Wesley Yang vs. transgender people

Wesley Yang is an author and anti-transgender extremist. Yang has written for several anti-trans publications, including Tablet and The Guardian. Yang is affiliated with anti-trans hate group Genspect.

Background

Yang was born on October 3, 1974 and grew up in New Jersey.

Yang attended Rutgers University from 1993 to 1997. Yang began freelance writing in 2005. From 2011 to 2013, Yang was a contributing editor at New York. Since 2017 Yang has been a columnist at Tablet. In 2018 Yang became a contributing editor at Esquire.

Yang is author of the 2018 book The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays. That book includes Yang’s provocative 2008 piece on mass shooter Seung-Hui Cho.

Yang coined the term “successor ideology.,” which was popularized by other reactionary centrists and conservatives. Yang describes it as “authoritarian Utopianism that masquerades as liberal humanism while usurping it from within.”

In 2022 Yang, spouse, and child were living in Montreal.

Anti-transgender activism

Yang got explicity involved in anti-transgender activism in around 2022 through Jesse Singal, Lisa Selin Davis, and “Eliza Mondegreen.” Yang cites anti-trans activism in Sweden and Finland as what finally provided cover for coming out as anti-trans. Yang walked around with anti-trans extremist “Billboard Chris” and found that nearly everyone agreed with the anti-trans messages Billboard Chris wears, yet still claims that anti-trans views are “heterodox.” Yang also had an extensive conversation with anti-trans extremist Leor Sapir.

Yang was a guest of Stella O’Malley and Sasha Ayad on their anti-trans podcast Gender: A Wider Lens in 2022 and was announced as a speaker at their 2023 Genspect conference.

Yang operated the Year Zero blog and podcast on Substack. Guests and contributors include:

“Anna and Brette” [child & parent ex-trans activists]
“Billboard Chris”
“Chloe Cole”
“Eliza Mondegreen” / Sarah Mittermeier
“Jennifer” [unaccepting parent]
“Joey Brite”
“Moonlit Piglet” [anti-trans teacher]
“Sophia Sedosa” [anti-trans psychologist]
Reduxx
Jenny Poyer Ackerman
Michael Biggs / “Henry Wimbush”
Joseph Burgo
Corinna Cohn
Lisa Selin Davis
Rona Dinur
José Duarte
Julia W. Mason
Adam Mortara
Leor Sapir
Anna Slatz

References

Berger, Adam (September 26, 2024). The Anti-Transgender Extremist on Campus this Weekend. The Skidmore News https://skidmorenews.com/new-blog/2024/9/26/the-anti-transgender-extremist-on-campus-this-weekend

Lin, Alexander (March 2022). The Former Essayist: On the decline of Wesley Yang. Strange Matters https://strangematters.coop/wesley-yang-souls-of-yellow-folk-review/

Coverage in anti-trans press

West, Ed (June 23, 2020). As a conservative, I mourn the loss of liberalism. UnHerd https://unherd.com/thepost/as-a-conservative-i-mourn-the-loss-of-liberalism/

Selected anti-trans writing by Yang

Yang, Welsey, Ackerman, Jenny Poyer (October 7, 2023). What Did You Do During the Transgender Social Contagion? Year Zero https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/what-did-you-during-the-transgender

Yang, Wesley; “Moonlit Piglet” (October 3, 2023). The LGB and the T: What these distinct and often conceptually opposed movements share in common beside an institutional Borg force teaming them. Year Zero https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/the-lgb-and-the-t

Yang, Wesley; Sedosa, Sophia (September 12, 2023). Psychologists are not legally required to affirm the gender identities of their patients. Year Zero https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/psychologists-are-not-legally-required

“Moonlit Piglet” (Aug 29, 2023). No One is Being “Outed” When Districts Decline to Deceive Parents About Their Children. Year Zero https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/no-one-is-being-outed-when-districts

Dinur, Rona; Yang, Wesley (August 23, 2023). The Legal Megalomania of Intersectionality, Year Zero https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/the-legal-megalomania-of-intersectionality

Yang, Wesley (August 18, 2023). “It’s possible to criticize and raise questions about pediatric gender medicine today in a way that was not possible even six months ago. We have definitely turned a corner.” Year Zero https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/its-possible-to-criticize-and-raise

Yang, Wesley; Ackerman, Jenny Poyer (August 3, 2023). What is Chris [Hayes] Thinking [interviewing Chase Strangio]? Year Zero https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/what-is-chris-thinking

Duarte, José; Yang, Wesley (Jul 28, 2023). Rigging the Science: On the Collateralized Debt Obligation of Transgender “Science.” Year Zero https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/rigging-the-science

