When Brianna Wu Is the Sane One
Marci Bowers: Feigning Ignorance or Demonstrating Incompetence Regarding SOC8?
The moment you realize Brianna Wu is the most grounded person in the room, you know something has gone very wrong.
That was the general feeling as I watched Jamie Reed, Cori Cohn, and Pear Joseph react live to Wu’s debate with Marci Bowers—a trans-identified male gynecologist and former president of WPATH. The debate was supposed to reassure the public about sex reassignment surgeries. It didn’t.
Instead, it showcased just how broken the system has become—led by people who either don’t know what they’re doing or refuse to say what they know.
The Titanic Has Left The Port
Bowers compared WPATH’s Standards of Care, Version 8 (SOC8), to a cruise ship—big, slow, steady. He implied it just wasn’t moving fast enough for activists. Jamie Reed gave the metaphor the right twist: “If it’s a cruise ship, it’s the Titanic.”
Because this isn’t a leisurely journey—it’s a disaster waiting to happen. The iceberg? A generation of confused, vulnerable kids being fast-tracked to irreversible medical harm. And Bowers is at the helm.
He claimed responsibility only for “the surgery chapter” of SOC8—as though being president of WPATH didn’t mean overseeing the entire document. That’s like the captain of the Titanic saying he only steered for part of the trip.
Wu Wasn’t Having It
Wu pushed back hard, excoriating Bowers for lying about the standards he helped write. At one point, Bowers had talked over Wu so much of the time that Wu nearly walked off camera. Bowers responded by accusing Wu of spreading disinformation. It was a showdown that left viewers weirdly rooting for Wu—because Wu was—in this case—mostly right.
Pear Joseph noted that Wu has a flair for the dramatic—always “almost dying,” “almost homeless,” “almost silenced.” But in this moment, the emotion was real. Wu wasn’t defending gender ideology. He was calling out a prominent leader of gender procedures on children for publicly contradicting his own record.
Misquoting McKinnon
One of the most dishonest moments came when Bowers cited research from Kinnon McKinnon, a transman and associate professor at York University. McKinnon has been conducting some of the most serious peer-reviewed research on detransition.
But Bowers misquoted her—claiming the usual 1% detransition rate, when McKinnon’s own published findings put the number much higher—typically between 5–10%. And even that may be low due to underreporting and short follow-up time.
Cori Cohn called it out immediately, noting how these misleading stats are used to justify pushing more young people toward permanent medicalization. In reality, many of the so-called “success stories” are too new to measure, and the regrets come years later with brain maturity—when bodies are already damaged and the high wears off.
Sterilization, Cosmetic Surgery, and Frankenstein Medicine
Toward the end of the debate, Bowers admitted, as he has before, that puberty blockers given at Tanner Stage 2 can lead to permanent sterilization—cutting off fertility before the body even has a chance to develop. He lamented that kids might be better off if they were allowed to reach Tanner Stage 3 or 4 instead. But then he offered no solution—no plan to delay interventions or rein in the chaos.
Instead, he continued defending protocols that lead to sterilization, mastectomies, and genital surgeries for purely cosmetic reasons. The contradiction was jarring. As Jamie Reed said, watching in real time: “Just stop. Stop transing kids.”
This is experimental medicine on vulnerable bodies. Frankenstein science dressed up in rainbow flags. And when even the architects of the system start sounding confused, it’s long past time to shut it down.
Two Sides, No Spine
The host of the debate was soft-spoken, clearly uneasy. He barely pushed back—only stepping in when one of the guests seemed on the verge of walking out. He never pressed either man on the real issue: kids being sterilized for cosmetic conformity, caught in a social contagion that preys on gender-nonconforming youth.
Bowers thinks Wu is a conspiracy theorist. Wu thinks Bowers has gone too far. But neither of them properly stood up for the kids. Wu, himself an adopted child, never commented on the elevated rate of trans self-identification among kids like him. Neither acknowledged the wave of autistic, gay, and traumatized teens being funneled into medical transition with no chance to grow up whole.
That’s why we’re here. That’s why we’ll keep showing up.
We’re Watching—and We’re Not Alone
The truth has a way of slipping out. The LGB Courage Coalition’s reaction video has, at the time of posting this, already surpassed 6,200 views—six times those of the original debate. That number will keep growing, because people are starting to wake up.
These reaction events are just the beginning. The LGB Courage Coalition will keep breaking down the spin in real time. We’ll keep amplifying the voices of whistleblowers, detransitioners, and people who care about truth more than politics.
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Ah, the Narcissist vs the Sociopath debate. Yikes! Brianna Dollcast with the duck face, eye rolling and fake valley girl sighs. And Marci, refering to breast tissue as "breast material". His patients aren't human beings, they're sculpting material.
Thank you for what you do... you are a powerful voice that points out stealth in the shadows. With great courage indeed. Thank you