Sitemap - 2022 - gender:hacked by Eliza Mondegreen

Top reads of the week + book club scheduling

Top reads of the week - Boxing Day edition

Calling old silences by new names

The 51st way to leave your lover?

Suggestion, appropriation, and theft

Top reads of the week

JK Rowling: "It’s going to have to be, me, isn’t it?"

Where I've changed my mind over the last six years

Top reads of the week

Holiday Zoom hangout next Monday, December 12!

Gender identity, surrogacy, and more with Jennifer Lahl

"Does believing there are differences between trans and cis women’s experiences make you a TERF?"

What if I'm faking it?

Top reads + pre-holiday Zoom hangout?

New podcast: Gender Study Buddies

Why does gender dysphoria get worse after you come out as trans and with every step toward transition?

When 'embodiment goals' outlast trans identity

Thanksgiving weekend top reads

New post at Genspect: Originals and facsimilies

Social Justice vs. free inquiry

Top reads of the week

Just whip it out already

"When did you start to deprogram?"

Travel journal: Three years ago in Venice

Slippery slopes aren't always fallacies

Book club + top reads of the week

Millennial women weren't bottle-fed gender identity bullshit. How did we fall for it?

Listen to totalitarian language games and covert ops on Benjamin Boyce's podcast

Top reads of the week

Appeasing the invisible audience

That ideologically-caged cleverness

Cult recruitment in progress

Join The True Believer conversation, this Thursday!

Top reads and The True Believer

Please RSVP for Eric Hoffer's The True Believer!

New at Genspect: Eating disorders and trans identification

Mainstream feminism jettisoned girls. Trans identity recruited them.

Top reads

New at The Freethinker: The falsehood at the heart of the trans movement

How has history judged its 'social justice warriors'? It depends!

$$$$$$$$$$

Top reads of the week

May you live in interesting times

What was your 'oh @#%&*!' moment?

Kids and gender: It's not complicated

Top reads

Mermaids' latest scandal and words you can't say on Twitter

Gender agitprop

Top reads of the week

Whose cause is it, anyway?

What YouTube influencers are telling your kids about trans identity and doubt

So I went to WPATH

Top reads of the week & The True Believer

RIP Hilary Mantel

How to describe trans activism?

Smothered intuition

Top reads and The True Believer

Hysterectomies for 17-year-olds? WPATH tries to scrub the record

Odds and ends

'How long did it take for you to go from “Am I trans?” to “Maybe I’m trans” to “I’m trans”?'

Top reads

One year on Substack

You've got *real* problems, not PR problems

Republic of Shame

Top reads of the week

Unherd: The American Academy of Pediatrics is denying reality

Phobia indoctrination and trans communities

Top reads of the week + Mind Fixers book club schedule

Mind Fixers open thread

Seeking refuge in an idiosyncratic sexual identity

Trans activism and the road not taken

Top reads of the week

Xir Majesty

Playing god with other people's children

Nothing to see here!

Top reads of the week (+ book club prep)

Who goes 'ultra-woke' at work and why

Leaving your husband to find your true self: FTM edition

Top reads of the week

And we've got our first book-club pick!

Trans is an identity issue for everybody

Cats and dogs

Greece travel scraps

Book club poll and this week's top reads

My medical malpractice is now your "dynamic desire for gender-affirming medical interventions"

Book club prep!

"It felt cruel to say no"

Top reads of the week

"But let us at least refuse to say what we do not think!"

No, you don't have to update your protest signs

Guess who ends up with nowhere to sit when we play musical chairs with language?

Top reads of the week

Woke philosophy bro emails, part two

The woke philosophy bro emails, part one

Don't let sissy-porn addicts redefine what it means to be a woman

Think-tanked

Top reads of the week: "It shouldn't take courage to say this"

Don't think about it

New piece on UnHerd: What happens when trans exceptionalism meets ordinary children?

Hey, maybe Philip Pullman should talk to that Philip Pullman guy...

