Whose Body Is It

Jennifer Lahl, president of the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network, discusses the ethical implications of assisted reproductive technology. Topics include using a brain-dead woman's body as a surrogate, gender ideology and sterilization of minors, and the exploitative nature of egg donation. She also highlights her upcoming event in Austin and her film, The Detransition Diaries.

⁠Keep Your Kids Out of The Trans Cult⁠Nlaka’pamux and Diné Nations scholar and radical feminist Cherry Smiley is done with the academy. She began her academic career studying prostitution and male violence against indigenous women. With the space to study, reflect and write, she grew angry. “As you’re learning and growing, learning from women who came before you, the anger is spilling out everywhere,” she said of her consciousness raising process. It was cold comfort to know that so many of the harms she had witnessed or personally experienced were so much bigger than her. While writing about prostitution and female subordination, she encountered institutional bias against heterodoxy. Whether it was while hunting for a faculty position, or seeking publication for her articles, Cherry found that the academy “only want you if you’re going to do what they tell you to,” and for her, this meant reciting the litany ‘sex work is work’ and ‘transwomen are women.’ Institutional orthodoxy was not the worst of it. The hostility she faced from resource officers and faculty for her ‘transphobic’ politics prevented her from accessing resources after being sexually assaulted and left her feeling alienated and hopeless. Radical feminist texts helped her feel less alone, and as it has for so many women, saved her life. In this episode Cherry discusses what the dominant discourse gets wrong about colonialism and asks why it's always women who are given all the rules.Cherry's WebsiteBuy Cherry's BookLearn more from Cherry at Women's Studies OnlineSupport the Whose Body Is It PodcastShop Activist StickersWhose Body Is It WebsiteTime by ASHUTOSH Music promoted by Free Stock Music Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

⁠Keep Your Kids Out of The Trans Cult⁠When Julia Beck was coming out (first by calling herself bisexual, and eventually embracing herself as a lesbian), most of the other women around her were calling themselves gender fluid or queer. Anything but what they plainly were, which was lesbian. She encountered the SCUM Manifesto, her first radical text, and began to question everything she understood about the order of men and women in society. She began working with Women’s Liberation Radio News and Women’s Liberation Front as her politics became unapologetically lesbian- and female-centered. It was also around this time that she was elected to Baltimore’s LGBT Commission, where she intended to use her seat to defend women's sex-based rights. On this commission, she was smeared by a man who ran the Baltimore trans advocacy group. She was voted off the commission, and he was voted on to replace her. The jury had spoken, and they’d decided a man in a stuffed bra could woman better than an actual woman. Since then, Julia has continued to fearlessly advocate for women’s rights. Join us for this conversation as we ask provocative questions about sexual politics for women.Read Julia's 4WPub article "Real-life TRA Silently Detransitions after Harming Lesbians"The essay "Lesbian 'Sex'" by Marilyn Frye Follow Julia on TwitterSupport the Whose Body Is It PodcastShop Activist StickersWhose Body Is It WebsiteTime by ASHUTOSH Music promoted by Free Stock Music Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

⁠Keep Your Kids Out of The Trans Cult⁠A Swags has gender critical women cracking up on Instagram. Her reels skewer transgenderism, homophobia, and misogyny in mainstream culture. “I like to take the ridiculous claims, like how misgendering someone is literal violence, and highlight the ridiculousness of it” she says. However, A Swags didn’t always see the humor in it. For three and half years she identified as genderqueer. Growing up, she experienced discomfort in her female body and classmates would make comments about how she wasn’t feminine enough, like a football player trapped in a cheerleader’s body. When she reached adulthood and entered a liberal arts college, she stopped identifying as a woman. ‘Transness’ seemed to explain why she felt deeply unsettled by her body, to the point where she wanted to cut off her breasts. After positioning herself as a non-woman, she realized her entire paradigm needed to shift. She desisted and her talent for acting emerged as a way to express herself in our woman-hating, lesbophobic society and provided a way to create connections with other women tired of screaming into the void. In this episode we also take a look at the state of the lesbian dating world and how young lesbians can find love today.Follow A Swags on Instagram Support the Whose Body Is It PodcastShop Activist StickersWhose Body Is It WebsiteTime by ASHUTOSH Music promoted by Free Stock Music Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

⁠Keep Your Kids Out of The Trans Cult⁠Today I speak with Amanda Stulman, director of Keep Prisons Single Sex USA. In response to the anti-woman organization GLAAD's recent campaign and letter demanding the NYTimes stick to the almighty "pro-trans affirmation" narrative, Amanda Stulman launched her own campaign with LED billboards displaying a series of slides one of which read: "That's right, women's prisons are mixed-sex. This is newsworthy, is it not?"   Amanda discusses the justice system's role in the legalization of medicalizing children, placing men in women's prisons and what happens when the courts abandon all common sense in the name of "trusting the experts." We also get into the challenges of advocating for women's sex-based rights with no institutional legacy support and what amends could look like for NYTimes in the wake of years of gaslighting, underreporting crimes against women and villianizing those who dare to speak out.  Letter to New York Times from GLAAD, other organizations and prominent figuresDiscussion and response by New York TimesPetition to oppose pending legislation in New York legislatureKeep Prisons Single Sex USAKeep Prisons Single Sex Twitter Keep Prisons Single Sex FacebookSupport the Whose Body Is It Podcast Shop Activist StickersWhose Body Is It WebsiteTime by ASHUTOSH Music promoted by Free Stock Music Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

