I'm actually very timid and nonconfrontational.

There are things you can say in the voice of a fictional character that you could not explore any other way.

— ContraPoints

More than 40 per cent of my viewers are female. When I do meetups and events, oftentimes the majority of people who show up…

— ContraPoints

When I was a prepubescent child, I never really had experiences of gender dysphoria. This is not something that started until adolescence.

— ContraPoints

I carry with me from my male upbringing a sense that femininity is forbidden. So when I appear on YouTube with forty butterflies glued…

— ContraPoints

I watch a lot of YouTube makeup tutorials. I also watch a lot of channels where all they do is eat inhumanly huge amounts…

— ContraPoints

As a prominent trans person, you hope that someone feels they know you and then thinks of you at the polls; you hope to…

— ContraPoints

It's quite difficult to get through to the people who are really committed to these anti-progressive beliefs.

— ContraPoints

A debate is a very specific kind of performance.

— ContraPoints

It's going to take me less time to wreck Ben Shapiro than it took me to curl my hair.

— ContraPoints

I dropped out of my Ph.D. philosophy program at Northwestern in the summer of 2015, in my mid-20s. I kind of had the idea…

— ContraPoints

There's this artistic drive or something in me that impels me to sympathize with villains, but it's maybe not a great impulse as someone…

— ContraPoints

I kind of hate the fact that I feel like people expect you to announce what you are, and then you become it. I…

— ContraPoints

What really excites me is the prospect of making people actually enjoy thinking about difficult topics, to laugh even while seriously engaging these very…

— ContraPoints

I listen to a lot of standup comics.

— ContraPoints

I've been harassed. I've been stalked. I've had every public pre-transition photo of me compiled alongside my deadname with the purpose of never letting…

— ContraPoints