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Sex and Gender
Abigail Shrier, Emily Yoffe, and others cover the new sex wars—from sports fields to classrooms and hospitals. Plus: the new realities of reproduction.
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Don’t Blame the Girlboss for the Falling Birth Rate
The recent drop in fertility has nothing to do with career women. But a different cohort is having many fewer children.
Patrick T. Brown
The New ‘Conversion Therapy’ Is Making Gay Kids Trans
Adopting traits of the opposite sex is often a sign of same-sex attraction. But today, many children who do so are steered toward changing their sex.
James Kirchick
The Medical Establishment Is Tearing Itself Apart Over Youth Gender Surgeries
The American Medical Association said it supported restricting gender surgeries for minors. Then it said it didn’t. We still don’t know where it stands.
Benjamin Ryan
Where Did All the Bisexual Women Go?
The 2010s saw a sharp rise in non-straight identity. Its reversal is upending the narrative around sexuality.
Jean Twenge
A Legal First That Could Change Gender Medicine
At 16, Fox Varian got a mastectomy while undergoing a gender transition. She sued her psychologist and plastic surgeon for leaving her ‘disfigured for…
Benjamin Ryan
I Was Fired by New York’s Attorney General for Opposing ‘Gender-Affirming Care’
Glenna Goldis is a gay consumer fraud attorney who has spoken out about the dangers of “gender-affirming care.” For that she lost her job.
Glenna Goldis
‘We’re All Just Winging It’: What the Gender Doctors Say in Private
In footage obtained exclusively by The Free Press, gender doctors acknowledge they perform life-altering procedures on vulnerable youth with no…
Leor Sapir
Letters to the Editor: The Fight over Conversion Therapy
‘We can’t stop conversion therapy. But we have to try,’ wrote River Page on Monday. Our readers continue the conversation.
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Conversion Therapy Reaches the Supreme Court
Even the Court isn’t quite certain what conversion therapy is: speech or conduct?
Lisa Selin Davis
Press 3 for Moral Panic
The media and prominent Democrats are falsely asserting that Donald Trump has shut down a suicide hotline for LGBT youth.
Brad Polumbo
The End of Youth Gender Transition?
In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court ruled that states can restrict the ability of minors to get transition treatment. It’s long overdue.
Emily Yoffe
Evidence for Pediatric Gender Transitions ‘Very Low,’ Says U.S. Government Report
A rigorous new U.S. study comes to the same conclusion as many other countries: The medical case for pediatric transitions is alarmingly weak.
Madeleine Kearns
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