Jimmy Rustling: The Phenomenon of "Intersex Pretenders" (Pubmed)
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
I am heading back from Genspect Albuquerque, which was overall a fantastic conference, and definitely the most packed I've seen. It gave me a lot of ideas, and places I want to go next with my writing and videos. I did want to write a note of caution first, regarding James Linehan’s talk and a strange exchange we had.
Long time readers may recall the video he made in 2022, calling me a lying bigot for exposing DSD faker and MTF transitioner, Dalea Rundblad AKA Jessyca Langarica AKA Langarcia AKA Jessyca Rundblad. Original dead name unknown. This was the video that included Cynthia Breheny’s curiously complected caricature of me.
James of all people should have learned the importance of asking for documentation before believing a person’s claim to one or more rare DSDs, especially if the context is that they've gotten themselves embedded in some sort of organization or are acting as a spokesperson for the condition or especially if they're using the claim to entice kids to contact them over the internet to talk about their genitals. There's a lot of creeps online. There's a lot of liars.
James’ video back then was in response to my video pointing out that Dalea Rundblad was wrong about how CAIS, or complete androgen insensitivity syndrome, worked on a genetic level. He said his Y chromosome was the issue, but CAIS is due to a mutation on the X chromosome.
Even if it were true that Dalea had CAIS, though, why can't we have a world where men can just sometimes be very feminine due to medical conditions? What's wrong with that world? Why must we sacrifice the integrity of the female sex class as a category in order to not have any men who superficially resemble women, in the category adult human males?
In response to my video, Dalea basically quit the internet. He had had a youtube channel iirc that was called Rocket Girl. He used it to try to get young people who thought they might have a DSD to reach out to him. I thought that was very odd to close down immediately. All I had done was correct factual errors and make a philosophical point at that time.
In fact, he was lying about his life story. He had actually been assigned male and raised a boy. He wrote a book about having partial androgen insensitivity syndrome or PAIS, causing his penis to be undersized or possibly ambiguous, but he was nevertheless correctly assigned male at birth. There may have been a book buyback, as I'm not able to find a copy anywhere, but the jacket summary can still be found in many places. He had SRS at 17 when he medically transitioned from male to a different kind of male who's had vaginoplasty.
Jessyca Langarica became Jessyca Rundblad when he married Peter Rundblad. Later, he changed his name again, to Dalea Rundblad. I cover this in this video elaborating on Dalea’s misrepresentations. Here is a photo set from Getty Images of Jessyca. It's clearly the same person. I actually do think it's plausible that Dalea has Mild AIS/PAIS. He's got a very distinctive look, as people with rare genetic disorders often do. Like other XYs, he's physically larger and lankier than the adjacent XXs. But his story about his life as a CAIS patient was a complete fabrication, designed to make his gender identity more valid, to tug at the heart strings, to push an agenda, and to conceal his surgical history.
My point in rehashing the Dalea rabbit hole is that he's part of a larger pattern. Sometimes people, usually males for whatever reason (they're more likely to have sex linked genetic disorders?), will simply fake having a DSD for attention, clout, or even as soil to root their claim to gender identity. These disorders are quite rare compared to trans identification, which is a rapidly inflating, much more common group of people.
So the odds that you're talking to a DSD- identifying person termed in the literature as “intersex pretenders” is actually going to be pretty high compared to meeting the genuine article. In a world of self-ID, we need to trust, but verify. No one verified Dalea’s story, because it was considered rude, because they didn't think they knew enough to challenge it, because they're good people who couldn't imagine someone lying about something like that. But I can. I listened to Dr. House, a fact that has annoyed James Linehan for years, because House knew CAIS men are men too.
James is one such person who did not verify Dalea’s story before deciding to avenge the normalcy of Dalea’s surgically constructed vagina by trying to call my credibility into doubt any way he could and trying to get people to mass report my channel when I was platformed on YouTube. His attacks didn't stop there. He attacked me for being autistic, started a rumor that I have bipolar, likened me to a nazi - the list goes on. All because I called a man a man. All in defense of a trans identified man who wanted to be seen as a woman. He and his friends hounded me for months. Arguably years.
He didn't care what the truth was. He just knew someone outside of his group was attacking someone inside his group. His group was revealed to include intersex pretenders, and “not his group” included me and all women who want a sex-based definition of female that excludes all males categorically, even the tiniest of males, so tiny they could be a baby.
Intersex pretenders infiltrate movements and organizations to push their interpretation of gender ideology, coercively control discourse of people who don't self ID as having a DSD by gaslighting and attacking targets who stray too close to the right of some males to identify as female if they look or feel female enough to lead, the right of people to be considered the “gender” they want to be rather than the sex they medically are, the right to choose pronouns, etc.
Most intersex fakers are males who identify as women, at least in this study of N=37, which goes against broader trends for which sex is transitioning overall (female). This may be explained by the paraphilic motivation to pretend to have a DSD that is more common in males and often goes hand in hand with diaper fetishism for some reason.
Here are some other examples:
Eli Rubashkyn, the man who infamously dumped tomato soup on Kellie-Jay Keen in New Zealand, was another one. A trans identified man to his smallest toe, he began claiming to have multiple rare DSDs - so rare it is likely that not enough humans have lived yet to statistically guarantee even one person having all 3 - sometime after being publicly trans. He never produced documentation. He used everyone's trust and lack of verification to worm his lying little terrorist how-derriere into the actual United Nations, onto some committee for DSD issues. His motive: get attention, legitimate his gender, act out a fetish, and push a gender ideology agenda.
Aaron Kimberly is another claiming an extremely rare DSD with no documentation. She's been caught lying about it already. She claims to have OTDSD, and supports this with her claim that her cystic ovary, removed in 1993, allegedly looked kinda ballsy to the surgeon. The surgeon is said to have speculated that it might have been an ovotestis. No testing was done. No genetic verification. She's been Jack-o-lanterned since, leaving no trace of her natal anatomy. But in discussing her hysterectomy, she doesn't mention anything about it being abnormally sized or shaped. You would expect that if an individual had one testicle functioning as a testicle, because testicular hormones cause the Mullerian ducts to resorb or not develop.
My other main data point is she actually embroidered her narrative. When she needed it to be an entire testicle for her rhetoric to defeat mine, it was, but it dropped back down to a possible ovotestis a few weeks later (when she was done using the exaggeration to support the slander that I wanted her in a zoo or to stop existing). She did all this to support her organization, Gender Dysphoria Alliance, that, again, was trying to influence policy to preserve minor medicalization for kids that “have the drive,” as well as to justify her own desire to medically transition as well as her same-sex attraction. My understanding is that her views may have changed since then.
So, back to James:
I've become aware that James has not ever actually publicly established that he has the condition that he claims to have, which is congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism. So in response to learning more about his DSD claims in this lecture, I posed the question to my followers: Has anyone ever vetted this guy? Because something isn't adding up for me.
I expected someone to either link me to his documentation, if it existed, or for it to otherwise be ignored. He's blocked so I was not expecting him to respond, and I figure I'm not the first person to ask so he must be used to the question. He's been talking about having this condition for years. Surely he didn't feel entitled to coast on self-ID forever, like Dalea Rundblad.
I was wrong. He came up to me when I was sitting at a table in the hotel bar, surrounded by other people. Gripping the back of the chair of the woman across from me, who did not know him, and pulsating with rage that made a visible anime style forehead vein, James stood there staring and then barked, “ SIERRA!” I looked up. “DELETE. THE. TWEET. or I'll post the letter from my doctor.” I said okay and shrugged ambiguously, not wanting his bellicosity to Zarutska me. He stormed off and we didn't come face-to-face again, but he did later post a tweet stating that he would not be posting any letter from his doctor because it's his extremely private personal medical information. He said good day!!!
That's very understandable. He can't let word get out that he has the condition he's using for international clout. No way. That's like forcing a pelvic floor therapist to admit he's a man.
Yet despite James’ experience with Dalea, despite the fact that he's using himself as the object lesson, despite the fact that we're in a self-ID zeitgeist, he still wants you to simply trust him. These are his private medical records, after all.
Jimmy: Give it a rest, dude. I knew you were bluffing the second you came over to demand I delete my tweet or else you'd publish the document I asked for - the one you never intended to publish. Your bluff failed and now you're caught.
You're in your mid-50s. 20 years ago was in your 30s. You were diagnosed as a teenager when you didn't go through puberty supposedly. You must have 20 years of records then. Genetic tests, hormone panels, testosterone prescriptions. But it's private? Even though you publicized it? It's a lifelong condition you don't need to treat anymore? Make it make sense.












My son is 45xO/46XY. Mosaicism. Considered intersex. Slight build, height achieved (no interventions ever is a 5’6” he’s satisfied with and can weight lift and be fit are only signs, other than high functioning autism. Male anatomy (no hypospadia) at birth at 36 weeks gestation. He’s 22 now. We had neonatal testing and follow up geneticists visits every other year. Normal growth and development delays were due to autism and he was male identifying. Puberty was male and then normal hell of the essential pubertal period of life. I was asked absurd questions about feminization at puberty if he had a “feminine identity puberty”, no one knows what cells were weird and X only, by one doctor. Now grown, he’s definitely a man.. He is possibly with reduced fertility but no less a male. the worst classic male androgenic acne at 22 I’ve seen. He’s on Accutane even.
Not all intersex conditions are equal and as a parent- you keep records, I kept his amnio results still and years of paperwork- and as a patient- you need records if something occurs related to sex and DRS and it will only be an issue if he has infertility issues but he has no interest in having children but does date women and uses birth control for all the reasons.
It’s probably my own naïveté, but I’m surprised these professional activists are still claiming DSDs and invoking intersex status. That seems so … 2015 Tumblr.
That caricature is shocking. Why even commission it? That decision is not the product of a balanced mind.