Informed Dissent
Informed Dissent
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You Have Permission to Question, Scrutinize, Push Back, and Dissent!
Ben Appel, Cori Cohn, Lisa Selin Davis, Eliza Mondegreen, and Jamie Reed 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. informeddissentpodcast.substack.com
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The podcast tackles crucial topics within the realm of gender culture, including social transition, legislative changes, and public perceptions of gender identity. Episodes explore current events, such as the implications of Trump’s executive orders on gender and the influence of protests and education on societal attitudes, with discussions often featuring critical reflections on news articles and media narratives.
You Have Permission to Question, Scrutinize, Push Back, and Dissent!
Jamie Reed, Cori Cohn, and Lauren Leggieri 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.
This week Lauren Leggieri, Cori Cohn, and Jamie Reed have a lot to get through — and we mean a lot. So take a page from the old NPR Saturday playbook: make something, drive somewhere, tend your garden, and let this one unspool over a few days.
We brought three guests, and every one of them earned their seat at the table.
We open with the New York Times story about a man who identifies as transgender and abducted his child to Cuba — and what that story reveals about how sex, parental rights, and media framing collide in ways that should concern everyone who would simple like reading a news story to not need a decoder ring.
Then we get into the big one: the Southern Poverty Law Center. We’ve been watching the SPLC’s reach into the gender medicine debate for a while now, and this week we dig into just how deep that overlap goes — and what it means when a fundraising machine gets to decide who counts as a hate group.
Which brings us to our guests. Elspeth Cypher, Colin Wright, and Jaimee Michell have each been on the receiving end of an SPLC designation or smear — and each of them has a different story about what that costs. Their accounts together paint a picture that’s harder to dismiss than any single data point.
You can find Elspeth at the Women’s Liberation Front on X @ebclaw, at her Substack Before Justice Was Blind at substack.com/@ebclaw, and on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/elspeth-cypher-106623301.
Jaimee Michell is the Founder, President & CEO of Gays Against Groomers. Find her on X @thegaywhostrayd and the organization at gaysagainstgroomers.com.
Colin Wright is an evolutionary biologist and Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Find him on X @SwipeWright and at his Substack Reality’s Last Stand at substack.com/@colinwright.
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