TRANSGENDER IDEOLOGY

Jenn describes himself as a transgender male

Some people disagree that there is any such thing as transgender ideology; I’ve even seen the claim that to suggest there is such a thing is transphobic. This may be based on a misconception of what the word ‘ideology’ means. As David McLellan (Ideology, 1995) wrote, “Ideology is the most elusive concept in the whole of the social sciences”. It’s a word with many rival definitions. I use it on this website to refer to certain highly contestable ideas that are fiercely promoted by some trans activists because they are held to represent the interests of transgender people. This is not to suggest that all transgender people agree with all or any of them – far from it. Some of these ideas are strongly challenged or simply ignored by some trans people but it is important to engage with them because they are potentially harmful.

I have devoted other pages in this category to arguments relevant to trans ideology; to the hatred and silencing of critical voices that appears to be a very big part of transgender activism and to the erasure that is an inevitable consequence of it.

Ideology is often defined as a “system of ideas”; I’ll leave it to others to judge whether there is anything systematic about the ideas I see trans activists promoting and whether ‘ideology’ is in fact the best word to describe them but, for want of anything better, it will have to do.

LETTERS FROM THE FRONT

Women Speak Out On the Harms of Gender Identity

“Over the years, many gender-critical views have been systematically deleted, de-platformed, banned, or otherwise “cancelled.” The Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) views this erasure as fundamental to the culture of silence which has enabled gender ideologists to unleash a virtually unchallenged assault on women’s sex-based rights and protections. WoLF would like to amplify the voices of our members, our supporters, and all women.”

What does ‘transgender’ mean?

Wikipedia and Peak Trans

It occurs to me that, before saying anything about trans ideology, I should be clear about what I understand by the term ‘transgender’. Hopefully, I won’t need to mention Wikipedia too many times on this site. According to Wikipedia “a trans woman is a woman who was assigned male at birth”. This is unsupported and unsupportable. I and others have edited it in an attempt at accuracy only to have our edits swiftly reversed. One message I received from an editor was “we don’t want people to think we’re not women”. This was a peak trans confirming moment for me and, in light of this evidence that Wikipedia editors will pander to ideology at the expense of accuracy, I no longer support the site financially and will not use it as a source for anything on this site.

Edited 01.01.18 to add: I see there is at least one editor fighting for accuracy on this topic. His user page, on which he documents bias in transgender-related articles, makes for interesting reading.

Edited 05.10.18 to add: Today I learned that the editor mentioned in the last edit has been suspended. Spotted on Twitter – “A trans-activist #Wikipedia administrator has indefinitely blocked the main pro-radfem editor who had been working on trans topics for over a year, for alleged transphobia. An appeal process is running.”

More on Wikipedia misinformation (pdf)

Definition

trans ideology meets rape culture

So here is the definition of trans people I use on this site – it is a definition learned from trans-identifying people themselves: A “transwoman” (also written “trans woman”) is a male-born person who “identifies as” a woman; a “transman” (or “trans man”) is a female-born person who “identifies as” a man. According to this article in the Guardian, “Why a person feels male when they are biologically female, or the other way around, for now remains uncertain,” and I have no intention of going there in the foreseeable future. What I will say is that those men who identify as women and those women who identify as men are wrong. To identify as something, it must at least be feasible that you could actually be that something. One can identify as, say, a socialist or a conservative, as gay or straight or bisexual, as atheist or religious believer, as an environmentalist, as a vegetarian or an unrepentant carnivore. You can identify as any of these things because you can conceivably be any of them. But you can no more actually be a woman if you are a man and vice versa than you can be Napoleon or Her Majesty the Queen. If you identify as Napoleon, you will be considered delusional and quite right too. I’ve heard two trans friends of mine both say that they are not women – that they identify with women not as women and, while this may be problematic, it is at least conceivable that one feels more empathy with the other biological sex than with one’s own.

What is more important, from my perspective, is to point out what people who haven’t take much interest in gender issues don’t seem to know. This is that most trans people do not have genital surgery, which leads to the absurd notion that some women have penises and some men have vaginas, get pregnant and give birth. This is trans ideology. I once believed that all trans-identifying people were either pre-op or post-op. I didn’t know that some don’t even want to have surgery and others do but can’t get it.

Another thing that most people don’t seem to know and, in my experience, find very hard to believe, is that (reportedly) most men who transition are not gay. They are heterosexual men and when they transition they call themselves lesbians. And some have been known to  accuse real lesbians – i.e. those born female – of being discriminatory or transphobic because they won’t indulge “women” with penises.

Your dating “preferences” are discriminatory  Riley J. Dennis

Time for a cartoon from the stupendous Feminist Heretic.

 

“Trans women are women and trans men are men”

That a person’s “gender identity” should take priority over their sex is the core tenet of trans ideology and is the fundamental reason why transgenderism is problematic for women. I believe that if males were content to define themselves as transwomen rather than insisting they are “‘real’ women – as much as any cis woman is” (see below) and accept that, as transwomen, there will inevitably be limitations placed on the degree to which they can be accepted as women, then there would be much less impetus to fight back.

An article that appears on the website laughingly known as Everyday Feminism provides a wonderful illustration of the logical fallacy known as ‘begging the question’ – a form of circular reasoning where the conclusion is assumed in the premise.

Trans Women Are Real Women

There is a simple truth that a lot of folks, even allies (even queer and genderqueer ones!), tend to forget or misunderstand when thinking about how trans women are affected by privilege/oppression: We are “real” women – as much as any cis woman is.

And if we are women, that means we can not receive male privilege – because male privilege is by definition something that only men and masculine-identified people can experience.

