Gender Critical Feminists

Kathleen Stock is a middle-aged white woman with short, grey hair. In the background, female symbols and board game pieces.

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

13 Dec 2024 · 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

2 Oct 2024 · 10 min read

Pesutto, a middle aged white man in suit and tie. Deeming is a beautiful brunette white woman with a T-shirt that says WOMAN.

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

26 Sep 2024 · 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

27 Aug 2024 · 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

9 Aug 2024 · 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

13 Apr 2024 · 1 min read

A still image of Judith Butler speaking. An LGBTIQ flag in the background.

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

Billboard with the text "I HEART JK ROWLING"

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

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

2 Jan 2024 · 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

24 Oct 2023 · 10 min read

Oppressed or Oppressor? Quillette Cetera Episode 16

Debating feminist philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith

Zoe Booth / Holly Lawford-Smith

7 Sep 2023 · 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

16 Jun 2023 · 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

31 May 2023 · 9 min read

Fictionalizing Māori History in the Name of Gender Ideology

Around the world, trans activists are cynically attempting to drape their faddish colonial theories in the garb of timeless Indigenous wisdom.

Dianne Landy

4 May 2023 · 8 min read

The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling Continue

Dissecting a lengthy YouTube attack on gender-critical feminists

Holly Lawford-Smith

26 Apr 2023 · 15 min read