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Benjamin Ryan

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Independent investigative reporter. www.benryan.net Subscribe: benryan.substack.com

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Humble Novice @humblenovice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On another note, did you hear about Erin Reed?
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I absolutely saw this coming.
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I did.
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The Needle @theneedlenews.com · 30/09/2026
Our Latest: 📰 How We Did This: Erin Reed Has Been Hiding AI-Generated Text in Her Reporting For Years📰 📝: @artemis.theneedlenews.com
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How We Did This: Erin Reed Has Been Hiding AI-Generated Text in Her Reporting For Years
A methods explanation for our latest big investigation: into Erin Reed and AI based journalism.
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Artemis @ The Needle @artemis.theneedlenews.com · 30/09/2026
My Latest: How We Did This: Erin Reed Has Been Hiding AI-Generated Text in Her Reporting For Years| theneedle.news/cco_RPTHN
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How We Did This: Erin Reed Has Been Hiding AI-Generated Text in Her Reporting For Years
A methods explanation for our latest big investigation: into Erin Reed and AI based journalism.
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Artemis @ The Needle @artemis.theneedlenews.com · 30/09/2026
My Latest: Erin Reed Has Been Hiding AI-Generated Text in Her Reporting For Years Much of what she has written for Erin in the Morning since Spring 2023 has been written and/or influenced by AI. The resulting articles are full of unacknowledged and unretracted errors.
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Erin Reed Has Been Hiding AI-Generated Text in Her Reporting For Years
Much of what she has written for Erin in the Morning since Spring 2023 has been written and/or influenced by AI. The resulting articles are full of unacknowledged and unretracted errors.
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Spork 🥴🖖 @3smolgremlins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@erininthemorning.com hope to see that you will be addressing this.
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Erin Reed Has Been Hiding AI-Generated Text in Her Reporting For Years
Much of what she has written for Erin in the Morning since Spring 2023 has been written and/or influenced by AI. The resulting articles are full of unacknowledged and unretracted errors.
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The Needle @theneedlenews.com · 30/09/2026
New Investigation: 📰 Erin Reed Has Been Hiding AI-Generated Text in Her Reporting For Years 📰 The Needle's evidence shows she has made a litany of errors this year alone, including deadnaming another trans journalist who hasn't published since. theneedlenews.com/2026/09/erin...
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Jane Migliara Brigham @janembrigham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Erin Reed Has Been Hiding AI-Generated Text in Her Reporting For Years
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Erin Reed Has Been Hiding AI-Generated Text in Her Reporting For Years
Much of what she has written for Erin in the Morning since Spring 2023 has been written and/or influenced by AI. The resulting articles are full of unacknowledged and unretracted errors.
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Erin Reed Has Been Hiding AI-Generated Text in Her Reporting For Years theneedlenews.com/2026/09/erin...
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Erin Reed Has Been Hiding AI-Generated Text in Her Reporting For Years
Much of what she has written for Erin in the Morning since Spring 2023 has been written and/or influenced by AI. The resulting articles are full of unacknowledged and unretracted errors.
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I am not “promoting this campaign.” I am reporting it, and I am asking what the public what they think of it. You are mischaracterizing my post.
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yes, they assessed for such independence and didn’t find it.
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The answer is that there is no independent, statistically significant association between cross-sex hormone treatment and suicide death for the very reason you describe.
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I was the only US journalist to cover it for a major outlet. You can read my reporting here: nypost.com/2024/02/24/o...
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A landmark Finnish study is changing how we approach transgender kids
The movement backing gender-transition treatment for children is built on the claim that pediatric medical interventions are not only “medically necessary” – but truly “life saving.”  However,…
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
They are crazy.
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I did not misinterpret the study, as you can see here. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
No, he made multiple non-evidence based claims, as I detailed in the thread.
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You seem to think that people reading the article are the threat to the lesbian bar. But had you read the article you would know that it is the crazy patrons who are a threat to the bar, and the readers of the article want the bar to succeed and are criticizing the patrons.
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In which sociology professor Tressie McMillan Cottom, irritated that I described what she said, tries to pretend otherwise:
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
No, I literally described what you said, and now you’re playing games with me and pretending like I didn’t. And you’re preventing me from replying, forcing me to quote tweet instead.
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In which sociology professor Tressie McMillan Cottom dismisses the article she wouldn’t deign to read about the sociology behind downfall of a lesbian bar, insisting an article about the downfall of the lesbian bar is more important.
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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🔆💛 gratitude for this lovely #caturday rescue 🍀💛💛🕊🌱
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I’ve covered Trump’s arch for nearly a year. I’ve watched officials reveal their plans to federal commissions and tracked them in court. Nobody, until today, made any suggestion it would be a “military complex.” But Trump has used a similar strategy to defend his ballroom.
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Trump says planned 250-foot arch will be ‘military complex’ for drones, snipers
The president’s post about the 250-foot arch planned near Arlington National Cemetery comes as veterans groups, historic preservationists and others attempt to stop the project.
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
BREAKING: Two More Major Hospitals Reach DoJ Settlements to Keep Youth Gender Clinics Shuttered The Justice Department announced that NYU Langone and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center had joined four other major hospitals in reaching such settlements. benryan.substack.com/p/two-more-m...
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Two More Major Hospitals Reach DoJ Settlements to Keep Youth Gender Clinics Shuttered
The Justice Department announced that NYU Langone and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center had joined four other major hospitals in reaching such settlements, to the dismay of trans activists.
