An ongoing inquiry into the ideological fever that overtook the governing and chattering classes of America during the Trump years
wesleyyang.substack.com (https://wesleyyang.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)
"Amongst people where I've been in the same room with them, or in the same room with their parents the only really bad outcomes have been children who were being affirmed."
We do not know if, when, or how the lemming-like rush to propagate the experimental and non-evidence based practice of pediatric sex trait modification will be brought to heel. But if the United States eventually follows the lead of the Social Democratic nations of northern Europe toward reason and reality (https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/4070174-why-europe-and-america-are-going-in-opposite-directions-on-youth-transgender-medicine/) — acknowledging that the practice never had a strong evidence base to support it (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0092623X.2022.2150346) before it was drastically scaled up in response to activist pressure across American institutions — it will be in no small part thanks to the efforts of the woman pictured above.
Mason has for five years been virtually alone in doing what we would expect every conscientious medical practitioner to do in the face of a bizarre social contagion — of girls with no prior history of nonconformity suddenly declaring themselves to be “really” “boys” after prolonged exposure to transgender influencers and online communities — that sought her out unbidden in the waiting room of her pediatric office in a suburb of Portland, Oregon. She began asking questions. She exercised her critical faculties. She followed the trail of evidence to where it led — unearthing along the way a medical scandal of shocking proportions. And she seamlessly transformed herself from a workaday pediatrician to an activist within the gates of the institution that bears more direct responsibility than any other single entity for the lemming-like rush to propagate pediatric sex trait modification within American medicine, the American Academy of Pediatrics.
I caught up with Mason three weeks ago in the aftermath of a sudden development that may (or may not) demonstrate that this important American institution can pull itself off the precipice upon which it has placed itself: the AAP in early August announced (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/03/health/aap-gender-affirming-care-evidence-review.html)both that it was reaffirming a position it had taken in 2018, in support of pediatric gender medicine, while also undertaking a “comprehensive evidence review” of the science of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and gender affirming surgeries in minors. The decision marks a victory for Mason who for several years running had been subject to irregular parliamentary maneuvers intended to keep resolutions she had authored calling on the AAP to undertake a comprehensive review of the evidence concerning the science of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and gender affirming surgeries in minors. We spoke about the prospects of the AAP undertaking this process with integrity and whether and how the ongoing institutional cascade around this practice will be brought to heel.
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wesleyyang.substack.com/subscribe (https://wesleyyang.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2)
18 Sept 2023
"I was able to get a second letter. And that was all the surgeon required in order to agree to remove my testicles and perform a penectomy and a vaginoplasty on an 18 year old."
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wesleyyang.substack.com (https://wesleyyang.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7)
Today's bonus podcast for paid subscribers is the first 40 minutes of my marathon conversation with Corinna Cohn. (https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/heres-the-bottom-lineit-is-going#details) Toward the end of that podcast, I referred to the beginning of our conversation as "tense." I don't mean that we were in any way hostile, just that it took a little while for us to fully establish our rapport and for the conversation to bec…
13 Sept 2023
"How could it possibly be state sanctioned that we have men who have raped babies licking their lips, looking at tiny children in a women's prison in the mother/baby unit?"
Year Zero is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
This is the audio version of a video interview (https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/how-could-it-possibly-be-state-sanctioned) published earlier.
Here is the second in a series of three interviews with Anna Slatz, the founder of Reduxx Magazine. The first hour (https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/when-you-had-written-me-and-you-were)of this marathon interview told the story of that online publication’s founding for paid subscribers only. The second hour and a half, posted above and available to all, contains the bulk of an interview in which we go over the ten craziest stories covered by Reduxx. This section was interrupted by technical difficulties toward the end. A few days later we recorded another hour and a half in which we wrapped up the last of the ten stories and went on to discuss various other issues that will be featured in the third and final episode of this series next week.