Yang, Wesley with “Anna” and Brette” (Jun 03, 2023). “I have over 200 death threats/hate messages saying that your daughter tried to kill herself because of you, you should just kill yourself instead.” Interview With a Desister and Her Mother. Year Zero https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/i-have-over-200-death-threatshate

Burgo, Joseph (May 12, 2023). Autogynephilia and the Sexualization of Shame: On The AGP’s Dreadful Plight and Dreadful Triumph. Year Zero https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/autogynephilia-and-the-sexualization

Yang, Wesley (Feb 14, 2023). Stunning and Brave New World: How Gender is Lived Today, Part 1. Year Zero https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/stunning-and-brave-new-world

Yang, Wesley (September 24, 2019). America’s New Sex Bureaucracy: How campus Title IX courts’ guilty-until-proven-innocent subversion of due process is a harbinger of a dangerous wider shift in liberalism. Tablet https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/americas-new-sex-bureaucracy

Yang, Wesley (October 18, 2018), The Emperor’s Woke Clothes. Campus Week: How did an elite, repressive minority policing speech and culture through political correctness come to browbeat the American democratic majority? Tablet https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/political-correctness-minority

Yang, Wesley (May 28, 2018). The Shocking Truth About Jordan Peterson: How the Twitter mobs choose their targets. Tablet https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/jordan-peterson

Yang, Wesley (February 26, 2018). The Bari Weiss Pile-On: How the micro-grievances of different immigrant classes reflect a broader problem in our conception of race in America. Tablet https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/bari-weiss-mirai-nagasu

Yang, Wesley (January 8, 2018). Henry Louis Gates Jr. Brilliantly Anticipated Today’s Illiberal Movement to Ban Hate Speech. A return to the early-1990s origins of victimization in identity politics, then—and now—a distraction from the real challenges of structural and institutional racism in America. Tablet https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/henry-louis-gates-ban-hate-speech

Yang, Wesley (Winter 2008). The Face of Seung-Hui Cho. n+1 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-6/essays/face-seung-hui-cho/

Media

Genspect with Stella O’Malley and Wesley Yang (February 24, 2024). How did all of these untruths become truths? – Wesley Yang. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8464tKgXns

Genspect with Wesley Yang (November 18, 2023). A Rising Generation Has ALREADY Been Indoctrinated – Wesley Yang. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5I5NVYuafo

Year Zero with Wesley Yang and Leor Sapir (September 17, 2023). “I think the infusion of this ideology into our institutions, into our public life, is ultimately unsustainable.” https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/i-think-the-infusion-of-this-ideology

Year Zero with Wesley Yang and Anna Slatz (Sep 13, 2023). “How could it possibly be state sanctioned that we have men who have raped babies licking their lips, looking at tiny children in a women’s prison in the mother/baby unit?” https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/how-could-it-possibly-be-state-sanctioned-b88

Year Zero with Wesley Yang and Michael Biggs (August 1, 2023). Professor Michael Biggs on Woke Inquistions at Oxford and Exposing Bad Gender Science. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEfZvJi-xa0

Year Zero with Wesley Yang and Joseph Burgo (July 28, 2023). Joseph Burgo on autogynephilia, the state of psychotherapy, ROGD, and challenging WPATH. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9lhPyA7CAI

Year Zero with Wesley Yang, “Eliza Mondegreen,” Lisa Selin Davis, and Corinna Cohn (June 21, 2023). In the Belly of the Gender Beast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBChnNon0Ec

Year Zero with Wesley Yang and “Jennifer” (November 10, 2022). ROGD mom of 10-year old daughter socially transitioned by teacher behind her back speaks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_sSZdW5glA

Year Zero with Wesley Yang, Joey Brite and a Christian Homeschooling Mother (November 10, 2022). You’re never gonna be a man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNi9HpaE4y8

Year Zero with Wesley Yang and “Chloe Cole” (November 5, 2022). Puberty blocked at 12, testosterone at 13, double mastectomy at 15 Detransitioned at 18: Chloe Cole. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRAlOsEe5uw

Stella O’Malley and Sasha Ayad (October 28, 2022). EPISODE 93 – A Takedown of Gender Politics: Wesley Yang. Gender: A Wider Lens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOZE820t1V4

Year Zero with Wesley Yang and Julia W. Mason (October 22, 2022). Julia Mason, MD on The Sudden Surge in Transgender Identifying Girls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U8SFJkGpds

Year Zero with Wesley Yang and “Billboard Chris” (September 23, 2022). On the Road With Billboard Chris at Brown University. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0egAye2bD6c

Year Zero with Wesley Yang and “Billboard Chris” (September 17, 2022). Billboard Chris Debates Gender Ideology at the Lincoln Memorial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlacNs0b6Jw

Year Zero with Wesley Yang and “Billboard Chris” (September 17, 2022). On the Road With Billboard Chris. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp4S3ciCdWQ