To say trans women receive male privilege implies that we are partially male, or less female than cis women, or falsely female. All of the above are incorrect and offensive, because trans women are women.

No ifs, no ands, no buts!

This is so bad, it’s almost funny. Why waste so many words when you can just say: “trans women aren’t men because they’re women”? No need for explanations, reasoning or evidence – just suck it up.

To assert that transwomen are real women is nothing more than an opinion phrased as a slogan and one that, logically, makes no more sense than saying “pantomime horses are real horses”. Yet so many people think it’s enough to simply state it without any attempt to offer any reasoning – apart from circular reasoning as in the example above – and, if our reaction is to contradict it, we are deemed to be transphobic and should just shut the hell up.

In their dreams.

One advantage of this slogan is that it gives trans allies an easy way to practise what is known nowadays as ‘virtue signalling’, as well as an excuse to close down debate and shout down those who might embarrass them with rational counter-arguments.

Take, for example, an article by Josh Jackman that appeared in Pink News on 13 March 2017.

Entitled What is a real woman? I clicked on it in the expectation that I would see at least some attempt at a definition to counter Jenni Murray’s contention, published a week earlier, that someone who has lived their life as a male cannot lay claim to womanhood. But Jackman bottles out entirely, declaring that

It’s really very simple.
No-one switches gender.
Being misgendered and living in the wrong body is not a privilege.
Trans women are women. Trans women are women.
For anyone who’s still confused, here are some things which are not women:

Readers are then shown a series of pictures of random objects including a tin of paint, a park bench, a baseball hat…you get the idea. Jackman can’t provide sound reasons so tries to be facetious, in the hope we won’t notice, thereby treating his readers like numpties, which no doubt many of them are. This style of journalism may be why Pink News is often referred to as “Prick News” in feminist circles.

Finally, we are shown pictures of Monica Bellucci, Lupita Nyong’o, Caitlyn Jenner and Andreja Pejić and told they are all real women together with

anyone who self-defines as a woman. Got it?

Right beneath the article, we see the risible claim that Jackman is a “proud feminist”.

The **** he is.

YAY! Not all trans…

Elsewhere I’ve addressed why I think the argument that there ‘is a wider spectrum than the two sexes’ is irrelevant to the notion that ‘trans women are women’: it is women’s biological function that has historically and globally led to women’s oppression as a class by men, which in turn shapes how we are raised and socialised, regardless of sexual orientation, socio-economic class or anything else. This doesn’t imply that all women experience discrimination and oppression the same way, nor does it deny other intersecting experiences of oppression such as racism, class oppression and homophobia. It simply states that what matters ­in determining whether we are male or female – men or women – for the purposes of gender equality and women’s liberation is not how we feel, not what we look like, not our ethnicity or sexual orientation nor what brain scans may or may not show but our role in reproduction. Women are adult human females; men are adult human males. It follows that women do not have penises and men cannot get pregnant.

“Misgendering is an act of violence”

“Gender” is a social construct externally imposed on us according to our biological sex. We can claim a different “gender identity” to the one associated with our sex but we cannot actually demand that other people respect that gender identity. But why wouldn’t we respect other people’s “gender identity”?

Personally, I’m fine with people expressing themselves however they so choose and certainly with men expressing themselves as ‘feminine’, which is a gender and the opposite of ‘masculine’. Also, I believe in courtesy and respect as default positions and I will use preferred pronoun as a courtesy as long as they’ve done nothing to lose my respect (Struck out 3.3.21 as this no longer reflects my feelings) But men who mock, bully, verbally and physically abuse those women who challenge them, men who promote and celebrate violence against women and men who try to silence women don’t deserve courtesy and respect so I won’t afford them any and that includes allowing them and their supporters to police my language.

So how is ‘misgendering’ violent?

Having been the victim of unprovoked physical violence by a group of male-born transgender people less than half my age, the idea that denying a man the status of womanhood and calling him the “wrong” pronoun amounts to violence is not one I find naturally easy to understand or empathise with, so I determined to read or listen to some trans people’s explanations with an open mind.

On Freethought blogs, I read an article called What trans people mean when we say “misgendering is violence”

However, I came away none the wiser. The article makes a fallacious slippery slope argument that suggests without explanation that misgendering strips trans people of their humanity and what starts with misgendering ends with “describing or wishing upon or enacting acts of monstrous violence upon us.” This is preposterous and the quote from a lesbian separatist called Bev Jo von Dohre doesn’t make it any less so. (I researched that quote, by the way. It was allegedly posted in 2010, which is probably about the same number of times it has been quoted as evidence of “TERF hatred”).

Unlike, say, slavery or genocide, refusing to use the pronoun associated with someone’s gender identity rather than their biological sex when they expressly want you to, isn’t denying someone’s humanity. It is denying their gender identity and this may be done for one of several reasons. It may be an act of bullying by transphobes; it may also be an act of resistance against trans ideology and how it potentially hurts women and girls, which is why I do it. By the way, deliberate “misgendering” of gender critical individuals by trans cultists themselves isn’t the way to make a point hit home – I have been called ‘he’ and ‘Mister’ more than once because they mistakenly think I give a shit. I don’t.

Riley J. Dennis argues that misgendering is an act of psychological violence. In doing so he contributes to the notion that trans people are mentally fragile – an idea that was seized upon with enthusiasm by supporters of President Trump’s proposed ban of trans people in the US military.

Ask any trans person and they can tell you how awful being misgendered makes them feel. It’s a way of invalidating their identity. It makes them feel disrespected, isolated, uncomfortable, and hated simply because of their gender. It tells them that they should hide who they really are, that people will never fully accept them. And not only that, but it contributes to physical harm, too.

