Trisha Posner is an American writer and anti-transgender activist who also publishes under the name Patricia Posner.
Anti-transgender activism is a family business; spouse Gerald Posner is also involved in the anti-transgender movement.
Background
Patricia Denise Levene was born in London on March 10, 1951 and grew up in Islington, doing some dance training at the Aida Foster Theatre School before dropping out of Arts and Media School Islington.
After coming to New York City in 1978 and working as an artist, hotel manager, and employee at the Swedish recording label SWS, Trisha Poser married Gerald Posner after they met on a blind date. They soon began collaborating on books. Posner’s website states:
I conduct every interview with him, sift through thousands of pages of original documents in government and private archives, and work on early drafts of manuscripts.
In a profile for Florida International University’s Artspeak, Posner reiterated this work as a researcher to the authors: “On those projects, she conducted every interview with him, sifted through thousands of pages of original documents in government and private archives, and worked on the early drafts of manuscripts.”
In the late 1990s Posner started a monthly column about developments in women’s health.
- This is Not Your Mother’s Menopause: One Qoman’s Natural Journey through Change (2000)
- No Hormones, No Fear: A Natural Journey Through Menopause (2007)
- The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story (2017)
In 2010, Gerald Posner was revealed to be a serial plagiarist, which was attributed to “a flawed research methodology.”
The Posners own Area 51 Consulting LLC. They are also officers of the non-profit Antisemitism Watch, Inc., a Florida Domestic Non-Profit Corporation filed on November 22, 2022. Miami DJ Oren Nizri is also an officer.
Anti-transgender activism
Posner was offended during cancer treatment when when a healthcare provider described the condition as chest cancer. Even though Posner is well-versed in the historic dangers of attacking a persecuted minority, Posner jumped into anti-transgender activism with zeal, offering up a version of the “great replacement” conspiracy theory that cisngender women are being “erased” by transgender people.
Posner claimed that friends were also afraid of expressing outrage about inclusive medical terms that encompass all people with the same disease:
you’re called a Republican for whatever reason that is, or [you’re called] transphobic. Then, of course, you had JK Rowling, who really stood up to everybody, and they canceled her. But then for me, there wasn’t much to cancel. So then I looked at the UK Health Project, and they had a woman with a man sitting next to her – pregnant man – it just seemed all a bit bonkers to me.
When the Posners publicly teamed up for their anti-trans crusade in 2023, they revealed their affinity with an array of other anti-trans activists, including J.K. Rowling, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Abigail Shrier, Christopher Rufo, Heterodorx, Julia Mason, Genspect, Sharron Davies, Charles Gasparino, Wesley Yang, Rich Zeoli, Lorelei/hatpinwoman, Tom Fitton, Mike Opelka, Rick Ferri, Lisa Selin Davis, Michael Shermer, and the global ringleader Stella O’Malley.
References
Posner, Patricia (May 9, 2022). When did “woman” become a dirty word? Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/woman-become-dirty-word-transgender-gender-fluid-nonbinary-lgbtqia-sogie-supreme-court-leak-dobbs-roe-wade-birthing-person-medicine-11652124897
Helppie, Richard (June 7, 2022). Woman Erased: How Degendering is Eliminating the Biological Woman: An interview with Trisha Posner:. The Common Bridge https://thecommonbridge.substack.com/p/woman-erased-how-degendering-is-eliminating
Resources
Trisha Posner (trishaposner.com)
Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
LinkedIn (linkedin.com)
Antisemitism Watch (antisemitismwatch.org)
- EIN 88-4312270
Instagram (instagram.com)
Twitter (twitter.com)