I thought I’d begin the new year with a quick recap of my writings from 2023. All these essays are on Medium and have been demonetized. If you appreciate them, please consider supporting my work on Patreon!
Several of the essays were my definitive responses to major anti-trans talking points: They are thoroughly researched (citing sources all along the way), comprehensive, and well-argued—so if you only read one or a few, I encourage you to make it these:
- Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental: A Timeline and Compilation of Studies
- Understanding the Anti-Trans Parent Movement
- All the Evidence Against Transgender Social Contagion
- Explaining Assigned Sex Ratio Shifts in Trans Children
- Spotting Anti-Trans Media Bias on Detransition
Here are the other essays I’ve written this year. I am proud of these too, but they were less intensive research-wise (and are often shorter as a result):
- What Is a Woman? (a response)
- On “Male Socialization” and the “Trans Masc Versus Trans Fem” Discourse
- Did Lisa Marchiano Invent “Transgender Social Contagion” and “No Transition Before Age 25”?
- Masculinity, Femininity, and Meanings
- KOSA: A Nationwide Anti-Trans/LGBTQ+ Bill in All but Name (And What You Can Do to Stop It)
- History of the Word “Transgenderism” (and why “eradicating transgenderism” = eradicating transgender people)
- Anti-Trans Op-Ed & News Story Bingo
Finally, since years are an admittedly arbitrary time-frame, I will end with two essays that I wrote at the very end of 2022. Both distill some of the main take-home points of my recent book Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back and apply them to our current anti-trans moral panic and what drives transphobia and biphobia within queer and feminist circles:
- Penises, Privilege, and Feminist & LGBTQ+ Purity Politics
- Anti-Trans “Grooming” and “Social Contagion” Claims
I have lots of essays in the works for 2024, so stay tuned—they will all be cross-posted on both Medium and Substack, with alerts and links sent to my Patreon supporters. I am also working on a talk-length video entitled “Transgender People and Biological Sex: What the Science Says,” so subscribe to my YouTube channel if you want to be notified as soon as it comes out...
