Whose Body Is It

In 2006, Amanda's doctors told her that her silicone breast implants were a completely safe, permanent solution to change to her silhouette after breastfeeding. She looked down and saw ‘ski-slopes,’ and when she compared herself to other women, she felt she came up short. Her implants were cold, stiff, and eventually began leaking toxins inside her body. As her symptoms worsened, she discovered that her doctors did not have the data to back up claims that her breast implants were perfectly safe, or that her mysterious, autoimmune reactions were coincidental.

Amanda is now a psychotherapist and author of Busting Free, a comprehensive guide to physical and psychological wellbeing for women at any stage of the breast explant process. She works with women on healing the beliefs that lead us to question our value, allowing us to be manipulated by predatory marketing. Breasts are not just about beauty and self-esteem, they stand in for our self-conception as women and as mothers. That’s also why breast removal is pushed so hard on women who dis-identify with their female bodies. We explore how cosmetic surgery, an industry dominated by male surgeons, works to support the sexualization and objectification of women. We also dive deep into the appetitive effect, and the illusion of ‘informed consent.’ Amanda also exposes the conveyor belt from breast cancer to breast reconstruction, and the epidemic of women who experience breast implant illness after being told that breast cancer was the worst fate they could face. Even if you’ve never had breasts implants, you’ll relate to the discussion of the desire to belong based on the shape and size of our bodies.

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⁠Keep Your Kids Out of The Trans Cult⁠

Today I speak with Leigh Janet Marshall, a biologist and formerly trans identified woman from the Bay Area. Early exposure to pornography shaped Leigh's understanding of what a woman is and convinced her she was better off as a gay man. Conceived by artificial insemination, Leigh met her father at age 18, and then connected with one of her biological sisters, donor conceived, who was also struggling with alienation from her female body. With Leigh's constellation of early abandonment wounding and female socialization, she coped by becoming anorexic and later bulimic. In an effort to find authenticity, Leigh and her sister committed to transitioning together, but this was not the cure for her despair that she thought it would be. Leigh now recognizes transition as soft suicide; yet another form of self-harm used to express the shame of being a woman. Leigh woke up to the fact that she was targeted for medicalization but not before pursuing sterilization at age 29.

Leigh sees gender affirming care for youth, as blunt a tool for population control as China’s one-child policy. Leigh connects many dots of the transhumanist agenda, from reproductive technology, to pornography, trans ideology, and artificial intelligence, and shines light on how trans ideology is a gateway for population control and the personification of machines.

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Today we continue the conversation around the dovetailing of gender identity and colonization of indigenous populations with New Zealand Maori activist and organizer Michelle Uriarau. Michelle is the co-founder of Women's Action Group Southwest Victoria and Mana Wāhine Kōrero and began her activist work with refugees in Australia. Michelle was radicalized on the issue of synthetic sex because of its potentially genocidal impact on Maori populations. “Indigeneity brings a unique perspective from other women,” she says, “we see gender identity as a second colonization and we are not even sure we will survive it.” Through colonization Michelle notes, "language is removed by force, you speak, read, think, dream in your language. Everything that makes you you is expressed through language, so when it’s removed, can you imagine what that does to you? It leaves you like an empty vessel.’ In this empty vessel, post-modern, western, European, and academic paradigms can be imposed.

Michelle sees a real and present danger to the Maori people, who already experience higher rates of suicide, incarceration, and now with the imposition of gender ideology, sterilization and extermination of future generations. We discuss the organizing strategy and tactics of feminist activists in Australia and New Zealand and break down the violence and media spin following Kellie Jay Keen's Let Women Speak Auckland event in March.

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⁠Keep Your Kids Out of The Trans Cult⁠

After last week’s deadly shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee there was a lot of confusion about the sex of the shooter. Was it a man? A 'trans man'? Was it a man pretending to be a woman or a woman pretending to be a man? It makes you wonder if the confusion is actually a critical part of constructing a narrative where trans-identified people can't be held accountable for their actions, and in fact, today's guest Robbie Rose points out that CBS was intentionally not reporting the sex of shooter Audrey Hale, just as the media obscured the identity of trans-identified female school shooter Maya 'Alec' McKinney in Colorado, in 2019.

