Raimund Hume

Aug 24, 2023 | quillette.com | Sean Masters |Raimund Hume |Holly Lawford-Smith |Anthony F Jorm

Gender Ideologues’ Alarming Campaign to Get Kids While They’re YoungIn the debate about the wisdom of medicalised gender change for the young, there is a common refrain meant to expose the moral panic and ignorance of sceptics. No young person, we are told, gets any medical intervention before puberty. This may be true, but it obscures the more telling

Mar 20, 2023 | quillette.com | Holly Lawford-Smith |Sean Masters |Raimund Hume

The first article I ever wrote for Quillette, in late 2019, was titled “How The Trans-Rights Movement Is Turning Philosophers Into Activists.” I noted the bizarrely un-academic behaviour of certain academic philosophers who’d contributed to an online symposium about transgender issues, and the extent to which their behaviour contradicted the values I associate with being a good philosopher.