My deepest gratitude for all your support this year. The 25% for 2024 deal is good until the end of this year. What a long, strange year it’s been (bonus points if you get the reference). I asked Ben Appel, Eliza Mondegreen, and Jamie Reed to j

Heterodox Trans People #6: Phil Illy

Aug 22nd, 2023 1h 16m

BROADview is a reader-supported publication. Thank you for the support!Hello listeners, welcome to the audio version of Broadview. I’m Lisa Selin Davis.And here’s a story I forgot to tell Phil Illy, my guest today:I was having reading time with

Telling Our Own Stories

Aug 14th, 2023 1h 30m

The new book Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans: Tales from the Home Front in the Fight to Save Our Kids is out today. You can find more about how to order on PITT’s Substack here. I spoke with two of the editors about PITT’s origin s

"Never Let Them in the Door. Immediately Lawyer Up."

Jul 13th, 2023 1h 30m

Remember when I complained about “gender fatigue?” And a bunch of you wrote to me and said, tired or not, gender identity has been enshrined into law while a lot of liberals weren’t paying close attention—replacing sex, or added as a facet of s

Heterodox Trans People #5: Julia Malott

May 11th, 2023 1h 1m

Greetings, listeners! Julia Malott is a trans woman and parent who lives in Ontario, and has some of the most nuanced and philosophical thoughts on gender issues I’ve encountered. She’s been willing to stand up to the Canadian orthodoxy which,

"Gender Ideology Is Hurting My Trans Son"

Apr 6th, 2023 54m 17s

Penny Adrian has a happy trans son, who transitioned in adulthood after a lot of reflection and evaluation. Penny supports him, but she has watched as a faction of activists has taken over the conversation, imposing gender identity ideology whe

Heterodox Trans People #4: The Aarons

Mar 3rd, 2023 1h 28m

The Aarons—Kimberly and Terrell—are part of the Gender Dysphoria Alliance, which penned an open letter after those by GLAAD and New York Times’ contributors, which demanded censorship and control over the coverage of gender-affirming care.The G

Heterodox Trans People #3

Dec 31st, 2022 1h 16m

Happy New Year to you all! For my last post of the year, I’m sharing a conversation with one of my favorite friends that I’ve met by way of looking at gender issues from a heterodox viewpoint, Corinna Cohn. Corinna is co-host of the wonderful p

Heterodox Trans People #2

Dec 14th, 2022 1h 12m

In the next installment in my ongoing series of interviews of trans people with diverse viewpoints comes a therapist and trans man who goes by the pen name Stillman Cray. We’re not using his real name because he fears personal and professional

Heterodox Trans People #1

Dec 5th, 2022 1h 13m

Zander Keig is an award-winning licensed clinical social worker, health educator, and anthology editor who served in the US Coast Guard. He currently serves as Director of the Transgender American Veterans Association Community and Healing Comm

An Untenable Situation

Nov 25th, 2022 1h 18m

We were going through the procedures for dealing with student records and things like that. And just immediately as if it was a totally normal thing to say, my supervisor said you might want to do a pronoun check in if you're ever concerned. An

"My whole body is a scar. My voice is a scar."

Oct 19th, 2022 1h 10m

“I still have and always will have the scars and the fact that these aren't breasts, these are silicone balls that were put under my muscle to replicate the idea of a breast. And that is very distinctly different from being a breast. And I thin

Gender Heretics Radio Hour

Aug 24th, 2022 1h 31m

Last year, I sent Ben Appel a fan letter after reading his Quillette piece. I was fascinated by his personal story—as an atheist with no religious background (but a vaguely Jewish ethnic identity, if I may use that word) I am always a bit jealo

What You Need to Know About Title IX

Aug 15th, 2022 1h 1m

If you’re a good liberal—and, believe me, I have learned that not all of you reading this are, and thank you for letting me know—you’re likely to believe that Obama’s changes to Title IX were a good thing; Trump’s subsequent changes were bad; a

Everyone Should Read Bob Ostertag's Book

Aug 2nd, 2022 1h 11m

In 2018, as I was beginning to research turning my New York Times op-ed into a book, a friend told me she had a must-read book for me: Robert Ostertag’s Sex, Science, Self: a Social History of Estrogen, Testosterone and Identity. It influenced

From Tomboy to Transgender Trend

Jun 13th, 2022 1h 25m

Welcome to my first recorded interview! Well, actually, I’ve recorded hundreds of interviews in order to write articles, but this is first time I’ve recorded one for other people to listen to. I wanted to have a conversation with Stephanie Davi