Pam Spurr is presently a BPS chartered academic, teaching and research psychologist. She started working in the media during her time at Guy’s/in the NHS, largely as an agony aunt, starting on GMTV, the BBC, and then got her first radio show at Heart FM London in 1997. Pam presented at Heart for five years before moving to LBC for 4 ½ years where she had the evening slot, for which she won a Sony Radio Award. She has written 15 self-help books on topics from happiness to dating,...

Maia At the age of 12, Maia discovered the idea of gender transition. As a young adult, she moved to the Middle East and embarked upon building a new life for herself as a man. She seamlessly integrated herself within deeply religious communities of Palestinian Muslims and Orthodox Jews. Very few people in her life knew that she was actually female. Among her exciting adventures, she prayed on the men’s side of the Western Wall and entered mosques without needing to cover her hair. However,...

Linzi, with her granddad, at the beautiful game Linzi, a lesbian and a supporter of rights for same-sex attracted people, was the subject of a four-month investigation by a special unit set up to expose so-called hate speech in the game after she posted on trans issues on X. Newcastle began investigating Linzi following a complaint. In November 2023 she received a letter from the club saying she was banned until 2026 for breaching its equality policy, which forbids 'discriminatory'...

I talk to the man who wanted to be a woman, had his penis removed, became a transactivist, rejected some some gender ideology, and once wore a T-shirt with the slogan “trans, women are men, including me”. We talk about how autogynephilic men stop fancying themselves after a while; perhaps wearing marigolds for the Times photoshoot wasn’t a good idea; and how I do not believe in the concept of transsexuality in any way, shape, or form. Get full access to Julie Bindel's podcasts and...

This week I'm speaking with Ray Blanchard, a psychologist, sexologist, who coined the term autogynephilia to describe those men that identify as women, often transitioning to live as women, who get a sexual excitement from imagining themselves as women. And of course, this has got him into trouble from trans extremists. When he praised a book The Man Who Would Be Queen by Michael Bailey he got into even more trouble. Ray is fascinating because he also has a lot to say about whether or not...

Kenneth Zucker during his time at the GIC Dr Ken Zucker has an impressive CV. The editor of the prestigious journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, he took a leading role helping devise diagnostic and treatment guidelines for gender dysphoric individuals, and headed the group which developed the DSM-5’s criteria for its “gender dysphoria” entry. Zucker also helped write the “standards of care” guidelines for the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, which is a textbook relied...

Britney Spears in 2007 Paris Hilton with activist Caroline Cole at a press conference outside the US Capitol Building on April 27, 2023 in Washington, DC. Cole a survivor of abuse while a teenager in a congregate care facility, joined lawmakers to introduce the bill "Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act" Chyna, September 28, 2000 at the World Wrestling Federation in New York City Janet Jackson during MTV VMA 2000 Stage at Radio City Music Hall in New York City Get full access to Julie...

In early 2022 Sibyl was working for Cornerstones Literary Consultancy as one of their ‘Core Editors’. She had been working with them without issue for about a year. Then, in May, odd things started to happen. Management told her without warning that the client she was working for no longer required her services. About a week later she noticed she had been removed from the Editors’ page on the Cornerstones website. When Sibyl enquired about this, she was told that it was ‘unlikely’ that more...

Mo Lea The Long Shadow, written by George Kay, and based on Michael Bilton’s book Wicked Beyond Belief, is a seven-part ITV drama based on the police hunt for a sadistic necrophiliac who terrorised women in the north of England throughout the late 1960s and 1970s. With the consultation and blessing of the families of his victims, the drama lays bare the violent misogyny and prejudicial policing that came to characterise the hunt for the so-called Yorkshire Ripper. I talk to Mo about how she...

Jalna Hanmer at the International Tribunal on Crimes against Women, March 4–8, 1976 in Brussels. The event was created with the intention to "make public the full range of crimes, both violently brutal and subtly discriminatory, committed against women of all cultures." Get full access to Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing at juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

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Sophie Ottoway IN 1986, Sophie Ottaway was born with a very rare condition which required immediate surgery. Cloacal exstrophy happens when the organs in the abdomen do not form correctly in the womb, resulting in babies born with organs such as the bladder or intestines outside the body. Doctors had to operate to save her life. Sophie was actually a boy, with a tiny, damaged penis but healthy testes. But doctors advised Sophie’s parents that their baby’s male ­genitalia should be removed to...

