Sports and Sensibilities

This week on Informed Dissent, Lauren Leggieri, Cori Cohn, and Jamie Reed break down a week that managed to be both absurd and consequential — sometimes at the same time.The first is a new paper out of the Amsterdam clinic — the team that invented the Dutch Protocol and launched a generation of pediatric gender medicine worldwide. De Rooy, Dekkers, Steensma, Popma, Kreukels, and de Vries looked at 1,470 adolescents referred to their clinic between 2009 and 2019. Eighteen percent did not pursue medical treatment. The most common reasons: no gender dysphoria diagnosis, or mental health and identity development problems that made treatment infeasible. The kids who didn’t pursue treatment had more psychological problems — not fewer. The paper’s own conclusion calls for “comprehensive diagnostic exploratory trajectories” before any medical intervention. The second is Brandon Robinson, a man who identifies as nonbinary, holds a seven-figure federal grant, and recently went viral for arguing that sexual identity labels — including “gay” and “lesbian” — harm transgender people and should be abolished.We also want to say thank you to our guests this week, Jen Sey and Kim Jones, who joined Lauren and Cori for a conversation that is well worth your time.If this show matters to you, please like, subscribe, comment, and share. Every share puts this conversation in front of someone who needs to hear it — and that’s exactly the point.Thanks for listening to Informed Dissent! This post is public so feel free to share it.Links:* De Rooy et al. (2026) — “Characteristics of Dutch Gender Clinic-Referred Adolescents Who Did Not Pursue Gender-Affirming Medical Treatment,” Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy: https://doi.org/10.1080/0092623X.2026.2641805* Brandon Robinson, Trans Pleasure: On Gender Liberation and Sexual Freedom — UCR profile: https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2026/03/06/scholar-makes-case-moving-beyond-sexual-labels* Jen Sey / XX-XY Athletics: https://www.xx-xyathletics.com* Kim Jones / ICONS (Independent Council on Women’s Sports): https://iconswomen.com* UN Commission on the Status of Women — CSW70 official record: https://press.un.org/en/2026/wom2249.doc.htm* LGB Courage Coalition on Substack: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit informeddissentpodcast.substack.com/subscribe