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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 parents when confronting what has become a quite well-funded and powerful lobby. Also, mentioned in this episode are Michael Bigg’s resarch, “The Tavistock’s Experimentation with Puberty Blockers” and Rachel Rooney’s book, My Body is Me! Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe

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 identidad de género, una nueva ola de misoginia que supone una seria amenaza para los derechos de las mujeres. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe

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 savageminds.substack.com/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 work on the Channel 4 documentary “Trans-Kids: It’s Time To Talk” and the fallout from this programme which includes a widening of the lens upon childhood gender transition to include the medicalisation of children, the entrenchment of gender stereotypes and the reluctance to move treatments for gender dysphoria towards a therapeutic or analytic model. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe

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 savageminds.substack.com/subscribe

Paul Embery is a firefighter, trade unionist, journalist, national organiser of Trade Unionists Against the EU, supporter of Blue Labour and the author of Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class. In this episode, Embery talks with Julian Vigo about the chasm between the working class communities and the wider left to include the abandon of class considerations by the left in favour of a focus on identity politics. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine at Stanford University who holds an MD and PhD in economics, discusses his work during the COVID-19 epidemic to include the first seroprevalence study and some of the humanist ideals behind the Great Barrington Declaration which urges a change in COVID-19 infection control policies away from lockdowns and in favour of focused protection of the vulnerable. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe

Marcus Evans is a former governor of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation where he also served as Consultant Psychotherapist and Associate Clinical Director of Adult and Adolescent Service at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. In this episode Evans discusses the 400 percent rise in referrals to the Tavistock Centre in north London, the only National Health Service (NHS) clinic in Britain that treats children with gender-identity developmental issues. Discussing changes within the clinical psychiatric practices treating gender dysphoria, the powerful lobby groups and NGOs pushing “gender affirmative” approaches, the shift in doctor-patient relations and the explosion of cases among adolescent girls, Evans analyses the mutations in theoretical and practical approaches to childhood gender dysphoria in recent decades. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe

Martin Kulldorff, PhD, a biostatistician, epidemiologist and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, is one of the three creators of the Great Barrington Declaration (GBD) co-authored with fellow scientists Sunetra Gupta (Oxford University) and  Jay Bhattacharya (Stanford University). In his discussion with Julian Vigo, Kulldorff analyses current WHO and media discourses surrounding COVID-19 and “lockdown-induced collateral damage” which has had devastating effects on public health and the economy. If you've been thinking about supporting Savage Minds, but have not yet done so, please consider taking out a subscription, by supporting our work on Patreon or through a one-off donation. We really can't do this without you and we depend on financial support which means that we can cover the news unfettered by corporate pressure. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe

Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, the esteemed Professor Emeritus of Medical Microbiology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, joins Julian Vigo to discuss this current global pandemic through the analysis he and Dr. Karina Reiss provide in Corona, False Alarm Facts And Figures (2020). An award-winning researcher, Bhakdi sheds a light on the current era of COVID-19 and offers an analysis of whether radical protective measures—including lockdown, social distancing, and mandatory masking—have been justified, and what the ramifications have been for society, the economy, and public health. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe