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I first interviewed Dr. Scot Glasberg in 2024, when several plastic surgeons reached out to complain that the panel he’d convened on gender surgeries with Dr. Hilary Cass had been postponed—due to politics, they were certain. The real story, which we discuss here, was more complicated. And though the piece I wrote about it was killed, the interview led unexpected places. This was a great interview...

Journalist Brandon Showalter has been in the trenches of the gender culture war for a decade now. I met him a few years ago in said trenches, and, as I’ve written about , it was a perspective-shifting moment for me. Amid all the pain and gaslighting and bad faith arguments, there was a possibility for our narrow worldviews to expand. I asked Brandon to talk with me about where we overlap and where...

Cristina Hineman was profiled by Jennifer Block in The Free Press . We spoke about her experience learning that what she was taught about gender were ideas and beliefs—not facts—and the painful realization that she’d altered her body instead of making peace with it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.broadview.n...

Sarah and Lisa discuss the New York Times Daily episode about a Tennessee family seeking refuge in Connecticut in their pursuit of puberty blockers and hormones for their distressed child. We contrast that the stories of parents we’ve bore witness to and catalogued for many years now: parents who’ve seen their relationships with their children harmed by the very professionals who should have prote...

Miranda Yardley was the first person in the UK charged with an anti-transgender hate crime . Hilariously, or ironically, or tragically, Yardley himself medically transitioned at some point (though does not identify as a woman), and the person who charged him wasn’t of the trans persuasion. No matter! Yardley has been actively supporting the pushback against encoding gender identity in law for year...

You may know Sasha Ayad as half of the formative podcast Gender: A Wider Lens . Now, she’s got a new project, The Metaphor of Gender , which is geared at young people, but also at those of us who prefer complexity over certainty, discussion over dogma. Hand raised right here! So many people are getting more and more radicalized, speaking only to their own constituencies, acting more like politicia...

I cannot speak highly enough about Carol Tavris—her work, her grace, her rhetoric. I found her seminal book Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) so instructive—not just because it helped me understand the difference between self-justification and lying, but because she shared examples, however rare, of those who did the wrong thing in the name of the doing the right thing, and finally, eventually, a...

The second installment in what I hope will be a long series— Whose Fault Is it ?—features psychologists J. Michael Bailey, author of The Man Who Would Be Queen , and Marco Del Giudice, organizer of The Big Conversation , a conference on “the origins, mechanisms, and meanings of sex/gender differences.” Yesterday, we heard from Holly Lawford-Smith , associate professor in political philosophy at th...

Though George Orwell would down a fifth of vodka were he alive to see it, we’re in an era where we’re having to fight some of the best-educated people in the world to establish that, in humans, sex is binary and dimorphic: There are two sexes, male and female, and they are different. But for many feminists like me, the idea that having different bodies means having different brains—brains are, of...

Therapist Joe Berger joins me to talk about what's motivating parents, how he is able to question gender identity theory in his professional capacity, and the effects of T, among many other subjects. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.broadview.news/subscribe

It was my honor to speak with Lee Beckstead, a gender-affirming therapist in Utah who has worked with a heterodox group of therapists—who formerly considered themselves in opposition to each other—to produce a document: Clinical Common Ground for Gender, Sexual, and Faith Diversity . Lee and I talked about his own experience of reparative therapy, why people are so afraid to change their minds, an...

I interviewed Simon, under a pseudonym, four years ago . Since then, he’s gone on to organize events, speak up, commune with others, and work toward a better understand of youth gender issues. His bio is below. Simon Amaya Price is a desister, writer, and speaker, dedicated to winning the fight against gender ideology in a way that aligns with classical liberal values. At 14, Simon came out as tra...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.broadview.news I decided to talk into my computer instead of gathering my thoughts by writing. Enjoy the Authentic Background Noises of laundry, traffic and Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me. That’s right, I’m still listening NPR. In the words of Brokeback Mountain, I wish I knew how to quit you.

