‘Calmversations’: anti-transgender podcast

In 2018, Benjamin A. Boyce began a series of interviews with other anti-transender, conservative, and ex-trans figures. The show is alternately called “Calmversations” or “The Boyce of Reason.” Despite the show’s relaxed tone, Boyce’s guests are often strident critics of progressive aspects of the trans rights movement.

See this episode list for details.

Guests with pseudonyms

Many guests lack the courage of their convictions and use fake names and identities.

“A Woman”
“Andrius”
“Brette” & “Anna” (unaccepting parent and “desisted” child)
“Brian W” / “BriWagon”
“Brit”
“Bx”
“Cat Girl Kulak”
“Catherine”
“Chris”
“Dr. Rollergator”
“E. Ransom”
“Emily”
“Finley”
“Grace”
“Isaac”
“Isaac” / “CryptoCluniac” (conservative transmedicalist)
“Issa Ismail”
“Jenni”
“Jennifer Anne” / JenniferAnne_s
“Jet London”
“Jett”
“Jonathan Anomaly”
“Joshua Neal”
“Jules Louise”
“Kallie”
“kate” / unqueenlyandsh
“Kayla”
“Kelly S”
“Kevin / Evelyn”
“King Crocoduck”
“Kobe”
“Kruptos”
“Lara”
“Leigh”
“Lexi”
“Leoaica Motanelul”
“Lois”
“Lomez”
“Lorelei”
“Mackenzie”
“Maye Muses”
“Mazy”
“Oak Leaves and Onions”
“Oliver”
“Peavy”
“Rachel”
“radley_ms”
“Raw Egg Nationalist”
“RedHawk of The Old Glory Club”
“Ria”
“Right Side”
“Robin” / “niwatori_dt”
“Robynne M.” (conservative transmedicalist)
“ROGD Mom”
“Shane Cole”
“Solid Ground”
“Some Moms”
“Stoic Mom”
“Tascatorials”
“Terffy”
“Teiresias”
Theo/XXinv9
“Waffling Willow”

Guests (alphabetically by surname)

This list is not exhaustive.

Maia Abbruzzese (ex-trans activist)
Catherine Abecassis / “Femalefedupwith”
Oren Amitay (anti-trans activist)
Erica Anderson (conservative psychologist)
Buck Angel (conservative transmedicalist)
Jackson Ankeney / “J. Burden”
Ben Appel (LGB separatist)
Jadis Argiope (conservative transmedicalist)
Hunter Robert Ash / “PsiKey” / “Ash Hunter” / “ArtemisConsort” / Alice Fields
Robin Atkins
Sasha Ayad (anti-trans activist)

Erika Bachiochi
J. Michael Bailey (anti-trans extremist)
Jamie Bambrick
Marc Barnes
Geneviève Bask / “Jellybean Gen”
Stephen Baskerville
Julie Behling
Carl Benjamin
Austin Benton / “Austin Unbridled”
Christina Berry / “Christina Buttons” (anti-trans activist)
Julie Bindel (anti-trans activist and sex segregationist)
Stephen Blackwood
Linda Blade (anti-trans activist and sex segregationist)
Ray Blanchard (anti-trans activist)
Randall Bock
Tomas Bogardus (anti-trans activist)
Schyler Bogert (conservative transmedicalist)
Talia Bongolan-Schwartz / “Tali”
Karlyn Borysenko
Shannon Boschy
Rick Bosshardt
Beth Bourne (unaccepting parent and anti-trans extremist)
Jason Bradley
Cynthia Breheny
Erin Brewer (unaccepting parent)
Asha Britt / “Kinesis” / “Kinysis” / “Alex” / “GC_Ladyboi’ / “Sulaco_Queen” / “A Gender Critical Trans Individual” / “Last LadyBoi StarFighter”
Chloe Brockman / “Chloe Cole” (ex-trans activist)
Katherine Brodsky
Belinda Brown (anti-trans activist)
Rachel Fulton Brown
Heather Brunskell-Evans (anti-trans activist)
Joseph Burgo (unaccepting parent / “autogynephilia” activist)