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Before he blocked me, you would’ve seen this thread on youth gender surgeries from NPR’s Jesse Thorn:
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Speaking of safety, of the first 55 youth to make it through the original Dutch protocol that established the global field of pediatric gender medicine, one died from complications related to their vaginoplasty. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25201798/
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Young adult psychological outcome after puberty suppression and gender reassignment - PubMed
A clinical protocol of a multidisciplinary team with mental health professionals, physicians, and surgeons, including puberty suppression, followed by cross-sex hormones and gender reassignment surgery, provides gender dysphoric youth who seek gender reassignment from early puberty on, the opportuni …
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
On the suicide question: nypost.com/2024/02/24/o...
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A landmark Finnish study is changing how we approach transgender kids
The movement backing gender-transition treatment for children is built on the claim that pediatric medical interventions are not only “medically necessary” – but truly “life saving.”  However,…
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Getting genital surgery*
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Speaking of mastectomies on teens, a woman won $2M in January after she sued her care providers over the mastectomy she got at age 16. benryan.substack.com/p/i-report-f...
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I Report for The Free Press: "A Legal First That Could Change Gender Medicine"
I was the only reporter to attend the entirety of the recent three-week medical malpractice trial in White Plains, NY, that made history as the first time a detransitioner lawsuit had seen a jury.
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Making these services more available would not likely change much with regard to the fact that they usually already have breasts by this point and it is too late to use puberty blockers to prevent a need for a mastectomy.
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It is a common misconception that many youths seek gender-transition treatment at the immediate onset of puberty. Most minors who present at gender clinics are 15-17 year old natal girls who only developed gender dysphoria after puberty’s onset.
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We don’t know enough to say for sure that teens getting genetically surgery have all been out a long time. I’ve never seen any research about the characteristics of these patients.
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
No, “surgery” does not generally include the insertion of puberty blocker implants. That is a simple in-office procedure that doesn’t include anesthesia, per his own description.
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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How Harvard Teed Up the False Claim That the 'Vast Majority of Minors Getting Gender-Affirming Surgeries Are Cis Kids'
An opaquely written Harvard study and linked press release prompted false reporting that gynecomastia surgeries for boys are vastly more common than gender-affirming surgeries for trans kids.
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Harvard set up the shaky comparison between top surgery and gynecomastia surgery with a misleading 2024 research letter that failed to note that per capita, gender-transition surgery is much more common among adolescents with gender dysphoria than among boys where gynecomastia is concerned.
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mastectomies may be safe per se, but they come with serious risks and downsides, such as severe scarring, necrosis of the nipple, loss of sensation, numbness and nerve pain. This is a far more drastic surgery than a gynecomastia surgery, so the comparison is a stretch.
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
One question that supporters of these practices have always been unable to answer is this: If the need for these mastectomies is so intrinsically dire, why were there not waves of suicides among teenagers wanting their breasts removed prior to the 2010s?
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
As for “rare,” during the several years leading up to these practices being widely banned, about 1,000 biological girls had a gender transition mastectomy annually. That is according to an analysis by @LeorSapir. Some people think that is a high number. Others think it constitutes rarity.
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
As for medical necessity, this is a term that WPATH spliced into its trans care guidelines for adolescents knowing they did not have the research to back it up. What they wanted was to ensure that insurers covered such medical interventions.
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
There is no evidence that gender-translation surgeries prevent suicide in adolescents. There is so little research about them, for starters. And Finnish research into the connection between cross-sex hormone treatment and suicide in youths did not find such a link. Thread:
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I can’t believe he just misgendered Michael LaRosa.
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is an absolute must-read about how a myopic fixation on narrowing racial inequities to the exclusion of all other goals in education in Seattle Public Schools hurt all students, worsened inequities, and hastened a flight for private schools. www.educationprogress.org/p/the-decade...
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The Decade of Decline in Seattle Public Schools
A cautionary tale about forsaking educational basics for castles in the sky.
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Good for them.
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16389062/ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... www.nature.com/articles/sc2... journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... www.researchgate.net/publication/... cdn.who.int/media/docs/d...
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The centrality of event scale: a measure of integrating a trauma into one's identity and its relation to post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms - PubMed
We introduce a new scale that measures how central an event is to a person's identity and life story. For the most stressful or traumatic event in a person's life, the full 20-item Centrality of Event Scale (CES) and the short 7-item scale are reliable (alpha's of .94 and .88, respectively) in a sam …
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
BREAKING: Major New York Hospital Settles With DoJ Over Youth Gender Clinic, Keeps It Shuttered Given Mt. Sinai had a large pediatric gender clinic and is in a blue state with a supportive AG, this settlement serves as a grim harbinger for this beleaguered field benryan.substack.com/p/major-new-...
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Major New York Hospital Settles With DoJ Over Youth Gender Clinic, Keeps It Shuttered
Given Mt. Sinai Health System had a large pediatric gender clinic and is in a blue state with a supportive attorney general, this settlement serves as a grim harbinger for this beleaguered field.
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Chris Pook @drchrispook.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
From the other Twitter. @benryanwriter.bsky.social
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I want photos of so many things, in partial the pig’s head and his broken, swollen leg.
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Noted!
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Just admit that you are enjoying a hit tweet, no matter how dishonestly.
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The article is about his mom getting her *primary residence* taxed as if it is a pied-à-terre.
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