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Ben Appel

@benappel.bsky.social
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Author of CIS WHITE GAY: THE MAKING OF A GENDER HERETIC (Bombardier 2025) a.co/d/0Mtlev1

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Ben Appel @benappel.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
“My sexuality doesn’t obligate me to embrace a particular ideology or to reject the moral inheritance of the society that made my life possible.” www.wsj.com/opinion/im-g...
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Opinion | I’m Gay, but That Doesn’t Make Me ‘Queer’
My sexuality doesn’t require me to reject all that is ‘normal’ and ‘legitimate.’
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Ben Appel @benappel.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
“Teenagers and kids should not be given the power to make these life-altering decisions that medicalization causes.” benappel.substack.com/p/former-gla...
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Ben Appel @benappel.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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In Defense of Effeminate Gay Boys
If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded.
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Ben Appel @benappel.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
‘It’s been surreal to hear gender surgeons bluntly describe the harm they inflict on the bodies of gender nonconforming people, and for mainstream media outlets and human rights organizations to frame any reaction besides tacit approval as “right-wing.”’ benappel.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...
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This Is What They're Doing
The gender surgeons speak for themselves.
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Ben Appel @benappel.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Today’s message from a reader: “Ben, I just finished your book. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Your honesty, vulnerability and incredibly clear-headed analysis and criticism of the harm being caused by the insanity of gender ideology shook me to my core.“
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
In his book Cis White Gay, @benappel.bsky.social , who grew up in a religious cult, was involved in an AA program that was run like a cult, and then went to Columbia and then an MFA program in his 30s, reflects on his academic experiences:
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Queer Majority @queermajority.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Today, LGBT individuals who challenge prevailing orthodoxies are exiled from their own communities. But what these heretics stand for can never be killed. | @benappel.bsky.social
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From the Editor — Queer Majority
Today, LGBT individuals who challenge prevailing orthodoxies are exiled from their own communities. But what these heretics stand for can never be killed.
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Ben Appel @benappel.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
This is some libsoftiktok shit right here. Wtf.
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