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.

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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...

His assistant public affairs director insisted the FBI director was not in Italy for the Winter Olympics.

Unheard Testimony From WPATH's President Elect In the Historic Detransitioner Lawsuit: "A reasonable surgeon would have put on the brakes." Dr. Loren Schechter provided damning testimony against the plastic surgeon in this medical-malpractice trial. benryan.substack.com/p/unheard-te...

NEWS: After ceasing performing gender-transition surgeries on minors in 2022, Vanderbilt University Medical Center will now stop providing such surgeries to adults. www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...

Can you explain to me, Andrea, how the estimate range provided by Kinnon Ross MacKinnon, who is a transgender man and one of the only academics to study detransitioning, amounts to “anti-trans extremism”?

Kinnon MacKinnon is a transgender man and an academic at York University. He is also one of the only academics with the courage to study detransitioning, making him a top expert on the subject. Andrea James would have you believe his estimate range, which I cited on CBS, is “anti-trans extremism.”

NEWS: Long-awaited British child puberty blocker trials paused after watchdog concerns Scheme open to those as young as eight faces growing backlash. www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/e0a6d8e...

bitch didn't you just admit that you care about this cuz someone was mean to you online lol imagine being this soft

local reporter discovers “expert witnesses”

I predict this post will prove unpopular…

WPATH's Trans-Care Bible "Is Not Considered the Standard of Care"—Unheard Testimony From the $2M Detransitioner Lawsuit The trial heard from two plastic surgeons who painted vastly different—and remarkably revealing—portraits of youth gender-transition surgery. open.substack.com/pub/benryan/...

Tensions Flare Within Plastic Surgery Group Over New Policy Opposing Youth Gender Surgeries An American Society of Plastic Surgeons task force charged with examining the issue was, to their chagrin, cut out of the loop when the ASPS board issued its new policy. benryan.substack.com/p/tensions-f...

Live with Katie Herzog & Ben Ryan • A recording from Blocked and Reported's live video

Britain’s Good Law Project Again Claims the NHS Caused a Surge of Trans-Youth Suicides—Without Proving Its Case benryan.substack.com/p/britains-g... GLP has falsely claimed the NHS all but eliminated access to puberty blockers starting in 2021 and that this led to a suicide surge.

On CBS, I reported on the $2M judgment in the 1st detransitioner civil suit to go to trial. I recalled the mom saying her daughter’s psychologist browbeat her into consenting to a gender-transition mastectomy for the 16 year old. But WPATH’s president elect testified surgery isn’t suicide prevention

Thanks to @cbsnews.com 24/7 and @lindseyreiser.bsky.social for having me on to discuss the historic $2M verdict in the first detransitioner lawsuit ever to go to trail. www.cbsnews.com/video/woman-...