Sex-trafficking spillover effect from misguided LGBTQ legislation in California. Investigative journalist Abigail Shrier is on the case.
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When ‘She’ Was A Man
What a mixed up world we live in. We must start using words that correspond with reality. The following story was totally predictable when Scotland passed its gender self-id law last year. A law which allows anyone to be legally recognized as transgender simply if they say they are.
What could go wrong with that?
After it was announced that this man pretending to be a woman was to be housed in a women’s only prison, more than a few sensible people spoke up.
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Justice For Real Women
Exceptional Women Are Really Men?
Did the Mother of Young Adult Literature Identify as a Man?
A guest essay in the New York Times asks that question about Louisa May Alcott. Eliza Mondegreen sets the historical record straight.
Historical fan fiction in the New York Times.
Not a fan of the trend of stripping exceptional women of their sex on the reasoning that—because they were exceptional—that means they must have been men all along. We used to call this kind of thing sexist, but now we’re meant to call it progressive instead.
Last year a celebrated play about Joan of Arc had her cast as a “trans” person. The erasure of woman continues.
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