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‘Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic’ now available for preorder! Publishes Nov. 4, 2025. Visit me at benappelwrites.com and find me on X @benappel.
Researcher and freelance writer/photog.
Not a disembodied spirit.
Author of novels BELLY and LOST STARS, and nonfiction books TOMBOY and HOUSEWIFE. At work on a book about the youth gender culture war. Co-host, Informed Dissent pod.
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/
Whistleblower from a pediatric gender center in the United States. Lesbian.