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Present at the Dissolution

"Nobody wants to meet with me. Nobody came to me and say, 'I'm sorry. We messed up. We made a mistake.' Nobody."

"I realized that no matter what I would have done -- had I got into full surgery on my face, removal of my genitals -- (I already had breast implants by then), I would have never been a woman."

"We are setting up the lawsuits against the AAP and all these societies. We're going to hold them all to account. We have an army of attorneys waiting to do this."

The Queer Normative Future Is Already Here

The High Cost of Gender Apostasy

"Every forward step in my transition at first brought elation, but it was ephemeral. As the joy faded, I was encouraged to take the next step. I was not only a cash cow, I was a willing disciple."

I felt like she was setting me and her father up as the enemy of our child. She was the savior who was going to come in and save our daughter from us.

"I needed love. I needed support. I needed somebody to hear me out and not just tell me what I wanted to hear."

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A Terrible Authority Inscribed Into Their Own Flesh

"If you're not willing to risk your job, your relationships, your friendships, if you're not willing to risk that to protect children from medical experimentation -- what would motivate you?

Yang on Gender: A Wider Lens Podcast

Apostate From Institutional Consensus And On Behalf of Normative, Evidence Based Practice

Witness To A Medicalized Social Contagion

Preface to a Multi-Volume Review of a Work of Christian Apologia

Butch Lesbian Desister and Christian Homeschooling Mother Agree That No One Is Born in the Wrong Body

Twitter Is Actively Contributing to the Spread of Serious Self-Injury

FTM and Back Again

"It's Not About Being Anti-Gay, Anti-Lesbian, Anti-Bisexual. It's About Letting Kids Enter Adulthood in Intact, Healthy Bodies, and Then They Can Make Their Own Decisions."

From Gender Nonconformity to the "Trans Kid"

How to Fix What is Broken in Academia

In the Copypasta Mines

On the Road with Billboard Chris, Part IV: Brown University

Of Eunuchs and Wannabes

"I have to be like Gandhi out there. I will just take the hits."

A Mother Intent on Protecting Her Daughter Speaks Out

On the Road with Billboard Chris, Part III

Debating Gender Ideology at the Lincoln Memorial

On the Road With Billboard Chris, Part II

Protect Kids Caucus Back-To-School Roundtable

On the Road With Billboard Chris

Transcript: Shep Melnick on Adversarial Legalism

Two Decades of Corporate Grift in Afghanistan

Gender Theory in Schools – Two Things the TERFs Get Right (Plus Two Things They Get Wrong)

Transcript: The Road to Year Zero #3 - Chait v. The Internet [Extended Edition]

Unexceptional America

A Blight on the Presidency and the Nation

Bones of Joseph

The Reporter Who Lost and Gained Everything By Telling the Truth About People Who Aren't Supposed to Exist

Present At the Creation

Cultural and Physical Genocide Are Two Very Different Things

Transcript: The Dangerous Overreach of SB107

A New Long March Begins

Hyper-Moral Politics and the Flagellants of 2020

Transcript: Shep Melnick on Title IX and the Civil Rights State

The Dangerous Overreach of California’s SB107

Shep Melnick on Creedal Passion Politics (Abridged)

Shep Melnick on Creedal Passion Politics

Transcript: The Road to Year Zero #2 - We Out Here

The Man Who Would Be Queen in Retrospect

Transcript: The Road to Year Zero #1 - Cold Open

Yes, Things Are Really As Bad As You've Heard

A Backward Glance

Think-Tanked

The Protected Category That Could Not Be Defined

Against the Case Against the Sexual Revolution

The Empire Struck Back

Jails without Gatekeeping?: Evidence from the UK Prisons System

Ban Politics from Gender Healthcare

Shep Melnick on The Sixties’ False Dawn (Abridged)

Shep Melnick on The Sixties’ False Dawn

Conversations with Friends

The Ethical Quandary of Social Transition

The Road to Year Zero #4 - A Dream of Spring

The Duke Lacrosse Scandal in Retrospect

The Gender-Affirming House of Cards

Current Events in Year Zero

Among the Thielites

A Tale of Two States: Gender-Affirming Care in Florida and New Jersey

Shep Melnick on Adversarial Legalism (Abridged)

Shep Melnick on Adversarial Legalism

Syllabus

Not Enough Sexual Provocation

The Road to Year Zero #3 - Chait v. The Internet

Callin Show with Lisa Selin Davis

How Ideological Coups Happen

Letter From Montreal

Interviewing John Sailer at Callin at 2pm EST

From Secession to Revolt

Shep Melnick on the Civil Rights State (Abridged)

R. Shep Melnick on Title IX and the Civil Rights State

Interviewing Author of Woke Capitalism in the 21st Century on Callin and the Web at 1 pm EST/ 10 AM PDT + Open Thread

The Road to Year Zero #2 - We Out Here

Woke Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Letter From Toms River

The Road to Year Zero #1 - Cold Open

Prefatory Remarks in Advance of Site Re-Launch