TERFs

Darcy Rohan ~ she/her
2 min readApr 7, 2024

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An American Conversation Podcast is a Los Angeles TERF show co-founded, co-owned and co-hosted by Leland Heflin and Rose Medina MSSW. Early episodes feature Dave Palombo. Halona Patrick Shaw LCSW and Sandra Currie frequently cohost. The bulk of An American Conversation Podcast’s content consists of interviewing notable TERFs and notable figures in anti-transgender activism from all over the world and spreading transphobic misinformation and propaganda on dozens of podcast sources and social media platforms dating back several years. The fact that the majority of their guests are anti-transgender activists is very conveniently omitted from their materials. An American Conversation Podcast juxtapose casual transphobes from their personal social circle with politically organized extremists from all over the world.

Notable anti-transgender activists, TERFs and various characters in the gender-critical movement featured in An American Conversation Podcast’s interviews include but are not limited to Graham Linehan, Meghan Murphy, Kara Dansky, Lierre Keith, Ray Blanchard, Lisa Selin Davis, Linda Blade, Scott Newgent, Sall Grover, Aaron Kimberly, James Esses, Debbie Hayton, Buck Angel, Simon Edge, Derrick Jensen, Max Wilbert, Kallie Fell, “Exulsanic,” Natasha Chart, Colin Wright, Katrina Biggs, Suzanne Levy, “Arty Morty,” William A. Ferguson, Marion Rutigliano, Rosa Alvarez, Phyllis Chesler, Cherry Smiley, Marcia Mathews, Genevieve Gluck, Elaine Miller, Eleanor Cowan, Manuela Schon, Donovan Cleckley, Yasmine Mohammed, Renee Gerlich, Marion Rutigliano, Heather Mason, Ann Menarsche, Andrea Heinz, Robert Jensen, “Isidora Sanger,” “Felicia Rembrandt,” etc.

Rose Medina MSSW and Sandra Currie are outspoken TERFs. Leland Heflin co-founded and co-hosts a TERF show on which she spouts TERF lore and conspiracy theory, lies about transgender people, deadnames and consistently misgenders with dramatic and deliberate emphasis and beams with sunny enthusiasm about anti-transgender activists and TERF groups. She’s “not a TERF.” Leland Heflin and Rose Medina MSSW are personal friends with transphobic blogger and hate page designer William A. Ferguson. Lierre Keith contributes to discourse at Rose Medina MSSW’s personal Facebook page. Infamous TERF Cathy Brennan (“Radical Feminism by the Sea”) contributes to discourse at Rose Medina MSSW’s personal Facebook page using a pseudonym account titled “Tallon Kiehn Nuñez.” An American Conversation Podcast plugs conservative TERF Stella O’Malley’s conversion therapy network Genspect in a series of propaganda videos titled “Parents in Despair.” An American Conversation Podcast are Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull (“Posie Parker”) supporters.

Notable TERF groups, bunk science sources, anti-transgender activist groups and conservative anti-LGBTQ+ sources featured in An American Conversation Podcast’s publications and social media content include but are not limited to J.K. Rowling, Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull (“Posie Parker”), LibsOfTikTok, FiLiA, Genspect, Women’s Liberation Front, Women’s Declaration International, LGB Alliance, LGB United, Gender Heretics, Binary Australia, Deep Green Resistance, Gays Against Groomers, Sex Matters, Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine, Center for Bioethics and Culture, Paradox Institute, GB News, The Epoch Times, Sinfest, Reduxx, Jennifer Bilek’s The 11th Hour, etc.

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