Gender Dysphoria - Quillette (Page 3)

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

20 Oct 2021 · 16 min read

The Progressive Case for Renouncing Gender Extremism: Last of a Three-Part Series

Allan Stratton

21 Sep 2021 · 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

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

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

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

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

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

10 Nov 2019 · 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

6 Nov 2019 · 10 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

11 Apr 2019 · 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

7 Mar 2019 · 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

4 Dec 2018 · 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

20 Jul 2018 · 13 min read