The Bad-Faith Use of Words
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice,…
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Biological Sex and the Legal Protection of LGBT Individuals
No one should be fired for being gay or transgender. And now, as a result of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, “an employer who fires…
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LGBT Rights in America: Incremental Progress, Ongoing Problems
To a significant number of Americans, the quest for gay rights is either over or mostly over. On 28 June of this year, for example, the Atlantic ran an article by James…
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Minds Without Bodies: Transgenderism and the Authentic Self
Jazz Jennings, teenage transgender superstar, turns to the camera: “To all of the kids out there who are hearing this book for the first time, I just want to say…
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The Beauvoir Bluff: What Gender Idealists Keep Getting Wrong about “The Second Sex”
“The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.”—Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex It is…
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Identifying As or Identifying With? Transgender Identity
We appear to be at an impasse: a strongly vocal sector of the trans lobby insists that one is simply the gender one identifies as being, while an ever louder…
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When Storks Bring Theybies
If you weren’t familiar with the term theyby before this headline, you can be forgiven. A theyby is a child being raised in a gender-neutral environment at the behest of…
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Social Norms and Grammatical Forms: Do they Construct and Reinforce Each Other?
In recent years, there has been a great deal of fuss about gender-neutral pronouns. Many claim that masculine and feminine pronouns in English mirror our social norms and are a…
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An Argument for a Liberal and Rational Approach to Transgender Rights and Inclusion
The rights and social inclusion of trans people is a heated topic right now and, as usual in our present atmosphere, the most extreme views take center stage and completely…
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