Transgenderism

What Even Is ‘Trans’?

A new book on gender leaves no space for gender non-conformity that is not defined as 'trans'

26 Jun 2023 · 7 min read

Sexual and Gender Identity: Four Competing Paradigms

If we are going to expend so much effort on the topic of gender and sexual identity, we should be clear and rigorous in how we think about it.

William Vex

11 Apr 2023 · 15 min read

Understanding the Rise of Transgender Identities

The social dynamics of girls’ and women’s friendship groups, including a desire to fit in and avoid conflict, may make them more susceptible to social contagion.

David C. Geary

10 Feb 2023 · 13 min read

Affirming Your Inner Fursona

For some, gender transition is just a way station en route to more exotic (and furrier) trans-species identities.

Steven Tucker

16 Nov 2022 · 9 min read

Shuttering the Tavistock

The closure of Britain’s scandal-plagued youth gender clinic could help protect distressed children from unnecessary medicalisation.

Bernard Lane

5 Aug 2022 · 10 min read

Dave Chappelle vs. the New Puritans

As the legendary comedian chalks up prestigious awards and plays to packed houses, his progressive critics look increasingly ridiculous.

Allan Stratton

3 Aug 2022 · 9 min read

Gender Ideology Comes to Germany

In June, my co-authors and I published an article describing the reality of biological sex. The resulting controversy persists to this day.

Uwe Steinhoff

20 Jul 2022 · 6 min read

Gender Ideologues Have Co-opted the Campaign Against Conversion Therapy

I spent years campaigning for a law that would protect gay youth from the ‘corrective’ abuse that I’d once endured. Then the trans-rights lobby got involved.

Peter Gajdics

4 Jun 2022 · 10 min read

Gender Ideology’s True Believers

I spent 25 years in a cultish political sect. Trans activists are giving me déjà vu.

Kathleen Hayes

19 May 2022 · 12 min read

Gender-Transition Decisions Should Be Made by Families, Not the State

This month, the New York Times ran a two-part podcast series titled When Texas Went After Transgender Care [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/podcasts/the-daily/transgender-teenagers-clinic-texas.html] , detailing that state’s effort to ban [https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/O-MastersJaime202202221358.pdf] “elective procedures for gender transitioning,

Lisa Selin Davis

25 Apr 2022 · 9 min read

I’m Being Investigated by the British Columbia College of Nurses Because I Believe Biological Sex Is Real

Amy Eileen Hamm

8 Apr 2022 · 8 min read

Gender Ideologues’ Alarming Campaign to Get Kids While They’re Young

In the debate about the wisdom of medicalised gender change for the young, there is a common refrain meant to expose the moral panic and ignorance of sceptics. No young person, we are told, gets any medical intervention before puberty. This may be true, but it obscures the more telling