Activist researchers are scientifically testing how to indoctrinate your kids into gender ideology
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.citationneededpodcast.comIn the first (free) segment of this week’s episode of Citation Needed, we break down the University of Pennsylvania’s stunning Title IX reversal over Lia Thomas. After a federal investigation, UPenn will now bar male athletes from women’s sports, restore records to displaced female swimmers, and adopt biology-based sex definitions. But instead of report…
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The dark pseudoscience the Trevor Project uses to target vulnerable teens
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.citationneededpodcast.comOn this week’s episode of Citation Needed, we cover the Trevor Project’s dark slide into promoting pseudoscientific gender ideology under the guise of helping distressed LGBTQ youth. Once a lifeline for bullied gay teens, the Trevor Project now pushes ideas like “sex is a spectrum” and gender ideology as fact, priming confused kids for medicalization in…
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Justice Sotomayor’s emotional dissent was fueled by the trans ‘suicide myth.’ So we debunk it.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.citationneededpodcast.comFor this week’s episode of Citation Needed, we begin with the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti, which upheld Tennessee’s law banning sex trait modification procedures for minors. Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued an emotional dissenting opinion, invoking the oft-repeated claim that these interventions are “lifesaving” and that denyi…
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A new paper titled "My pronouns are f*ck ICE" is beyond parody
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.citationneededpodcast.comIn this episode of Citation Needed, we kick things off with the viral social media feud between Olympic legend Simone Biles and women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines over a male athlete playing on a girls' softball team. We cover the controversy, break down some of the science Biles ignored, and highlight the media’s double standards on the issue of male…
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Male or female? Separating fact from fiction about Olympic boxer Imane Khelif
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.citationneededpodcast.comActivists still—somehow—claim that males who identify as women have no physical edge over female athletes, despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary. In this episode, we break down those undeniable advantages as laid out in a new review paper in the Journal of Applied Physiology.Then, we dive into the bizarre and revealing case of Olympic gold meda…