This feels like more emotional blackmail to me (see Silencing Critical Voices for other examples). I certainly feel disrespected and uncomfortable about the whole idea that male-born trans people are the same as women and I know I’m hated because I’m prepared to stick my neck out and say that they aren’t. But this is telling me my feelings don’t matter compared to the feelings of trans people.

Denis goes on to say that misgendering contributes to the “extraordinarily high rates of suicide” of trans people – although the stats he quotes refers to self-reported attempted suicide rather than actual suicide. I have yet to see reliable statistics for the rate of actual suicide committed by trans people. Nor have I seen confirmed reports rather than intuitive speculation of what actually drives them to take their own lives.

Misgendering contributes to a culture where violence against trans people is terrifyingly prevalent…a culture in which hating and disrespecting trans people is the norm, which does allow some people to justify violence against trans people. However you look at it, misgendering trans people causes real harm.

This is wholly implausible. Misgendering may anger trans people and hurt their feelings but suggesting that it has anything to do with violence against trans people is silly and Dennis makes no effort to provide evidence for any correlation. I’m not saying he’s being intentionally deceptive. Intuitively, it probably seems correct to him but it doesn’t stand to reason.

 

“Not up for debate”

I don’t know when some people started to think this is an OK thing to say but, in any event, it’s wrong. All issues and ideas are up for debate and discussion and I believe the reason that trans ideologues are so reluctant to debate is that their arguments are easily demolished.

This is also why a debate on, for example, proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act, which could have a profoundly negative effect on other people’s lives, is mendaciously framed as an “attack” on trans people and the campaign to close it down defended with spurious slogans such as “trans lives are not up for debate”, “the validity of our existence is not up for debate”, “trans people’s human rights are not up for debate”, “when the terfs attack we fight back,” etc, etc.

Finally, it is why, when they have the chance to take part in discussions on national TV – ideal opportunities to persuade the viewing public of the rightness of their cause – they resort to pitiable, fabricated excuses to avoid doing so. But it won’t wash any more. Now that the hornets’ nest has been well and truly stirred up, debates will take place with or without the participation of those who’d rather we didn’t have them.

I say more on ‘Not up for debate’ here.

Videos

THIS is Why the Trans Community Isn’t Respected (RANT) Blaire White 07.02.21

Video: Non-Binary is MEANINGLESS Rose of Dawn 14.01.20

Video: Am I A ‘Self-Hating’ Trans Woman?  Rose of Dawn 18.08.19

Gender Critiques

Magdalen Berns

Miranda Yardley

Peachy Yogurt

Links

‘Pride Pillar’ unveiled by Network Rail at London Bridge station that celebrates ‘demisexuality and ‘polamory’ that cost taxpayer £3,500 is ‘virtue signalling’, say critics  Mail 07.03.24

AstraZeneca under fire after LGBT+ staff group issue training saying ‘sex is not binary’ The Telegraph 01.03.24

The ‘cat killer’ case reveals the depravity of trans ideology – spiked Spiked 27.02.24

Scouts to employ a diversity officer on £75,000-a-year even though organisation has faced criticism over wokery and transgender activism Mail 18.02.24

The nation’s favourite retailer has lost the plot The Telegraph 17.02.24

John Lewis is accused of ‘contemptuous dismissal of staff’ after launching in-house magazine offering tips from controversial transgender charity Mermaids  Mail  15.02.24

Trans ideology has taken over Shakespeare’s Globe Zoe Cairns Spiked 15.02.24

How activists captured Arts Council England Jonny Best in UnHerd 14.02.24

Diversity champion behind Network Rail’s controversial ‘Pride pillar’ is embroiled in misogyny row as offensive social media posts emerge Mail 29.01.24

The cowards, the pretenders and the woman-haters  Jean Hatchet The Critic 31.01.24

‘Her penis’ – the most Orwellian phrase of our age Spiked 25.01.24

Transgender row at Science Museum over claims reworked exhibit is ‘even more insidious’ The Telegraph 18.01.24

How the BBC works to keep you in the dark The Glinner Update 20.12.23

The myth of the ‘trans brain’ Spiked 17.12.23

‘Transgenderism has become a youth subculture’ – spiked Jo Bartosh talks to Dr Az Hakeem Spiked 15.12.23

Roman emperor was trans woman, declares museum The Times 21.11.23

The myth behind ‘Transgender Day of Remembrance’ Jo Bartosch in Spiked 17.11.23

Why employers should reconsider Trans Day of Remembrance  Anya Palmer The Critic Magazine 16.11.23

Brits are turning against gender ideology Jo Bartosch Spiked 30.09.23

Harry Potter panel axed from Comic Con to keep transgender fans ‘safe’ The Telegraph 26.09.23

Trans: the new ideology of the ruling class Spiked 25.09.23

Gender ideology is a threat to the most vulnerable Spiked 25.08.23

Opinion Piece: Comedians have failed women! (& they are killing their craft) Samantha Presdee at Mumble Comedy 09.08.23

Secular stigmata | Josephine Bartosch Jo Bartosch in The Critic 04.08.23

Feminism or Conservatism: Which Is to Blame for Trans Ideology? Abigail Reed Reality’s Last Stand 31.07.23

Fury as Costa uses cartoon image of ‘trans man’ with mastectomy scars: Angry customers now warn they will boycott chain over ‘horrific imagery’ being used’to sell coffee’ Mail 31.07.23

GP who gave puberty blockers to children nominated for award The Times 12.07.23

Now health professionals are urged to call vaginas ‘bonus holes’ to avoid offending patients Mail 08.07.23

