Transparency

By Gender Dysphoria Alliance

What's Transparency about?

A podcast by the Gender Dysphoria Alliance. Join us for a compassionate yet heterodox approach to the question of trans.

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Transparency episodes:

03.10.2024
Gender Ideologies - with Helen Pluckrose
Helen Pluckrose is a political and cultural writer and commentator, addressing current affairs from a liberal humanist perspective. Her particular focus is current Critical Social Justice (woke) scholarship and activism. Helen took part in the Grievance Studies Affair (along with...
03.03.2024
Trouble with Gender - with Alex Byrne
Alex Byrne is a professor of Philosophy at MIT. A few years ago he started working on philosophical issues relating to sex and gender. And he just published a book on the topic called “Trouble with Gender: Sex Facts, Gender...
02.25.2024
It's Okay to be a Man - with NJada
NJada is a detransitioned man who began social transition in 2013 at the age of 19, and HRT the following year. He ultimately detransitioned in 2015. Since then he has been gradually working through stages of self-acceptance. After taking a...
02.18.2024
The Shaman Brain - with Courtney Coulson
Courtney Coulson is an Australian detransitioner and YouTuber exploring the real psychological and social motivations behind gender dysphoria. In this conversation, Courtney discusses a topic not nearly covered enough on this podcast, which is the role of online fandoms in Rapid...
02.11.2024
Another Whistle Blown - with Tamara Pietzke
Tamara Pietzke is a whistleblower from Washington State whose story was published by The Free Press last week. Tamara has a Masters in social work from the University of Washington. She's since worked with older adults, pregnant and postpartum women,...
02.04.2024
The New York Times ”Opinion” Piece & USPATH’s ”Medical” Conference - with Eliza Mondegreen
Eliza Mondegreen researches online trans and detrans communities, where she explores the ways questions and doubts are handled. She also writes about gender medicine for Substack, UnHerd, and other outlets. We had Eliza back on the pod to discuss Friday's...
01.21.2024
The False Dichotomy of Soft Boys and AGPs
Jared Kavan is an attorney by training but became interested in the broader gender discourse upon reading Autoheterosexual: Attracted To Being The Other Sex by Phil Illy in 2023. Jared became aware of the theory of autogynephilia in his early twenties,...
12.03.2023
Autogynephilosophy - with Ray Alex Williams
Ray Alex Williams is a detrans philosopher who wrote a book on trans feminism and philosophy when he was still identifying as trans. After detransition, however, he started a YouTube channel to share his experiences and educate people on gender...
10.09.2023
Enabled and Embedded – with Helen Joyce
Helen Joyce is author of “TRANS: When Ideology Meets Reality”, (recently reissued as “Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women’s Rights”). TRANS was published in July 2021 by OneWorld and has been in paperback since May 2022. A Times of London...
09.24.2023
Taking Stock at Tavistock - with Anastassis Spiliadis & Dr Anna Hutchinson
Anastassis Spiliadis is a psychotherapist and psychologist based in London & Athens, working with individuals couples and families. He works clinically in private practice and as an Education Lead in the NHS. He has worked for many years with people...
08.20.2023
Exploring the Unexpected Penis - with Amanda Kovattana
Amanda Kovattana is a biracial, tri-cultural writer who grew up in Bangkok, in a pre-industrialized Thailand before immigrating to California in 1968. She was born in England to an English mother and a Thai father and lived in England during...
08.13.2023
Backpedaling Pediatrics - with Dr Julia Mason
Dr. Julia Mason is a board-certified pediatrician and Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She is a graduate of the University of Illinois and completed residency training in Pediatrics at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. Dr. Mason has a busy...
08.07.2023
The Denton Report - with Jamie Reed
This episode is a little different, in that it started as an informal conversation between Aaron Kimberly, Aaron Terrell and our friend Jamie Reed from the LGBT Courage Coalition. We’re weren’t entirely sure it would become a podcast episode, so...
07.30.2023
Managing Dysphoria without Transition - with Anna
Anna is a Boston-based musician that has lived with gender incongruence her whole life. After trying medical transition, she decided to move away from this treatment approach for her condition, even after seeing some benefits. Regardless of her approach moving forward,...
07.23.2023
The old hippie soul, on Transsexual Unity - Guest: Marc
Marc is a 40 year old, married transsexual man from Michigan. By day he’s a Senior Legal Processor at a Real Estate Law Firm. He and his wife also have an Etsy business, The Winking Owl Designs. Marc describes himself as...
07.02.2023
The Butch Lesbian to Gay Man Pipeline
No guest this week. Instead Aaron T makes the case for why he believes so many butch lesbians become gay transmen after taking testosterone. This is a phenomena widely observed within FtM communities, but neither the people experiencing this sexuality...
06.19.2023
Special Series - National Transgender Health Summit - Ep. 3 - APA
Don't listen to this podcast. At least not here. Head over to YouTube https://youtu.be/UKQErjjStIk where you will find a transcript to accompany the often difficult to hear audio. In the third installment of our special series covering the 2023 National Transgender Health...
06.11.2023
AAP: Aaron, Aaron & Phil
