Helen Pluckrose is a political and cultural writer and commentator, addressing current affairs from a liberal humanist perspective. Her particular focus is current Critical Social Justice (woke) scholarship and activism. Helen took part in the Grievance Studies Affair (along with Peter Bogossian and James Lindsay) which submitted shoddy, ridiculous…

Alex Byrne is a professor of Philosophy at MIT. A few years ago he started working on philosophical issues relating to sex and gender. And he just published a book on the topic called “Trouble with Gender: Sex Facts, Gender Fictions”. Pick up your copy here: http://www.alexbyrne.org/trouble-with-gender.html…

NJada is a detransitioned man who began social transition in 2013 at the age of 19, and HRT the following year. He ultimately detransitioned in 2015. Since then he has been gradually working through stages of self-acceptance. After taking a break from the whole topic of gender for a time, he began to get in touch with other detransitioners in late …

Courtney Coulson is an Australian detransitioner and YouTuber exploring the real psychological and social motivations behind gender dysphoria. In this conversation, Courtney discusses a topic not nearly covered enough on this podcast, which is the role of online fandoms in Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria and motivating adolescent females to transition…

Tamara Pietzke is a whistleblower from Washington State whose story was published by The Free Press last week. Tamara has a Masters in social work from the University of Washington. She's since worked with older adults, pregnant and postpartum women, the chronically mentally ill, those in inpatient centers, and she's spent the last six years doing …

Eliza Mondegreen researches online trans and detrans communities, where she explores the ways questions and doubts are handled. She also writes about gender medicine for Substack, UnHerd, and other outlets. We had Eliza back on the pod to discuss Friday's New York Times article on detranistioners (featuring Aaron K! and others) as well as her lates…

Ray Alex Williams is a detrans philosopher who wrote a book on trans feminism and philosophy when he was still identifying as trans. After detransition, however, he started a YouTube channel to share his experiences and educate people on gender issues suppressed in mainstream discourse. Ray's YouTube - youtube.com/@RayAlexWilliams Ray's Twitter - t…

Helen Joyce is author of “TRANS: When Ideology Meets Reality”, (recently reissued as “Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women’s Rights”). TRANS was published in July 2021 by OneWorld and has been in paperback since May 2022. A Times of London and Spectator book of the year, it is a UK and Amazon top ten bestseller. It received rave revi…

Anastassis Spiliadis is a psychotherapist and psychologist based in London & Athens, working with individuals couples and families. He works clinically in private practice and as an Education Lead in the NHS. He has worked for many years with people of all ages affected by eating disorders, gender-related distress, relationship challenges and often…

Amanda Kovattana is a biracial, tri-cultural writer who grew up in Bangkok, in a pre-industrialized Thailand before immigrating to California in 1968. She was born in England to an English mother and a Thai father and lived in England during their college years. As a gender non-conforming child, living in Thailand, she benefited from the “third gen…

Dr. Julia Mason is a board-certified pediatrician and Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She is a graduate of the University of Illinois and completed residency training in Pediatrics at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. Dr. Mason has a busy pediatrics practice; in the past several years she's encountered increasing numbers of gender dysp…

This episode is a little different, in that it started as an informal conversation between Aaron Kimberly, Aaron Terrell and our friend Jamie Reed from the LGBT Courage Coalition. We’re weren’t entirely sure it would become a podcast episode, so it might be a little more disorganized than even we are known for. In this recording, we’re discussing a…

Anna is a Boston-based musician that has lived with gender incongruence her whole life. After trying medical transition, she decided to move away from this treatment approach for her condition, even after seeing some benefits. Regardless of her approach moving forward, she seeks to reestablish a new relationship with what it means to be a female bo…

Marc is a 40 year old, married transsexual man from Michigan. By day he’s a Senior Legal Processor at a Real Estate Law Firm. He and his wife also have an Etsy business, The Winking Owl Designs. Marc describes himself as an old hippie soul, an avid animal lover, music lover, cannabis connoisseur, and lover of all humans. He started speaking publicl…

No guest this week. Instead Aaron T makes the case for why he believes so many butch lesbians become gay transmen after taking testosterone. This is a phenomena widely observed within FtM communities, but neither the people experiencing this sexuality change, nor the clinicians prescribing the hormones, seem to understand why it is happening. A lot…

Don't listen to this podcast. At least not here. Head over to YouTube https://youtu.be/UKQErjjStIk where you will find a transcript to accompany the often difficult to hear audio. In the third installment of our special series covering the 2023 National Transgender Health Summit, we bring you the recording of a task force from the American Psycholo…

We brought Phil Illy back for the launch his book: Autoheterosexual: Attracted to Being the Other Sex. Available today as a paperback, with the ebook and hardcover available on Tuesday, June 13th. Here is what our own Aaron Terrell had to say about Autoheterosexual, "Expertly researched yet entirely accessible to any layperson interested in this to…

