A Manifesto for Liberation Now The Fact of Our Binding James Baldwin wrote: "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." But there is something else Baldwin understood, something that sits beneath every essay he wrote, every warning he
The Quiet We Refuse There is a trap built into the floorboards of being trans. You feel it every time you smile at a stranger who stares too long, every time you soften your voice to keep the peace, every time you say "it's fine" when
The Cruelest Arithmetic The world is not our only oppressor. Watch what happens when oppression does its work long enough, effectively enough: you begin doing it to yourself. Not because you're weak, but because you've learned the lesson too well. You absorb the cisheteronormative logic so
A Rapid Follow-Up on Claims, Contradictions, and the Consumer Fraud Lawyer Who Can't Distinguish Between Two Simple Things Friends, sometimes the universe hands you a gift so perfectly wrapped that you would think it was staged. Do you recall my article on July 8th, 2025 entitled “Bad Facts
Hughes accuses gender-affirming medicine of operating on ideology while being blinded to the scandal. She is describing her own epistemic position. She has already committed to the conclusion before examining the data.
How Gatekeeping Becomes the Wound We Inflict on Ourselves. There exists a particular kind of cruelty that wears the face of care. It speaks in careful tones about being thoughtful and deliberate, about protecting those it is actually abandoning. It sounds nothing like oppression.
When Acceptance Means Submission The Gospel According to Conversion Therapy Meet Jesse, Sasha Ayad’s perfect trans person. Jesse accepts misgendering with a smile, treats identity as a fun metaphor, and never makes grandma uncomfortable at Thanksgiving. Jesse is the conversion therapy dream, the model minority of the gender world,
Debunking Sasha Ayad's Denial-Based Identity ⚠️ CONTENT WARNING: This article analyzes harmful conversion therapy content from Sasha Ayad’s “The Metaphor of Gender” YouTube channel and podcast. While written to support and validate trans experiences, the analysis necessarily includes discussion of transphobic arguments, psychological manipulation tactics, and discriminatory frameworks
A somewhat raw and unpolished update to you all Well hello there folks. I missed last week’s publication date and did not notice it until now. Truth be told, and as I am sure you all are well aware, things have been getting particularly harsh for trans folks -
How Ayad Misrepresents Affirming Care There’s a special kind of audacity required to attack evidence-based healthcare while selling your own discredited alternative for $285 an hour. It’s the same energy as someone setting fire to a hospital while advertising their healing crystals. But that’s exactly what we
Decoding Ayad's Conversion Manifesto ⚠️ CONTENT WARNING: This article contains detailed discussion of conversion therapy tactics, psychological manipulation techniques, gaslighting, and the systematic invalidation of trans identities. It includes references to mental health impacts including depression, anxiety, and suicidality. The content may be triggering for survivors of conversion therapy,
A Response to Sammy Stagg's Methodological Retreat An Author’s Response When I published my analysis of the City Journal's "Transgender Brain Studies are Fatally Flawed," I expected some pushback. What I didn't expect was such a textbook demonstration of the motte-and-bailey
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Ayad's Audience Grooming Tactics ⚠️ CONTENT WARNING: This article discusses psychological manipulation tactics and conversion therapy recruitment methods that may be disturbing to those who have experienced religious or therapeutic manipulation. Part 2 of the PITT Series: Debunking "The Metaphor of Gender" Here's an uncomfortable
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Manufacturing Confusion from Complexity ⚠️ CONTENT WARNING: This article analyzes conversion therapy rhetoric and discusses suicide risk among trans youth denied care. It also analyzes harmful conversion therapy content from Sasha Ayad's "The Metaphor of Gender" YouTube channel and podcast. This material promotes practices condemned by every
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They Demand Flag and Persecution Recognition SUBURBIA, USA1 — In what organizers called a "historic moment for parental rights," a group of parents held a press conference yesterday to formally declare themselves an oppressed minority class and demand official persecution recognition after their adult children stopped returning their calls.
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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
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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