How old is Cori? Will the NYT podcast The Protocol change minds? Is there any competence in the Trump administration? Why is Nina’s cat pooping on the floor? These questions and more are asked, but not entirely answered, as we move in and out of the fetal position, name-drop various GC power players, and read aloud comments from another podcast’s subreddit.

Important note: Cori is COMPLETELY WRONG about last week’s timeline: Nina wrote about her cat 2 days after we recorded last time. Is his muddled thinking a symptom of estrogen withdrawal, or turning 50? SO MANY QUESTIONS

Links:

Pussy Whipped (Nina’s blog): https://blog.ninapaley.com/2025/06/07/pussy-whipped/

Informed Dissent analysis of The Protocol: Part 1

Informed Dissent

Episode 27: Dissecting “The Protocol”

On Thursday evening, The New York Times released “The Protocol,” its highly anticipated podcast on the history of pediatric gender medicine. We do a deep-dive into the first two episodes of the six-part series: “The Beginning” and “The Gender Kids…

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Part 2:

Informed Dissent

Episode 28: Jamie Reed responds to the New York Times’s podcast, “The Protocol”

On this special episode, we discuss part four of the New York Times’s six-part series about the history of pediatric gender medicine. Episode 4, “The Whistleblower,” is about Jamie Reed, who blew the whistle on the pediatric gender clinic at Washington University in St. Louis in 2023. Jamie tells us what the Times got right, what they left out, plus a w…

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Missing from NYT’s podcast THE PROTOCOL (Glenna Goldis on X): https://x.com/glennagoldis/status/1930969733748113531

Elliot Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_Page

Kinnon MacKinnon https://www.yorku.ca/positivechange/2022/06/24/kinnon-mackinnon/

Dude Looks Like A Lady (Aerosmith):

The comments we read from the Blocked & reported subReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BlockedAndReported/comments/1l1971t/comment/mwmctet/

Credit Is Due (The Attribution Song): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPtH2KPuQbs&ab_channel=QuestionCopyright