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Joey Brite and transgender people

Joey Brite is an American ex-transgender activist who organized an anti-transgender conference in 2020 and is an executive producer of the 2023 anti-trans film No Way Back (originally Affirmation Generation). Director Laura VanZee-Taylor, producer Penka Kouneva, and executive producer Brite are responsible for including convicted sex offender David Arthur Kendall as one of the ex-trans activists featured.

Background

Alicia Nancy Neff was born in February 4, 1955 in Los Angeles to Charles “Bud” Neff and Carolyn Jeannette Neff. Neff’s father was a musician who ran Neff’s Paint and Wallpaper in Anaheim, and Alicia Neff graduated from Anaheim High School in 1972.

As an adult, Neff began using the names Alicia Brite and Joey Brite, usually styled joey brite. Brite and a songwriting partner began performing original “women’s music.” Brite also worked in set design and theatrical props, eventually becoming lighting assistant for an independent film company “that churned out lesbian porn for theatrical release.”

Brite has kept a connection with the paint and wallpaper industry since the late 1980s, operating an interior paint consultancy called The COLOR Effect since 1995.

Brite was a DJ at KPFA in Berkeley from 1983 to 1985. Brite was associated with Mills College from 2001 to 2003, working as a liaison for Fremont High School. In 2004 Brite began producing events and fundraisers and started handling social media for several artists.

In 2020, Brite described conservative trans people Blaire White, Scott Newgent, Fionne Orlander, and Buck Angel as the “four horsemen of the gender critical apocalypse.”

Brite continues working in production, incorporating Small Pockets Productions LLC in California in 2020 and Behind the Curtain Productions Inc in New York in 2022.

2020 conference

On August 8, 2020, Brite held the “Can I Get a Witness” conference. It was dedicated to the memory of Magdalen Berns and featured many prominent anti-transgender activists:

  • Wall Street Journal writer Abigail Shrier and Author of the recently published Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
  • Therapist Sasha Ayad M. Ed., LPC at Inspired Teen Therapy
  • Investigative writer and blogger Jennifer Bilek
  • Jane Wheeler, President of Rethink Identity Medicine Ethics, Inc.
  • Lawyer Kara Dansky
  • Don Smith, an outraged citizen from Sweden
  • Endocrinologist Quentin Van Meter
  • Lesbian film director Catherine Crouch
  • Filmmaker and activist Vaishnavi Sundar
  • In Conversation: Stephanie Davies-Arai from Transgender Trend and radical lesbian critic Julia Long
  • Health journalist Jamila Bey
  • Sydney Wright, a detransitioned woman
  • Eugenia Rodrigues, Founder of No Corpo Certo (Brazilian Campaign Against Transing Kids)
  • Julia Diana Robertson, Senior Editor at The Velvet Chronicle
  • Women Are Human Founder (remaining anonymous for her own protection)
  • Spinster founder MK Fain
  • Youtuber The Deprogrammer (remaining anonymous or her own protection)
  • Thistle Pettersen from Women’s Liberation Radio News
  • In Conversation: Sports Coach Linda Blade and Save Women’s Sports founder Beth Stelzer
  • Feminist Current founder and pod-caster Meghan Murphy
  • Mother turned activist Lynn Meagher
  • Epidemiologist Hacsi Horvath, a detransitioned man
  • Sherri Golden, a lesbian who was attacked at the 2018 San Francisco annual Dyke March
  • Writer Donovan Cleckley
  • Doula Courtney Catearth
  • Alicia Strada, who was attacked by other women for her views on gender identity
  • The TERF Exhibit Founder Sam Reitger (remaining anonymous for her own protection)

In a 2021 recap of anti-trans developments, Brite cited highlights from Jennifer Bilek, Lierre Keith, Sasha Ayad, Stella O’Malley, MK Fain, Eugenia Rodrigues. Keira Bell, Declaration on Women’s Sex-Based Rights, LGB Alliance, KS Jolly in Feminist Current, Jo Brew, Bernadette O’Malley, Women’s Liberation Front, Tulsi Gabbard, Save Women’s Sport, Josephine Bartosch, Courtney Catearth, Karen Davis of You’re Kiddin’, Right?, Mr Menno, SEGM, Abigail Shrier, JK Rowling, and Alix Aharon of of Partners for Ethical Care.

References

Brite, Joey (October 2, 2020). The Four Horsemen of the Gender-Critical Apocalypse. Uncommon Ground https://uncommongroundmedia.com/the-four-horsemen-of-the-gender-critical-apocalypse/

[Obituary] (April 19, 2013). Charles Neff. Orange County Register https://obits.ocregister.com/us/obituaries/orangecounty/name/charles-neff-obituary

[Obituary] (March 15, 2016). Carolyn Jeannette Neff. Orange County Register https://obits.ocregister.com/us/obituaries/orangecounty/name/carolyn-neff-obituary?id=16292068

Pettersen, Thistle (2021). Highlights of 2020 with Joey Brite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLj9sOvfhCA WLRN Edition 57: Radical Feminism 2020 https://womensliberationradionews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/edition-57-interview-with-joey-brite-transcript.pdf

Resources

The COLOR Effect (thecoloreffect.com) 2003–2016 [archive]

Bizapedia (bizapedia.com)

Ticket Tailor (tickettailor.com)

  • Can I Get a Witness conference [archive]
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  • thecoloreffect [2015-2017]