Beyond Gender

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?

What happens when a psychiatrist who spent 50 years treating gender dysphoria refuses to abandon science for ideology?Dr. Stephen B. Levine’s journey from co-founding a gender clinic in 1974 to being labeled a “hateful guy” reveals how a field once seeking answers became allergic to questions. As WPATH transformed from clinical inquiry to advocacy, Levine witnessed the moment when booing replaced peer review at professional conferences.From paraphilias as barriers to love to the myth of the 2% regret rate, this conversation exposes why the medical treatment of trans-identified people makes everyone miserable — patients, families, and the doctors who dare to say “we don’t know.”

Nancy McDermott, author and parenting culture expert, discusses the alarming effects of modern parenting styles on children's resilience. She reveals how the shift from communal to individualistic parenting since the 1970s has left both parents and kids in a cycle of fear and disappointment. From the struggles of gentle parenting to the erosion of parental authority in schools, McDermott critiques the need for balance between protection and real-life challenges. Her insights urge a reevaluation of how we nurture the next generation.

What if millions of pregnant women were unknowingly given drugs that altered their children’s brains, and their grandchildren’s?In this episode, Jill Escher, autism advocate and president of the National Council on Severe Autism, shares the shocking discovery that reshaped her understanding of her family, and the modern neurodevelopmental crisis. Escher’s journey began with two profoundly autistic sons and led her to a startling truth: her mother received weekly injections of synthetic steroid hormones during pregnancy.Now, as rates of both autism and gender dysphoria skyrocket, Jill connects dots that the medical establishment refuses to acknowledge, from DES disasters to modern anti-miscarriage drugs still in use until 2023.

What if the most destructive concept in modern psychiatry emerged from men lying to get hormones? Mia Hughes traces the shocking origins of childhood gender dysphoria back to the 1960s, when researchers studying effeminate boys were actually chasing ghosts—transgender children who didn't exist. Meanwhile, Stella O'Malley shares her harrowing personal journey as a child who desperately wanted to be a boy, offering a rare window into what gender dysphoria actually feels like from the inside. Their conversation challenges everything: Is this a real diagnosis? Should it exist? And in our current culture, is it too dangerous to leave in the DSM?