How to keep up - when news outlets ignore the news
Beat bias by omission by staying across these accounts
Bias is exhibited in a number of ways by news outlets, and one of its principle forms is bias by omission.
We have compiled this list (it is and will always be a work in progress) of mostly independent resources which cover the stories that can’t be found in mainstream outlets. The Times and the Daily Telegraph have a better story count but there are still dozens of court cases, protests, sporting events, women’s meetings, conferences, policy updates and medical findings that would receive no coverage at all were it not for independent and citizen journalists. While columnists have a greater profile, it’s in hard news that the gap is most obvious. Many of those on the list will already be known to you, but some journalists are coming to this subject fresh and we hope this list will help you keep abreast of a much broader range of developments. Let us know if there’s one you want us to add.
Roisin Michaux Journalist reporting on developments across Europe on X and Substack as Peaked
Andy L Has been quackbusting on a variety of subjects for years including sex and gender on the Quackometer and also on X. Evidence-based debunker and fact-checker.
Ben Ryan A health & science reporter who’s written for outlets including the New York Times, the Guardian, NBC News, The Atlantic and the Washington Post on X and his own website Benjamin Ryan Journalist
Patrick @stilltish on X who has investigations and receipts on her Substack and Gender Critical Woman blog
Tribunal Tweets is a group of volunteer citizen reporters dedicated to open justice which live tweets from court and tribunal proceedings which are largely ignored by mainstream media. They are found on X at @TribunalTweets and @TribunalTweets2
The Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender An essential follow. UK and Ireland based clinicians ‘calling for greater understanding of the effects of sex and gender in healthcare’ who are across all developments in gender healthcare and provide evidence, briefings and opinion pieces. Also on X - keep notifications on.
Reduxx was established two years ago and is run by a team of female journalists. An essential follow. It was co-founded by Genevieve Gluck who also has her own Substack - Women’s Voices. Both Reduxx and Genevieve can also be followed on X.
Sex Matters You must certainly follow on X but sign up on their website to their newsletter on their for weekly upsums, and turn on X notifications for media appearances of Helen Joyce and Maya Forstater.
Julie Bindel was one of the first to raise awareness more than two decades ago and can be read on Substack when not in mainstream publications. Also on X @bindelj
Susan Dalgety a formidable journalist for all developments in Scotland
MurrayBlackburnMackenzie - not citizen journalists but an important policy thinktank with a body of peer-reviewed research and evidence submissions to government, and a significant media presence. Even so not all their findings and commentary make it to the public eye. Across absolutely everything to do with policy: follow on X Lucy Hunter Blackburn, Dr Kath Murray, Lisa Mackenzie, @mbmpolicy
The Glinner Update is amazing at keeping across every development, and supplies a weekly quick read update in case you’ve missed anything
Let Women Speak Very significant movement that almost everyone has heard of run by Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull. Often trails events and actions on the LWS website. Her events are routinely newsworthy, bring many campaigners from different parts of the movement together and generate huge amounts of awareness.
Mia Ashton is an Ottowa-based journalist working on gender for independent outlet Environmental Progress who broke the story of the WPATH files.
Malcolm Clark is a TV science writer and documentary-maker who runs the Secret Gender Files on Substack. He’s @TwisterFilm on X, keeps across everything and is meticulously well-researched. Notifs on.
Gender Clinic News is an ‘independent newsletter with global coverage of the debate about medicalised gender change among young people’ run by Sydney-based journalist Bernard Lane.
Ripx4nutmeg is a valuable X-based account that relentlessly picks up inconsistencies and gaps across broadcast and digital media and highlights cases that aren’t covered anywhere else
Rebeccasaysno on X plus her Substack Rebecca’s Newsletter keeps the most up-to-date tabs on the driving forces behind gender identity theory in health
Sex Realist News is another X-based account devoted to picking up stories missed by other outlets
SEEN accounts The number of Sex Equality and Equity Networks is growing every day. Find them on X but some have websites or Substacks. They will all be across updates and developments in their particular fields - sport, the civil service, HR and so on. Some may have restrictions on what they can post due to impartiality rules.
New Statesman Now the home of journalist Hannah Barnes @hannahsbee whose work on the Tavistock was groundbreaking and continues to lead the field.
ICONSWomen @ICONS_women is a US-based network and advocacy group run by athletes and former athletes and is a fount of news on preserving single-sex sport for women
James Esses James is relentless on Substack and has fantastic exclusive sources. His exclusives often make the news, go viral on social media and have effected change. Sign up to his Substack.
Reem Alsalam UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls will make comments and announcements directly to her X account
Gender: A Wider Lens on Substack and podcast A valuable collection of resources and articles
The Mule by Milli Hill Freelance writer and author, UK-based, documents the erasure of the word woman, and has a particular focus on birth and maternity
Eliza Mondegreen and her gender:cracked Substack Freelance writer and researcher focussing largely but by no means soley on developments in North America
Reality’s Last Stand Evolutionary biologist Dr. Colin Wright - excellent Substack source for reality based biology links
Amy Eileen Hamm’s Substack For close attention to developments in Canada. She’s a nurse who was put under investigation by the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives for her comments on gender.
Kara Dansky’s Substack Feminism and Fighting the Gender Industry US lawyer, feminist and activist who has a global as well as N America focus.
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