Andy Ngô vs. transgender people

Andy Ngô is an American writer and anti-transgender activist. Ngô’s coverage of trans topics consistently depicts trans people in a negative light.

Ngô’s writing has appeared many anti-trans publications, including Quillette and The Post Millennial.

Background

Andy Cuong Ngô was born on April 6, 1986 and grew up in Portland, Oregon. Ngô earned a bachelor’s degree from UCLA in 2009.

Ngô came out as gay around age 30.

In 2015, Ngô enrolled in graduate school at Portland State University. Ngô was fired from student newspaper Portland State Vanguard in 2017 after allegedly misrepresenting statements made at a protest.

Ngô organized or filmed campus appearances of:

Chadwick Moore
Christina Hoff Sommers, Lauren Chen / Roaming Millennial, Clay Routledge, & Peter Boghossian
Carl Benjamin / Sargon of Akkad
Jordan Peterson
Eric Kaufmann

Ngô covered leftist student protests at Evergreen State University. After that, Ngô became well-known for covering Antifa activity in the Pacific Northwest. Ngô would frequently attend protests and publish mugshots of those arrested. Ngô is author of the 2021 book Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy.

Anti-transgender activism

Ngô was suspended from Twitter in 2019 for a tweet disputing rates of violence against trans people.

In 2021, Ngo revealed that sex offender Darren Agee Merager was the suspect in an incident at Wi Spa in Los Angeles. Merager identifies as a trans woman and was accused by Wi Spa guests of indecent exposure while nude in a sex-segregated part of the spa. The incident was initially declared a hoax by some people who covered it, and it led to tense protests.

Ngô hosted the podcast Things You Should Ngo and has appeared as a guest on many anti-trans shows, including shows by or with Tucker Carlson, Dave Rubin, Peter Boghossian, Allen West, Michael Malice, Charlie Kirk, Adam Carolla, Laura Ingraham, Megyn Kelly, Glenn Beck, Konstantin Kisin, Francis Foster, Jennifer Bilek, Drew Pinsky, Dan Crenshaw, Jesse Kelly, Tim Pool, Julia Hartley-Brewer, Jordan Peterson, Kennedy, Lotuseaters, Maajid Nawaz, Brandi Kruse, Sebastian Gorka, Joe Rogan, Bret Weinstein, Wilfred Reilly, Eric Weinstein, Greg Gutfeld, Ben Shapiro, and Debra Soh.

Ngô has reported from anti-trans events like the LGB Alliance conference and has interviewed many anti-trans figures, including:

Sinéad Watson
Ritchie Herron
Michael Biggs
Az Hakeem
James Lindsay
Goran Adamson
Douglas Murray
Brendan O’Neill
Michelle Malkin
Imam Tawhidi
Nick Fuentes
Mary Harrington

References

Griffin, Anna (February 8, 2018). For Immigrants’ Son, Vietnam Trip Led To More Conservative Worldview. Oregon Public Broadcasting https://www.opb.org/news/series/racenw/immigrants-vietnam-oregon-conservative-worldview/

Gais, Hannah (September 11, 2019). The Making of Andy Ngo. Jewish Currents https://jewishcurrents.org/the-making-of-andy-ngo/

Gupta, Arun (August 2019). Portland’s Andy Ngo Is the Most Dangerous Grifter in America. Jacobin https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/08/andy-ngo-right-wing-antifa-protest-portland-bigotry

Dickson, EJ (September 3, 2019). How a Right-Wing Troll Managed to Manipulate the Mainstream Media. Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/andy-ngo-right-wing-troll-antifa-877914/

Urquhart, Evan (June 14, 2023) Did Andy Ngo coin “TRANTIFA”? Assigned Media https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/did-trantifa-originate-with-andy-ngo

Bernstein, Joseph (July 18, 2019). Andy Ngo Has The Newest New Media Career. It’s Made Him A Victim And A Star. BuzzFeed News https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/andy-ngo-portland-antifa

Work by Ngô and supporters

Ngo, Andy (May 12, 2017). Fired for Reporting the Truth. National Review https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/05/free-speech-islam-portland-state-vanguard-editor-fired-tweets/

Ngô, Andy (September 2, 2021). Sex offending suspect claims transgender harassment in Wi Spa case. New York Post https://nypost.com/2021/09/02/charges-filed-against-sex-offender-in-wi-spa-casecharges-filed-against-sex-offender-in-notorious-wi-spa-incident/ [alt headline: Charges filed against Darren Agee Merager in Wi Spa case]

Ngô, Andy (September 17, 2021). Wi Spa suspect still at large — has history of indecent exposure and masturbation. New York Post https://nypost.com/2021/09/17/wi-spa-suspect-still-at-large-has-history-of-indecent-exposure-and-masturbation/

Herzog, Katie (December 7, 2018). Anti-Racist Protesters Harass Gay Asian-American Journalist. The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/politics/2018/12/07/36874512/anti-racist-protesters-harass-gay-asian-american-journalist

Singal, Jesse (September 3, 2021). Some Mainstream Outlets Can’t Even Perform Basic Newsgathering Functions Anymore: How Andy Ngo’s coverage of the Wi Spa controversy humiliated Slate, The Guardian, and other outlets. Singal-Minded https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/some-mainstream-outlets-cant-even