Gender Critical Feminists - Quillette (Page 2)

Philosophy’s No-Go Zone

An MIT professor describes the outraged reaction from fellow philosophers when he argued that a woman is an adult human female.

Alex Byrne 17 Apr 2023 · 19 min read

Mobbed but Unbowed: An Interview with Kellie-Jay Keen

Holly Lawford-Smith sits down with the women’s rights activist now leading the charge against gender ideologues.

Holly Lawford-Smith 4 Apr 2023 · 10 min read

An Auckland Mob Shut Down a Women’s Rights Activist—And Proved Her Point

The violent treatment of Kellie-Jay Keen betrays the fanaticism and misogyny that has infected progressive gender politics.

The Quillette Editorial Board 28 Mar 2023 · 8 min read

Is There Such a Thing as a Good Academic-Activist?

The problem isn’t that some academics are activists. It’s that some academics do activism badly.

Holly Lawford-Smith 20 Mar 2023 · 10 min read

The Ethos of Female Prisons

A philosopher breaks down the debate over how to treat male criminals who self-identity as women.

Holly Lawford-Smith 16 Feb 2023 · 12 min read

A Mob Stormed a Feminist Event at McGill Law School—in Defence of Gender Justice, of Course

Intended as an expression of trans rights, the fracas instead illustrated why many LGB feminists want to escape their ‘forced teaming’ with trans activists.

Jonathan Kay 12 Jan 2023 · 8 min read

Ending Discrimination by Twitter

Gender critical feminists are among those who have been excluded from Twitter for years. The time is right for a correction.

Holly Lawford-Smith 28 Nov 2022 · 9 min read

Once a Man, Never a Woman

In an extraordinary new book, Shannon Thrace describes her disintegrating marriage to a man consumed by narcissism and gender dysphoria.

Jonathan Kay 16 Oct 2022 · 11 min read

Podcast # 195: Meet the 80-Year-Old Feminist Who Got Banned From the YMCA for Protesting Male Bodies in the Women’s Locker Room

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks to Port Townsend, WA-area swimmer Julie Jaman, the octogenarian whose efforts to keep biological men out of a changing area reserved for girls and women led to accusations of transphobia, a visit with the police, multiple town-council debates, and an ongoing Twitter campaign called

Quillette 12 Aug 2022 · 1 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

How Automatic Gender ‘Affirmation’ Hurts Girls and Women

We’ve lost sight of a basic feminist insight: To be gender ‘non-conforming‘ isn’t unusual. It’s perfectly normal.

Holly Lawford-Smith 13 Jul 2022 · 12 min read

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

In November 2020, the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) informed me that I was under investigation for my “off-duty conduct.” My disciplinary hearing is scheduled to take place from May 30th through June 3rd, and my career as a nurse hangs in the balance. I have been

Amy Eileen Hamm 8 Apr 2022 · 8 min read

Why This Feminist Is Taking the University of Bristol to Court

Next week, I am taking my university to court. To my knowledge, it is the first time an academic institution has been forced, at trial, to justify why it prioritises trans rights over women’s rights. The other party in the case is the University of Bristol, which one might

Raquel Rosario Sánchez 6 Feb 2022 · 15 min read

Studying the True Face of Gender Ideology

While many of us are lazy and gullible in our ideological commitments, pledging allegiance to faddish notions so that we may be seen as enlightened, such vanities tend to fall away once we see evidence that proves we’ve been duped.

Jonathan Kay 20 Oct 2021 · 16 min read

The Progressive Case for Renouncing Gender Extremism: Last of a Three-Part Series

Allan Stratton 21 Sep 2021 · 18 min read