I call upon UK academic philosophers and other academics to publicly demonstrate their disciplinary values. — I am a professor of philosophy, employed at a British university in a Philosophy Department. Today, a UK employment tribunal judge ruled that the belief that biological sex is immutable, and that it is impossible to change one’s sex, is “incompatible with human dignity and fundamental rights of others”.

Transcript of talk given on Thursday 26th November at Senate House, University of London. Other speakers were Baroness Onora O’Neill, Professor Tommy Curry. The chair was Ritula Shah. A filmed version should be available soon. — It seems to me that the primary goal of “diversity and inclusion” initiatives in institutions — workplaces, organisations, societies, and so on — is anti-discrimination. …

The fairly innocuous piece below was originally part of a larger piece commissioned by the Institute of Art and Ideas, entitled “How Can Philosophy Help Us Understand Transgender Experience”. After it appeared, three fellow contributors complained both to the IAI and on social media that they had not known they…

A huge range of academic questions are raised by the claim that having an inner “sense” of gender identity is an important category, alongside or even instead of the categories of biological sex and socially perceived sex. These include: how to understand and respond to the rapid rise in trans-identified…

Radical feminist and gender-critical philosophers challenge their opponents to avoid some obviously bad argumentative moves by Sophie Allen, Jane Clare Jones, Holly Lawford-Smith, Mary Leng, Rebecca Reilly-Cooper, and Kathleen Stock. 28/5/19: new fallacy added ( fallacy 9, section 1) and subsequent fallacies renumbered. We’re a group of gender-critical and radical…

As various sources are now reporting my ‘transphobic’ email to Sussex Philosophy Students, and academics are retweeting it, here is the full text. Dear Philosophy student As some of you know, since May this year I have been writing in public about gender and sex. My initial starting point was…

(NB An abridged version of this talk was given at the meeting. The Trans Inquiry Report can be read, in all its jaw-dropping glory, here ). Thank you to Baroness Nicholson for facilitating this meeting. As I hope is clear to everyone by now — thanks to campaigns like that…

Hello everyone. I’m an academic at the University of Sussex. I’m in the Philosophy Department. One of the areas in Philosophy is political philosophy: arguing about what’s right and wrong about social and political arrangements, including the laws. Having opinions, but also supporting those opinions with reasoned arguments. In the…

These are the full answers from my interview with the Brighton Argus here. 1) Why does there need to be a discussion around proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act? The proposed move to self-identification within the legal gender reassignment process needs to be discussed, party because of the problem…