We do not know if, when, or how the lemming-like rush to propagate the experimental and non-evidence based practice of pediatric sex trait modification will be brought to heel. But if the United States eventually follows the lead of the Social

"I was able to get a second letter. And that was all the surgeon required in order to agree to remove my testicles and perform a penectomy and a vaginoplasty on an 18 year old."

Sep 18th, 2023 3m 26s

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wesleyyang.substack.comToday's bonus podcast for paid subscribers is the first 40 minutes of my marathon conversation with Corinna Cohn. Toward the end of that podcast, I referred t

"How could it possibly be state sanctioned that we have men who have raped babies licking their lips, looking at tiny children in a women's prison in the mother/baby unit?"

Sep 13th, 2023 1h 38m

Year Zero is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.This is the audio version of a video interview published earlier. Here is the second in a series of three intervi

"Here's the bottom line...It is going to be very difficult for them to find loving, long term partners, because you have fucked up their bodies in ways that are going to complicate relationships."

Aug 25th, 2023 2h 23m

Corinna Cohn is a software developer living in Indiana who was among the very first teenagers to go on cross-sex hormones in adolescence, at the age of 15 in 1993. He was inducted into a cross-sex identity on the very first transsexual-interest

"It's possible to criticize and raise questions about pediatric gender medicine today in a way that was not possible even six months ago. We have definitely turned a corner."

Aug 18th, 2023 2h 43m

Year Zero is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Leor Sapir is a scholar at the Manhattan Institute who has become a leading figure in the ongoing effort to bring

"I first saw on Twitter, some people saying, 'Oh, they're giving the same drugs to kids as they as they give to chemically castrate sex offenders.' I thought, “That's clearly wrong. And then..."

Jul 18th, 2023 1h 25m

Year Zero is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Michael Biggs is Associate Professor of Sociology at Oxford University and the author of a series of important st

"I don't want to go down in history as the guy who killed affirmative action. I actually said that to him. "

Jul 4th, 2023 2h 11m

Year Zero is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Back in 2018, Adam Mortara repeatedly told Massachusetts District Court Judge Allison Burroughs that the case he

"We're going to put together our own guide, our own authoritative set of guidance for how to conceptualize and treat gender dysphoria, because someone has to step up and challenge these people."

Jun 15th, 2023 1h 52m

Joseph Burgo is a psychoanalyst and author and a co-director of Genspect, an organization representing thousands of parents of children caught up in the ongoing transgender social contagion. The organizatioin now seeks to supplant the World Pro

"We're giving these girls mastectomies. You have to be curious about what's going on."

Jun 9th, 2023 1h 10m

Year Zero is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.A small group of writers attended two conferences on gender held concurrently in Killarney, Ireland in April. One

Shep Melnick on Creedal Passion Politics (Abridged)

Jul 25th, 2022 15m 8s

This is an abridged, 15-minute excerpt of my conversation with Boston College professor of political science Shep Melnick posted for paid subscribers only. Become a paid subscriber to hear the rest of this episode, read the transcript, and main

The Protected Category That Could Not Be Defined

Jul 8th, 2022 1h 19m

"…it’s just as easily going to encroach on any other categorization that we've ever recognized in law as needed to help particular groups with defined characteristics - people with disabilities, people of certain ages - need different things in

The Empire Struck Back

Jul 1st, 2022 1h 24m

“So the basic claim is that, okay, there may have been this need, contingently, one time, for the court to act; but if you create a super weapon, it's something that whoever gets control of it, will find a tempting, non-democratic way of gettin

Shep Melnick on The Sixties’ False Dawn (Abridged)

Jun 4th, 2022 17m 37s

This is an abridged, 20-minute excerpt of the interview with Boston College professor of political science Shep Melnick posted for paid subscribers only. Become a paid subscriber to hear the rest of this episode and maintain access to a growing

Conversations with Friends

May 20th, 2022 45m 6s

Early adopters of the Yang Extended Universe as it moves into the audio realm are familiar with my scripted podcast, that you can listen to here on Substack, but I also have another weekly show, Conversations in Year Zero, conducted on the app

The Road to Year Zero #4 - A Dream of Spring

May 13th, 2022 41m 59s

In today’s episode of The Road to Year Zero we pick up right where we left off in our conversation with Jonathan Chait. At the time of our interview, Chait was working on a piece exploring the current state of the culture, since, as he put it “

Current Events in Year Zero

May 5th, 2022 1h 4m

"I think it's different because it's fundamentally a sort of liberal Civil War, in which both parties, that is to say, pro-choice activists and pro-life activists, really think of themselves in an actually remarkably similar way. Both sides thi

Shep Melnick on Adversarial Legalism (Abridged)

Apr 26th, 2022 34m 57s

This is an abridged, 30-minute excerpt of the interview with Boston College professor of political science Shep Melnick posted yesterday for paid subscribers only. It is the second episode of the subscriber-only Syllabus series. Become a paid s

The Road to Year Zero #3 - Chait v. The Internet

Apr 18th, 2022 1h 10m

Today’s episode of the Road to Year Zero Podcast looks back at the publication of Jonathan Chait’s February 2015 New York Magazine cover story, NOT A VERY P.C. THING TO SAY, which both registered the recrudescence of political correctness and s

Shep Melnick on the Civil Rights State (Abridged)

Apr 6th, 2022 25m 50s

This is an abridged, 20-minute excerpt of the original, one hour and twenty-five minute interview with Boston College professor of political science Shep Melnick posted yesterday for paid subscribers only. It is the first episode of the subscr

The Road to Year Zero #2 - We Out Here

Apr 1st, 2022 35m 15s

Still evoking the mood and atmospherics of the early days of the ideological succession. A reflection on the following piece, and a dramatic recitation, by me of my own work: https://harpers.org/archive/2016/03/we-out-here/ Listen on Substack

The Road to Year Zero #1 - Cold Open

Mar 22nd, 2022 14m 54s

As promised, I am expanding my own nano-Vertically Integrated Messaging Apparatus into another medium: a podcast, or rather a series of podcasts organized under three different rubrics.* The Road to Year Zero: A micro-documentary series revisit