Gender Dysphoria Alliance is a group of conservative transgender people and allies who primarily promote disease models of gender diversity and oppose affirmative models of care for gender diverse youth. The website was active from 2021 to 2024.
Background
GDA was developed starting around 2020 via a site called Greens for Dialogue Not Expulsion:
“The Lavender CaucusĀ of the Green Party hasĀ issued a statementĀ calling on the Georgia state party to retractĀ its endorsementĀ of the āDeclaration on Womenās Sex-Based Rightsā or face decertification by the national party.”
Signatories included prominent conservative trans people and anti-trans activists, including Miranda Yardley, Thistle Pettersen, Lierre Keith, and Julia Mason.
According to their press kit, Gender Dysphoria Alliance (GDA) was established in September 2021 “by people with personal experience of Gender Dysphoria (GD). We are volunteer run, non-partisan and not for profit.”
GDA described four key aims:
- Inform the conversation about Gender Dysphoria
- Explain why evidencebased care is so important
- Include people who detransition/regret/desist
- Support sex-based rights when carrying out our work
GDA leaders Aaron Kimberly and Aaron Terrell also host a conservative podcast called Transparency that frequently platforms other conservative trans people and anti-trans extremists.
GDA closed in around June 2024, and the website remained online until 2025. According to founder Aaron Kimberly, “The documents have been archived at the UVic Trans Archives.”
People
Leadership board
- Buck Angel*
- Aaron Kimberly
- Aaron Terrell
- Kenneth / Ken / Kellie Pirie
- Mars Fernandez*
- Janet Scott
- Renee Sullivan
Advisory board
- Ray Blanchard
- Oren Amitay
- Lisa Littman
- Severus Hama-Owamparo ā
- Pam Buffone
- Levi Pay
- Sinead Watson
- Christina Buttons
- “GNC Centric”*
- Pam Buffone*
Members
*later removed
References
Gender Dysphoria Alliance (2024). Press Kit. https://www.genderdysphoriaalliance.com/_files/ugd/712544_31c8b3cc398549ffa518c00d371dfba3.pdf
Cravens, RG; McLamore, Quinnehtukqut; Leveille, Lee; Hodges, Emerson; Wunderlich, Sophie; and Bates, Lydia (December 12, 2023). Timeline: Building a Pseudoscience Network. SPLC https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/timeline-building-pseudoscience-network/
Media
Transparency Podcast (June 23, 2022). What is Gender Dysphoria Alliance? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKAxiyx846s
Resources
Gender Dysphoria Alliance (genderdysphoriaalliance.com)
Greens for Dialogue Not Expulsion (dialoguenotexpulsion.org)
- Signatories
- dialoguenotexpulsion.org/engage/signers_of_the_Dialogue_not_Expulsion_statement [archive]