Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing

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, relationships and sex, dream interpretation to emotional eating and other topics. Over the years Pam has been a commentator on many TV programmes. After trying for two years, she finally found a publisher for her first children’s book, published in April, 2024. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eva-Bear-Magic-Snowflake-Spurr/dp/1035821036/ref=sr_1_1 Get full access to Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing at juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

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, living undercover as a man began to take its toll as she questioned the trajectory of her future. After deep soul searching, Maia realised that she had never allowed herself to live as a lesbian. Get full access to Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing at juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

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' comments. Linzi is taking legal action to overturn the ban, stating that it is her right by law to express ‘gender-critical’ views and that the Premier League's actions were a breach of data protection laws. Get full access to Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing at juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

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 writing at juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

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 being same-sex attracted is immutable, and also about various paraphilias or kinks as they are often referred to. I visited Ray Blanchard at his home in Toronto, not that far away from Kenneth Zucker's home, who I had interviewed the week before. Get full access to Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing at juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

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 upon by clinicians who treat gender-dysphoric patients and those presenting as transgender. Why, then, was he sacked from GIC (part of The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in 2015, and eventually awarded a massive payout following a case he took against his former employer? I visited Zucker at his home in Toronto to find out, and to talk about whether his views on gender had changed since he has been hit with a whole heap of slurs and accusations of ‘transphobia’ and bigotry. Have a listen and find out the whole story, straight from Zucker. “CAMH apologizes without reservation to Dr. Zucker for the flaws in the process that led to errors in the report not being discovered and has entered into a settlement with Dr. Zucker that includes a financial payment to him.” The apology, abridged Get full access to Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing at juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

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 Bindel's podcasts and writing at juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

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 projects would be fed her way. Confused and distressed, Sibyl filed a Subject Access Request which revealed that a member of staff at Cornerstones took objection to the gender critical views she had expressed in her Twitter account (i.e. her belief that sex is immutable and determined from conception). Cornerstones proceeded to immediately halt any work she was doing for them by lying to both her and their client, and then effectively terminated Sibyl. Have a listen to find out what happened next. Get full access to Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing at juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

Mo Lea, senior lecturer in Art and former course leader at Masters degree 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 survived a near-fatal attack by Sutcliffe in 1980. Mo Lea was an art student in the city when she became a target for the serial killer, Peter Sutcliffe. Mo, who had moved to Leeds from Liverpool, was out with friends in a pub in the Chapeltown area of the city, planning her 21st birthday. It was October 25, 1980, and the friends went their separate ways just after 10pm, as Mo decided to walk through the university campus to catch the bus. A man approached behind her, hit the back of her head with a hammer and attacked with a screwdriver. Her life was saved by a passing couple who heard her screams. She was assaulted so violently that her parents failed to recognise her in the hospital, her jaw broken, her face bloodied and bruised. At the time, Sutcliffe had murdered 12 women and left another seven for dead. Several months later, while recuperating at home in Liverpool, she recognised Sutcliffe on the TV as the man that attacked her. 'When you have had trauma like that, it gives you an edge,' she told me. 'If you've been close to death, you feel you've been granted this freedom to live. It has compelled me to be successful in my career.' Mo’s book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Facing-Yorkshire-Ripper-Art-Survival/dp/1526777576 Her website: https://www.molea.art/ Peter Sutcliffe, drawn by Mo Lea Get full access to Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing at juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

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 avoid further complications. The baby had to be registered by the following day, which meant they had to decide whether to tick male or female on the form. Sophie’s parents Karen and John followed the surgeons’ advice. In this episode we talk about her life, how she discovered the truth. We also discuss puberty blockers, gender ideology, and how to keep kids safe from unnecessary medical interventions. Get full access to Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing at juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

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

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 lack of Netflix or booze we ended up having the argument. It would be filmed of course, and subsequently leaked to the world. This kept me going during the bleak years where few spoke out about the danger of trans identified men invading single sex spaces. But suddenly, despite the odds, this wish came true, thanks to Maya challenging this crazy ideology in court. The debate, much to the chagrin of the blue fringe brigade, was aired during a three-week employment tribunal during which the Emperor appeared buck naked, his lady dick waving for all to see. Even the cute pink and blue trans flag could not cover his humiliation. In October 2018 Maya Forstater was employed as a consultant by the US-based non-profit Centre for Global Development (CGD). Some staff in the Washington DC office raised internal concerns about a number of her tweets, which they claimed were “transphobic.” An internal investigation followed, and weeks later, her contract as a consultant at CGD was ended, and subsequently, an offer to continue as a visiting fellow was withdrawn. Maya decided to sue CGD on the grounds of discrimination under the Equality Act 2010, but in November 2019, the Employment Tribunal ruled against her. They held that her “absolutist” beliefs, that trans women are NOT actual, literal women, and that sex and gender identity are not the same, are “not worthy of respect in a democratic society.” She appealed the judgement, and in June 2021 the decision was published. Maya had won and would be able to continue with a discrimination claim. A fresh tribunal was convened which was tasked with the job of deciding whether Maya’s behaviour in the office amount to harassment of, or discrimination against, trans people, and whether she herself was discriminated against on the grounds of her beliefs. The rest is history. And earlier this year, Maya was awarded over £100.000 in compensation. Too bloody right. Here she is. Enjoy the chat. Get full access to Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing at juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

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 stated, ‘If you are male, please refrain from coming’ on the basis that the evening was for the ‘protection of sex-segregated spaces for lesbian women’. According to Jenny, one trans identified man pushed himself against a lesbian in the toilets, and another, clad in purple lycra, was sporting a visible erection. The pub in Bloomsbury received a number of complaints about her comments, and as per usual, the venue chose to launch an ‘inquiry’, rather than support one of the city’s few lesbian social events. Jenny’s forthcoming event (if the venue doesn’t cancel - I will keep you posted) Get full access to Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing at juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

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 was clear she had to get out, and, subsequently, take action. Denise Fahmy Get full access to Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing at juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

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 Get full access to Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing at juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe

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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 Age in her thirties, working as a staffer for 12 years before taking voluntary redundancy. “Two years later, I was delighted to be invited back to be a columnist, fortnightly and for the last two years, weekly.” “In the last few years, I was probably a bit more of a dissenting feminist voice,” Szego tells me when we speak. “I tended to take an unorthodox position on things like the cult of female fragility, puritanism in the workplace, and some aspects of excessive moments in the #MeToo movement.” Feminist journalists, household names, being sacrificed at the altar of extreme transgender ideology. Journalism is supposed to be about truth telling on the mainstream media a platform for a myriad of ideas, opinions and debates. But it would appear that Szego joins a long and growing list of women pushed out of newspapers for daring to state facts and stand up for the rights of women. Get full access to Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing at juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe