Savage Minds

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 lawsuit to restore fairness in women’s sports, discuss the principle issues facing girls today in the United States who are often forced to compete against males in their own sporting categories. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe

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 bracket and won the top prize beating out all the female cyclists in the competition. Discussing her political activism around this subject both within the USA and internationally, Wagner-Assali relates the impact this has had on her life and the need to save women’s and girls’ sports while also lending a critical eye towards the sportswomen who have thrown women under the bus in their desire to appease the current wokery. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe

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 Statistics, Sullivan details the ways in which academics have been targeted by a very powerful and well-funded lobby which seeks to no-platform and silence female academics who argue for accurate data collection on sex specifically because, as she states, “Proof denies faith.” Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe

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 image of themselves as female, Blanchard elaborates why many transgender-identified subjects today largely reject the psychological disorder framed by the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) while necessarily needing such a diagnosis in order for the subject to access medical treatment. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe

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 opposition voices, and the way that media polarises the public. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe

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 be “matched up with” stereotypes of gender reinforced through medical intervention. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe

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 current policies within sports that argue for the inclusion of these males in female sport. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe

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 the rich and the ultra-rich, to include a stunning analysis of what Maupin calls a “country club attitude” of the wealthy class. Discussing US party politics, Maupin examines the greater problems of neoliberal capitalism and why the left needs to return to class analysis to include dialoguing with the working class on both sides of the aisle while stepping away from the liberal culture wars. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe

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 US Capitol building and why identity by fiat is putting the brakes on social and political advances. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe

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 misrepresented by governments and the media. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe