Murray believes that identity politics are a threat to Western civilization.

References

Briwn, Rivkah (March 6, 2020). The Jewish community should see Melanie Phillips and Douglas Murray for what they are – wolves in sheep’s clothing. The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/melanie-phillips-douglas-murray-jewish-book-week-muslims-trans-issues-a9380166.html

Horton, James (March 4, 2025). Douglas Murray: a pathetic nuisance who’s had a mid-life radicalisation crisis. Canary https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025/03/04/douglas-murray/

Shatto, Rachel (January 31 2022). Joe Rogan Continues to Spew Anti-Trans Rhetoric on His Spotify Podcast. The Advocate https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/1/31/joe-rogan-continues-spew-anti-trans-rhetoric-his-spotify-podcast

Wood, Heloise (May 10, 2021). Douglas Murray criticises transphobia letter, slamming ‘left-wing bubble’ of publishing. The Bookseller https://www.thebookseller.com/news/douglas-murray-criticises-transphobia-letter-slamming-left-wing-bubble-publishing-1259104

January, Brianna (September 18, 2020). Joe Rogan and guest discuss whether trans people are a sign of “the end of America”. Media Matters for America https://www.mediamatters.org/joe-rogan-experience/joe-rogan-and-guest-discuss-whether-trans-people-are-sign-end-america

Reynolds, Daniel (September 17, 2019). Right-Wing U.K. Writer Epically Schooled for Misgendering Sam Smith.The Advocate https://www.advocate.com/people/2019/9/17/right-wing-uk-writer-epically-schooled-misgendering-sam-smith

Anti-trans coverage

Kearns, Madeleine (October 1, 2019). An Interview with Douglas Murray: Gender, Race, and Identity. National Review https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/douglas-murray-book-the-madness-of-crowds-gender-race-and-identity/

Dori, Roni (July 29, 2021). Douglas Murray: ‘What I Mind Is the Lie That a Man Can Become a Woman’. Haaretz https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2021-07-29/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/what-i-mind-is-the-lie-that-a-man-can-become-a-woman/0000017f-e3f4-d568-ad7f-f3ff39520000

Selected writing by Murray

Murray, Douglas (September 4, 2025). Coward Malcolm Gladwell admits he lied about trans athletes — and reveals an important truth about our modern culture. New York Post https://nypost.com/2025/09/04/opinion/malcolm-gladwell-admits-he-lied-about-trans-athletes-because-telling-the-truth-destroyed-careers/

Murray, Douglas (June 26, 2025). Standing up to bullying, unscientific transgender activist mob. New York Post https://nypost.com/2025/06/26/opinion/standing-up-to-bullying-unscientific-transgender-activist-mob/

Murray, Douglas (February 8, 2025). Trump’s stopping US spending on crazy foreign projects – why can’t Britain? The Sun https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/33255319/keir-starmer-trump-labour-funk/

Murray, Douglas (August 1, 2024). Brutal, unfair Olympic beating tragic result of letting biological men compete in women’s sports. New York Post https://nypost.com/2024/08/01/opinion/brutal-unfair-olympic-beating-tragic-result-of-letting-biological-men-compete-in-womens-sports/

Murray, Douglas (June 22, 2023). ‘Gender-affirming surgery’ puts a feel-good phrase on child butchery. New York Post https://nypost.com/2023/06/22/gender-affirming-surgery-puts-a-feel-good-phrase-on-child-butchery/

Murray, Douglas (July 14, 2022). Can we ever be woke enough for the trans extremists? New York Post https://nypost.com/2022/07/14/can-we-ever-be-woke-enough-for-the-trans-extremists/

Murray, Douglas (June 16, 2022 ). Trans surgery for children is not a ‘right’ to be fought for. New York Post https://nypost.com/2022/06/16/trans-surgery-for-children-is-not-a-right-to-be-fought-for/

Murray, Douglas (October 22, 2021). How Stonewall was exposed: The charity can no long explain its fanciful dogmas. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2021/10/how-stonewall-was-exposed/

Murray, Douglas (August 6, 2021). Does Owen Jones have a woman problem? Certain journalists aren’t allowed to express scepticism about the transgender debate. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2021/08/does-owen-jones-have-a-woman-problem/

Murray, Douglas (May 26, 2021). How Stonewall sacrificed gay rights. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2021/05/how-stonewall-sacrificed-gay-rights/

Murray, Douglas (May 7, 2021). Publishing is now a Left-wing bubble. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2021/05/publishing-is-now-a-leftist-bubble/

Murray, Douglas (November 22, 2019). Can we ever be woke enough for the trans extremists? New York Post https://nypost.com/2022/07/14/can-we-ever-be-woke-enough-for-the-trans-extremists/

Murray, Douglas (November 22, 2019). Has trans activism gone too far? UnHerd https://unherd.com/2019/11/has-trans-activism-gone-too-far/

Murray, Douglas (November 8, 2019). Drag kids are the product of a dangerous American delusion: The way the 12-year-old drag act, Desmond is Amazing, has been pushed on the world betrays a worrying tendency. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2019/11/drag-kids-are-the-product-of-a-dangerous-american-delusion/

Murray, Douglas (September 14, 2019). It’s now easier for a teacher to decide your little girl is a little boy than it is to give them aspirin! In a vital new book, DOUGLAS MURRAY reveals how transgender rights have become one of the most toxic issues of our age. Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7464157/DOUGLAS-MURRAY-reveals-transgender-rights-one-toxic-issues-age.html

Murray, Douglas (March 6, 2019). Why Titania is perfect for our times: The avenging SJW angel, Titania McGrath, has disrupted a tired genre. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2019/03/why-titania-is-perfect-for-our-times/

Media

The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss and Douglas Murray (May 27, 2023). Douglas Murray: From Poetry to Free Speech. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKNzcX-6vYs

TRIGGERnometry with Konstantin Kisin, Francis Foster, and Douglas Murray (May 24, 2023). Douglas Murray Opens Up on America, AI and LGBTQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1FxfJr6Bik

Sky News / The Rita Panahi Show with Rita Panahi and Douglas Murray (Feb 3, 2023). ‘Religious zealotry’ of trans debate falling apart as it ‘defies reality’: Douglas Murray. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRePOQqWKmk

Sky News / The Rita Panahi Show with Rita Panahi and Douglas Murray (December 28, 2022). ‘Cultural weirdness’: Douglas Murray slams trans girl experiencing ‘period pain’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-kXxCotNXk

Fox News with Jesse Watters and Douglas Murray (December 8, 2022). Douglas Murray on trans activists battering lesbian feminist group: We’ve seen this coming for years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6megJ0FbpU

London Real with Brian Rose and Douglas Murray (August 10, 2022). Douglas Murray on Gender Pronouns ♀♂⚄ âšČ ☿ ⚩ ⚹ ⚩ …. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0tMT76EgNk

