gender - Quillette (Page 2)

Male Underachievement and the Gender Turf Wars

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

12 Sep 2021 · 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

12 Sep 2021 · 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

8 Sep 2021 · 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

7 Sep 2021 · 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

4 Aug 2021 · 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

18 Dec 2020 · 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

20 Oct 2020 · 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

19 Sep 2020 · 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 Jul 2020 · 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

20 Jun 2020 · 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

22 Apr 2020 · 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

2 Jan 2020 · 8 min read

Is Gender a Social Construct?

It appears that biology plays a powerful role in our internalized sense of gender as well as our preference for gendered behaviors (allowing for non-trivial social influences, particular for the latter).