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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

27 May 2024 · 7 min read

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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

12 Apr 2024 · 13 min read

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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

11 Apr 2024 · 16 min read

The only female contestant at the Hungarian OHRA Chess Festival, Susan Polgar, July 18, 1985. Alamy

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

22 Mar 2024 · 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

21 Jan 2024 · 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

16 Oct 2023 · 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

11 Oct 2023 · 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 Jun 2023 · 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

31 May 2023 · 9 min read

Gender Equity When It Suits

Organisations should apply the principle evenhandedly.

Anthony Jorm

13 Mar 2023 · 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

9 Feb 2023 · 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

30 Dec 2022 · 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

29 Mar 2022 · 10 min read

Involuntarily Celibate: Explanations and Practical Solutions to a Dangerous Phenomenon

The overall picture from our results is that places where local conditions make it harder than usual for young men to establish themselves as attractive mating prospects tend also to be places where online Incel action is more common.

Rob Brooks

20 Jan 2022 · 6 min read

Male Underachievement and the Gender Turf Wars

The educational advancement of women is strange when viewed alongside the floundering of men.

Ari David Blaff

12 Sep 2021 · 10 min read