Rosie Duffield We talk the mess of the Labour Party; feminism and male violence; men being plonkers generally; and the dudebros on the Left (as opposed to the sexist trad men on the Right). Oh, and we mentioned the Russell Brand scandal: An unnamed misogynist somewhere or other Get full access to Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing at juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

At London’s Southwark Crown Court, in May 2016, Dr John Davies, a dangerous criminal was finally sent to prison, having evaded justice for decades. Davies was imprisoned alongside his son Benjamin Davies .The judge that sentenced Davies to 12 years in prison described his crimes as ‘despicable’. But Davies was not imprisoned for his numerous crimes against women and children, but for masterminding a sophisticated charity operation that netted him more than £5 million defrauded from the...

Maya Forstater (middle) and colleagues at the launch of the #RespectMySex campaign, 2022 Since 2004, when trans activists first came after me, I and many others had fantasised about what it would be like to engage with them under the normal rules of public debate. The whole LGBTQQIA2Spirit+ Rainbow Community has been drip fed no debate by Stonewall for years, and I used to dream of a scenario where a group of us, five on each side, had been locked in a building and, becoming bored with the...

Jenny and Cooper (he refuses to identify as a lesbian, but Jenny does) Jenny Watson runs weekly lesbian speed dating evenings in a London pub. Or at least she did, until trans activists complained to the management about – you guessed it – men being excluded, lipstick not withstanding. Following a number of incidents involving trans-identified males claiming to be lesbians attending her events, Jenny was compelled to remind would-be participants that ‘lesbians don’t have penises’. She even...

Having worked for 15 years working for the Arts Council England, Denise felt she had no choice but to resign, following what a targeted campaign of bullying and harassment because she made it clear that she did not approve of the LGB Alliance being referred to as the ‘Ku Klux Clan’ of the LGBT movement in a meeting. When a petition was circulated to all staff on the company's intranet objecting to ACE employing people like Denise, who many of her colleagues declared to be 'transphobic', it...

I talk to Vaishnavi about her film (currently in production) Behind the Looking Glass Teaser link: Crowdfunder: http://paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EMKWNQ5HBJFCU This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

Have a listen to their story, and also hear some of their gorgeous music This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

Julie Szego was a star masthead writer at The Age newspaper in Australia, until, earlier this month, she was told that her services were no longer required, after 25 years of writing for them. It happens, right? Things move on, new writers are hired. But covering a range of issues –including feminism, state education, parenting and immigration, as well as other topics lapped up by a broad swathe of The Age’s soft left, middle ground readers. Previously a lawyer, she started writing for The...

If you want to read more about Milli, here are some links: Books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Milli-Hill/e/B00RITKBBE Her story of being bullied: https://www.millihill.co.uk/2021/07/10/i-will-not-be-silenced/ About consent: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-health/11574412/British-women-Consent-during-childbirth-is-a-joke.html Get full access to Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing at juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

Roxanne Tickle Today I'm speaking with Sall Grover, an Australian businesswoman who is the co-founder of the female only networking app Giggle, and I can tell that you are already guessing where this story is going. Roxanne Tickle, a man who identifies not just as a transwoman but as female is taking Sall to court and saying that his gender identity is protected under the Sex Discrimination Act, because unfortunately, Australia passed this bonkers law a few years ago. Julia Gillard,...

Martina has been a bit quiet lately as she has been focusing on health issues, but in recent days she has been back in the press, thanks to her comments to trans-identified male swimmer, Lia Thomas on Twitter. 'They're using the guise of feminism to sort of push transphobic beliefs,' said Thomas. 'I think a lot of people in that camp sort of carry an implicit bias against trans people, but don’t want to, I guess, fully manifest or speak that out. And so they try to just play it off as this...