In this second episode of our special series on the National Trans Health Summit, we bring you into the room for a presentation by Dr Dan Karasic. Karasic is the lead author of the mental health chapter of WPATH’s Standards of Care 8, speaking here about working with patients with autism.We’re joined by two Bay area clinicians who attended the conf…

Our guest this week is Dr. Diane Ehrensaft. Dr. Ehrensaft is director of mental health, and a founding member of the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Child and Adolescent Gender Center Clinic. She is a developmental and clinical psychologist in the San Francisco Bay Area. We’re kidding. Sort of. Aaron T recently attended the Annual Trans Health Sum…

“Sophia” is a clinical psychologist with a private practice in San Francisco, CA. Her practice is dedicated to providing psychoanalytic psychotherapy to gender-dysphoric and trans-identified adolescents and young adults as well as detransitioners, and parent consultation. She, along with my co-host Aaron Terrel, recently attended the National Trans…

Cath Lloyd is the daughter of male to female trans parent. In 1987 her Dad suddenly announced that he was going to undergo gender reassignment treatment. This was a total shock to the whole family, except for her Mum who had known about her Dad's gender dysphoria for 10 years. There were no warning signs. Once Cath finally got through her bereaveme…

Dr Paul L. Vasey is Professor and Board of Governors Research Chair in Culture, Organization and Society at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. His research has focused on understanding the development, evolution and psychobiology of gender diversity and sexual orientation. He has studied female homosexual behavior in Japanese monkeys …

Christina is an independent journalist who writes about gender, pseudoscience, mental health, autism and critical thinking. She advocates for early autism screening and education and a model of transition care that prioritizes thorough, individualized assessments that explore gender-related distress. https://buttonslives.substack.com/p/how-autistic…

Julia Malott is a transgender woman in Ontario, Canada. After running as a candidate for her 2022 school board trustee election, she has been active in school boards across Ontario. Julia holds herself as a voice against illiberal ideologies and seeks to bridge conversations about sex and gender in a way that brings about workable solutions for eve…

Jamie Reed is a self described Queer woman and mom of 5. She holds a Masters of Science in Clinical Research Management and previously worked as a case manager at the Washington University School of Medicine's paediatric transgender centre at St Louis Children's Hospital. She left the position in November of 2022 due to concerns that they were harm…

Zander Keig is an award winning clinical social worker and a female to male transsexual of Mexican heritage. His advocacy work involves serving as Welcome Ministry Board President, Transgender American Veterans Association Board Director of the Community & Fellowship Committee, Advisory Board member, and Senior Fellow for the Foundation Against Int…

Laura Hobbs is a self described "Gay-GP", a play on Autogynephilia (AGP) with a meta attraction to men. Having once been a controversial and radical trans activist, she has learned that self awareness and acceptance, not the activist narrative, has greatly improved her overall mental health. Laura’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@UCLGOwg…

Eliza is a graduate student researching online trans and detrans communities, with a focus on how these communities influence attitudes, beliefs, and knowledge about gender and expectations and intentions toward transition and/or detransition. She attended the WPATH SOC 8 launch conference in September 2022 and describes her some of her observation…

Earlier this week, the Gender Dysphoria Alliance published a blog article chronicling the ripple-effect impact that speaking publicly has had on Aaron Kimberly's family. In this episode of Transparency, the two hosts discuss the spirit in which that article was written, reminding our audience that at the centre of everything is our humanity and int…

Phil Illy is an autoheterosexual author who, in his words, “aims to mainstream autoheterosexuality and destigmatize it so that more of his kind can jettison shame and live in union with their inner cross-gender spirit.” Prior to writing a soon to be released book about his sexual orientation, Phil received degrees in physics and mechanical engineer…

Torren Danowski is a 33-yo man living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attempted transition twice in his early 30s after struggling with gender most of his life. But once he realized that his gender dysphoria was actually the symptom of something deeper, he began addressing that deeper issue, and saw the pain of gender dysphoria begin to subside. …

KC Miller is a 22 year old detrans woman and lesbian from Pennsylvania. She first began transition at the age of 16, and ultimately began detransitioning at 21. KC has come to realize her male identity was largely motivated by early childhood sexual abuse and homophobia. ************* Support our work: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/GDAll... For m…

Lisa Marchiano is a writer and Jungian analyst in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has been in practice for over 20 years. Since 2016, she has had a special interest in gender and has worked clinically with gender dysphoric young people, parents of trans identified youth, and detransitioners. Her peer reviewed papers on gender have appeared in Psych…

Our guest, Kiyah, is a recent college grad who identified as nonbinary for nearly 2 years when she was an undergraduate. After realizing the damaging mindset of the modern "queer" community, she turned away from being an extreme identity politics activist. She now is on Twitter where she shares her experiences, and advocates for people to step away…

