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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recent debates around transgender people and sexual diversity have been marked by essentialism, a profoundly conservative mindset ...