Five residents of the gender rabbit hole dish on what Trump’s win means for the movement…after we figure out what the movement is. We want reconciliation, but first we need the truth. We find agreement on the north star—protecting gender nonconforming and gay kids—and offer some hope for, eventually, reaching common ground. We discuss:Trump’s video vowing to end gender-affirming care for minors Th...

Did you hear about the crazy broad on the Manhattan school board, who proposed that we reconsider the policies allowing biological males to compete in girls’ sports—by consulting girls, parents, and coaches? The nerve ! It was such a heinous crime that surely she deserved the humming, back-turning protests by hordes of activists at school board meetings. And surely the schools chancellor had every...

A conversation with Dr Kris Kaliebe, Dr. Nikki Johnson of FAIR in Medicine, and Natalya Murakhver about their new endeavor, the Gender Toolkit . “We believe that all children are deserving of safe learning environments and that gender nonconformity, which is completely natural and found across cultures, must be respected. However, the manner in which topics such as gender and gender identity are p...

My deepest gratitude for all your support this year. The 25% for 2024 deal is good until the end of this year. What a long, strange year it’s been (bonus points if you get the reference). I asked Ben Appel , Eliza Mondegreen , and Jamie Reed to join me to process the highs and lows, and forecast the future of the country’s most contentious culture war. Fingers crossed that in 2024, more people are...

BROADview is a reader-supported publication. Thank you for the support! Hello listeners, welcome to the audio version of Broadview. I’m Lisa Selin Davis. And here’s a story I forgot to tell Phil Illy, my guest today: I was having reading time with my 11-year-old daughter, and I didn’t realize that instead of reading her own book, she was peering over my shoulder as I read Phil’s book Autoheterosex...

The new book Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans: Tales from the Home Front in the Fight to Save Our Kids is out today. You can find more about how to order on PITT’s Substack here . I spoke with two of the editors about PITT’s origin story, and what they’ve learned by letting parents, and others, have a forum to speak up. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other...

Remember when I complained about “ gender fatigue ?” And a bunch of you wrote to me and said, tired or not, gender identity has been enshrined into law while a lot of liberals weren’t paying close attention—replacing sex, or added as a facet of sex , a protected class. We can’t fall asleep now! The mainstream media dedicates a lot of real estate to covering “anti-trans” laws, but very little on bl...

Greetings, listeners! Julia Malott is a trans woman and parent who lives in Ontario, and has some of the most nuanced and philosophical thoughts on gender issues I’ve encountered. She’s been willing to stand up to the Canadian orthodoxy which, believe it or not, is in some ways even less flexible than the US’s. If only more people could have her attitude, and her approach to her own transition, I...

Penny Adrian has a happy trans son, who transitioned in adulthood after a lot of reflection and evaluation. Penny supports him, but she has watched as a faction of activists has taken over the conversation, imposing gender identity ideology where science, debate, education, medicine and journalism should be. Her son declined to participate but supported her in doing so. I wanted to know: How can y...

The Aarons—Kimberly and Terrell—are part of the Gender Dysphoria Alliance , which penned an open letter after those by GLAAD and New York Times’ contributors , which demanded censorship and control over the coverage of gender-affirming care. The GDA wants the opposite: transparency, research, open debate. You know, they want real evidence-based healthcare, and they want to be able to talk about th...

Happy New Year to you all! For my last post of the year, I’m sharing a conversation with one of my favorite friends that I’ve met by way of looking at gender issues from a heterodox viewpoint, Corinna Cohn. Corinna is co-host of the wonderful podcast Heterodorx , in which she speaks with people from all over the gender and ideological—and gender ideology—spectrum with co-host Nina Paley. She’s als...

In the next installment in my ongoing series of interviews of trans people with diverse viewpoints comes a therapist and trans man who goes by the pen name Stillman Cray. We’re not using his real name because he fears personal and professional repercussions. Stillman has penned a book called Being Transgender Is Not Normal : A Manifesto by a Transman, and also crafted an interesting checklist for...