Benjamin Ryan

1 month ago | benryan.substack.com | Benjamin Ryan |Jesse Singal

I’ve got an article out in The New York Sun today about the British National Health Service’s announcement that it will spend $13.9 million on a forthcoming study of puberty blockers in gender-distressed minors. This Substack is an appendix to that article (which you can read by clicking here), because I wanted to put out there in the public record the full details of many of the responses I received from experts in and skeptics of the field of pediatric gender medicine.

1 month ago | benryan.substack.com | Benjamin Ryan |Jesse Singal

At his bombastic speech before Congress on Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump boasted that Elon Musk and the DOGE gang had exposed $8 million in federal funding “for making mice transgender.” I examined this eyebrow-raising moment in an editorial I published today in the Washington Post: “Science needs more shrimp on treadmills: National Institutes of Health isn’t funding too much silly science. It’s not funding enough.” My essay sings the praises of what’s sometimes known as silly science.

Jan 20, 2025 | benryan.substack.com | Benjamin Ryan |Emily Yoffe

The second Trump administration is only a few hours old, but already has sought to wield its power to undo throughout federal law what it refers to as “gender ideology.” The gender-identity-focused executive order Donald Trump signed today, brashly entitled “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to Federal Government,” seeks to eradicate acknowledgement of the existence of transgender people throughout the federal government.

Jan 8, 2025 | benryan.substack.com | Benjamin Ryan |Jesse Singal

Sam Seder, the hot-headed host of the popular progressive YouTube political-punditry show The Majority Report, has a long history of weighing in on pediatric gender medicine in spirited speeches that are heavy on emotion and indignation but betray a shallow knowledge of the facts.

Dec 4, 2024 | benryan.substack.com | Benjamin Ryan

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