DIAG’s all-volunteer team members come from across the country, span a range of generations, and bring diverse skills and perspectives. We are parents, public health professionals, attorneys, teachers, policy experts, and others who care deeply about the welfare of those affected by the subordination of the material reality of sex to the subjective and unfalsifiable belief in gender ideology. Meet members of our team:

 

​Langdon Alger * is a millennial from the suburbs of Minneapolis. He studied classics and linguistics at a time when pronouns were still known to be a closed class. He then went on to become an EFL teacher, using cromulent words with agreed-upon meanings to embiggen the vocabulary of his noble students. His top voting issue has always been the environment because it’s an easy litmus test: never trust a science denier. Until very recently, Langdon’s activism was limited to making donations to MPR and simply remembering to vote. Then “The Witch Trials of JK Rowling” came along and peaked the living daylights out of him. He no longer donates to MPR but still believes this country needs sane, coherent Democrats. You don’t win friends with word salad.

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Michelle Brooks * has always voted blue but currently finds herself politically homeless. She has spent her adult life working to protect the safety and rights of women and children, working as a teacher, child welfare researcher, political activist, and social worker. Over the last 20 years she founded and ran a small non profit, raised two kids, and started a small business. Currently she facilitates parent support groups, interviews parents around the country about their experiences with ROGD kids, and is one of many mothers who have lost children to gender ideology. She plans to continue telling the truth about the harms of gender medicine until all the children come home to their families and to themselves. You can read her PITT essays here and here.

 

Chris Carrier * is a mom with children who have ventured down the "gender" rabbit hole and sucked her along with it. As a credentialed teacher with an M.A. Ed., Chris is an intensely curious person. She has spent the last 10 years reading scientific studies, listening to long form podcasts, reading countless articles about the sex-trait modification industry, and monitoring the legislation that is stripping away the rights of parents, women and children. She is part of a growing network of parents working to expose the truth behind the biggest medical scandal in modern history.

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Jocelyn Davis is an internationally known author and speaker and the former head of R&D for a global leadership development consultancy. Her previous business books include Strategic Speed, The Greats on Leadership, The Art of Quiet Influence, and Insubordinate: 12 New Archetypes for Women Who Lead. Her historical novel, The Age of Kali, has been called “brilliant,” “heretical,” and “deeply moving,” and her memoir, Ticket to Madland, is described as a “powerful memoir that blends vivid storytelling with refreshing humor.” Jocelyn holds master’s degrees in philosophy and Eastern classics. She grew up in a foreign-service family living in many regions of the world, including Southeast Asia, East Africa, and the Caribbean. Currently she lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Visit her website at JocelynRDavis.com.

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Glenna Goldis is a litigator who has devoted her career to fighting for progressive causes. As a lesbian, she opposes gender medicine because it's a scam that targets gay kids, among other victims. Glenna uses her legal background to help DIAG advance policies that protect children, sex-based rights, and free speech. She breaks down the shenanigans of the trans rights movement at Bad Facts. She wants to stop the lies.

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Anna Grace * is a psychological researcher and writer. As a feminist, she is deeply concerned by the growing number of young people who are being misdiagnosed with gender dysphoria and fast-tracked toward irreversible medical interventions. She advocates for a shift away from the ideologically driven “gender-affirming” model of care, and toward a renewed emphasis on empirical research and clinical integrity over political virtue signaling.

 

Cristina Hineman is a GenZ detransitioner who socially and medically transitioned in her teens, after learning about gender identity ideology online and in school. At eighteen, she received a prescription for testosterone after a 30-minute appointment at Planned Parenthood, and at 19, she got clearance for a radical double mastectomy ("top surgery") from a local surgeon without so much as a letter of approval from a mental health professional. She detransitioned shortly after her mastectomy when she realized that transition was not improving her mental health struggles, and had only made things worse. She is currently taking legal action against her medical providers for malpractice, and joined DIAG to help raise awareness about the harms of "gender medicine" and the false promises gender ideology makes to young people.

 

Catherine Klein * is a GenZ lesbian software engineer and data geek. She supported gender medicine until she read dozens of studies and found the evidence base lacking. If anything, the evidence that gender medicine causes harm, especially to children, is far stronger than showing benefits. She dreams that one day, the gender issue will be non-partisan and evidence-based before more Democratic voters are alienated and more children are harmed.

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Mungeri Lal * was born and brought up in India and came to the United States for a PhD, eventually becoming an academic. When his son decided to suddenly identify as a transgender lesbian woman within a matter of two months, he decided to look into the research and found it hideously awful. Even supporters of medicalization fail to find any evidence that estrogen helps males, and there is a lot of evidence in the medical literature that points to emerging harm. His days of supporting NPR and the ACLU are over, but he’s still fiercely liberal.

 

Carl Morse * works in policy analysis and legislative affairs, after having started his career in Democratic campaigns and consulting firms in 2012 in field, finance, and communications. He has worked in a number of different states, but now resides in his home state of Massachusetts and works in state politics. He has a BA in philosophy and a Master’s in public policy. He volunteers with DIAG to protect the policy measures instituted to protect women’s rights and interests.

