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Ben, Cori, Lisa, Eliza, and Jamie report on their adventures and misadventures trying to explain and mitigate the gender culture wars. We will publish most weeks, focusing some on the news and some on important topics from social transition to lawsuits to what the heck the word “gender” means.

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A weekly news podcast: Dispatches from the gender culture war with Ben Appel, Cori Cohn, Lisa Selin Davis, Eliza Mondegreen and Jamie Reed.

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Researcher and freelance writer/photog. Not a disembodied spirit.
My memoir, ‘Cis White Gay,’ about my experiences in LGBT activism and Ivy League academia, will be published by Post Hill Press. Visit me at benappelwrites.com and find me on X @benappel.
Whistleblower from a pediatric gender center in the United States. Lesbian.
Author of novels BELLY and LOST STARS, and nonfiction books TOMBOY and HOUSEWIFE. At work on a book about the youth gender culture war.
Corinna Cohn, ambivalent transsexual Reflections on gender, gender ideology, and the ongoing struggle to redefine womanhood. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/11/i-was-too-young-to-decide-about-transgender-surgery-at-nineteen/