Savage Minds Podcast

Graham Linehan, a comedy writer and director behind such shows as Father Ted , The IT Crowd and Black Books , discusses his foray into gender critical activism and why this subject punishes women particularly through a movement which is populated with men who proselytise for the sex industry. Noting the links between the economy of pornography and the transgender movement, Linehan takes aim at wha...

In this episode, Linda Blade, President of the Board for Athletics Alberta, discusses the proposals to insert gender ideology into Canadian sport policy detailing the misogynist encroachment of women’s and girls’ sports by trans rights activists who are decimating a field which has taken decades to establish and fund. Describing how male athletes are forcing themselves into women’s and girls’ spor...

In this episode Chris Elston, a Canadian insurance broker-turned-activist, discusses his political struggle against what he calls the “medical scandal affecting the health of thousands of children.” Elston speaks with Julian Vigo about the ways in which parents in Canada are being blindsided by gender ideology which is being placed into school curriculum for students as young as five-years of age,...

Beth Stelzer is a wife, mother, amateur powerlifter, accidental activist, and the founder of the grassroots, nonpartisan coalition Save Women’s Sports . In this episode, Stelzer speaks with Julian Vigo about her entry into grassroots activism and her drive to save women’s sports in the USA, elaborating how sports bodies have almost entirely sidelined the voices of female athletes while centring th...

Selina Todd , a writer and Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, discusses her latest book,  Snakes and Ladders: The Great British Social Mobility Myth which analyses the myth and reality of social mobility in Britain from the 19th century to the present. In this episode, Todd discusses previous measurements for understanding social mobility and how women’s consideration in this field...

Jason D. Hill, professor of philosophy and Honors Distinguished Faculty at DePaul University in Chicago, is the author of five books, including  We Have Overcome: An Immigrant’s Letter to the American People (2018) and his forthcoming book to be released later this year,  What Do White Americans Owe Black People: Racial Justice in the Age of Post Oppression . In this episode, Hill discusses with J...

James Caspian, a British registered psychotherapist who was refused permission by Bath Spa University to conduct research on gender detransition, has now taken his case against the university to the European Court of Human Rights. In this episode, Caspian discusses with Julian Vigo his interest in the field of gender identity, the need for research on both gender transition and detransition and ho...

Robert Jensen  is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Texas in Austin and collaborates with the  Ecosphere Studies  program at  The Land Institute . He is the author o f  The Restless and Relentless Mind of Wes Jackson: Searching for Sustainability  (University Press of Kansas, 2021). In this episode, Jensen discusses his introduction to radical feminis...

Heather Heying is an evolutionary biologist, educator, and author who co-hosts a popular weekly livestream with husband Bret Weinstein on the DarkHorse podcast . In this episode, Heying discusses with Julian Vigo the political political malaise of identity politics, sequential hermaphroditism, current denial science denialism, and our physical disconnection with other humans as she offers solution...

Libby Emmons is senior editor at The Post Millennial and a senior contributor for The Federalist . In this episode, Emmons discusses the the ideological drive behind journalism today and how identity politics is sidelining critical thinking. Lucidly analysing the current media and political panorama, Emmons homes in on how identity has not only replaced discussions of class politics on the left, b...

Selina Soule is a freshman and track athlete at the College of Charleston in South Carolina who, during her high school years, was forced to compete against males in track and field, missing out on opportunities to advance in competition. In this episode, Soule and Christiana Holcomb, legal counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom which represents Soule and three other female athletes in their lawsui...

Jennifer Wagner-Assali is an orthopaedic surgeon who has been a semi-professional cyclist since 2014. In this episode, Wagner-Assali tells Julian Vigo of her experiences in the sport from the moment she competed in the UCI Masters Track Cycling World Championship in Los Angeles when Rachel McKinnon (now called Veronica Ivy), a man who identifies as transgender, competed in the women’s 35-44 age br...

Alice Sullivan, sociologist and Head of Research at the UCL Social Research Institute, argues for the need to collect data on sex in social surveys and the census while advocating for academic freedom in discussing questions regarding sex, gender and gender identity. Focussing on the institutional capture of gender identity within universities, academic publishing and the Office for National Stati...

