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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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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Anohni: “There needs to be a reckoning”
The singer who rose to fame with her band Antony and the Johnsons on her mentor Lou Reed, transphobia and…
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From nimbyism to the trans right debate, today’s politics is all about taking back control
What does it mean for our society when some people believe their word on what happens in their back yard…
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Sam Smith and the return of the Satanic Panic
The conservative hysteria around pop music, sexuality and Satanism has a long history.
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What X-Men can teach us about prejudice
The Florida state representative Webster Barnaby’s comparison of trans people with X-Men mutants couldn’t have backfired more.
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Rosie Duffield: “You never change sex”
The Labour MP’s views on gender self-ID have been met with fierce opposition. Can her party find a compromise?
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How the New York Times became its own worst enemy
The paper’s divisions have been newly exposed as a dizzying array of letters are exchanged over its coverage of trans…
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The New York Times is eating itself
NYT editors have rebuked staff and contributors for critiquing the paper’s coverage of trans issues.
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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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Munroe Bergdorf’s Q&A: “I would love a government that cares about its people”
The model and activist on Rishi Sunak, fighting for LGBT rights and her desire to have lived during the Eighties.
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Nicola Sturgeon is right on gender recognition
It’s nobody else’s business – especially not the state’s – what your gender is.
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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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Rishi Sunak has every right to block Scotland’s gender bill
Ignore the hysteria: this is a matter of nationalist incompetence, not unionist conspiracy.
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No, JK Rowling isn’t being erased by a book-binder
But a young artist is being left to field a toxic storm of abuse.
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Beneath the culture wars, we are not nearly so binary
It is possible to both view climate change as an existential crisis and support JK Rowling’s view on trans rights.
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Will Westminster thwart the SNP’s gender reform bill?
For Nicola Sturgeon, yet another legal battle with the UK government would be a helpful distraction.
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