Interview · moment 6 of 28
How Katie Became a 'TERF': The D-Transitioners Piece
from #204 - Katie Herzog | The Tim Dillon Show · #204
4 min
Guest
Katie recounts the firestorm after her 2017 Stranger article on people who detransitioned, being called transphobic and having her name spray-painted as a slur, and explains her personal fascination with heretics who speak up despite social cost.
- Tim argues against defunding police entirely, saying wealthy communities would just hire private forces with less accountability.
- Katie Herzog clarifies she's been called a TERF but doesn't identify as one, explaining the acronym.
- Her early article 'The D-Transitioners' for The Stranger in 2017 sparked massive backlash, with people burning papers and posting flyers.
- Tim notes the irony that Herzog experienced the same social costs she'd documented—shunning by communities—after writing the piece.
- Herzog explains she's drawn to writing about heretics and people who pay social costs for speaking out, including detransitioners cast out by their own communities.
- As a lesbian embedded in queer communities for nearly twenty years, Herzog noticed rapid acceleration in transitions around 2016-2017, with entire households transitioning within the same year.
Katie Herzogde-transitionersThe StrangerJordan Peterson