Exclusive: Why Wes Streeting changed his mind on cross-sex hormones
The evidence that shifted the government’s position on providing the treatment to children is revealed here.
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The sounds that shape us
Alice Vincent’s Hark asks why gender, age and parenthood change the way we listen.
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PMQs review: the gender debate hands Badenoch her best performance yet
It is something she can cling to as her party faces near annihilation in next Thursday’s local elections.
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Labour’s cynical shift on biological sex
The party is attempting to rewrite history.
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Why the Scottish trans movement lost
Through its dogmatism, the SNP alienated even those sympathetic to trans rights.
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How gender ideology corrupted government data
Blurring the line between sex and gender has serious consequences.
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Judith Butler Q&A: “I’d like more joy, more music, a new political regime”
The philosopher and gender theorist on Hegel, Kafka, and getting lost at the circus.
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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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