transgender

My tips to avoid arrest by the Met

12 July 2025 9:00 am

An interesting event occurred in London at the weekend. A young man who goes by the name of Montgomery Toms…

Ofcom still isn’t sure what a woman is

5 July 2025 9:00 am

Earlier this week, GB News again found itself at odds with Ofcom. The channel had written to the broadcast regulator…

‘Trans rights’ has never been a civil rights issue

28 June 2025 9:00 am

Indisputably a nutjob, Chase Strangio is the soul of nominative determinism. The lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union is…

The next front in the gender wars

31 May 2025 9:00 am

April’s Supreme Court judgment ought to have been the final nail in the coffin for transgender ideology. The belief that…

The hidden violence behind the trans ruling

26 April 2025 9:00 am

It is ten months since the then merely aspirant education secretary Bridget Phillipson addressed the important issue of where transgender…

Portrait of the week: Pope dies, EU cheese banned and trans women aren’t women

26 April 2025 9:00 am

Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, no longer believes that a trans woman is a woman, his official spokesman…

After Francis, who?

26 April 2025 9:00 am

After Francis, what, or rather, who? The coverage so far, rightly admiring of the Pope’s unvarnished, rather un-papal Christianity, has…

How Ipso surrendered to the trans lobby

1 February 2025 9:00 am

Two months ago, the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) upheld a complaint against The Spectator for referring to Juno Dawson,…

How to process your Trump trauma (with orange soup)

16 November 2024 9:00 am

It’s amazing how many people have responded to what they think of as the shattering catastrophe of Donald Trump’s victory…

The ONS finally admits to flawed trans population statistics

15 September 2024 10:30 pm

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has finally admitted that the 2021 census figures on the transgender population of England…

Does it matter if Trump is weird?

17 August 2024 9:00 am

Would-be veep Tim Walz has opened Pandora’s box with his use of the W-word to characterise Donald Trump and his…

David Tennant’s pride and prejudice

29 June 2024 9:00 am

As all non-bigoted readers will know, this is the holy and most ancient month of Pride. The time of year…

Tory men! Terfs need you

29 June 2024 9:00 am

Some of my good male friends, Tories, are sick of terfs. I can see it in their shifty eyes, in…

Letters: the joy of a male book club

4 May 2024 9:00 am

The state of our defence Sir: Your article on the etiolated state of European, including Britain’s, defence, is spot on (‘The…

How the Jilly Cooper Book Club turned toxic

27 April 2024 9:00 am

The Jilly Cooper Book Club was set up about a decade ago by two friends who’d had enough of book…

It rarely pays to be ahead of your time

27 April 2024 9:00 am

Following the release of the Cass report deprecating NHS ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors as reliant on rubbish medical research, the…

Why the Cass report won’t change a thing

27 April 2024 9:00 am

The Liberal Democrat candidate in the Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency recently released a video clip of herself sitting…

The Spectator’s letters page is hazardous

20 April 2024 9:00 am

Question time Sir: Your leading article ‘Sense prevails’ (13 April) is a valuable précis of the Cass Review into NHS…

‘Now I have been made whole’: Lucy Sante’s experience of transition

6 April 2024 9:00 am

Until the age of 66, Sante lived as a deeply divided man. In this story of self-realisation, she describes how transitioning finally ‘lifted the veil’ over her existence

Is sanity returning to the trans debate?

1 October 2022 8:05 pm

At last, Mermaids, the UK charity for, in their own words, ‘gender variant and transgender children’ is under the spotlight.…

Why are lesbians no longer welcome at Pride?

28 August 2022 11:13 pm

The lesbian group Get The L Out UK, founded to protest gender ideology and the pressure on same-sex attracted women…

The gender debate is getting nastier

20 August 2022 2:43 am

Elaine Miller is one of the grown-ups. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, with a specialism…

There is no transgender debate

21 June 2022 1:20 am

Anyone still talking about ‘two sides in the transgender debate’ needs to look at the footage from Bristol yesterday. Actually,…

Starmer won't talk about sex and gender. That's a problem

29 March 2022 3:10 am

Sir Keir Starmer doesn’t want to talk about penises. He’s going to have to do it anyway, and he’s not…

The problem with the UK's transgender clinic

12 March 2022 2:30 am

This is not a good time to be a girl. Research from Steer Education last month showed that far too…