We brought Phil Illy back for the launch his book: Autoheterosexual: Attracted to Being the Other Sex. Available today as a paperback, with the ebook and hardcover available on Tuesday, June 13th. Here is what our own Aaron Terrell had to...
06.04.2023
Special Series - National Transgender Health Summit - Ep. 2 - Dr Karasic
In this second episode of our special series on the National Trans Health Summit, we bring you into the room for a presentation by Dr Dan Karasic. Karasic is the lead author of the mental health chapter of WPATH’s Standards...
05.28.2023
Special Series - National Transgender Health Summit - Ep. 01 - Dr. Diane Ehrensaft
Our guest this week is Dr. Diane Ehrensaft. Dr. Ehrensaft is director of mental health, and a founding member of the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Child and Adolescent Gender Center Clinic. She is a developmental and clinical psychologist in the...
05.14.2023
National Transgender Health Summit
“Sophia” is a clinical psychologist with a private practice in San Francisco, CA. Her practice is dedicated to providing psychoanalytic psychotherapy to gender-dysphoric and trans-identified adolescents and young adults as well as detransitioners, and parent consultation. She, along with my...
04.23.2023
When Dad Became Joan - with Cath Lloyd
Cath Lloyd is the daughter of male to female trans parent. In 1987 her Dad suddenly announced that he was going to undergo gender reassignment treatment. This was a total shock to the whole family, except for her Mum who...
04.10.2023
Sexology in Samoa - with Dr Paul Vasey
Dr Paul L. Vasey is Professor and Board of Governors Research Chair in Culture, Organization and Society at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. His research has focused on understanding the development, evolution and psychobiology of gender diversity and...
04.02.2023
The Autism Connection - with Christina Buttons
Christina is an independent journalist who writes about gender, pseudoscience, mental health, autism and critical thinking. She advocates for early autism screening and education and a model of transition care that prioritizes thorough, individualized assessments that explore gender-related distress. https://buttonslives.substack.com/p/how-autistic-traits-can-be-mistaken ************* Support our...
03.26.2023
Soft spoken. Soft hearts - with Julia Malott
Julia Malott is a transgender woman in Ontario, Canada. After running as a candidate for her 2022 school board trustee election, she has been active in school boards across Ontario. Julia holds herself as a voice against illiberal ideologies and...
03.19.2023
The sound a whistle makes - with Jamie Reed
Jamie Reed is a self described Queer woman and mom of 5. She holds a Masters of Science in Clinical Research Management and previously worked as a case manager at the Washington University School of Medicine's paediatric transgender centre at...
03.05.2023
Internalizing/externalizing GNC - With Zander Keig
Zander Keig is an award winning clinical social worker and a female to male transsexual of Mexican heritage. His advocacy work involves serving as Welcome Ministry Board President, Transgender American Veterans Association Board Director of the Community & Fellowship Committee, Advisory...
02.26.2023
A Serenity Prayer for TRAs - With Laura Hobbs
Laura Hobbs is a self described "Gay-GP", a play on Autogynephilia (AGP) with a meta attraction to men. Having once been a controversial and radical trans activist, she has learned that self awareness and acceptance, not the activist narrative, has...
02.19.2023
The Eunuch Makers - with Eliza Mondegreen
Eliza is a graduate student researching online trans and detrans communities, with a focus on how these communities influence attitudes, beliefs, and knowledge about gender and expectations and intentions toward transition and/or detransition. She attended the WPATH SOC 8 launch...
02.13.2023
The Cost of Transparency
Earlier this week, the Gender Dysphoria Alliance published a blog article chronicling the ripple-effect impact that speaking publicly has had on Aaron Kimberly's family. In this episode of Transparency, the two hosts discuss the spirit in which that article was...
02.05.2023
Autohetero - with Phil Illy
Phil Illy is an autoheterosexual author who, in his words, “aims to mainstream autoheterosexuality and destigmatize it so that more of his kind can jettison shame and live in union with their inner cross-gender spirit.” Prior to writing a soon...
01.29.2023
A bandaid on a broken leg - with Torren Danowski
Torren Danowski is a 33-yo man living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attempted transition twice in his early 30s after struggling with gender most of his life. But once he realized that his gender dysphoria was actually the symptom of something...
01.23.2023
Back up the rabbit hole - with KC Miller
KC Miller is a 22 year old detrans woman and lesbian from Pennsylvania. She first began transition at the age of 16, and ultimately began detransitioning at 21. KC has come to realize her male identity was largely motivated by...
01.15.2023
Contagious, Like Laughter - with Lisa Marchiano
Lisa Marchiano is a writer and Jungian analyst in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has been in practice for over 20 years. Since 2016, she has had a special interest in gender and has worked clinically with gender dysphoric young people, parents...
01.08.2023
Binning Non-Binary - with Kiyah
Our guest, Kiyah, is a recent college grad who identified as nonbinary for nearly 2 years when she was an undergraduate. After realizing the damaging mindset of the modern "queer" community, she turned away from being an extreme identity politics...
10.02.2022
