Chad Felix Greene and transgender people

Chad Felix Greene is a conservative gay American author and ex-transgender activist. Greene identifies as a transgender person who “desisted” after expressing interest in feminization as a child and adolescent.

Greene has written anti-trans pieces for The Federalist, The Post Millennial, Public Discourse, RedState, HuffPost, and Twitchy.

Background

Chad Felix Greene was reportedly born on August 8, 1982 and grew up in Chesapeake, Ohio. Greene’s parents divorced when Greene was young, and Greene spent a lot of time with a grandparent who lived next door and was largely supportive of Greene’s femininity. In a 2017 post, Greene wrote:

I can remember fantasizing about what it would be like to wake up as a girl. I imagined it would make my grandmother happy, as she obviously wished I was a girl. I figured it would be easier to fit in at school, too. All of my friends were girls, and I was constantly being lectured by teachers to play with the boys. If I were like all the other girls in my class, maybe the boys would stop being so mean to me and finally accept me. It all just seemed to make sense to me.

As I grew older, my feeling of being displaced in my body began to manifest itself in the opposite direction. I became obsessed with everything hyper-masculine I could find. I read comic books, subscribed to bodybuilding magazines, and watched sports, always trying to find some secret key to being a man. I wanted men to like me, and I figured these resources might be able to show me how to act in order to achieve that goal. I was always awkward and shy around other boys and men, and they would either ignore me or make fun of me.

As I moved into puberty, this fixation on the extremes of sexuality evolved into sexual arousal. I became sexually attracted to men, and I harbored a lingering longing to be female. As my obsession with masculinity grew into sexual fetishism, I became more and more adventurous, seeking out older boys to ask about this mysterious sexual world I only saw hinted at in magazines and on TV. This led to my engaging in sexual behavior with several male peers, all in their early teens. By age fourteen, I was hanging out in the basement bathroom at the library of the college campus where my father worked, engaging in anonymous sex with strangers. I experimented with drag and took on feminine sexual roles. My entire sense of self revolved around my sexuality and my sense of being “wrong” in my body.

Greene earned a bachelor’s degree from Marshall University in 2009.

Green is married to Jacob Greene. In 2013, Greene converted to Judaism. In 2019, Greene, who is HIV-positive, reported experiencing discrimination while working in leadership and administration at a rural West Virginia hospital. Greene had previously expressed skepticism about this sort of discrimination.

Anti-trans activism

In 2024, Greene stated, “Yes, I am transgender. I grew up with gender dysphoria and suffered with it well into my late 20’s. I wanted to transition, but I never did. Today I am grateful I didn’t. After I stopped chasing that fantasy, I realized reality was more appealing.”

Greene’s central thesis is that trans people should change their minds, not their bodies: “In order to achieve a healthy and mentally stable state, a trans person must have their gender and sex as closely aligned as possible. Why, though, does this require the physical sex to change in order to align to the perceived gender? Why shouldn’t the perceived gender be what changes?”

References

Wakefield, Lily (November 13, 2019). Right-wing gay journalist is seriously triggered by the use of ‘they’ as a singular pronoun. PinkNews https://www.thepinknews.com/2019/11/13/they-them-singular-pronoun-chad-felix-greene-gay-journalist-non-binary-federalist/

Dommu, Rose (December 12, 2018). Dear God, Being ‘Conservative’ Is Not the Same As Being Gay. Out https://www.out.com/news-opinion/2018/12/12/dear-god-being-conservative-not-same-being-gay

Sosin, Kate (October 30, 2020). These gay voters are backing Trump. Here’s why. The 19th* https://19thnews.org/2020/10/gay-trump-voters-believe/

Anti-trans coverage

Cook, Michael (November 18, 2022). Is there really an “epidemic of violence” against transgender people? Mercator https://www.mercatornet.com/is-there-really-an-epidemic-of-violence-against-transgender-people

Martosko, Dave (May 31, 2019). Trump becomes first Republican president to promote LGBT Pride Month as he touts campaign to decriminalize homosexuality in 71 countries – but Democrats insist he’s not gay-friendly enough in the U.S. Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7092519/Trump-Republican-president-promote-LGBT-Pride-Month.html

Selected writing by Greene

Greene, Chad Felix (November 22, 2022). Don’t Let The Left’s Smears Over The Colorado Club Shooting Derail Efforts To Protect Kids From Gender-Bending. The Federalist https://thefederalist.com/2022/11/22/democrats-use-the-colorado-nightclub-shooting-as-a-way-to-fire-back-at-anti-grooming-parents-conservatives/

