On this special episode, we discuss part four of the New York Times’s six-part series about the history of pediatric gender medicine. Episode 4, “The Whistleblower,” is about Jamie Reed, who blew the whistle on the pediatric gender clinic at Washington University in St. Louis in 2023. Jamie tells us what the Times got right, what they left out, plus a whole lot more.

* “The Whistleblower”

* Jamie’s affidavit

* Jamie’s 2023 testimony in The Free Press

* Azeen’s 2023 NY Times piece about Jamie

* LGB Courage Coalition’s Substack post on bicalutamide

* “The Myth of Reliable Research”

* “The Dutch Protocol for Juvenile Transsexuals: Origins and Evidence”

* Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic

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On Thursday evening, The New York Times released “The Protocol,” its highly anticipated podcast on the history of pediatric gender medicine. We do a deep-dive into the first two episodes of the six-part series: “The Beginning” and “The Gender Kids.”

* Olson-Kennedy study

* Olympus spa ruling

* CA trans athlete wins

* Loudon County update

* The Protocol

* Dept Q

* The Golden Notebook

* A Mother’s Reckoning

* Bluejay omens

Today we answer some listeners’ questions and then discuss Jonathan Cowan’s op-ed for Politico. And Eliza comes out!

* CMS investigates GAC hospitals

* breast cancer study

* Kansas lawsuit

* CA sports rules changes

* Democratic Arizona senator’s comments about sports

* Politico op-ed

* Leor Sapir’s thread about the op-ed

* goblincore

* cottagecore

* Furry event at UC Irvine

* The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity

* Secret Lives of Mormon Wives

* Balatro

* The Extinction of Experience

* Being a parent

Today we discuss:

* The 2016 CMS Report on Gender Dysphoria and Gender Reassignment Surgery.

* NBC's reporting on the new bill prohibiting Medicaid from covering sex-trait modification procedures.

* Jamie getting thrown out of the APA meeting, from which one gender session was leaked.

* The FTC’s plan to investigate fraud in the gender-affirming care industry.

* The MIT "Born in the Right Body" event, at which Jamie and Lisa spoke, and which drew protestors. And fun signs!

* Planned Parenthood's puberty blocker video.

Our non-gender recommendations for the week:

* Gardening!

* Coffee with a spoonful of tiramisu inside!

Cori, Eliza, and Jamie revisit the HHS report, “Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices.” They talk about the libertarian case for age limits on hormonal and surgical interventions and the homophobia underlying the entire enterprise of transition.

Health and Human Services Report

Sunday event in Cambridge: Born in the Right Body.

Montana judge finds trans care ban unconstitutional

Homophobia on my mind by Jamie Reed

The Ross Douthat column that changed Jamie's life

Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious by Ross Douthat

This week we discuss the MAGA look, the low-down dirty tactics of Maine legislators, the sophistry of psychotic professors, and the moral dilemma of patronizing businesses that use WPATH’s standards of care to inform their medical benefits policies.

* MAGA aesthetics

* The Psychology of Totalitarianism

* An Abundance of Caution

* Maine LD380

* All of Us Strangers

* Histories of the Transgender Child

* Jules Gill-Peterson in NY Times

* Transgender Studies Quarterly

* TERF Industrial Complex

* Starbucks trans insurance

* availability heuristic

* Chick-fil-A kale crunch salad

* Meghan Daum and Richard Rushfield

* Max Richter world tour

* Nespresso Vertuo

* Julia Mason in the Economist

Today we discuss the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ evidence review, “Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria Review of Evidence and Best Practices.” What did the review say? Is it unbiased and dispassionate? Was it a good idea for the HHS to withhold the authors’ names? Will it convince anyone on the other side of this debate? How have news outlets been reporting on it? All that and more, plus headlines.

* HHS report

* Biden admin suppresses reviews

* Erin Reed coverage of report

* Jamie in NBC News reporting

* NY Times coverage of report

* APA statement

* WaPo coverage

* Lawless book

* Megyn Kelly NY Times interview

* Thelma

* Bitchin’ Sauce

* Mistakes Were Made

* Marcus Aurelius -Meditations audiobook

* Unveiled

* The Last Girl

Ben and Jamie are off planning puppy pride parades, so this week, Cori, Eliza and Lisa digest the Supreme Court case Mahmoud v. Taylor. We also talk about Pam Bondi’s directive, Nike’s funding of a study on trans athletes, and the doctor, Allan Josephson, who received $1.6 million settlement after his colleagues destroyed his career for speaking out about youth gender transition. A little background on I Am Jazz, and some read-alouds on YouTube of Uncle Bobby’s Wedding.

Lisa’s non-gender suggestion of the week: Bo Burnham’s INSIDE, and Phoebe Bridgers’ cover of one of his songs from the album, That Funny Feeling.

Cori’s: Harmonies board game.

Eliza’s: Phyllis Rose’s Parallel Lives

The five of us discuss the outcome of the For Women Scotland case and how the situation across the pond compares to the US. Plus news headlines.

* XX wrist bands are hate speech

* Trump admin seeks to limit GAC coverage

* Planned Parenthood Arizona

* Trump admin sues Maine

* World Pride might tell trans people “Do not come”

* British newspaper front pages

* Supreme Court decision coverage

* third spaces

* Pride is going broke… (LGB Courage Coalition)

* Malcolm Clark’s thread on detransitioned Moroccan influencer

* WaPo article about influencer

* Sarah McBride Atlantic interview

* Parallel Lives book

* Satan’s Silence book

* Lawrence Wright

* The Looming Tower

* My Trip to Al-Qaeda

* Drawing flowers

* Meghan Daum’s new book

Today we discuss news headlines, a recent court decision in Australia, and the excruciatingly bad Last Week Tonight episode about trans athletes.

* Colorado bills

* Title IX investigation team

* Female disc golfer protests

* Ted Cruz opens investigation

* UK pool tournament

* Montana legislation

* Maine sues

* Trump admin pulls funding from Maine’s prison system

* America First Legal refers Illinois school district to DOJ

* Bernard Lane on Australian judge’s decision

* Last Week Tonight

* Nevada sports

* Lisa’s piece on Last Week Tonight

* White Lotus finale

* Kemi hasn’t watched Adolescence

* Julie Bindel tweet

* Suzanne O’Sullivan - The Age of Diagnosis