Good Therapy in the Age of Cancel Culture - with Dr Kenneth Zucker
Dr Zucker is an American-Canadian psychologist and sexologist who has worked in the field of gender since 1975. He was psychologist-in-chief at Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and head of its Gender Identity Service until its closure in...
09.25.2022
What the @$%*! WPATH?!
This episode originally aired in Dec 2021 when the WPATH Standards of Care (SOC) 8 draft was released. The final version was published in Sept 2022 with some revisions. Most notably, they removed the minimum age recommendations for starting medical...
09.11.2022
Gays Against Gr**mers - with Matt Rey
Matt is a British transman living in the US who's entered the online discourse with concerns about certain LGBTQ politics, including the promotion of pedophilia as a legitimate sexual orientation, and the sexualization of children. He's one of several transpeople...
09.05.2022
It’s Ms. Watson, thank-you - with Sinead Watson
Our friend Sinead Watson returns to Transparency to talk about her own story of transition and detransition, in light of the trans healthcare reform happening in the UK. Funds are being collected to pay for aspects of Sinead’s detransition that...
08.30.2022
Owning Male Femininity - with Shape Shifter
Shape Shifter is a male-to-female transitioner who feels regret about some of his decisions but is a brave soul, rocking what it means to be a feminine gay male.
08.21.2022
Me without the ”T” - with Mars Fernandez
Mars joins the Transparency team again to follow up about being off testosterone for a year, and what he's been up to. Check out his YouTube show here: https://www.youtube.com/c/upperhandMARS Mentioned: Zander Keig: There Is a Diversity of Thought in the...
08.14.2022
Questions and Answers
Hosts Aaron Kimberly and Aaron Terrell answer viewer questions. Mentions: James Cantors paper New MRI Studies Support the Blanchard Typology of Male-to-Female Transsexualism: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3180619/ Dr Bailey and Dr Hsu's study How Autogynephilic Are Natal Females?: https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s10508-022-02359-8?sharing_token=5eUqZddW4rsGeJ6xCw1xIfe4RwlQNchNByi7wbcMAY4WOO91AGBPQEW4W5GA-5HjFFBOW6MbqFHl6iM4xVsaD3DHcIMra_eBV8WQP5ACn0sz1TPFLpL9IRzeJhOdQXDbM-2Ya9dNQySlGGoQ7kmfgHJmVcnQNMxo60QqI1b92vc= Dr Blanchard & Dr Bailey's article...
08.07.2022
The Bubble Will Burst - with Shannon Boschy
Shannon Boschy is a Canadian financial planner whose unexpected entry into the trans ideological crisis has led to some valuable insights and an exciting AI project that will provide reliable data about patterns of social influence on young people. Please consider...
07.17.2022
Identifying Toxic Ideas - With Frederik Ribersson
Note: We recommend watching this episode on YouTube rather than listening to audio only due to the visual content. Frederik Ribersson of Ribberson Coaching teaches about recovering from narcissistic relationships and releasing trapped emotions. In this episode of Transparency, he...
07.10.2022
Ask Hard Questions: With Stillman Cray
Stillman Cray is an American trans man and author of Being Transgender is Not Normal: https://www.amazon.com/Being-Transgender-Not-Normal-Manifesto/dp/B0B1VL4K4L Who Has Known Heights: https://www.amazon.com/Known-Heights-Wheston-Chancellor-Grove/dp/0983700753 ************* Support our work: https://www.paypal.com/donate?token=fYDyZpQuGkF-RfpcCrDHHI9ofnwoDnIcmpuReI8-pZYaGDeT6s87JE3iVkCyrvQvkWbIAWREziBq5-tj For more information: www.genderdysphoriaalliance.com
07.04.2022
I should send them a fruit basket - with Katie Herzog
Katie Herzog is an American journalist and co-host of the Blocked & Reported podcast. Twitter: @kittypurrzog Blocked & Reported: https://www.blockedandreported.org The Detransitioners: They Were Transgender, Until They Weren't: https://www.thestranger.com/features/2017/06/28/25252342/the-detransitioners-they-were-transgender-until-they-werent Order fruit baskets:https://m.ediblearrangements.ca/ ************* Support our work: https://www.paypal.com/donate?token=fYDyZpQuGkF-RfpcCrDHHI9ofnwoDnIcmpuReI8-pZYaGDeT6s87JE3iVkCyrvQvkWbIAWREziBq5-tj For more information: www.genderdysphoriaalliance.com
06.26.2022
The Only Autogynephile - Debbie Hayton
Debbie Hayton is a physicist and columnist from the UK. She began transitioning in 2012 and had sexual reasignment surgery in 2016. Shortly thereafter Debbie came to accept that she did not have a female brain in a male body, but was instead...
05.08.2022
Heterodorx of the TERF-Tranny Alliance - With Corinna Cohn
Corinna is a transsexual woman, co-host the the Heterodorx podcast and a board member of the The Gender Care Consumer Advocacy Network (GCCAN). https://www.gccan.org https://www.heterodorx.com TERF-Tranny Alliance badges can be purchased at: https://www.heterodorx.com/terftrannyalliance/ Articles by Corinna: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/11/i-was-too-young-to-decide-about-transgender-surgery-at-nineteen/ https://quillette.com/2020/06/22/for-30-years-ive-tried-to-become-a-woman-heres-what-i-learned-along-the-way/
05.02.2022
Disability & Dysphoria - with Jayme
Jayme is a 25 year old American transman and writer living with cerebral palsy. He talked to the Transparency team about the challenges with having both gender dysphoria and a physical disability. ********* Please Note: This episode contains some discussion of self...
04.24.2022
EP36 - The Two Boomerangs of AGP - with Kristina
Kristina is a self-described AGP Ambassador who wants people with AGP to be better understood and integrated into society. Check out Kristina's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqDMAvnBE33Y1udxvuQp-Zw

