A Cheer for Greer (with a little help from Geoffrey and John)

by Carl R. Trueman

When Germaine Greer is an object of protest for being too conservative, we are all in trouble. Continue Reading »

26 Oct 2015

How Should Christians Respond to the Transgender Phenomenon?

by Robert A. J. Gagnon

In June, Christianity Today published an article by Mark Yarhouse, a professor of psychology at Regent University in Virginia, on “gender dysphoria.” Gender dysphoria is the APA's current description of the condition whereby someone perceives one's “gender” to be other than one's birth or . . . . Continue Reading »

16 Oct 2015

Transgender Delusion

by Richard Corradi

Human nature does not change. Despite our postmodern sophistication and our wishful thinking about perfectibility, our nature is immutable—not least in its fickleness, its embrace of irrational ideas and practices, and its suggestibility.Charles Mackay’s classic work, Extraordinary Popular . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2015

The Derridean Echo

by Mark Bauerlein

When I read this story on the University of Tennessee Office for Diversity and Inclusion asking students and teachers to stop imposing gendered pronouns on one another, I didn’t think about the silliness of trying to create linguistic change by bureaucratic fiat. Or about one more exercise in . . . . Continue Reading »

14 Sep 2015

No Lobbyists, I Guess

by Carl R. Trueman

The Rachel Dolezal case raises obvious questions about identity but do not expect the bien pensants to bother answering them with any coherence. Continue Reading »

12 Jun 2015

Time to Address the Issue of Hatesport

by Carl R. Trueman

It is surely time to abolish women's professional athletics. Continue Reading »

11 Jun 2015

Triple Crown Sublime

by Julia Yost

There are no teams in thoroughbred racing. Or rather, everyone who follows racing is on the same team—at least for a few weeks in the late spring, when the three races are run that make up the Triple Crown.The lack of partisan fandom in racing has something to do with the brevity of its stars' . . . . Continue Reading »

9 Jun 2015

The Rhetoric of Anti-Discrimination

by Mark Bauerlein

Last week, the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights held a briefing entitled “Examining Workplace Discrimination Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Americans” (you can watch the first panel here). Its purpose was to discuss the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would extend Federal anti-discrimination coverage to the categories of “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.” Continue Reading »

23 Mar 2015

A Fundamental Right to “Personal Recreationism”?

by Wesley J. Smith

Gender dysphoria (transgenderism)—formerly known as gender identity disorder—was once considered a mental illness. Today, the condition—and how individuals and society react to it—is a prominent civil rights issue, the “T” in LGBT. Continue Reading »

23 Jan 2015

How the Transgender Lobby Is Using a Teen’s Death

by Carl R. Trueman

The reactions to the death of Leelah Alcorn are emblematic of our age and raise many important legal, moral, and cultural questions. Continue Reading »

6 Jan 2015