A Look Back at 2024!

2024 was my first full calendar year on Substack, and I’d say it was an eventful one! Despite getting pregnant, getting married, giving birth, and having a newborn for the final two months of the year, I managed 90 posts altogether! Thank you to everyone who has read anything I have written at all.

To wrap up the year, I wanted to take a look back at what I believe are some of my best posts. I’ve broken them up into the ten with the most views and ten of my personal favorites. Hopefully, if you haven’t seen everything I’ve done this year (which I don’t expect anyone to have), you might feel like checking some of these out!

My Top 10 Most Viewed Posts of 2024

10. Gender Identity is an External Locus of Control

Ah, the piece in which some people accused me of making an argument for “true trans,” despite the fact that it includes the sentence, “I don’t believe there is any such thing as ‘true’ trans.” Regardless, this is definitely one of my favorite posts of the year, and I still stand by every word.

9. I'm a Pregnant Lesbian. Gender Ideology Would Have Stolen My Baby from Me

A little recap of my pregnancy journey as well as why I speak out so strongly against gender ideology.

8. Canada Comes Out Strongly Against the Human Rights of Female Athletes

This piece takes a look at a fantastic report from the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls—which touched on the issue of men in women’s sports—as well as Canada’s absolutely deranged response.

7. No, Not Letting Kids Transition Won't Cause Them to Commit Suicide

This is a post I was particularly proud of. I took a look at all the available research I could find that actually looked at the link between trans identity and suicide to help put an end to the disgusting lie that kids will kill themselves if you do not let them “transition.”

6. The No True Trans Fallacy

Detransitioners are often accused of never having been “really trans” in the first place. This is my answer to that particular piece of rhetorical nonsense.

5. Trans and the One-Way Street of Compassion

I’m glad this essay got the attention I feel it deserved. I speak about the one-way flow of compassion within the trans movement and how it is all based on the Victim-Persecutor-Rescuer drama triangle.

4. Concerning Data on "Trans Kids" in Canada That Activists Need to Address

This piece takes a look at a 2019 study that revealed the incredibly concerning demographics of “trans kids” in Canada which I feel every advocate for child transition should be made to grapple with.

3. "You're Going to Make Kids Commit Suicide" — A Histrionic Roundtable in Edmonton

Early in 2024, I attended a roundtable discussion that included none other than Kristopher Wells, one of Canada’s newest senators. Read about how Wells and the other trans activists derailed the whole thing with their histrionics.

2. The Women's Ski Champion Who Turned Out to Be a Man and Accepted It

Another post that I am happy got the attention it deserved because of the amazing human being that it was about. Erik Schinegger was born with a DSD and raised to believe he was a female—he even became a woman’s ski champion! But upon finding out that he was actually a man, he did the right thing and stopped competing against women.

1. Statistics Show That HALF of Trans-Identified Men in Prison Are Sex Offenders

If this post hadn’t made the top of the list, I admit I would have been very disappointed. It took a LOT of time and energy during a time when I was getting very pregnant! I compiled all the statistics I could find on the offending rates of trans-identified male prisoners to show that, all across the Western world, these men are far more likely to be sex offenders. I still see the piece getting shared around and I am very grateful every time for everyone who sees fit to use it as a resource. Thank you!

My Personal Favorites

I’m happy to see that it is typically my heavily researched posts that get the most views because the point of those is to help “the movement,” as it were, and provide information that people can use. But, while I am good at it, research is not my happy place. This year I also wrote numerous essays which is where I think I actually shine. Or, at the very least, writing these is much more personally fulfilling to me. Here are some of my favorites, in no real order.

This is my perspective on the debate around language in “gender critical” circles. My lack of complete rigidity around pronouns caused such a firestorm at the beginning of this year that I still can’t quite believe it. Everything I have to say and still stand by is laid out in this piece.

This was a bit of a follow-up to the early 2024 drama because it has continued to follow me throughout the remainder of the year. Hopefully, I can leave all of that behind going into 2025!

After witnessing the madness at the roundtable in Edmonton, I wrote this in a bid to anyone willing to listen that we gays aren’t all as crazy as Kristopher Wells.

Still tired of continually being force-teamed with the rest of the alphabet, I explored how the “queer” community isn’t a community at all but a political collective. It explains how it’s possible for me, a married, gold-star lesbian, to be routinely excommunicated.

When Jordan Peterson made an off-hand comment in an interview with Michael Shellenberger that he doesn’t believe in lesbians, it got me thinking. And the result was this article.

This was kind of a follow-up to the Jordan Peterson article and an acknowledgment of the fact that I know I live a “fringe” life in some ways, but that all I ever needed was to be accepted, not made the center of the universe—unlike those annoying queers.

This essay explores identity and how it relates to “gender identity,” the takeaway being that the constant performance involved in maintaining a “gender identity” puts up a barrier between people and their own existence.

This is a continuation of the thread I started in the previous essay. Here, I take a look at how “gender identity” is an example of a representation becoming reality for the disconnected mind—to devastating effects.

This is me refusing to fall into the pessimism and nihilism that seem all too trendy right now. There is a lot of good in the world because there are a lot of good people in it. Don’t get wrapped up in collectivism, and look for these individuals instead. If you find them or if you already have them, cherish that.

Sorry, you have to be a subscriber for that last one! Here, I talk about my gratitude, including for the readers and subscribers I have, as I appreciate the support either way. Generally, I don’t put the vast majority of my work behind a paywall, though I do try to retain perks here and there for those who are actually paying because I feel that is important as well. I know that for many people, myself included, even a Substack subscription is no small expense.

For those who have started to and continued to support me this year, please accept my heartfelt thanks. You have made it possible to keep doing this during the most tumultuous (mostly in a good way) year of my life. It would not be possible without you and I would have stopped long ago to focus my time and energy somewhere else.

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But rest assured that even your views, your shares, and your comments are immensely appreciated. If it was money that interested me, I would have never been a writer in the first place (ha ha). Sometimes, my brain just won’t shut up about something until I type it out, and the fact that some people actually read it and even find some value in it is not something I will ever take for granted.