Gatekeeper Ryan

Carrying WPATH's Water

On April 2, 2026, Ben Ryan published another controlled op piece entitled “What a Major

Ben Ryan

Trans Advocate Admitted Behind Closed Doors.” The “major trans advocate” is Kellan Baker, Ph.D., a lesbian woman who “transitioned” while in Russia working as a translator. “Behind closed doors” refers to a speech Baker gave at a 2023 WPATH conference. As usual, Ryan appears to be critical of “gender affirming care.” But a closer look reveals that he accepts all of the major mind-control elements of what is obviously another government-sponsored human medical experiment.

 Ryan calls Baker an “influential transgender policy wonk.” Right away, this legitimizes “gender affirming care.” One certainly would not called Josef Mengele a “policy wonk.” Rather than get to the fact that blockers and hormones have never been proven effective at treating the psychological condition of gender dysphoria, Ryan goes straight to politics:

“Past the conference’s tightly sealed doors, conservative lawmakers had escalated their attack on pediatric gender medicine during the previous two years.”

Good grief. Listen to the war metaphors. They “escalated their attack.” Look, I’m no fan of republicans or democrats. I do not wished to be ruled by anyone. But Ryan is clearly suggesting that to oppose the use of blockers and hormones on children, one must be a “conservative.” Moreover, Ryan (and the lawmakers) are ignoring the plain fact that the use of blockers and hormones on children with gender dysphoria is already illegal. At minimum, it is fraud. Ryan quotes Baker as saying that the public:

 “are very scared by the idea that young people are making irreversible decisions and that no one else has any oversight over those decision.”

See? The not-so-subtle message is that this experiment is presently legal unless and until the law changes. As a Juris Doctorate, and a very experienced litigator in the trans space, using these drugs on children is illegal. No physically healthy child has the right to consent to their own sterilization. Period. All lawyers know this, including the lawyers who bring the so-called “detransitioner” lawsuits. And yet, they are not suing for fraud or battery, i.e. intentional torts. Why not? A real journalists is driven by curiosity. Ben Ryan’s extraordinary lack of curiosity is appalling.  

“I subsequently obtained the lot of those recordings,” says Gatekeeper Ryan, who charges us money to see most of them, just like he is monetizing the Fox Varian case. Ryan informs us that Baker was the lead author of a systematic literature review of the “evidence-based-medicine experts at Johns Hopkins University.” Baker’s paper allegedly “examined the impact of cross-sex hormone treatment on psychological outcomes and included in its analysis three studies about adolescents.”

Ryan makes sure we think that Baker’s review was of “evidence-based-medicine” by “experts” but he doesn’t explain is the nature of these psychological studies. They are questionnaire surveys and entirely subjective. Similar to political polls, they people drafting the surveys know how to generate the results they want. Intelligent people understand that most of these types of studies are not scientific at all.

Ben Ryan has long ago gotten his marching orders: characterize all debate on “gender affirming care” as a political battle. Suggest (without saying) that studies somehow favor allowing the experimenters to continue harming children, when they do not. Given that Ryan is openly gay, he simply does not and cannot understand what it means to be a parent. That explains why he takes such a non-committal position regarding the involuntary human medical experimentation taking place on children today.