Nathan H. Lents is a professor of biology at the John Jay College of criminal justice in New York. Yes, you read that right. John Jay was set up, according to its website, ‘in the mid-1950s in response to the increased complexity of administering and operating the New York City Police Department and relations between police and the community’ and is a ‘Hispanic- and Minority-Serving Institution’ which wants to ‘educat[e] traditionally underrepresented groups and [is] committed to increasing diversity in the workforce’. You don’t get more social justice warrior than that. The science department naturally has a bias towards forensics, toxicology, etc, though you can do a Cell and Molecular Biology Bachelor of Science.
Category: In Conversation
Eli Erlick on ‘Before Gender’
Erlick wrote in the book in response to the current attack on trans people, particularly trans youth in the US and UK (which turned out to be a very strong theme of the conversation, surprise, surprise). He chose the stories according to how useful they would be in providing counterpoints to arguments presented by the gender critical movement. So, not at all cynical then.
Nicola Sturgeon: Frankly
Like most people, it wasn’t until Sturgeon was in her thirties that she loosened up and became more comfortable with herself, but unlike most people, Sturgeon believes this marks herself out as different.
‘Is Transphobia the New Homophobia?’
Collins allowed more critical questions to be asked than I have ever witnessed in these spaces, though things were rather pre-empted by the question: Is Transphobia the New Homophobia? Well, no, it isn’t, never was and one could very well argue that trans ideology is the new homophobia. A point, unfortunately, that no one at the event managed to make coherently.
Review of documentary – Love & Rage: Munroe Bergdorf
The director of the film, Olivia Cappuccini, thanked Bergdorf for letting her into his world, which was the ‘epitome of freedom’. Bergdorf was someone we should be grateful to be in the presence of, for the joy and euphoria Bergdorf imparts onto this world was unique. Such gibberish was a sure sign the documentary was not only going to be illiterate, but also a masterclass in arse-licking.
Torrey Peters: Stag Dance
Clark felt that being able to identify your own failures in gender presentation was incredibly threatening and this was why certain people were so obsessed with trans people. Peters leapt to agree, feeling that trans people were used as a scapegoat but also acted as a beacon for peoples’ potential freedoms, which some people found terrifying. ‘When you hear terfs talk about gender you really get the sense that they fucking hate being women,’ said Clark, adding that she thought terfs were petrified by the idea of ‘you actually don’t have to do this’. Which was a perfect piece of intellectual google, given Peters had just said – and Clark had agreed – that we all have to do gender. Doh!
The Lies They Tell 
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