# Benjamin Ryan — RSS Amplifier Everything Benjamin Ryan publishes, via the RSS Amplifier directory. Page: Feed: --- ## [British TV Show Gave Jason Arday Major Prizes For His Lies About Charity Fundraising](https://benryan.substack.com/p/british-tv-show-gave-jason-arday) _2026-08-10 · Hazard Ratio: Benjamin Ryan_ In 2012, the British TV show Surprise Surprise awarded Arday after hearing from his then-partner Debbie McKenzie that he couldn't read until age 16 (he's long said 18) and had raised nearly £250,000. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210620577/51d6348fdf1f36757e2f39965f07145b.mp3) ## [Jason Arday Apparently Plagiarized His Memoir Title and Origin Story From the TV Show 'Spartacus'](https://benryan.substack.com/p/jason-arday-apparently-plagiarized) _2026-08-10 · Hazard Ratio: Benjamin Ryan_ You can't make this up: The title of the apparent fabulist's memoir is the same as an episode of the TV show, and the book includes quotes from prophets that are similar to dialogue from the show. ## [John McWhorter On Jason Arday: Cambridge "Chose a Black Person With No Concern for Excellence."](https://benryan.substack.com/p/john-mcwhorter-on-jason-arday-cambridge) _2026-08-08 · Hazard Ratio: Benjamin Ryan_ I spoke with the New York Times Opinion columnist and Columbia linguist, who is a critic of affirmative action, about the Greek-tragedian downfall of now-former Cambridge professor Jason Arday. ## [Cambridge Prof. Jason Arday, in Unearthed 2025 Speech, Makes Shocking Claims About Racist Death Threats and Pigs’ Heads](https://benryan.substack.com/p/cambridge-prof-jason-arday-in-unearthed) _2026-08-05 · Hazard Ratio: Benjamin Ryan_ In a previously unreported recording I obtained of a speech the besieged professor gave a year ago, Arday provided a litany of claims about threats he’s received—which to date remain uncorroborated. ## [Jason Arday Said He’s Not a Liar. The Receipts On His Charity Claims Say: Decide for Yourself.](https://benryan.substack.com/p/jason-arday-said-hes-not-a-liar-but) _2026-08-01 · Hazard Ratio: Benjamin Ryan_ The Cambridge star professor now says his £5.5 million charity total was the work of a 100-person syndicate. I found every version of the story since 2010, down to his £6,285 JustGiving page. ## ['More Hair, Less Hair, Larger Boobs, Less Boobs, No Boobs' How the 'Embodiment Goals' Premise Is Taking Over Youth Gender Medicine](https://benryan.substack.com/p/more-hair-less-hair-larger-boobs) _2026-07-29 · Hazard Ratio: Benjamin Ryan_ At the 2022 WPATH conference, trans providers dismissed the gender binary a "project of colonialism" and looked witheringly upon psych assessments for youths seeking gender-transition interventions. ## [Alex Berenson and Benjamin Ryan Talk Trans](https://benryan.substack.com/p/alex-berenson-and-benjamin-ryan-talk) _2026-07-15 · Hazard Ratio: Benjamin Ryan_ I went on Alex Berenson's podcast for a Substack live to discuss my recent essay for him about the political catastrophe that the transgender movement has faced. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/207197816/8e82ca377a26d8472a7a01ac283f093f.mp3) ## [NIH Funding For Top U.S. Pediatric Gender Medicine Study Has Apparently Ended](https://benryan.substack.com/p/nih-funding-for-top-us-pediatric-6bd) _2026-07-13 · Hazard Ratio: Benjamin Ryan_ Over a decade, the study of gender-transition interventions for youths received some $10 million in taxpayer funds. But it has not produced papers on documenting longer than two years of follow-up. ## [No Cameras, No Recordings: What a Top Trans Medicine Doctor Told Her Field Behind a Conference's Closed Doors](https://benryan.substack.com/p/no-cameras-no-recordings-what-a-top) _2026-07-10 · Hazard Ratio: Benjamin Ryan_ Dr. Madeline Deutsch led the US branch of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health through some tumultuous times, in part by squelching public expressions of dissent. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/206472744/45fcf1af68cc4186b5f6e573659c5bc0.mp3) ## [Medically Transitioning Minors: Whose Burden of Proof Is It Anyway?](https://benryan.substack.com/p/the-radical-bioethicist-who-wants) _2026-07-02 · Hazard Ratio: Benjamin Ryan_ Transfeminine jurist Florence Ashley calls barriers to youth gender care illegitimate by default. Her published work has spent years building that case. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/204693286/9a1a3930601cb697fc2478d0f023b15f.mp3) ## [Countdown to Getting Paid (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/voY85TDO5zsB) _2026-07-02 · **Sponsored**_ Create a shareable wallet timer — deposits buy back time and pay debt down ## [“She just sent me onto a pipeline of destruction.” Former Patients of Canadian Pediatrics Society's New President Speak Out](https://benryan.substack.com/p/she-just-sent-me-onto-a-pipeline) _2026-06-22 · Hazard Ratio: Benjamin Ryan_ Canadian pediatrician Dr. Natasha Johnson's appointment to lead the society has alarmed three families I spoke with after she fast tracked their adolescent children for gender-transition drugs. ## [Britain’s Study of Puberty Blockers Will Mostly Be a Pointless Waste](https://benryan.substack.com/p/britains-study-of-puberty-blockers) _2026-06-19 · Hazard Ratio: Benjamin Ryan_ The study’s leaders have announced it will proceed after all. But absent a planned 2nd phase to study cross-sex hormones, the trial is likely to amount to not much more than a $14 million cash sink. ## [Decolonizing Two-Spirit Care With Western Medicine: A WPATH Paradox No One Addressed](https://benryan.substack.com/p/how-to-decolonize-two-spirit-carewith) _2026-06-17 · Hazard Ratio: Benjamin Ryan_ Make it make sense! A 2022 WPATH conference session never acknowledged this glaring paradox as speakers preached about providing Native Americans with gender-transition treatment and surgeries. ## [Over 1 in 250 Natal Girls Were Taking Testosterone By Age 17 in Oregon, From 2016 to 2023](https://benryan.substack.com/p/over-1-in-250-natal-girls-were-taking) _2026-06-09 · Hazard Ratio: Benjamin Ryan_ This rate, from a study of data about insured adolescents in Oregon, represents an average over this period. Given swift increases in hormone uptake over time, the rate was likely much higher by 2023. ## [Gender-Transition Treatment Doesn’t Seem to Improve Eating Disorders in Youths, Finnish Study Finds](https://benryan.substack.com/p/gender-transition-treatment-doesnt) _2026-06-05 · Hazard Ratio: Benjamin Ryan_ A new study based on nationalized Finnish health data found that gender-transition treatment was not associated with a tempered need for eating-disorder treatment. ## [New Canadian Pediatric Society President Said Parents’ Concerns About Youth Gender Transitions 'Should Not Be Prioritized'](https://benryan.substack.com/p/new-canadian-pediatric-society-president) _2026-05-28 · Hazard Ratio: Benjamin Ryan_ In a 2022 conference presentation, Dr. Natasha Johnson said parental concerns were not tied to 2-year treatment regret among their kids, and thus "should not be prioritized over youths' experiences." ## [How WPATH Fights 'Junk Science' With Misinformation](https://benryan.substack.com/p/how-wpath-fights-junk-science-with) _2026-05-20 · Hazard Ratio: Benjamin Ryan_ At a 2022 conference panel, advocates set out to expose "junk science" in laws banning gender-transition treatments for minors, only to rebut them with multiple false or non-evidence-based claims. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/198601982/db4225c2d9cf4c4aa8daaf25f7bfed4c.mp3) ## [In 2021, Dr. Olson-Kennedy Was Eager to Publish Her Youth Gender-Medicine Data. By 2023, She Wasn't.](https://benryan.substack.com/p/in-2021-dr-olson-kennedy-was-eager) _2026-05-14 · Hazard Ratio: Benjamin Ryan_ In a 2021 plenary address, the lead investigator of the $10 million Trans Youth Care Study previewed one-year results and promised five-year data was coming. It still hasn't come. ## ['You Could Be Vulnerable': How a Trans-Care Leader Told Doctors to Handle Nonbinary Surgeries Without Outcome Data](https://benryan.substack.com/p/i-still-dont-know-what-to-do-doctors) _2026-05-08 · Hazard Ratio: Benjamin Ryan_ At a 2022 conference, an author of the new transgender-care guidelines urged clinicians to spread responsibility across a team — acknowledging both the absence of long-term evidence and the potential for patient regret. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/196921985/3839f0abdf6c5ad8c9e16e0f5eeedd52.mp3) ## [CLI-first decentralized compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ojQAPzhdwXzR) _2026-05-08 · **Sponsored**_ Run and pay spare GPUs from the CLI — transcode, coinpay (DID+escrow), infernet (AI). ## [How Trans Activist Erin Reed Won a Battle Against Youth Gender Medicine Skeptics](https://benryan.substack.com/p/how-trans-activist-erin-reed-won) _2026-05-06 · Hazard Ratio: Benjamin Ryan_ I obtained a trove of internal communications documenting how Ms. Reed's advocacy led the body that oversees continuing medical education for doctors to void a course that cast doubt on this field.