Why courts could stop a teenager changing their gender
The wishes of a 16-year-old seeking to transition could be overruled because of concerns that hormone treatment isn’t in their…
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The Scottish government is ignoring women’s rights
A hearing at the Supreme Court exposed just how flawed its position on gender recognition is.
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Maga’s family-first vision is a fantasy
Young men and women in America don’t share the same values – how will they ever start relationships?
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Questions remain over NHS youth gender care, despite Cass Review
One of the services treating the Tavistock's former patients appeared to be taking cues from American healthcare guidelines.
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The BMA turns away from rejecting the Cass Report
The doctors’ union has voted to retain a neutral position on the issue.
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Data and ideology don’t mix
With the census gender debacle, an opportunity to assess the trans community’s needs has been squandered.
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Hundreds of doctors are challenging the BMA’s stance on puberty blockers
In a letter to the association’s UK Council chair, 870 doctors have expressed “dismay” at the union’s criticism of the…
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Labour’s women problem
Keir Starmer must accept that JK Rowling is right.
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“Pro-family” rhetoric and its fascist resonances
Traditional gender roles have propped up authoritarian regimes of the past. In Republicans’ views on women, the echoes are clear.
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Kemi Badenoch and the legal definition of sex
The presumptive front-runner for the next Conservative leadership contest has been unfairly vilified.
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Inside the collapse of the Tavistock Centre
Why the world’s largest gender clinic for children is closing.
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Judith Butler and the fear of gender
In the 1990s a new philosophy helped open up alternative ways of being. Nobody predicted it would lead to war.
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Inside NHS England’s faltering plan to replace the Tavistock
The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has been called on to rescue the opening of two new NHS gender identity…
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Carol Gilligan: why I changed my mind on the gender binary
The psychologist was a feminist icon for her work on how gender shapes our morality. But now, in her eighties,…
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The manosphere is poisoning conservatism
Fringe ideas about sex have increasing political power on the right.
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America is nothing more than a self-help society
On both the left and the right, political radicalism has given way to cultish self-improvement.
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Why biological sex matters
Some argue that lived experience and personal choice trump biology – but they are wrong.
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The gender binary is false
We should question a mindset that viciously excludes whole groups of people.
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Simone de Beauvoir and the art of loss
Sixty years ago, the French writer’s unflinching memoir of her mother’s death tested the limits of her existentialism.
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Kathleen Stock’s adventures in wonderland
During the philosopher’s talk at the Oxford Union politics and fantasy became the same thing.
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