Katie Herzog

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Katie Herzog is an American journalist, [1] [2] who co-hosts the podcast Blocked and Reported with fellow reporter Jesse Singal. [3] [4] [5]

As a former staff writer for the Seattle alternative weekly The Stranger , [6] she wrote the feature article "The Detransitioners" in 2017, which she later called "the most-read thing I've ever written". [7] [2] After the article's publication, some Seattle residents sent Herzog hate mail or posted stickers calling her a transphobe; Herzog said that she lost friends and felt unwelcome in the city's lesbian community as a result. [2]

In 2025, Herzog published the book Drink Your Way Sober: The Science-Based Method to Break Free from Alcohol. The book details her 20-year struggle with alcoholism and her discovery of the Sinclair Method to treat it. [8] [9] [10] [11]

References

  1. "The nine-to-five with Katie Herzog". Xtra Magazine . August 30, 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 McDermott, John (November 2, 2019). "Those People We Tried to Cancel? They're All Hanging Out Together". The New York Times . Archived from the original on October 27, 2022. Retrieved December 9, 2024.
  3. Gillespie, Nick (June 17, 2020). "Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal on Left-Wing Cancel Culture". Reason .
  4. "Column: Two more for the road: My new favorite podcasts". Chicago Tribune . May 21, 2021.
  5. Jackman, Robert (July 24, 2020). "Purple podcasters". The Spectator .
  6. "Katie Herzog - The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper". The Stranger . Archived from the original on April 5, 2024. Retrieved December 9, 2024.
  7. Herzog, Katie (June 28, 2017). "The Detransitioners: They Were Transgender, Until They Weren't". The Stranger . Archived from the original on December 30, 2022. Retrieved December 9, 2024.
  8. Mounk, Yascha (October 30, 2025). "Katie Herzog on Drinking Your Way Sober". www.persuasion.community.
  9. Byrne, Arabella (October 7, 2025). "Against abstinence-based approaches to sobriety". The Spectator .
  10. "Can you drink your way sober?". RNZ. October 14, 2025.
  11. McQuilkin, Hilary; Chakrabarti, Meghna (October 30, 2025). "How Katie Herzog drank her way to sobriety". On Point . WBUR . Retrieved October 30, 2025.