Identity - Quillette (Page 5)

Gaslighting the Concerned Parents of Trans Children—A Psychotherapist’s View

I first met Jo and Carol in Manchester two years ago, when I spoke as a clinician on a panel at what is believed to be the first conference dedicated to the issue of detransitioners (people who once presented themselves as transgender, but then decided to live in accordance with

Stella O’Malley

4 May 2021 · 15 min read

James Baldwin and the Trouble with Protest Literature

“The hardest thing in the world to do,” wrote Ernest Hemingway in a 1934 article for Esquire, “is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn and anybody is

Samuel Kronen

2 May 2021 · 24 min read

The White of the AI

The essence of AI is not white oppression, racism, sexism, and colonialism, it is the automation of mathematics and logic.

Sean Welsh

23 Apr 2021 · 9 min read

When Sons Become Daughters, Part IV: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering

The recent spike in trans self-identification has made things even more difficult for these parents, because gender-related body dysmorphia often appears alongside other kinds of physically focused anxieties.

Angus Fox

21 Apr 2021 · 17 min read

Australian Indigenous Activists Call Out White Feminism's Deadly Blind Spot

The very language we now use to discuss social justice and feminism is being subjected to American critical-race ideology and intersectional feminism.

Edie Wyatt

19 Apr 2021 · 8 min read

The Permanence of Segregation

Indeed, given existing levels of residential segregation on all continents—urban, suburban, and rural—it is also not practically possible (and almost always politically impossible) to redraw the lines that determine attendance in ways that would produce more integration.

Michael S. Merry

16 Apr 2021 · 16 min read

The Search to Explain Our Anxiety and Depression: Will ‘Long COVID’ Become the Next Gender Ideology?

Long COVID is just the latest example of the sort of idea that will become popular among this generation—and it certainly won’t be the last.

Jonathan Kay

15 Apr 2021 · 9 min read

Can You Teach Children to be Anti-Racist?

Just as we can teach children multiplication facts, we assume we can teach them the attitudes to the world that we want them to have.

Greg Ashman

13 Apr 2021 · 6 min read

When Sons Become Daughters, Part III: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering

Gay men and women fought long and hard to be accepted for who they are, often battling reactionary bigotry in the process.

Angus Fox

12 Apr 2021 · 18 min read

When Sons Become Daughters, Part II: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering

This isn’t to say that all causes of transgenderism are exogenous: the presence of neuro-atypical cognition comes up over and over, as does the sons’ process of discovering (or rejecting) their sexuality.

Angus Fox

6 Apr 2021 · 32 min read