September 4, 2024 It has been more than four months since the publication of the Independent Review of gender identity services for children and young people, known as the Cass Report. There

November 22, 2023, and July 17, 2024 Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos

January 9, 2023 When Claudine Gay resigned as President of Harvard last week the gloating by some conservative activists and commentators was unappealing to put it mildly.  Their unseemly glee

December 20, 2023 The legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term intersectionality in 1989 although the concept had been knocking around in (especially black and lesbian) feminist circles since the

September 7, 2023 The disruption to schooling in the early months of the pandemic led me to 1939, Operation Pied Piper, and the work of pediatrician and psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott.

August 9, 2023 In her thoroughly researched and scrupulously fair-minded book Time to Think, Hannah Barnes relates the history and calamitous downfall of the Tavistock—England’s only child gender clinic. It’s

September 6, 2023 The year 2023 may still be in its third quarter, but it has already proven to be a devastating legislative year for transgender people in the United States.