The Gender Identity Debate
A selection of Quillette essays and interviews examining the cultural, scientific, and legal dimensions of gender identity.
Quillette
· 7 min read
Transgender
A collection of 83 posts
The Canadian Paediatric Society Is Trapped in a Pre-Cass Time Warp
While other jurisdictions adopt balanced, evidence-based protocols for treating gender dysphoria, the CPS has doubled down on an obsolete policy instructing doctors to reflexively ‘affirm’ trans-identified youth.
Chan Kulatunga Moruzi, Peter Sim, Ian Mitchell, Darrell Palmer, Ari R. Joffe
· 30 min read
We Need to Talk About Trans-Identified Killers
The Westman school massacre, explained.
Forest Romm, Kevin Waldman, Zoe Booth
· 6 min read
We Need to Talk About Trans-Identified Killers
The list of violent criminals who imagine they were ‘born in the wrong body’ is growing.
Forest Romm, Kevin Waldman
· 12 min read
Podcast #306: Desexing the Language of Motherhood with Karleen Gribble
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Dr Karleen Gribble, who works in the field of maternal and infant health, on the impacts of desexed language on women’s healthcare and wellbeing.
Quillette, Iona Italia
· 23 min read
Podcast #305: Managing the Growing Gender-Critical Counterrevolution
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks with Canadian Genspect director Mia Hughes about the emerging ‘gender glasnost’—and the best way to continue rolling back the excesses of trans activism.
Quillette
· 38 min read
Showing Us Their True Colours
The gleeful response to Charlie Kirk’s murder from high-profile trans activists channels the same morbid, dehumanizing rhetoric they regularly spew at ‘TERFs.’
Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
In Defence of Malcolm Gladwell
He’s hardly the only writer who pretended to believe men can become women. If we shame him for confessing his intellectual dishonesty, we discourage others from doing likewise.
Jonathan Kay
· 6 min read
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.
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