A transgender writer with a history of disturbing, sexually violent rhetoric directed at females has published an article calling Joe Rogan “transphobic.”
Ana Valens, also known as Philip Wythe, is a biological male who identifies as a woman. Valens has written for the Daily Dot, Vox, Vice, and Rolling Stone, and is a committee member for the Trans Journalists Association, which steers media narratives on trans issues.
On February 3, Valens published an opinion piece with entertainment-focused outlet The Mary Sue, slamming Joe Rogan as “transphobic” and his podcast as inviting anti-trans hostility. In the article, Valens writes: “When you look at just how much anti-trans content has been on The Joe Rogan Experience in the past two years alone, it’s kind of nuts that Spotify is OK with just how much bullshit is coming out of his show.”
Valens cites Rogan’s hosting of guests such as feminist activist Meghan Murphy and journalist Abigail Shrier, both of whom are critical of mainstream narratives on gender ideology, as evidence of Rogan’s anti-trans rhetoric. Valens ends by calling The Joe Rogan Experience a “hub for conspiracy theories.”
In the article, Valens sources Zinnia Jones for comment on Joe Rogan’s “lies” about trans people. Jones, another transgender writer, has previously come under fire for demanding Adolf Hitler’s gender identity be respected in the hypothetical situation he was transgender. Jones has also stated that even if “100% of trans people were convicted rapists” they shouldn’t be denied access to the space of their choice.
But Valens himself has an equally disturbing social media history, with the writer having previously gone on extended rants on Twitter fantasizing about rape facilities for breeding “cis” women.
In an audio clip posted to his Twitter in 2020, Valens is heard elaborating on the sadistic concept:
“In the future, there are a number of institutions that emerge… that are community-run institutions where, if you are a trans girl, you can go ahead and sign up for a reservation slot to an all-day access to one of many breeding facilities where you get to breed the sh*t out of that cis girl p*ssy, you can absolutely devastate that sh*t, f*cking destroy it, murder it. They have to cycle the girls out. We have breeding saunas, breeding bookstores, breeding movie theatres. This is something we’re building. This is the future. This is what TERFs don’t want. The future that I want… is a world where you can walk down the street and don’t even have to worry about whether you’re going to be able to breed that good p*ss. That’s the future for all of us.”
The next day, Valens reiterated this violent sexual rhetoric in a tweet where he imagined “12 to 14 trans women who all initiate breeding facilities where we hive (sic) five each other while spitroasting cis women.”
Valens writes extensively about pornography for The Daily Dot and describes himself as a “NSFW reporter” specializing in adult content on his LinkedIn. He has also reviewed pornography games that feature themes of BDSM, hentai, and furrydom. In VR Kanojo, a pornography game reviewed by Valens, the main character is a Japanese schoolgirl designed to appear underage. Players can “hang out with her while she studies,” or choose to fondle her or watch her shower.
Beyond the deviant writing, Valens is just one of many concerning figures sitting on the organizational committee for the Trans Journalists Association (TJA), the style guide from which has apparently been implemented at multiple major media outlets.
Claiming the style guide as “a tool reporters, editors and other media makers can use to begin to improve trans coverage,” the document purports to advise journalists on how to be “respectful” of trans people in their reporting, but veers into propaganda territory with some of its reality-denying recommendations.
In one section, titled “guidance on covering anti-trans hate and disinformation,” the TJA encourages media to avoid coverage of certain topics, including detransitioning – wherein a person ceases a gender transition – which the TJA states have been “overemphasized” as well as “sensationalized and given a disproportionate amount of weight in the media.”
The association also encourages media to “avoid giving a platform to TERFs or so-called “gender critical feminists,” going on to state that “when reporting on fringe groups and hate groups, instead of calling them TERFs or gender critical feminists, use language like transphobic, anti-trans, etc. Avoid referring to anyone as a feminist when they are spreading anti-trans hate.”
More egregiously, the TJA encourages writers to avoid any negative pressdirected at criminals who are transgender. In the section titled “guidance on respectful coverage,” the TJA states that journalists should note the consequences for a trans person to have their criminal history disclosed, writing “publishing such information is rarely in the public interest,” and that journalists should “Consider killing a story if [they] have no alternatives.”
The style guide ends with a list of terms, including ones marked as “to avoid.” Among them, any reference to biological sex, writing: “Avoid the terms “biological gender,” “biological sex,” “biological woman,” “biological female,” “biological man,” or “biological male.” These terms are inaccurate and often offensive.”
In March, Open University Philosophy of Sport Senior Lecturer Jon Pike had one of his articles on trans-identified males in women’s sports edited without his consent to abide by the TJA style guide.
The Association’s guide was also advertised as a key reporting resource by AJ+ to its 1.2 million Twitter followers in December 2020.
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