In this episode, psychologist and researcher Ray Blanchard discusses the historical changes in gender dysphoria (formerly “gender identity disorder”) diagnoses and the politicisation of a pathology that used to affect so few but which today has grown into a social contagion. Discussing his research in autogynephilia, the paraphilic tendency in some males to be sexually aroused by the thought or im...

In this episode, journalist Taylor Hudak addresses the media coverage of the Julian Assange extradition hearing and the threat posed to whistleblowers and journalists today. Speaking with Julian Vigo, Hudak also addresses the media elision of the Capitol protest of 6 January which is being used to criminalise dissent, the corruption of Big Tech working alongside political parties to silence opposi...

Dr. William Malone is a board-certified endocrinologist who has been a vocal critic of the medical interventions in what is today called “gender identity.” Speaking with Julian Vigo, Malone goes through the institutional failures as well as the theoretical and medical practices that cater to the individual’s perception of how their own sex-related and socially-influenced personality traits should...

Emma Hilton, a developmental biologist at the University of Manchester (UK) and a keen amateur sportswoman, discusses sex-segregation in sport, the impact of physical anatomy on performance and the necessity for a protected category for female athletes. In this episode, Hilton discusses with Julian Vigo her academic review of muscle and strength retention in trans-identified males suppressing the...

In this episode, Caleb Maupin , a widely acclaimed speaker, writer, journalist, and political analyst discusses Muammar Gaddafi’s  Green Book , the implications of US-sponsored regime change operations abroad, the shift of leftist politics and the demonisation of populism within the left. Maupin offers a rich history of the left within the west elaborating how class politics have been eroded by th...

Oliver Traldi is a graduate student in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, a writing fellow at Heterodox Academy, and a columnist at ArcDigital. Recently, Traldi penned “ The Left Has Turned Into a Guild Hall ,” an essay which addresses identity politics on the left. In this episode, Traldi speaks with Julian Vigo about his views on the left’s abandon of class politics, the protest on the...

Dr. Douglas Frank, Ph. D. in Surface Analytical Chemistry, has recently gained notoriety for his modelling work on the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Frank has been making his work available to the public since January of 1990 and his Facebook page “ Follow the Data with Dr Frank ” has over 50,000 members and followers. In this episode, Dr. Frank details the way the COVID-19 data is being used, abused and...

This episode is an in-depth interview with Stephanie Davies-Arai , founder and Director of Transgender Trend , the leading UK organisation advocating for an evidence-based approach to childhood gender non-conformity. Davies-Arai details her entry into the gender debate , her work to expose the medical fraud that is “childhood gender transition” and the problems faced by teachers, clinicians and pa...

En el episodio de lanzamiento para 2021, nuestra invitada especial es Lidia Falcón, abogada, escritora y política, que ha sido investigada por la Fiscalía de Delitos de Odio y Discriminación, junto con la Dirección General de Igualdad de Cataluña, en respuesta a una denuncia de la Federación Plataforma Trans (Trans Platform Federation) de España. Habla con Julián Vigo sobre su lucha contra la iden...

Philosopher, Heather Brunskell-Evans, joins Savage Minds for the our end of year broadcast in her analysis of the current pushback against lockdown to include the recent writings of Italian philosopher, Giorgio Agamben, who has harshly critiqued current virus mitigation in a series of essays and At What Point are We? this year. Get full access to Savage Minds at www.savageminds.co/subscribe

Stella O’Malley, psychotherapist, bestselling author, and co-host of Gender: A Wider Lens Podcast , speaks with Julian Vigo about her personal and professional experiences in the “gender identity” debate and the way the “born this way” ideology within the gay community was quickly adopted within the “gender identity” camp. Focussing upon the problems of medicalising gender, O’Malley discusses her...

Paul Cockshott , author of How The World Works (2019), discusses the links between capitalism and class politics. Detailing how the ruling class is based upon the exploitation of labour and the interwoven dynamics of the class economy, slavery, feudal tenure, and immigration, Cockshott elaborates the historical issues that affect productivity and labour today. Get full access to Savage Minds at ww...