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As sexual violence was reaching historic lows, the narrative was demanding the opposite. The definition of sexual violence began to be broadened, and so the numbers grew.
The recent spike in trans self-identification has made things even more difficult for these parents, because gender-related body dysmorphia often appears alongside other kinds of physically focused anxieties.
Long COVID is just the latest example of the sort of idea that will become popular among this generation—and it certainly won’t be the last.
Gay men and women fought long and hard to be accepted for who they are, often battling reactionary bigotry in the process.
It is precisely because black lives matter that we must recognize that defunding the police has only hurt those it was intended to help.
This isn’t to say that all causes of transgenderism are exogenous: the presence of neuro-atypical cognition comes up over and over, as does the sons’ process of discovering (or rejecting) their sexuality.
The basic fact that famous experts are often wrong is not itself in dispute—but is worth reviewing.
Many of the young men in question have, in moments of candour, hinted that their motivations for transition are unrelated to actual gender dysphoria.
Two hours to the west of Montreal, the University of Ottawa is now in the midst of its own racism-free anti-racism social panic.
In some former British colonies, confronting the dispossession and murder of native peoples has prompted efforts at apology and restitution.
“The Prisoner of Sex”—in both magazine and book form—was largely a baroque riposte to Kate Millett’s bestselling feminist polemic Sexual Politics.
It is misleading to characterize the web as a quasi-democracy.
One of the odd-seeming aspects of progressive cancel culture is that many of the figures targeted by mobs aren’t especially conservative in their views.
Science as a discipline is supposed to be based on empirical evidence.
Leaving was a relief but also a loss. There’s plenty to love about Portland.