A collection of 38 posts
Caldas’s tragicomic sixteen-year saga—spanning record-breaking runs in four sports—demonstrates just how far some male athletes will go to hide their true identities.
An absurd trial, a prurient media circus, and a failure of feminist ethics.
Disco Demolition Night was an early episode of culture and counterculture being saddled with far greater political significance than they deserved.
When I played pro volleyball twenty years ago, I never heard anyone seriously argue that biological differences between men and women aren’t important. Such a claim would have been laughable.
In a scathing Title IX Complaint obtained by Quillette, a San José State University women’s volleyball coach explains how her school’s aggressively enforced transgender-inclusion policy created a toxic environment for female athletes.
The boxing debacle in Paris has cast an embarrassing spotlight on the IOC’s willingness to embrace nonsensical gender theory.
Every essay Quillette has published on gender ambiguous and trans-identified men competing against biological women in sport.
Why are we encouraged to applaud the bravery of those who quit under pressure?
The end of greatness in heavyweight combat sports.
A single biologically male high-school student has invaded female categories in at least four different sports—negatively affecting hundreds of girls and women in the process.
FIDE’s new policy governing who can compete in women’s categories highlights the persistent sex imbalance at the game’s elite levels.
The uproar over a fleeting outburst of uninhibited joy is ludicrous.
A recent dust-up involving NHL goalie James Reimer demonstrates the folly of pitting Pride PR against the conscience of individual actors.
Lineker has embarrassed the BBC but the vexing problem of illegal immigration will still have to be addressed.
With a biologically male athlete poised to break a Canadian women’s record, it’s time for the sport’s leaders to acknowledge the reality of sexual dimorphism.