Beyond Gender

From founding North America's first pediatric gender clinic in 1975 to being fired by activists in 2015 (and winning an $800,000 settlement), Dr. Ken Zucker has witnessed—and shaped—the entire evolution of gender medicine. In this remarkable conversation, the architect of gender dysphoria diagnoses in DSM-3R, 4, and 5 reveals how "gender identity disorder" became "gender dysphoria," why social transition flips desistance rates from 80% to 12%, and how activists "put the gender identity tail on the sexual orientation dog." His most striking revelation: Christina Olson's new data shows 88% of socially transitioned children persist—compared to only 12% persistence in his Toronto clinic. As Zucker observes: "When it comes to sex and gender, nowadays people stop thinking." From the paradox of homosexuality leaving the DSM while GID entered it, to WPATH's "talking out of both sides of their mouth" (claiming it's both natural diversity AND medically necessary), this is the insider account of how gender medicine transformed from careful assessment to "treatment on demand."

When a Navy-trained plastic and reconstructive surgeon breaks ranks to expose his field's "source of great shame," the revelations are devastating. Dr. Patrick Lappert brings 40+ years of surgical expertise to demolish the myth of "gender-affirming care," revealing it as cosmetic surgery for body dysmorphic disorder—something plastic surgeons are ethically forbidden to perform. In this unflinching episode, he explains why phalloplasty creates "an artifact that is essentially non-functional," how vaginoplasty can result in feces leaking through neo-vaginas, and why chest masculinization irreversibly destroys the nerve pathway that creates maternal bonding. His most damning revelation: the entire field operates on Level 5 evidence (expert opinion only)—the weakest form of scientific support—while claiming to be "standard of care." From Jazz Jennings' surgical disaster to Swedish data showing 40x higher suicide rates post-transition, Lappert exposes how surgeons are "putting themselves in the middle of obsessive-compulsive disorder" and calling it medicine. His verdict: "My first move is to mutilate them."

What drives someone who helped found the UK Gay Liberation Front in 1970 to co-found LGB Alliance nearly 50 years later? Bev Jackson's journey spans from being the only woman at GLF's first meeting (19 gay men and her) to secretly gathering 70 people in 2019 because gay rights organizations had been "taken over by cuckoos." In this powerful episode, Jackson explains why she believes gender ideology is "the opposite of homophobia," reveals how Stonewall's Ruth Hunt betrayed lesbians by adding the T after promising not to, and recounts the courtroom victory when Mermaids spectacularly failed to strip LGB Alliance of charitable status. From her pivotal moment at age 11—standing up as the only Jewish student in an antisemitic classroom—to watching organizations meant to protect gay youth become their "biggest danger," Jackson's story illuminates how the movement she helped birth got hijacked. Her warning: young lesbians on dating apps now find "20, 30, 40 percent are men calling themselves women."

What happens when a pediatric endocrinologist watches gender medicine evolve from underground experiments to mainstream practice—and fights back? Dr. Quentin Van Meter has been there since the beginning: treating his first trans-identified child in 1993 when no guidelines existed, witnessing John Money's perverse theories firsthand at Hopkins, watching WPATH transform into what he calls "a cult religious group with a bibliography of scientific trash." In this explosive episode, he reveals how puberty blockers cause dementia risk, why 98% of blocked kids proceed to cross-sex hormones, and the moment Money tried to castrate a baby who had normal testosterone.

What happens when the world's most influential newspaper spends two years investigating youth transition but refuses to ask what gender identity actually means? Leor Sapir dissects the New York Times' "Protocol" podcast, revealing how they avoided every foundational question while positioning unscientific assessment as the "reasonable middle ground." He shares explosive revelations from his own interview with Laura Edwards-Leeper (who admitted gender identity is based on stereotypes), exposes why detransitioners got 30 seconds while Jamie Reed got attacked, and explains the strategic choice ahead: let medical leaders blame WPATH for misleading them, or face Trump administration investigations. His verdict: "Imagine endocrinologists treating a condition they can't define without circular reasoning. That's what's happening here."

What happens when extreme trauma, tech culture, and gender ideology collide? Sascha Bailey's journey from nearly transitioning in Tokyo to becoming a leading voice on male detransition reveals uncomfortable truths about control and identity. Diagnosed with "gender dysphoria" in 10 minutes, prescribed HRT on the spot, Bailey escaped Japan overnight—and slowly unraveled everything he thought he knew. Now expecting a child with his partner, he's decoded the "transmaxing" movement, exposed how tech rewards transition, and discovered why mice in utopia start acting like humans in crisis. His message: "I don't know what gender dysphoria means anymore." As society strips away male social roles, Bailey asks: What happens when you can't be anything, so you try to be someone else?Shownotes

What happens when a lifelong Democrat lawyer discovers her daughter's school is secretly transitioning her child? Erin Friday's journey from concerned parent to leading legal warrior reveals how California became ground zero for parental rights battles. When Child Protective Services knocked on her door for questioning the school's actions, this mother transformed into an unstoppable force. Watching her daughter spiral from a pink-loving girl to believing she was born wrong, Friday did what few parents dare: she fought back with boundaries of steel. Now, with her daughter thriving again, she refuses to stay silent. Her message to parents: "You have strength and power—use it." As she prepares to present on lawfare at Genspect's Albuquerque conference, her warning is clear: "If we can stop this in California, we can stop it everywhere."

What happens when a gay rights activist discovers his country has become what he calls a "dystopian dark gender Gilead"? Eldur Smári Kristinsson's journey from questioning why gay men must accept "girl dick" to facing criminal prosecution reveals how Iceland—population 400,000—became the world's most captured nation. As kindergarteners come home asking if they can change sex and BDSM is taught as a sexual orientation, Kristinsson watches his progressive paradise transform into something unrecognizable. Now facing his third round of hate speech charges for criticizing male breastfeeding, this lone voice refuses to be silenced. His message to the world: "I need the world to see what is going on."

What happens when an evolutionary biologist examines gender theory through the lens of 4 million years of human evolution? Gary Clark's journey from living with Aboriginal peoples in Australia's Western Desert to studying sexual dimorphism in ancient fossils reveals how post-modern theorists claiming to "deconstruct" Western ideas are actually imposing them. As major universities embrace the notion that biology is "right-wing," Clark watches academia deny the very sex-based differences that structure every known human society. From his unique vantage point spanning primatology, paleoanthropology, and Jungian psychology, this scientist explains why denying biological sex isn't progressive—it's anti-scientific.

What happens when a psychiatrist looks at the data and says no?At 94, Dr. Paul McHugh remains psychiatry’s most controversial voice. From shutting down Johns Hopkins’ gender identity clinic in 1979 to co-founding the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, his career has been defined by refusing to follow ideological trends. In this episode, McHugh shares how psychiatry abandoned scientific integrity, first with multiple personalities, then with recovered memories, and now with gender identity.As medical journals “affirm” psychological self-concepts over biological facts, McHugh sounds the alarm: what happens when medicine treats ideas instead of evidence?