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The “transkids.us” hoax website

The hoax website transkids.us was created and maintained by several “autogynephilia” activists who promote Ray Blanchard’s controversial views about trans women. The two key people were:

This “autogynephilia” promotion site was run by people who want to distance their own identities from claims they are “autogynephilic.” Magner claimed to be intersex and Elliott and others involved claim to be Blanchard’s second of two types: “homosexual transsexual.”

The hoax site was cited as legitimate by the following academics:

Both Bailey and Lawrence had links to the site within minutes after the site went live on December 14, 2004. They have respectively proclaimed it “thrilling” and “marvelous.”

People and sockpuppets

Most of the “contributors” were Magner sockpuppets. The site would have died entirely after Magner died in 2012, but Elliott took it over, adding a link to sillyolme.wordpress.com.

  • Denise Magner (computer programmer and engineer)
    • aliases:
      • Kiira Triea
      • Denise Tree aka Deni
      • Ariika Aeirt
      • Stephanie Alejandra Velasquez aka Steffie, Ale
      • Janelle Laren aka janie, janelle niimi, jniimi, suominiimi, janelleovl, inoue, bananainoue
      • Alex Parkinson aka Ugly
      • joannef
      • social_ecologist85
      • Jana
      • michellegirlxxx_NL
  • Candice Brown Elliott (computer engineer)
    • aliases:
      • Cloudy
      • Sillyolme
      • Seaby
      • DisplayGeek
  • Jenn Ross (computer programmer and engineer)
    • aliases:
      • Jennifer S. Davis
  • Hontas Farmer (math and physics teacher)
    • aliases:
      • BrendaQG
      • Hfarmer
      • Hontasfx
      • Lucasain
      • Smartgirl62
      • Gravitygirl62
      • Zahara_TS
      • Aisha_a_ts
  • Heike Spreitzer (linguist)
    • aliases:
      • Heike Boedeker (Heike Bödeker)
  • Tamara Roberson (computer programmer)
    • aliases:
      • Justanormalgirl
      • TGirlZoe
      • Foxxygirltamara

These five IPs represent 85% of all visits to transkids.us in 2003 and 2004:

  • 10.1.0.2 (IANA IP used by site owner)
  • 192.168.1.4 (IANA IP used by site owner)
  • 24.61.25.4 Boston-area Comcast IP
  • 69.76.45.207 Southeastern Wisconsin area RoadRunner IP
  • 206.168.11.138 Boulder-area Indra’s IP

References

ENDAblog (September 9, 2010). Putting “Hontas Farmer” on Notice. https://endablog.wordpress.com/2010/09/09/putting-hontas-farmer-on-notice/

Anti-trans coverage

“Brown, Kay” (January 6, 2018). The Silencing of the Transkids. On the Science of Changing Sex https://sillyolme.wordpress.com/2018/01/06/the-silencing-of-the-transkids/

Dreger, Alice (November 20, 2012). On Losing a Friend (Who Happened to Be Trans). Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fetishes-i-dont-get/201211/on-losing-a-friend-who-happened-to-be-trans

Dreger, Alice; Herndon, April (2009). Progress and politics in the intersex rights movement. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 15(2), 199–224. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2008-134

Dreger, Alice (2008). The Controversy Surrounding The Man Who Would Be Queen: A Case History of the Politics of Science, Identity, and Sex in the Internet Age. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 37(3), 366–421. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-007-9301-1

Bailey, J. Michael; “Triea, Kiira” (2007). What Many Transgender Activists Don’t Want You to Know: and why you should know it anyway. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 50(4), 521–534. https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2007.0041

Ekins, Richard; King. Dave (2006). Migrating Stories. In The Transgender Phenomenon (pp. 43–96). SAGE Publications Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446220917.n2

“Jane” (May 20, 2008). reply to Can Laura Albert Be Forgiven? https://litkicks.com/lauraalbertforgiven/#comment-4309

Bailey, J, Michael (September 5, 2007). Transsexual Smokescreen: Ignoring Science In “The Man Who Would Be Queen.” Science 2.0 https://www.science20.com/jmichaelbailey/transsexual_smokescreen_ignoring_science_in_the_man_who_would_be_queen

Veale, Jamie F. (2005). Love of oneself as a woman: An investigation into the sexuality of transsexual and other women. [master’s thesis] https://mro.massey.ac.nz/server/api/core/bitstreams/56c0c3c9-902e-452d-9579-843d7f790201/content

Resources

Transkids.us (transkids.us) [archive]