Anyone who has critiqued, or even dared to question, the ideology of the transgender movement likely has been accused of being a “biological essentialist.” The most recent episode of this in my life ...

Recent debates around transgender people and sexual diversity have been marked by essentialism, a profoundly conservative mindset with deep links to religious and metaphysical dogmatism. It is a ...

Biological essentialism about sex/gender is the view that in typical cases we are born as either a male or a female. On one version of this view, males are defined as having an X and a Y chromosomes ...

Rory Bowman’s letter (“Relevant category is sex, not gender,” Our Readers’ Views, May 19) merits a response. Bowman engages in faulty biological essentialism to deny that trans and intersex people ...

Kirk opens her piece by asserting that there is plenty of scientific evidence that “biological males and females” differ not only physically but also mentally, and that those differences mean that ...

Red and Black Leeds on the limitations of both gender essentialism and sex essentialism as a way to understand gender expression and identity. The Morning Star recently published a couple of articles ...