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Be Scofield and transgender people

Be Scofield is a transgender American activist critical of new religious movements. Scofield has characterized the progressive wing of the transgender rights movement as a “cult.”

Background

Scofield was born on October 29, 1980 and grew up in Naples, Florida. As a young adult, Scofield produced three albums of dance music under the name MC2000: Spiritual Awakening (1999), Musical Evolutions (2000), and Pyscho [sic, also sometimes styled correctly] (2000).

Scofield graduated from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina with a bachelor’s degree in psychology/philosophy in 2006, then briefly attended the California Institute of Integral Studies before dropping out.

Scofield then worked at a yoga studio and ran a weekly “ecstatic dance” event called Metta Dance. After founding the education project Mettaversity and marketing project mettawebdesign, Scofield did marketing for sites GreenMedInfo.com and GreenMedTV.com while running a number of sites, including decolonizingyoga.com.

In 2011, Scofield came out as “trapped in the wrong body” and raised $1,640 in a crowdfunding campaign to cover gender transition costs. In 2013 Scofield earned a master’s degree in divinity at Starr King School.

Around 2018, Scofield began writing articles about alleged manipulative or abusive practices in new religious movements.

Scofield was banned from the platform Medium in July 2018 for violations including “multiple instances of unverified and uncorroborated claims against individuals.”

Criticism of trans activism

In 2021, Scofield got involved in criticizing the transgender rights movement. Scofield specifically decries the “tactics used to silence Jesse Singal,” a writer known for laundering anti-transgender extremism into mainstream media outlets. Singal has parlayed attacks on transgender people into a lucrative career netting hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Singal has been “silenced” into dozens of subsequent media appearances as an expert on transgender people, usually in the place of actual medical and legal experts.

In a comparison using the ACLU’s 1978 defense of a march by Nazis in Skokie, Illinois, Scofield frames criticism of Jesse Singal as a First Amendment issue: “When the totalist left decrees something ideologically wrong or hateful, that should be the impetus for the speech to be protected, not censored.” If a privately-owned platform or publication decides not to publish someone’s writing, that is not a First Amendment issue. If activists warn the public about biased people negatively influencing trans rights, that is not censorship.

In a remarkable analogy, Scofield likens Jesse Singal to Martin Luther King, and media watchdogs like GLAAD to the FBI. Scofield condemns Singal’s critics as working “to silence, ruin and derail people and ideas deemed dangerous, or ideologically wrong.” This is exactly why Singal is a once-in-a-generation problem. Singal’s masterful use of the Dregerian narrative has brainwashed followers like Scofield into believing progressive leaders of the transgender rights movement are akin to J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, and Jesse Singal is akin to the persecuted thought leader of a civil rights movement.

References

Mesulam, Sheila (May 19, 2006). People, Places and Things. Naples Daily News https://archive.naplesnews.com/community/people-places-and-things-may-19-2006-ep-406385764-331442071.html/

Staff report (March 6, 2003). Students protest Iraq War. Fort Myers News-Press

Scofield, Be (October 28, 2011). Living Out Loud: I’m Transgender. Tikkun http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2011/10/28/living-out-loud-im-transgender

Briedis et al. v. Scofield, Washington State 19-2-05077-28 https://dockets.justia.com/docket/washington/wawdce/2:2019cv01494/277812

Baxter, J (May 30, 2019). The Misdeeds of Be Scofield and the Mysterious Orcas Island Death of Carla Shaffer. https://baxtersjournal.com/index.php/2019/05/30/the-misdeeds-of-be-scofield-and-the-mysterious-orcas-island-death-of-carla-shaffer/ [archive]

Scofield, Be (April 26, 2021). What the Cult-Like Attack on Jesse Singal Reveals. Uncovered Reporting https://www.uncoveredreporting.com/what-the-cult-like-attack-on-jesse-singal-reveals/

B., Robert (July 24, 2019). Be Scofield. Culture Or Cult? https://culture-or-cult.com/index.php/2019/04/10/be-scofield-an-angry-sociopath-disguised/

Resources

Be Scofield (bescofield.net)

Twitter (twitter.com)

Indiegogo (indiegogo.com)

Huffington Post (huffpost.com)

Tikkun (tikkun.org)

  • Be Scofield [archive]
  • (October 28, 2011) Living Out Loud: I’m Transgender
  • http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2011/10/28/living-out-loud-im-transgender [archive]
  • (March 6, 2012) Does God Love Transgender People? A Transgender Atheist Says No, I Respond

Alternet (alternet.org)

Progressive Christianity (progressivechristianity.org)

Substack (bescofield.substack.com)

Medium (medium.com/@bescofield) 2015-2018 (suspended) [archive]

Be Scofield (bescofield.com)

The Guru Magazine (gurumag.com)

Uncovered Reporting (uncoveredreporting.com)

Mettaversity (mettaversity.com)

Decolonizing Yoga (decolonizingyoga.com)

Inactive sites