Hey Portland/pdx folx! Do you know someone who can accompany an older trans woman who wants to interview Zander Keig about his anti-trans work? She'll be conducting the interview in-person TUESDAY 10/13/26. I'm looking for someone who will be there to watch her back. Keig is bringing Jamison Green.

A trans woman who hosts a radio show in Portland OR is going to interview Zander Keig about this recent controversy. Keig has decided to take Jamison Green with him. So when I say older trans people like Jamison Green knowingly cover for Keig & his anti-trans activism, this is exactly what I mean.

So-called "elder" transsexual types are telling the trans+ community to take strategic losses & to call out incivility of activists. (That's their framing, not mine.) Reject that bs. Complicity is not liberation. Don't accept that abuse in any way, even from "elders." They are betraying you.

Facebook post of my criticism of LGBT+ youth advocate, Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen of The Trevor Project and his mainstreaming transmedicalist & gender critical activist Zander Keig. @trevorproject.bsky.social @transrigo.bsky.social www.facebook.com/share/p/18Ah...

Hi, I'm an older genderqueer trans man. I've been out of the activist loop for a bit due to illness, but I've noticed there's a trend among some peers of mine to call themselves "elders" and they've been espousing a lot of transmed (and worse) ideas. I want to help with a response to that nonsense.

People who transitioned a long time ago are not your elders. They might not even be your allies. A lot of self-described "elders" do not support self-ID as trans or acknowledge nonbinary identities. Others won't confront transmedicalist peers. They blame you for MAGA & gender critical activism.

People who transitioned a long time ago are not your elders. They might not even be your allies. A lot of self-described "elders" do not support self-ID as trans or acknowledge nonbinary identities. Others won't confront transmedicalist peers. They blame you for MAGA & gender critical activism.

Besides bad behavior (obvious from staff turnovers), Mary Peltola is also a shill for the oil & gas industry & she has one of the lowest rates of voting w/ fellow Democrats when she finally decides to show up to vote. And she's anti-trans too! At what point will you stop making excuses for her?

Fucker seems to be the WOTD.

Zander Keig LCSW (floral shirt, upper left) featured as a special invited guest at a Genspect conference in Denver, CO in 2023. Genspect is designated by the SPLC as a LGBT-focused hate & pseudoscience group. Detransition activist Chloe Cole, lower right. FAIR in Medicine & Genspect logos in image.

I wrote up a fuller description of Zander Keig's gender critical anti-trans work and added many links to publicly available information. It's a public post. Go read it. Link to fb: www.facebook.com/share/p/1CUG...

We cling to people even when they hurt us. It's how bad actors leverage our mammalian style of attachment against us. If you add a little softness, smiles and wellness and compassion jargon, you can get away with a lot of hateful bs. The photos from Harlow's attachment experiments haunt me.

Oh & apparently Peltola is anti-trans too. What a surprise from a conservative Democrat! If she's in office she'll show up to vote in favor of ConocoPhillips, but not the people of Alaska. But ya know...keep believing her "fish stories" & keep being distracted from looking at her legislative record.

Shane Brodie (they/he)@shanebrodie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As a representative, Mary Peltola fought for opening up oil drilling in the Willow project, which are calving grounds for caribou herds. She champions the status quo of a boom-and-bust economy, corporate greed, and ecological disaster.

Yes, Mary Peltola is a conservative "blue dog" Democrat! She only served one full term as a Representative because of her terrible voting record. She's being recycled as a Senate candidate because of her backers at ConocoPhillips. It's NO SURPRISE at all that she's also anti-trans.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 3w ago

New Mary Peltola ad. “No, I don’t want kids getting surgeries to change genders, or men in girls bathrooms.” Dem, (AK-AL)

LGBT+ youth advocate Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen @transrigo.bsky.social (lower left) of The Trevor Project buddying around with Zander Keig. Keig supports conversion therapy, opposes gender affirming care for trans youth, and works with anti-trans organizations Genspect, FAIR for All & Therapy First.

I wrote up a fuller description of Zander Keig's gender critical anti-trans work and added many links to publicly available information. It's a public post. Go read it. Link to fb: www.facebook.com/share/p/1CUG...

LGBT+ youth advocate Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen @transrigo.bsky.social (lower left) of The Trevor Project buddying around with Zander Keig. Keig supports conversion therapy, opposes gender affirming care for trans youth, and works with anti-trans organizations Genspect, FAIR for All & Therapy First.

So why is an executive from the Trevor Project chumming around with Zander Keig who promotes conversion therapy, denigrates gender affirming care, promotes a medicalist & pathologized version of being trans, wants gender ID curriculum banned & wants to ban trans youth from using hormone blockers?

Zander Keig LCSW (floral shirt, upper left) featured as a special invited guest at a Genspect conference in Denver, CO in 2023. Genspect is designated by the SPLC as a LGBT-focused hate & pseudoscience group. Detransition activist Chloe Cole, lower right. FAIR in Medicine & Genspect logos in image.

Hero worship and elder as a power grab (instead of as a community and responsibility based honorific) all comes straight from our programming to fit ourselves into hierarchies.

I keep seeing accounts from my older trans masc peers saying something like "we have the wisdom & no one is listening to us." If they were to self-reflect at all, they'd know it is a normal part of aging that you may no longer be a center of focus & you have to make room for the ideas of others.

I started transitioning in 1998 when I started therapy and changed my name. It took me 2 more years to get to hormone use because this was before informed consent. I had to see two therapists for about a year each, I had to pay for it all out of pocket, and one of them had to have a PhD.

This was my gander friend. He would watch over all the geese, ducks and chickens. He's standing on my extra hot compost pile. Even in an Alaska winter, that pile was still cooking and little wisps of steam escaped from a little melt hole in the snow.

The word "nuanced" is making me nauseous.

I wrote up a fuller description of Zander Keig's anti-trans work on my low traffic fb page. It's a public post. I'm not looking for follows, comments, likes or whatever... I just want to spread this information about a dangerous activist that's within our community. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ekx...

Evan, Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen (@transrigo.bsky.social) is a recent guest on one of Zander Keig's podcasts. Why would a LGBT+ youth advocate with The Trevor Project (@trevorproject.bsky.social) buddy around with Keig, a proponent of conversion therapy who opposes gender affirming care? Any ideas?

In my experience, Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen is a bad actor. I believe he was brought in to ease The Trevor Project away from advocacy for trans youth. A lot of nonprofits are seeing a downturn in their funding, so they are blaming their own advocacy and community activism. They are ratcheting right.

From a public post by Link Duarte, the facilitator for a proposed trans masc social group connected with the "4 Trans Guys" podcast hosted by Megan Rohrer, JJ Dollarhide and gender critical activist Zander Keig. Duarte calls trans activism "demoncratic wokeness."

I'm researching some of the collusion of LGBT nonprofits with anti-trans activists & conservatives. It's very scary and it's our own people doing it. We made it possible for them to have these professional careers, and to be in positions of power, and they do not care at all about the rest of us.

I've been an activist since 1986/7 when I started hanging out with cool religious people who welcomed in gay people, war resistors league, rev comms (rcyb) & independent radio punk, metal and gay/lesbian shows. Then I got involved with ActUp and Queer Nation and fought some skinhead gangs on my own.