TalkTV with Peter Tatchell and Douglas Murray (April 1, 2022). Douglas Murray: ‘Can a man be trans if he remains a man?’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtoHDp3LpzQ

Sky News / The Rita Panahi Show with Rita Panahi and Douglas Murray (March 21, 2022). Douglas Murray: ‘Everything we all know is forgotten’ with transgender ideology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYR4QvOuAP8

Skeptic with Michael Shermer and Douglas Murray (October 16, 2020). Michael Shermer with Douglas Murray — The Madness of 2020 (Special Episode). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWjugMlQ_54

John Anderson Media with John Anderson and Douglas Murray (Jan 9, 2020). The Madness of Crowds | Douglas Murray. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYaYk09kEDs

Cosmic Skeptic / Within Reason with Alex J. O’Connor and Douglas Murray (November 20, 2019). Debating Douglas Murray on Gender, Reparations, and Extinction Rebellion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCtBUvFL-QQ

Times News with Rod Liddle and Douglas Murray (September 23, 2019). Douglas Murray on gender, race and identity | Liddle’s Got Issues. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3nLx_sAgE0

Resources

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Ritchie Herron is a British ex-transgender activist. Herron gets money and attention by making it more difficult for others to get trans healthcare. Herron uses the handle “TullipR” online and frequently appears in conservative or fascist media. Herron is associated with anti-trans hate group Genspect and has spoken at Genspect events.

Background

Richard “Ritchie” Herron was born on May 25, 1987. Herron is a child of divorce who claims to have been bullied at school.

After spending time on UK-based The Angels forum, Herron purchased hormones as an adult from a private pharmacy. At age 25, Herron began transition and began using the name Abby. In 2018, at age 30, Herron got vaginoplasty. Five years later, at age 35, Herron made additional gender changes, largely due to dissatisfaction with vaginoplasty results.

Herron is a Newcastle-based civil servant.

In June 2022 Herron claimed lawyers in Liverpool were preparing a legal case against Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust.

Ex-transgender activism

Similar to the ex-gay activists of the 20th century, people like Herron get money and attention by claiming to be no longer trans.

Herron is heavily invested in metaphors of disease and impairment, identifying as disabled and mentally ill. This is a kind of attention-seeking behavior. Rather than take personal responsibility for life decisions made as a 30-year-old adult, Herron chooses to blame those who tried to help.

Herron’s alleged disorders, diseases, “comorbidities,” and maladies include:

  • “depression, OCD and latent homosexuality”
  • autism
  • “hated myself because I am gay”
  • “an ear infection that led to deafness”
  • a series of breakdowns
  • substance misuse issues
  • “no skill or co-ordination”

Here is how Herron describes the surgical results and complications:

  • “nearly bled to death”
  • “It literally looked like an animal had got on my crotch and it just went to town on it”
  • “like my arsecrack has been extended all the way to the front”
  • “under constant supervision for ongoing complications related to the deeply invasive surgery”
  • feel mostly nothing in “my flesh cavity” aside from “occasional stabs of pain”
  • crotch is numb, ‘shell-shocked’
  • scars “still sometimes weep” and “occasionally become inflamed and cause crippling pain”
  • “my body aches”
  • “lifelong pain”

Herron claims these long-term problems:

  • “killed my confidence”
  • cannot walk long distances
  • cannot ride a bike
  • infertile
  • incontinent
  • can’t use the toilet properly
  • “takes ten minutes to empty my bladder”
  • sex drive “is long gone”
  • “reliant on synthetic hormones”
  • “lifelong medical patient”

Herron has discussed ex-trans activism in conservative or fascist outlets that include National Review, Rebel News, Daily Mail, Daily Record, Spiked, The Lion, World News Group, The Times, The Critic, The Washington Examiner. The Telegraph, The Christian Institute, Christian Post, and Christian Broadcasting Network.

Herron also frequently appears on channels featuring anti-trans content:

Herron also does collaborations with other ex-trans activists and conservative trans people:

References

Anti-trans coverage

Dixon, Hayley (May 25, 2025). Two biological men a day given trans surgery on NHS: Teenagers among those opting for ‘feminising genital surgery’ at a cost to the taxpayer. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/25/two-biological-men-a-day-given-trans-surgery-on-nhs/

Bindel, Julie (August 16, 2024). MY TRANS MISTAKE : I changed sex after becoming suicidal & medics diagnosed me as trans – I regretted it and now live as neutered man. The Sun https://www.the-sun.com/lifestyle/12218510/change-sex-suicidal-regret-neutered/

Ely, John (August 14, 2024). ‘Doctors refused to admit de-transitioners like me exist… will that finally change now?’: As NHS launches clinic for patients who regret their sex-change ops, one person who hopes to become a patient speaks out. Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13741923/Doctors-refused-admit-transitioners-like-exist-finally-change-NHS-launches-clinic-patients-regret-sex-change-ops-one-person-hopes-patient-speaks-out.html

Manning, Sanchez (August 13, 2024). ‘Doctors refused to let me admit my transition was a mistake. Now I want to reverse it.’ The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/13/regret-transgender-surgery-nhs-detransition-service/

Downey, Caroline (April 24, 2023). ‘I Immediately Experienced Regret’: British Man Recounts Horror of Gender-Transition Surgery. National Review https://www.nationalreview.com/news/i-immediately-experienced-regret-british-man-recounts-horror-of-gender-transition-surgery/

West, Steve; Vaughan, Ashley (April 6, 2023). Trans on trial: Will lawsuits finally stem the tide of gender experimentation on children? World News Group https://wng.org/articles/trans-on-trial-1680401006

Schneider, Jillian (February 1, 2023). ‘It’s disgusting, I’m disgusting’: Male detransitioner explains why no one – not even adults – should have cross-sex surgery. The Lion https://readlion.com/its-disgusting-im-disgusting-male-detransitioner-explains-why-no-one-not-even-adults-should-have-cross-sex-surgery/

Pooran, Neil (November 21, 2022). ‘Detransitioners’ to address MSPs at Holyrood over gender recognition Bill. The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/msps-scottish-government-holyrood-snp-newcastle-b2229843.html

Maynes, Maria (September 18, 2022). ‘What have I done?’: The people who realised changing sex was a mistake now speak out. Gript https://gript.ie/what-have-i-done-the-people-who-realised-changing-sex-was-a-mistake-now-speak-out/

Bartosch, Jo (June 7, 2023). Trans ideology is selling a lie: We can’t mend mental distress by removing healthy body parts. Spiked https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/06/07/trans-ideology-is-selling-a-lie/

Griffiths, Sian (June 4, 2023). ‘NHS trans surgery damaged my body for ever — it’s not safe.’ The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nhs-trans-surgery-damaged-my-body-for-ever-its-not-safe-jt2hhbrgk

Dixon, Hayley (October 22, 2022). I’ve been betrayed by medics who left me in pain because I didn’t want to be gay, says detransitioner. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/22/betrayed-medics-who-left-pain-didnt-want-gay-says-detransitioner/

