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UnMuted: the TransMuted Podcast

Jenny Poyer Ackerman

Conversations about the impacts of "gender identity" ideology on the wellbeing of young people and families, from people with first-hand experience jennypoyerackerman.substack.com

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63:32

Episode 44, featuring Stephanie Winn

UnMuted: the TransMuted Podcast ·

2025/10/31

My guest today, Stephanie Winn, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who will probably be familiar to most of the parents out there. Her podcast, You Must Be Some Kind of Therapist, is, in her words, “openly and unapologetically critical of gender ideology and the intrusion of wokeness into the counseling profession” — yet in my words, the tone of the podcast is the opposite of combative. It’s consistently calm, reassuring and above all, informative. The word “consistently” does a lot of work

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75:34

Episode 43, featuring Sarah Hartman-Caverly

UnMuted: the TransMuted Podcast ·

2025/09/14

My guest is the author of a post I read on Substack last May that was so interesting and provocative I’ve been thinking about it ever since. Sarah Hartman-Caverly is a reference and instruction librarian with Penn State University Libraries. Her academic interests are privacy, intellectual freedom, and human autonomy. She co-moderates the Heterodox Libraries community of Heterodox Academy and contributes to its newsletter, Heterodoxy in the Stacks, which is where I discovered her writing. As soon

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69:46

Episode 42, featuring Lisa Simeone

UnMuted: the TransMuted Podcast ·

2025/08/30

My guest today is recently retired from an illustrious career with NPR, where she hosted high-profile shows including Weekend All Things Considered, Weekend Edition Sunday, and the independent documentary series Soundprint. She also brought us musical events such as the 2008 Inaugural Concert in Washington, D.C., concerts from the Aspen Music Festival, and Toast of the Nation, where she rang in the New Year live from Paris — as one does. A Google search returns photos of her in what look like

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67:55

Episode 41 featuring Carol Dansereau

UnMuted: the TransMuted Podcast ·

2025/08/22

Carol Dansereau is an attorney, author, and advocate who spent 25 years working in the non-profit sector. That sector, which she now calls the Nonprofit Industrial Complex, gets its share of criticism on her eponymous Substack. So does the Unitarian Universalist Church where she and her partner, Bruce Lesnick, were active members until their views on sex and ‘gender’ were deemed problematic.I’ve been following Carol’s Substack for a couple of years, and I finally had to reach out after listening to

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57:42

Episode 40, featuring Lauren Schwartz, MD

UnMuted: the TransMuted Podcast ·

2025/08/09

Dr. Lauren Schwartz is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist in private practice in Oklahoma. Her recent advocacy centers on ‘gender-affirming care,’ and in just the last three years she’s made significant contributions to both the clinical and public understanding of the tradeoffs involved in the treatments. If you watched or listened to the remarkable July 9th ‘workshop’ proceedings at the US Federal Trade Commission, you will have heard Lauren speak on a panel titled “What Does the Science Actually

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81:47

Episode 39, featuring Pamela Garfield-Jaeger

UnMuted: the TransMuted Podcast ·

2025/07/23

I know I just posted a long letter to subscribers about how I need to step away from Substack this summer in order to work on my presentation for Genspect, but Pamela Garfield-Jaeger published this charming new children’s book “Froggy Girl,” and because I enjoyed our first conversation so much, I decided to make time for this one.Pamela is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who describes herself as ‘awake, but not woke.’ She earned a Masters in Social Work from New York University in 1999 before

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106:06

Episode 38, featuring Glenna Goldis

UnMuted: the TransMuted Podcast ·

2025/06/11

This episode’s opening music is (presumably) the first and will be the last song ever written about Judith Butler, the grande dame of academic queer misanthropy, composed by who else but our William A Ferguson. Listen to the whole song without me talking over it at the end of the episode — it’s a masterpiece.Following that, I’m proud to say I got Glenna Goldis to take a break from rage-tweeting about the New York Times podcast ‘The Protocol’ long enough to give it a proper critical analysis here

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52:43

Episode 37, featuring Dr. Miriam Grossman

UnMuted: the TransMuted Podcast ·

2025/05/30

Miriam Grossman is a medical doctor board certified in child, adolescent and adult psychiatry. She is a senior fellow at Do No Harm and the author of five books. If you’ve read her most recent book, Lost in Trans Nation, you’ll know why I call it the definitive work on the subject that brings us here: readers who feel ‘lost’ as per the title before reading it will feel not just informed but empowered on the other side. Maybe more important: parents will feel, perhaps for the first time, that

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65:47

Episode 36, featuring filmmaker Vaishnavi Sundar

UnMuted: the TransMuted Podcast ·

2025/05/23

I’ve been a fan of Vaishnavi Sundar for over five years, and it was amazing to interview her for this episode. Our mutual friend Sacha Jones of Terf Vibes introduced me to Vaishnavi after hearing me gush about her two gender-critical films, ‘Dysphoric' and 'Behind the Looking Glass.’ I binged all four episodes of ‘Dysphoric’ the minute I heard the film existed. By that time, 2019, I’d been living with an ROGD daughter for three years and felt quite alone and dismayed by the lack of objective

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64:52

Episode 35, featuring Lisa Duval

UnMuted: the TransMuted Podcast ·

2025/04/25

Lisa Duval, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist based in Charlottesville, Virginia. She works with patients of all ages, backgrounds, and presenting issues but specializes in adolescence and personality disorders. She did her undergrad studies in English and Psychology at Yale, then earned a masters and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from two Bay Area institutions. I will admit to feeling unequal and even intimidated by such an academic résumé, but there’s something profoundly relatable in the

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88:24

Episode 34, featuring Elizabeth Kenney and Jane Berns

UnMuted: the TransMuted Podcast ·

2025/04/18

On April 5, I drove to Berkeley to join a peaceful protest outside the downtown YMCA in support of single-sex locker rooms. We stood alongside Elizabeth Kenney, a mother and grandmother who had recently confronted a large naked man in the women’s locker room of that same facility. I later recorded an interview with Elizabeth which you’ll hear in the second half of this episode. First, I’m excited to speak with the woman who organized that protest. She’s a teacher and art enthusiast who has also

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61:01

Episode 33, featuring a sex-realist MD with two adult...

