Savage Minds

Dr. William Malone is a board-certified endocrinologist who has been a vocal critic of the medical interventions in what is today called “gender identity.” Speaking with Julian Vigo, Malone goes through the institutional failures as well as the theoretical and medical practices that cater to the individual’s perception of how their own sex-related and socially-influenced personality traits should be “matched up with” stereotypes of gender reinforced through medical intervention.

Emma Hilton, a developmental biologist at the University of Manchester (UK) and a keen amateur sportswoman, discusses sex-segregation in sport, the impact of physical anatomy on performance and the necessity for a protected category for female athletes. In this episode, Hilton discusses with Julian Vigo her academic review of muscle and strength retention in trans-identified males suppressing the current policies within sports that argue for the inclusion of these males in female sport.

In this episode, Caleb Maupin, a widely acclaimed speaker, writer, journalist, and political analyst discusses Muammar Gaddafi’s Green Book, the implications of US-sponsored regime change operations abroad, the shift of leftist politics and the demonisation of populism within the left. Maupin offers a rich history of the left within the west elaborating how class politics have been eroded by the rich and the ultra-rich, to include a stunning analysis of what Maupin calls a “country club attitude” of the wealthy class. Discussing US party politics, Maupin examines the greater problems of neoliberal capitalism and why the left needs to return to class analysis to include dialoguing with the working class on both sides of the aisle while stepping away from the liberal culture wars.

Oliver Traldi is a graduate student in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, a writing fellow at Heterodox Academy, and a columnist at ArcDigital. Recently, Traldi penned “The Left Has Turned Into a Guild Hall,” an essay which addresses identity politics on the left. In this episode, Traldi speaks with Julian Vigo about his views on the left’s abandon of class politics, the protest on the US Capitol building and why identity by fiat is putting the brakes on social and political advances.

Dr. Douglas Frank, Ph.D. in Surface Analytical Chemistry, has recently gained notoriety for his modelling work on the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Frank has been making his work available to the public since January of 1990 and his Facebook page “Follow the Data with Dr Frank” has over 50,000 members and followers. In this episode, Dr. Frank details the way the COVID-19 data is being used, abused and misrepresented by governments and the media.

This episode is an in-depth interview with Stephanie Davies-Arai, founder and Director of Transgender Trend, the leading UK organisation advocating for an evidence-based approach to childhood gender non-conformity. Davies-Arai details her entry into the gender debate, her work to expose the medical fraud that is “childhood gender transition” and the problems faced by teachers, clinicians and parents when confronting what has become a quite well-funded and powerful lobby.

Also, mentioned in this episode are Michael Bigg’s resarch, “The Tavistock’s Experimentation with Puberty Blockers” and Rachel Rooney’s book, My Body is Me!

En el episodio de lanzamiento para 2021, nuestra invitada especial es Lidia Falcón, abogada, escritora y política, que ha sido investigada por la Fiscalía de Delitos de Odio y Discriminación, junto con la Dirección General de Igualdad de Cataluña, en respuesta a una denuncia de la Federación Plataforma Trans (Trans Platform Federation) de España. Habla con Julián Vigo sobre su lucha contra la identidad de género, una nueva ola de misoginia que supone una seria amenaza para los derechos de las mujeres.

Philosopher, Heather Brunskell-Evans, joins Savage Minds for the our end of year broadcast in her analysis of the current pushback against lockdown to include the recent writings of Italian philosopher, Giorgio Agamben, who has harshly critiqued current virus mitigation in a series of essays and At What Point are We? this year.

Stella O’Malley, psychotherapist, bestselling author, and co-host of Gender: A Wider Lens Podcast, speaks with Julian Vigo about her personal and professional experiences in the “gender identity” debate and the way the “born this way” ideology within the gay community was quickly adopted within the “gender identity” camp. Focussing upon the problems of medicalising gender, O’Malley discusses her work on the Channel 4 documentary “Trans-Kids: It’s Time To Talk” and the fallout from this programme which includes a widening of the lens upon childhood gender transition to include the medicalisation of children, the entrenchment of gender stereotypes and the reluctance to move treatments for gender dysphoria towards a therapeutic or analytic model.

Paul Cockshott, author of How The World Works (2019), discusses the links between capitalism and class politics. Detailing how the ruling class is based upon the exploitation of labour and the interwoven dynamics of the class economy, slavery, feudal tenure, and immigration, Cockshott elaborates the historical issues that affect productivity and labour today.