Robbie returns to the podcast for an enlightening discussion of the profiles of school shooters in recent history. She points out that most school shooters were bullied for being gay (whether or not they were) and that they also often struggled with autism and behavioral problems. Society's answer to mental health issues is to medicate these children and young adults, and Robbie notes that these people are being given a cocktail that has never been tested - one of antidepressants, mood stabilizers, legal methamphetamines and more recently, steroids in the form of synthetic testosterone. Robbies takes us through a concise history of autism, causes of traumatic brain injury and asks why the media never seems to highlight the fact that these people are highly medicated and if trans ideology might in fact be a coverup for widespread legal poisoning.

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The Autism Vaccine

The Age of Autism

Video footage of TRAs holding up 7 fingers

Daily Beast Report

Report of Alex McKinney, female 2019 Denver School Shooter on and off meds

Gaslighting Mothers, Transgenderism & Vaccine Injury with Robbie Rose

The MRC-5-Transgender Connection with Robbie Rose

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Today I speak with one of my best friends, Amy Nowlin. Amy is a married mother of 5, a writer and musician. Amy asks what reproductive sovereignty looks like on the procreative end (rather than the abortion side) particularly for women in longterm heterosexual relationships and shares her journey from birthing in the hospital, to birthing at home with licensed midwives to then with her 5th baby, birthing freely, unassisted. Amy decided to protect her postpartum bubble after 4 bouts of postpartum rage and depression and recalls questioning the rage she felt as her newborn baby was passed around to 12 different family members. She now acknowledges this as a healthy mammalian instinct but at the time remembers thinking she was just being "too hormonal" or "too sensitive." 

Amy describes the societal pressure to bounce back and do it all as a metaphorical anorexia, one of restriction, the practice of internalizing "receiving as a shortcoming," and the "I can do anything you can do, bleeding" mindset, where you might invisiblize yourself and needs as a woman. This she notes is the challenge that comes along with starting to receive from a place of biological vulnerability. The transformation she went through after prioritizing her mental and spiritual health in her 5th postpartum certainly paid off and Amy believes receiving and resting while bleeding during menstruation is a training ground for recovery after birth. We also discuss the pitfalls of constantly looking outside ourselves, for rules, diets and protocols, how Amy parents teenage boys and the bizarre phenomena of men teaching women how to be "more in the feminine." 

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Know in 4 hrs: Decide whether or not to freeze your eggs, do IVF or surrogacy

Jennifer Lahl, author, documentarian, and founder and president of the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network returns to the podcast today! Jennifer has been fighting assisted reproductive technology for 20 years. Her interest was peaked when her college-aged daughters were targeted for egg selling. It was during the height of the stem cell research craze, and she realized that this profit-driven medical research was being built on the backs of vulnerable young women. Her first film, Eggsploitation earned her the wrath of Big Fertility then, but they’ve hardly celebrated her work since. In her most recent article she asks, “Who Owns the Human Body?” examining the ethical implications of using a brain dead woman’s body as a surrogate. If a woman has agreed to be an organ donor, does it follow that her body could be kept on life support in a vegetative state in order to gestate a child for an infertile couple? What about the wellbeing of the fetus, which will grow surrounded by the sound of beeping monitors instead of the sound of its mother’s voice?

Assisted reproductive technology comes with many ethical pitfalls, and we’ll explore these, as well as the connection to gender ideology in the sterilization of minors. Learn more from Jennifer at the upcoming event It's Bigger Than Texas panel on April 20 in Austin, hosted by Partners for Ethical Care. Jennifer's latest film The Detransition Diaries will be screened the next day. Did I mention I'll be moderating the panel?! It's going to be such an awesome fews days you won't want to miss!

