Heterodorx

By Nina Paley

What's Heterodorx about?

Heterodox dorks Nina Paley and Corinna Cohn talk about whatever they feel like. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/heterodorx/support

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Heterodorx episodes:

05.10.2024
Is Brianna Wu Based? Part Two
Is the ⁠video game developer⁠, computer programmer, ⁠GamerGate⁠ veteran, and ⁠aspiring politician⁠ “based” for ⁠recent statements⁠ against antisemitism? To find out, the Dorx invited Wu for an interview that lasted 2-and-a-half hours and is therefore broken into two parts. PART TWO: An...
05.10.2024
Is Brianna Wu Based? Part One
Is the video game developer, computer programmer, GamerGate veteran, and aspiring politician “based” for recent statements against antisemitism? To find out, the Dorx invited Wu for an interview that lasted 2-and-a-half hours and is therefore broken into two parts. PART ONE: A...
05.06.2024
Butching It Up with Nina and Corinna
It would take a butcher to butch up Corinna enough to satisfy those clamoring for his detransition. Fresh from the UnSpeakeasy retreat in Louisville, the Dorx also discuss the Kohein priestly caste, street work, rimshots, shock collars, and Pronoun Ripple...
04.29.2024
A Light Unto the School Districts with Dr. Tabia Lee
What happens when an inquisitive, naturally hopeful, critical-thinking civics-oriented teacher educator gets a position in an Office of Equity, Social Justice, and Multicultural Education? She gets fired for not being "the right kind of Black person", and then speaks out...
04.18.2024
California Nightmares with Beth Bourne
Beth Bourne is a lifelong Democrat, mother of an estranged trans-identified daughter, and model of courage in the belly of the beast that is the Golden State. After years of receiving slow and inattentive medical service, she told Kaiser Permanente...
04.05.2024
Structure and Coherence with J.D. Haltigan
Independent Scientist and emerging public intellectual J.D. Haltigan left academia for a life of forced leisure and blue-collar employment, but he’d rather pursue his passion for psychological research at an institution. He joins the Dorx to discuss Covid masking, psychopathology,...
03.28.2024
“A Path to Inclusion” with Cyd Zeigler
Cyd Zeigler started OutSports in 1999, gradually shifting focus from “pro sports from a gay men’s fandom angle” to all things LGBTQ++, including trans athletes. He joins the Dorx to argue for inclusion of male trans athletes in female categories....
03.20.2024
Autoandrophilia with Aaron Terrell
After Nina welcomes self-described autoandrophile and pervert advocate Aaron “The Contraaron” Terrell with a deliberate misgendering, the two adult human females discuss male sexuality while actual male Corinna mostly bites his tongue. Topics include Terrell’s surprising shift from hetero- to...
03.09.2024
Taking Action with Ellen Daehnick
When Things need to get done, it’s people like Ellen Daehnick who do them. Daehnick recently retired from her high-powered career to become a full-time “Unpaid Gender Crank”, focusing on legislation. She describes her first time testifying to the Colorado...
03.01.2024
Mitigating the Damage with Jamie Reed
Last year, case manager Jamie Reed blew the whistle on the gender clinic that had employed her for almost four years. Today, she faces an even more frightening challenge: being a guest on the Heterodorx podcast. Jamie’s impeccable lefty credentials...
02.24.2024
TERF-Tranny Alliances with Eva Kurilova and Lois Cardinal
Canada is not merely America’s Hat; it’s also home to Eva Kurilova and Lois Cardinal, a TERF-Tranny duo rivaling the Heterodorx in both hardliner contempt and world domination. We discuss womanface, tribal identities, the sterilization of First Nations youth, aging,...
02.15.2024
Safeguarding, Lesbophobia, and DARVO
Corinna and Nina rant and complain about the current “Gender Critical” online discourse. What is a lesbian? Is Corinna gay, or homosexual? Is DARVO a floor wax, or a dessert topping? Although we perpetuate the problem by talking about it,...
02.07.2024
Alpacne! with Jennifer Lahl
Filmmaker and former pediatric nurse Jennifer Lahl's latest short documentary, The Lost Boys: Searching for Manhood, focuses on male detransitioners. We discuss film distribution, the festival circuit, crowdfunding, straight-to-online, subtitles (“How do you say ‘chopped off his penis’ in Spanish?”),...
01.28.2024
Welcome to the Gender Wars, Dr. Gary Francione!
After Corinna complains about an obnoxious and possibly libelous article in the Washington Post, the Dorx welcome legal scholar, philosopher, vegan, and animal rights activist Dr. Gary Francione. We discuss Equality Claims vs Belief Claims, old-school transsexuals, admitting you’re wrong,...
01.18.2024
Unblinded by the Light with Ray Alex Williams
For 8 years, Ray Alex Williams claimed to be a woman, zealously promoting transgender ideology, ingesting spirolactone and exogenous estrogen, doing "a lot of twitter activism,” and writing a book about trans philosophy. In May 2023 he socially and medically...
01.08.2024
Rosie Kay Believes in The Power of the Arts
Rosie Kay is a dancer, choreographer, “old-school feminist”, and co-founder of Freedom In The Arts in the UK. Both cancelled and resurrected, she’s also a fascinating and articulate speaker. She joined the Dorx back in November to talk about dance,...
