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 · 5 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Rebalancing the Gender Narrative Richard Reeves’s new book is a valuable contribution to a gender debate stuck on outdated axioms.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 · 6 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 · 9 min read
Judith Butler: Enough Already! Maybe Butler is an anti-identitarian when it comes to gender, but she sure defends her political identity most rigidly, indeed, in an obscurantist way. Lama Abu-Odeh 12 Sep 2021 · 6 min read
The Truth about Autogynephilia Sexual tastes you do not share are inevitably hard to comprehend. But autogynephilia is especially so, since it is rare and even more rarely spoken of. Helen Joyce 7 Sep 2021 · 17 min read