Dr Zucker is an American-Canadian psychologist and sexologist who has worked in the field of gender since 1975. He was psychologist-in-chief at Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and head of its Gender Identity Service until its closure in December 2015. Since 2001 he's been editor-in-chief of Archives of Sexual Behavior. In this epis…

This episode originally aired in Dec 2021 when the WPATH Standards of Care (SOC) 8 draft was released. The final version was published in Sept 2022 with some revisions. Most notably, they removed the minimum age recommendations for starting medical interventions. Aaron Terrell attended the Sept 2022 WPATH conference as a delegate of GDA. One author…

In which Greg Klein of the Airwolf Years and I discuss nostalgia, aesthetics and robot voices. Read more: Covenant Minute 35 Find Greg here: https://ciampaklein.com/ Citations Activist Post. (2015, October 26). Why is wheat such a problem in the modern diet? https://www.activistpost.com/2015/10/why-is-wheat-such-a-problem-in-the-modern-diet.html Ei…

Matt is a British transman living in the US who's entered the online discourse with concerns about certain LGBTQ politics, including the promotion of pedophilia as a legitimate sexual orientation, and the sexualization of children. He's one of several transpeople working with the LGBT group, Gays Against Gr**mers. https://www.gaysagainstgroomers.co…

Our friend Sinead Watson returns to Transparency to talk about her own story of transition and detransition, in light of the trans healthcare reform happening in the UK. Funds are being collected to pay for aspects of Sinead’s detransition that aren’t being covered by the NHS. If you’d like to make a donation, follow this link: https://www.paypal.c…

Shape Shifter is a male-to-female transitioner who feels regret about some of his decisions but is a brave soul, rocking what it means to be a feminine gay male.By Gender Dysphoria Alliance

Mars joins the Transparency team again to follow up about being off testosterone for a year, and what he's been up to. Check out his YouTube show here: https://www.youtube.com/c/upperhandMARS Mentioned: Zander Keig: There Is a Diversity of Thought in the Trans Community https://youtu.be/LxAGYvXLo2oBy Gender Dysphoria Alliance

Hosts Aaron Kimberly and Aaron Terrell answer viewer questions. Mentions: James Cantors paper New MRI Studies Support the Blanchard Typology of Male-to-Female Transsexualism: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3180619/ Dr Bailey and Dr Hsu's study How Autogynephilic Are Natal Females?: https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s10508-022-023…

Shannon Boschy is a Canadian financial planner whose unexpected entry into the trans ideological crisis has led to some valuable insights and an exciting AI project that will provide reliable data about patterns of social influence on young people. Please consider making a financial contribution to this important study. Shannon can be contacted at:…

Note: We recommend watching this episode on YouTube rather than listening to audio only due to the visual content. Frederik Ribersson of Ribberson Coaching teaches about recovering from narcissistic relationships and releasing trapped emotions. In this episode of Transparency, he discusses narcissistic thinking patterns, identifying them, and how t…

Stillman Cray is an American trans man and author of Being Transgender is Not Normal: https://www.amazon.com/Being-Transgender-Not-Normal-Manifesto/dp/B0B1VL4K4L Who Has Known Heights: https://www.amazon.com/Known-Heights-Wheston-Chancellor-Grove/dp/0983700753 ************* Support our work: https://www.paypal.com/donate?token=fYDyZpQuGkF-RfpcCrDHH…

Katie Herzog is an American journalist and co-host of the Blocked & Reported podcast. Twitter: @kittypurrzog Blocked & Reported: https://www.blockedandreported.org The Detransitioners: They Were Transgender, Until They Weren't: https://www.thestranger.com/features/2017/06/28/25252342/the-detransitioners-they-were-transgender-until-they-werent Order…

Debbie Hayton is a physicist and columnist from the UK. She began transitioning in 2012 and had sexual reasignment surgery in 2016. Shortly thereafter Debbie came to accept that she did not have a female brain in a male body, but was instead motivated by a very male, and somewhat unusual, sexuality known as autogynephilia. Mentioned: Carole Hooven,…

In which Curtis and I talk design, spores, and generational reverence for certain films. Find Curtis here: https://www.facebook.com/TimeBanditsMinuteBy traviandesigns

In which I am joined again by Curtis of Time Bandits Minute to space suits, android actors and guns. Find Curtis here: https://www.facebook.com/TimeBanditsMinuteBy traviandesigns

In which I am joined by Curtis Bloes of Time Bandits Minute to discuss novelisations, and just what exactly is a “sound”? Find Curtis here: https://www.facebook.com/TimeBanditsMinute Citations Spoiler study enjoyment. (2011, August 11). The Mary Sue. https://www.themarysue.com/spoilers-study/ Find my old podcast The Book Was Better here: https://ww…