12.08.2023
Esprit de Corpse
Corinna and Nina poke at the dead body of the Gender Critical Movement. Cause of death? Illiberalism, revulsion, femagoguery, the narcissism of small differences, group polarization, junior high social dynamics, Calvinism, puritanism, gaslighting, victimhood as currency, and so much more....
11.20.2023
Librarians Losing Their Spine, with Penny Hummel
Librarians once stood for intellectual freedom and access to information, but today many prefer to suppress speech and intellectual diversity for the sake of a misguided concept of "social justice". One Davis, California library recently violated the First Amendment when...
11.14.2023
Ladies' Autogynephilia Chat with Shannon Thrace
Shannon Thrace is a "transwidow" and author of the must-read novel Eighteen Months: A Memoir of a Marriage Lost to Gender Identity. She joins handmaiden pick-me tranny-lover Nina for a women’s-only talk about AUTOGYNEPHILIA, the cause célèbre currently ripping apart...
10.31.2023
"Ask a Zionist" with Rabbi Jonathan Greenberg
After last weeks “Ask an Anti-Zionist,” the Dorx return to Ask a Zionist, Rabbi Jonathan Greenberg. What is a Zionist? Answer: “A person who believes that the Jews have a right to self-determination and self-protection in the ancient land of...
10.26.2023
“Ask an Anti-Zionist” with Andy the Anti-Zionist
The Dorx discuss recent events with Nina’s ex-boyfriend, Andy the Anti-Zionist. A first-generation American son of a Palestinian Catholic father, Andy was mistreated on a visit to Israel at age 12 and has avowedly opposed the state ever since. We...
10.24.2023
The Wrong Sort of Everything with Bev Jackson
Longtime activist and author Bev Jackson is a founding member of the UK Gay Liberation Front and, more recently, co-founder of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Alliance (LGBA), one the the only organizations standing for homosexual (as opposed to “queer”) rights...
10.13.2023
The Darkest Humor
Nina and Corinna — who between them comprise one-and-a-half Jews — discuss recent events in the Middle East, after a brief detour about IP Law and its discontents. We confuse Robert Redford with Paul Newman, compare synagogues and mosques with...
10.05.2023
The Art of Dissident Feminists with J Berns
A Nasty Piece of Work: The Art of Dissident Feminists is the world’s first and only “TERF” Art show, featuring 14 female artists, all of whom have been canceled due to gender ideology. Its curator and organizer is J. Berns,...
09.21.2023
Taking The Weird Path with Saya Hillman
Back when this podcast had only 4 listeners, Debbie Hillman of foodfarmsdemocracy.net was one of them. Debbie passed away in March, after which Corinna discovered a 2014 tribute video by her daughter. An interesting character in her own right, Saya...
08.28.2023
Listener Questions!
Corinna and Nina answer your important questions, such as: what is a feminist? Should we be cheerful instead of angry? Who cuts our hair? Boxers or briefs? Is “cis” a slur? We also discuss the TERF-Tranny spectrum; our origins in...
08.23.2023
Left Wing Heresy with Lisa Selin Davis
Prolific writer, researcher, thinker, and close personal friend of the Dorx Lisa Selin Davis is an old-school Leftist who developed an “exciting new interest in reality,” subsequently putting her on the wrong side of many a Brooklyn dinner party. We...
08.15.2023
Heather Brunskell-Evans is (a) TERF*
The delightful and accomplished Dr Heather Brunskell-Evans joins the Dorx on short notice, first to talk about her work with Women’s Declaration International and Transgender Trend, then about her exhaustion with all manner of ideological nonsense, be it from trans...
08.03.2023
How the Internet Lost its Backbone, with Joshua Moon
In 1993 John Gilmore famously said, "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” To learn why that’s no longer true, listen to Josh Moon enumerate “the amount of things that have broken that people in the industry...
07.28.2023
Corinna & Nina talk ICONS
The Dorx do a quick review of the 2023 ICONS International Women's Sports Summit in Denver, among whose speakers were many former Heterodorx guests like Carole Hooven, Colin Wright, Helen Joyce, Kara Dansky, and Kim Jones; plus Suzanne Vierling, Dina...
07.20.2023
Pediatric Disenchantment with Julia Mason, MD
Julia Mason is a practicing pediatrician, a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and a founding member of the Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine (SEGM). A politically homeless, feline-affirming, bleeding-heart liberal who wants to pause pediatric transition,...
07.06.2023
To Speak or Not to Speak? with Olivia
Olivia works on the front lines of America’s public education system, teaching in the Pacific Northwest. So dangerous is her line of work that she’s choosing to remain semi-anonymous — for now. What will it take for her, and others...
06.29.2023
Doin’ the 12-Step with Ben Appel
Returning sexy guest Ben Appel recently wrote about genderism and other political ideologies infiltrating Alcoholics Anonymous, despite its 10th Tradition prohibiting alignment with outside issues. But what is a “Tradition” anyway? Ben and Nina possibly violate the 11th one (“always...
06.24.2023
Gender of Champions with Kim Jones
