Beyond Gender

With 35 years of clinical experience, Dr. Lisa Duval sees what others won't say: gender dysphoria is fundamentally a phobia of adulthood. In this piercing analysis, she explains how treating puberty fear with blockers is like telling someone afraid of bridges to "avoid every bridge in your life"—the opposite of proper therapy. Dr. Duval reveals how multiple young women in her practice leaned in and whispered: "I don't think I'm eve...

Before social media, before gender clinics in every city, before anyone knew what "gender identity" meant, Cori Cohn saw transsexualism on afternoon TV and thought he'd found the answer to his problems. At 19 in 1994, he had genital surgery. Three decades later, he's helped pass laws banning youth medical transition in 26-27 US states. In this remarkable conversation, Cohn reveals how he "doctor shopped" until finding a third psych...

From founding North America's first pediatric gender clinic in 1975 to being fired by activists in 2015 (and winning an $800,000 settlement), Dr. Ken Zucker has witnessed—and shaped—the entire evolution of gender medicine. In this remarkable conversation, the architect of gender dysphoria diagnoses in DSM-3R, 4, and 5 reveals how "gender identity disorder" became "gender dysphoria," why social transition flips desistance rates from...

When a Navy-trained plastic and reconstructive surgeon breaks ranks to expose his field's "source of great shame," the revelations are devastating. Dr. Patrick Lappert brings 40+ years of surgical expertise to demolish the myth of "gender-affirming care," revealing it as cosmetic surgery for body dysmorphic disorder—something plastic surgeons are ethically forbidden to perform. In this unflinching episode, he explains why phallopla...

What drives someone who helped found the UK Gay Liberation Front in 1970 to co-found LGB Alliance nearly 50 years later? Bev Jackson's journey spans from being the only woman at GLF's first meeting (19 gay men and her) to secretly gathering 70 people in 2019 because gay rights organizations had been "taken over by cuckoos." In this powerful episode, Jackson explains why she believes gender ideology is "the opposite of homophobia," ...

What happens when a pediatric endocrinologist watches gender medicine evolve from underground experiments to mainstream practice—and fights back? Dr. Quentin Van Meter has been there since the beginning: treating his first trans-identified child in 1993 when no guidelines existed, witnessing John Money's perverse theories firsthand at Hopkins, watching WPATH transform into what he calls "a cult religious group with a bibliography o...

What happens when the world's most influential newspaper spends two years investigating youth transition but refuses to ask what gender identity actually means? Leor Sapir dissects the New York Times' "Protocol" podcast, revealing how they avoided every foundational question while positioning unscientific assessment as the "reasonable middle ground." He shares explosive revelations from his own interview with Laura Edwards-Leeper (...

What happens when extreme trauma, tech culture, and gender ideology collide? Sascha Bailey's journey from nearly transitioning in Tokyo to becoming a leading voice on male detransition reveals uncomfortable truths about control and identity. Diagnosed with "gender dysphoria" in 10 minutes, prescribed HRT on the spot, Bailey escaped Japan overnight—and slowly unraveled everything he thought he knew. Now expecting a child with his pa...

What happens when a lifelong Democrat lawyer discovers her daughter's school is secretly transitioning her child? Erin Friday's journey from concerned parent to leading legal warrior reveals how California became ground zero for parental rights battles. When Child Protective Services knocked on her door for questioning the school's actions, this mother transformed into an unstoppable force. Watching her daughter spiral from a pink-...

What happens when a gay rights activist discovers his country has become what he calls a "dystopian dark gender Gilead"? Eldur Smári Kristinsson's journey from questioning why gay men must accept "girl dick" to facing criminal prosecution reveals how Iceland—population 400,000—became the world's most captured nation. As kindergarteners come home asking if they can change sex and BDSM is taught as a sexual orientation, Kristinsson w...

What happens when an evolutionary biologist examines gender theory through the lens of 4 million years of human evolution? Gary Clark's journey from living with Aboriginal peoples in Australia's Western Desert to studying sexual dimorphism in ancient fossils reveals how post-modern theorists claiming to "deconstruct" Western ideas are actually imposing them. As major universities embrace the notion that biology is "right-wing," Cla...

What happens when a psychiatrist looks at the data and says no?At 94, Dr. Paul McHugh remains psychiatry’s most controversial voice. From shutting down Johns Hopkins’ gender identity clinic in 1979 to co-founding the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, his career has been defined by refusing to follow ideological trends. In this episode, McHugh shares how psychiatry abandoned scientific integrity, first with multiple personalities, t...

What happens when a psychiatrist who spent 50 years treating gender dysphoria refuses to abandon science for ideology?Dr. Stephen B. Levine’s journey from co-founding a gender clinic in 1974 to being labeled a “hateful guy” reveals how a field once seeking answers became allergic to questions. As WPATH transformed from clinical inquiry to advocacy, Levine witnessed the moment when booing replaced peer review at professional confere...

What if the very way we parent today — hovering, curating, protecting — is destroying our children's ability to grow up?Nancy McDermott’s journey from Park Slope mom to parenting culture expert reveals how the family transformed from a sturdy institution into a fragile vehicle for self-fulfillment. As gentle parenting fails another generation and schools strip away parental authority, McDermott exposes how the 1970s divorce rev...

What if millions of pregnant women were unknowingly given drugs that altered their children’s brains, and their grandchildren’s?In this episode, Jill Escher, autism advocate and president of the National Council on Severe Autism, shares the shocking discovery that reshaped her understanding of her family, and the modern neurodevelopmental crisis. Escher’s journey began with two profoundly autistic sons and led her to a startling tr...

What if the most destructive concept in modern psychiatry emerged from men lying to get hormones? Mia Hughes traces the shocking origins of childhood gender dysphoria back to the 1960s, when researchers studying effeminate boys were actually chasing ghosts—transgender children who didn't exist. Meanwhile, Stella O'Malley shares her harrowing personal journey as a child who desperately wanted to be a boy, offering a rare win...

“To a close approximation, I would, quote, diagnose the West as having a thoroughgoing case of borderline and narcissistic personality disorders.”What if the same psychological abuse tactics you escaped from your childhood home are now running our political culture? Josh Slocum saw it first in his borderline mother's rages, then in his leftist activist circles, and now everywhere: the emotional manipulation, reality distortion,...

Buckle up for evolutionary psychology without guardrails. Diana Fleischman tackles the questions everyone thinks but nobody asks: Why do women feel visceral disgust at pregnant “transmen”? Why did #MeToo accidentally break dating? Could autogynephilia be men trying to psychologically "hunt" women? A polyamorous mother of two who openly advocates eugenics, Fleischman brings hard science to our softest taboos. She explains ...