My latest: New Canadian Pediatric Society President Said Parents’ Concerns About Youth Gender Transitions 'Should Not Be Prioritized' benryan.substack.com/p/new-canadi...

Azeen Ghorayshi and Austin Mitchell were 2026 Pulitzer Prize finalists for their podcast The Protocol about youth gender medicine. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/p...

This is incorrect. Taylor Lorenz complained to the police in Charlottesville because a man punched her in the face. He also knocked her phone out of her hand. But she filed a police report her the physical assault.

SCOOP: Detransitioner Settles Malpractice Lawsuit Days Before Trial In Oregon open.substack.com/pub/benryan/... Camille Kiefel sued the 2 Oregon mental-health professionals who each, she alleged, effectively rubber-stamped for her a referral letter for a mastectomy after one telehealth appointment.

Controversial Pediatric Gender Panel Draws Trans-Activist Push for Cancellation Trans-activist Substacker Erin Reed has prompted an uproar over a panel of skeptics of pediatric gender medicine slated for Sunday at the Pediatric Academic Societies meeting in Boston. open.substack.com/pub/benryan/...

Did a WPATH Leader Lie About Why Age Limits Vanished From Their Trans-Care Guidelines? benryan.substack.com/p/did-a-wpat... A video I obtained of a 2022 World Professional Association for Transgender Health conference shows Scott Leibowitz making false claims about why the age limits were removed.

This is a very interesting read, particularly for long and enlightening Q&As with the study lead author and with another subject expert. It will not be popular with advocates of rapid access to gender reassignment, and broadly supports the more cautious approach now taken across most of Europe.

My latest: benryan.substack.com/p/the-author...

This WSJ oped is way too confident in interpreting the findings of the new Finnish study on youth gender-transition treatment. It doesn’t acknowledge that the study relied on a proxy measure of severe mental health problems that has limitations. www.wsj.com/opinion/finl...

How the Top Transgender Medicine Group Taught Members to Fight Misinformation...With Misinformation In a video I obtained of a 2023 trans-medicine conference, a top PR agency offered a buffet of false claims about youth gender medicine. benryan.substack.com/p/how-the-to...

The Medical Establishment Is Tearing Itself Apart Over Youth Gender Surgeries The American Medical Association said it supported restricting gender surgeries for minors. Then it said it didn’t. We still don’t know where it stands, I report for The Free Press. open.substack.com/pub/bariweis...

“One Session May Be Sufficient.” How Activist Providers Want to Overhaul Assessments for Youth Gender Transitions I obtained a video of a 2023 conference presentation regarding an “embodiment goals” focused youth-gender-care assessment model. benryan.substack.com/p/one-sessio...

Harvard Law School clinical instructor and trans activist Alejandra Caraballo is a conspiracy theorist. She throws out conspiracies such as this on a near daily basis, rarely with supporting evidence. But because of Bluesky’s strict culture forbidding dissent, her claims stand.

Major Gender Doctor Isn't 'Interested In' Whether Minors Seeking Gender Drugs Are 'Really Trans' “That’s actually not the discussion that I’m interested in," Johanna Olson-Kennedy said of whether kids are "really trans," in a 2023 conference video I obtained. benryan.substack.com/p/major-gend...

Indicators of Major Psychiatric Problems Didn't Improve After Youth Gender-Transition Treatment In Finland—They Rose benryan.substack.com/p/youth-on-g...

🚨 Congress held NIH and NSF budgets roughly flat. Scientists celebrated. Here is what actually happened. NIH awarded 4,641 fewer grants in FY2025 than the 4-year avg. New awards dropped 14%. Over $1.3B never reached investigators. NSF awards fell 22%. The money was there.

The evolution of @chasestrangio.bsky.social Chase Strangio. To see the full video: benryan.substack.com/p/chase-stra...

Chase Strangio's 2021 Warning: 'Decisions to engage with people like Abigail Shrier…are going to cost people lives.' I obtained 100s of conference videos that the World Professional Assoc. for Transgender Health fought to shield. benryan.substack.com/p/chase-stra...

I know for a fact that this claim about how the Times sourced the statement is false. The statement came from the AMA’s communications team directly. And it is very unlikely that Dr. Sheldon is unaware of this, given he was privy to recent internal discussions acknowledging the AMA was at fault.

