I used to have a lot of friends and the vast majority of my friends stopped talking to me.

It's the one and only Katie Herzog. Lots of you had been in touch to suggest I speak to her and

John Ronson even suggested her as an ideal guest and so here she is and she doesn't disappoint.

For those of you who don't know, Katie is a culture writer and journalist known for her podcast, blocked and reported,

which she hosts with Jesse Single.'ll talk about

about all sorts of culture war themes and bizarre weird topics

from the internet.

Katie, as she'll talk about found fame or infamy

after writing an article in The stranger about detransitioners, that is, people who,

after transitioning to another gender, have changed their minds and transitioned back.

Despite that not being an opinion piece, their minds and transitioned back.

Despite that not being an opinion piece,

she was unceremoniously dumped by friends,

effigies were burned of her paper,

and she was made unwelcome in lesbian bars. She's a lesbian by the way. I've gone

nearly a hundred episodes without doing an episode about trans ideology. Not that I did them before. I mean I've only done nearly 100 episodes in total. It's not like every 100 I do trans but

yeah I haven't touched on it before because it's a symbol of the animosity between two warring tribes.

On the one side is the social justice movement whose warriors believe they are fighting for

equity and are happy to use censorship and cancellation in an attempt to silence people with the wrong opinions.

On the other side is the libertarians who believe that true freedom comes from free speech and plurality of opinion and most of us lie somewhere

between those two sides. In any case, as was seen through the JK Rowling controversy, any criticism

or perceived criticism of the trans ideology can be met with severe

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