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⁠Keep Your Kids Out of The Trans Cult⁠

Nlaka’pamux and Diné Nations scholar and radical feminist Cherry Smiley is done with the academy. She began her academic career studying prostitution and male violence against indigenous women. With the space to study, reflect and write, she grew angry. “As you’re learning and growing, learning from women who came before you, the anger is spilling out everywhere,” she said of her consciousness raising process. It was cold comfort to know that so many of the harms she had witnessed or personally experienced were so much bigger than her. While writing about prostitution and female subordination, she encountered institutional bias against heterodoxy. Whether it was while hunting for a faculty position, or seeking publication for her articles, Cherry found that the academy “only want you if you’re going to do what they tell you to,” and for her, this meant reciting the litany ‘sex work is work’ and ‘transwomen are women.’ 

Institutional orthodoxy was not the worst of it. The hostility she faced from resource officers and faculty for her ‘transphobic’ politics prevented her from accessing resources after being sexually assaulted and left her feeling alienated and hopeless. Radical feminist texts helped her feel less alone, and as it has for so many women, saved her life. In this episode Cherry discusses what the dominant discourse gets wrong about colonialism and asks why it's always women who are given all the rules.

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⁠Keep Your Kids Out of The Trans Cult⁠

When Julia Beck was coming out (first by calling herself bisexual, and eventually embracing herself as a lesbian), most of the other women around her were calling themselves gender fluid or queer. Anything but what they plainly were, which was lesbian. She encountered the SCUM Manifesto, her first radical text, and began to question everything she understood about the order of men and women in society. She began working with Women’s Liberation Radio News and Women’s Liberation Front as her politics became unapologetically lesbian- and female-centered. It was also around this time that she was elected to Baltimore’s LGBT Commission, where she intended to use her seat to defend women's sex-based rights. On this commission, she was smeared by a man who ran the Baltimore trans advocacy group. She was voted off the commission, and he was voted on to replace her. The jury had spoken, and they’d decided a man in a stuffed bra could woman better than an actual woman. Since then, Julia has continued to fearlessly advocate for women’s rights. Join us for this conversation as we ask provocative questions about sexual politics for women.

Read Julia's 4WPub article "Real-life TRA Silently Detransitions after Harming Lesbians"

The essay "Lesbian 'Sex'" by Marilyn Frye 

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⁠Keep Your Kids Out of The Trans Cult⁠

A Swags has gender critical women cracking up on Instagram. Her reels skewer transgenderism, homophobia, and misogyny in mainstream culture. “I like to take the ridiculous claims, like how misgendering someone is literal violence, and highlight the ridiculousness of it” she says. However, A Swags didn’t always see the humor in it. For three and half years she identified as genderqueer. Growing up, she experienced discomfort in her female body and classmates would make comments about how she wasn’t feminine enough, like a football player trapped in a cheerleader’s body. When she reached adulthood and entered a liberal arts college, she stopped identifying as a woman. ‘Transness’ seemed to explain why she felt deeply unsettled by her body, to the point where she wanted to cut off her breasts. After positioning herself as a non-woman, she realized her entire paradigm needed to shift. She desisted and her talent for acting emerged as a way to express herself in our woman-hating, lesbophobic society and provided a way to create connections with other women tired of screaming into the void. In this episode we also take a look at the state of the lesbian dating world and how young lesbians can find love today.

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⁠Keep Your Kids Out of The Trans Cult⁠

Today I speak with Amanda Stulman, director of Keep Prisons Single Sex USA. In response to the anti-woman organization GLAAD's recent campaign and letter demanding the NYTimes stick to the almighty "pro-trans affirmation" narrative, Amanda Stulman launched her own campaign with LED billboards displaying a series of slides one of which read: "That's right, women's prisons are mixed-sex. This is newsworthy, is it not?"   

Amanda discusses the justice system's role in the legalization of medicalizing children, placing men in women's prisons and what happens when the courts abandon all common sense in the name of "trusting the experts." We also get into the challenges of advocating for women's sex-based rights with no institutional legacy support and what amends could look like for NYTimes in the wake of years of gaslighting, underreporting crimes against women and villianizing those who dare to speak out.  

Letter to New York Times from GLAAD, other organizations and prominent figures

Discussion and response by New York Times

Petition to oppose pending legislation in New York legislature

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