Staff report (October 22, 2022). Man who had sex change operation paid for by NHS says medics ‘betrayed’ him and left him in lifelong pain because he did not want to be gay. Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11343887/Man-sex-change-operation-paid-NHS-says-medics-betrayed-him.html

Beal, James (June 29, 2022,). Trans surgery ‘a conveyor system with no questions.’ The Times https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/nhs-transgender-surgery-a-conveyor-system-with-no-questions-says-patient-37gq0wjmz

Kearns, Madeleine (June 28, 2022). Gender-Confused Adults Also Deserve Better Care. National Review https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/gender-confused-adults-also-deserve-better-care/

Goins-Phillips, TrĂ© (June 28, 2022). ‘God, What Have I Done?’: Man Suing Health Care Provider Over Trans Surgery, Says ‘Avalanche’ of De-Transitioners Coming. Christian Broadcast Network https://cbn.com/news/world/god-what-have-i-done-man-suing-health-care-provider-over-trans-surgery-says-avalanche-de

Manning, Sanchez (June 25, 2022). ‘My first thought as I came round was Oh God! What have I done?’: Man suing the NHS over trans surgery he bitterly regrets has bravely waived anonymity to share his ordeal. Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10953157/Man-suing-NHS-trans-surgery-regrets-bravely-waived-anonymity-share-ordeal.html

Selected writing by Herron

Herron, Ritchie (June 8, 2025). ‘I still regret surgery’: My opening speech at the Battle of Ideas, October 2024. Ritchie Herron https://tullipr.substack.com/p/i-still-regret-surgery

Herron, Ritchie (August 14, 2024). Scabs: A reflective essay on being public. Ritchie Herron https://tullipr.substack.com/p/scabs

Herron, Ritchie (September 13, 2022). A Detransitioner’s Perspective: Awakening from the Dream of Gender Utopia. Human Events https://humanevents.com/2022/09/13/a-detransitioners-perspective-awakening-from-the-dream-of-gender-utopia

Herron, Ritchie (September 8, 2023). Ruined: Navigating through the rubble of recovery. Ritchie Herron https://tullipr.substack.com/p/ruined

Herron, Ritchie (May 27, 2022). How I Got Here: Trans OCD & Internet Addiction. Ritchie Herron https://tullipr.substack.com/p/how-i-got-here-trans-ocd-and-internet

Herron, Ritchie (April 23, 2022). The Gender Dysphoria Trap. Opinion: My take on the term ‘Gender Dysphoria’ and why we should stop using it. Ritchie Herron https://tullipr.substack.com/p/the-gender-dysphoria-trap

Herron, Ritchie (March 21, 2022). Trans to Detrans: From a detransitioning males perspective. Ritchie Herron https://tullipr.substack.com/p/trans-to-detrans

Media

Battle of Ideas with Ritchie Herron (June 1, 2025). Detrans: how the medical profession failed me | Ritchie Herron | Battle of Ideas 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3Jde5AzfGI

The Navel Gays with Aaron Kimberly, Tali Botz, and Ritchie Herron (October 28, 2024). Episode 15 – Roads to Reality with Ritchie Herron. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu3pnfM0gUw

heretics. with Andrew Gold and Ritchie Herron (July 24, 2024). Doctors Pushed Me Into Surgery – Ritchie Herron (4K) | heretics. 76. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk7NX7iPr9k

GBNews / Free Speech Nation with Andrew Doyle, Ritchie Herron, and Neal Hanvey (March 11, 2024). ‘They didn’t even count me as a de-transitioner’ – Ritchie Herron & Neal Hanvey | The WPATH Files. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIJ0ef0WzCE

Alexander L with Ritchie Herron, Jennifer Lahl, and Gary Powell (January 18, 2024). Discussing The Lost Boys: Searching for Manhood (with Ritchie Herron, Jennifer Lahl and Gary Powell). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWANpw7xUw4

Sasha White with Ritchie Herron (November 27, 2023). What the Experts Don’t Want You to Know About Trans Vaginoplasty | Ritchie Herron. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N2praAS2BQ

Alexander L (September 3, 2023). Autism and gender identity: Talking detransition, AGP, transmaxxing and HRT (with Ritchie Herron). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw7a8eioa1w

Times Radio with Ritchie Herron (June 4, 2023). ‘I regret trusting’ the doctors who pushed me to transition gender | Ritchie Herron. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aGZat6fF1I

Calmversations with Benjamin Boyce, “Angus Fox,” Corinna Cohn, and Ritchie Herron (May 18, 2023). Let’s Hear It From The Boys | A Genspect Debrief with Alasdair, Ritchie, & Corinna. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxny6uae9Qs

Benjamin Boyce with Genspect, “Angus Fox,” Ritchie Herron, Iseult White, Jet London, and Malcolm Clark (May 9, 2023). “What if they’re Gay not Trans?” | a Genspect Panel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI6FYBlVZi8

Genspect with Stella O’Malley and Ritchie Herron (April 5, 2023). Detrans Awareness Day 2023: Ritchie Herron – Life After Detransition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqoAJIv97Uw

Viva Frei with David Freiheit and Ritchie Herron (February 1, 2023). The Real Story Behind the “Trans” Movement Will Shock You – Viva Frei Interviews TullipR/Ritchie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_cNVkvz7ZM

The Lotuseaters with Connor Tomlinson and Ritchie Herron (January 20, 2023). The Tragedy of Trans Regret | Interview with Ritchie Herron. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR-xRZBN1AM

GBNews / Free Speech Nation with Andrew Doyle, Ritchie Herron, and Keira Bell (January 1, 2023). Gender detransitioning: Ritchie Herron and Keira Bell share their stories | Free Speech Nation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_EEWmUY-k0

Calmversations with Benjamin Boyce, Donovan Cleckley, and Ritchie Herron (November 13, 2022). How Do Effeminate Men Fit In? | with Donovan Cleckley & Ritchie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuEaNdPurv8

LGB Alliance with James Esses and Ritchie Herron (Nov 7, 2022). The Detrans Perspective – A Conversation With A Survivor (James Esses & Ritchie Herron). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE1-enC8Wz4

Andy Ngo Live with Andy Ngo and Ritchie Herron (October 31, 2022). Male detransitioner: The biggest mistake of my life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4i7Cg5stCA

Gript with Maria Maynes and Ritchie Herron (October 14, 2022). My story of gender detransition: Ritchie Herron. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3eA0vSHeak

Gender: A Wider Lens with Stella O’Malley, Sasha Ayad, and Ritchie Herron (September 29, 2022). EPISODE 89 – Ritchie’s Detransition: The Myth of Adult Invulnerability. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v96k-D0_oMI

The Blaire White Project with Blaire White and Ritchie Herron (September 26, 2022). Detransitioner Interview: Regretting Bottom Surgery, Exposing Big Pharma, & Trans Activist Hate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj3qA2A_z3w

