Whipping Girl

writer, performer and activist Julia Serano's blog! most posts will focus on gender & sexuality; trans, queer & feminist politics; music & performance; and other stuff that interests or concerns me. find out more about my various creative endeavors at juliaserano.com

Saturday, June 21, 2025

Trilogy of essays debunking “Rushing Kids into Transition”

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Please check out my LATEST ESSAY: What Covid “Lab Leak” and “Rushing Kids into Transition” Have in Common (and more general thoughts about c...
Friday, June 20, 2025

regarding Substack and writer-centric boycotts

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photo of the CEOs of Meta (Facebook/Instagram), Amazon, Google (YouTube), & "X", all of whom "platform Nazis", promi...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

why do straight people sexualize LGBTQ+ people? (a video & essay)

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Last month was the 3rd year anniversary of the release of Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back . And since this is...
Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Julia for Hire!

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So last week, in the hopes of drumming up some more income, I posted “Julia for Hire!” on my Substack and Medium channels. I encourage you...
Wednesday, August 28, 2024

what media coverage of online "transvestigators" & the Imane Khelif ordeal get wrong

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Hi everyone, I just published a brand new essay: Why Does "Transvestigation" Happen? On Gendering, Ungendering, and (Mis)Perceivin...
Wednesday, August 14, 2024

my Medium Day talk on Debates About Gender-Affirming Care and Trans Youth

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Happy to announce that I will be giving a virtual talk this Saturday, August 17, 2024, at 2–2:30pm Eastern time (11–11:30am Pacific) as part...
Thursday, May 9, 2024

Maintenance Phase podcast on "Social Contagion" and "ROGD"

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One of my favorite podcasts, Maintenance Phase, just released an episode entitled "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria" (available on al...
Thursday, January 11, 2024

Whipping Girl 3rd Edition to Be Released in March!

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I'm happy to announce that a 3rd edition of my first book Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininit...
Monday, January 1, 2024

My Best Writings of 2023

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I thought I’d begin the new year with a quick recap of my writings from 2023. All these essays are on Medium and have been demonetized. If ...
Thursday, November 2, 2023

Kat Cataclysm and NaNoWriMo 2023

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Some of you who are newly following me may not know this, but in early 2020, I released my debut novel, 99 Erics: a Kat Cataclysm faux novel...
Sunday, March 26, 2023

more evidence that Lisa Marchiano invented "transgender social contagion"

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cover image for my recent Medium post about Lisa Marchiano In February 2019, on this very blog, I published Origins of “Social Contagion” an...
Tuesday, December 6, 2022

my latest email update

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My latest email update is out – you can read it here . Highlights include:  Signed Books for Sale! (for the holidays or otherwise) Two new ...
Saturday, November 19, 2022

Signed Books for Sale! (for the holidays or otherwise)

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photo of Julia with her two most recent books: 99 Erics & Sexed Up It's that time of the year again, when you may be considering pre...
Thursday, November 17, 2022

Penises, Privilege, & Purity: a new essay about LGBTQ+ intra-community debates

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So my latest Medium essay just dropped!  It's entitled Penises, Privilege, and Feminist & LGBTQ+ Purity Politics . It's a longer...
Friday, September 16, 2022

new book readings, talks, interviews & debunking pseudoscience

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I just published my latest email update, chock-full of new news. you can read it online here: https://mailchi.mp/64d1973d6b99/new-book-readi...
Wednesday, July 20, 2022

newly added Sexed Up book event and interview!

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Hello everyone! I've already mentioned that tomorrow (Thursday July 21st), California Institute of Integral Studies is hosting an onli...
Wednesday, July 6, 2022

virtual book events! plus a new book excerpt!

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Hi folks, lots of news to share! First, I just published a new excerpt from my latest book  Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We ...
Tuesday, May 24, 2022

reviews & an excerpt from my new book Sexed Up!

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My latest email update just came out. If you want to receive these sorts of updates directly into your inbox, you can sign up here . Since ...
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Julia Serano is an Oakland, California-based writer, performer, speaker, and biologist. She is the author of the recent book "Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive" (Seal Press, 2013). Her first book "Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity" (Seal Press, 2007) has been used as teaching materials in gender studies, queer studies, social studies, human sexuality and psychology courses across North America.
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