Greene, Chad Felix (March 30, 2021). GLAAD: You’re A Bigot If You Don’t Eat Gay French Fries And Like It. The Federalist https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/30/glaad-youre-a-bigot-if-you-dont-eat-gay-french-fries-and-like-it/

Greene, Chad Felix (July 30, 2020). Netflix’s ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ Writer: We’re Making Tween Trans Propaganda On Purpose. The Federalist https://thefederalist.com/2020/07/30/netflixs-the-baby-sitters-club-writer-were-making-tween-trans-propaganda-on-purpose/

Greene, Chad Felix (November 4, 2019). I Crunched The Data. The Violence ‘Epidemic’ Against Transgender People Is A Myth. The Federalist https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/04/the-left-is-lying-about-a-hatred-and-violence-epidemic-against-transgender-people/

Greene, Chad Felix (September 6, 2019). Being Scared At Finding A Man In The Ladies’ Bathroom Isn’t Bigotry, And It Doesn’t Cause Assault. The Federalist https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/06/scared-finding-man-ladies-bathroom-isnt-bigotry-doesnt-cause-assault/

Greene, Chad Felix (August 16, 2019). I’m a gay conservative who thought discrimination claims were overblown. Then it happened to me. LGBTQ Nation https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/08/im-gay-conservative-thought-discrimination-claims-overblown-happened/

Greene, Chad Felix (March 22, 2018). Feminist and Conservative Alliance on Transgender Issues. Medium https://medium.com/@chadfelixg/feminist-and-conservative-alliance-on-transgender-issues-3be97c570685

Greene, Chad Felix (October 18, 2017). I Was an Eight-Year-Old Drag Queen. Public Discourse https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2017/10/20124/

Greene, Chad Felix (July 27, 2017). Transgender Suicides: What to Do About Them. Public Discourse https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2017/07/19769/

Books

Greene, Chad Felix (2026). Manufactured Crisis: What the Data Actually Shows About Violence Against Transgender Americans, 2015–2025. Independently published, ISBN 979-8251878967

Greene, Chad Felix (2022). Surviving Gender: My Journey Through Gender Dysphoria. Independently published, ISBN 979-8839386082

Greene, Chad Felix (2020). Without Context: Evaluating the Anti-LGBT Claims Against the Trump Administration. Independently published, ISBN 979-8678412300

Greene, Chad Felix (2017). Reasonably Gay: Essays and Arguments Volume 4. Independently published, ISBN 978-1521818268 alt ISBN 978-1980228578

Greene, Chad Felix (2018). Reasonably Gay: Essays and Arguments Volume 3. Independently published, ISBN 978-1980209096

Greene, Chad Felix (2018). Reasonably Gay: Essays and Arguments Volume 2. Independently published, ISBN 978-1980208815

Greene, Chad Felix (2017). Reasonably Gay (Essays and Arguments) (Volume 1). CreateSpace, ISBN 978-1545597255 alt ISBN 978-1521260623

Greene, Chad Felix (2017). There is No Such Thing as Hate Speech: A Book of Poems, Songs and Essays. CreateSpace, ISBN 978-1545530740

Greene, Chad Felix (2017). Almost Jewish: Converting to Judaism the Hard Way. Independently published, ISBN 978-1521231708

Greene, Chad Felix (2012). 8 Things You Can Do to Make God Smile Everyday! CreateSpace, ISBN 978-1480076518

Greene, Chad Felix (2011). Ronni, The Little Jewish Girl Who Loved Israel. CreateSpace, ISBN 978-1466353015

Greene, Chad Felix (2011). How’s That Thing Stay on Your Head? CreateSpace, ISBN 978-1479150632

Greene, Chad Felix (2011). Death is taking me…: my experience and advice on dying. CreateSpace, ISBN 978-1466231948

Greene, Chad Felix (2010). What’s That Thing on Your Head? CreateSpace, ISBN 978-1451578980

Media

Queer News Tonight with Rajee Narinesingh (July 23, 2024). Gay Conservative Chad Felix Greene Criticizes The Singular ‘They’ Pronoun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxwXznSdOpM

Moms for Liberty with Tiffany Justice and Chad Felix Greene (July 8, 2024). Understanding the LGBTQ’s Push Toward Children, with Chad Felix Greene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4VhzFc4BDU

BlazeTV / Stu Does America with Stu Burguiere anf Chad Felix Greene (October 19, 2020). The Epic Battle for the Senate Begins | Ep 152. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmMrGNPikX8