Transgender
A collection of 73 posts
Quillette's Best on Gender Identity
When Sons Become Daughters | Angus Fox * Part 1 * Part 2 * Part 3 * Part 4 * Part 5 * Part 6 “Parents have been complaining about their kids’ lifestyle choices and political convictions since the dawn of time, of course. But rarely have such choices involved committing oneself to the possibility of sterility
Like It Or Not, Keira Bell Has Opened Up a Real Conversation About Gender Dysphoria
In the debate about transitioning children who experience gender dysphoria, Ms. Bell’s case represents an important turning point.
For 30 Years, I've Tried to Become a Woman. Here’s What I Learned Along the Way
The mirror doesn’t lie.
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
Quillette Podcast 10
The New Patriarchy: How Trans Radicalism Hurts Women, Children—and Trans People Themselves
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.
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.
Why Do We Feel the Need to Transgender the Dead?
It wasn’t that these women cross-dressed to be men. It’s that they cross-dressed not to be women.