The Gender Identity Debate
A selection of Quillette essays and interviews examining the cultural, scientific, and legal dimensions of gender identity.
Quillette
· 6 min read
Gender Critical Feminists
A collection of 37 posts
Podcast #305: Managing the Growing Gender-Critical Counterrevolution
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks with Canadian Genspect director Mia Hughes about the emerging ‘gender glasnost’—and the best way to continue rolling back the excesses of trans activism.
Quillette
· 38 min read
Kathleen Stock: Right on Gender, Wrong on Board Games
With the holiday gaming season almost upon us, now is a good time to dispel some of the widely embraced misconceptions that inform her analysis.
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read
In British Columbia, Censorship Wears a Pronoun Pin
Even by Canadian standards, the province has become a hostile environment for women seeking to advocate for their sex-based rights.
Meghan Murphy
· 10 min read
Mandatory Denunciations and the Case of Deeming v Pesutto
That the political opponents of Let Women Speak call them ‘the far right’ doesn’t make them the far right. And the actual far right showing up to their rally uninvited doesn’t make the far right feminists, either.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 8 min read
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
Podcast #246: How Gender Activists Took Over a Scottish Rape-Crisis Centre
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to writer Joan Smith about the scandals that unfolded at the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre under the leadership of its male trans-identified CEO, Mridul Wadhwa.
Jonathan Kay
· 22 min read
Graham Linehan Was Right About Gender Ideology: Quillette Cetera Episode 33
The cancelled comedy writer joins Zoe in the studio to talk about his new memoir.
Zoe Booth
· 1 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
How Australian Law Pushes Vulnerable Women Towards Hiring Male Carers
The law prioritises a man’s sense of his identity over women’s safety, bodily integrity, privacy, dignity, and comfort.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 9 min read
Betraying Their Maverick Roots, Fringe Festivals Have Become Ideological Gatekeepers
A former artistic director of the Nanaimo Fringe Festival describes how transgender activists engineered her ouster.
Bryony Dixon
· 10 min read
Oppressed or Oppressor? Quillette Cetera Episode 16
Debating feminist philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith
Zoe Booth, Holly Lawford-Smith
· 1 min read
In Praise of Gender Crits
“Gender-critical” is a jargonny way of describing the ordinary views held by the vast majority of the planet’s population.
The Quillette Editorial Board
· 9 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