Calmversations

Part of a series: http://bit.ly/2L2JaS6 Erin Brewer (@ErinBrewerin) speaks about her gender dysphoria, its origin in childhood abuse, and her concern that doctors are being too quick to diagnose it, and prescribe physical transition too readily.  She's regularly making videos at: http://bit.ly/2PnZPh7 Follow me on twitter @BenjaminABoyce Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboy...

Part of an ongoing series: https://bit.ly/2XzrgIH Jadis Argiope engages with me in the contradictions and conditions of being a trans individual. Find her on twitter: @S3LF_MAD3_WOMAN And on youtube: https://youtu.be/KLjg4dkNlOU Follow me on twitter @BenjaminABoyce Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce

Dr. Patrick Lockwood is a practicing clinical psychologist and professor of the same down in southern California. Links to his work are as follows: https://www.patricklockwoodhealing.com His book "The Fear Problem": https://amzn.to/2UeXnub Youtube: http://bit.ly/2IgVYSv Follow me on twitter @BenjaminABoyce Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce

Simon Chen (@simonbchen) is a medical pathologist whose family immigrated to Canada after witnessing the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Recently, he read an article in the New England Journal of Medicine by a white woman confessing her privilege and subtle acts of racism, and it eerily reminded him of the confession his grandfather wrote before being executed during China’s Cultural Revolution. We tal...

Claire Graham (@MRKHvoice on twitter) is a British woman who began speaking out about the misuses of the intersex community by the trans lobby in the UK and elsewhere. In this discussion, she speaks with me about the difference between the intersexes and how biology can be messy—but not as messy as the activists would have us believe. Follow me on twitter @BenjaminABoyce Support this channel: http...

Carey’s Advice for Dysphoric Teens: https://bit.ly/2VrTinU Carey Callahan is a therapist and counselor and communicator of powerful loving truths. You can follow her wit and wisdom on twitter @catt_bear and her blog at http://careycallahan.com Follow me on twitter @BenjaminABoyce Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce

Sasha (@SashaLPC) is a licensed professional counselor working in Texas. She and is one of the main (if not only) therapists using a least-invasive-first, individualized approach to gender-questioning teens. In this conversation (being our second) we speak about the developmental importance of identity, and how it can often be confused with individuality—that is, being an authentic self. You can f...

François Margolin is a French filmmaker and documentarian. His latest film, "Jihadists" documents the world of strident—and unapologetically violent—Islamist sects in Africa and the Middle East. I was able to view an advance screener and it's a very powerful and often unsettling look into various regions that have been overtaken by a very hard version of Sharia Law. Watch the film via these outlet...

Alexander Adams (@AdamsArtist) is an art critic and artist located in the UK. His collection of essays, "Culture War" was recently published by Societas Imprint Academic (imprint-academic.com). His essays pull no punches and have been a stimulating read for me, for whom the political and the artistic have always been at odds. Pick up your copy online or by requesting it through your local booksell...

Dr. Ray Blanchard ( @BlanchardPhD ) is a titan among researchers into sexuality, and spent a large portion of his clinical career studying homosexuality, transsexuality, and other paraphilias. He worked at  The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto beginning in 1980 and became the Head of Clinical Sexology Services at the Centre until 2010. His typology of transsexualism, and the...

Kalvin has been a youtuber since his early teens. He also transitioned from male to female during this time, but remained skeptical of gender ideology. In this interview, we talk about his life on and offline, and his views on the current state of trans discourse. Kalvin's channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/kalvingarrah Support this podcast at: https://paypal.me/benjaminboyce

Maritza Cummings is a detransitioned natal female who was a strong trans advocate in the early and mid 2000's within the medical field. Some years ago, she began doubting that transition was correct for her, but instead a way of avoiding other issues she was beset with, such as childhood trauma and some neurological hiccoughs. She is now detransitioned and is speaking out against the Gender Identi...