If our state broadcaster will not discuss women’s rights, then I don’t want to pay the licence fee Suzanne Moore in The Telegraph 27.06.23

We know what a man is Victoria Smith in The Critic 23.06.23

Paris Lees doesn’t know what it feels like for a girl UnHerd 21.06.23

Trans-corporate Julie Bindel in The Critic 24.06.23

The Ideological Subversion of Biology Jerry Coyne in The Skeptical Inquirer 22.06.23

Oxfam’s descent Maya Forstater 18.06.23

How did we get to the ridiculous point where only trans women can be called women? The Telegraph 17.06.23

The Horrors of the ‘Pink News Trans Summit’  James Esses 15.06.23

The plot to redefine conversion therapy UnHerd 15.06.23

Backlash over Oxfam’s trans guidance The Times 10.06.23

The gender wars are not a gift to the Right – UnHerd Kathleen Stock in UnHerd 07.06.23

Why can the BBC interview Andrew Tate but not gender critical feminists? The Critic 07.06.23

Oxfam is a toxic charity that has shifted so far from its original aims Julie Bindel in the Mail 06.06.23

‘I was hounded out of Oxfam over JK Rowling’ Julie Bindel in UnHerd 06.06.23

Fury over Oxfam’s Pride cartoon depicting angry ‘Terf’ character critics say resembles JK Rowling  Mail 06.06.23

Associated Press Forbids References to Transgender Ideology Daily Signal 05.06.23

BBC criticised over non-binary Casualty character discussing top surgery The Telegraph 04.06.23

GP surgery asks parents if their BABY is trans: Outrage over ‘insane’ patient registration form Mail 31.05.23

Life of Brian: John Cleese denies reports he is cutting controversial scene from Monty Python stage show The Independent 30.05.23

Now Naked Attraction is pushing trans lunacy James Esses in Spiked 16.05.23

Why do scientists keep pandering to gender ideology? Spiked 06.05.23

The magical thinking of trans ideology Jo Bartosch in Spiked 03.05.23

What Is a Woman? Many Philosophers Know, But Aren’t Allowed to Say Thomas Palmer in Quillette 02.05.23

The myth of the ‘trans genocide’ Spiked online 27.04.23

This can be the end of the gender insanity The Telegraph 18.04.23

Hard lessons in life: Novel gender identities and orientations allow people to claim to be oppressed without suffering any hardship Helen Joyce in The Critic 14.04.23

The game is up for trans militants The Telegraph 14.04.23

Wokeness – a top-down project to re-socialise the world Frank Furedi 11.04.23

Trans activism is sexist and delusional Jordan Peterson in The Telegraph 27.03.23

The problem with ‘trans women are women’ Kathleen Stock in UnHerd 10.02.23

Outrage as Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists invites organisation which says ‘not all pregnant people are women’ to speak at International Women’s Day event Mail 07.03.23

Adult Human female David at the Hall of Einar 28.01.23

Trans activists are giving men even more power over women Suzanne Moore in The Times 24.01.23

What gives men the right to use gender activism as a cover for misogyny? Hadley Freeman in The Times 21.01.23

How I Got Cancelled by the Gender Borg For Daring to Criticise its Ideology The Daily Sceptic 10.01.23

The gender issue is now a religion. Fear of blaspheming keeps sensible people quiet Sarah Ditum in The Sunday Times 24.12.22

Is The Guardian sowing disinformation? Kathleen Stock in UnHerd 09.12.22

The Guardian is hiding the truth about trans Suzanne Moore in The Telegraph 06.12.22

A dick move Victoria Smith in The Critic 24.10.22

The falsehood at the heart of the trans movement The Freethinker 21.10.22

The Debatable Land #29: A Question of Truth Alex Massie 17.09.22

Trans ideology is unravelling before our eyes Jo Bartosch in Spiked 15.09.22

Transing Joan The Critic 13.08.22

Carnival sorry for ‘transphobic’ Olympic float with men in drag The Times 15.07.22

Trans people are not an oppressed minority Jo Bartosch in Spiked 03.07.22

Why the gender wars become so extreme New Statesman 22.06.22

Trans polling doesn’t tell the whole story Debbie Hayton 16.06.22

The magical LGBTQ+ myth factory Malcolm Clark in The Critic 11.06.22

BBC ‘altered gender in trans rape claim’ The Telegraph 31.05.22

Comedy is our weapon against woke absurdity Joanna Williams in The Times 26.05.22

Ricky Gervais is no ‘transphobe’ Debbie Hayton in The Spectator 25.05.22

Ricky Gervais: Netflix viewers condemn ‘toxic’, ‘transphobic’ and ‘ignorant’ new special The Independent 24.05.22

Bodies Are Not Inherently Male or Female And Other Untrue Modern Stories Alex Massie 18.05.22

Let under-15s change gender on birth certificate, say campaigners The Times 18.05.22

JK Rowling defends girl ‘driven out of school for questioning trans ideology’ The Times 17.05.22

Girl ‘driven out of school for questioning trans ideology’ The Times 17.05.22

What is a woman? Prospect 12.05.22

Stop Imposing Western LGBTQ+ Identities on Non-Western Cultures. It’s Gender Colonialism Newsweek 11.05.22

Gillian Bowditch: To deny biological reality could do patients harm The Sunday Times 01.05.22

How the trans ideology dehumanises women Brendan O’Neill 23.04.22

Transgender academic Grace Lavery is accused by Woman’s Hour listeners of talking ‘incredible nonsense’ Mail 09.04.22

A heartbreaking work of staggering narcissism Julie Bindel in The Critic 09.04.22