Kim Jones is a co-founder of ICONS, the International Council On WomeN’s Sports. A former college athlete whose daughter had to compete against Lia Thomas, Jones intelligently and passionately articulates why “sports are the public arena of the difference of...
06.05.2023
Open Wounds
The Dorx skip the guest to discuss online drama du jour: so-called “allies” using language detransitioners don’t like. Nina asserts no one likes to be told how to speak; that there is some violence inherent to all surgery; that middle-aged...
05.25.2023
Alasdair Gunn: It’s Fun To Play Scrabble With A Linguist
Vice Director of Genspect Alasdair Gunn (nee Angus Fox) rejoins the Dorx to recap Killarney’s Bigger Picture conference, compare European and US approaches to gender issues, and update us on his health. Soon Corinna is pushing exogenous estrogen on Nina,...
05.17.2023
Ask an Autogynephile! with Phil Illy
Most autogynephiles — men sexually aroused by impersonating, embodying, or identifying as women — are so deeply ashamed of their condition they deny its existence. Phil Illy is a rare exception whose acceptance and curiosity led him to research and...
04.27.2023
The Heterodorx get Blocked and Reported with Katie Herzog and Jessie Singal
For our celebratory 100th episode, podcasting role-models Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal join the Dorx as special guest audio engineers. Except Corinna’s been so busy testifying for “anti-trans" bills around the country, and Nina’s been so sick with COVID, that...
04.22.2023
Incorrigible? with Zander Keig
From anti-social teenage lesbian drop-out, to Coast Guardsman, to seminarian, to licensed clinical social worker, ⁠Zander Keig⁠ has led a singular life. Like Corinna, Zander is an old-school transsexual, but the culture has changed since the (not actually) halcyon tranny...
04.06.2023
Therapy Talk with James Esses
Mild-mannered therapist-in-training James Esses was expelled from his university after expressing concerns about child safeguarding in relation to gender transition. Now he's fighting for his day in court. Focusing on "positive change in society," he fills in the Dorx on...
03.14.2023
Speaking and Thinking with Helen Joyce
Helen Joyce is a journalist, former writer and editor at The Economist, and author of TRANS: When Ideology Meets Reality. She joins the Dorx to discuss what is and is not Worthy Of Respect In A Democratic Society, the importance...
03.05.2023
The CAIS Files
Fetishized, minimized, and co-opted: Is it an identity? A “gotcha”? A political football? Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (CAIS) is in fact a serious medical condition, vanishingly rare yet disproportionately discussed by everyone with an agenda in the gender wars. Jo,...
02.25.2023
How to Speak, How to Listen, and How to Comply
Corinna has been VERY BUSY speaking out against medically harming children or in favor of genocide (depending), including delivering this excellent 3-minute testimony supporting Indiana SB 480. Nina grapples with the Kafkaesque nightmare that is Indiegogo. Corinna encounters some activists...
02.08.2023
The View from Canada with Stuart Parker
Canada, which National Lampoon once called “The Retarded Giant on Your Doorstep,” is just as affectionately known today as “Tranada.” It’s also the home of lifelong leftist, environmentalist, activist, prolific writer, and shape-shifting space lizard Stuart Parker. A former child-star-activist...
02.03.2023
No-Makeup Tips with Holly Lawford-Smith
Nina is both lazy and unafraid to look bad, as she fails to prepare a proper intro for magnificent political philosopher, author, and Quillette columnist Dr. Holly Lawford-Smith. Those same qualities are why Nina doesn’t wear makeup; Lawford-Smith shares some...
01.28.2023
Elaine Miller: Behind the Merkin
Elaine Miller is a pelvic physiotherapist, award-winning comedic performer, women’s rights campaigner, and now Edinburgh council candidate. She recounts how she became the infamous “Holyrood Flasher,” scandalized her children, and taught much of the ignorant world what a merkin is....
01.20.2023
Dialing Down the Misanthropy with Heather Heying
Evolutionary biologist, former Evergreen college professor, Dark Horse podcaster, and author Heather Heying shares her thoughts on academia. We learn Heying is the daughter of a university math professor, like Nina. Corinna then nudges the two faculty spawn into a...
01.13.2023
Circling the Rhetorical Drain with Alex Byrne and Carole Hooven
Why do debates about trans rights always get sucked into arguments about Disorders of Sexual Development? Philosophy professor Alex Byrne and Biology professor Carole Hooven join the Dorx for some “Monday night quarterbacking” on the Dreger-Wright debate. But first, Carole...
01.06.2023
Nina Gets Canceled (Again) & Corinna Predicts the Future
After raising 150% of her goal on IndieGoGo, the crowdfunding platform cancels Nina’s first comic book in 30 years, Agents of H.A.G.. Money, funders, orders — all gone, 2 days after the 2-week campaign ended. Meanwhile, Corinna observes fissures between...
12.17.2022
Alice Dreger vs. Colin Wright
This very non-representative episode of Heterodorx is the recording of the formal, timed debate between Alice Dreger and Colin Wright, which was held live Monday December 7 2022. They set out to resolve the claim, “Biological sex is real, immutable,...

