Public Biography
Bradley Kaine is a senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., where he focuses on what he terms “gender ideology and institutional capture.” He has been with the foundation since 2017 and is a frequent contributor to conservative media outlets on issues related to transgender rights, Title IX policy, and what he describes as “the regulatory enforcement of metaphysical claims.”
Mr. Kaine graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in government and holds a J.D. from the George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School. Before joining the Heritage Foundation, he served as a policy adviser to a Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee and briefly practiced family law in Northern Virginia, an experience he has described as “formative in ways I prefer not to elaborate on.”
He is the author of several Heritage Foundation reports, including “The Pretense Problem: How Gender Ideology Demands Compliance, Not Belief” (2023), a title that became inadvertently ironic in March 2026 when a prominent transgender rights advocate agreed that she was, in fact, pretending and did not find it burdensome. Mr. Kaine has acknowledged that this development “was not modeled in any of our scenarios.”
He lives in McLean, Virginia, and describes his policy focus as “defending the obvious,” a characterization he concedes has become “more complicated than it sounds.”