‘Have we reached peak trans? Andrew Doyle in UnHerd 24.03.22

How many more women will be sacrificed to trans ideology? Jo Bartosch in Spiked 21.03.22

The taboo trans question Sarah Ditum at UnHerd 10.03.22

When did ‘woman’ become the hardest word to define? Suzanne Moore in The Telegraph 10.03.22

Was Grace Lavery silenced by his own community? Unherd 22.02.22

Her penis’ and the dangers of trans doublethink Jo Bartosch in Spiked 20.02.22

Trans Reality: “I Didn’t Know There Was Another Side” Carol Tarvis at Skeptic.com 25.01.22

“This year will see transgender ideology in the dock”: 5 legal and political events to watch for in 2022 by Jo Bartosch LGN 31.12.21

Caroline Nokes and the make-believe of gender self-ID Jo Bartosch at Spiked 22.12.21

Meet your masters Jo Bartosch in The Critic 19.12.21

Is the tide finally turning against trans mania? Jo Bartosch in Spiked 02.12.21

Brian May blasts ‘woke’ BRITs for dropping gender categories Mail 25.11.21

Remembrance, Tragedy, and Manipulation PITT 23.11.21

‘A Guide to Peaking the Woke’ by an LGN reader: “Most people have no idea of the harm that lies beneath the rainbow flags and the seemingly innocuous mantras.” LGN 21.11.21

If You Can’t Tell A Man From A Woman, You’re Not A Health Official, You’re A Health Threat The Federalist 21.10.21

My hope for a more open discussion of women’s and trans rights is fading Guardian 13.10.21

Gender transition – An article I didn’t want to write Ellyn Kaschak 10.09.21

Peter Boghossian: ‘The woke don’t give a reason for their faith. It’s different rules of engagement’ The Times 11.09.21

How the Guardian became the Pravda of the trans movement Spiked Online 11.09.21

The transgender delusion Brendan O’Neill 03.09.21

Wheesht Spa. The Guardian would prefer it if women kept their mouths shut Jo Bartosch in The Critic 06.09.21

Judith Butler’s toxic nonsense Gareth Roberts at Unherd 10.09.21

The transgender delusion Brendan O’Neill 03.09.21

Graham Linehan interview: ‘Gender row is an onslaught on rights, returning women to pre-suffragette era’ The Times 03.09.21

The Guardian’s Ideological Dead-end Dave Hewitt 03.09.21

Trans activism has mummy issues Mary Harrington in UnHerd 01.09.21

Peter Tatchell doesn’t “understand what the fuss is about” Maria MacLachlan 

Trans purity test has lost touch with reality Lionel Shriver in The Times 06.08.21

Trans purity test has lost touch with reality Lionel Shriver in The Times 06.08.21

Irreversible Reputational Damage Dave Hewitt 28.07.21

There’s no such thing as a pregnant man Raquel Rosario Sanchez 27.07.21

On the Sex Deracination Gambit Andy Lewis 19.07.21

Why should women tolerate the big swinging dicks of the transgender movement? The Spectator Australia 12.07.21

How Science-Based Medicine Botched Its Coverage

Of The Youth Gender Medicine Debate Jesse Singal 10.07.21

Terf war embroils Guardian HQ The Spectator 09.07.21

The Decline and Fall of Science-based Medicine Andy Lewis 07.07.21

Antifa and allies need to cease harassing feminists by Helen Steel 03.07.21

Why it’s wrong – and profoundly damaging – to make us all agree that someone is whatever gender they say they are Helen Joyce in the Mail  03.07.21

The establishment’s war on womanhood Spiked 21.06.21

Understanding the rise of transgenderism in the UK Jo Bartosch 27.04.21

10 Ways Gender Ideology Resembles a Cult Uncommon Ground 23.04.21

These Chains That Have No Name: Interview with Trans Widows Voices Donovan Cleckley 31.03.21

An open letter to trustees and chief executives: you’re being taken for a ride Fair Play for Women 21.03.21

Why I joined the trans debate James Kirkup in The Spectator 26.02.21

The only wrong way to be a woman these days is to stand up for women’s rights Suzanne Moore in The Telegraph 09.02.21

How I became a Trans Rights Activist — then turned “Gender Critical” Duncan 19.01.21

A world without gender Amanda McLean in the Weekly Worker 14.01.21

Transgenderism: A New Operating System for Patriarchy  4W 14.01.21

Philosophy and the sex and gender debates Maya Forstater 11.01.21

Investigation into the influence of gender ideology on medical institutions La Scapigliatta 07.01.21

‘Transwomen Are Women’ and Other Polite Lies Abigail Schrier in The American Spectator 28.12.20

Some thoughts on grooming Graham Linehan 11.12.20

Shaming Feminists Who Believe In Basic Biology Isn’t Working Anymore Libby Emmons 14.12.20

For me, self-identification was a con Mary Harrington at Unherd 09.12.20

Newspaper coverage of transgender issues has improved but new problems exist Fair Play for Women 04.12.20

Big Banks With Big Investments in the Gender Identity Industry Jennifer Bilek 29.11.20

There used to be a word for us… Maya Forstater 28.10.20

The tyranny of queer theory Mary Harrington 15.10.20

The sexist reality behind the transgender narrative Jo Bartosch 30.09.20

Feminists like me aren’t anti-trans – we just can’t discard the idea of ‘sex’ Guardian 30.09.20

The sexist pseudoscience of ‘gender identity Jo Bartosch in The Critic 29.09.20

The intellectual shabbiness of Judith Butler  UnHerd 24.09.20

Judith Butler Is Everything Wrong With Gender Ideology Gender Heretics 23.09.20

Trans people should be free to change their gender without medical diagnosis, doctors say Telegraph 15.09.20

