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""A fascinating and horrifying look at how the social justice sausage is made.""--Konstantin Kisin ""This excellent book provides one of the clearest arguments to date as to how we must view gender ideology as a cult. Ben Appel writes with humor, compassion, and, refreshingly, a little righteous anger.""--Julie Bindel ""In this courageous memoir, Ben Appel recounts his journey from a fundamentalist Christian cult to a queer Ivy League subculture, highlighting the unsettling parallels between these two seemingly contrasting worlds. Challenged to reevaluate his deeply rooted beliefs, he grows increasingly alarmed about the psychological and physical harm radical gender ideology is inflicting on young gay people. Having broken free from two forms of mental captivity, Appel underscores the vital importance of something all too rare: thinking for oneself.""--James Kirchick, Author of Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington

""A fascinating and horrifying look at how the social justice sausage is made.""--Konstantin Kisin ""This excellent book provides one of the clearest arguments to date as to how we must view gender ideology as a cult. Ben Appel writes with humor, compassion, and, refreshingly, a little righteous anger.""--Julie Bindel ""Rare are the men who exhibit the kind of stouthearted strength to stand up and cut against the grain when it costs them. Rarer still are those who show the steely resolve and go to great lengths to describe what they have seen in luminous detail so that others may understand. Appel has done both with his bright writing, and he more than deserves a hearing.""--The Christian Post ""In this courageous memoir, Ben Appel recounts his journey from a fundamentalist Christian cult to a queer Ivy League subculture, highlighting the unsettling parallels between these two seemingly contrasting worlds. Challenged to reevaluate his deeply rooted beliefs, he grows increasingly alarmed about the psychological and physical harm radical gender ideology is inflicting on young gay people. Having broken free from two forms of mental captivity, Appel underscores the vital importance of something all too rare: thinking for oneself.""--James Kirchick, Author of Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington

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Ben Appel has written for Newsweek, Quillette, Queer Majority, The Free Press, The Spectator, spiked, UnHerd, and the Washington Examiner. He earned his BA in Creative Writing from Columbia University, where he won the 2019 Nonfiction Prize. He lives with his husband in New York City.

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