Category: words
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Gender jive: “coming out”
You too can be a hero, not just a confused young person.
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Gender jive: “passing”
“trans women” | “transition” | gender jive | passing | progressive gender orthodoxy | sex | trans | transgender | words“I hope to be able to pass soon.” To what, exactly?
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“gender” as a synonym of “sex”
Capturing a word, capturing minds.
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Gender Jive: “trans woman”
“Trans women” are by definition not women.
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Bogardus’s “Evaluating Arguments for the Sex/Gender Distinction” – Part 3 – What is it to be a woman?
“Gender” theorists can’t agree on what the gender-concept of a woman is supposed to be.
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Bogardus’s “Evaluating Arguments for the Sex/Gender Distinction” – Part 2 – “gender”
A philosopher questions a core claim of the new gender orthodoxy.
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Gender Jive: “top surgery”
When gender activists capture a major American dictionary.
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Gender Jive: “transition” and “transitioners”
Sex “transition” should only be mentioned using those all-important quotation marks.
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Gender Jive: series intro
Words matter; some reveal, but others hide.
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Bogardus’s “Evaluating Arguments for the Sex/Gender Distinction” – Part 1 – What?!?
Gender isn’t sex – don’t we all agree about that? One philosopher doesn’t . . .