GayWired.com – By Jacob Anderson-Minshall
You may think the brouhaha over the film The Gendercator is heated, but it’s nothing compared to the controversy over 2003’s The Man Who Would Be Queen by J. Michael Bailey, a psych professor at Northwestern University. As Joelle Ruby Ryan—a graduate student at Bowling Green University—can attest, it may be four years later but the Bailey Controversy is still boiling over.
With an impressive c.v. and two documentary films to her credit, Ryan recently became the first MTF-spectrum trans person to receive a prestigious Point Foundation Scholarship, but that’s not what’s getting her noticed these days.
Ryan (joellerubyryan.com) inadvertently stumbled into the fray around Bailey’s book, his research methods and alleged professional misconduct (including accusations that he had sex with several of his trans), and his latest defender, intersex researcher/activist Alice Dreger.