"a group of people enclosed in a bubble, one they filled with so much hot air that it sent them soaring close to the sun"

HOW GENDER MEDICINE SET ITSELF UP FOR DISASTER For Compact, I report on what the 100s of WPATH conference videos I obtained tell us about this troubled field: compactmag.com/article/how-... 👉I 'll be publishing the conference videos on my Substack: benryan.substack.com/p/i-obtained...

NYT Claps Back: The AMA 'Contradicts' Its 'Own Statements' About Youth Gender Surgery After the AMA’s board chair claimed the group never said it opposed such surgeries, The New York Times has released the organization's full Feb. 4 statement to the contrary. benryan.substack.com/p/nyt-claps-...

@benryanwriter.bsky.social stop being a goddamn weirdo

It's hard to tell what's satire these days.

I would very much like to go a day without having to encounter the word “trauma.” We focus so intently on this concept to our detriment, at the expense of our resilience

NEWS: Judge Rules That R.F.K. Jr. Overstepped on Transgender Care The ruling provides temporary relief for 21 states seeking to stop the Trump administration from ending federal funding to hospitals that provide gender-transition care. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/u...

New systematic review of twin studies finds evidence for both genetic & environmental contributions to gender identity. But the heritability rates were all over the map, with no clear magnitude, sex differences, or consistent effects related to prenatal hormones. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

NEWS: Daniel Biss wins the IL-9 Democratic primary. This despite an 11th -hour MeToo story resurfacing from his mid-20s. Kat Abughazaleh and Laura Fine have suffered defeat.

The best last of my interviews about the $2 million detransitioner lawsuit, which I covered for @TheFP: m.youtube.com/watch?v=c1HU...

Spotted: Trump directing traffic outside of Bergdorf’s.

Evergreen tweet. No notes.

I’m sure everyone in Bluesky will love this podcast with Jesse Singal, hosted by @bendreyfuss.bsky.social and others! www.centralairpodcast.com/p/real-accou...

Harvard Law School clinical instructor and trans activist Alejandra Caraballo corrects herself and calls me a mean name. But she neglects to note this article from 2025, written by a trans woman: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Caraballo makes a false claim: that The Atlantic has platformed no trans people over the past decade to discuss their lives. For one, The Atlantic platformed Evan Urquhart. www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

NEWS: SCOTUS win—for now—in fight against school policies in California that permit keeping a child’s gender transition at school secret from parents. The Court’s order favors parents’ constitutional rights while the broader appeal continues. www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/u...

Calvin the Cat is keeping calm while he helps me work on an outline for a big article.

Tulsi Gabbard’s former merch:

Trump slams Obama:

The ACLU has sued Kansas over its law invalidating the driver’s licenses of transgender residents. “SB 244 is a cruel and craven threat to public safety all in the name of fostering fear, division, and paranoia,” said the ACLU’s Harper Seldin. www.aclu.org/press-releas...

Dollar store Jesse Singal

NEWS: The UK is going to force the adult gender clinics that refused to share data on former pediatric gender patients with the Cass Review to hand over the data so investigators can study what became of the 9,000 people seen by that clinic. www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

Not going to digest your body homie.

Chris is welcome to ask me questions about my reporting, which I invite him to read, as I do have a very large body of work that he can digest.

Surgeon General Nominee Casey Means' Reasons For Quitting Her Residency Have Stayed Consistent Since She Left, Emails Show benryan.substack.com/p/surgeon-ge... I obtained emails via a public records request detailing disenchantment with surgery and a preference for prevention-based medicine.

Medicaid Spent $118 Million On Gender-Transition Drugs and Surgeries For Minors From 2019 to 2023 A new study found somewhat lower use of cross-sex hormones among teens on Medicaid than in a previous study about privately insured youth. open.substack.com/pub/benryan/...

Andrea Long Chu, a beacon of science and child-development reporting, asserted in a New York Magazine cover story that children should have the right to undergo gender-transition treatments and surgeries at any age for any reason. Period. To which I ask Chu: Have you ever met a child?

Jesse Singal writes: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/o...

NEWS: Mt. Sinai, the sprawling hospital system, has joined NYU Langone in shuttering its pediatric gender clinic in the face of threats from the Trump administration of cutting off its Medicaid funding. gothamist.com/news/nyc-par...