Trans healthcare professionals and patient consent Maya Forstater 16.09.20

How the Trans lobby wants to capture your mind Jo Bartosch 16.09.20

The mysterious power of an international transgender declaration that no one has ever heard of MercatorNet 10.09.20

Women Ceding Ground to Transgenderism Jennifer Bilek 04.09.20

The Power of the Senseless Julian Vigo 15.08.20

The Rainbow Reich: Transgender Ideology and Totalitarianism, Part I Dr Em 10.08.20

Trans activists risk falling for misogyny Julie Bindel 23.07.20

What is Trans? …or How Stonewall Literally Denies the Existence of Trans People The Gender Critic 12.07.20

Martine Rothblatt: A Founding Father of the Transgender Empire Jennifer Bilek 07.07.20

Trans dogma is based on junk science Julian Vigo 06.07.20

Transgenderism and the Difference Between Behaviour and Identity Janice Williams 23.06.20

How trans ideology took over Joanna Williams 19.06.20

Interrogating the transgender agenda Paul McHugh 02.06.20

Emperor’s New Clothes. Gender ideology & Rebranding the Privileged as the Marginalized 01.06.20

The ‘DARVO’ Tactics of the Men’s Rights Activism Behind Transgenderism Jennifer Bilek 30.05.20

“Trans Rights: Be Nice”? Maya Forstater 13.05.20

A Reponse to Jennifer Bilek and Julia Long Lorelei Hatpin 13.05.20

A Meaningful Transition?  Julia Long 12.05.20

Deconstructing the “Good Transwomen” Jennifer Bilek 06.05.20

Sexist History at the Heart of the ‘Science’ on Transsexualism, Part I: Benjamin, Ihlenfeld, Money & Ehrhardt Dr Em 01.05.20

Beth Brooke-Marciniak: Promoting “Inclusivity” at the Expense of Women’s Rights Jennifer Bilek 17.04.20

As A Transsexual, I Support Dr Eva Poen Uncommon Ground 16.03.20

The tyranny of woke: How it’s fashionable in modern Britain to believe there’s no difference between men and women Mail on Sunday 08.03.20

Let’s talk about sex… and gender ideology Jessica Taylor 23.02.20

The Dangerous Denial of Sex Colin Wright and Emma Hilton WSJ 13.02.20

Starbucks’ new charity associations leave a bitter taste in the mouth Douglas Murray Telegraph 08.02.20

I May Have Gender Dysphoria. But I Still Prefer to Base My Life on Biology, Not Fantasy  Debbie Hayton 02.02.20

‘Her penis’ and other facts we all should know Jo Bartosch in The Critic 27.01.20

Taxpayers fund £500,000 study for Britain’s health chiefs to improve treatment of ‘pregnant men’ Mail 26.01.20

The inconvenient truth about transwomen Debbie Hayton 22.01.20

The billionaires behind the LGBT Movement Jennifer Bilek 21.01.20

When wokeness goes too far Owen Polley 15.01.20

Modern American feminism is an embarrassment Meghan Murphy 15.01.20

Tribal Scepticism: On scepticism in the age of transgender ideology Andy Lewis 03.01.20

One woman’s view Woke misogyny and homophobia: a gay critique of trans ideology

Now even rape is ‘gender neutral’ James Kirkup 18.12.19

Trans activists are making life harder for trans people Debbie Hayton 12.12.19

On Gender, Blurring the Line Between Dogma and Farce Jonathan Kay 07.12.19

The trans ideology is a threat to womanhood Meghan Murphy 06.12.19

Class, Identity Politics and Transgender Ideology RedLine 13.11.19

Making room — human rights are not a pie Ani O’Brien 26.10.19

An Open Letter to the Friend Who Thinks I Hate Transgender People Cathoel Jorss 25.10.19

Yaniv’s case is lost…now can we discuss the problems with gender identity ideology? Meghan Murphy 23.10.19

The curious case of Mumsnet, Flora margarine, and the spread of fascism in the trans-gender debate Telegraph 14.10.19

The Origins of the Transgender Movement Madeleine Kearns 14.10.19

Are We Being Played By The Patriarchy? What would Ripley Do? blog 04.10.19

The Elephant in the room Gender Abolitionist 28.09.19

‘A Doll For Everyone’: Meet Mattel’s Gender-Neutral Doll Time 25.09.19

The High Court’s transgender ruling spells a rare victory for sanity Telegraph 25.09.19

Transgender man loses court battle to be registered as father Guardian 25.09.19

Video: “Transgenders Are Getting Out of Hand” A2Z TV 15.09.19

Further down the rabbit hole with Alice, another open letter Claire Graham 15.09.19

An open letter to Prof. Alice Roberts on the subject of DSDs and kindness Claire Graham 12.09.19

Refugees from Reality: Religious Trauma and Gender Identity M.K. Fain 10.09.19

Trans women in women’s sport – ‘stunning and brave’ or a problem that needs addressing? Ben Dirs 29.08.19

Video: The transgender movement is the new KKK and they are targeting women Tokes The 420 27.08.19

Are Your Sexual Preferences Transphobic? Madeleine Kearns 23.08.19

We need to talk about sexism & homophobia in Gender Activism Roger Dubar 15.08.19

Woke misogyny and homophobia: a gay critique of trans ideology Redline 13.08.19

The True Trans trope Lily Maynard 08.08.19

How Feminism Paved the Way for Transgenderism Michael Biggs 01.08.19

Transgenderism, You Weren’t Listening. Dr EM 27.07.19

Tonje Gjevjon: Today, many would consider me a girl “born in the wrong body” 24.07.19