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Connie Payne * is a life-long progressive Democrat who, as an agnostic feminist, has watched with increasing alarm as pseudoscience and politics have created a divisive issue that is harming children, teens, families, and women's rights. She volunteers with DIAG to turn her concerns into positive action.

 

Yvette Peasatto * is a Democrat and longtime Unitarian Universalist who cares about evidence but, like so many, was inside an epistemic bubble regarding trans and nonbinary identification. She is grateful to the friend who patiently got her to examine key assumptions, and glad that more and more Democrats are rejecting dogma, breaking the spiral of silence, and speaking up for liberal values—i.e., "Girls and boys can look and act in all kinds of ways!" Her message for fellow progressives: Being open-minded includes being open to the possibility that we've gotten something wrong. Let's make it okay to say "I've learned more about this, and I'm rethinking some of my previous conclusions."

 

Jenny Poyer Ackerman is the mother of a trans-identifying daughter and writes TransMuted on Substack. She contributed a chapter on ROGD to the book “Women’s Rights: Gender Wrongs,” published by Women’s Declaration International in 2023.

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Judith Roland * is a lifetime liberal, Democratic voter, and devotee of the scientific method who recently retired from 23 years working in environmental and transportation planning. She has watched the Democratic Party with increasing dismay and alarm as they have abandoned science when it comes to “gender” and is working with DIAG to help wake her party up before their unempirical and anti-woman stance causes them to lose elections.

 

Lisa Simeone is a loud, proud, lifelong liberal and feminist. She has been trying to ring alarm bells about the pernicious cult of “transgender” for 20 years and is getting increasingly impatient with people who Just Don’t Get It. After a 40-year career in public radio, she can now devote more time to rabble-rousing. So she joined DIAG, hoping it will have the political success on this topic that has so far eluded her. Her Substack is called Cogitemus.

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David Stillman * has always been interested in economics and public policy. He started as a Ron Paul-supporting libertarian, and gradually became a liberal Democrat after reading Paul Krugman books and economics research. He started analyzing voting data as a hobby, and now has been doing statistical analysis and data visualization for researchers for over 10 years. He is alarmed by the wave of falsehoods being promoted in the name of "trans rights," the rejection of women's sex-based rights, and the culture of intolerance and harassment that has formed around trans issues in many left-leaning spaces.

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Ellie Swimmer *, a life-long Democratic voter—and a daughter of yellow-dog Dems—was dragged into this nightmare by her child who, like so many others, fell into gender identity ideology during the COVID lockdown. After waiting in vain for the cavalry to come, Ellie realized in horror that the cavalry was largely parents like her and she began fighting to end this while watching the clock tick for her son. Specializing in public health communications and design, she brings the skills necessary to take complex scientific concepts and make them accessible and compelling to lay audiences in order to promote health-protective behaviors. Now a politically homeless liberal, she is dedicated to developing evidence-based messaging that’s accurate and effective for helping people—including teens, parents, legislators, and others—understand the tremendous failure and scandal that is “gender medicine.” Ellie has written several articles for PITT, including this two-part essay (part 1 and part 2) about life for liberal Democrats living in the Upside-Down.

 

​​Evelyn aka “Evie” Ullman is a Democrat and longtime Massachusetts resident. Having grown up in the 80s and 90s as a tomboy kid, she’s glad her generation never faced the horrors of “gender affirming care” during childhood. As a lesbian in a Blue State, she never thought she would have to fight a new battle for same-sex attracted people. She’s seen gender ideology completely gut the LGB community and the culture over the past 20 years. She’s a dedicated fighter in this battle to protect the interests of women and children against the onslaught of institutionalized boundary erasure injected into American society by proponents of “queer theory.” Her career experience includes healthcare and sales, and she has completed graduate level coursework in human biology, anatomy and physiology.

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Martha Wexler is a retired radio journalist who spent her career at the Voice of America and NPR, where she edited reports from correspondents overseas and the major news programs—Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. Martha began delving into the transgender phenomenon after noticing abrupt changes in the language used by the media: pronouns that did not reflect reality, euphemisms, and obfuscations. Her interest in Soviet history (she has a master's degree in Soviet Studies) made her sensitive to ideological capture and intolerance for opposing views. Martha joined DIAG to fight the harms of gender ideology—the denial of biological reality, the medicalization of gender-distressed young people, and the violation of women’s rights. She is working to burst the information bubble in which liberals operate.

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Tena Zara is a lawyer and mother of three. She is fighting for responsible medical treatment for all people who have gender dysphoria. Disturbed by the profit-driven, harmful medical treatments, she can't understand why Democrats, generally skeptical of BigPharma, are embracing this billion dollar gender industry without question. As a former sports writer and competitive athlete, she is also shocked that the Democrats, generally supportive of women's rights, are failing to protect women's rights and Title IX. She is a lifelong Democratic voter who will not vote for Democrats until this madness ends.

 

* Pseudonym. Why? Many of us are balancing family situations and jobs that require us to remain anonymous.