Assigned Media interviews Jack Turban, Director of the Gender Psychiatry Program at the University of California.

Transgender activist Riki Wilchins interviews political theorist and leader in trans studies Paisley Currah.

Transgender activist Riki Wilchins interviews academic and legal scholar Florence Ashley.

Kaltiala answers young people’s critiques: An update to our previous reporting on gender affirming care in Finland.

Over the next nine months, Assigned Media will feature nine interviews of people involved in pushing back against the spread of false, distorted narratives about the trans community in the press. And we’ve tapped an old school transgender activist to do this, Riki Wilchins. To introduce this monthly feature, Evan Urquhart interviewed Riki Wilchins for Assigned. Their conversation has been lightly edited and condensed.

Ding ding! Round… uh, I lost count, actually. Dr. Hilary Cass, author of the reviled Cass Report, has yet again found herself saying a bunch of silly things and running back all the classic anti-trans activist arguments for a journalist. What fun!

A piece that ran recently in the extremely transphobic Washington Examiner caught our attention. How did something so straightforward and even positive ever get published in that venue? We asked the author.