Shuttering the Tavistock The closure of Britain’s scandal-plagued youth gender clinic could help protect distressed children from unnecessary medicalisation. Bernard Lane 5 Aug 2022 · 10 min read
Dave Chappelle vs. the New Puritans As the legendary comedian chalks up prestigious awards and plays to packed houses, his progressive critics look increasingly ridiculous. Allan Stratton 3 Aug 2022 · 9 min read
Gender Ideology Comes to Germany In June, my co-authors and I published an article describing the reality of biological sex. The resulting controversy persists to this day. Uwe Steinhoff 20 Jul 2022 · 7 min read
How Automatic Gender ‘Affirmation’ Hurts Girls and Women We’ve lost sight of a basic feminist insight: To be gender ‘non-conforming‘ isn’t unusual. It’s perfectly normal. Holly Lawford-Smith 13 Jul 2022 · 12 min read
Gender Ideology’s True Believers I spent 25 years in a cultish political sect. Trans activists are giving me déjà vu. Kathleen Hayes 19 May 2022 · 12 min read
The White House’s Specious Gender Manifesto The White House is claiming that the debate about childhood gender medicine is settled—even as numerous international experts are coming forward to say it‘s not. Bernard Lane 13 May 2022 · 18 min read
Gender-Transition Decisions Should Be Made by Families, Not the State This month, the New York Times ran a two-part podcast series titled When Texas Went After Transgender Care, detailing that state’s effort to ban “elective procedures for gender transitioning, including reassignment surgeries that can cause sterilization, mastectomies, removals of otherwise healthy body parts, and administration of puberty-blocking drugs or Lisa Selin Davis 25 Apr 2022 · 9 min read
Female Empowerment Shouldn’t Mean We Have to Imitate Men I recently started work in a male-dominated field, and I’ve been getting a lot of sympathetic remarks about my being “a woman in X.” But something has started to feel a bit off about this line. I’ve realized that being a woman in my field doesn’t actually N. Russell 11 Apr 2022 · 6 min read
How Florida’s Newly Enacted ‘Parental Rights in Education’ Law Actually Protects Gay Students The White House has denounced a new Florida law as “cruel” and “harmful.” In an interview with CNN, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay cabinet member in American history, agreed that the law is “dangerous.” His husband Chasten, a best-selling author, was even more emphatic, declaring that Leor Sapir 1 Apr 2022 · 8 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
A Desister’s Tale How many trans-identified children “desist”? That is, how many identify as transgender for a time, and then eventually stop doing so, prior to medical intervention (as distinct from detransitioners, who return to identifying with their natal sex after undergoing some form of medical transition)? The answer is that no one Lisa Selin Davis 11 Feb 2022 · 9 min read
Why This Feminist Is Taking the University of Bristol to Court Next week, I am taking my university to court. To my knowledge, it is the first time an academic institution has been forced, at trial, to justify why it prioritises trans rights over women’s rights. The other party in the case is the University of Bristol, which one might Raquel Rosario Sánchez 6 Feb 2022 · 15 min read
A Trans Pioneer Explains Her Resignation from the US Professional Association for Transgender Health In the past, we were told that people who were transgender had a deep-seated psychiatric disorder, which no longer is the prevailing view, but for many years it was, which was why so many trans people feel traumatized, especially adult trans people, who were basically told they were crazy. Lisa Selin Davis 6 Jan 2022 · 12 min read
Male and Female Athletic Performance: Worlds Apart The different physical attributes of males and females have functional consequences for sports-relevant outputs. Jon Pike, Emma Hilton, and Leslie A. Howe 11 Dec 2021 · 8 min read
On the Issue of Female Athletics, the IOC Has Shirked Its Duty to Lead The Olympic Movement and its stakeholders have traditionally looked to the IOC for leadership beyond the Games themselves when issues arise that affect the global sports community and the harmonization of regulatory approaches serves everyone’s best interests. Doriane Coleman and Martina Navratilova 29 Nov 2021 · 7 min read