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Why are the police stopping a 74-year-old tweeting about transgenderism?
Margaret Nelson is a 74-year-old woman who lives in a village in Suffolk. On Monday morning she was woken by…
Women are abused in the name of ‘trans rights’. But do MPs care?
There are some things that pretty much everyone in politics and public life agrees on. Ask any politician about any…
This MP has summed up everything wrong with the transgender debate
MPs have been talking about gender and sex and the law. This is a good thing. That’s the job Parliament…
Not all transsexuals think ‘trans women are women’
When equalities minister Penny Mordaunt launched the consultation on reforming the Gender Recognition Act she declared that “trans women are women”. Whether…
The cautionary tale of Karen White, the transgender rapist
Karen White is a rapist and child abuser who has committed several acts of sexual violence against vulnerable people. One…
When a dictionary definition becomes hate speech
So, when does a dictionary definition count as hate speech? When it’s the dictionary definition of a woman – ‘woman/noun/adult…
How I was hounded off campus for saying ‘women don’t have penises’
What harm can it do saying that women don’t have penises? Quite a lot, actually, if my experience is anything…
Labour’s refusal to accept the definition of a woman
‘Well what sort of question is that? That’s bloody stupid if you ask me. I’ve two daughters and five grandchildren.…
Why was a transgender rapist put in a women’s prison?
If you were deciding where to house a convicted sex offender accused of repeatedly raping a woman, where’s the last…
How Caroline Lucas fell foul of the transgender thought police
Last week, it emerged that Linda Bellos, veteran feminist of the Old Left, faces legal action for having said the…
Is it a crime to say ‘women don’t have penises’?
Is it now a crime to say “women don’t have penises”? A police force and a City mayor seem to…
Is the BBC scared of the transgender debate?
I like the BBC. I like the idea of a national broadcaster and I like a lot of BBC output.…
Are female prisoners at risk from transgender inmates?
Earlier this week, it was reported that an inmate in HM Prison New Hall, a women’s prison, had been charged with sexually…
Is transgender ideology making the UK’s mental health crisis worse?
There is a mental health crisis in the UK. The symptoms are often body related, and the causes are complex,…
Why are women who discuss gender getting bomb threats?
Last night, some women got together in a room to talk about law and politics and sex and gender. The…
Why are some MPs trying to shut down the transgender debate?
Even if you don’t know who Stephen Doughty MP is, if you’re vaguely familiar with the history of New Labour,…
The age of the unicorn question
I’ve been in Los Angeles for the last week, and it takes a special set of occurrences for someone to…
Pragmatic women have cross-dressed throughout history – but it doesn’t make them transgender
Women passing as men is a well-documented manoeuvre that goes back centuries. The history stretches from the legend of Hua…
The most half-baked thing about the anti-transgender Christian couple isn’t their approach to gender
We live in a society with a tendency towards liberal intolerance, in which the fury of the mob turns on…
Of course a man hasn’t had a baby. Let’s not pretend otherwise
You know a Man Having Baby story really would be a story if it were true. But the latest Man…
It’s dangerous and wrong to tell all children they’re ‘gender fluid’
This is the cover piece of this week’s Spectator, out tomorrow: Once upon a time, ‘binary’ was a mathematical term. Now…
Vanity Fair editor calls Caitlyn Jenner ‘Bruce’
After Bruce Jenner’s transformation into Caitlyn Jenner was unveiled in Vanity Fair with a cover titled ‘Call me Caitlyn’, the Twitter…
‘Call me Caitlyn, or else’: the rise of authoritarian transgender politics
The Vanity Fair photo of Bruce Jenner in a boob-enhancing swimsuit is being described as iconic. Bruce, one-time American athlete,…
Kids love fairy tales. This doesn’t mean they must be taught about transgender politics
If the NUT didn’t exist it would be necessary for a latter-day Michael Wharton to invent it. This week the teaching…