Benjamin Ryan

HOW GENDER MEDICINE SET ITSELF UP FOR DISASTER For Compact, I report on what the 100s of WPATH conference videos I obtained tell us about this troubled field: compactmag.com/article/how-... 👉I 'll be publishing the conference videos on my Substack: benryan.substack.com/p/i-obtained...

All I can say is Elizabeth Holmes and Billy deserve one another.

On another note, did you hear about Erin Reed?

I absolutely saw this coming.

Our Latest: 📰 How We Did This: Erin Reed Has Been Hiding AI-Generated Text in Her Reporting For Years📰 📝: @artemis.theneedlenews.com

My Latest: How We Did This: Erin Reed Has Been Hiding AI-Generated Text in Her Reporting For Years| theneedle.news/cco_RPTHN

My Latest: Erin Reed Has Been Hiding AI-Generated Text in Her Reporting For Years Much of what she has written for Erin in the Morning since Spring 2023 has been written and/or influenced by AI. The resulting articles are full of unacknowledged and unretracted errors.

@erininthemorning.com hope to see that you will be addressing this.

New Investigation: 📰 Erin Reed Has Been Hiding AI-Generated Text in Her Reporting For Years 📰 The Needle's evidence shows she has made a litany of errors this year alone, including deadnaming another trans journalist who hasn't published since. theneedlenews.com/2026/09/erin...

Erin Reed Has Been Hiding AI-Generated Text in Her Reporting For Years

Erin Reed Has Been Hiding AI-Generated Text in Her Reporting For Years theneedlenews.com/2026/09/erin...

You seem to think that people reading the article are the threat to the lesbian bar. But had you read the article you would know that it is the crazy patrons who are a threat to the bar, and the readers of the article want the bar to succeed and are criticizing the patrons.

No, I literally described what you said, and now you’re playing games with me and pretending like I didn’t. And you’re preventing me from replying, forcing me to quote tweet instead.

🔆💛 gratitude for this lovely #caturday rescue 🍀💛💛🕊🌱

I’ve covered Trump’s arch for nearly a year. I’ve watched officials reveal their plans to federal commissions and tracked them in court. Nobody, until today, made any suggestion it would be a “military complex.” But Trump has used a similar strategy to defend his ballroom.

BREAKING: Two More Major Hospitals Reach DoJ Settlements to Keep Youth Gender Clinics Shuttered The Justice Department announced that NYU Langone and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center had joined four other major hospitals in reaching such settlements. benryan.substack.com/p/two-more-m...

Before he blocked me, you would’ve seen this thread on youth gender surgeries from NPR’s Jesse Thorn:

I can’t believe he just misgendered Michael LaRosa.

This is an absolute must-read about how a myopic fixation on narrowing racial inequities to the exclusion of all other goals in education in Seattle Public Schools hurt all students, worsened inequities, and hastened a flight for private schools. www.educationprogress.org/p/the-decade...

BREAKING: Major New York Hospital Settles With DoJ Over Youth Gender Clinic, Keeps It Shuttered Given Mt. Sinai had a large pediatric gender clinic and is in a blue state with a supportive AG, this settlement serves as a grim harbinger for this beleaguered field benryan.substack.com/p/major-new-...

From the other Twitter. @benryanwriter.bsky.social

I will also exercise significantly greater caution when engaging with biased sources or people who have been shown to victimize others.

I will independently verify claims made by anonymous accounts, approach sources’ biases with greater sensitivity, and exercise skepticism around these types of sources.

I regret any other lapses in judgment that may have occurred throughout this process and will do better moving forward.

As part of my reporting, I asked Alexa about allegations this individual has made against her in response. I recognize that these questions were harmful to Alexa’s wellbeing and I apologize for asking them.

Finally, Alexa has taken out and renewed a restraining order against an individual she has accused of stalking, on behalf of herself and her young child. To do so, Alexa compiled extensive documentation.

I will exercise greater judgment with regards to engaging with and trusting anonymous accounts in the future.

I regret any interactions I had with these accounts or any misplaced trust in content they posted or otherwise engaged with. To rely on or engage with these accounts causes real-world harm, and for that I apologize, too.

I did not independently verify or vet their claims. Furthermore, “Abuse of Power” engaged in behavior like cyberharassment, cyberstalking, and nonconsensual intimate image sharing. I expressly denounce such content.

In the process of learning about these conflicts, I encountered information posted by accounts on X called “Exposing Rich” and “Abuse of Power.” These accounts made various false, unsubstantiated, and unverified comments about Alexa and Eat Predators. They were clearly biased against Alexa.

Notably, there was never any evidence Alexa defrauded members of Eat Predators, including through the group’s Patreon account.

Some people left because they wanted to monetize Eat Predators or otherwise gain something to the detriment of Eat Predators. Conflicts that broke out afterward were not started by Alexa, but rather by other individuals.

She did not represent the group solely as an ambassador, but rather led the group. People voluntarily joined Eat Predators, and some members later left the group for various reasons.

As part of her activism, Alexa started a group called Eat Predators. In my reporting process, I asked Alexa questions about conflicts regarding this group. I now understand that Alexa was solely responsible for the creation of Eat Predators and that she did not co-opt other members’ ideas.