Calmversations

Darshan Maharaja is a professional who has been filling in the gaps of Canada immigration issues that the main stream media overlooks or refuses to cover. In this calmvo we talk quite a bit about Canada's failing socialized medicine system and its Medical Assistance in Dying program, and it's disparate impact on immigrants and other downtrodden classes.   Find his reportage at:  https://...

​  @KellieJayKeen  has been speaking up for women's sex-based rights and running afoul of both trans rights activists and feminists and the law—but her message is simple, and her spirit indomitable.   https://www.standingforwomen.com  https://www.adulthumanfemale.us  https://www.youtube.com/KellieJayKeen  Support this channel:  https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce...

Mia Ashton is a full time writer covering the gender beat for the Post Millennial. Eliza Mondegreen is a master's student studying the sociological impacts of gender ideology. In this chat we share our notes on the gender topic, and puzzle over the medical ethics of child transition.   Mia on twitter: https://twitter.com/_CryMiaRiver  Eliza on twitter: https://twitter.com/elizamondegreen...

James Lindsay of New Discourses and DR. ROLLERGATOR, rightful President of the United States, join me to discuss media narratives and group dynamics within Elite circles of media, academia, and policy-making. This is an information rich episode! Their writing can be found at  https://newdiscourses.com  https://drrollergator.substack.com  https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames  https://twitter.com/drr...

Stella O'Malley and Angus Fox return to speak about moving beyond gender and looking at helping a generation whose social and sexual lives have been so heavily shaped by the internet. Resources for trans and detrans people: https://genspect.org/beyond/  Previous talks with Alasdair (alias Angus Fox): https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRdayXEOwuMGYeRsuQMVCVHQ_0DQ51Gmr  Stella on Twitter:...

Christine Sefein is a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist who was teaching graduate-level courses in psychology at Antioch university until Critical Social Justice infiltrated both teaching culture and the classroom—and she couldn't suppress her dissent anymore. In this calmversation, we speak about her life growing up as an Egyptian immigrant in the Bay Area, her time being a SJW in college,...

Rupa Subramanya is a Indian-Canadian journalist who's been digging into the nuances and disturbing trajectories of Canada's government. In this conversation we broach the topic of "MAiD"—Canada's "Medical Assistance in Dying" program, which began with giving terminally ill people a quickened end, and is now being broadened to include mental illnesses and "mature minors." Some morbid stuff, but Rup...

Leslie Elliot (  @the radical center  ) is currently a Life Coach who was working on a masters in counseling and psychology at Antioch University when the social justice ideology began to eclipse her learning and the understanding of human mental health.   Here are some links for you:    https://theradicalcenter.substack.com/  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP-SutMt...

Lisa Marchiano is an author and Jungian analyst. She's also as a founding member of the Gender Exploratory Therapy Association (GETA) and several other organizations that are working to return therapy to centering the individual, rather than the identity. We talk about how "gender" as a concept has disrupted long-standing therapeutic practices, and what that might say about various clinical models...

​Veera returns to talk about her ongoing detransition, infatuation with outsider art, newfound love of the religious, and why some of us are always setting boobytraps for ourselves.   Our first calmvo: https://youtu.be/YLkBk2bBp_c  Find her on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG0-O3zN9yp0jgd5a4-VL2g  You and Your Profile by Hans Moeller (  @Carefree Wandering  ):&...

Eliza Mondegreen has been fascinated by totalitarian language games and gender for years—so much so that she's pursuing a masters degree to study the totalitarian gender phenomenon that's impacting girls, boys, women and men. Last month, she went under cover and attended the leading transgender medicine association, WPATH, and in this calmversation shares just how otherworldly transgender medicine...

Prisha is a young woman whose various mental health issues—from BPD to anorexia to childhood trauma—were lumped by her doctors under the umbrella of "gender dysphoria." At the age of 15 she was put on hormones and shortly thereafter had her breasts removed. We talk about the downstream effects of testosterone on her female reproductive system, and her road to self acceptance and balanced mind. &nb...

Ria got involved in "Furry" fandom a decade ago, drawn to this fuzzy niche culture by its emphasis on creativity and quirky social gatherings. Over the years, however, she saw it succumb to "social justice" ideas, where people policed each other's thoughts and art on the basis of fighting oppression. In tandem, a sexual element began to become more prevalent, with a disturbing amount of "minor-att...

Corinna Cohn is a male-to-female transsexual. Denise Caignon is the mother of a daughter who obsessed, and then renounced, a trans identity. Corinna is the co-host of the Heterodorx podcast, and Denise is the founder of 4thWaveNow. Both are intimately and seriously invested in transgender medicine, and we talk about the politics that are making this already messy topic even messier. Follow Corinna...

Ritchie is a detransitioning male who has visited my channel several times this year. Angus Fox (aka Alastair Gunn) has also been on a few times (our most recent chat is s05e04, linked below). In this discussion we talk about the troubles of boyhood and how coddling and now gender is doing such a disservice to male development. "The Secret Life of Angus Fox" (previous chat with Angus): https://spo...

Sarah St. Onge is a pro-life activist whose family has been deeply economically impacted by the COVID lockdowns in New York State. In this conversation we speak about her Pro-Life views, how "bodily autonomy" means something different to the Pro-Life Right and the Pro-Vaccine Mandate Left, and how her family is struggling to survive after being shut out of work over the 2020 – 2021 lockdown period...

DR. ROLLERGATOR was making waves on twitter until he crossed a line. (A very silly line, but still.) His twitter persona was quirky and brash, but when I looked into his essays, I found a deep thinker who could translate complexity into coherency, on a number of issues. In this discussion, we talk about media narratives and power politics and how he sees conspiracies everywhere, while still not be...

Lauren Bone and Candice Jackson are lawyers leading the charge against injustices done in the name of "gender" — from keeping men out of women's prisons and sports, to holding the medical industry accountable for medicalizing a genderation.    https://jacksonbonelaw.com  Find them on twitter:  https://twitter.com/CEJacksonLaw  https://twitter.com/laurenrachel22  Suppo...

Erin Friday's daughter suddenly identified as "trans" when she was 11 years old. After many months of patient care, and getting the girl out of the California school system, Erin's daughter left the "trans" identity aside and is now a healthy, artistic kid. But Erin's experience with California education's full-blown promotion of trans identities has set her the war path, and she's asking parents...

Stella O'Malley is an Irish psychotherapist specializing in adolescent gender issues. She is the founder of Genspect and co-host of Gender: A Wider Lens. Her work is as phenomenal as her personality. In this discussion we talk about the WPATH's guidelines for transgender medicine, and how their "standards of care" are hardly up to standard.   Links:  https://genspect.org https://gender-a...

Jenni is a Finnish woman who's menstrual cycle from the start was tough going. This, along with other compounding medical issues, and a personality at odds with her small dairy town, sent her in search of a big fix for all her problems. She eventually found trans identification, and followed through on hormones and a double mastectomy—then realized what she thought was a fix was only breaking her...

James Lindsay is an author and speaker and big personality. We've recorded close to 40 hours of interviews together, most of which have been a great old time. In this calmvo we cover his fight against the left, right, and center of the culture war, and chin wag about math and his latest health kick, involving heavy breathing in chilly water. Find his tremendous body of work at https://newdiscourse...

Julia Mason, MD, is an Oregon pediatrician who has been perturbed by the professional organization of pediatrician's ideologically fueled and evidence lacking stance on gender medicine for minors. She's been speaking up about this since 2019, and has been countered by a kafkaesque labyrinth of denial and red tape.   She is a founding member of the Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine (S...

Jennifer Lahl makes documentaries about medical ethics surrounding surrogacy, transition, and now detransition. Her latest film "Detransition Diaries: Saving our Sisters" is a beautiful document featuring three young women whose obsession with gender involved them in unnecessary and irreversible medicalization.   Watch "Detransition Diaries" at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/detransitiondiaries&n...

Angus Fox has been involved in helping families navigate life with gender distressed boys. He worked on the Genspect project (a resource portal for families impacted by gender identity troubles), and has since retired due to life complications. He speaks to me about these complications and also his secret life as a   learn more about Genspect at https://genspect.org  Previous discussions...