Gender Ambiguity, Transgenderism and Women's Sport
Every essay Quillette has published on gender ambiguous and trans-identified men competing against biological women in sport.
Quillette Members
· 3 min read
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A collection of 14 posts
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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 12 min read
Why Trans Kids Need Gatekeepers
Gatekeeping is not about saying “yes” or “no” straight-up.
Libby DownUnder
· 12 min read