When Ideology Meets Reality
In the fall of 2024, I received an invitation from Genspect to speak at their annual conference in Lisbon, Portugal. It was a location strategically chosen to coincide with the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) conference. Rather than delivering a traditional talk, I extended an invitation to WPATH to engage in a conversation with me about trans issues. Predictably, they declined to respond. After emailing conference organizers, we reached out on social media. They continued to ignore our invitation to converse.
For a change of pace, I steelmaned their positions, presenting a defense of gender ideology. The room was then opened to questions from the audience, and it was during this exchange that the facade began to crumble.
I did my best to inject levity into a very grim subject. It’s difficult to tell from the video, but I think I was successful. People were laughing (it is not a conference with much laughter) and came up to me afterward and thanked me for some relief.
I hope you enjoy my talk and the Q&A that followed.
I watched this live through the live stream and had been eagerly awaiting your talk. Your sample conversations and responses in question form (turning it back on the person to think beyond slogans) to a potentially indoctrinated person are incredibly helpful to us parents. I am often tongue tied because my brain (and heart) is so overwhelmed with information, fear, and now distrust, that I find it hard to consolidate this scandal into a few simple sentences. Thank you. I continue to seek out your work in bringing rational, fair, intelligent thought to society. You are a breath of fresh air.
“Everyone except Mohammad.” 🤣