Calmversations

Alan Wolan is a fan of Thomas Sowell. In this conversation he tells me why.  Find him on twitter @AlanWolan and his podcast at   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-genius-of-thomas-sowell/id1581181836  Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce

NJada (a detrans male) speaks to me about his search for redemption through—and then from—a transgender identity.  Find him on twitter @Herenotthere5   And on substack at https://njadadetrans.substack.com   Njada's art: https://njada-art.blogspot.com   Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce

Shape Shifter speaks about a life of dealing with internal and external homophobia, and how transition damaged his body and distracted him from dealing with childhood trauma and self acceptance. Find shape shifter on twitter @ShifterofShapes and on youtube at  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcU5PxKfWqAQcaFIecpwiHA  Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce

Zander Keig is a transman who began transition at 39. In this discussion we speak about how society treated his as a masculine woman and how masculinizing his body help him become more aligned with his self and the world. He is a social worker focused on proper treatment and getting things done, more than sloganeering. Find out more about his work at https://www.zanderkeig.net Support this channel...

Helena is a female-to-male-to-female detransitioner, Limpida is a male-to-female detransitioner, Josh Slocum (host of Disaffected Podcast) is a gay man who's a couple years younger than me, and I'm Benjamin Boyce, of no known novel sexual or gender identities. In this conversation, the four of us tackle the negative impacts that popular feminism has had on young people, and young men in particular...

Mia is a Canadian mom who writes great twitter threads about medical scandals past and present. In this conversation we speak about the direction Canada is going with affirmation-only therapy for gender questioning youth. Find her on twitter @_CryMiaRiver Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce

Ben Appel speaks about growing up in a cult, dealing with depression and substance abuse, reconciling with his sexuality, fighting for gay marriage, jumping at the opportunity to attend Columbia University—only to find that a new fangled homophobia had become the norm in progressive circles. Find him on twitter @BenAppel and substack at https://benappel.substack.com  His viral article: https:...

Five years ago, on May 23rd, 2017, a group of students confronted Bret Weinstein outside his classroom at The Evergreen State College. Armed with a script and emails of his which the students believed proved him to be racist, the demanded he apologize and undo the harm he perpetuated by refusing to participate in the college's yearly "Day of Absence" event. Historically, students, staff, and facul...

Zach Elliott is both a Christian and a Scientist—and even he can't reconcile the nonsense of gender identity Zach's channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ParadoxInstitute  Find Zach on twitter @zaelefty   Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce

Curtis Yarvin has been writing about the "deep right" for several years. Originally writing under the pseudonym Mencius Molbug, his ideas made waves for their apparent radicalness—notably, his assertion that the United States would be best served by electing a monarch, or Political CEO type figure, who has autocratic authority to clean up our government's entrenched and unaccountable bureaucracy....

Sinead (@ImWatson91) is a female-to-male-to-female detransitioner, and Tullip (@TullipR) is a male-to-female-to-male detransitioner. In this calmversation, they discuss family relationships during transition, the influence of trauma and stereotypes, and what lies ahead for the growing "detrans" community. Find them on twitter at the above @'s and support this channel via https://www.paypal.me/benj...

Part of a series: http://bit.ly/DeTransStories Michelle speaks to me about growing up on the internet, dealing with self esteem and bullying and undiagnosed autism, becoming an activist and transitioning, and then using critical thinking to work her way toward acceptance of herself and reality. Find & follow Michelle on twitter @somenuancepls and on substack at https://somenuanceplease.substac...

Marc Barnes publishes New Polity podcast and journal, a site where "theocratic nut jobs" discuss the failures of Liberalism and what should come next through a Catholic lens. His work on Gender is especially insightful, but I've been digging his conversations on Tyranny and other relevant topics.  Find more of  @New Polity  at https://newpolity.com and https://www.youtube.com/c/NewP...

Stephanie Davies-Arai has been exposing the inadequacy of gender medicine in the UK since 2015 at https://transgendertrend.com  Helen Joyce has written the leading critique of the transgender movement "Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality" found at bookstores everywhere. Read more of her work at https://transgendertrend.com  Channel 4 Documentary: https://tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/about-u...

Doctor Gribble is a medical professional focusing on women and infants. She has recently with some colleagues written a paper on the need to preserve sex-based language in the medical context. We speak about that, breast feeding (kinda learned some things there!), and how the COVID response lacked understanding of the infant-mother relationship. Find her on twitter @DRKarleenG and her work at http...

"The Family Sex Show" is a production that was going to be toured through the UK. The content of the show included full nudity and curiously intimate discussions about sex targeted to minors. Internet backlash caused the production company to cancel it. I was attracted to the hoopla, took a look at their website, and found some quite disturbing material. The More You Know meets TMI. support t...

Connect with Brian on twitter @BriWagon   His  @Soft White Underbelly  interview: https://youtu.be/V8a1c4IxPf0  Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce

Cynthia has experienced intense gender dysphoria since childhood—despite being a very feminine female. That, combined with abuse at the hands of her father, has caused her to deeply look into the source of her traumas and take control of her body, her life, and her sense of agency. Her message to troubled young people about realistic self-acceptance is not to be overlooked.  Find Cynthia on t...

Denise began researching and writing about the spread of transgenderism in 2015 when her teen daughter one day decided she was "trans," and wished to have surgery. Denise searched for information about teens suddenly identifying as the opposite sex, and found a dearth of information, so began 4thWaveNow to chronicle her findings. The trans phenomena has since gained major momentum, and last week t...

So a rationalist and a symbolist walk into a podcast...     Jonathan Pageau hosts The Symbolic World at https://thesymbolicworld.com  James Lindsay hosts  New Discourses  at https://newdiscourses.com  Connect with them on twitter at @PageauJonathan and @ConceptualJames   Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce

Carole Hooven is an Ivy League lecturer who's recent book: "T: The Story of Testosterone" delves deep into the science of the male hormone and its effect on our bodies and society.    Helena is an outspoken detransitioner (female-to-male-to-female) who took a high dose of testosterone for eighteen months, in a bid to identify as a transman.   Follow them on twitter @lacroicsz and @h...

Birdie Rose is a British Artist who has come under repeated fire for... drawing pictures of her heroes. We speak about her creative process and the relationship between art and the culture war. Find her art: https://thefamousartistbirdyrose.com  Follow her on twitter @TheFamousArtBR   Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce

Joan Sammon and Alma Cook work with oil companies in North Dakota. In this conversation, I ask them why the heck gas costs so much. The answer didn't make me happy with US Energy policy. Joan's writing: https://joansammon.substack.com  Alma's singing: https://sptfy.com/almacook   @Alma Cook  's song "5000 Candles" https://youtu.be/fijEKS49DU0  Find Alma and Joan on twitter at @...

I speak with @erinsmithSF about her venture into Ukraine to deliver medical supplies. The conflict there, that us Americans are seemingly unable to project our own narratives on, is much more complex—and real—than social media depicts. Send Ukrainians some armor: https://wheatfoxops.com  Send Ukrainians some food: https://wck.org  Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce

Why do people change their profiles en mass—for example, mask emoji's being swapped out for Ukranian flags, with little to no real statements or propositions or discussion of policies packaged with those virtue signals? Wokal and I speak about the lack of propositions within internet realities. Follow Wokal on twitter  @Wokal Distance , and on youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBdK1aG2...