Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing

“I was diagnosed in 45 minutes, I’ve already been taking hormones, and I was fast tracked into surgery which I paid for myself, all my own money, because I thought it was wrong to get it done on the NHS.” McLean was prescribed irreversible cross-sex hormones at the age of 26, and underwent full genital reconstruction surgery two years later in 1986.” Listen to the recording of the book launch, at...

And here is our welcome party as we arrived at the event: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

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A rare audio interview with Dame Katy (transcript below) in which she bares ALL We’re backstage at DKD’s one womxn show, in the Barnsley British Region for injured and infirm trans womxn veterans Julie – it’s you! They said there was a lady wanting to see me. (Shouts to security) I say Doreen - this ain’t no lady - its Julie! Tell her carer we’ll be 5 minutes max! Dame Katy, I am beside myself wit...

Yehudis Fletcher, 2026 You can read my interview with Yehudis, published in Unherd, May 2025, here : This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

We cover growing up in Bradford, how she met the men that would come to abuse her, and some of her early experiences. As Fiona says: The inquiry into grooming gangs should not be centred on race. It should be centred on how the abuse operated. Grooming gangs follow specific patterns. The way they target, manipulate, control, and exploit children has distinct characteristics. That is what makes thi...

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Lesbian Project Podcast This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

I spoke with Paddy about the horrors of men in women’s prisons (including the infamous and truly terrible case of Barbie Kardashian), the transitioning of children, and the cowardice of much of the mainstream media. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

Contributors: James Barrett, consultant psychiatrist and lead clinician at the Charing Cross National Gender Identity Clinic Julie Bindel, feminist and journalist Lord Alex Carlile QC, Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords Melissa Hines, professor of psychology at Cambridge University Richard O’Brien, writer of the Rocky Horror Show Ruth Pearce, postgraduate researcher in sociology at the...

Linda Riley (centre) with a couple of tranocities, Diva Awards Linda Riley, 2018 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

This week I'm speaking with Ray Blanchard, a psychologist, sexologist, who coined the term autogynephilia to describe those men that identify as women, often transitioning to live as women, who get a sexual excitement from imagining themselves as women. And of course, this has got him into trouble from trans extremists. When he praised a book The Man Who Would Be Queen by Michael Bailey he got int...

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Dame Katy Denise “A triumphant tale of transformation from a highly esteemed philanthropist, coworker, boss, and my personal hero” Lambrini Lil, AKA JK Rowling (who has, to date, sold fewer books than Dame Katy) Thank you to Joe Fattorini - he knows why! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit juliebindel.substack.com/su...

Those taking part in the debate were: Me. Zing Tsjeng, UK editor of Broadly (the only one to mention ‘transgender’, but just once). Very ‘queer’ identified. Eleanor Margolis, a lesbian writer, who said, ‘I honestly remember fancying girls when I was about three.’ Joe Stone, writer, calls himself a ‘plain old-fashioned gay’ rather than queer And Matt Cook, academic, who recalls the terrible loss du...

Dig Up Your Mam, my latest podcast series. Listen to the podcast on this Substack, or the usual platforms This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

https://www.populationbalance.org/podcast/nandita-bajaj2 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

Linda Riley (centre) with a couple of tranocities, Diva Awards Linda Riley, 2018 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

Jamie Reed, Free Press Washington University’s youth gender clinic in St. Louis, became overwhelmed by new patients and failed to provide them with mental health care. Jamie exposed the dangers of what the clinic referred to as ‘gender affirming care’. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit juliebindel.substack.com/subs...

Thank you The Word Factory , Kristin Zebrowski, MPA , Larry Shell , Barb , Barbara Ratcliffe , and many others for tuning into my live video with Suzanne Moore ! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

Listen to the live event, which included speakers from the Lesbian Collective, Vancouver Rape Relief, and me. The audio runs for approximately one hour 40 minutes. I have written about my trip to Vancouver, published today in Unherd. You can read it here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit juliebindel.substack.com/s...

I was informed, by a young man, that I am “an old white woman”, to which I responded that we all get old if we are lucky, and he would also one day be old and (still) white, unless he died of excessive wanking in his mother’s basement. The event went ahead and it was amazing. Women from Vancouver Rape Relief spoke alongside the Lesbian Collective, and I recounted my decades long friendship and fem...

Melissa Farley Extreme violence and psychological abuse have been extensively documented and are pervasive in prostitution. Survivors of prostitution report high levels of posttraumatic stress disorder, dissociation, depression, and self-loathing. These are the same sequelae reported by torture survivors. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20008066.2024.2404307#summary-abstract This is a...

Co-president of lehet más a politika (LMP), translated: ‘politics can be different’. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

Faika El-Nagashi , Budapest, October 2024 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe