Fact Checking Erin Reed's Faith in the Southern Poverty Law Center's Hate Map

Reed's attack on Wash. St. Univ. relies on the tenuous validity of the hate-group designation that the Southern Poverty Law Center applied to the Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine in 2024.

This article on Erin Reed’s Substack, written by her staffer, S. Baum, caused an immediate consequence to Washington State University’s office that oversees continuing medical education accreditation.

I have a new article out today in The New York Sun concerning the fallout from a piece that the transgender activist-journalist Erin Reed published on her Substack on Wednesday. In an article written by Ms. Reed’s staffer, her fellow activist-journalist S. Baum, the popular Substack account lambasted Washington State University (WSU) for accrediting a continuing medical education (CME) course on behalf of the Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine (SEGM).

As Baum eagerly pointed out, SEGM, which is a scientific collective devoted to scrutinizing the evidence base behind pediatric gender medicine, has been branded an anti-trans hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. SEGM is the bête noire of many trans activists for instilling scientific skepticism among thought leaders regarding the sa…