By the time this hits the parents, there's a sort of almost a religious fervor that they're up against.

Alistair Gunn, also known by his pen name, Angus Fox, is a vice director at Genspec,

an organization seeking to broaden the treatment options available for people questioning their gender, beyond so-called gender-affirming care.

They receive this script from their friends, so when they say I'm at risk of suicide, this is something they've learned from their friends.

Now, we've actually no evidence of that.

Alistair Gunn helped inspire parents to share their stories in the new book,

parents with inconvenient truths about trans,

tales from the home front, and the fight to save our kids.

It's parasitized people's emotions, and it's managed to remain as though it's some very respectable,

normal field of medicine as though it's knee replacement or orthodontics or something, and it's not.

This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Janie Kellek.

Alistair Gunn, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders.

Thank you very much for inviting me on Delighted.

Or should I say Angus Fox?

You can say either, and my Twitter handle is a sort of poor mentor of the two that got mashed together as well, so there's three options for you.

Well, and I should mention that because you have written, you know, in Quillette and in other places under the pseudonym Angus Fox in the past,

and this is actually something very interesting, so I'll just give people a bit of a preview here.

I read the bulk of the book by parents with inconvenient truths about trans,

a whole series of essays. I think it's 75 essays by parents who are somehow in the midst of this issue,

and basically all of them are doing it anonymously.

And now we have you, you've been sort of nominated to speak about this whole thing, but you're not a parent yourself.

So how did you get into this, and how is it that you got the trust of all these parents who are, you know, from everything I've read in an incredibly precarious situation?

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