UnMuted: the TransMuted Podcast ·

2025/04/11

Today’s guest is a woman I first met when we both attended the Genspect conference in Denver a year and a half ago. She introduced herself as a subscriber to this Substack, so I liked her immediately! I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know her fairly well since then.Her story is that of a stable, loving and high-functioning family in which two out of three kids — all smart and well-educated — announce ‘transgender’ identities during their college years. I wish I could say it’s an unusual story,

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89:39

Episode 32, featuring New Zealand's Sacha Jones of...

UnMuted: the TransMuted Podcast ·

2025/04/05

Plus: another great new terfy tune by friend-of-the-pod William A Ferguson takes us out, so stick around!“Terf Vibes” is the Substack handle of an Australian writer and feminist academic who currently lives in Auckland, NZ, where she fights for the sex-based rights of women and girls —and!— performs stand-up comedy using her stage name, Sacha Jones.This is how she describes her Substack publication, ‘Til Sex Do Us Part:’My personal/political 'battle of the sexes' as the XX author of a PhD in

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48:13

Episode 31, featuring Jennifer Lahl

UnMuted: the TransMuted Podcast ·

2025/03/29

This is the only photo I have of me with Jennifer Lahl. Riley Gaines’s presence in the middle doesn’t lessen its appeal, in my opinion! Taken at the Center for Bioethics and Culture benefit dinner, Diablo, CA, 2024.Jennifer Lahl began her career as a pediatric critical care nurse in the 1990s, then went on to earn a master’s degree in medical ethics before founding the nonprofit Center for Bioethics and Culture in 2000. While doing critical nursing care, conducting scientific research and raising

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62:27

Episode 30, featuring Maya

UnMuted: the TransMuted Podcast ·

2025/03/22

My guest, Maya, is the young author of an essay I read on the PITT [Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans] Substack last week titled “Breaking Free: My Journey Through and Out Of Trans Ideology.” I was delighted when she agreed to be interviewed here, and I think the conversation has a lot to offer parents with questions about online indoctrination. You’ll find Maya to be uncommonly honest and self aware, especially for someone who is only eighteen. In case you find the audio quality

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75:33

Episode 29: MomTalk featuring Hippiesq!

UnMuted: the TransMuted Podcast ·

2025/03/15

Our friend Karen, aka ‘Hippiesq’, returned for a casual kvetch-sesh which we recorded about three weeks ago since I knew I’d be in Washington this week for Detrans Awareness Day. Karen had shared a draft of an essay she’d written that I really liked, and I asked if she might like to record an audio version of it. This episode thus begins in lofty fashion with her reading that eloquent piece, then moves on to more of a sea-level discourse about the American morning TV show ‘The View,’ the

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27:51

Episode 28: Saving Girls Sports in Washington State

UnMuted: the TransMuted Podcast ·

2025/03/08

This episode is the third in a series that seeks to ‘unmute’ voices from deep in the trenches of gender ideology, and it’s the first to include a call to action that could conceivably help change something for the better.You can help Washington become the first so-called blue state to recognize the rights, safety and dignity of girls and women in sports by sharing this episode with everyone you know in the state of Washington and reposting it on social media. Just one link from the

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57:03

Episode 27 Featuring ML

UnMuted: the TransMuted Podcast ·

2025/02/28

I’ve invited ML, a previous guest on the podcast and the author of two guest essays, to come back and talk about his experience with his adult son, who’s been identifying as trans for about 5 years now. Too many people, especially parents dealing with this uniquely totalizing pressure that’s often felt both inside and outside the home, also suffer from being either silenced or voluntarily silent for fear of some harsh consequence. So in this series I want to let my guests do almost all the talking

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72:30

Episode 26, Featuring Simon Amaya Price

UnMuted: the TransMuted Podcast ·

2025/02/21

Simon Amaya Price is a musically and academically gifted young man who was raised in Boston, America’s ground zero for pediatric sex-trait medical malpractice. In a courageously public manner, Simon has been candid and outspoken about his experience with a trans identification, a phase that began for him at age 14 and lasted for three years but thankfully steered clear of medical interventions. The person Simon credits most for his protection from medical harm is his ‘non-affirming,’ highly

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57:36

Episode 25, featuring Kara Dansky!

UnMuted: the TransMuted Podcast ·

2025/02/07

It’s an honor I saved for my 25th episode to welcome Kara Dansky, the woman I wrote in as my candidate for President in both the general election and the primary! I’ll just quote the bio from Kara’s Substack since there’s no improving on her direct and straight-to-the-point prose:“Kara Dansky is a lawyer and a feminist. She is the author of The Reckoning: How the Democrats and the Left Betrayed Women and Girls and The Abolition of Sex: How the 'Transgender' Agenda Harms Women and Girls. She served

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