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Tales from the Gender Trail

How I came to find myself on the gender trail, where it led me and the merry band of intrepid sex realists I befriended along the way.

Newsletter · By Amanda Kovattana · English · Official site

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  1. Issue · Sep 20, 2026

    TERFing the Meme Streets (opens the original)

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    Ten days ago I watched the campaign video the Republicans showed at their midterm convention. It was about women’s sports and showed Trump signing his executive order to keep boys out of girls’ sports. It also featured liberal non-Republican public figures, including Joe Rogan, saying men should not be playing in women’s sports. All sounding very sensible, and executed with high production values. It gave me chills, both good and bad. Bad because it showed Trump as a benign hero, despite all the

  2. Issue · Aug 26, 2026

    Terfing San Francisco (opens the original)

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    I could see from across the ocean that the Sophie Cunningham story was going to be big, possibly the biggest story to blow trans logic out of the water this year, so I was glad I would be home in time to get to an event so I could talk about it to my contacts in case their liberal bubble had kept them from hearing about it.We even announced our intentions which we rarely do for our own safety. The photo posted on X was from 2024 when <a href="https://amandakovattana.substack.com/p/identities-don

  3. Issue · Aug 16, 2026

    TERFing Amsterdam Part Two (opens the original)

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    “Why would you go THERE?” A San Francisco TERF comrade asked me when I told her I was going to Amsterdam. The Netherlands was, after all, the home of the Dutch Protocol, which brought us puberty blockers for the purpose of creating better-looking adult transsexuals who more closely passed as the opposite sex. Paper here, from 2022, reviewing the protocol 25 years out. From it I gleaned the follow

  4. Issue · Aug 5, 2026

    Terfing Amsterdam (opens the original)

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    In April of this year, I was planning a European vacation with a college friend who now lives in Italy, where she has been attending the Florence Academy of Art. We spoke of all the places we wanted to travel, from Budapest to Scotland.As it happened, I had recently been contacted by two sex realists, both based in Amsterdam, but didn’t know each other. Both had been prompted to contact me because I had confronted Judith Butler. One wanted to know how I

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