Trish Wood is Critical with Trish Wood, Ritchie Herron, and Helen Joyce (September 17, 2022). Ritchie Herron and Helen Joyce. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIW5p84Ox3M

Graham Linehan and Ritchie Herron (August 10, 2022). A chat with Ritchie Herron. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ93IPyPLqE

GBNews with Dan Wootton, Ritchie Herron, and Maya Forstater (July 28, 2022). Tavistock: Ritchie Herron joins Dan Wootton to discuss the closure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW7WNX91ITE

Truth Is The New Hate Speech with Erin Brewer and Ritchie Herron (July 16, 2022). Ritchie’s Story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxrrhtgIEfk

Times Radio with Ritchie Herron (June 28, 2022). Transitioning was ‘the biggest mistake of my life’ | Ritchie Herron interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSYL7eiPM-E

The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network with Kallie Fell and Ritchie Herron (June 14, 2022). Special Edition of Venus Rising with TullipR: What the Gender Industry Won’t Tell You. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asWehfzx1QU

Calmversations with Benjamin Boyce, Ritchie Herron and Sinead Watson (May 13, 2022). What is “Detrans”? | with Tullip and Sinead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zfxha7fTpY

Resources

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Helen Pluckrose is a British writer and anti-transgender activist. Pluckrose was editor of anti-trans group blog Areo magazine from 2018 to 2021 and served on the advisory board of anti-trans hate group Genspect.

Pluckrose is critical of postmodernism and cultural constructivism. While claiming to take a “liberal” position that is generally trans-supportive, Pluckrose has espoused many anti-transgender views.

Background

Pluckrose was born in August 1974. Pluckrose earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of East London and a master’s degree from Queen Mary University of London. Pluckrose was a social care worker from age 17 to 34.

In 2017 Pluckrose, Peter Boghossian, and James A. Lindsay carried out the “grievance studies” affair, where they submitted 20 hoax papers to academic journals in hopes of getting them published. One recommended that people challenge their transphobia by inserting sex toys into their anuses.

Pluckrose was editor of anti-trans group blog Areo magazine from 2018 to 2021, founding Areo Magazine Ltd in 2019. Pluckrose and Lindsay published the book Cynical Theories in 2020. Pluckrose founded Counterweight Support Limited in 2021.

Pluckrose and spouse David have one child.

Anti-transgender activism

Pluckrose asserts that “extreme trans activists” want to compel people to accept the following:

  • people must believe that trans people “straightforwardly are the gender they experience themselves to be”
  • people must use language that reflects a trans person’s gender
  • people must be trans-inclusive when choosing sexual partners

Pluckrose’s most significant anti-trans position is that “transitioning children is difficult to justify ethically.”

Pluckrose’s reasoning is a form of cisgender supremacy that prioritizes the well-being of cisgender children over the well-being of transgender children. According to Pluckrose, giving parental consent to medical transition for a trans youth “cannot justify permanently damaging the bodies” of young people who might not benefit in the long term from medical transition. In Pluckrose’s argument this “collateral damage” is worse than collateral damage to trans young people denied medical transition.

Pluckrose’s position is predicated on the potent “regret” narrative and its medicalized manifestations: “desistance” in minors and “detransition” in adults. Regret narratives are vastly overrepresented in mainstream media because it taps into parental anxiety and justifies suspicion about all trans people. Those who believe being trans is a medical problem like “social contagion” often believe there is a cure. Those who believe being trans is an ideology or cult often cling to the powerful fantasy of trans apostasy.

Ideologues who wish to involve themselves in the bodily autonomy of others often amplify regret narratives. For instance, though abortion regret is rare, abortion opponents amplify regret narratives to make abortion less accessible for those who might benefit, including minors.

During Pluckrose’s tenure at Areo, there were several articles critical of trans people (written by people like anti-trans activist Louise Perry), and no articles written by trans people.

In a 2020 Quillette interview, Pluckrose complained about trans activism:

People are being no-platformed, fired, and cancelled for disagreeing with these ideas. Here in the UK, the police have investigated somebody posting a limerick on Twitter that did not adhere to trans activism’s concept of gender identity and a journalist publishing an interview with a historian who said slavery was not genocide. Gender critical feminists are routinely threatened and intimidated for making arguments that self-ID is a threat to women’s sex-based rights. 

References

Perry, David M. (November 8, 2018). In the Age of Trump, We Need Cutting-Edge Humanities More Than Ever. Pacific Standard https://psmag.com/education/in-the-age-of-trump-we-need-cutting-edge-humanities-more-than-ever/

Anti-trans coverage

Khazan, Olga (September 27, 2021). A Support Group for the Unwoke. The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/09/counterweight-cancel-culture-support-ground/620203/

Hill, Jason D. (December 16, 2020). On Activist Scholarship: An Interview with Helen Pluckrose. Quillette https://quillette.com/2020/12/16/on-activist-scholarship-an-interview-with-helen-pluckrose/

Forstater, Maya (May 13, 2020). “Trans Rights: Be Nice”? Maya Forstater https://hiyamaya.net/2020/05/13/3632/

Perry, Louise (July 8, 2019). Minds Without Bodies: Transgenderism and the Authentic Self. Areo https://areomagazine.com/2019/08/07/minds-without-bodies-transgenderism-and-the-authentic-self/

Schuessler, Jennifer (October 4, 2018). Hoaxers Slip Breastaurants and Dog-Park Sex Into Journals. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/arts/academic-journals-hoax.html

Selected writing by Pluckrose

Pluckrose, Helen (March 19, 2025). Liberalism is Not Wishy-Washy, Fence-Sitting Centrism. It is strong and consistent opposition to authoritarianism. The Overflowings of a Liberal Brain https://www.hpluckrose.com/p/liberalism-is-not-wishy-washy-fence

Pluckrose, Helen (November 30, 2024). Please Don’t Get Stuck On Whether “Cis” Is a Slur or Not. The Overflowings of a Liberal Brain https://www.hpluckrose.com/p/please-dont-get-stuck-on-whether

Pluckrose, Helen (March 27, 2024). Are Women Oppressed or Oppressors? The Incoherence of Critical Social Justice on Patriarchy. The Overflowings of a Liberal Brain https://www.hpluckrose.com/p/are-women-oppressed-or-oppressor

Pluckrose, Helen (December 14, 2022). Why Does the Trans Debate Focus so Much on Women? No, it’s not the patriarchy. The Overflowings of a Liberal Brain https://www.hpluckrose.com/p/why-does-the-trans-debate-focus-so

Smith M (Pluckrose pseudonym) (2018). Going in Through the Back Door: Challenging Straight Male Homohysteria and Transphobia through Receptive Penetrative Sex Toy Use. Sexuality & Culture. 22 (4): 1542. 10.1007/s12119-018-9536-0

