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Richard Reeves’s new book is a valuable contribution to a gender debate stuck on outdated axioms.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
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A collection of 60 posts
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
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
· 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
· 10 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
· 7 min read
Quillette's Best on Gender Identity
When Sons Become Daughters | Angus Fox * Part 1 * Part 2 * Part 3 * Part 4 * Part 5 * Part 6 “Parents have been complaining about their kids’ lifestyle choices and political convictions since the dawn of time, of course. But rarely have such choices involved committing oneself to the possibility of sterility
Quillette
· 4 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
· 17 min read
The Incoherence of Gender Ideology
To understand the coherence and moral import of transgender rights claims, we must first define what it is that we mean by “transgender.”
Michael Robillard
· 21 min read
Like It Or Not, Keira Bell Has Opened Up a Real Conversation About Gender Dysphoria
In the debate about transitioning children who experience gender dysphoria, Ms. Bell’s case represents an important turning point.
Quillette
· 9 min read
The Real Causes of Human Sex Differences
The prevailing view in the social and behavioral sciences is that human sex differences are typically small in magnitude, largely social in origin, and driven by gender roles (below).
David C. Geary
· 12 min read
PODCAST 112: Sex Neuroscientist Debra Soh on Her New Book, The End of Gender
Quillette Editor Jonathan Kay talks to scientist and author Dr Debra Soh about the misinformation being peddled to young people about biological sex and transition—and the most humane ways to help people who experience gender dysphoria. Debra has just published The End of Gender.
Quillette, Jonathan Kay, Debra Soh
· 1 min read
Discovering the Link Between Gender Identity and Peer Contagion
The lack of childhood history was critical, since traditional gender dysphoria typically begins in early childhood.
Abigail Shrier
· 8 min read
She Who Must Not Be Named
Using “female” instead of “woman” is clearly an attempt to avoid circularity. The problem is that “female” is not something you can identify as.
Helen Joyce
· 6 min read
COVID-19's Gender Gap
This negative narrative around men risks exacerbating the gender empathy gap, part of a wider unconscious bias against men, recently identified as an aspect of gamma bias.
John Barry
· 5 min read
The Ranks of Gender Detransitioners Are Growing. We Need to Understand Why
Until recently, those seeking transition generally were subject to extensive assessment by mental health practitioners.
Lisa Marchiano
· 8 min read