Gender Ideology Archives — Page 2 of 6

Lost in Cyber Space: Girls, Boys, and The Anxious Generation
Girls will be girls and boys will be boys online — even if they don't identify that way

One deeply unfashionable thing I do in my research is to group girls together, regardless of how they identify....

26th July 2024

Something is Rotten in Denmark Pt. II: Prisons, Sports and Politics

As we saw in Part I, the trans lobby has been rather successful in Denmark. Compared to the UK,...

24th July 2024

Untying the Welsh Gender Knot: Will the Welsh Government Follow Cass?

Wales is in a tangled mess with gender identity. The publication of the Cass Review in April is tying...

16th July 2024

Letters from Ireland: On “Gendered Violence” and Media Double Speak

Natasha O’Brien, aged 24, was beaten unconscious by a 22-year-old man, Cathal Crotty, on a Limerick City street on...

8th July 2024

It’s Not Just The Kids: How Social Media Captures Parents

I wasn’t always someone who believed there was anything wrong with stating “trans women are women”. Or at least,...

2nd July 2024

In What Way is Surgery Reversible? Memories of Diversity Seminars in the Workplace

I have been unemployed now for almost 5 months, following a sudden and unexpected redundancy from my job of...

29th June 2024

On Bringing Your Whole Self to Work

I sit in the “collaboration space” surrounded by my colleagues and peers. The session’s facilitators have the flip chart paper...

28th June 2024

I Lost a Job I Loved Because I Cried About Pride in the Staffroom

Over the course of a year or so, while watching my trans-identified child’s mental health plummet, flags and posters...

27th June 2024

A Double Standard in the UK’s Genital Surgery Laws?

In this article on a very sensitive topic, I argue that what is considered ‘mutilation’ of the body is...

25th May 2024

Goldilocks Syndrome

Why it’s important to pull together at this crucial time We’re damned if we do and damned if we...

15th May 2024

Assisted Suicide and Trans: Being Our Authentic Selves to Death

The parallels between the assisted suicide movement and the transgender movement are staggering. I’ve followed the work of journalist...

7th May 2024

Is Sex a Spectrum?

You can’t escape it. It’s there wherever you look, on social media and video sharing sites, and in newspapers,...

6th May 2024

Are “Life Goals” Anything to Do with Health Services?

Among the final recommendations of the United Kingdom’s Cass Review of the treatment of children and young people is...

20th April 2024

The 6-Year-Old Who Changed Legal Sex

Much has been written about the transgender movement being on the rise in the anglosphere and in wealthy, industrialised...

18th April 2024

Reflections on the Cass Report

This is an area of remarkably weak evidence, and yet results of studies are exaggerated or misrepresented by people...

17th April 2024

Parenting a Trans-Identifying Child

A parent’s response to the Cass Review’s Final Report Dear Reader, You may be questioning why the Cass Review...

15th April 2024

On Simon Harris, Ireland’s New Taoiseach

The Republic of Ireland has a new Taoiseach (Prime Minister). This follows the resignation of Leo Varadkar following the...

14th April 2024

Informed Consent Is Critical in Healthcare, But Apparently Not to Activist Gender Clinicians

“If it’s not documented, it didn’t happen” and many other lessons were taught during my graduate education and training...

5th April 2024

The Importance of Special Educational Needs Assessment Concerning Trans-Identifying Children in UK Schools: The Role of Educational & Child Psychologists

Introduction The aim of this paper is to promote the relevance of Special Educational Needs (SEN) assessment to gender-distressed...

2nd April 2024

Trans Infantilization, from “Cracked Eggs” to Resocialization

Spend any time whatsoever in trans spaces and one of the first things you’ll notice is the rampant infantilization....

31st March 2024

They Pushed Me into this Ideology and Tried to Keep Me There Forever

I somehow ended up here, typing this thing, contemplating life choices, and struggling with my mental health. Let’s rewind...

30th March 2024

Gender Ideology Under Fire in Ireland

As an Irish person with sex realist (often called “gender critical”) views, I am feeling safer, and more optimistic,...

27th March 2024

Redefining Gender Identity: A Call for the Return of “Cross-Sex Identity Disorder”

Much has been written criticising the concept of “gender identity,” however, the concept is already changing into “gender incongruence.”...

17th March 2024

Fan Fiction and Trans Identity

I’d been meaning to return to the subject of fan fiction and trans identification—just as I’ve been meaning to...

6th March 2024

Womanhood: From Flight to Acceptance

I was sexually assaulted as a kid. Sexual violence has been in my life from a very young age....

8th February 2024

Where did All the Weird Nerd Women Go?

I had a long conversation with Nicole Rainey about her experiences in online fandom, what she witnessed as gender...

6th February 2024

Navigating Ideological Currents: Why We Will Continue to Avoid Ideological Bias

It is hard to think of any topic more likely to incite fear, rage, suspicion, purity-testing, name-calling, highly uncharitable...

2nd February 2024

Iceland: “Gender Medicine” Still in the Darkness of Activism and Lack of Knowledge

I stumbled across an article on the Icelandic Public Broadcaster’s (RÚV) website this week. What caught my attention was...

1st February 2024

What Was I Made For?

Looking back now, it’s clear how misled I was. What’s less clear is why the adults in charge didn’t...

25th January 2024

Feeling like an Imposter Before, During and After Transition

Because my research focuses in part on experiences of feeling like an imposter, the subject of “passing” as a...

19th January 2024

Mind the Gap: Religion and Gender Identity in Ireland

A slow-burning religious revolution is transforming Ireland. The Catholic Church has waned to a smidgin of its former significance...

17th January 2024

“Really not enjoying the female experience”

The Reddit community r/questioning describes itself as “a helpful community for those questioning their sexuality and/or gender.” In practice, online communities...

11th January 2024

The Truth about Trans

Until the medical profession recognises that there are different reasons behind cross-sex identification, and that “trans” is not explained...

9th January 2024

Why Genspect doesn’t want to replace WPATH (we want to close it!)

In our recent discussion, Kellie Jay Keen expressed her desire for Genspect to replace WPATH, stating, “I want you...

8th January 2024

I’m going to push on my throat all day long so the Adam’s apple won’t come out

Nicolas Blooms announced he was no longer ‘Nita’ in August of 2022 because “the trans issue has gotten so...

4th January 2024

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