Hunter Ash: Psychedelics, Statistics, and Trans Widows
KEY MOMENTS
0:00 – Intro: writer and statistics teacher Hunter Ash
2:52 – What psychedelics actually do to perception
4:28 – A mushroom trip that questioned progressive views
5:35 – Medically supervised ketamine for trauma
8:07 – Losing belief in gender ideology
11:00 – Reading J.K. Rowling's letter
12:03 – Why is the West wealthy?
14:12 – Living as trans from 26 to 30
15:18 – The effects of estrogen on body and mind
19:17 – Breast implants, dating, and two marriages
22:04 – Autogynephilia and what the research shows
23:39 – Living with it now as a kink, not an identity
25:15 – Trans widows and late-life transitions
32:21 – Michael Bailey and the value of sexology research
35:06 – Can arguments really change minds?
40:52 – A doctor red-pilled by COVID and trust in experts
44:55 – From trans ally to critic over kids and sports
48:45 – Mental illness and an unwillingness to compromise
52:00 – Democrats, women's sports, and Lia Thomas
55:19 – Nancy Mace, bathrooms, and civil rights analogies
57:05 – When discrimination is reasonable
59:47 – What statistics teaches you
1:02:43 – Fuzzy categories and why they still matter
1:04:17 – Wrap-up
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Writer, statistics teacher, and detransitioner Hunter Ash joins Lou to talk about "trans widows," Lou's mission to normalize dudes with breasts, and the impact of psychedelics on Hunter's ideological and physical transformations.
We also get into a mushroom trip that questioned his progressive views, medically supervised ketamine for trauma, reading J.K. Rowling's letter, living as trans from 26 to 30, the effects of estrogen on body and mind, autogynephilia and what the research shows, Michael Bailey and sexology research, a doctor red-pilled by COVID, Lia Thomas and women's sports, when discrimination is reasonable, and why fuzzy categories still matter.