Radar Naughty List: Zinnia Jones
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Zinnia Jones is not a confused teenager on Tumblr or some anonymous Twitter crank. Jones is an adult activist who has spent more than a decade building an online empire dedicated to normalizing the medicalization of minors, erasing sex-based protections, and reframing basic facts about human development as bigotry. Using multiple aliases (Zinnia Jones, Lauren McNamara, and earlier names like Zach or Zachary Antolak and Zack Sklar), this self-described “trans researcher, writer, and activist” presents as a neutral analyst of “gender science,” while pushing some of the most extreme positions in the movement.
Behind the professional branding and curated persona is a sprawling, very online life and a fixation on restructuring childhood around gender ideology. Jones lives in Florida with his partners, Heather and Penny, and his children. Jones operates a content network that includes the personal hub, “Gender Analysis” blog, Atomic Gender, and a relic of the atheist-blogging era on The Orbit. The sites promise deep dives into “transgender sociology, public health, psychiatry, history of medicine, and human rights,” with Jones describing his work as rigorous “technical writing” guided by his own lived experience and “the lived experiences of transgender people.” In reality, the platform functions as a defense shield for puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and pediatric transition. He uses it to attack anyone who questions the affirmation model. Each page sells the same message: puberty blockers are safe, dissenters are malicious, and parental authority is an obstacle to be worked around.
Before rebranding as a trans policy expert and self-appointed gender identity authority, Jones spent years as an online personality in atheist and “secular social justice” circles, blogging at The Orbit under the banner “Secular Trans Feminism.” Platforms like YouTube, Patreon, Tumblr, and other funding streams amplified the voice, giving Jones an early megaphone inside progressive spaces. Over time, the focus narrowed to one central project: turning controversial medical practices on minors into the unquestionable standard of care, then smearing all critics as bigots or conspiracists.
GenderAnalysis.net now serves as Jones’s main research storefront. The site is packed with long posts defending puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries, while framing parental concerns and exploratory therapy as “conversion practices.” Jones writes extensively about litigation and policy battles in places like Florida and Ohio, always on the side of expanding medicalization, shutting down gatekeeping, and treating caution as cruelty. It is presented as a detached “analysis.” It reads like an activist campaign brief. Jones’s name also shows up in the ecosystem of gender-identity self-help materials, including a contribution to Dara Hoffman-Fox’s book, You and Your Gender Identity: A Guide to Discovery, a text frequently promoted to questioning youth and adults looking for “validation” rather than cautious assessment. That blend of research branding, self-help consulting, and political agitation is the pattern: wherever vulnerable people are asking serious questions, Jones works to make “gender affirmation” the only acceptable answer.
If you want to understand why Zinnia Jones is on the Gays Against Groomers Naughty List this year, start with the puberty blocker rhetoric. After the UK’s High Court raised serious concerns about whether children can consent to experimental medicalization, Jones responded with one of the most revealing statements in the entire debate: if kids supposedly cannot consent to puberty blockers, then, in Jones’s view, every child, “every single cis and trans person,” should be put on puberty blockers until they are deemed capable of consenting to their own natural puberty.
This was not satire. This was a serious policy position from someone regularly cited by journalists as a trustworthy source.
Jones has a track record of giving minors workarounds to parental authority, including a detailed guide on acquiring cheap alternatives to puberty blockers in order to circumvent parents who do not agree. 4thWaveNow, a site tracking transition harms, has highlighted this pattern of advising distressed minors on how to get medicalized behind their parents’ backs. Jones has also published instructions for minors on how to circumvent parents who do not approve of blockers or cross-sex hormones, even recommending low-cost alternatives. The attempt to detach children from parents and attach them to ideological “care models” is not subtle. It is the core function of Jones’s activism. It is a set of instructions for undermining families and normalizing sterilizing interventions on teenagers and children. Jones’s activism does not stop at medicalization. He is not just pushing blockers and hormones; Jones also pushes the idea that people should learn to shift their sexual boundaries in order to accommodate gender ideology. Jones has argued publicly that straight males who are not attracted to trans people should “work through” their biases, treating normal sexual boundaries as a form of bigotry that must be corrected. Consent, in Jones’s world, is not a boundary. It is a bias to be corrected. The message is clear: your personal orientation and consent are subordinate to his belief system.
This merges with a pattern of belittling or endorsing harassment of critics. When a 60-year-old woman was assaulted at an event, Jones responded on social media with, “Lol did a TERF get punched,” followed by smug justifications that the woman “deserved it” and, “I have almost no doubt the TERF was doing something that warranted it. Like terfing.” It is emblematic of Jones’s contempt for anyone, especially women, who disagree with his worldview. This is a man who believes your sexual boundaries, your children’s bodies, and women’s physical safety should all be rearranged around his demands. Zinnia Jones claims that trans-identified males who “pass as women” effortlessly “save lives,” simply by being attractive. The self-congratulation is revealing: Jones views personal transition not just as self-expression, but as a heroic act that supposedly benefits society. He claims transitioning is equivalent to “helping others,” an outlook that reframes medical abuse as a moral obligation for the rest of the world to validate.
Jones frequently writes about detransition and regret, but not to understand it. Instead, Jones insists that most stories of regret are fabricated by people who “don’t want adults to transition.” The analysis of Walt Heyer’s detransition, for example, frames regret as propaganda rather than a real phenomenon experienced by thousands of people. This is the pattern: deny regret, deny harm, deny that youth are being misled, and insist that every detransitioner is either lying or irrelevant. The goal is not to understand why some people come to regret irreversible procedures. The goal is to make sure their stories never threaten the narrative. Jones’s public-facing brand focuses on research, policy, and “community advocacy.” His online footprint long predates the polished “researcher” persona. Under the alias “Satana Kennedy,” forum discussions and archives describe a now-defunct pornography project, hosted at satanakennedy.com, which users reported as explicit fetish content before it disappeared.
None of this would matter if Jones were a random adult with strange online hobbies. It matters because the same person is now positioned as a trusted authority on youth transition, mental health, and what parents should do with their confused children. The same figure who allegedly ran explicit porn content is also cheering on puberty blockers for all kids and telling minors how to dodge their parents to obtain cross-sex hormones. That should terrify you. Jones frames this work as “arming the trans community” and allies with information, analysis, and living resources to reshape law, medicine, and culture. This branding softens the image and makes Jones look like any other progressive parent advocate. Underneath, the message is relentless: expand youth transition, treat gatekeeping as abuse, smear exploratory therapy as conversion therapy, pressure institutions to treat skepticism as hate, and turn forced compliance into a moral duty. Zinnia Jones is not a doctor, not a clinician, not a psychiatrist, not a scientist, and not an unbiased or neutral researcher. Jones is an activist who has chosen children’s bodies, families, and basic boundaries of consent as the battlefield. He uses research aesthetics to promote a model of childhood that revolves around blockers, hormones, and cult indoctrination.
It is necessary for concerned parents who have a child struggling with their identity to know who is shaping the so-called “science” and rhetoric behind trans medicalization. Zinnia Jones is not just another blogger. This is a radical extremist actively promoting experimental interventions to children, trying to detach kids from their parents and attach them to an ideological care model, and trying to shame or bulldoze anyone who refuses to participate. His behavior is unacceptable, and it is up to us to shine a light on what is actually going on and who these woke charlatans really are.
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