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Nancy McDermott vs. transgender people

Nancy McDermott is an American author and anti-transgender activist. McDermott is associated with anti-trans hate group Genspect.

Background

Nancy A. McDermott is an independent writer and researcher and an affiliate of the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.

McDermott is US editor of Genspect’s blog Inspecting Gender and was formerly head/advisor to Park Slope Parents. 

References

Staff report (November 2020). Nancy McDermott reflects on 10 years of CPCS. https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/parentingculturestudies/about/10-year-anniversary/past-future/nancy-mcdermott/

Selected anti-trans writing by McDermott

McDermott, Nancy (May 2, 2022). Parents have had enough of trans ideology in schools. Spiked https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/05/02/parents-have-had-enough-of-trans-ideology-in-schools/

McDermott, Nancy (May 22, 2025). Let’s Stop “Parenting” and Start Raising Kids Again. Genspect https://genspect.org/lets-stop-parenting-and-start-raising-kids-again/

Books

McDermott, Nancy A. (2020). The Problem with Parenting: How Raising Children Is Changing Across America. Praeger, ISBN 978-1440853180

Media

Beyond Gender with Stella O’Malley and Nancy McDermott (July 3, 2025). Modern Parenting Is DESTROYING Childhood – Nancy McDermott (#20). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC69acXCs8Y

Independent Women / The Bespoke Parenting Podcast with Julie Gunlock and Nancy McDermott (August 15, 2023). Nancy McDermott: The State of Childhood | Bespoke. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvGVp_uVZZ8

Scottish Union for Education (March 21, 2023). Stuart Waiton in Conversation with Nancy McDermott. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggxILVSlqQc

Battle of Ideas with Jan Macvarish and Nancy McDermott (October 23, 2020). The Problem With Parenting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuyCwvWYEho

Resources

Genspect (genspect.org)

LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

Bloomsbury (bloomsbury.com)

Battle of Ideas (https://www.battleofideas.org.uk/speaker/nancy-mcdermott/)

Independent Women’s Forum (independentwomen.com)

Spiked (spiked-online.com)

X/Twitter (x.com)

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