The original article is here. When Victoria Gillick, a Roman Catholic mother of ten, came across a government circular advocating under-16s be prescribed contraception without parental consent, she was outraged. In 1983, her battle to stop doctors “encou ...

The original article is here. In the film Cuties, a bunch of misfit girls in a Paris banlieue form a dance troupe and enter a contest where, in sexy costumes, they perform a twerking, crotch-fingering routine. The problem is these characters, and the actr ...

The original article is here. It was strange to win the Orwell Prize for journalism via a Zoom call, unshowered, in sweaty gym gear, alone in my garden shed. Stranger still to do so as socialist musician Billy Bragg wrote in The Guardian that George Orwe ...

The original article is here. Publicly-funded trans lobby groups like Stonewall expected that changing the 2004 Gender Recognition Act to a system of gender “self-identity” would sail through. They persuaded Tory MP Maria Miller, then chairwoman of the ...

The original article is here. How can a strong, healthy man be taken so quickly? Not an overweight or an elderly guy, but a Park Run regular, a lycra-clad cyclist, the bloke you ask to shift that heavy table or open a stubborn jar. How are men with years,  ...

The original article is here. When is it OK to punch a woman? I’ve pondered this question since Wednesday evening when I watched a 60-year-old in specs and sensible shoes called Maria being smacked in the face. Yet I learn from her assailant’s defender ...

The original article is here; this is just the relevant section. If you want to see well-meaning liberals self-destruct in real-time, watch organisers of an Oxford feminist conference explain why they capitulated to threats and “cancelled” the historia ...

The original article is here. An 11-year-old child is probably years from his or her first kiss. Yet the drug they are about to take will almost certainly lead to a medical pathway which will leave them sterile. Since their gametes will never be allowed to ...

The original article is here. Lisa Nandy brands herself as Labour’s truth-speaker. Rational, grounded, fearless of factions, the only leadership candidate prepared to tackle the self-delusion and disconnection that lost four elections, she’d won many p ...

The original article is here. For several years now a schism has been building within the LGBT community between Stonewall and those alarmed by its trajectory. This reached its logical end on Tuesday night with the birth of a breakaway group, provisionally ...

The original article is here.  How do I know I’m a woman? Because I have female biology: a uterus and ovaries? Or because I like “feminine” things: sparkly clothes, make-up, vamping about. What if they appeal less than “masculine” stuff: muddy s ...

The original article is here.  If I were a teenage girl, I’d have a poster of a purple-haired American footballer on my bedroom wall. It’s odd how Megan Rapinoe’s arms-outstretched celebration is now as famous as Farah’s Mobot or Usain’s lightni ...

The original article is here. What if a local council held a public consultation asking people to fill in questionnaires on a controversial policy but, when results were counted, it declared almost half the responses were “invalid”. Wouldn’t politici ...

The original article is here.  In 1990, after trouncing Zina Garrison 6-4, 6-1 to win her ninth Wimbledon singles title, Martina Navratilova hurtled into the stands to embrace her lover Judy Nelson. A generation before gay marriage, two years after Clause ...

 The original article is here. Are you a Princess Barbie jelly-baby who likes frilly dresses, high heels and takes ages to get ready? Or a GI Joe jelly-baby who wears boots and functional clothing? Did you know that your preference for pink sparkles or mu ...

The original article is here. When self-identification trumps biology, men can be women, white can be black and age really will be just a number Emile Ratelband is 69 but feels like a “young god” of 49. His doctors agree he has the constitution of a mu ...

...  printing such [transphobic] pieces, starting with one by Turner in September 2017, I have heard of more trans suicides than at any point ...

The original article is here. What is a woman? The dictionary definition, “adult human female”, was deemed hate speech when posted on a Liverpool billboard and taken down. Perhaps the Financial Times might offer a new one: “Person of either sex who d ...

The original article is here. The prison authorities knew a great deal about Karen White. That under her birth name Stephen Wood she’d served 18 months for gross indecency against a child; that she was on remand for three rapes also committed as a man; t ...

The original article is here.    Trans teenagers have become an experiment An academic has risked her career by highlighting troubling parallels with false memory syndrome of the 1990s A new film, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, is set in God’s P ...

The original article is here. This gender battle is harder to solve than Brexit If Brexit is the most divisive issue in British politics, requiring a talent for squaring ideological circles and cajoling compromises from bitter enemies, reform of the 2004 G ...

The original article is here. How do you solve a problem like men in women’s changing rooms, Maria? The Tory champions plans to make gender switching a matter of ‘self-definition’ Maria Miller gathers up her handbag and makes to leave: “I don’t t ...

...  they’re following. What’s behind the surge in numbers? Janice Turner investigates The little girl who was once Alex Bertie liked action ...

The original article is here.  Over dinner a younger friend said he thought I was “gender fluid”. I was taken aback. He was, I suspect, half-joking. But his inference was clear. I’m quite a “strapping” build, I rarely wear heels, I’m stroppy, ...

...  women as “bitches” and sex workers as “hookers”. Janice Turner, a columnist with The Times and a trustee of the Centre for Women’s ...