⁠Keep Your Kids Out of The Trans Cult⁠Deborah, a former bioqueen aka a female female-impersonator, saw first hand the hierarchy of the LGBTQ community where men retain their male privilege even after medicalization. The hierarchy places “transwomen” and gay men at the top, with bioqueens, drag kings, and trans-identified females on the bottom. Deborah's friends in the drag community amplified her dissatisfaction with being female and told her that all of her problems would be solved if she took testosterone. Every problem from low energy to bipolar disorder would be cured with a little T. But at the age of 31, testosterone stole Deborah’s singing voice, destroyed her energy, and made her more anxious and mentally unstable than ever before. Amidst all of the swirling degeneracy of queer culture, Deborah was drawn to the law and order of Judaism. She began studying and eventually converted. With this newfound appreciation for life in the here and now, buying into trans ideology just wasn't cutting it. In this episode we explore the nuance of faith and cult beliefs and dive into the Woman Erasing Theology at the heart of the queer cult.Follow Deborah on InstagramFollow Deborah on SubstackHow I Finally Quit Binge Eating FREE Talk →Support the Podcast →Whosebodyisit.com →Time by ASHUTOSH Music promoted by Free Stock Music Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

⁠Keep Your Kids Out of The Trans Cult⁠In today’s episode, Emma tells her story of being groomed into transgender ideology at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2015. Emma says she could “fill the bingo card of all the things that make you vulnerable to trans ideology”: history of eating disorders, bisexually, and surviving sexual abuse to name a few. When Emma first encountered gender ideology, she was skeptical and even argued for women’s rights, but when she entered the full-time academic environment of an elite art school, she was encouraged to hate her body and to believe all her problems would go away if she could become a man. Almost as quickly as she fell under the spell of trans ideology, she realized she would never, no matter what she did to her body, transform into a man.Emma touches on the curious phenomenon of white middle class women becoming nonbinary and how she traces her identify confusion to her own adoption. As a bonus, you’ll get to hear some of our cringey art school projects from before we deprogrammed. Emma shares alternatives to medicalization, relevant to anyone battling disassociation and disembodiment.Follow Emma on YouTubeSupport Emma's ArtSupport the PodcastWhosebodyisit.comTime by ASHUTOSH Music promoted by Free Stock Music Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

In the final episode of 2022, I speak with Ora Nadrich. Ora is the author of Time to Awaken: Changing the World with Conscious Awareness and an experienced mindfulness leader and life coach, who in 2020 as lockdown policies encroached, noticed that many people around her were not able to see how the 'new normal' was rapidly rewriting the core values of our society. Authoritarianism dictated everything - even how long you could chew a pretzel on a plane, unmasked. Bodily autonomy became taboo, and the ones touting themselves as the most compassionate, were the same ones calling for the unvaccinated to be denied a bed in a hospital. The timelines between the believers in the New World Order and everybody else created what Ora refers to as parallel universes.In addition to exploring the motivations behind lockdown policies and their connection to stoking fear and rage worldwide, Ora and I discuss the greater transhumanist agenda -the genderists and the men who want to colonize Mars. In spite of the dark, synthetic future envisioned by the transhumanist architects, we celebrate the growing movement of awakened women and men aligning us with one another, God and Mother Earth.Read Time to Awaken: Changing the World with Conscious AwarenessFollow Ora on InstagramSupport the PodcastWhosebodyisit.comTime by ASHUTOSH Music promoted by Free Stock Music Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

⁠Keep Your Kids Out of The Trans Cult⁠Marissa Darlingh, a Milwaukee elementary school counselor was fired from her job after speaking out against transgender ideology at a feminist protest in April 2022. Shortly after, Marissa was harassed, doxxed, and stalked. Her property was picketed, and her yard littered. She found ads on Nextdoor, Instagram, even a news article in the city paper, coordinating the protests and harassment against her. Marissa is now suing the Milwaukee Public School District. In this episode, we discuss how the antisocial and threatening behavior trans activists indulge in online, is actually training for their real-world behavior; targeting and harassing women who resist the pedophilic grooming of children into gender identity. Marissa also speaks to the skills she teaches kids to be embodied and her newfound appreciation for The First Amendment.Learn more about Marissa's lawsuitFollow Marissa on InstagramFollow Marissa on TwitterCheck out the Daily Mail CoverageRead Marissa's Op-ed on FoxSupport the PodcastWhosebodyisit.comTime by ASHUTOSH Music promoted by Free Stock Music Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

Hibo Wardere is a Somali-born author, activist, and female genital mutilation survivor based in the UK. At the age of six, Hibo was bullied on the playground for not being ‘cut.’ Desperately wanting to fit in, she asked her mother to give her the cut the other girls had. She never imagined the horror she would then be subjected to as she describes "it was like being butchered alive." For survivors of FGM, the humiliation doesn’t end with the cutting; its consequences are lifelong with side effects such as infertility, kidney problems, keloids, painful menstruation and sex, and even maternal death.In this episode we explore the motivations for mothers to repeat the violence they endured as girls, perpetuating a 3000-year old woman-hating practice across cultures and religions, the psychological ramifications for survivors, and what women need to heal. Hibo calls for women everywhere to unite in struggle as the strength of our shared experience is one of the most powerful forces in the world.Follow Hibo on InstagramDonate to Educate Not MutilateRead Hibo's book 'Cut'Support the PodcastWhosebodyisit.com Time by ASHUTOSH Music promoted by Free Stock Music Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License