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Transparency episodes:

Gender Ideologies - with Helen Pluckrose

Trouble with Gender - with Alex Byrne

It's Okay to be a Man - with NJada

The Shaman Brain - with Courtney Coulson

Another Whistle Blown - with Tamara Pietzke

The New York Times ”Opinion” Piece & USPATH’s ”Medical” Conference - with Eliza Mondegreen

The False Dichotomy of Soft Boys and AGPs

Autogynephilosophy - with Ray Alex Williams

Enabled and Embedded – with Helen Joyce

Taking Stock at Tavistock - with Anastassis Spiliadis & Dr Anna Hutchinson

Exploring the Unexpected Penis - with Amanda Kovattana

Backpedaling Pediatrics - with Dr Julia Mason

The Denton Report - with Jamie Reed

Managing Dysphoria without Transition - with Anna

The old hippie soul, on Transsexual Unity - Guest: Marc

The Butch Lesbian to Gay Man Pipeline

Special Series - National Transgender Health Summit - Ep. 3 - APA

AAP: Aaron, Aaron & Phil

Special Series - National Transgender Health Summit - Ep. 2 - Dr Karasic

Special Series - National Transgender Health Summit - Ep. 01 - Dr. Diane Ehrensaft

National Transgender Health Summit

When Dad Became Joan - with Cath Lloyd

Sexology in Samoa - with Dr Paul Vasey

The Autism Connection - with Christina Buttons

Soft spoken. Soft hearts - with Julia Malott

The sound a whistle makes - with Jamie Reed

Internalizing/externalizing GNC - With Zander Keig

A Serenity Prayer for TRAs - With Laura Hobbs

The Eunuch Makers - with Eliza Mondegreen

The Cost of Transparency

Autohetero - with Phil Illy

A bandaid on a broken leg - with Torren Danowski

Back up the rabbit hole - with KC Miller

Contagious, Like Laughter - with Lisa Marchiano

Binning Non-Binary - with Kiyah

Good Therapy in the Age of Cancel Culture - with Dr Kenneth Zucker

What the @$%*! WPATH?!

Gays Against Gr**mers - with Matt Rey

It’s Ms. Watson, thank-you - with Sinead Watson

Owning Male Femininity - with Shape Shifter

Me without the ”T” - with Mars Fernandez

Questions and Answers

The Bubble Will Burst - with Shannon Boschy

Identifying Toxic Ideas - With Frederik Ribersson

Ask Hard Questions: With Stillman Cray

I should send them a fruit basket - with Katie Herzog

The Only Autogynephile - Debbie Hayton

Heterodorx of the TERF-Tranny Alliance - With Corinna Cohn

Disability & Dysphoria - with Jayme

EP36 - The Two Boomerangs of AGP - with Kristina

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