Pluckrose, Helen (September 27, 2017). An Argument for a Liberal and Rational Approach to Transgender Rights and Inclusion. Areo https://areomagazine.com/2017/09/27/an-argument-for-a-liberal-and-rational-approach-to-transgender-rights-and-inclusion/

Books

Pluckrose, Helen (2024). The Counterweight Handbook: Principled Strategies for Surviving and Defeating Critical Social Justice – At Work, in Schools, and Beyond. Pitchstone Publishing, ISBN 978-1634312288

Pluckrose, Helen; Lindsay, James (2020). Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity – and Why This Harms Everybody. Pitchstone Publishing, ISBN 978-1634312028

Media

heretics. with Andrew Gold and Helen Pluckrose (March 21, 2024). The FASCINATING Truth About Trans Ideology – Helen Pluckrose | heretics. 39. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuwGcVT6YZQ

Transparency with Aaron Kimberly, Aaron Terrell, and Helen Pluckrose (March 10, 2024). EP 83 – Gender Ideologies – with Helen Pluckrose. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gisc3wAfwQ

Resources

Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair)

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Sam Leith is an English author and anti-transgender activist.

Background

Leith was born on January 1, 1974 in London and was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. Leith is a “nepo baby” whose parents were also involved in journalism and publishing. Leith authored the 2012 memoir Going Nowhere: A Life in Six Videogames.

Leith is an officer in Leith/Bowden Productions Limited with spouse Alice Bowden and was an officer in 69 Dalberg Road Freehold Ltd with Camilla Clare Cookson. Leith is a parent to children.

Anti-transgender activism

Like anti-trans New York Times counterpart Pamela Paul, Leith gatekeeps coverage of the literary and journalistic contributions of trans and gender diverse people and our allies. Leith is also in a position to promote anti-trans authors and books, which happens regularly. As an example, Leith is a signatory on a 2020 Sunday Times open letter supporting openly transphobic author J.K. Rowling. Leith also contributes to anti-trans publication UnHerd, criticizing Judith Butler and standing up for gender critical activists who dislike the term TERF.

While Leith believes trans people should be accommodated “within the constraints available to reality,” Leith felt moved go mask off in 2023 after deciding that convicted criminal Sarah Jane Baker was emblematic of transgender activism.

Leith’s beliefs and concerns:

  • this “directly affects a relatively tiny proportion of the population”
  • “housing male-bodied sex offenders in the female prison estate” is a problem
  • “ideologues promoting irreversible surgery or hormone treatments on pre-pubescent children” are a problem
  • “biological sex is a real thing”
  • activists make “ever more ludicrous and uncompromising claims about the nature of reality”
  • uplifts outlier conservative trans people including Debbie Hayton and Buck Angel

References

Diamond, Jonny (September 30, 2020) Our terrible year of open letters continues: JK Rowling edition. LitHub https://lithub.com/our-terrible-year-of-open-letters-continues-jk-rowling-edition/

Anti-trans coverage

O’Connor, Roisin (September 28, 2020). JK Rowling: Ian McEwan and Graham Linehan among literary figures to support author amid transphobia row. The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/jk-rowling-transgender-views-support-ian-mcewan-sunday-times-b666932.html

Selected writing by Leith

Leith, Sam (July 10, 2023). Trans activists don’t help themselves. The Spectator https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/trans-activists-dont-help-themselves/

Leith, Sam (September 24, 2020). The intellectual shabbiness of Judith Butler. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2020/09/the-intellectual-shabbiness-of-judith-butler/

Leith, Sam (November 14, 2013). Sam Leith: A father’s dilemma. Prospect https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/51727/sam-leith-a-fathers-dilemma

Resources

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

The Guardian (theguardian.com)

The Telegraph (telegraph.co.uk)

  • Sam Leith columns [archive]
  • http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/samleith/

London Evening Standard (http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/)

  • Sam Leith columns [archive]
  • http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-home/columnistarchive/Sam%20Leith-columnist-942-archive.do

Library of Congress (lccn.loc.gov)

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Megan Twohey is an American author and anti-transgender activist. Twohey co-wrote a scaremongering New York Times article about healthcare for trans and gender diverse youth titled “They Paused Puberty, but Is There a Cost?” The piece helped spark a newsroom revolt against management during the Times’ 2020s anti-trans coverage crisis.

Background

Megan Twohey was born on October 26, 1976 to John and Mary Jane Twohey.

Mary Jane Twohey handled PR for Northwestern University after transphobic eugenicist J. Michael Bailey arranged a live “fucksaw” demonstration for students.

Megan Twohey graduated from Evanston Township High School in 1994. After graduating from Georgetown University in 1998, Twohey worked at Washington Monthly, then National Journal from 1999 to 2001, then Moscow Times from 2001 to 2002. Twohey joined the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel from 2003 to 2007.

Twohey then joined parent John Twohey at Tribune Media’s Chicago Tribune in 2007. From 2012 to 2016, Twohey was with Thomson Reuters, then joined the New York Times in 2016.

Twohey and Jodi Kantor published a 2017 exposĂ© about Harvey Weinstein’s history of sexual abuse and assault that figured prominently into Weinstein’s downfall and ultimate conviction, earning a Pulitzer Prize. Their 2019 book She Said was adapted into a 2022 film of the same name.

Twohey and literary agent Vadim “Jim” Rutman (born ~1975) were married on June 12, 2016 and have one child.

Anti-trans activism

Twohey co-wrote a 2022 New York Times article on puberty blockers for gender diverse youth that culminated in a 2023 newsroom revolt against Times leadership.

The story is about “emerging evidence of potential harm” and the “long-term physical effects and other consequences” of Lupron and other medications that can manage onset of puberty. Any drug carries a risk of side effects, which the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) tracks via adverse event reports. FDA approved Lupron for central precocious puberty in 1993. It has since been used for trans and gender diverse youth experiencing unwanted puberty. Doctors have wide latitude to use approved drugs “off label,” including use to delay puberty for trans and gender diverse youth.

Several years earlier, co-author Christina Jewett began reporting on cisgender people who believe puberty blockers which they took as minors led to short- and long-term adverse side effects. Children whose puberty starts at 5 to 8 years old often face social problems, and those capable of pregnancy are at higher risk of unwanted sexual attention and assault. Doctors work with parents to weigh the risks and benefits before getting informed parental consent. As with any medical treatment, some people will be harmed more than they were helped.

Focusing on uncommon side effects and unknown risks is a long-used pretense to restrict or ban contraception and abortion, especially for minors. For more information, see this site’s analysis of “They Paused Puberty, but Is There a Cost?”

The piece was cited as part of a series by a small group of anti-trans writers within the New York Times. GLAAD stated: “In November 2022, the Times published a story by Megan Twohey and Christina Jewett that got the science of healthcare for trans people so wrong that the WPATH had to write a multi-page tear-down explaining how the Times misrepresented the facts at every turn.”