A perusal of the Reduxx website on any given day explains the difficulty Slatz had in picking the stories to include in this interview. Reduxx routinely (https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1700188272159244600?s=20) has the most disturbing story you’ve ever heard in your life posted to their website, all generated by the absurdity of defining “woman” as “anyone who says they are a woman,” which the ruling institutions of the Western world have already done or are in the process of doing.
Thank you for reading Year Zero. This post is public so feel free to share it.
Reduxx is not a site that targets a marginalized minority by associating it with rapists, pedophiles, and murderer. Its subject is not transgender crime per se but rather the bizarre deference that is shown to some of the world’s most depraved perpetrators by criminal justice systems and media outlets throughout the Western world honoring the self-declared gender identities of male rapists and murderers. This prioritization of the feelings of male rapists and murders over the safety of women and children is a continual reductio ad absurdum of the gender identity dogma which our media has made the considered decision to ignore, suppress, or collude with actively, thereby creating the vacuum in public awareness of the macabre Twilight Zone-like unreality into which transgender dogmas too often devolve in practice that Reduxx has emerged to fill.
Links to stories referenced:
EXCLUSIVE: Trans-Identified Male Coach Used Girls’ Locker Room to Undress Multiple Times, Incidents Kept Quiet by Pennsylvania School District (https://reduxx.info/exclusive-trans-identified-male-coach-used-girls-locker-room-to-undress-multiple-times-incidents-kept-quiet-by-pennsylvania-school-district/)
BREAKING: Trans Activist Sent To Women’s Prison To Serve Life Sentence For Slaughter Of California Family (https://reduxx.info/breaking-trans-activist-sent-to-womens-prison-to-serve-life-sentence-for-slaughter-of-california-family/)
CANADA: Man Who Raped Infant Quietly Moved to Prison with Mother-Baby Unit After Transgender Claim (https://reduxx.info/canada-man-who-raped-infant-quietly-moved-to-prison-with-mother-baby-unit-after-transgender-claim/)
EXCLUSIVE: Man Who Beat Two Babies To Death Allegedly Awaiting Breast Implants At California Women’s Prison (https://reduxx.info/exclusive-man-who-beat-two-babies-to-death-allegedly-awaiting-breast-implants-at-california-womens-prison/)
Top Academic Behind Fetish Site Hosting Child Sexual Abuse Fantasy, Push To Revise WPATH Guidelines (https://reduxx.info/top-academic-behind-fetish-site-hosting-child-sexual-abuse-fantasy-push-to-revise-wpath-guidelines/)
Violent Child Rapist, Murderer Now a Featured ‘Feminist, LGBTQ Advocate’ (https://reduxx.info/violent-child-rapist-murderer-now-a-featured-feminist-lgbtq-advocate/)
EXCLUSIVE: Australian Woman Left Disabled Following Attack By Trans Activist (https://reduxx.info/exclusive-australian-woman-left-disabled-following-attack-by-trans-activist/)
Violent Transgender Killer Completes Sentence for Torture, Murder of 13-Year-Old Child (https://reduxx.info/violent-transgender-killer-completes-sentence-for-1996-torture-murder-of-13-year-old-child/)
Sorority Members Made to Change Definition of ‘Woman’ to Admit 6’2 Trans-Identified Male (https://reduxx.info/sorority-members-made-to-change-definition-of-woman-to-admit-62-trans-identified-male/)
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wesleyyang.substack.com/subscribe (https://wesleyyang.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2)
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
Apple Podcasts (US)
4.8 / 5
18 ratings
Contact Year Zero with Wesley Yang
Guest appearances
Books guests
Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.
Host of Year Zero with Wesley Yang?
Claim your podcast to manage its listing and keep your show details accurate.
Pod Engine is an independent podcast discovery and analytics service and is not affiliated with or endorsed by this podcast. Artwork and show content belong to their owners. Full legal notice.
Explore this show Podcast research with Pod Engine
