Conversation

I think it’s time I work on writing up the story about how I and other members of my old detrans TERF group ended up in contact with a gender therapist in WPATH who wanted to use detransition stories to push for more gatekeeping because they believed that “there were too many FtMs” and how this eventually lead to Carey Callahan presenting a workshop on detransition at the first USPATH conference. She showed short videos of me, Max Robinson and another detrans TERF. By that point, me and Max had been through a neopagan ritual to “heal” from being trans and “reclaim” our femaleness. It’s the same ritual I ended up talking about in the episode of Anti-Trans Hate Machine I was featured in. Of course, the folks at USPATH weren’t told any of this.

After she presented her workshop, Carey emailed a bunch of us to tell us how “evil” USPATH felt and how she felt caught up in some kind of spiritual battle. We were a good example of how a cult can figure out how to infiltrate and influence healthcare organization. Groups with really fringy views can learn how to hide them in order to get what they want. That was part of our whole strategy.

I’ve tried to interest journalists in this story before with no success. But given that some of these same people appear to have just influenced the governor of Ohio it seems like something more people should know about.