Podcast #296: How LGB Became Estranged from T
Gay activist-turned-journalist Adam Zivo tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay how radicalised forms of trans and queer advocacy became a liability to the once-united LGBT movement.
Transgender
A collection of 75 posts
Awaiting a New Scottish Enlightenment
No country has tried harder to erase biology in the name of transgender rights. But thanks to the efforts of Scotland’s independent-minded feminists, the tide may finally be turning.
Joan Smith
· 19 min read
College Volleyball’s Spartan Meltdown
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.
Jonathan Kay
· 23 min read
In British Columbia, Censorship Wears a Pronoun Pin
Even by Canadian standards, the province has become a hostile environment for women seeking to advocate for their sex-based rights.
Meghan Murphy
· 10 min read
Podcast #246: How Gender Activists Took Over a Scottish Rape-Crisis Centre
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to writer Joan Smith about the scandals that unfolded at the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre under the leadership of its male trans-identified CEO, Mridul Wadhwa.
Jonathan Kay
· 22 min read
Gaslighting Scottish Rape Victims in the Name of ‘Trans Inclusion’
For three years, Edinburgh’s rape-crisis centre was run by a male CEO who lectured sex-assault victims and staff about their ‘prejudice’ against the male body. How was this allowed to happen?
Joan Smith
· 17 min read
In Defence of John Money
How did this famed sexologist become reviled at both ends of the culture-war horseshoe?
Alex Byrne
· 12 min read
The Campaign to Erase Biological Sex
In a new book, excerpted below, Duke Law School professor Doriane Lambelet Coleman argues that we can support trans people without denying the facts of human biology.
Doriane Lambelet Coleman
· 13 min read
Eager to ‘Affirm,’ Yet Unwilling to Debate
A prominent South Carolina doctor and transgender rights activist has made a great show of calling England’s Cass Review “a sham at best”—but now refuses to say why.
Colin Wright
· 7 min read
What an Honest Conversation About Gender Sounds Like
Self-styled trans apostate Debbie Hayton isn’t craving anyone’s ‘affirmation’—because she knows she’s not really a woman.
Jonathan Kay
· 8 min read
Podcast #235: Coming to Terms with Autogynephilia
‘How I see things now is that I’m a self-attracted male person who prefers to be perceived by the rest of the world as a woman. That’s who I am.’
Quillette, Debbie Hayton
· 23 min read
The Cass Effect
A landmark report properly emphasises the application of science, not slogans, in establishing treatment protocols for trans-identified children.
The Quillette Editorial Board
· 14 min read
From Banana Slugs to Human Beings, There Are Just Two Sexes
An examination of 18 supposedly ‘trans animals’ disproves activist claims that we all live on a non-binary gender ‘spectrum.’
Emma Hilton, Jonathan Kay
· 11 min read
The Damage Caused by Trans ‘Inclusion’ In Female Athletics: a Massachusetts Case Study
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.
Jonathan Kay
· 18 min read
Transition and Apostasy: A Wife’s Perspective
The wife of a biologically male transsexual explains how she helped her gender dysphoric spouse look beyond the simplistic slogans offered by online activists.
Stephanie Hayton
· 10 min read