Who We Are: Gender Ideology
City Journal Audio
Manhattan Institute
4.7 • 657 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Leor Sapir and Rafael Mangual dive into one of the most polarizing issues of our time: gender ideology. They explore how gender discourse evolved over the past decade, including cultural and policy shifts during the Obama administration, and how these developments reshaped institutions, media narratives, and social norms. A major focus of their conversation is the medical treatment of gender dysphoria in youth.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of the City Journal podcast. |
| 0:11.1 | I am your host, Rafael Menguil, and thrilled to be joined by my brilliant colleague, Leor, Sopierre. |
| 0:17.2 | Leor, welcome to the show. |
| 0:18.3 | Is it your first time on the podcast? |
| 0:21.0 | On this podcast. Amazing, amazing. Amazing. Well, welcome to the show. Is that your first time on the podcast? On this podcast. |
| 0:22.4 | Amazing, amazing. |
| 0:23.6 | Well, I am so glad to have you. |
| 0:25.8 | I'm really excited for the conversation that we're going to have today. |
| 0:29.8 | And for our audience, for those of you who don't know, Leor-Supier is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm sure you have read his stuff in |
| 0:38.9 | City Journal. If not, you absolutely should. But, Leor, you are perhaps the most, if not one of |
| 0:46.1 | the most important and influential voices in our ongoing debates about gender ideology in this |
| 0:53.4 | country and medicalization of gender ideology. And, |
| 0:57.4 | you know, in addition to regularly commenting on these issues in places like the Wall Street Journal |
| 1:03.2 | and the free press and, of course, City Journal, you also have a voice in the sort of academic |
| 1:09.4 | realm of this debate. You are a co-author of an important |
| 1:13.3 | HHS report that recently came out entitled Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria, |
| 1:19.7 | Review of the Evidence and Best Practice, which is something I want to talk about later on in our |
| 1:24.2 | conversation. But I think the best place for us to start here is just to get a sense of how it is that you arrived at the place that you are. |
| 1:34.1 | I mean, how do you go from, you know, a PhD from Boston College to a thing tank where you are now kind of one of the leading national voices on gender ideology. Walk us through that |
| 1:47.0 | journey. Sure. It was a very unexpected journey. I would never have predicted, let's say, in |
| 1:54.7 | 2015, 2016, that I would have ended up where I am. So I wrote my dissertation on Title IX, you know, the federal law that |
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