Carey Callahan (ex-trans activist)
Denise Caignon (unaccepting parent and anti-trans extremist)
Chiara Caignon-Lewis (ex-trans activist)
James Cantor (anti-trans activist)
Jeremy Carl
July R. Carlan / “Shape Shifter” (ex-trans activist / regretter) [episode with Mitra N Forouhar removed]
John Carpay
Daisy Chadra (ex-trans activist)
Lynn Chadwick (unaccepting parent)
Brian Chau / “Cactus Chu”
Bruno Chaouat
Brian Chau
Seerut Chawla
Brian Chu / Cactus Chu
Cory Clark
Malcolm Clark (anti-trans activist)
Donovan Cleckley (gender critical LGB separatist)
Nathan Cofnas
Belissa Cohen (LGB separatist)
Corinna Cohn (conservative regretter / ex-trans activist)
Malcolm Collins
Simone Collins
Darryl Cooper
William Costello
Timothy Courtois
Maritza Cummings (ex-trans activist)

B.B. Dade
Torren Danowski (ex-trans activist)
Kara Dansky (anti-trans activist)
Meghan Daum (anti-trans activist)
Stephanie Davies-Arai (anti-trans activist)
Karen Davis (anti-trans activist)
Lisa Selin Davis (unaccepting parent)
Josh Daws
Vincent De Boni (anti-trans activist)
Katherine Deves (anti-trans activist)
Jash Dholani
Kevin Dolan
Katherine Dooley
Sarah Downey
Andrew Doyle (anti-trans activist)
Edward Dutton / “The Jolly Heretic”
Jay Dyer

Sarah Elizhar (ex-trans activist)
Zach Elliot
Leslie Elliott / Leslie Elliott Boyce (anti-trans activist)
Christopher Elston / “Christoph Elston” / “Billboard Chris” (anti-trans activist)
Sarah Elizhar (ex-trans activist)
Kasey Emerick / “KC Miller” (ex-trans activist)
Libby Emmons
Devon Eriksen
Erika Ervin / “Amazon Eve” (conservative transmedicalist)
James Esses
Marcus Evans (anti-trans activist)
Susan Evans (anti-trans activist)

Abigail Favale
Mars Fernandez / “UPPERhand Mars” (conservative transmedicalist)
Janice Fiamengo
Deb Fillman
Nate Fischer
Nicolas Flowers / “Nita Flowers” / “Nicolas Blooms”
Robin Forbes-Lorman
Rebekah Ford / “Aydin Paladin”
Mitra Forouhar [episode with July Carlan deleted]
Maya Forstater (anti-trans activist)
“J.G. Fox” / James Foxx
Erin Friday (unaccepting parent)

Abel Garcia (ex-trans activist)
Kalvin Garrah (conservative transmedicalist)
Jane Gatsby
Raegan Giberson / “The Right Side of History” / “Dark Hegel” / “Moist Hegel” / “fedpoasting”
Laurie Stalberg Gigliotti / “Peachy Keenan”
Genevieve Gluck (anti-trans activist)
Claire Graham (identifies as intersex)
Dave Greene
Karleen Gribble / “DRKarleenG”
Wheston Chancellor Grove (author)
Sall Grover (anti-trans activist and sex segregationist)
Seth Gruber
Alasdair Gunn / “Angus Fox” (anti-trans activist)

Sarah Haider (anti-trans activist)
Eithan Haim
Az Hakeem (anti-trans activist)
Jordan Hall
JD Haltigan
Laura Bryant Hanford
Mary Harrington (anti-trans activist)
Carrie Hathorn (LGB separatist)
Laura Haynes
Debbie Hayton (conservative transmedicalist)
Charles Haywood
Jessica Heeley / “Jess” / “BadCripple”
Luka Hein (ex-trans activist)
Bradley Helgerson
Jim Heller
LaRell Herbert (ex-trans activist / regretter)
Ritchie Herron / “Tullip” (ex-trans activist / regretter)
Katie Herzog (anti-trans activist)
Heather Heying (anti-trans activist)
Stephen Hicks
Milli Hill (anti-trans activist)
Emma Hilton (anti-trans activist)
Jesse Hinty (ex-trans activist)
Sam Hoadley-Brill
Jenny Holland
Carole Hooven (anti-trans activist)
Coleman Hughes (anti-trans activist)
Mia Hughes / “Mia Ashton” / Mia Sedley” / _CryMiaRiver (anti-trans activist)
Phil Hutchinson / “Phil Illy” (“autogynephilia” activist)

