For 30 Years, I've Tried to Become a Woman. Here’s What I Learned Along the Way
The mirror doesn’t lie.
Transgender
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PODCAST 96: Helen Joyce on the Odd Redefinition of the Word "Woman"
Listen onSpotify Quillette contributor Helen Joyce talks to Jonathan Kay about the many ways in which gender ideologues have tied themselves in knots by trying to make the sisterhood more “inclusive”.
As Common Sense Returns to the Gender Debate, Radicals Set Upon Their Own Allies
The entire argument was about whether one particular trans ally had become too famous at the expense of more worthy and authentic competitors.
The Ranks of Gender Detransitioners Are Growing. We Need to Understand Why
Until recently, those seeking transition generally were subject to extensive assessment by mental health practitioners.
Male-Bodied Rapists Are Being Imprisoned With Women. Why Do so Few People Care?
It appears that common sense is forgotten once the words “gender identity” are invoked.
Stonewall's LGBT Guidance is Limiting the Free Speech of Gender Critical Academics
But that’s the thing about freedom of speech: you tend not to notice it being curtailed until it’s your speech that’s being restricted.
Quillette Podcast 23 – Catholic journalist Caroline Farrow talks about being investigated by the British police for misgendering a transwoman
Caroline’s ordeal began six months ago when she appeared on a TV show called Good Morning Britain
Jesse Singal talks about the reaction to his controversial Atlantic story on transgender adolescents
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Quillette Podcast 8 — Trans Software Developer Corinna Cohn on Trans Orthodoxies
Listen onSpotify 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
The New Patriarchy — How Trans Radicalism Hurts Women, Children, and Trans People
Gender dysphoria was viewed as a rare and distressing condition that could be alleviated by accommodating sufferers as legal exceptions to the rules of biology.
Quillette Podcast 4 — Meghan Murphy on Why Twitter Was Wrong to Ban Her
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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.