Top reads of the week

Elective double mastectomies = joy

Czeslaw Milosz at 111

Fragile identities and unreasonable demands

In defense of secular standards

Stop pretending

Fantasy lives and Muggle dreams

OK, Megan Rapinoe, we all know sports is not the most important thing in life... but can't we still talk about it?

Trans activism is post-truth politics

Respect, recognition, and social movements

The right side of history or the winning side?

The underside of Pride month, over at UnHerd

The trans treadmill in one Reddit post

"I ask this one thing: let me go mad in my own way."

The Manual of Impossible Demands

r/AskTransgender: What is a woman?

OK, let's actually talk about Nazi doctors

"I could not picture myself as a woman aging."

Ask me anything (about gender)!

Canada gives a whole new meaning to "beating around the bush"

Who's going to write the history books?

Your struggles are valid... unless you're struggling with growing up as a girl or gay (or both), in which case you're probably trans

Where legal fictions land

"I'm not sure about my gender. What is this called?"

In plain English, it's wrong to drug, cut up, and sterilize kids

Living vicariously through "trans kids"

Harry Potter, fantasy worlds, and puberty blockers

Trans thought experiments: Heads, you're trans. Tails, you're not 'cis.'

"But the truth will cut across your life, wee girl, whether you want it to or not."

"A penis remained an unlikely prospect"

Dear Chase Strangio...

Just don't bother

Six weeks and one day, six years later

Remind me again: *who* thinks there's a right way and a wrong way to be a man or a woman?

"Just say this/don't say that, it's not too much to ask."

About Roe

How to make girls disappear

Why does gender dysphoria get worse when you realize you're 'trans'?

Favorite small acts of resistance?

Progressivism, Inc. dropout

r/AskTransgender: Is it possible to believe you're trans when you're not?

From the archives: Rebecca West reviews Jan Morris' Conundrum, 1974

And now for something completely different...

Witch-hunting

Don't talk to ME about regret! (Seriously. It's terribly inconvenient.)

To clarify or obscure?

A few thoughts in advance of my cancellation

Solidarity across difference is out. Allyship and blank checks are in.

Becoming flesh

Housekeeping...

"I discarded the entire idea of gender identity as I found it incredibly toxic to my life..."

You can't understand trans activism unless you understand ________________.

How 'internalized transphobia' works

What if the word we suddenly couldn't define anymore was "children"?

Don't mix with money.

Probably the first thing I ever wrote about gender identity

God complexes, false urgency, misleading insulin analogies, sunk costs, and pediatric endocrinology

What happens when you can't ask basic questions

What would it take for you to say: the trans movement isn’t what I thought it was?

"Lia Thomas and the long tradition of 'gender policing' female [sic!] athletes"

And the award for best supporting actress goes to...

What do you do when the story you’ve been telling yourself falls apart?

But 'sex work is work'

Eugenics and Other Evils

Just one request* for International Women's Day

Spanish interlude

Up against the limits of language

Now pretend you're not pretending

One-time paper of record unpersons JK Rowling

Trans exceptionalism and ordinary children

Twisting my words

Confluence: Powerful industries and woke activists

Whatever happened to "It gets better"?

Still not loving the Ministry of Truth vibes

This is a story about radicalization, but it's not women who've been radicalized

Whoever takes this road will never return

The upsides of being terminally uncool

From transgender to transhuman...

Dora Richter threw the first brick at Stonewall

Tolerance and complicity

'Menstruators' isn't inclusivity, it's market segmentation

"Suffice it to say that dualism and biology are very unhappy bedmates"

The new global empire of disembodiment

Detransition: You can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave

tl;dr: The Internet did not make me trans but I would not be trans without the Internet

The bad friend

Take a bite out of the wrong apple and you won’t be able to live in that beautiful garden anymore

All about doubt

"People in pain want relief. But emotional pain, like physical pain, does not necessarily point directly toward its cause."

If boys were really born in girls' bodies, then…

Not like other girls, r/ftm edition

Loyalty tests: Calling a deer a horse and a 'transwoman' a woman

Acceptance means calling things by the right names

In your dreams

The thing about propaganda

Resisting dissociated/dissociating language