Dear Men…. The Lonely Transsexual 23.07.19

Non-binary is the new “not like other girls,” and it’s deeply rooted in misogyny M.K Fain 14.07.19

Just What The Heck Is “Trans” Anyway! The Lonely Transsexual 09.07.19

The Rainbow Reich: Transgender Ideology and Totalitarianism. Dr EM 08.08.19

Some women have penises. If you won’t sleep with them you’re transphobic James Kirkup 02.07.19

A Rebuttal to Ms Black & Ms. Rayner: Anti-feminist Politicians with Lazy Thinking? Part I Dr EM 21.06.19

University’s policy sparks backlash after saying  transgender people must be ‘positively represented’ Telegraph 07.06.19

The Trojan Unicorn: Queer Theory and Paedophilia, Part I. Dr EM 07.06.19

Statement on BBC Books and Transgenderism Gareth Roberts 04.06.19

Why Women’s Rights Are Not “really unpleasant and harmful”: A Response to Jon Ronson 27.05.19

Doing better in arguments about sex, gender, and trans rights Kathleen Stock, Sophie Allen, Jane Clare Jones, Holly Lawford-Smith, Mary Leng and Rebecca Reilly-Cooper. 23.05.19

Steady, Charlize, even Tinseltown needs to stop and think when a boy says he’s a girl by Camilla Long in The Sunday Times 21.04.19

Decoupled from reality Weekly Worker 18.04.19

Transgender Privilege: Why Must We All Be Forced to Bow to It? PJ Media 17.04.19

The birth of the transsexual empire Julie Bindel 16.04.19

The transgender agenda could topple intersectionality Rod Liddle 13.04.19

Ignoring Differences Between Men and Women Is the Wrong Way to Address Gender Dysphoria Kathleen Stock 11.04.19

I supported trans ideology until I couldn’t anymore Alice Hendley 10.04.19

The chilling evidence that Jordan Peterson was right: transgender ideology is ‘totalitarian’ LifeSiteNews 08.04.19

Transgender Ideology Is More Irrational Than You Realized Tom Gilson 31.03.19

‘Gender identity’ makes breaking women’s boundaries progressive Feminist Current 03.03.19

The Ultimate Logical End of Transgender Ideology: The New TransManWoman and TransWomanMan Jenn Smith 01.03.19

Stop this trans-washing of history Jo Bartosch 25.02.19

A Transgender Hero Breaks Ranks PJMedia 13.02.19

Why we transsexuals are leaving the Stonewall umbrella Seven Hex 12.02.19

There is no such thing as “trans” Hacsi Horváth 12.02.19

This transgender mass delusion will end when enough people simply refuse to play along Jonathon van Maren 12.02.19

Trannies are the new nazis enTRANSd 11.02.19

The Rocky Horror Ideology Show American Spectator 29.01.19

Yet another wave of narcissistic rage sweeps through Transworld Hacsi Horváth 29.01.19

Shut up Judith Butler Thain Parnell 28.01.19

The difficulties of questioning the transgender dogma Debbie Hayton 25.01.19

Video: Sex vs. Gender: Transgender ideology In Sports & Media featuring Jenn Smith 25.01.19

A response to Judith Butler in the New Statesman Cambridge Radical Feminist Network 25.01.19

Judith Butler: How to disappear the patriarchy in three easy steps Jane Clare Jones 24.01.19

Graham Linehan: Trans activists ‘don’t realise the damage’ they do Irish Times 21.01.19

Not all menstruators are women? This madness has to stop Julie Bindel 21.01.19

Trans Activism vs Feminism (and the Wider World): Heather Brunskell-Evans in Conversation with Julian Vigo 07.01.19

Identity Theft: Transgender Movement Takes Wrong Turn XX Amazons 01.01.19

When a sprout transitions … Debbie Hayton 31.12.18

The year of trans tyranny Spiked online 26.12.18

Lottery thousands pay for former trans stripper to sway public opinion The Sunday Times 23.12.18

‘I believe I’m proof no man can truly become a woman’ Mail 13.12.18

Trans Fact Checker: The reality behind the myths Transfacts blog 11.12.18

The End of Traditional Civil Rights? Daniel A. Kaufman 11.12.18

Transgenderism: a fetish that got out of hand? Jo Bartosch 10.12.18

Girl Dick, the Cotton Ceiling and the Cultural War on Lesbians and Women Miranda Yardley 07.12.18

A neoliberal concept of freedom has allowed gender identity ideology to take hold  Heather Brunskell-Evans 02.12.18

Does ‘Gender Identity’ Preclude Male Violence? A Reply to Finlayson, Jenkins & Worsdale Conatus News 25.11.18

Trans ideology is bollocks Daphna Whitmore 25.11.18

What Happened to the Transsexual Rights Movement? More on Percentages and Prevalence culturallyboundgender 25.11.18

How Queer Theory Became University Policy Michael Biggs 24.11.18

Compassion as cover: How transgender allies dodge debate Robert Jensen 19.11.18

Stonewall’s new definition of ‘conversion therapy’ raises a few questions Kathleen Stock 15.11.18

The Annals of the TERF-Wars Jane Clare Jones 13.11.18

If identity politics win, a man of 69 can be 49 Janice Turner in The Times 10.11.18

“Evil Womxn”: The Silencing Of Biological Reality And The Technology Of Obfuscation” Julian Vigo 26.10.18

Transgender politics focuses on who determines someone’s gender Economist 25.10.18

