Woke Journalist Left SPEECHLESS In Heated Trans Debate

On a recent episode of the Heretics Podcast, British broadcaster Vanessa Feltz told host Andrew Gold that the current transgender debate is nothing new—she had trans guests on her show in the 1990s who would “take me into the ladies and show me their actual work, so I could see the finished product.” Reacting to that clip, commentator Amala Ekpunobi argued that this anecdote reveals something uncomfortable about the movement, and that Feltz’s insistence that “nothing has changed” since the 1990s ignores a dramatic shift in how trans activism now imposes itself on everyone else.

The Anorexia Analogy and Affirmation Culture

The core of the debate turned on a comparison Gold raised: if an anorexic person says they are fat, you do not affirm that belief—you help them see it is false. Feltz rejected the analogy outright, but Ekpunobi defended it as “on point.” The logic is that gender dysphoria, like anorexia, involves a person’s internal self-perception conflicting with biological reality, and that the compassionate response is not to affirm the false belief but to offer help rooted in truth. Ekpunobi stressed that “if you really love somebody, you say the hard thing,” and that affirming a delusion is not kindness. The implication is that the medical establishment has reversed course on this principle: instead of exploring the roots of dysphoria, many clinics now fast-track p