ICYMI -- all twelve lectures for THE PHILOSOPHY OF FEMINISM are now available @ my Y/T channel 👇🏼

The latest issue of the Journal of Controversial Ideas is now available here: journalofcontroversialideas.org/volumes_issues…

best comment: caligula's goat 🎯
dailynous.com/2026/11/09/maj…

"If medicine is to remain grounded in evidence, it must cultivate the psychological sophistication to question its own certainties. The true test of evidence­ based practice is not how we respond to evidence that confirms what we already believe, but how we respond when it does in @JConIdeas.👇

Very pleased to see that Kate Harris, my wonderful co-founder of @AllianceLGB, has finally come out of the shadows on X. 🎉🎉🎉

Please follow her: @Kathari17674744

She is impatient, often rude, but one of the most brilliant, inspiring people I have ever known.

She unleashed — with a little help from me — a global revolution to reclaim gay rights from the gender identity mob.

Many scholars have made this argument. But it's the first time that I personally am making it, which is pretty exciting for me

published in a top-5 philosophy journal earlier this year, the publication likely career-making for its junior co-author:

"Everyone wants their gender identity to be respected, and cisgender people typically have their gender identities respected as a matter of course."

unstated & unargued presuppositions: everyone has a gender identity; when 'cisgender' people say they are men/women they are making a claim about gender identity not a claim about sex.

one of the referees (normally anonymous but in this case acknowledged): talia bettcher.

I understand the world is on fire, but... here's a video of a sex/gender panel discussion I participated in recently with @hoovlet and @byrne_a at the University of Arizona. This site also contains written responses we gave to some audience questions.

freedomcenter.arizona.edu/freedom-center…

Is transgender identification itself a mental disorder?

At @RealLastStand, the first installment of a point-counterpoint exchange between philosopher @aytchellesse and @genspect founder @stellaomalley3 over Genspect's REPATH initiative has been published.

REPATH on) calls for transgender identification to be recognized as a mental disorder.

Holly kicks off the exchange with a critique of REPATH, arguing that while gender medicine has gone seriously wrong, de-pathologizing transgender identification was not the mistake.

Next week, Stella will respond to Holly's arguments and defend REPATH.

This is exactly the kind of good-faith disagreement I love hosting at RLS. Read both sides, weigh the arguments, and decide for yourself.

And don't forget to vote in the REPATH poll (link in the article below)! We'll poll readers again after the exchange to see whether opinions have shifted.

Read Holly's critique here:
🔗realityslaststand.com/p/the-repath-d…

I can’t describe how THRILLED I am to FINALLY be having an honest thoughtful debate about a significant aspect of the trans issue.

When I first got into this, I thought there would be many such debates. Instead I’ve spent 9 years stuck at “you can’t experiment on children”

reality's last stand is hosting a debate between @stellaomalley3 and i, about genspect's current campaign to repathologize trans identification. there is a reader poll you can vote in before you read, and at least with colin's audience, genspect's position is the one to beat!

my position is that trans identification should not be repathologized. if you're too lazy/busy to read the full essay, here's the core claim:

full essay here 👇🏼

stella's response will be published this time next week, and there'll be a new poll to see whether the debate changed anyone's mind. so if you're interested in this issue, please join in!

open.substack.com/pub/colinwrigh…

for GC friends in the UK facing the prospect of conversion therapy legislation, here's a short thread of videos from when this was happening here, in case they are helpful!

my interview with lawyer kath deves about the victorian legislation:

youtu.be/iYRewYXuJ1w?si…

and a longer talk for the open university gender critical research network elaborating on the previous point, with the i reckon pretty good title 'hitching gender identity wagons to sexual orientation stars':

youtu.be/3uIKvaI9qfI?si…

(and although not a video, that last talk became this journal article:)

joibs.org/index.php/joib…