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Heterodorx episodes:

Is Brianna Wu Based? Part Two

Is Brianna Wu Based? Part One

Butching It Up with Nina and Corinna

A Light Unto the School Districts with Dr. Tabia Lee

California Nightmares with Beth Bourne

Structure and Coherence with J.D. Haltigan

“A Path to Inclusion” with Cyd Zeigler

Autoandrophilia with Aaron Terrell

Taking Action with Ellen Daehnick

Mitigating the Damage with Jamie Reed

TERF-Tranny Alliances with Eva Kurilova and Lois Cardinal

Safeguarding, Lesbophobia, and DARVO

Alpacne! with Jennifer Lahl

Welcome to the Gender Wars, Dr. Gary Francione!

Unblinded by the Light with Ray Alex Williams

Rosie Kay Believes in The Power of the Arts

Esprit de Corpse

Librarians Losing Their Spine, with Penny Hummel

Ladies' Autogynephilia Chat with Shannon Thrace

"Ask a Zionist" with Rabbi Jonathan Greenberg

“Ask an Anti-Zionist” with Andy the Anti-Zionist

The Wrong Sort of Everything with Bev Jackson

The Darkest Humor

The Art of Dissident Feminists with J Berns

Taking The Weird Path with Saya Hillman

Listener Questions!

Left Wing Heresy with Lisa Selin Davis

Heather Brunskell-Evans is (a) TERF*

How the Internet Lost its Backbone, with Joshua Moon

Corinna & Nina talk ICONS

Pediatric Disenchantment with Julia Mason, MD

To Speak or Not to Speak? with Olivia

Doin’ the 12-Step with Ben Appel

Gender of Champions with Kim Jones

Open Wounds

Alasdair Gunn: It’s Fun To Play Scrabble With A Linguist

Ask an Autogynephile! with Phil Illy

The Heterodorx get Blocked and Reported with Katie Herzog and Jessie Singal

Incorrigible? with Zander Keig

Therapy Talk with James Esses

Speaking and Thinking with Helen Joyce

The CAIS Files

How to Speak, How to Listen, and How to Comply

The View from Canada with Stuart Parker

No-Makeup Tips with Holly Lawford-Smith

Elaine Miller: Behind the Merkin

Dialing Down the Misanthropy with Heather Heying

Circling the Rhetorical Drain with Alex Byrne and Carole Hooven

Nina Gets Canceled (Again) & Corinna Predicts the Future

Alice Dreger vs. Colin Wright