Calmversations

Helena is a female-to-male-to-female detransitioner, Limpida is a male-to-female detransitioner, Josh Slocum (host of Disaffected Podcast) is a gay man who's a couple years younger than me, and I'm Benjamin Boyce, of no known novel sexual or gender identities. In this conversation, the four of us tackle the negative impacts that popular feminism has had on young people, and young men in particular. Find us on twitter at @lacroicsz, @americandog1998, @OriginalRecipeG, and @BenjaminABoyce because I made my account when I was an adult and haven't yet had to make a replacement. Helena's substack: https://lacroicsz.substack.com Limpida's substack: https://strigoi.substack.com Benjamin's substack: https://theaphorist.substack.com support this channel https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce

Mia is a Canadian mom who writes great twitter threads about medical scandals past and present. In this conversation we speak about the direction Canada is going with affirmation-only therapy for gender questioning youth. Find her on twitter @_CryMiaRiver Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce

Ben Appel speaks about growing up in a cult, dealing with depression and substance abuse, reconciling with his sexuality, fighting for gay marriage, jumping at the opportunity to attend Columbia University—only to find that a new fangled homophobia had become the norm in progressive circles. Find him on twitter @BenAppel and substack at https://benappel.substack.com  His viral article: https://www.newsweek.com/new-homophobia-opinion-1698969 Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce

Five years ago, on May 23rd, 2017, a group of students confronted Bret Weinstein outside his classroom at The Evergreen State College. Armed with a script and emails of his which the students believed proved him to be racist, the demanded he apologize and undo the harm he perpetuated by refusing to participate in the college's yearly "Day of Absence" event. Historically, students, staff, and faculty "of color" would meet off campus to speak about their experiences and share solidarity—in 2017, the program coordinators wanted to switch the day, and ask (or strongly encourage) students, staff, and faculty of minimal color to go off campus and meditate on their privilege and white supremacy. Bret took exception to this, and said as much in emails to the program coordinators. The Evergreen students, with two weeks to go before the end of the school year, had been riled up by an alleged act of racism (which turned out to be fabricated or at least blown out of proportion), and planned a week long protest to demand that TESC, one of the most progressive and explicitly anti-racist colleges in the United States, purge itself of white supremacy. Bret Weinstein's class was their first stop, but over the next few days, with cellphones streaming, they proceeded to terrorize, hold hostage, and submit to struggle sessions all who met their path. I was on campus at that time, and in the wake of the protests I exhumed and published internal documents and videos showing that The Evergreen State College teachers and administrators indoctrinated the students into such behavior (watch my full documentary at https://bit.ly/evergreenstory) This set me on the path to running this channel, and also sent Bret Weinstein into public intellectualism. In this discussion, we speak about the intervening years. Find Bret on twitter @BretWeinstein, and watch/listen to his Darkhorse Podcast (produced with his wife Heather Heying) on youtube and spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4cPXjuF6PtQtliZFBVAGou https://www.youtube.com/c/BretWeinsteinDarkHorse Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce

Zach Elliott is both a Christian and a Scientist—and even he can't reconcile the nonsense of gender identity Zach's channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ParadoxInstitute  Find Zach on twitter @zaelefty   Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce

Curtis Yarvin has been writing about the "deep right" for several years. Originally writing under the pseudonym Mencius Molbug, his ideas made waves for their apparent radicalness—notably, his assertion that the United States would be best served by electing a monarch, or Political CEO type figure, who has autocratic authority to clean up our government's entrenched and unaccountable bureaucracy. This idea is shocking to most Americans, but makes a lot of sense once you hear out his reasoning.  Find his writing at https://graymirror.substack.com Support this channel https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce

Sinead (@ImWatson91) is a female-to-male-to-female detransitioner, and Tullip (@TullipR) is a male-to-female-to-male detransitioner. In this calmversation, they discuss family relationships during transition, the influence of trauma and stereotypes, and what lies ahead for the growing "detrans" community. Find them on twitter at the above @'s and support this channel via https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce

Part of a series: http://bit.ly/DeTransStories Michelle speaks to me about growing up on the internet, dealing with self esteem and bullying and undiagnosed autism, becoming an activist and transitioning, and then using critical thinking to work her way toward acceptance of herself and reality. Find & follow Michelle on twitter @somenuancepls and on substack at https://somenuanceplease.substack.com   Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce

Marc Barnes publishes New Polity podcast and journal, a site where "theocratic nut jobs" discuss the failures of Liberalism and what should come next through a Catholic lens. His work on Gender is especially insightful, but I've been digging his conversations on Tyranny and other relevant topics.  Find more of  @New Polity  at https://newpolity.com and https://www.youtube.com/c/NewPolity1  Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce

Stephanie Davies-Arai has been exposing the inadequacy of gender medicine in the UK since 2015 at https://transgendertrend.com  Helen Joyce has written the leading critique of the transgender movement "Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality" found at bookstores everywhere. Read more of her work at https://transgendertrend.com  Channel 4 Documentary: https://tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/about-us/kids-edge-channel-4-documentary/kids-edge-gender-clinic/  MORE READING:   https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/04/25/we-have-been-experimenting-on-children/  https://cass.independent-review.uk/publications/interim-report/  https://www.transgendertrend.com/sajid-javid-to-launch-urgent-inquiry-into-gender-treatment-for-children/  Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce