Transparency

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 Board member, and Senior Fellow for the Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism. Zander is the co-founder of the...

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 greatly improved her overall mental health. Laura’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@UCLGOwgwMHCYy65YrtX2EHzw Laura on Twitter: https://twitte...

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 conference in September 2022 and describes her some of her observations there. Her substack, Gender:Hacked - https://eli...

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 written, reminding our audience that at the centre of everything is our humanity and interconnectedness. The blog article discussed can be...

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 to be released book about his sexual orientation, Phil received degrees in physics and mechanical engineering before retiring to Portland, Oregon, where he...

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 deeper, he began addressing that deeper issue, and saw the pain of gender dysphoria begin to subside. Running Into Circles to Find Myself: https://www.g...

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 early childhood sexual abuse and homophobia. ************* Support our work:  https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/GDAll... For more information: www.genderdysphoriaalliance.com

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 of trans identified youth, and detransitioners. Her peer reviewed papers on gender have appeared in Psychological Perspectives and The Journal of Analytica...

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 activist. She now is on Twitter where she shares her experiences, and advocates for people to step away from blind tribalism and think freely. Her twitte...

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 December 2015. Since 2001 he's been editor-in-chief of Archives of Sexual Behavior. In this episode of Transparency, he describes the work that wa...

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 interventions. Aaron Terrell attended the Sept 2022 WPATH conference as a delegate of GDA. One author of the child chapter stated during the presentati...

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 working with the LGBT group, Gays Against Gr**mers. https://www.gaysagainstgroomers.com   ************* Support our work: https://www.pa...

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 aren’t being covered by the NHS. If you’d like to make a donation, follow this link: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/imwatson   ************* Support our w...

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.

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 Trans Community https://youtu.be/LxAGYvXLo2o  

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=5eUqZddW4rsGeJ6xCw1xIfe4RwlQNch...

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 making a financial contribution to this important study. Shannon can be contacted at: shannon@chasingquicksilver.com   For information...

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 discusses narcissistic thinking patterns, identifying them, and how they’re used in social movements, not just interp...

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-pZYaGDeT6s87JE3iVkCyrvQvkWbI...

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/ *...

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 motivated by a very male, and somewhat unusual, sexuality known as autogynephilia.    Mentioned: Carole Hooven, The Story of Testosterone https://www.amazon.c...

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-transge...

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 harm and suicidal behaviour.  ********* Check out Jayme's Blog! https://selfmaderenegade.substack.com   Twitter @Jayme_Speaking

Julian, born female, has childhood onset gender dysphoria and is exploring it in psychotherapy. He has socially transitioned and is contemplating whether or not to try medical interventions. Having once believed the gender identity framework, Julian now understands his GD as related to being same-sex attracted.

Are GC transsexuals who acknowledge biological sex suffering from internalized transphobia? We tackle this question, meandering through the conceptual, cultural and personal, ending with...chihuahuas.