Jonathan Streeter is an American radiologist, hoaxer, and anti-transgender activist. Streeter is the unaccepting parent of a gender diverse child. Streeter identifies as an “ROGD dad.”
Background
Jonathan L. “Jon” Streeter earned a medical degree from University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in 2001 and completed a diagnostic imaging residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2006. Streeter began a bachelor’s degree The University of Texas at Dallas in 1994 and completed it in 2007. Starting in 2008, Streeter served as a radiologist in the United States Air Force.
In 2006, Streeter, Kitt Shaffer, and Frank Rybicki co-founded RadiologyWiki, a crowdsourced resource for radiologists and radiology students. In 2010, Streeter founded AccuRad, P.A. in Texas.
Streeter grew up in a Latter-Day Saint (LDS, or Mormon) household. In 2018, Streeter created the hoax LDS site mormon-newsroom.com, designed to look like the official LDS site mormonnewsroom.com, and began posting hoax announcements that some believed were real. Streeter later admitted to the hoax.
YouTube (2014–)
On March 31, 2014, Streeter launched the YouTube channel Thoughts On Things and Stuff. For its first eight years, the focus was primarily on LDS topics. In 2022, Streeter began posting videos about critical of social justice and postmodernism after reading Social (In)Justice by anti-trans activists Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay. Streeter then shared several clips of anti-trans activist Jonathan Haidt of Heterodox Academy.
On October 16, 2022, Streeter began publishing a series of videos featuring Canadian ex-trans activist “Michelle Alleva,” one of several aliases used by Michelle Zacchigna. Zacchigna made a gender transition as an adult, including top surgery at around age 23 and a partial hysterectomy at around age 30.
A growing number of young people have adopted the ascendant set of beliefs about gender identity and queer theory and have taken social and medical steps to transition in accordance with those beliefs. A subset of these transitioners have found that their particular situation isn’t a compatible match with that pathway and have undertaken a journey of detransition. These de-transitioners have started to share their stories and frequently find the reaction of the Trans Activist Community has been marked by demonization, erasure and gaslighting. Seeing themselves now in the positions of “Apostates” of a strongly held set of beliefs has caused some, upon reflection of their experience, to find many more parallels with high demand groups that use mechanisms of groupthink, psychological pressure and manipulation of the sorts that people describe in decentralized social media cults of ideology. To help identify and quantify how her own experience in the world of social media Trans Activism may have matched this pattern of Cultiness, detransitioner Michelle Alleva goes through the IsItCulty.com online assessment and shares her thoughts on what she experienced.
Streeter then posted dozens of videos featuring Zacchigna. Streeter also posted clips of anti-trans activists discussing trans issues or testifying about proposed anti-trans bills. Clips featured anti-trans activists Michael Biggs, Polly Carmichael, Jeannette Cooper, Dan Creshaw, Miriam Grossman, Patrick Hunter, Riittakerttu Kaltiala, Michael Laidlaw, David Leatherwood of Gays Against Groomers, Stephen Levine, January Littlejohn, Andrew Sullivan, Quentin Van Meter, Andre Van Mol. and Bari Weiss. Streeter also posted testimony from other ex-trans activists, including, Chloe Brockman / “Chloe Cole,” Billy Burleigh, July Carlan / “Shapeshifter,” Rachel Foster, Cat Girton / “Cat Cattinson,” Ted Halley, Helena Kerschner, Camille Kiefel, and Zoe Hawes.
References
Wood, Benjamin (May 17, 2018). No, the Mormon church did not apologize for having a history of racism; hoaxer says he meant fake message to spark discussion. Salt Lake Tribune https://www.sltrib.com/news/2018/05/17/no-the-mormon-church-did-not-apologize-for-having-a-history-of-racism/
Selected writing by Streeter
“Mormon-Newsroom” [Streeter, Jonathan] (May 17, 2018). President Nelson Meets With NAACP; Offers Apology for History of Racism. https://www.mormon-newsroom.org/article/president-nelson-meets-with-NAACP-offers-apology-for-history-of-racism/ [archive]
Streeter, J. L., Lu, M. T., & Rybicki, F. J. (2007). RadiologyWiki.org: The Free Radiology Resource That Anyone Can Edit. RadioGraphics, 27(4), 1193–1200. https://doi.org/10.1148/rg.274065090
Media
Thoughts on Things and Stuff (October 26, 2022). Part 3/3 – Is It Culty? Trans Activist Community: Detrans Experience – Information & Thought Control. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8fAUB4Sk3o
Thoughts on Things and Stuff (October 18, 2022). Part 2/3 – Is It Culty? Trans Activist Community: Detrans Experience Part 2: Emotion Control. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUI6-cRUfBM
Thoughts on Things and Stuff (October 16, 2022). Part 1/3 – Is It Culty? Trans Activist Community: Detrans Experience – Intro & Behavior Control. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkr9jazqevo
Resources
Cape Cod Healthcare (capecodhealth.org)
- Jonathan L. Streeter
- providers.capecodhealth.org/ma/hyannis/27-park-street-streeter-jonathan
Thoughts on Things and Stuff (thoughtsonthingsandstuff.com)
- Thinker of Thoughts
- thoughtsonthingsandstuff.com/author/admin
Is It Culty? (isitculty.com)
“Mormon Newsroom” [parody of official LDS site] (mormon-newsroom.org) [archive]
YouTube (youtube.com)
LinkedIn (linkedin.com)
RadiologyWiki (radiologywiki.org)
- radiologywiki.org/index.php/Main_Page [archive]
- http://radiologywiki.org/index.php/MyRadMoodle