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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Why all men should get vasectomies
Women won’t put up with having their bodies pumped full of hormones any longer.
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Starmer signals a Labour “reset” on gender reform
Has Labour changed its mind on self-ID?
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The feminist case against progress
From sex-positivity to abortion, liberal advances have dehumanised women, argues Mary Harrington – but “nature” is not always as kind as…
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Mary Harrington: “Make sex consequential again”
The journalist and author on what liberal feminism gets wrong.
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Does The Witch Trials of JK Rowling say anything new?
A former member of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church community interviews the Harry Potter author about the perils of polarised…
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Hannah Barnes: Inside the collapse of the Tavistock gender clinic
The Newsnight journalist on her book Time to Think, and why she had to tell the story of the children…
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Why liberals keep being fooled in the gender debate
Had supposedly progressive politicians listened to women’s concerns over trans prisoners they would not have been so badly exposed.
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The tragedy of Nicola Sturgeon
As she enters the winter of her first-ministership, the gap between Sturgeon’s ambition and delivery is ever clearer.
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Will the Tories’ divisions on trans rights explode into the open?
Forty one Conservative MPs abstained on the gender bill vote and some believe the government’s approach is immoral and ineffective.
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The gender reform bill is about something broader than trans rights
How much can Scottish law diverge from the UK?
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