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Singal’s Florida: You’re very wrong about trans kids
  • #DiscoSexology
  • Best of TA
  • Cristan Williams
  • Fact Checking

Singal’s Florida: You’re very wrong about trans kids

  • Cristan Williams
  • February 25, 2018
  • 2

UPDATE (4/20/22): This article was updated to respond to spurious recommendations from the Florida Department of Health, which assert the same debunked claims this article […]

Are Misogynist, Homophobe, & TERF slurs?
  • Best of TA
  • Cristan Williams
  • Fact Checking
  • Pop

Are Misogynist, Homophobe, & TERF slurs?

  • Cristan Williams
  • November 4, 2017
  • 13

Into the nexus of the ‘gay alt-right feminist’ movement I received notice that an opinion leader in the sex essentialist activist community had linked to one […]

An Australian Media Corporation Takes a Punch at Trans Youth, Using the ‘60 Minutes’ Brand
  • Fact Checking
  • Kellie Winters

An Australian Media Corporation Takes a Punch at Trans Youth, Using the ‘60 Minutes’ Brand

  • Kelley Winters
  • September 27, 2017
  • 2

On September 10, the Australian media giant, Nine Entertainment, aired a long-anticipated news report “about what can go wrong when doctors misdiagnose a child as […]

Women’s privacy is under attack
  • Fact Checking
  • Marian Aanerud

Women’s privacy is under attack

  • M. A. Melby
  • July 29, 2017
  • 0

You may have heard that a clothing-optional spa in Toronto turned away a trans woman and that has caused a stir. What you may not […]

TERF legal team attempts to CENSOR the TransAdvocate
  • Cristan Williams
  • Fact Checking

TERF legal team attempts to CENSOR the TransAdvocate

  • Cristan Williams
  • April 25, 2017
  • 5

The Trans Exclusionary (self-identified) “radical feminist” lawyer Cathy Brennan sent, via her attorney, a cease-and-desist letter, asserting that the following statement from a TransAdvocate story titled, Fake “Radical […]

#DiscoSexology Part II: The Timeline
  • #DiscoSexology
  • Fact Checking
  • History

#DiscoSexology Part II: The Timeline

  • Cristan Williams
  • January 22, 2017
  • 2

By Cristan Williams   Upon completion of this series, this work will be released, in its entirety, as both an audio and ebook. Installment Preface Welcome […]

Johns Hopkins Resumes Trans Care
  • Cristan Williams
  • Fact Checking
  • Health
  • History

Johns Hopkins Resumes Trans Care

  • Cristan Williams
  • October 14, 2016
  • 9

Johns Hopkins was an early pioneer in American trans care until anti-LGBT activist Paul McHugh began working at the hospital. In 1979, McHugh was able to end trans […]

The New York Magazine lies to parents about trans children
  • Best of TA
  • Fact Checking
  • Kelley Winters

The New York Magazine lies to parents about trans children

  • Kelley Winters
  • July 28, 2016
  • 101

By Kelly Winters, PhD Jesse Singal, the Senior Editor at nymag.com, has enlisted his New York Magazine blog to promote the widely publicized presumption that painful […]

The media is lying about why NC is being sued
  • Best of TA
  • Cristan Williams
  • Fact Checking

The media is lying about why NC is being sued

  • Cristan Williams
  • May 15, 2016
  • 6

By Cristan Williams @cristanwilliams Almost without exception, all news stories covering the US Attorney General’s suit against North Carolina omits the rather significant fact that […]

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