Trans Identity and the Right to Exist This is substance metaphysics for the twenty-first century. Holly Lawford-Smith 6 Oct 2023 · 10 min read
Sex Discrimination Without Sex Sex, according to the Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner, means almost nothing at all. Holly Lawford-Smith 15 Sep 2023 · 10 min read
Oppressed or Oppressor? Quillette Cetera Episode 16 Debating feminist philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith Zoe Booth / Holly Lawford-Smith 7 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
On Political Hatred On everything from Syrian refugees through Brexit and climate change to so-called gender-affirmative medicine, people take a totalizing approach to disagreement: either you agree with me, or you are despicable. Holly Lawford-Smith 24 Aug 2023 · 7 min read
What Even Is ‘Trans’? A new book on gender leaves no space for gender non-conformity that is not defined as 'trans' Holly Lawford-Smith 26 Jun 2023 · 7 min read
Campus Speech and Compromised Safety As universities try desperately to serve two masters (knowledge production; diversity and inclusion), they will increasingly end up sanctioning speech that should be protected. Holly Lawford-Smith 31 May 2023 · 9 min read
The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling Continue Dissecting a lengthy YouTube attack on gender-critical feminists Holly Lawford-Smith 26 Apr 2023 · 15 min read
Mobbed but Unbowed: An Interview with Kellie-Jay Keen Holly Lawford-Smith sits down with the women’s rights activist now leading the charge against gender ideologues. Holly Lawford-Smith 4 Apr 2023 · 10 min read
Is There Such a Thing as a Good Academic-Activist? The problem isn’t that some academics are activists. It’s that some academics do activism badly. Holly Lawford-Smith 20 Mar 2023 · 10 min read
The Ethos of Female Prisons A philosopher breaks down the debate over how to treat male criminals who self-identity as women. Holly Lawford-Smith 16 Feb 2023 · 12 min read
Vices of Mainstream Feminism The movement no longer spares a thought for women who fail to claim additional oppressed identities. Holly Lawford-Smith 18 Jan 2023 · 8 min read
Ending Discrimination by Twitter Gender critical feminists are among those who have been excluded from Twitter for years. The time is right for a correction. Holly Lawford-Smith 28 Nov 2022 · 9 min read
How Automatic Gender ‘Affirmation’ Hurts Girls and Women We’ve lost sight of a basic feminist insight: To be gender ‘non-conforming‘ isn’t unusual. It’s perfectly normal. Holly Lawford-Smith 13 Jul 2022 · 12 min read
How the Trans-Rights Movement Is Turning Philosophers Into Activists Can we not treat trans people as the sex they identify with for almost all purposes, and still make some distinctions when it comes to female-only spaces, services and provisions? Holly Lawford-Smith 20 Sep 2019 · 17 min read
