Transparency

A bandaid on a broken leg - with Torren Danowski

Torren Danowski is a 33-yo man living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attempted transition twice in his early 30s after struggling with gender most of his life. But once he realized that his gender dysphoria was actually the symptom of something deeper, he began addressing that deeper issue, and saw the pain of gender dysphoria begin to subside.
Running Into Circles to Find Myself: https://www.genderdysphoriaalliance.com/post/running-into-circles-to-find-myself
 
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Back up the rabbit hole - with KC Miller

KC Miller is a 22 year old detrans woman and lesbian from Pennsylvania. She first began transition at the age of 16, and ultimately began detransitioning at 21. KC has come to realize her male identity was largely motivated by early childhood sexual abuse and homophobia.
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Contagious, Like Laughter - with Lisa Marchiano

Lisa Marchiano is a writer and Jungian analyst in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has been in practice for over 20 years. Since 2016, she has had a special interest in gender and has worked clinically with gender dysphoric young people, parents of trans identified youth, and detransitioners. Her peer reviewed papers on gender have appeared in Psychological Perspectives and The Journal of Analytical Psychology. Her writings have also appeared in Quillette and Areo. Lisa contributed chapters to the books Transgender Children and Young People: Born in Your Own Body and Inventing Transgender Children and Young People. She has presented on the topic of gender dysphoria both in the US as well as internationally. Lisa cohosts the popular weekly depth psychology podcast This Jungian Life. Her book Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself won the 2021 Best Book Award sponsored by American Book Fest in the parenting and family category.
 
Lisa's work, mentioned above:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00332925.2017.1350804
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-5922.12711
https://quillette.com/author/lisa-marchiano/
https://areomagazine.com/author/lisamarchiano/
https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-0398-4
This Jungian Life: https://thisjungianlife.com
Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself - https://lisamarchiano.com
 
Content discussed in the episode:
Strange Contagion: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/32497556-strange-contagion
Connected: https://www.amazon.com/Connected-Surprising-Networks-Friends-Everything/dp/0316036137
The AI study mentioned in this episode is discussed here: https://youtu.be/Ai24mU0K9J4
The Crucible: https://www.amazon.com/Crucible-Penguin-Orange-Collection/dp/0143129473/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1S9DPBJB31ARN&keywords=the+crucible+by+arthur+miller&qid=1673483610&s=books&sprefix=The+Cruc%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C204&sr=1-2
Tanganyika laughter epidemic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanganyika_laughter_epidemic
 
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Binning Non-Binary - with Kiyah

Our guest, Kiyah, is a recent college grad who identified as nonbinary for nearly 2 years when she was an undergraduate. After realizing the damaging mindset of the modern "queer" community, she turned away from being an extreme identity politics activist. She now is on Twitter where she shares her experiences, and advocates for people to step away from blind tribalism and think freely. Her twitter handle is @growingtotruth if you’d like to follow her there.
Kiyah graciously agreed to talk to us about her own experience of choosing a non-binary identity, what that meant to her at the time, and why she eventually left it behind.
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Good Therapy in the Age of Cancel Culture - with Dr Kenneth Zucker

Dr Zucker is an American-Canadian psychologist and sexologist who has worked in the field of gender since 1975. He was psychologist-in-chief at Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and head of its Gender Identity Service until its closure in December 2015. Since 2001 he's been editor-in-chief of Archives of Sexual Behavior. In this episode of Transparency, he describes the work that was done with children and adolescents at the CAMH clinic, from a developmental perspective.
This discussion is set in the context of clinician whistleblowers and the Cass Review in the UK which led to an announcement that the UK's central gender clinic at the Tavistock will be closed in the spring of 2023. Per the review, the evidence for the now popular model of care - with little to no psychological framework or therapy - is poor, and harm has been done to young people as a result of hasty medicalization.
Links
A Follow-Up Study of Boys With Gender Identity Disorder: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.632784/full
Cass Review: https://cass.independent-review.uk
Jesse Singal - How the Fight Over Transgender Kids Got a Leading Sex Researcher Fired https://www.thecut.com/2016/02/fight-over-trans-kids-got-a-researcher-fired.html
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What the @$%*! WPATH?!

This episode originally aired in Dec 2021 when the WPATH Standards of Care (SOC) 8 draft was released. The final version was published in Sept 2022 with some revisions. Most notably, they removed the minimum age recommendations for starting medical interventions.
Aaron Terrell attended the Sept 2022 WPATH conference as a delegate of GDA. One author of the child chapter stated during the presentation that they removed the age limits because they didn't want clinicians being sued for not following the SOC. (Aaron was booted out of the virtual conference for stating that he was with GDA. WPATH has not replied to our emails asking for an explanation or refund.
SOC 8 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/26895269.2022.2100644
We recommend listening to this podcast about institutional capture: https://player.captivate.fm/episode/18255197-243b-4a44-8072-6e92632cefe2
 
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Gays Against Gr**mers - with Matt Rey

Matt is a British transman living in the US who's entered the online discourse with concerns about certain LGBTQ politics, including the promotion of pedophilia as a legitimate sexual orientation, and the sexualization of children. He's one of several transpeople working with the LGBT group, Gays Against Gr**mers.
https://www.gaysagainstgroomers.com
 
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It’s Ms. Watson, thank-you - with Sinead Watson

Our friend Sinead Watson returns to Transparency to talk about her own story of transition and detransition, in light of the trans healthcare reform happening in the UK.
Funds are being collected to pay for aspects of Sinead’s detransition that aren’t being covered by the NHS. If you’d like to make a donation, follow this link: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/imwatson
 
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Owning Male Femininity - with Shape Shifter

Shape Shifter is a male-to-female transitioner who feels regret about some of his decisions but is a brave soul, rocking what it means to be a feminine gay male.

Me without the ”T” - with Mars Fernandez

Mars joins the Transparency team again to follow up about being off testosterone for a year, and what he's been up to. Check out his YouTube show here: https://www.youtube.com/c/upperhandMARS
Mentioned: Zander Keig: There Is a Diversity of Thought in the Trans Community https://youtu.be/LxAGYvXLo2o