Sitemap - 2023 - gender:hacked by Eliza Mondegreen

Top reads of the week (and happy almost-new year!)

This year at gender:hacked, part two!

Closing out 2023 with Lisa, Jamie, and Ben!

The year in gender:hacked, part one!

Top reads of the week (+ Merry Christmas!)

Coming of age on the Internet

The secret life of gender clinicians: Reporting from inside WPATH

Book club: Change of reading schedule!

Top reads of the week + pre-Raphaelites

"i just wanna see myself the way i actually want to be seen"

Stuck in the Oedipus trap

How would you describe your relationship to beauty standards now?

Top reads of the week

Accessorize your flesh prison

Talk to me about beauty

New York Times publishes bizarre case for youth gender transition

Lyon

Top reads of the week + book club updates

“Sketch, Erase and Sketch Again!”

The "titanic collision" between history and, uh, gender identity

December book club: Time to Think

Top reads of the week

In praise of going to ground

Escaping Twin Flames Universe

Top reads of the week

Fixing gender medicine with Jamie Reed and Benjamin Boyce

The process is the punishment

Top reads of the week

Book club: When Kids Say They're Trans

“T is the key that opens the gate holding back the flood”: When transition isn’t helping

How is it that so many bonds that did not seem fragile broke?

Top reads of the week

Cancelation bingo

What to do with your doubts: Gender clinician edition

Meghan Daum, Sarah Haider, and I go down the rabbithole

Top reads of the week

Ceci n'est pas un culte

Chickens don’t cry but do come home to roost

My Genspect talk: Questions and doubts in online trans communities

Top reads of the week

A strange spin on 'No debate' takes the stage at Melbourne Fringe

"They painted me like a mannish freak"

Top reads of the week

Conversation with Louise Perry: When Girls Think They're Boys

Silence of the professional grown-ups

Top reads of the week

The transition from political imperative to political liability

I was A Good Person until I wasn't

Top reads of the week

When Kids Say They're Trans

Weirdos of the world, unite!

Canada wakes up

Interlude

Top reads of the week

“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”

Up next for book club: When Prophecy Fails

Break the binary, break the body

Top reads of the week

Vote on what to read next for book club

The pullback from youth gender transition has begun

Message in a bottle

Top reads of the week

Five years of 'ROGD'

The terrible price of private heresy

Top reads of the week

Corinna Cohn on taking gender conversations out into the real world

Book club meets September 4 to discuss Good Girls

The long road back to plausible deniability

Top reads of the week and book club scheduling

"My friend's roommate gave me a shot of T at a Barbie party, now I'm questioning everything"

One day, the Pied Piper came through town and all the children disappeared

Top reads of the week

The idea of being someone else

La vie quotidienne over at r/FTM: "A place for the guys"

Top reads of the week

Hooked on fandoms

"I suspect, but cannot yet prove, that the gender affirming model is actively harmful..."

Two years ago in Milan, Pavia, and Bergamo

Top reads of the week

Up next for book club: Good Girls by Hadley Freeman

"To exclude me from potentially being a danger to women... is transphobic"

Gender surgeon promotes bizarre range of ‘nonbinary surgeries’

Genoa and Turin

Top reads of the week

Lisa Marchiano and I talk about girlhood with the not all that girly Benjamin Boyce

Laura Funkgod on good funks and bad funks

The time I vowed to never, ever go to Switzerland again

Top reads of the week

Request for parent stories

"I fell down a rabbit hole and I've been reporting from down there ever since."

Trans activists, what would it take for you to say: 'This movement isn’t what I thought it was'?

Leaving is the hardest part

Two years ago in Vienna and Salzburg

Top reads of the week

Sing, O Muse, of the transgender odyssey!

Headwinds

The Silence of the Professional Grown-Ups

Top reads of the week + a note about posting + book club

77 square miles surrounded by reality

GLAAD pushes Big Tech to censor trans ‘disinformation’

July book club announcement: Feminism Against Progress

Top reads of the week

“I view trans identity as a magical cloak that protects the eating disorder"

Top reads of the week

Data first, then conclusions

Artificial Intelligence clips the poodles

So over the rainbow with Alasdair Gunn and Benjamin Boyce

Top reads of the week

"We're giving these girls mastectomies. You have to be curious about what's going on."

Two days in Tallinn

The New York Times is caving to activist pressure

Top reads of the week

"Pregnant men" and other faits divers

Inside the belly of the beast: Going undercover at trans conferences

Tops reads of the week

The ever-so-supportive trans community

Gender: A Wider Lens on how online communities shape thought, desire, and doubt about transition

Top reads of the week + book club update

Online trans communities: lifeline or quicksand?

From the archives: Female-to-Male Transsexualism

What the New York Times gets wrong about detransitioning

Top reads of the week + June book club

Is the tide turning in the US?

Trans identity and doubt: My talk at Genspect's The Bigger Picture

Top reads of the week

RIP, Ian Hacking

The Bigger Picture

The triumph of incongruence over dysphoria

Top reads of the week + Hannah Barnes conversation next Saturday, May 13!

"Don't stop believin'": Three days at EPATH

Ireland

new source of dysphoria just dropped 🤙

Top reads of the week

Top reads of the week (+ a note about this week)

Bound

RSVP now for May 13 conversation with Hannah Barnes

Patient autonomy or medical responsibility?

Top reads of the week

"You're NOT crazy"

Interview with newthoughtcrime on thought reform and coercive control in trans communities

Top reads of the week

Playing with fire

All about book club

Do you support or oppose bills banning transition for minors? Why?

Top reads of the week

Dangerous rhetorics with Stella O'Malley and Benjamin Boyce

Let's talk Material Girls on April 6 & May book-club announcement

I'm in Twitter jail for tweeting about the risks 'Trans Day of Vengeance' poses

Fui quod es, eris quod sum

Top reads of the week

Resilience or terror? (Continued...)

Don't miss Genspect's The Bigger Picture, April 27-29

The story and the truth

Top reads of the week

"if that was my true self, then why did it take so much work?"

"but maybe NOT going on HRT is already screwing up your body with the wrong hormones?"

Top reads of the week

Just for fun, for a change

Feminist Question Time

Truthful 'misinformation' and virtuous lies

Top reads of the week + selecting the next book-club read

Nothing to see here

Transparency podcast, episode 57: The Eunuch Makers

Seeking refuge in idiosyncratic sexual identities (and yaoi)

Top reads of the week

About that Twitter shitstorm: Affirmation—not assessment—is imperative

Resilience or terror?

Down, down, down

Top reads of the week

"I'd never thought about it that way."

Bad Sex by Nona Willis Aronowitz

Top reads of the week + book club

Anti-social contagions with Benjamin Boyce

Phobia indoctrination, not trans genocide

Top reads of the week + book-club scheduling

Travel journal: Four years ago in Bologna

"Can you guys pretend I did something really cool or interesting...?"

Top reads of the week + February's book-club read

Why trans activists keep going to the mat for rapists and murderers

"If your parents aren't accepting of your identity, I'm your mom now"

Learning it the hard way

Top reads of the week

Extremism-fluid: The neo-Nazi-to-trans pipeline

What should we read in February?

Proxies for doubt: Imposter syndrome and internalized transphobia

Top reads of the week

This is what 'no debate' looks like

Join us Monday, January 16 for The Case Against the Sexual Revolution

The bad gender friend

Need to reschedule: The Case Against the Sexual Revolution

Top reads of the week + book club reminder

Thinking out loud about medical scandals...

Historical fan fiction in the New York Times

Book club meets next Tuesday, January 10!

2022: Year in review