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What Does It Mean for Something to Be Socially Constructed?

There are at least three things that people might mean by ‘socially constructed’: that something is social, rather than natural; contextual, rather than universal; or that its importance has been inflated.

Holly Lawford-Smith

27 May 2024 · 7 min read

Has the Australian Press Council Been Captured? Quillette Cetera Episode 15

Claire's reporting on trans issues gets her into hot water with the Australian Press Council.

Zoe Booth

31 Aug 2023 · 2 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

PODCAST 107: Trans Pioneer Buck Angel on the Afterlife of a Porn Actor, his Campaign for LGBT Rights, and the Reality of Biological Sex

Trans porn star Buck Angel talks to Jonathan Kay about transitioning at age 28, his life in in adult film, and the infighting within the trans community.

Quillette / Jonathan Kay

2 Sep 2020 · 1 min read

Homophobia and the Modern Trans Movement

Gender dysphoria gradually has replaced homosexuality as a subject of fascination by clinicians and activists.

Sky Gilbert

31 Jan 2019 · 14 min read

The Uncharted Territories of Medically Transitioning Children

Are we venturing into dragon territory with the transitional therapies increasingly made available to transgender youth?

Donna Reynolds

29 Dec 2018 · 16 min read

Quillette Podcast 8 - Trans software developer Corinna Cohn explains why she disagrees with many trans orthodoxies

Canadian editor Jonathan Kay talks to Corinna Cohn, a trans woman and Indianapolis-based software developer who disagrees with Twitter’s policy of banning users who “deadname” trans people and, more generally, doesn’t believe she is obliged to support the causes associated with the Social Justice movement just because Social

Quillette

27 Dec 2018 · 1 min read

Twitter's Trans-Activist Decree

“Men aren’t women,” and the other asked “How are transwomen not men? What is the difference between a man and a transwoman?”

Meghan Murphy

28 Nov 2018 · 14 min read

Writing for Quillette Ended My Theater Project

Do we really think our era is so fraught and divisive that we must abandon our principles in order to achieve something that we absolutely will not achieve if we abandon our principles?

Libby Emmons

20 Nov 2018 · 9 min read

Silencing Women in the Name of Trans Activism

Since I made my story public, Goldstein has tried to suggest that he is the true victim, and that he was bullied into apologizing to me (“a decision I now retract”).

Julie Bindel

31 Oct 2018 · 8 min read

The Unspoken Homophobia Propelling the Transgender Movement in Children

Nowadays, every left-leaning parent and educator seems content to take a child’s word at face value if they say they were born in the wrong body, not realizing that by doing so, an important conversation is being brushed aside.

Debra Soh

23 Oct 2018 · 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

Why Trans Kids Need Gatekeepers

Gatekeeping is not about saying “yes” or “no” straight-up.

Libby DownUnder

31 Jul 2018 · 12 min read