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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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I’m a Female Athlete. The Supreme Court Finally Gave Us the Protection We Need.
When Lia Thomas, a biological male, joined Penn’s women’s swim team, my coaches told me to accept it. The Supreme Court’s ruling on transgender athletes…
Paula Scanlan
Texas Supreme Court Hands Detransitioner Historic Win
Detransitioners often miss the statute of limitations before they realize they have malpractice claims. On Friday, the Texas Supreme Court gave Soren…
Madeleine Long
Puberty Blockers for 11-Year-Old Girls? It’s Happening.
The British government commissioned the most comprehensive review of puberty blockers ever conducted and banned the drugs indefinitely. Now it plans to…
Julie Bindel
How the Trans Agenda Left Gay and Lesbian People Behind
In a speech delivered at the Cambridge Union, Maeve Halligan argues that the activist movement that was built to protect gays and lesbians has abandoned…
Maeve Halligan
I De-transitioned. My Body Will Never Be the Same.
Doctors told me I was transgender at 13. I’m 23 now, permanently altered, and fighting to make sure it never happens to another child.
Jonni Skinner
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
‘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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