transgender
The ONS finally admits to flawed trans population statistics
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has finally admitted that the 2021 census figures on the transgender population of England…
Does it matter if Trump is weird?
Would-be veep Tim Walz has opened Pandora’s box with his use of the W-word to characterise Donald Trump and his…
David Tennant’s pride and prejudice
As all non-bigoted readers will know, this is the holy and most ancient month of Pride. The time of year…
Tory men! Terfs need you
Some of my good male friends, Tories, are sick of terfs. I can see it in their shifty eyes, in…
Letters: the joy of a male book club
The state of our defence Sir: Your article on the etiolated state of European, including Britain’s, defence, is spot on (‘The…
How the Jilly Cooper Book Club turned toxic
The Jilly Cooper Book Club was set up about a decade ago by two friends who’d had enough of book…
It rarely pays to be ahead of your time
Following the release of the Cass report deprecating NHS ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors as reliant on rubbish medical research, the…
Why the Cass report won’t change a thing
The Liberal Democrat candidate in the Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency recently released a video clip of herself sitting…
The Spectator’s letters page is hazardous
Question time Sir: Your leading article ‘Sense prevails’ (13 April) is a valuable précis of the Cass Review into NHS…
‘Now I have been made whole’: Lucy Sante’s experience of transition
Until the age of 66, Sante lived as a deeply divided man. In this story of self-realisation, she describes how transitioning finally ‘lifted the veil’ over her existence
Is sanity returning to the trans debate?
At last, Mermaids, the UK charity for, in their own words, ‘gender variant and transgender children’ is under the spotlight.…
Why are lesbians no longer welcome at Pride?
The lesbian group Get The L Out UK, founded to protest gender ideology and the pressure on same-sex attracted women…
The gender debate is getting nastier
Elaine Miller is one of the grown-ups. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, with a specialism…
There is no transgender debate
Anyone still talking about ‘two sides in the transgender debate’ needs to look at the footage from Bristol yesterday. Actually,…
Starmer won't talk about sex and gender. That's a problem
Sir Keir Starmer doesn’t want to talk about penises. He’s going to have to do it anyway, and he’s not…
The problem with the UK's transgender clinic
This is not a good time to be a girl. Research from Steer Education last month showed that far too…
How the word ‘woman’ became taboo
When I was a little girl, my mum told me that I shouldn’t use the word ‘woman’ – but rather…
Sex, trans rights and the Scottish census
It takes some doing to make a census interesting. So congratulations to the National Records of Scotland (NRS). NRS, which administers…
J.K. Rowling and the death of nuance
There are few good things to say about the public conversation around transgender issues, which all too often shows us…
Gender is contentious. The BBC is pretending it isn't
The BBC has produced its annual 100 Women list, a showcase for women who have done interesting, important things. There’s…
Eddie Redmayne shouldn't regret playing a trans character
Eddie Redmayne was nominated for an Oscar for his performance in The Danish Girl, but now he is having second thoughts…
The grim reality of gender reassignment
Lisa Littman, a doctor and researcher, recently surveyed ‘detransitioners’ — people who thought they were transgender then changed their minds.…
Why liberals must stand with Kathleen Stock
I know what it feels like to be bullied and vilified for expressing views with which, eventually, many right-minded people…
Help! I don’t know what a cervix is
With all this talk of private parts, the political has now gotten very personal. Recently, I was having an argument…
