DIAG Board of Directors

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Jennifer Stanley, President and Board Member

A lifetime liberal, Democratic voter, Jennifer has watched the Democratic Party with increasing dismay and alarm as they have abandoned science and common sense when it comes to “gender.” She is working with DIAG to help wake her party up before their unempirical and anti-woman stance causes them to lose (more) elections. Jennifer brings organizational skills to DIAG gained through her 20+ years as a civil servant for a large city that last elected a Republican mayor in 1977. Jennifer joined the board in March 2024.

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Jenny Poyer Ackerman, Secretary and Board Member

Jenny writes TransMuted on Substack and hosts the UnMuted podcast. She authored the chapter on ROGD (rapid-onset gender dysphoria) for the book Women’s Rights: Gender Wrongs, published by Women’s Declaration International in 2023, and has presented at conferences hosted by WDI-USA and Genspect International. Jenny joined the board in March 2024.

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Tena Zara, Treasurer and Board Member

A lawyer and mother of three, Tena is fighting for responsible therapeutic treatment for all people who are confused about their sex. Disturbed by this profit-driven medical abuse, she can't understand why Democrats, historically 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 Title IX. She is a lifelong Democratic voter who will not stop fighting until this madness ends. Tena joined the board in March 2024.

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Kara Dansky, Board Member

Kara Dansky is the author of The Reckoning: How the Democrats and the Left Betrayed Women and Girls (2023) and The Abolition of Sex: How the ‘Transgender’ Agenda Harms Women and Girls (2021). She writes on Substack at The TERF Report. She served as President and member of the Board of Directors of Women’s Declaration International USA from 2021 to 2024 and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Women’s Liberation Front from 2016 to 2020. She was Senior Counsel at the Center for Justice at the ACLU from 2012 to 2014 and recognized as a U.S. national expert in criminal law and criminal justice policy until 2019. She has a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law. Dansky joined the DIAG board because it is critically important to reach elected Democrats. It's important for people on the political left to understand that many of us share the same concerns. Kara joined the board in April 2026.

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Eliot Mason, Board Member

Eliot Mason has pursued organizational effectiveness for more than 30 years—identifying, learning, teaching, and applying the traits that make organizations effective and adaptable. This path has included graduate studies, lecturing in business schools, aiding college admissions, and instituting management systems for non-profits. Originally a proud “San Francisco Liberal,” he is appalled that the Democratic Party, once considered “the Science Party,” has abandoned principles of evidence in favor of identity pseudoscience. The misuse of scientific methods and statistics used to justify so-called "gender-affirming care" has sowed distrust of both the Democratic Party and our once-trusted medical institutions, an untenable situation Eliot hopes to reverse by applying concepts honed during his career. Eliot joined the board in April 2026.

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DIAG Volunteers

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, researchers, policy experts, and others, all working to expose the sexism, homophobia, and medical harms of sex-denialism.

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DIAG Founder’s Circle

NOTE: The names of DIAG's founders are pseudonyms. People on the political left put their lives, careers, and families at risk of destruction when they speak openly, truthfully, and accurately about the material reality of sex. All three founders have children lured into the “gender ideology” belief system. 

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Ellie Swimmer

Ellie, a life-long Democratic voter—and a daughter of yellow-dog Dems—was dragged into this nightmare by her beloved child. 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 facilitates a parent support group and has written several articles for Parents with Inconvenient Truths About Trans (PITT), including this two-part essay (part 1 and part 2) about life for liberal Democrats living in the Upside-Down, and this essay about the uncertainties that haunt parents as their trans-identified child approaches adulthood.

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Michelle Brooks

Michelle has always voted blue but currently finds herself politically homeless. She has spent her adult life protecting the safety and rights of women and children as a teacher, child welfare researcher, political activist, and social worker. Over the last 20 years she founded and ran a small non-profit school, raised two kids, and started a small business. Currently, she facilitates parent support groups and interviews parents around the country about their experiences with ROGD kids. 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. Her writing includes PITT essays The Wolf at the Door, Sorry, and Parental Anti-Discrimination Statement; and DIAG Substack pieces Unmoored and What Fear Sounds Like.

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Chris Carrier

Chris is a mom with children who have ventured down the "gender" rabbit hole and sucked her down along with them. As a credentialed teacher, Chris is an intensely curious person. To understand this bizarre social phenomenon, she has spent over a decade reading scientific studies and amicus briefs, listening to long form podcasts, reading countless articles and books about the sex-trait modification industry, and monitoring legislation across this country that is stripping away the rights of parents, women, and children. A facilitator of parent support groups and a “Warrior Teacher” in Barry Wall’s The Winning Mindset program, she is part of a growing network of parents (and others) working to expose the truth behind one of the biggest medical scandals. You can read one of her PITT essays here and a letter rebutting an article in the Los Angeles Times here.