Human Biodiversity Institute vs. transgender people

The Human Biodiversity Institute was a project by conservative writer and anti-transgender activist Steve Sailer. When J. Michael Bailey published the anti-transgender book The Man Who Would Be Queen in 2003, Sailer’s Human Biodiversity Institute member list was an important piece of evidence connecting Bailey and like-minded sexologists to the modern eugenics movement. Among the Human Biodiversity Institute members giving early promotion to Bailey’s book were:

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Resources

Human Biodiversity Institute (humanbiodiversity.org) [archive]

Steve Sailer (members.aol.com/steveslr) [archive]

Steve Sailer (isteve.com) [archive]

Full list as of 1999:

Louis R. Andrews
Rosalind Arden
George Armelagos
Michael Bailey
Doug Bandow
Jennifer Beamish
Gary Becker
Ray Blanchard
Howard L. Bloom
George Borjas
Chris Brand
Peter Brimelow
Amby Burfoot
Chandler Burr
David M. Buss
William Calvin
Gregory M. Cochran
Daniel C. Dennett
John Derbyshire
Lee Ellis
Jon Entine
James Fallows
Tom Farrey
Peter Frost
Francis Fukuyama
David Gelernter
James Guest
William D. Hamilton
Henry Harpending
Lawrence Harrison
Natasha Hassan
Patti Hausman
James J. Heckman
Anthony Hilton
Ken Hirsch
Ralph L. Holloway
Arthur Hu
Carol Iannone
Ken Jacobs
Marek Kohn
Paul Krugman
Hugo Kugiya
Steven E. Landsburg
Kathryn Jean Lopez
Kevin MacDonald
Kate MacKay
John H. Manners
Jonathan Marks
William C. Martin
John McCarthy
Frank Miele
Ed Miller
John J. Miller
Charles Murray
Tim Noakes
Helmuth Nyborg
Walter Olson
John O’Sullivan
Steven Pinker
Ian Pitchford
Daniel D. Polsby
Virginia Postrel
John Relethford
Richard W. Rodgerson
David Rowe
J.P. Rushton
Steve Sailer
Frank Salter
Vincent Sarich
Dan Seligman
Jeremy G. Taylor
Steven D. Tripp
Ron K. Unz
Pierre Van den Berghe
Ben J. Wattenberg
Glayde Whitney