Trans Issues - Quillette

Pesutto, a middle aged white man in suit and tie. Deeming is a beautiful brunette white woman with a T-shirt that says WOMAN.

Mandatory Denunciations and the Case of Deeming v Pesutto

That the political opponents of Let Women Speak call them ‘the far right’ doesn’t make them the far right. And the actual far right showing up to their rally uninvited doesn’t make the far right feminists, either.

Holly Lawford-Smith

26 Sep 2024 · 8 min read

Podcast #252: Trans Rights, Israel, and the Progressive Circus

Iona Italia talks to Democratic political campaigner Brianna Wu about finding a more sensible approach to trans rights and combating progressive insanity.

Quillette

25 Sep 2024 · 51 min read

A colourful male and dull female mandarin duck. Representing sexual dimorphism.

Race Is a Spectrum. Sex Is Pretty Damn Binary

Male versus female is one of surprisingly few genuine dichotomies.

Richard Dawkins

6 Sep 2024 · 12 min read

Banning the Blockers

Gender clinics from Stockholm to San Francisco have been running an uncontrolled experiment on children, while cloaked in the mantle of human rights.

Bernard Lane

25 Mar 2024 · 9 min read

Is G Flip A Woman?

If we siphon off all female diversity into categories like 'non-binary' we narrow the idea of what it means to be a woman.

Holly Lawford-Smith

20 Mar 2024 · 7 min read

You Can’t Buy an Authentic Self

We should be wary of teaching the next generation that identity is something that can be bought.

Freya India

14 Mar 2024 · 7 min read

Is Sanity Returning to the Australian Gender Debate?

There have been numerous incidents of vociferous trans activism in Tasmania, yet it was still possible to pass sensible legislation.

Holly Lawford-Smith

21 Jan 2024 · 6 min read

Trans Identity and the Right to Exist

This is substance metaphysics for the twenty-first century.

Holly Lawford-Smith

6 Oct 2023 · 10 min read

Killed for a Rainbow Flag: Are Critics of Trans Ideology Responsible?

The inflammatory rhetoric that attempts to link hideous crimes like the recent shooting with legitimate concerns is misleading and misguided.

T.M. Murray

1 Sep 2023 · 6 min read

Trans Activists’ Campaign Against ‘TERFs’ has Become an Attack on Science

While the culture-war skirmish over transgenderism typically is treated as a debate about culture or sociology, it is also a debate about the primacy of science.

Julian Vigo

18 Oct 2018 · 12 min read