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Benjamin Ryan@benryanwriter.bsky.social · 4d ago

Jason Arday Said He’s Not a Liar. The Receipts On His Charity Claims Say: Decide for Yourself. The Cambridge star professor now says his £5.5 million charity total was the work of a 100-person syndicate. I found every version of the story since 2010. open.substack.com/pub/benryan/...

Jason Arday Said He’s Not a Liar. The Receipts On His Charity Claims Say: Decide for Yourself. The Cambridge star professor now says his £5.5 million charity total was the work of a 100-person syndicate. I found every version of the story since 2010. open.substack.com/pub/benryan/...

Jason Arday Said He’s Not a Liar. The Receipts On His Charity Claims Say: Decide for Yourself.

The Cambridge star professor now says his £5.5 million charity total was the work of a 100-person syndicate. I found every version of the story since 2010, down to his £6,285 JustGiving page.

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I will also exercise significantly greater caution when engaging with biased sources or people who have been shown to victimize others.

I will independently verify claims made by anonymous accounts, approach sources’ biases with greater sensitivity, and exercise skepticism around these types of sources.

I regret any other lapses in judgment that may have occurred throughout this process and will do better moving forward.

As part of my reporting, I asked Alexa about allegations this individual has made against her in response. I recognize that these questions were harmful to Alexa’s wellbeing and I apologize for asking them.

Finally, Alexa has taken out and renewed a restraining order against an individual she has accused of stalking, on behalf of herself and her young child. To do so, Alexa compiled extensive documentation.

I will exercise greater judgment with regards to engaging with and trusting anonymous accounts in the future.

I regret any interactions I had with these accounts or any misplaced trust in content they posted or otherwise engaged with. To rely on or engage with these accounts causes real-world harm, and for that I apologize, too.

I did not independently verify or vet their claims. Furthermore, “Abuse of Power” engaged in behavior like cyberharassment, cyberstalking, and nonconsensual intimate image sharing. I expressly denounce such content.

In the process of learning about these conflicts, I encountered information posted by accounts on X called “Exposing Rich” and “Abuse of Power.” These accounts made various false, unsubstantiated, and unverified comments about Alexa and Eat Predators. They were clearly biased against Alexa.

Notably, there was never any evidence Alexa defrauded members of Eat Predators, including through the group’s Patreon account.

Some people left because they wanted to monetize Eat Predators or otherwise gain something to the detriment of Eat Predators. Conflicts that broke out afterward were not started by Alexa, but rather by other individuals.

She did not represent the group solely as an ambassador, but rather led the group. People voluntarily joined Eat Predators, and some members later left the group for various reasons.

As part of her activism, Alexa started a group called Eat Predators. In my reporting process, I asked Alexa questions about conflicts regarding this group. I now understand that Alexa was solely responsible for the creation of Eat Predators and that she did not co-opt other members’ ideas.

I do not stand by these comments or any third-party content relying on these comments as evidence of Nikolas sending me sealed documents. Any videos restating the claims in these comments should be removed. I apologize to Alexa for any harm my comments caused her.

I understand that my comments caused Nikolas distress and may have impacted her reputation. I also understand that my comments were included in videos created by third parties, including my friend Adam McIntyre and Ophie Dokie.

They are public records and all personal identifying information was redacted. I regret this error and am committed to exercising greater caution in the future. Since making these comments online, I have learned the true nature of these documents and how Nikolas obtained them.

In these comments, I erroneously stated that the Bell documents Nikolas shared with me were sealed records and released personal identifying information on the victim. However, these documents are not sealed and did not contain personal identifying information on the victim.

In response to those questions, Nikolas provided me with the redacted Ohio court and police records concerning Mr. Bell. Eventually, in September 2024, I responded to posts and a livestream Nikolas made on X and YouTube about me and this proposed article with a series of comments of my own.

The documents were not obtained from Bell or his attorneys. Over a month later, Nikolas shared these documents with me as part of her response to a series of questions I sent her for a proposed article, which was never published.

On March 9, 2024, days before Quiet on Set aired, series producer and Business Insider journalist Kate Taylor sent Nikolas a number of redacted Ohio court and police records concerning her fellow documentary participant Drake Bell. Taylor obtained these documents via a records request.

Alexa Nikolas is an activist and actress known for her role in the Nickelodeon series Zoey 101 and her appearance in the documentary series Quiet on Set.

Over 1 in 250 Natal Girls Were Taking Testosterone By Age 17 in Oregon, From 2016 to 2023 open.substack.com/pub/benryan/... Given swift increases in hormone uptake over time, the rate was likely much higher by 2023

Over 1 in 250 Natal Girls Were Taking Testosterone By Age 17 in Oregon, From 2016 to 2023

This rate, from a study of data about insured adolescents in Oregon, represents an average over this period. Given swift increases in hormone uptake over time, the rate was likely much higher by 2023.

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My latest: New Canadian Pediatric Society President Said Parents’ Concerns About Youth Gender Transitions 'Should Not Be Prioritized' benryan.substack.com/p/new-canadi...

New Canadian Pediatric Society President Said Parents’ Concerns About Youth Gender Transitions 'Should Not Be Prioritized'

In a 2022 conference presentation, Dr. Natasha Johnson said parental concerns were not tied to 2-year treatment regret among their kids, and thus "should not be prioritized over youths' experiences."

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Azeen Ghorayshi and Austin Mitchell were 2026 Pulitzer Prize finalists for their podcast The Protocol about youth gender medicine. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/p...

The Protocol

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This is incorrect. Taylor Lorenz complained to the police in Charlottesville because a man punched her in the face. He also knocked her phone out of her hand. But she filed a police report her the physical assault.

molly conger@socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 3mo ago

this is the same woman who went crying to the police when someone knocked her phone out of her hand because she wouldn’t stop filming the bleeding victims of the charlottesville car attack. on the scene of a mass casualty incident, feet away from a woman’s dead body, it was all about her.

SCOOP: Detransitioner Settles Malpractice Lawsuit Days Before Trial In Oregon open.substack.com/pub/benryan/... Camille Kiefel sued the 2 Oregon mental-health professionals who each, she alleged, effectively rubber-stamped for her a referral letter for a mastectomy after one telehealth appointment.

Detransitioner Settles Malpractice Lawsuit Days Before Trial In Oregon

Camille Kiefel sued the two Oregon mental-health professionals who each, she alleged, effectively rubber-stamped for her a referral letter for a mastectomy after a single telehealth appointment.

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Controversial Pediatric Gender Panel Draws Trans-Activist Push for Cancellation Trans-activist Substacker Erin Reed has prompted an uproar over a panel of skeptics of pediatric gender medicine slated for Sunday at the Pediatric Academic Societies meeting in Boston. open.substack.com/pub/benryan/...

Controversial Pediatric Gender Panel Draws Trans-Activist Push for Cancellation

Trans-activist Substacker Erin Reed has prompted an uproar over a panel of skeptics of pediatric gender medicine slated for Sunday at the Pediatric Academic Societies meeting in Boston.

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Did a WPATH Leader Lie About Why Age Limits Vanished From Their Trans-Care Guidelines? benryan.substack.com/p/did-a-wpat... A video I obtained of a 2022 World Professional Association for Transgender Health conference shows Scott Leibowitz making false claims about why the age limits were removed.

Did a WPATH Leader Lie About Why Age Limits Vanished From Their Trans-Care Guidelines?

A video I obtained of a 2022 World Professional Association for Transgender Health conference shows Dr. Scott Leibowitz making demonstrably false claims about why the age limits were removed.

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