On the Issue of Female Athletics, the IOC Has Shirked Its Duty to Lead
It’s wrong to make everyone wait for proof of the obvious when it comes to genetic males outperforming genetic females.
Gender Dysphoria
A collection of 44 posts
Studying the True Face of Gender Ideology
While many of us are lazy and gullible in our ideological commitments, pledging allegiance to faddish notions so that we may be seen as enlightened, such vanities tend to fall away once we see evidence that proves we’ve been duped.
Jonathan Kay
· 16 min read
The Progressive Case for Renouncing Gender Extremism: Last of a Three-Part Series
Allan Stratton
· 18 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
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
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
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
Reflections on My Decision to Change Gender
It’s the same for a born female going the other way, to male—which by the way seems on recent evidence to be about as frequently desired as male to female.
Deirdre McCloskey
· 19 min read
What Is Autogynephilia? An Interview with Dr Ray Blanchard
Modern trans activists reframed transsexualism/transgenderism as a political problem rather than a clinical problem.
Louise Perry
· 11 min read
Ignoring Differences Between Men and Women Is the Wrong Way to Address Gender Dysphoria
The main problem with sex eliminationism is that, in a nutshell, it leaves us with no adequate language to describe a politically important feature of material reality.
Kathleen Stock
· 27 min read
I Have Gender Dysphoria. But your Trans-Identified Child May Not
The prevalence of Gender Dysphoria is not nearly as high as many activists would have you believe.
Todd Whitworth
· 8 min read
The New Patriarchy: How Trans Radicalism Hurts Women, Children—and Trans People Themselves
Gender dysphoria was viewed as a rare and distressing condition that could be alleviated by accommodating sufferers as legal exceptions to the rules of biology.
Helen Joyce
· 32 min read
Trans Activism's Dangerous Myth of Parental Rejection
A third problem with the belief that parental rejection is the norm is that it makes for bad policy.
Lisa Marchiano
· 13 min read