Leor Sapir
@LeorSapir
Senior Fellow @ManhattanInst | Ph.D. @BostonCollege & Post-Doc @Harvard | Gender medicine | Causes and consequences of institutional dysfunction | opinions own
The reckoning over puberty blockers has arrived My latest in @TheHillOpinion thehill.com/opinion/health…
Can’t wait to see how Owens pins this on the Jews.
NEWS: French President Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron and his wife Brigitte have sued ultra-conservative media personality Candace Owens @RealCandaceO for, among other things, claiming that the first lady is transgender.
I've loved South Park from the moment it launched in the late 90s, but the last decade has been utterly not funny. The show has just completely lost its spark. I watch entire episodes without even a grin.
If @DailyNousEditor won't deign to appease @runthinkwrite, @BrandonWarmke, @byrne_a, @Docstockk, then just think of our Yale colleagues! Clearly they thought the issue deserved their time and attention, & their analysis of interest to no less a public forum than the Supreme Court
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Gaza may well be approaching a real hunger crisis. Shocked to be reading this from me? I don’t blame you. Let’s break down why, unlike past lies about the situation in Gaza, new research is real cause for concern, and what it means for Israel. Yesterday, @YannayASpitzer, an…
🚨 BREAKING: Connecticut Children's confirms it is 'winding down' youth gender program ctmirror.org/2025/07/23/ccm…
Kaiser is defendant in two detransitioner lawsuits. It’s unfortunate that halting sex “change” surgeries on kids is a “difficult decision.” It should be a no-brainer.
Another massive victory! EXCLUSIVE: I have just been informed that Kaiser Permanente plans to stop all gender surgeries, NATIONWIDE, on patients under the age of 19! This is according to an internal email sent by CEO Greg Adams, and will go into effect on August 29. "Since…
"Among those who can overcome the trauma of having the issue raised, one favored gambit is to act as if it is an unreasonable expectation for academics to know whether or not there are male women." Damning, highly entertaining. Well worth your time. philosophersmag.com/philosophical-…
A reminder to all that antisemitism is seeing a major revival not as mere prejudice, but as politics. As a universal political explanation. As a mobilizing political force. As an alliance-forming political tool.
It is indeed.
“It is embarrassing to discover, in a discipline whose public self-image incorporates a socratic ideal of intellectual fearlessness, a conspicuous absence of truth-tellers.” One of the best essays I’ve read in a long time.
Important update
French health authorities have abandoned draft treatment advice that would have treated 16- and 17-year-olds as if they were adults and enabled their fast-track gender medicalisation under the banner of “depathologisation”. Link in tweet below.