It’s Pride Month! Here’s how I’m celebrating
June is known as Pride Month. I thus would like to take this month to recognize the following for allowing us to have a more nuanced appreciation and understanding of gender and sexuality, while being grounded in reality, truth, biology, and kindness too. I might not agree with everything everyone says, does, or believes (and in fact some might not even like being in the same list as others), but I feel they have helped contribute to changing the international conversation in various ways, and for that I am grateful - and proud.
Researcher Dr. Lisa Littman—she poked her toe in the water and hasn’t stopped doing good science, despite it all. She’s the first thing I came across when I googled “suddenly trans” (for that’s what it is when your kid has zippo childhood gender dysphoria)
Finland for being the first country in the world to look at the evidence for care of gender-questioning youth and realize how lacking it is
Abigail Shrier, one of the bravest and most tenacious writers out there, and for Irreversible Damage - thank you for putting it all out there for our girls
Scott Newgent, for being one of the first trans people to write publicly about why gender dysphoric children shouldn’t medicalize
Other heterodox trans people like Corinna Cohn, Aaron Kimberly and Aaron Terrell of Gender Dysphoria Alliance, Debbie Hayton, Mars, and more
The UK. Where to begin when talking about TERF Island!?! First and foremost, Keira Bell, JK Rowling, and Transgender Trend (and congrats on your big award!), for being pioneers. Also Helen Joyce, Kathleen Stock, the Tavistock whistleblowers, NICE studies, and the interim Cass Review
Sweden, one of the most trans-progressive countries in the world, advising caution based on evidence
Nuanced independent journalists like Carolina Jemsby, Lisa Selin Davis, Jesse Singal, Katie Herzog, Bari Weiss, Wesley Yang, Barbara Kay, Benjamin Boyce, and Megan Daum
Brave legacy journalists like Tom Blackwell and Bernard Lane and outlets like the National Post, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, 60 Minutes, Quillette, and Brandon Showalter, jouralist who has been really involved in covering the harms of this agenda.
Lawyers like Lisa Bildy, Vernadette Browles, and Luke Berg
Gender: A Wider Lens podcast, which for more than a year has explored all facets of gender as well as its many intersections with sexuality.
Detransitioners speaking up like Sinead Watson, Grace, Helena, Tullip, Some Nuance Please, and in ever increasing numbers, despite the vitriol too often hurled at them
Desisters, also a forgotten and disparaged group
Gay adults worried about the future of gay kids, such as Arty Morty and Allison Bailey
France’s National Academy of Medicine, which has recognized the role of social influence
The Dysphoric documentary by Indian filmmaker Vaishnavi Sundar
Jennifer Lahl and her documentary Trans Mission: What's the Rush to Reassign Gender?
The Detrans subreddit and the survey it conducted
4th Wave Now, which has worried about kids medically transitioning since 2015
Jordan Peterson, who saw all this coming in 2016 - whatever you think of him, I wish we’d all been as prescient
Canadian Gender Report, which saw the ideology in schools starting in 2019
Genspect, for giving a public voice to parent concerns since June 2021
PITT, for giving a much-needed voice to and outlet for parents
Parents of ROGD Kids, Our Duty, GDSN, and other support networks
Researchers like James Cantor, Ken Zucker, and Debra Soh
Media personalities Bill Maher and Matt Walsh
Thoughtful therapists who understand exploratory therapy - Stella O’Malley, Sasha Ayed, Tania Marshall, and many more
The researchers at the Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine
Teachers who resist indoctrinating their students
Family doctors who safeguard kids
Evolutionary biologists like Richard Dawkins and Colin Wright
Whistleblowing clinicians like Dr. Laura Edwards-Leeper and transwoman Erica Anderson
Feminists like Meghan Murphy, Kara Dansky, Mia Ashton, and Amy Hamm
Parents of detransitioners and desisters who still fight the good fight with us, even though their own immediate fight may be over
Billboard Chris and others having one conversation at a time
Again, this is to say that not everyone on this list is perfect or has gotten it all right, but that they have positively contributed to moving this issue forward - that’s all.
Who or what am I missing? I’m sure a lot! Please add your own people and organizations to thank in the comments below.
CROWDSOURCED FROM THE COMMENTS:
Trans Train
Andrew Sullivan
Kellie-Jay Keen of Standing for Women
GenitoriDegeneri
The Famous Artist Birdy Rose and Rachel Rooney
Blaire White
The late great Magdalen Berns
Maya Forstater and Sex Matters UK
Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying belong on your list of evolutionary biologists
Mr Menno (you tube)
Peak Resilience Project
Julia Beck
Lesbians United
Gov. Ron DeSantis
Gigi LaRue
Charlie
Belissa Cohen
Candice Jackson
All the moms and dads fighting behind the scenes
Amy Ichikawa
Sidewalk Steve and his wife Beth in NH
StoicMom’s Newsletter
Lisa Salamone
Partners for Ethical Care
Jessie Mannisto from Third Factor Magazine
Dolly at The 21st Century Salon
Isabella Malbin at WhoseBodyIsIt?
Mumsnet
www.childrenoftransitioners.org
TT Exulansic (https://odysee.com/@Exulansic:d)
Shape Shifter to the list of detransitioners.
on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcU5PxKfWqAQcaFIecpwiHA
on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShifterofShapes
https://youtube.com/c/TheStateMedia
Dennis Noel Kavanagh, gay man, excellent Substack and Twitter feed
Lisa Marchiano
Az Hakeem
Dr Miriam Grossman
the GETA therapists
Advocates Protecting Children
Parent Child Rights
Brandon Showalter, Journalist
Libs of TIK TOK (and Taylor Lorenz- tee hee)
Graham Linehan
Save Women's Sports - Beth Stelzer
Women's Liberation Front ("WoLF")
American feminist author and academic, Janice Raymond
English-Australian lesbian academic, Sheila Jeffreys
Susan and Marcus Evans
David Bell
Sonia Appleby
Prostate cancer patients who understand the awful side effects of "puberty blockers" (Lupron)
to the brave souls who pointed out that Butler's reading of Foucault is pernicious bourgeois nonsense that completely ignores the materialism at the heart of his work - not to mention his warnings against individualism
the parents who continue to ask the questions and do the research and put their skin in this toxic game sheltering their kids in any way they can, big or small. Day in and out
Michael Biggs
Alison Clayton
Paul Hruz
David Schwartz
Paul McHugh
JL Cederbloom
Stephen Levine
Ricky Gervais (Supernature)
Dr. Michael Laidlaw
Dr. Will Malone
I would add Matt Walsh and his recently released documentary "What Is A Woman?" He asks the question and lets the gender "experts" dig themselves into holes with their replies. Here's the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqBguWbia_o
Lisa Marchiano, Az Hakeem, Dr Miriam Grossman and the GETA therapists who risk their reputations and careers refusing to simply affirm kids down a path of destruction. As far as organizations, Partners for Ethical Care, Advocates Protecting Children and Parent Child Rights.