Ari DeWolf vs. transgender people

Ari DeWolf is an American anti-transgender activist. DeWolf was director of outreach for anti-trans hate group Do No Harm and interim director for anti-trans hate group Genspect USA.

Background

Ari Shroyer-Stokes was born in April 1991 in Cincinnati, Ohio and grew up there. After graduating from Cincinnati Arts School in 2009, DeWolf earned a bachelor’s degree from Roosevelt University in 2014. While in college, DeWolf was a receptionist for New View Model Management and an Israel intern for the Jewish Federation of metropolitan Chicago.

After graduating, DeWolf was an intern for the Illinois House of Representatives Republican staff from 2014 to 2015. From 2016 to 2021, DeWolf was a government affairs specialist for the Illinois Policy Institute. From 2021 to 2023, DeWolf was education outreach manager for the Reason Foundation.

Anti-trans activism

From 2023 to 2024, DeWolf was director of outreach for anti-trans hate group Do No Harm.

On March 28, 2023, DeWolf was joined by “Chloe Cole,” January Littlejohn, and Miriam Grossman in submitting statements regarding North Dakota’s anti-trans House Bill 1254, “Relating to the prohibition of certain practices against a minor; to provide a penalty; and to declare an emergency.”

In 2023, DeWolf submitted a statement in support of Ohio’s House Bill 68, an anti-trans measure banning trans healthcare for young people and athletic participation in sex-segregated sports. DeWolf stated in part:

“When I’d come home to read or listen to the news, however, I would regularly ask my husband, if he too, felt there was something amiss, intuitively, about the rise and expanse of young people feeling disconnected with their bodies.

What I learned early on, when seriously engaging these issues, was that this was a common experience among those in my parents’ generation. In so far as, they did not fall perfectly in line with the so-called gender binary, with the stereotypes of contemporary culture. They recognized, how easily they could have fallen prey to these irreversible, mechanized “solutions.” Instead, they forged lives as gay men and lesbian women. Straight men and straight women. They have families they could create with their own reproductive organs, intact. And experience sexual function – again, with their reproductive organs intact.

Further, I learned how many of those my age and younger who suffer from comorbidities such as autism, have been preyed upon by this emerging multibillion dollar industry.

I have been privileged by working hand in glove with patient-victims, parent-victims, physicians, therapist, nurses, lawyers, lawmakers, and active citizens like myself, who are leading the counter culture. Who are implementing the proper levels of informed consent for families, bringing insurers to the table to protect transitioners and detransitoners alike, and asking for balance in psychotherapy treatment.”

From 2024 to 2025, DeWolf was interim director for Genspect USA.

In 2024, DeWolf, Ivan Abdouch, Stephanie Winn, and Matt Sharp of Alliance Defending Freedom testified in support of Alaska House Bill 338, “An Act relating to physician liability for gender transition procedures performed on minors; and providing for an effective date.”

DeWolf was a signatory on a 2024 amicus curiae brief prepared by Terry Lee Fowler and presented to the US Supreme Court in US v. Skrmetti, a case challenging Tennessee’s ban on trans healthcare for young people.

Anti-trans coverage

Barto, Tim (April 16, 2024). Tim Barto: Cautionary tales of gender transitioning heard in House Judiciary Committee. Must Read Alaska https://mustreadalaska.com/tim-barto-cautionary-tales-of-gender-transitioning-heard-in-house-judiciary-committee/

Minnery, Jim (August 10, 2023). Gay, Black and Jewish “Unicorn” Describes Why Gender Care is Wrong. Alaska Family Council https://www.akfamily.org/gay-black-and-jewish-unicorn-describes-why-gender-care-is-wrong/

Selected writing by DeWolf

DeWolf, Ari (December 6, 2023). Testimony submitted to the Ohio Senate Government Oversight Committee in support of House Bill 68. https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/api/v2/general_assembly_135/committees/cmte_s_govt_1/meetings/cmte_s_govt_1_2023-12-06-0300_962/testimony/9329/hb68_dewolf_proponent.pdf

DeWolf, Ari and signatories (October 15, 2024). BRIEF OF AMICI CURIAE THE LARGER DETRANSITIONERS COMMUNITY INCLUDING PUBLIC OFFICIALS, HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS, AND RESEARCHERS IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENTS. US v. Skrmetti, No. 23-477 https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-477/328719/20241018182632065_241012a%20v2%20AC%20Brief%20for%20efiling.pdf