An American Conversation Podcast™

Dr. Ray Blanchard is Back & Sandra Currie has something to say!!

Dr. Ray Blanchard was Head of Clinical Sexology Services in the Law and Mental Health Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto, Ontario from 1995 to 2010. He is currently an adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He holds dual citizenship in the United States and Canada. He received his A.B. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967 and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1973. He then took up a Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded by Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he remained until 1976, investigating learning processes in animals. In 1976 he accepted a position as a clinical psychologist at the Ontario Correctional Institute in Brampton, Ontario. While there, he made the acquaintance of the prominent sex researcher Kurt Freund, M.D., D.Sc., who introduced him to research on paraphilias, gender identity disorders, and sexual orientation. Blanchard joined the Gender Identity Clinic at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry (now part of the CAMH) in 1980. Much of his research in the next 15 years concerned transsexualism and milder forms of gender identity disorders. In 1995, he was appointed Head of the newly created Clinical Sexology Services at the CAMH. This unit comprised the Gender Identity Clinic and the Kurt Freund Laboratory. This laboratory is the oldest in North America for the psychophysiological assessment of erotic interests in sexual offenders and other men with problematic sexual behavior. This type of assessment (variously called phallometric testing or penile plethysmography) is one of the few available procedures for diagnosing paraphilias in sexual offenders who verbally deny anomalous erotic interests. He retired from the CAMH in 2010. In 2004, he served as President of the International Academy of Sex Research. From 2008–2012 he was a member of the Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders Work Group for the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. He was an Associate Editor of Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment from 2003–2010, and he has been a member of the Editorial Board of the Archives of Sexual Behavior since 1990. In 2010, he received a Significant Achievement Award from the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, and in 2017, he received the Richard Green Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Academy of Sex Research.. Listen in, be that Fly on the Wall…

Mr. Scott Newgent is a forty-nine-year-old transgender man and parent to three teenagers. Before transitioning, Scott was known as Kellie King, a dynamic, powerful advertising executive, who acquired countless honors, awards, and accolades.

At age 42, Kellie made an ill-fated decision that would turn her world upside down.  She transitioned to a transman, to become Scott Newgent.  Scott endured medical complications after medical complications due to a lower-than-average transgender healthcare system. Which alarmed him from the beginning of this journey.

As Scott began to recover from several near-death experiences, he devoted himself to researching all materials relating to the transgender healthcare system. What Scott discovered infuriated him! Not only was the international transgender healthcare system(s) sub-par but that those working closely within those systems were urgently pressing children (and their families) to transition medically. To his dismay those medical organizations & physicians are hardly ever held to account when medical/psychological issues arise.

The concern and outrage propelled Scott to become one of the fastest-rising international transgender leaders of today. He founded TRevoices - TRans Rational Educational Voices - which advances the viewpoint that all involved in the transgender movement, including but not limited to, medical professionals, should always Speak the Truth, Acknowledge Reality, and Support/Advocate/Care for ALL who are affected by Transgenderism.

Through this experience, trauma & educational journey, Scott has stated that he would not have transitioned but does accept the decisions he has made! Scott Newgent believes in living the life you have but never, and he means never, forget to SCREAM!

Linda Blade is a former National Champion of Canada in track & field (heptathlon) with a PhD in Kinesiology. For the past 26 years, she has run a private consulting business as “Sport Performance Professional” coach in Edmonton, Alberta working with athletes in over 15 sports (beginner to elite). Since 2014, Linda has also served as President of the Board for Athletics Alberta, where she has a duty to represent the province of Alberta at Canadian national sport policy meetings.  In a bid to increase public awareness of the threat posed by gender ideology, Linda has partnered with journalist Barbara Kay to author a new book, titled: UNSPORTING: How Trans Activism and Science Denial are Destroying Sport.

Radical gender activists are using a pseudoscientific theory of human biology to hijack sports and subvert the long-established concepts of fair play — forcing women and girls to risk their safety, pushing them aside for male athletes using the excuse of “inclusivity.”

