Our Media List tracks recent articles in mainstream sources that touch on issues relevant to The Declaration. In the current climate, it still takes courage on the part of journalists (especially American journalists) to speak critically of “gender identity” as a concept and of the clash it creates with women’s sex-based rights. More than a few have suffered professional consequences for going against the grain by drawing attention to these issues.
While we do not endorse every view espoused in the articles on this list, we believe it is more important than ever to fight for freedom of speech and information access, especially for women and girls. We recommend reading these articles and taking them as food for thought, and also recommend sharing them as they bring out the importance of the rights that the Declaration was written to protect.
A backlash against gender ideology is starting in universities
July 5th, 2021.
Relevant Declaration articles: 4
Putting trans women in female prisons sets up a clash of rights
January 30th, 2021.
Relevant Declaration articles: 8
When one person’s right is another’s obligation
October 27th, 2018.
Relevant Declaration articles: 1, 5
Changing the concept of “woman” will cause unintended harms
Kathleen Stock, July 6th, 2018.
Relevant Declaration articles: 1, 2, 5, 8
Trans rights should not come at the cost of women’s fragile gains
Sarah Ditum, July 5th, 2018.
Relevant Declaration articles: 1, 2, 6
Free to Be You and Me. Or Not.
Pamela Paul, December 4th, 2022.
Relevant Declaration articles: 9
They Paused Puberty, but Is There a Cost?
Megan Twohey and Christina Jewett, November 14th, 2022.
Relevant Declaration articles: 9
More Trans Teens Are Choosing ‘Top Surgery’
Azeen Ghorayshi, September 26th, 2022.
Relevant Declaration articles: 9
The Far Right and Far Left Agree on One Thing: Women Don’t Count
Pamela Paul, July 3rd, 2022.
Relevant Declaration articles: 1, 2, 3
The Battle Over Gender Therapy
Emily Bazelon, June 15, 2022.
Relevant Declaration articles: 9
Trans Rights and Gender Identity
Jesse Singal, September 7th, 2021.
Relevant Declaration articles: 4, 5, 7, 9
What Makes a Woman?
Elinor Burkett, June 6th, 2015.
Relevant Declaration articles: 1
Why detransitioners are crucial to the science of gender care
Robin Respaut, Chad Terhune and Michelle Conlin, December 22th, 2022.
Relevant Declaration articles: 4, 9
A Pediatric Association Stifles Debate on Gender Dysphoria
Abigail Shrier, August 9th, 2021.
Relevant Declaration articles: 4, 9
The Equality Act Makes Women Unequal
Inez F. Stepman, February 23rd, 2021.
Relevant Declaration articles: 1, 5, 7, 8, 9
Does the ACLU Want to Ban My Book?
Abigail Shrier, November 15th, 2020.
Relevant Declaration articles: 4, 9
The Dangerous Denial of Sex
Colin M. Wright and Emma N. Hilton, February 13th, 2020.
Relevant Declaration articles: 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9
When Your Daughter Defies Biology
Abigail Shrier, January 6th, 2019.
Relevant Declaration articles: 9
It’s still possible to “cancel” gender-critical feminists, but this strategy won’t work
Louise Perry, July 28th, 2021.
Relevant Declaration articles: 4
Anorexia, breast binding and the legitimisation of body hatred
Victoria Smith, August 24th, 2016.
Relevant Declaration articles: 9
What is gender, anyway?
Sarah Ditum, May 16th, 2016.
Relevant Declaration articles: 1, 9
The problem with talking about “pregnant people”
Victoria Smith, September 29th, 2015.
Relevant Declaration articles: 2
There’s Good Reason for Sports to Be Separated by Sex
Steve Magness, September 29, 2022
Relevant Declaration articles: 7
What If Joan of Arc Wasn’t a Woman?
Helen Lewis, September 2, 2022
Relevant Declaration articles: 1, 4
Why I’ll Keep Saying “Pregnant Women”
Helen Lewis, October 26, 2021
Relevant Declaration articles: 2, 3
When Children Say They’re Trans
Jesse Singal, July/August Issue, 2018.
Relevant Declaration articles: 9
Ministers need to enforce fairness for females in sport – now
Mara Yamauchi, June 29, 2022.
Relevant Declaration articles: 7
Trying to erase the biological definition of sex isn’t just misguided – it’s dangerous
Susanna Rustin, June 28, 2022.
Relevant Declaration articles: 1
People have told me I’m on the wrong side of history, but I still want to be their friend
Hadley Freeman, June 26, 2021.
Relevant Declaration articles: 1, 4
If we can’t define what a woman is, how can we organise politically?
Suzanne Moore, August 3, 2020.
Relevant Declaration articles: 1, 8
The Guardian view on the Gender Recognition Act: where rights collide
October 17, 2018.
Relevant Declaration articles: 1, 3, 5, 8, 9
Don’t you just love it when a man explains to you what it means to be a woman?
Hadley Freeman, March 31, 2018.
Relevant Declaration articles: 1, 3, 5, 6, 8
Let us be free to debate transgenderism without being accused of ‘hate speech’
Sheila Jeffreys, May 29, 2012.
Relevant Declaration articles: 4
There’s No Standard for Care When it Comes to Trans Medicine
Grace Lidinsky-Smith, June 25, 2021.
Relevant Declaration articles: 9
We Need Balance When It Comes To Gender Dysphoric Kids. I Would Know
Scott Newgent, February 9, 2021.
Relevant Declaration articles: 9
The Transgender Threat to Women’s Sports
Abigail Shrier, October 20, 2020.
Relevant Declaration articles: 7
‘We’re being pressured into sex by some trans women’
Caroline Lowbridge, October 26, 2021
Relevant Declaration articles: 5
What Is a Woman?
Michelle Goldberg, July 28, 2014.
Relevant Declaration articles: 1, 4, 8
Agenda Bender: What shifting notions of sex and gender mean for affirmative action in the workplace
Cordelia Fine, August, 2021.
Relevant Declaration articles: 1, 4, 6
