The woman behind PITT, writer and researcher. Through essays, satire, and evidence-based critique, her work deconstructs the narratives that harm trans people and explores paths toward liberation.
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When Manufactured Evidence Meets Institutional Ambition Stella O'Malley's latest piece, "Why Genspect Is Following WPATH Across the World," reads like a victory speech. The tone is confident, even triumphant. Positioning Genspect as the credible institutional alternative to a supposedly discredited WPATH. O'Malley
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How Sasha Ayad Sells Sophisticated Conversion Therapy to Scared Parents ⚠️ CONTENT WARNING: This article analyzes harmful conversion therapy content from Sasha Ayad's "The Metaphor of Gender" YouTube channel and podcast. This material promotes practices condemned by every major medical and psychological organization. The analysis in this
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A Response to City Journal's "Transgender Brain Studies are Fatally Flawed" As I have seen this article from the City Journal making the rounds to help bolster recent claims and rhetoric, I thought it was a good idea to provide an analysis of the article, the
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The Respectability Politics of Trans Exclusion Like our recent article that showed how ‘When We Police Ourselves’ applies to the broad LGBTQIA+ community with ‘The Convenient Fiction of the "Good Gay,"‘ here we get to examine whether those same concepts and framework apply to the 'gender critical&
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A 3/5ths Compromise for the 21st Century There’s something almost admirable about the confidence, arrogance, or ignorance of a cisgender, heterosexual man sitting down to write 4,200 words explaining how an entire marginalized community should gracefully accept partial personhood for the sake of political convenience. Teed Rockwell
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A Response to Carolina Courier's Nostalgic Revisionism In light of my most recent essay, I thought to visit this series of articles if only to make the point that “When We Police Ourselves,” though written from the lens of “from trans people to trans people,” the framework put
Essays
The Cruelest Cut: How We Become Enforcers of Our Own Oppression In my previous essays, I traced the architecture of our oppression: how history shows us casting off boots only to face new ones, how our oppressors project their fragility onto us, how this projection manifests across every arena of
Satire
A Satirical response I lie awake, grateful for the friends who see the real me I didn't appreciate how important bonds with other trans kids were until I came out. I learned then that it really does take a village to survive parents who think they know you
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Supporting Politicians Who Want Them Dead Local parent revolutionizes child welfare by voting for candidates promising to eliminate their son's healthcare access. Child development experts hate them! In a stunning display of what George Orwell would call "protective rejection," a parent has bravely shared their innovative
Essays
In my previous essay,"The Mirror of Offense," I explored how accusations of fragility reveal more about the accuser than the accused, how the mirror of offense reflects back the brittleness of those who cannot bear to share a world where their comfort isn't centered. That
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Well, folks, I've just finished reading what might be the most spectacular example of someone learning all the wrong lessons from their clinical experience. Dr. Dwight Panozzo, a PhD and LCSW who should definitely know better, has written "From Respect to Understanding," where they want us
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On Medical Ethics, Natural Function, and Constitutional Analysis Or: How to Spot Philosophers Who Should Maybe Stick to Trolley Problems Look, I get it. Philosophy can be hard. You spend years pondering whether chairs exist, arguing about zombies, and trying to figure out if a ship is still the same