2023 correspondence

On September 3, 2023, I received an email from Twohey copied to Times external communications executive Danielle Rhoades Ha. Twohey requested that biographical information on this page be removed, all of which had been previously published.

My reply:

In 2003 J. Michael Bailey was presenting images and confidential clinical information about six-year olds from my community for laughs to future clinicians.

This vulgar misuse of our children without their knowledge or consent was part of a tour for Bailey’s transphobic book that came out under the federal imprimatur of the National Academies Press. That book is framed by the fabricated case report of a six-year-old gender diverse child whose “curing” is presented as evidence that children should not get gender affirming care.

Back when the Times still had a public editor, I expressed my concerns about your employer’s sustained support for Bailey and like-minded grifters like Alice Dreger who manipulate science and media to harm our children. The Times did worse than nothing. That Times reporter and the Science editors defamed me as payback, a major media coup that allowed Bailey and friends to continue harming children, adding years to my work getting their infamous Toronto children’s gender clinic shut down.

I won’t even get into Bailey’s sex with a book subject/patient, etc. Your mother got paid to help Bailey and employer Northwestern get out in front of his live “fucksaw” demonstration. Your family got paid to help Bailey stay tenured.

Not one journalist in America has published one article that speaks truth to power about these 50 years of attacks on our children via Archives of Sexual Behavior. A reporter from the Chicago Tribune once asked Dreger directly about Bailey’s fabrication and Dreger’s cover-up, but the story got spiked. 

In a just world, Bailey’s book would be retracted, Bailey’s editor would be fired, Dreger’s article would be retracted, and Dreger’s editor would be fired. It would just take one article. Instead we get decades of Times coverage like hand-wringing about side effects of treatment that is being banned across the country, forcing families from NBA legends to struggling single parents to join in the largest mass interstate migration since COVID.

Few organizations have done more to make trans lives harder than the New York Times. You, your family, and the organizations that have paid all of you are part of the problem. I’m simply documenting all this for historians.

PS: Your profile is standard encyclopedia fare. Your family members are all media professionals who’ve been in the public eye, and your six-year-old’s full name and age are published on the New York Times website.

Twohey ignored my outline of the Twohey family’s negative impact on hundreds of thousands of American children, merely disputing my postscript. I then provided Twohey a Times website link. Despite being under no obligation to do so, I honored part of Twohey’s request.

References

Acharya, Ustav (August 19, 2020). Megan Twohey. Bio Wikis https://biowikis.com/megan-twohey/

Klein, Charlotte (February 27, 2023). Inside the New York Times blowup over transgender coverage. Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/02/new-york-times-trans-coverage-debate

Jones, Imara (July 17, 2023). S02E05: Capturing The New York Times. The Anti-Trans Hate Machine: A Plot Against Equality https://translash.org/transcript-capturing-the-new-york-times/

Duffy, Kaiyti (November 29, 2022). Recent Anti-Trans Articles Miss the Point of Gender-Affirming Care. Teen Vogue https://www.teenvogue.com/story/recent-anti-trans-articles-miss-the-point-of-gender-affirming-care

Thiesen, Lauren (November 15, 2022). How Many Trans People Does The New York Times Believe There Should Be? Defector https://defector.com/how-many-trans-people-does-the-new-york-times-believe-there-should-be

Sonoma, Sirena (April 19, 2023). The New York Times’ Inaccurate Coverage of Transgender People is Being Weaponized Against the Transgender Community. GLAAD https://glaad.org/new-york-times-inaccurate-coverage-transgender-people-being-weaponized-against-transgender/

Eckert, AJ (December 4, 2022). What the New York Times gets wrong about puberty blockers for transgender youth. Science Based Medicine https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/what-the-new-york-times-gets-wrong-about-puberty-blockers-for-transgender-youth/

Bolies, Corbin (March 7, 2023). The New York Times’ Trans Coverage Debacle Was Years in the Making. The Daily Beast https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-new-york-times-trans-coverage-debacle-was-years-in-the-making

USPATH and WPATH respond to NY Times article “They Paused Puberty, But Is There a Cost? published on November 14, 2022 (PDF). https://www.wpath.org/media/cms/Documents/Public%20Policies/2022/USPATHWPATH%20Statement%20re%20Nov%2014%202022%20NYT%20Article%20Nov%2022%202022.pdf

Urquhart, Evan (November 14, 2022). NYT Investigation Offers Biased Reporting on Puberty Blocker Concerns. Assigned https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/nyt-investigation-finds-concerns-about-puberty-blockers-for-trans-youth

Urquhart, Evan (November 17, 2022). The NYT’s big piece on puberty blockers mucked up the most important point about them. Slate https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/puberty-blockers-side-effects-controversy.html

Jewett, Christina (February 2, 2017). Drug used to halt puberty in children may cause lasting health problems. Kaiser Health News https://www.statnews.com/2017/02/02/lupron-puberty-children-health-problems/

Anti-trans coverage

Oladipo, Gloria (February 18, 2023). Nearly 1,000 contributors protest New York Times’ coverage of trans people. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/17/new-york-times-contributors-open-letter-protest-anti-trans-coverage

Wulfsohn, Joseph A. (November 15, 2022). New York Times story on puberty blockers fuels critics amid trans debate: ‘Decade late on this story.’ Fox News https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-york-times-story-puberty-blockers-fuels-critics-amid-trans-debate-decade-late-story

Reilly, Patrick (February 15, 2023). New York Times accused of ‘editorial bias’ in coverage of transgender issues. New York Post https://nypost.com/2023/02/15/new-york-times-blasted-for-editorial-bias-in-transgender-coverage/

Migdon, Brooke (February 15, 2023). NYT contributors blast paper’s coverage of transgender people. The Hill https://thehill.com/homenews/media/3859501-nyt-contributors-blast-papers-coverage-of-transgender-people/

Warrington, James (February 16, 2023). How the New York Times was engulfed by a trans culture war. The Telegraph. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/02/15/new-york-times-accused-writers-anti-trans-bigotry/

Selected writing by Twohey

Twohey, Megan; Jewett, Christina (November 14, 2022). They Paused Puberty, but Is There a Cost? New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/health/puberty-blockers-transgender.html

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Christina Jewett is an American author and anti-transgender activist. Jewett co-wrote a scaremongering New York Times article about healthcare for trans and gender diverse youth titled “They Paused Puberty, but Is There a Cost?” The piece helped spark a newsroom revolt against management during the Times’ 2020s anti-trans coverage crisis.

Background

Christina D. Jewett was born on May 11, 1980 and grew up in Griffith, Indiana. Jewett earned a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University in 2002. Jewett reported for the Sacramento Bee from 2002 to 2008, ProPublica from 2008 to 2009, and the Center for Investigative Reporting from 2009 to 2016. Jewett was then a correspondent for Kaiser Health News from 2016 to 2021 before joining the New York Times as a correspondent focusing on federal healthcare regulation in 2021.

