Year Zero

Year Zero

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An ongoing inquiry into the ideological fever that overtook the governing and chattering classes of America during the Trump years

wesleyyang.substack.com

Recent Episodes

  • "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."

    2 years ago
  • "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."

    2 years ago
  • "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?"

    2 years ago
  • "Here's the bottom line...It is going to be very difficult for them to find loving, long term partners, because you have fucked up their bodies in ways that are going to complicate relationships."

    2 years ago
  • "It's possible to criticize and raise questions about pediatric gender medicine today in a way that was not possible even six months ago. We have definitely turned a corner."

    2 years ago
  • "I first saw on Twitter, some people saying, 'Oh, they're giving the same drugs to kids as they as they give to chemically castrate sex offenders.' I thought, “That's clearly wrong. And then..."

    2 years ago
  • "I don't want to go down in history as the guy who killed affirmative action. I actually said that to him. "

    2 years ago
  • "We're going to put together our own guide, our own authoritative set of guidance for how to conceptualize and treat gender dysphoria, because someone has to step up and challenge these people."

    2 years ago
  • "We're giving these girls mastectomies. You have to be curious about what's going on."

    2 years ago
  • Shep Melnick on Creedal Passion Politics (Abridged)

    3 years ago