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Author of CIS WHITE GAY: THE MAKING OF A GENDER HERETIC. Agent: [email protected] Foreign rights: [email protected] PR: [email protected]

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@benappel
Ben Appel
7 months
IT'S HAPPENING! My book is available for preorder! CIS WHITE GAY: THE MAKING OF A GENDER HERETIC publishes on November 4. Pass it on! https://t.co/5JwBxKEkQt
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@PamelaParesky
Pamela Paresky🎗️(Habits of a Free Mind)
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“There is nothing progressive about preventing gay young people from becoming gay adults. And that’s the key point lost in these debates: Most gay adults were unmistakably gender-nonconforming children.” @benappel @nypost (link next tweet)
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@evs2003
eBos3002🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈
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@benappel I loved your book @benappel . Your exposé on the dangerous and backward ideas coming out of postcolonial studies and queer theory was great. Thank you for sharing the stories of gay Iranians that progressives conveniently ignore.
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@MaudMaron
Maud Maron
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Brilliant @nypost piece by the brilliant @benappel outlining just how regressive the so-called progressives are when it comes to protecting gender non-conforming kids. @ZohranKMamdani's "gender-affirming" policy proposals are homophobic and Iran-approved.
@benappel
Ben Appel
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For the New York Post, I wrote about how "gender-affirming care" is the Iranian regime's dream come true. https://t.co/IYs27etFCC
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@benappel
Ben Appel
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The truth does not care about anyone’s “identity.”
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@NYPostOpinion
NY Post Opinion
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Mamdani’s “gender-affirming care” plan surgically erases gays — just like Iran https://t.co/j5MbxSwp3P
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@PeterGajdics
Peter Gajdics
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Great article from @benappel - pointing out how Mamdani’s pledge to invest millions in “gender affirmative care” will virtually “trans away the gay” - obviously deeply ironic, considering it’s the progressive left, the supposed supporters of gay rights, who voted him into office.
@benappel
Ben Appel
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For the New York Post, I wrote about how "gender-affirming care" is the Iranian regime's dream come true. https://t.co/IYs27etFCC
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@benappel
Ben Appel
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God, grant me the serenity to explain my position calmly when people who don’t know anything about pediatric gender medicine send me antagonistic DMs.
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@ebennett74
elizabeth bennett
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“There is nothing progressive about preventing gay young people from becoming gay adults.”
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@DudleyNYC
Dudley Snyder
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Mamdani champions a worldview that mirrors the strategy Iran follows to surgically erase gay people. @benappel calls out the misguided progressive efforts to "trans the gay away" in a new @nypost op-ed. https://t.co/N0uh7rJHzD
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The New York Times reported last month on the dire situation for gay people in Iran, where homosexuality is punishable by death. Many are pressured to undergo brutal reassignment surgeries to live...
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@larissaphillip
Larissa Phillips
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One of many things I loved in Ben's book Cis White Gay was his point that gender-non-conforming men and women are a natural part of both sexes. To pathologize and then medicalize what is completely natural and normal is dystopian and cruel. Along those lines, his reporting on
@benappel
Ben Appel
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For the New York Post, I wrote about how "gender-affirming care" is the Iranian regime's dream come true. https://t.co/IYs27etFCC
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@Talitt3
Talitt
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@benappel @nypost @ZohranKMamdani @sullydish @EliseStefanik @JDVance What is excellent hard-hitting exposé about the end result of mamdani's supposedly progressive policies. How anyone in America can ignore the UK Cass report is hard to fathom. Only our country seems to be driven
nypost.com
The New York Times reported last month on the dire situation for gay people in Iran, where homosexuality is punishable by death. Many are pressured to undergo brutal reassignment surgeries to live...
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@benappel
Ben Appel
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You've got great taste.
@glennagoldis
Glenna Goldis
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Finally got around to decorating my office. Thanks for writing this wise and funny memoir, @benappel !
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@benappel
Ben Appel
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THIS is gender ideology.
@GBNEWS
GB News
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'I feel sorry for your children...' 'Well I think you're borderline evil.' @BenLeo444 gets into a fiery clash with founder of https://t.co/1iyYqZN8uz Dr Helen Webberley, confronting her on support for prescribing puberty blockers to children and more.
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@gregpiper
Greg Piper
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Great episode of @TheUnspeakeasy with a gay man (@benappel) who went from a "strict Christian sect to progressive activism" and uncomfortably realized how similar they are. https://t.co/SsmzGNwrUT
theunspeakablepodcast.com
Ben Appel on being cis, white, and gay.
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@benappel
Ben Appel
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Thank you for this wonderful review of my book. Means so much to me.
@BorisSpider14
Boris Spider
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I'm about halfway through @benappel's memoir, [Slur] White Gay, and I want to give some thoughts and a resounding recommendation to get it and read it. [I have to filter the title of Ben's book because this useless app throttles the actual title. X is one more bad decision away
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@benappel
Ben Appel
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Grace 🦎🩵🐣🐈‍⬛🌃
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Celebrating my dear friend @benappel and his new book! Both memoir and incisive capture of our cultural moment, it is a staggering accomplishment! Go buy it and read it!!!
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@MichaelTiyce
Michael Tiyce
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Friday night reading sorted #ciswhitegay @benappel
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@benappel
Ben Appel
7 days
Listen to Maud.
@MaudMaron
Maud Maron
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Just finished ⁦this brilliant memoir by ⁦@benappel⁩. Chapter 24 recounts a school board meeting I invited Ben and others to speak at in hopes of increasing the viewpoint diversity around gender in our district. Ben is a true raconteur and thoughtful cultural observer. 1/
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@benappel
Ben Appel
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In 2016, when Trump came along, all the Democrats had to do was be normal. They failed. In 2020, when the left officially lost its mind, all Republicans had to do was be normal. They too are failing at this very simple task.
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