Anyone who questions this dogma risks being branded as a transphobe and having their social and professional lives “cancelled”.

In the new book, Unsporting: How Trans Activism and Science Denial are Destroying Sport, former Canadian track champion Linda Blade and renowned National Post columnist Barbara Kay, examine the dangers of gender ideology in sports. They document the attack on biological facts upon which the level playing field of sports rests.

Tackling issues few have the courage to say out loud, Unsporting shows the harm inflicted on female athletes, and identifies the institutions driving this movement.

What does the future hold for sports if biological reality is ignored? Blade answers that question and concludes with a reasonable plan to reverse course.

Here's some scintillating background information on Lisa: 

After growing up in various northeastern and southwestern college towns, I moved to New York City when I was 21 and had no idea what to do with my degree in experimental feminist video (good thing I went to college for free).

My brother offered me a room in his East Village hovel, and my first career was in film/TV (here are some props I made when I worked at Blue's Clues), but I was always obsessed with the relationship between the built environment and emotional experience: I wanted to know how architecture could help form community. So I enrolled first in a Ph.D. program in environmental psychology. Then, fearing that I'd get another degree like the one in experimental feminist video, I transferred to a Master’s in Urban Planning Program.

Then one night my brother sat me down on his roof and said, "If you want to be a writer, why are you going to urban planning school?" So I became a writer, now of two novels and about 600 essays and articles about film and travel and the environment and real estate and parenting, for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Yahoo, and many other publications. My first non-fiction book, TOMBOY: The Surprising History and Future of Girls* Who Dare to Be Different, is out now.  I’m repped by the wonderful agent Eve Attermann at WME.

http://www.lisaselindavis.com/lisa

Has a conversation with the Gang! Listen in, Be that Fly on the Wall….

When Maggi isn't talking into a microphone to record her smooth voice, she's on-stage delighting audiences with her musical comedy.  You can find her latest album, "Wake Up, Maggi" wherever you like to listen to music.

She has traveled all over the country performing for clubs and festivals including The Sno Jam Comedy Festival, Ventura Comedy Festival and Laugh Riot Grrrl. She is also a semi-finalist in the Opening Act Contest to play the Hollywood Bowl with Coldplay.

Maggi is a self-taught guitarist and accompanies her jokes with parody songs. She has opened for David Spade (Paradise Comedy Tour, Hawaii) David Koechner (Anchorman) and hosted Craig Robinson (The Office). 

She is professionally trained at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in NYC, The Academy of Radio Broadcasting in Huntington Beach, CA, and earned her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with a minor in Latino Studies from The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Maggi has also studied the fine art of improv with Second City in Chicago. Listen in, be that Fly on the Wall...

Yes, that’s my middle name baby😉 is an Actress, Comedian, Makeup Artist, & Skincare Specialist who was born in Compton raised in South Central LA! She has always been into entertaining since early childhood. She holds two Bachelor of Arts degrees in Theatre Arts and Communications with an emphasis in Media Studies. She has been part of several improv groups, performed in several stage productions as well as done stand up at the World-Famous Comedy Store in West Hollywood. Fun Facts include but are not limited to; her first two times in planes she jumped out! (Skydiving 😜😌) She played the violin for 2 years in elementary and 1 year in High School. She was on the tennis team her last year of high school and still very much enjoys playing whenever she can find a willing adversary. Favorite motto to live by is Y.O.L.O. #wildvirgo FOLLOW HER ON SNAPCHAT/IG FOR LAUGHS, HEALTH TIPS & RANTS ON LIFES WONDERS ON THE DAILY

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BG

Roe v Wade is gone, what is next for women! Abortion is currently under attack by the extreme Right! Re-publishing Abortion Show Part 1: Abortion Good or Bad? The gang debates the controversial topic of Abortion in the United States of America 2022!  Listen in, be that Fly on the Wall...More parts are coming!