Diversity Debate - Quillette (Page 2)

When Sons Become Daughters, Part II: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering

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.

Angus Fox

6 Apr 2021 · 32 min read

Facts Don’t Care About Your Diversity Training Certificate—A Critique of Credentialism

The basic fact that famous experts are often wrong is not itself in dispute—but is worth reviewing.

Wilfred Reilly

4 Apr 2021 · 10 min read

When Sons Become Daughters: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering

Many of the young men in question have, in moments of candour, hinted that their motivations for transition are unrelated to actual gender dysphoria.

Angus Fox

2 Apr 2021 · 11 min read

The Campaign of Lies Against Journalist Jesse Singal—And Why It Matters

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.

Jonathan Kay

18 Mar 2021 · 13 min read

Replacing One Kind of ‘Conversion Therapy’ With Another

In many cases, therapists will disagree on the cause, as will the patient himself or herself.

James Esses

11 Mar 2021 · 7 min read

How a Single Anonymous Twitter Account Caused an ‘Indigenized’ Canadian University to Unravel

The main beneficiaries are more likely to be privileged administrators who burnish their bona fides by filling alumni magazines and email blasts with Indigenous photo-ops.

Jonathan Kay

6 Mar 2021 · 17 min read

The Problem With ‘Indigenizing the University’

Everyone, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike, is free to explore their own spiritual beliefs, of course. But the university is not the place for such exercises.

Frances Widdowson

24 Feb 2021 · 13 min read

Accommodating Trans Athletes Without Rejecting the Reality of Human Biology

As recent studies have shown, these advantages generally don’t go away simply because an athlete has changed their pronouns and hormone chemistry. At the highest levels, the difference between male and female world records typically hovers around 10 percent.

Quillette

17 Feb 2021 · 11 min read

A (Failed) Campaign to Smear a University of Toronto Scholarship Student as a Bigot

The problem, he notes is that there is always going to be a required balance between our trusting inclination of accusations from an apparent victim, and everyone’s inviolable right of due process.

Michael Humeniuk

8 Feb 2021 · 12 min read

First, Do No Harm: A New Model for Treating Trans-Identified Children

Individuals with a fragile ego structure also tend to be prone toward black-and-white thinking, which leads them to concrete rather than symbolic solutions.

Susan Evans and Marcus Evans

4 Feb 2021 · 16 min read

A Student Mob Took Over Bryn Mawr. The College Said Thank You

Anyone who sought to attend class, go to the dining hall, or even turn in schoolwork was denounced as a “scab,” and often faced acts of bullying.

Minnie Doe

27 Dec 2020 · 10 min read

An 'Anti-Racist' Mob Set Its Sights on Humble ‘Squampton.’ Here’s How the Town Fought Back

Though the population is largely white, Squamish has steadily become more diverse in recent years, and now boasts a thriving Sikh community.

Brian Vincent

20 Dec 2020 · 18 min read

Race and Social Panic at Haverford: A Case Study in Educational Dysfunction

Not so long ago, one might have been able to count on the naturally oppositional reflexes of young adults as a counterbalance to this kind of crowdsourced social panic.

Jonathan Kay

1 Dec 2020 · 24 min read

I’m a Professor from an Immigrant Family. Please Stop Telling Me That My University Is Racist

What’s worse, anyone who points out the nonsensical and performative aspects of these presidential letters will be gaslit for his troubles—this, in a supposed citadel of logic and learning.

Theodore Pennington

29 Nov 2020 · 7 min read

Retracting a Controversial Paper Won’t Help Female Scientists

No scientific study is perfect and AlShebli et al.’s is certainly no exception.

Tania Reynolds

23 Nov 2020 · 18 min read