Rhys (@RhysMcKavanagh) is a transman dwelling in the UK. In this interview we discuss the difficulties not only in being trans, but how that identity has become in itself a political act. Rhys' speaks about his engagement on social media, the need for more moderate voices, and how biology isn't something you can escape from—without unintentional (and very biological) consequences. Best way to cont...

Helen Pluckrose (@HPluckrose) speaks to me about how postmodernism wed itself to Marxist activism and became the Grievance Juggernaut we see today. Helen is the editor of aeromagazine.com and is one of three intellectuals (along with James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian) involved in "The Grievance Studies Scandal" (see Mike Nayna's ongoing documentary series here: https://bit.ly/2ueIKwl). Support th...

Ben (@gnc_centric) is a young detransitioned woman living somewhere in that broad stretch of northern real estate that pretends it's not a subsidiary of the US. Just kidding, Canadians. She recently started a youtube channel that pulls no punches about her early experiences in the LGBT and Kink communities, her gender dysmorphia, transition and detransition: https://www.youtube.com/c/gnc-centric

Sasha Ayad ( @SashaLPC ) is a Licensed Professional Counselor who works with adolescents on issues around gender identity. She's been an outspoken critic of the affirmation-only gender therapy model that is pushed by trans activists. Her therapeutic approach is exploration-based, compassionate, and seeks out a more nuanced understanding of the client as a whole person.  Find her on the web at...

Sean Lindsey (@RrTiste) is a transman and lover of Irish proverbs. In this interview he speaks about his cautious process of transition in the mid-90's, and the problems with the voices that have taken hold of the trans narrative. This is part of a series on Sexuality, Gender and Transition: https://bit.ly/2XzrgIH Support for this podcast can be given through https://paypal.me/benjaminboyce

Lee Jussim (@PsychRabble) is a professor of Social Psychology at Rutgers University. He also identifies as a rabble rouser. His main focus in the social sciences is to get them consistently outputting high quality research. He is a firebrand and this conversation was fun as hell. Read his thoughts on psychology and the state of science at: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rabble-rouser Supp...

Jamie Shupe (@NotableDesister) entered the national spotlight when, in 2016, he legally changed his gender to "non-binary." In this interview, he speaks about that court case and his entry into and exit out of being a trans woman. You can find his writing (including excerpts from his autobiography) at https://jamieshupe.wordpress.com

Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) is an evolutionary biologist and humanist who realized, somewhere along the road to professorship, that he was constantly putting off the moment he would speak up for science and against the anti-rational movements in the media—both social and mainstream. In this interview we talk about things that make webs and live in nests, and what they might tell us about human soc...

Dr. Michael Bailey is a professor of psychology and researcher of sexuality at Northwestern University. In this interview he shares his extensive research in paraphiliac (atypical sexualities), specifically those which inform some transgender experiences. We also speak about Gender Dysphoria and the current surge in young women identifying as trans during pubescence. Find his writings on the matte...

Helena (@lacroicsz) is the third member of The Pique Resilience Project that I've had the honor of interviewing. In this discussion, she speaks about her experience of dysphoria and how interactions online (via Tumblr and Reddit) influenced her transition—and how she realized that an ideology was boxing her into a life that brought more frustration than joy.  Connect with The Pique Resilience...

Cory Clark (@ImHardcory) is a social psychologist and experimental philosopher focusing on free will and bias—and that's pretty much what we discuss in this interview. She runs a podcast with Bo Winegard (another psych prof) called Psyphilopod, found here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8mHb9VLBbrlvzRRwwGgL5w

Discussing mass hysteria, rights of passage, and the meaning of transformation with Jungian Analyst Lisa Marchiano (@LisaMarchiano). Lisa is a prolific author at thejungsoul.com, and runs a weekly podcast at thisjungianlife.com  Articles on teen transition: https://quillette.com/2018/03/01/transgenderism-social-construction-diagnosis/ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00332925.2017...

Chiara (@chiaracanaan) is a founding member of The Pique Resilience Project a collective of young women focused on providing guidance and advice to gender questioning teens and their parents. Check out there channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmGEMjyAwk6R1lTmG_JjLUA