Why isn’t transgenderism ‘cultural appropriation’? Brendan O’Neill 24.10.18

Twitter, Trans Rights, Totalitarianism and the Erasure of Sex Jane Clare Jones 26.09.18

Six years in the gender wars Sarah Ditum 10.09.18

If transwomen are women, what is a woman? Sophie Allen 16.08.18

Inauthentic Selves: The modern LGBTQ+ Movement Is Run By Philanthropic Astroturf And Based On Junk Science Sue Donym 06.08.18

What I Learned From Attending ‘Transgender 101’ At My Local Library  Maureen Mullarkey 06.08.18

Transactivism is now just misogyny in drag Brendan O’Neill 10.7.18

Changing the concept of “woman” will cause unintended harms Kathleen Stock 06.07.18

I am neither trans nor a woman. Can I write about the issues they face?” James Kirkup 06.07.18

Transgenderism Is Just Big Business Dressed Up In Pretend Civil Rights Clothes Jennifer Bilek 5.7.18

How The Social Justice of Equality, Discrimination, Diversity, Inclusion and Empowerment Are Being Used To Strip Women Of Rights And Freedom Miranda Yardley, June 2018

Opposing the Transgender Movement American Thinker 29.06.18

Is transgender ideology making the UK’s mental health crisis worse? The Spectator 25.06.18

“Transwomen are doubleplus good women”: Government receives late submission on Births Bill from Handmaids Association Renee Gerlich 23.06.18

It’s Complicated Angry Bird Roar 19.06.18

Emperor’s New Clothes: Gender ideology: Rebranding the privileged as marginalized  Liberals for Sanity 01.06.18

Transwomen And Narcissistic Rage Gender Apostates 27.05.18

When Trans fanaticism joins with Political Arrogance, Freedom of Expression is the VictimBarbara Kay 19.05.18

Whiny and broken: the linguistic minefield of today’s politically correct tranny Sophie Narwitz 12.05.18

It is not “woman”, but “transgender”, that is a truly elusive term La Scapigliata 10.04.18

Have Women and Girls Got Too Many Rights? Helen Saxby 05.04.18

I lived for a short time to all intents & purposes (outwardly) as a very feminine heterosexual man – a Twitter thread by Kristina Jayne Harrison 29.03.18

From Identity Politics to Academic Masturbation Julian Vigo 28.03.18

Fear and Loathing Grips the Gender Debate James Kirkup 27.03.18

Transwomen are men Lily Maynard 20.03.18

Trans-women are not women Michal Dinal 04.03.18

The Violent Misogyny of the gender debate James Kirkup 27.02.18

Who Are the Rich, White Men Institutionalizing Transgender Ideology? Jennifer Bilek 20.02.18

Gender Colonialism Nina Paley 07.02.18

Transgenderism: A State-Sponsored Religion? Andre Van Mol 24.01.18

Confronting the mantra Caroza, Real Feminists site 16.01.18

The India Effect: (what Celebrity Big Brother can teach us about gender politics.) Jenni Harvey 15.01.18

Thanks to trans activism, 2017 saw a return to old-school, sexist dismissals of women and women’s rights Meghan Murphy 04.01.18

We are Not Allowed to Talk About Transgender Misogyny Tantric Trance  30.12.17

Why women should stand up to the trans ideology Julian Vigo 29.11.17

Ma Vie En Rose: Ruth Hunt’s Rose-Tinted Trans*Goggles and the anti-Woman Politics of Stonewall Miranda Yardley 16.11.17

Transgender vs. Transsexual Melissa Karlee 17.10.17

Inborn transgenderism is impossible Social Justice Wizard 18.09.17

Transactivism is making a mockery of the fight against female genital mutilation Renee Gender Critical Greens 16.08.17

Are there good reasons to oppose transgenderism? Charlie Rae  03.08.17 See also her video.

The continuing incoherence of transgender ideology The College Fix 28.07.17

If ‘white feminism’ is a thing, gender identity ideology epitomizes it Raquel Rosario Sanchez 26.07.17

In today’s overly PC, gender neutral world, any voice of dissent is labelled ‘ignorant’ Janet Street-Porter 07.04.17

Supreme Incoherence: Transgender Ideology and the End of Law Jeff Schaffer 28.03.17

The Battle Over What It Means to Be Female Chris Hedges 27.03.17

What is Transgender? Not the news in brief blog 26.11.16

Satire: I Identify As Married To A Man Who Won’t Have Me, And It’s So Unfair Heather Smith 17.08.16

Why I won’t accept the politics of gender identity Jennifer Duncan 19.05.16

Shrinking to survive: A former trans man reports on life inside queer youth culture Max Robinson 27.04.16

Transgenderism: The Latest Anti-Feminist Wedge of the Left Caroline Norma 28.10.15

Queer Culture is Normalizing Shaming People for their Sexuality Homoarchy blog 24.10.15

Transgender Ideology Does Not Support Women Miranda Yardley 22.06.15

Transgenderism: A Pathogenic Meme Paul McHugh 10.06.15

‘You Are Killing Me’: On Hate Speech and Feminist Silencing Jane Clare Jones 17.05.15

What is a Woman? The Feminista Hood 05.04.15

The appropriation of black and hispanic trans deaths by white trans women and political opportunists Thoughts of a white collar girl next door (a trans person’s blog) 16.3.15

On pronouns Miranda Yardley 07.09.14

Transgenderism is Antifeminism Elemental Witch 22.8.14

Saying no to penis is not hate speech The New Backlash (undated)

Video: Misgendering is violence? Nah, mate. Magdalen Berns

Video: Bronwyn Winter roasts transgenderism @ the IQ2 Gendah debate

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