My Best Writings of 2023

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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 (more recent essays have been cross-posted here). 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 here and on Medium, 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 . . .