Jewett married Floyd Charles Marvin III (born 1974). They have two children.

Anti-trans activism

While writing for Kaiser, Jewett began reporting on cisgender people who believe puberty blockers which they took as minors led to short- and long-term adverse side effects. Children whose puberty starts at 5 to 8 years old often face social problems, and those capable of pregnancy are at higher risk of sexual harassment and assault. Doctors work with parents to weigh the risks and benefits before getting informed consent. As with any medical treatment, some people will be harmed more than they were helped.

In 2022, Megan Twohey and Jewett co-wrote a New York Times article on puberty blockers for gender diverse youth that culminated in a 2023 newsroom revolt against Times leadership.

The story is about “emerging evidence of potential harm” and the “long-term physical effects and other consequences” of Lupron and other medications that can manage onset of puberty. Any drug carries a risk of side effects, which the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) tracks via adverse event reports. FDA approved Lupron for central precocious puberty in 1993. It has since been used for trans and gender diverse youth experiencing unwanted puberty. Doctors have wide latitude to use approved drugs “off label,” including use to delay puberty for trans and gender diverse youth.

Focusing on uncommon side effects and unknown risks is a long-used pretense to restrict or ban contraception and abortion, especially for minors. For more information, see this site’s analysis of “They Paused Puberty, but Is There a Cost?”

References

Klein, Charlotte (February 27, 2023). Inside the New York Times blowup over transgender coverage. Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/02/new-york-times-trans-coverage-debate

Jones, Imara (July 17, 2023). S02E05: Capturing The New York Times. The Anti-Trans Hate Machine: A Plot Against Equality https://translash.org/transcript-capturing-the-new-york-times/

Duffy, Kaiyti (November 29, 2022). Recent Anti-Trans Articles Miss the Point of Gender-Affirming Care. Teen Vogue https://www.teenvogue.com/story/recent-anti-trans-articles-miss-the-point-of-gender-affirming-care

Thiesen, Lauren (November 15, 2022). How Many Trans People Does The New York Times Believe There Should Be? Defector https://defector.com/how-many-trans-people-does-the-new-york-times-believe-there-should-be

Bolies, Corbin (March 7, 2023). The New York Times’ Trans Coverage Debacle Was Years in the Making. The Daily Beast https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-new-york-times-trans-coverage-debacle-was-years-in-the-making

Eckert, AJ (December 4, 2022). What the New York Times gets wrong about puberty blockers for transgender youth. Science Based Medicine https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/what-the-new-york-times-gets-wrong-about-puberty-blockers-for-transgender-youth/

USPATH and WPATH respond to NY Times article “They Paused Puberty, But Is There a Cost? published on November 14, 2022 (PDF). https://www.wpath.org/media/cms/Documents/Public%20Policies/2022/USPATHWPATH%20Statement%20re%20Nov%2014%202022%20NYT%20Article%20Nov%2022%202022.pdf

Sonoma, Sirena (April 19, 2023). The New York Times’ Inaccurate Coverage of Transgender People is Being Weaponized Against the Transgender Community. GLAAD https://glaad.org/new-york-times-inaccurate-coverage-transgender-people-being-weaponized-against-transgender/

Rook, Erin (November 18, 2022). Reckless NY Times reporting fuels disinformation about trans youth. LGBTQ Nation https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/11/reckless-ny-times-reporting-fuels-disinformation-trans-youth/

Urquhart, Evan (November 17, 2022). The NYT’s big piece on puberty blockers mucked up the most important point about them. Slate https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/puberty-blockers-side-effects-controversy.html

Staff report (October 13, 2021). Stephen Jewett. Northwest Indiana Times https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/stephen-jewett/article_00853351-ee9a-5bcd-be8b-b04c4c64b3ac.html

Anti-trans coverage

Oladipo, Gloria (February 18, 2023). Nearly 1,000 contributors protest New York Times’ coverage of trans people. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/17/new-york-times-contributors-open-letter-protest-anti-trans-coverage

Wulfsohn, Joseph A. (November 15, 2022). New York Times story on puberty blockers fuels critics amid trans debate: ‘Decade late on this story.’ Fox News https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-york-times-story-puberty-blockers-fuels-critics-amid-trans-debate-decade-late-story

Reilly, Patrick (February 15, 2023). New York Times accused of ‘editorial bias’ in coverage of transgender issues. New York Post https://nypost.com/2023/02/15/new-york-times-blasted-for-editorial-bias-in-transgender-coverage/

Migdon, Brooke (February 15, 2023). NYT contributors blast paper’s coverage of transgender people. The Hill. https://thehill.com/homenews/media/3859501-nyt-contributors-blast-papers-coverage-of-transgender-people/

Warrington, James (February 16, 2023). How the New York Times was engulfed by a trans culture war. The Telegraph. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/02/15/new-york-times-accused-writers-anti-trans-bigotry/

Selected writing by Jewett

Twohey, Megan; Jewett, Christina (November 14, 2022). They Paused Puberty, but Is There a Cost? New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/health/puberty-blockers-transgender.html

Jewett, Christina (Feb. 2, 2017). Drug used to halt puberty in children may cause lasting health problems. Stat10 / Kaiser Health News https://www.statnews.com/2017/02/02/lupron-puberty-children-health-problems/

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Charlie Evans is a British writer and ex-transgender activist. Evans gets money and attention by making it harder for others to get trans healthcare.

Background

Evans was born ~1991. Evans reportedly experienced abuse outside the family as a child. Evans also reportedly experiences generalized anxiety disorder and depression.

Evans has resided in Margate and Newcastle and reportedly has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biology, with plans to seek a doctorate.

Ex-trans activism

Evans announced the Detransition Advocacy Network in November 2019.

Six months later, Evans reportedly took a full-time job as a COVID tester and announced a “retirement from the gender wars.” The website was deactivated in late 2021.

References

Stone, Gemma (April 23, 2021). Where is The Detransition Advocacy Network now? Medium https://medium.com/@notCursedE/where-is-the-detransition-advocacy-network-now-f01ec9c9682d

Comerford, Aidan (January 29, 2021). Update thread. https://twitter.com/AidanCTweets/status/1355188820854104069

Staff report (May 12, 2020). The media lies: “100’s of detransitioners” scam EXPOSED. Transiness https://www.transiness.com/post/the-media-lies-100-s-of-detransitioners-scam-exposed

Anti-trans coverage

Lockwood, Sally (October 5, 2019) ‘Hundreds’ of young trans people seeking help to return to original sex. Sky News https://news.sky.com/story/hundreds-of-young-trans-people-seeking-help-to-return-to-original-sex-11827740

Heuchan, Claire (January 23, 2020). I Am No Less of a Woman: Charlie Evans Interview. AfterEllen https://afterellen.com/charlie-evans-interview/

Walsh, Joani (November 16, 2019). Meet the ‘detransitioners’: the women who became men – and now want to go back. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/meet-detransitioners-women-became-men-now-want-go-back/

Staff report (November 2, 2019). News in detransition. Gender Health Query https://www.genderhq.org/blog/2019/10/17/news-in-detransition

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Women’s Declaration International (WDI) (October 27, 2019). Charlie Evans, Detransition Advocacy Network at WHRC “Inventing the Transgender Child” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I7hS3qrwXQ

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James Caspian is a British therapist and anti-transgender activist in the “ex-transgender” movement.

