Pamela Paresky is an American psychologist and anti-transgender activist.
Background
Pamela Beth Prestyn Paresky was born on February 16, 1967 to David Paresky and Linda Sue (Kotzen) Paresky.
Paresky earned a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University in 1990, a master’s degree from Pepperdine University in 1994, and a doctorate from University of Chicago in 2005.
Paresky was an aspiring actor and musician. Paresky met and married Hugh Zuker, and they moved to Aspen, Colorado. Zuker became a sheriff’s deputy in Aspen, the president of Mountain Rescue Aspen, and a victim of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. They have one adult child, Jared Aiden Zuker (born 1999).
As Pamela Zuker, Paresky authored the 2010 book A Year of Kindness.
Anti-transgender activism
Paresky has served as a Senior Fellow at the Network Contagion Research Institute and as primary researcher for The Coddling of the American Mind by anti-trans activists Greg Lukianoff of FIRE and Jonathan Haidt of Heterodox Academy.
On Substack, Paresky promoted many of the usual suspects, including:
- Stella O’Malley
- Grace Lidinsky-Smith
- Lisa Selin Davis
- Abigail Shrier
- Ben Appel
- Brian Belovitch
- Carole Hooven
- Buck Angel
- Corinna Cohn
- Joseph Burgo
- Leor Sapir
References
Gardner-Smith, Brent (December 18, 2017). Citing ‘vitriol,’ Zuker drops out
of sheriff’s race. Aspen Daily News https://www.aspendailynews.com/citing-vitriol-zuker-drops-out-of-sheriff-s-race/article_c685d182-8017-5626-b2d8-c7c84f2e2c0d.html
-https://www.panix.com/~chris/notes.htm
Green, Emma (May 17, 2023). A Club for the Cancelled. The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/the-party-is-cancelled
Paresky, Pamela (May 4, 2022). The Op-Ed That Went Viral And The Trans Woman Who Wrote It. Habits of a Free Mind https://paresky.substack.com/p/the-op-ed-that-went-viral-and-the
Paresky, Pamela (July 30, 2022). Europe Becomes More Cautious About Pediatric Gender Medicine While California Doubles Down. Habits of a Free Mind https://paresky.substack.com/p/europe-becomes-more-cautious-about
Resources
Twitter (twitter.com)
-hughforsheriff.com
-zuker.org
-https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/aYearofKindness.com
-https://multigenerationalconsulting.com/
Facebook (facebook.com)
Substack (substack.com)
- Habits of a Free Mind
- paresky.substack.com/
LinkedIn (linkedin.com)
- pamelaparesky
- linkedin.com/profile/view?id=107082424
Jewish Institute for Liberal Values (jilv.org)