Amie Ichikawa
Elika Imanaga

Candice Jackson (anti-trans activist)
Charlie Jacobs
Nicholas Jadaszewski / “NJada”
Julie Jaman (anti-trans activist)
Jane Clare Jones (anti-trans activist)
Theo Jordan
Helen Joyce (anti-trans extremist)
Lee Jussim (anti-trans activist)

Jennifer Kabbany
Kris Kaliebe (anti-trans activist)
Alex Kaschuta
Jeremy Kauffman
Eric Kaufmann
Ashlee Kelly / “Rose of Dawn” (conservative transmedicalist)
Helena Kerschner / “Lacroicsz” (ex-trans activist)
Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull / “Posie Parker” (anti-trans extremist)
Zander Keig (conservative transmedicalist)
Camille Kiefel (ex-trans activist)
Joomi Kim
Aaron Kimberly (conservative transmedicalist)
Aaron Kindsvatter
Tony Kinnett
Konstantin Kisin (anti-trans activist)
Spencer Klavan
Joseph Klein
Amanda Kovattana
Jennifer Krohn (unaccepting parent)
Eva Kurilova (anti-trans activist)

Jennifer Lahl (anti-trans activist)
“Logan Lancing” / Trevor Stieg
Dominic Lauren (ex-trans activist)
Arianna Laureano / “Ari” / “Transphobe01” / “Annamosity” / “Laurie James”
Liz (Roland) LeBlanc / “Little Apostate”
Lydia Leitermann
Grace Lidinsky-Smith (ex-trans activist)
James Lindsay (anti-trans activist)
Sean Lindsey (conservative transmedicalist)
Graham Linehan (anti-trans activist)
James Linehan
David Linz / “The Distributist” / “Dave Greene”
Jason Littlefield
January Littlejohn (unaccepting parent)
Lisa Littman (“ROGD” activist)
Lisa Logan
Sarah Louise-Jordan / “Lorelei Hatpinwoman”
Robbie Luster / “Arty Morty”
Rudyard Lynch / “WhatIfAltHist”

Auron MacIntyre
Monica Madrigal / “Poof” / “Dr. Proof”
Ane Maiora
Isabella Malbin (anti-trans activist)
William Malone (anti-trans activist)
Jessie Mannisto (anti-trans activist)
“Carob Marcelle” / Cari Bartholomew
Lisa Marchiano (anti-trans activist)
Maud Maron (anti-trans activist)
Dave Martel / Big Dave Martel
Heather Mason
Mike Maxwell
Frank McCormick
Rhys McKavanagh (conservative transmedicalist)
Dina McMillan
Carrie Mendoza (anti-trans activist)
Robynne Merguerdijian
Noelle Mering
Chris Milburn
Michael Millerman
David Minor
Veera Mirjam
Joshua Mitchell
Sarah Mittermaier / “Eliza Mondegreen” (anti-trans activist)
H. Georg Moeller
Josh Moon
Tanis Moore / “The Prim Reaper”
Prisha Mosley (ex-trans activist)
Meghan Murphy (anti-trans activist)
Jamie Mustard

Michelle Naef
Mike Nayna
Scott Newgent (conservative transmedicalist / regretter)
Terry Newman
Reid Nicewonder
Abby Nissenbaum

Ani O’Brien
Stella O’Malley (anti-trans extremist)
Camilo Ortiz
Chris Ostrowski

Jonathan Pageau
Nina Paley (anti-trans activist)
Elle Palmer
Neema Parvini / The Academic Agent
Thaddeus Patrick / “Jac Falcon” / Shea Thaddeus-Patrick Layton
Amanda Patterson / “A Normal American” / LeftTheCoast
Gio Pennacchietti
Eva Penner / “Benji” / “GNC-Centric”
Laura Perry (ex-trans activist)
Chanel Pfahl
Garrett Phillips / “Garrett” / “Dani Pax” / “itsgarrettap”
Charles Pincourt
David Pivtorak
Helen Pluckrose (anti-trans activist)
Jeremy Pollack
Nina Power (anti-trans activist)
Simon Amaya Price & Gareth Amaya Price / “Ash” & “Raphael” (ex-trans activist and unaccepting parent)