Listen to Woman's Hour: The TERF Report

May 16, 2025

Welcome to Woman’s Hour: The TERF Report.

In today’s episode I talk about a controversy concerning a TV show in the UK called “I Kissed a Boy,” a reality dating show about gay men. The BBC also has a show called “I Kissed a Girl,” which is a reality dating show about lesbians.

In this year’s season of “I Kissed a Boy,” the BBC cast a woman who calls herself a gay man in the show. It has caused quite a stir. After addressing that, I’ll move on to talking about the normalization of sex-denialism in pop culture more generally.

Here are links to some of the references I make in the episode:

• Lars Fellow’s post about being a “gay trans man”

• Lars’s Instagram

• Mr. Menno’s video about the situation

• Gareth Roberts in the Spectator

• The LGB Alliance statement

• An X post about gay conversion therapy

• Lachlan Watson on being “non-binary”

• Jessica Jones’s “trans woman” assistant

• “Mindy”

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Have a great weekend!