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Laura Becker shirtless but with her nipples covered. She looks sad with a rainbow effect & broken heart painted on her chest.

I Thought Being a Gay Man Would Save Me From Womanhood (It Didn’t)

Queer theory transformed me from a depressed, weird, intellectually curious child into a brainwashed teen who disfigured her body.

Laura Becker

18 Nov 2024 · 11 min read

A Gender-Ideology True Believer, Mugged by Reality

When my first son claimed he was trans, I eagerly ‘affirmed’ him. When his three-year-old brother decided he wanted to be trans, too, I realized I’d made a terrible mistake.

Anonymous

16 Oct 2023 · 8 min read

Podcast #222: Journalist John Colapinto on the Tragic Tale of David Reimer, The Boy Who Was Raised a Girl

David Reimer's story is a cautionary tale of what can happen when you mess with a child's gender identity.

Quillette

12 Sep 2023 · 3 min read

Four Corners' Failure

In its treatment of gender clinics, the flagship investigative program of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation failed to present crucial evidence.

Bernard Lane

21 Jul 2023 · 11 min read

Hormones First. Research Later

A Review of Hannah Barnes’s ‘Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children‘

Bernard Lane

14 Mar 2023 · 14 min read

Understanding the Rise of Transgender Identities

The social dynamics of girls’ and women’s friendship groups, including a desire to fit in and avoid conflict, may make them more susceptible to social contagion.

David C. Geary

10 Feb 2023 · 13 min read

Podcast #207: The Fight to Provide Gender Dysphoric Children with Holistic Therapy Instead of Instant ‘Affirmation’

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with James Esses, an aspiring British therapist who was expelled from his training institute for voicing concerns about ideologically programmed restrictions on the care of trans-identified youth.

Quillette

9 Feb 2023 · 1 min read

Gender Ideologues Have Co-opted the Campaign Against Conversion Therapy

I spent years campaigning for a law that would protect gay youth from the ‘corrective’ abuse that I’d once endured. Then the trans-rights lobby got involved.

Peter Gajdics

4 Jun 2022 · 11 min read

PODCAST 68: Clinical psychologist Dr James Cantor Criticises the American Academy of Pediatrics' Guidelines for Treating Trans Children

Dr James Cantor, clinical psychologist and sexologist, talks to Jonathan Kay about his recent peer-reviewed critique of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ guidelines on treating trans children.

Quillette / Jonathan Kay

24 Dec 2019 · 1 min read