Caspian was a member of the anti-trans organization Pediatric and Adolescent Gender Dysphoria Working Group.

Background

James Caspian was born in ~1959.

Caspian is listed on the National Register of Hypnotherapists and Psychotherapists and was “strongly influenced by Jung’s Analytical Psychology.”

Anti-transgender activism

In 2016, Caspian proposed studying “detransition” while in graduate school, but Bath Spa University rejected the proposal. Caspian then became a cause cĂ©lĂšbre among anti-trans activists, who showered Caspian with money and attention. In 2019, the High Court upheld the decision made by Bath Spa University to block Caspian’s research into transgender regret.

Caspian appeared in the 2018 anti-trans propaganda piece Trans Kids: It’s Time to Talk hosted by Stella O’Malley.

Via Stephanie Davies-Arai:

Stephanie hoped to reach professionals working in the field – psychotherapists, clinical psychologists, counsellors – people who provided talking therapy to distressed patients. The first therapist to contact her didn’t give his real name. He wanted to tell her about a proposed change to the Memorandum of Understanding on Conversion Therapy (MoU), a policy document for counsellors and therapists.

The original MoU, published in 2015, was a protection against gay conversion therapy. It was signed by all the major counselling bodies and colleges along with NHS England and the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Now the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), the psychotherapy regulator, was co-ordinating a review, and activists within the profession were campaigning to add ‘gender identity’ to the MoU.

He saw that it could easily lead to “affirmation by the back door,” because it prohibited any questioning of what may have led to a client’s identification with a cross-sex gender identity and so potentially outlaw exploration with patients what being trans meant to them, or why they felt that way. In effect, they’d have to affirm clients of all ages as whatever ‘gender’ they said they were.

A therapist who tried to explore why a teenage girl might think she was a boy could be in trouble for malpractice. If what they did was labelled conversion therapy, they could be sanctioned and removed from the register. This would mean that no one could help someone work out why they thought they were in the wrong body. It would have to be accepted as fact. The risk of someone, especially a young person – the group growing fastest at gender clinics – having medical treatments and surgery they may later regret, would be exponentially increased.

These proposals would tie up the whole UK therapy sector. He said that UKCP officers were talking to politicians about using the MoU as the basis of a law against conversion therapy for ‘gender identity’. To explore and question could then become a criminal offence – the police in the therapy room. He’d heard of Stephanie and her work from another therapist, Bob Withers, and he thought she could help. After a few long phone conversations, they began to trust each other and he revealed his real name, James Caspian. In time they became good friends.

Caspian gave a glowing review to Transgender Children and Young People: Born in Your Own Body edited by Heather Brunskell-Evans and Michele Moore. Caspian also did an interview with Brunskell-Evans.

References

Staff report (February 13, 2021). James Caspian Ethics Review Form Posted Online. Trans Safety Network https://transsafety.network/posts/james-caspian-ethics-review-leaked/

Baska, Maggie (February 9, 2021). Psychotherapist blocked from studying ‘trans regret’ takes case to the EU human rights court. PinkNews https://www.thepinknews.com/2021/02/09/james-caspian-transgender-trans-bath-spa-european-court-human-rights/

Jones, Zinnia (February 28, 2019). James Caspian and “fifty trans people” who regret transitioning. Gender Analysis https://genderanalysis.net/2019/02/james-caspian-and-fifty-trans-people-who-regret-transitioning/

Patherick, Sam (February 20, 2019). Ex-Bath Spa student James Caspian fails in court fight against university. Somerset Live https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/bath-spa-university-james-caspian-2557060

Staff report (September 25, 2017). Bath Spa University ‘blocks transgender research.’ BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41384473

Petherick, Sam (September 26, 2017). Bath Spa University vetoes ‘politically incorrect’ transgender surgery reversal study. Bath Chronicle https://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/news/bath-news/bath-spa-university-vetoes-politically-533956

Anti-trans coverage

Shute, Joe (February 17, 2019). ‘Why are we so scared to admit many people regret changing their gender?’ The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/scared-admit-many-people-regret-changing-gender/

Swerling, Gabriella (Fenruary 5, 2021). Psychotherapist blocked from studying ‘trans regret’ takes case to the European Court. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/05/psychotherapist-blocked-studying-trans-regret-takes-case-european/

Booker, Christopher (March 7, 2020). The tyranny of woke: How it’s fashionable in modern Britain to believe there’s no difference between men and women. Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8086913/How-fashionable-modern-Britain-believe-theres-no-difference-men-women.html

Christian Concern (2018). James Caspian https://christianconcern.com/cccases/james-caspian/

Weale, Sally (September 25, 2017). University ‘turned down politically incorrect transgender research.’ The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/sep/25/bath-spa-university-transgender-gender-reassignment-reversal-research

Selected anti-trans writing by Caspian

Caspian, James (February 22, 2019). My battle with the transgender thoughtpolice. Spiked https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/02/22/my-battle-with-the-transgender-thoughtpolice/

Caspian, J. (2018). Brunskell-Evans, H. & Moore, M. (Eds). Transgender Children and Young People: Born in Your Own Body. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. Pp. 224. Hbk. ÂŁ61.99.. Journal of Analytical Psychology 63:536-538 https://pep-web.org/browse/JOAP/volumes/63?preview=JOAP.063.0536A full text: http://www.heather-brunskell-evans.co.uk/body-politics/review-of-transgender-children-and-young-people-born-in-your-own-body/

‘The Hero’s Journey’ in ‘Trans in the Twenty-First Century’ edited by A. Purnell and J. Bland, published by the Beaumont Trust 2011.

Review of ‘Archetypal Gender’ by M. Anderton in Harvest 2013, published by the C.G. Jung Club, London 2013.

Media

Genspect (June 7, 2022). Trans Kids: It’s Time to Talk | 4: James Caspian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXH_6CEjnRQ

Oren Amitay (January 27, 2018). Academic Cleansing: Fight for Truth & Free Speech vs Political Correctness and Trans Ideology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQIWoDW63ak

Christian Concern (Feb 22, 2019). Psychotherapist James Caspian’s research into transgender regret blocked by Bath Spa University. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfx3nUEwoEU

The Dissenter with Ricardo Lopes and James Caspian (Feb 15, 2018). #2 James Caspian: Censoring studies on trans people | Censura de estudos em pessoas trans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_7BMRqPtWs

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