Detransitioner Lawsuit Against Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy Is Dismissed I report: Attorneys for a former patient of the controversial top pediatric gender medicine doctor could not overcome California’s strict statute of limitations. They intend to appeal. benryan.substack.com/p/detransiti...

Mamdani takes a strong initial lead, commanding a majority with 36% of the votes in.

Fact Checking Erin Reed’s Faith in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hate Map. open.substack.com/pub/benryan/...

I feel exhausting reading this, god knows what it's like for Ben writing it. He's doing great work though!

Fact Checking Erin Reed's Faith in the Southern Poverty Law Center's Hate Map, Part 1 of 2 Reed's attack on Wash. St. Univ. relies on the tenuous validity of the hate-group designation that the Southern Poverty Law Center applied to SEGM. benryan.substack.com/p/fact-check...

Pressure by Transgender Activists Forces Washington State University To Suspend Courses Critical of Medical Gender Treatments for Minors www.nysun.com/article/pres...

Calvin and Diane are enjoying the great outdoors.

@jaredlholt.bsky.social does a super long interview with progressive politico Will Stancil, who is many people’s favorite punching bag online. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8NP...

Forgot to mention that my daughter received potato whilst trick or treating. The potato legend is true y'all, it really is. 😭

From Pamela Paul, for @wsj.com: The Growing Divide in the Rainbow Coalition More gay people are speaking out against the gender ideology of trans and queer activists. www.wsj.com/us-news/the-...

Criterion is having a 50% off sale today, y’all.

Calvin and Diane see no reason not to carry on like every day is Caturday.

Happy Caturday from Calvin and Diane.

Caturday with Calvin and Diane.

Monkeypox (mpox) is overwhelmingly spread via sex between men in the US. Gay and bisexual men can protect themselves against both clades of the virus by obtaining the two-shot Jynneos vaccine. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/h...

The Trump administration said it isn’t planning to impose tariffs on generic drugs from foreign countries, which make up most of medications dispensed in the U.S. www.wsj.com/health/pharm...

What will the new Adam O'Neal–hosted WaPo opinions podcast sound like for the next few decades? Maybe a little something like this x.com/WashPostComm...

I’d also like to see this broken down by what articles related to causes of death people click on most eagerly. Cancer: probably not a hot topic!

Bluesky’s head of trust and safety explains why they can’t factor off-site behavior into demands for suspending Bluesky accounts. People are not happy. They want Jesse Singal kicked off because he posted screenshots on X of Alejandra Caraballo’s Bluesky posts. They think this is harassment.

If Kramer vs. Kramer were made today, Ted Kramer would have started and monetized a single-dad blog by the fourth day he had to take care of his kid and Joanna would have come back from Cal. to NYC for meetings with publishers who bid on her manuscript about emotional labor. I would watch.

oh god, Dollar Store Jesse Singal (Ben Ryan) is over here being a snivelling little apologist for Original Jesse Singal. Recommend blocking @benryanwriter.bsky.social immediately.

An army of people on here think Jesse Singal should be kicked off the site. But I’ve yet to see anyone explain why he has supposedly violated the terms of service. What is abundantly clear is that people don’t like him and want him gone. This after all the crowing about blocking him anyway.

Basically what has happened here is that people on the far left decamped from X after Musk took over and Trump won. On Bluesky, they sought to craft a utopia. But that required some aggressive policing to keep the population pure, in their minds. 1/2

Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, Controversial Gender Doctor, Starts New Job at Pasadena Gender Clinic The leader in the pediatric gender medicine field saw Children's Hospital Los Angeles close the pediatric gender clinic she ran in the face of pressure from Trump. benryan.substack.com/p/dr-johanna...

Republicans seek deep cuts to HIV prevention and treatment funding Cuts proposed by the Trump administration and House Republicans could drive up new HIV cases by more than 200,000 by 2030, one expert projects, I report for @nbcnews.com. www.nbcnews.com/health/sexua...

Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Republicans seek deep cuts to HIV prevention and treatment funding Cuts proposed by the Trump administration and House Republicans could drive up new HIV cases by more than 200,000 by 2030, one expert projects, I report for @nbcnews.com. www.nbcnews.com/health/sexua...

Never leaving this site.

My latest: Most Americans Don't Think Minors Should Have Access to Gender-Transition Treatment While a new poll found that 63% of adults opposed minors' access to gender-transition drugs, respondents were more evenly split on whether lawmakers should ban this. benryan.substack.com/publish/post...

My latest for @unherd.com: The science behind trans violence We need research, not demonization unherd.com/2025/09/the-...

My latest for Substack: benryan.substack.com/p/if-im-a-fu...

Excellent and scrupulously impartial from @benryanwriter.bsky.social as always unherd.com/2025/09/the-...

How Gordon Guyatt's 'Values and Preferences' Triggered His Fall From Grace The "godfather of evidence-based medicine" shocked and appalled skeptics of pediatric gender medicine by adopting activist rhetoric last month that contradicted his own team's research. benryan.substack.com/p/how-gordon...

For @unherd.com, I plumb the depths of the tangled and tortured case of Gordon Guyatt, who threw his team’s research funder under the bus and contradicted his own research findings to appease an activist mob. t.co/ftZh0p9s0x

My latest: Leading Trans Litigator Debates Andrew Sullivan about pediatric gender medicine, and I respond benryan.substack.com/p/leading-tr...

Klinenberg faults Jon Haidt and his coauthors for failing to credit a book about teenagers in an article they wrote about a survey of 8-12 year olds.

The New York Times’ revenue and paid subscriptions continue to increase. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/b...

The Daily Beast has deleted an article where Michael Wolff alleged that Jeffrey Epstein was involved in introducing Donald Trump to Melania.

NEWS: England to Launch Large Observational Study Of Gender-Incongruent Kids open.substack.com/pub/benryan/... The study, which plans to recruit 3,000 gender-incongruent youths, is expected to be complemented by a study of puberty blockers—one that has yet to receive regulatory and ethics approvals.

Some wild assertions in the EPA's proposed rollback of the endangerment finding: www.epa.gov/system/files...

‘Heightened Scrutiny’ Scapegoats The New York Times For the ACLU's Loss In Skrmetti The documentary is the centerpiece of Chase Strangio's campaign to blame NYT for the Supreme Court's ruling upholding Tennessee's ban of pediatric gender-transition treatment. benryan.substack.com/p/heightened...

The White House is removing the Wall Street Journal from the pool of reporters covering Trump's weekend trip to Scotland in retaliation for the paper's new reporting on Trump and Epstein. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

The Trump administration has sent the dominoes falling in blue states. Hours after news emerged that Children’s National Hospital in DC would cease prescribing gender-transition drugs to minors, the University of Chicago said that it too would shutter its pediatric gender clinic.

BREAKING: A 2nd Major Children's Hospital Will Cease Offering Gender-Transition Treatments Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC, follows Children's Hospital LA in capitulating to Trump threats and ceasing prescribing gender-transition drugs to minors benryan.substack.com/p/a-2nd-majo...

It’s a big day in sexual-identity history: BISEXUALITY has turned 30! How will YOU celebrate?

Dr. Rachel Levine Denies Having Pressured WPATH to Remove Age Limits on Minors' Gender Treatments Records indicate that the former Biden health official did indeed do this, and explicitly for political reasons. benryan.substack.com/p/dr-rachel-...

Justice Dept. Seeks to "Take Down" Pediatric Gender Medicine, Issues Raft of Subpoenas At an FTC workshop scrutinizing pediatric gender medicine, a DoJ official announced it had subpoenaed nearly 20 gender clinics, investigating them for fraud and false claims. benryan.substack.com/p/justice-de...

By @cwarzel.bsky.social and @matteowong.bsky.social for @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

"Musk and xAI did not respond to a request for comment; while Grok was palling around with neo-Nazis, Musk was posting on X about the video game Diablo and Jeffrey Epstein."