“Based TERF and Tranny” Nina Paley and Cori Cohn talk about gender — and anything else they find interesting and/or horrifying — with warmth, sarcasm, respect, cutting intelligence, more sarcasm, and disarming honesty.
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Episode 200: What Not To Do If Your Son Is Dating A Tranny
Cori is BACK and so is the Heterodorx podcast! We didn’t even realize this was our 200th episode when we discussed an “interesting” article on PITT (https://www.pittparents.com/p/how-my-son-fell-for-a-trans-woman) (Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans) that got Cori’s gender-neutral underthings in a twist because he, too, was once the “girlfriend” of a young man whose parents blew up. We also wasted this most auspicious number on Microsexuality, Straight Fragility, the persistence of homophobia, social systems, Identified Patients, attraction to posts, and hot nights of Mario Kart followed by “satisfaction”. Plus: cats and health (of course!) and Ninas dream bike (https://ninapaley.com/jackalope-in-progress/) which she will actually be able to ride soon.
Links:
Nina’s dream bike: https://ninapaley.com/jackalope-in-progress/ (https://ninapaley.com/jackalope-in-progress/)
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15 Jul 2026
Episode 199: Miracle Patient
What’s it like to survive Stage 4 abdominal cancer? The Dorx interviewed Alasdair over a year ago, shortly after he learned he was an immunotherapy “miracle patient.” But we never released that episode, partly because Nina cried about her own problems. Here Nina and Alasdair attempt to re-create April 2025 (not May, as Nina incorrectly asserts) and cover most of the same topics: emergency surgery, chemotherapy, heart failure, asking Dr Google, the woman across the infusion table, tuning out of genderworld, and robot litter boxes. All with less drama and more propriety!
But is that a good thing? Should Nina release the spiked episode, which she has since listened to, despite Alasdair’s protestations? Tell us in the comments!
Links:
When Sons Become Daughters by Angus Fox: https://quillette.com/tag/when-sons-become-daughters/ (https://quillette.com/tag/when-sons-become-daughters/)
Alasdair interviewed by Benjamin Boyce:
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29 Jun 2026
Episode 198: Alasdair Gunn Fills Cori's Royal Sandals
With Cori (https://substack.com/@corinnacohn) on indefinite hiatus, gender critical statistics (https://statsforgender.org/) aggregator, writer (https://quillette.com/author/angus-fox/), designer, miracle cancer survivor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvNmZMOlQV8), and friend o’ the pod’ Alasdair Gunn (https://x.com/ngusdair) humbly offers to serve in his absence. We discuss why we don’t want to discuss gender. According to our recording platform’s AI assistant, we also talk about:
* 00:00 - Introduction to the podcast’s themes and hosts
* 02:00 - Discussion on gender podcasts and societal fixation
* 05:46 - Reflections on aging, identity, and the concept of “crone”
* 08:10 - The social and political landscape of pride events and gender activism
* 12:49 - Society’s treatment of political figures and societal change
* 16:37 - Observations on youth, right-wing cringe, and political identity
* 20:18 - Personal anecdotes about pets and animal behavior
* 25:22 - Critique of education and societal control
* 30:45 - Personal health crises, autoimmune diseases, and medical treatment
* 40:03 - Reflections on raising children and social conditioning
* 48:36 - The societal response to activism and political protests
* 52:37 - The influence of societal narratives and the importance of saying no
* 60:12 - The history of communism, anarchism, and the personal stories of relatives
* 66:00 - Advances in medicine and personal health management
* 70:39 - The reality of living after life-threatening health crises
* 76:10 - The importance of respecting host, John Corey, and future guest planning
* 82:52 - Insights into Rene Girard’s work on scapegoating and societal myths
We miss you John Corey! But with replacements like Alasdair Gunn and Riverside’s Large Language Model, we continue on.
Resources:
* The Anatomy of Revolution by Crane Brinton (https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Revolution-Crane-Brinton/dp/0679741512)
* Emma Goldman: Living My Life (https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-living-my-life)
* Rene Girard - The Scapegoat (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wTdvSnj5LBk)
* Nigel Farage (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigelfarage) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/nigelfarage)
* Oswald Mosley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Mosley)
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