Identity and Conflicts of Interest
It is always the lecturer’s responsibility to ensure that students know that they can speak freely.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 10 min read
gender
A collection of 58 posts
Tickle vs. Giggle
Women-only spaces are valuable, and we should prevent biological males from accessing them, whatever their stated gender identity.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 8 min read
What Does It Mean for Something to Be Socially Constructed?
There are at least three things that people might mean by ‘socially constructed’: that something is social, rather than natural; contextual, rather than universal; or that its importance has been inflated.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 7 min read
Double Standards in the Gender Debate
Butler’s latest book is leftist political propaganda masquerading as the dispassionate work of an academic.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 13 min read
Queen of the Gender Crits
J.K. Rowling’s scathingly effective takedown of Scotland’s Hate Crime and Public Order Act has been a wonder to behold.
Joan Smith
· 16 min read
Why Do Men Dominate Chess?
FIDE’s new policy governing who can compete in women’s categories highlights the persistent sex imbalance at the game’s elite levels.
Carole Hooven
· 27 min read
Is Sanity Returning to the Australian Gender Debate?
There have been numerous incidents of vociferous trans activism in Tasmania, yet it was still possible to pass sensible legislation.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 6 min read
A Gender-Ideology True Believer, Mugged by Reality
When my first son claimed he was trans, I eagerly ‘affirmed’ him. When his three-year-old brother decided he wanted to be trans, too, I realized I’d made a terrible mistake.
Anonymous
· 8 min read
The Sex of Skeletons
To suggest that a spirited discussion of the importance of sex and gender in archeology threatens “scientific integrity” is to misunderstand the nature of science.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 7 min read
Gender’s Truth-Distortion Field
Across the English-speaking world, the discussion of trans rights is governed by taboos, sacred myths, and, in some cases, outright lies.
Sean Masters, Raimund Hume
· 10 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
· 9 min read
Gender Equity When It Suits
Organisations should apply the principle evenhandedly.
Anthony Jorm
· 6 min read
Podcast #207: The Fight to Provide Gender Dysphoric Children with Holistic Therapy Instead of Instant ‘Affirmation’
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with James Esses, an aspiring British therapist who was expelled from his training institute for voicing concerns about ideologically programmed restrictions on the care of trans-identified youth.
Quillette
· 1 min read
Rebalancing the Gender Narrative
Richard Reeves’s new book is a valuable contribution to a gender debate stuck on outdated axioms.
Ari David Blaff
· 7 min read
Gender Ideologues’ Alarming Campaign to Get Kids While They’re Young
In the debate about the wisdom of medicalised gender change for the young, there is a common refrain meant to expose the moral panic and ignorance of sceptics. No young person, we are told, gets any medical intervention before puberty. This may be true, but it obscures the more telling
Bernard Lane
· 10 min read