Phoebe Maltz Bovy finds a path through the maze of identity politics pieties
How the queer theorist went from celebrating ironic distance and deconstructing drag shows to straight-faced gender totalitarianism
How Andrea Long Chu became a latter-day Saul of Tarsus in her journey from guilty white man to taboo-breaking Asian woman
Can old, dead, gay, white French males save us from the West’s latest moral crusade?
A recent interview with the country’s top gender expert shows how out of step the American medical establishment is with its European counterparts
The late writer’s lessons on breaking the gender binary
The wealthy, powerful, and sometimes very weird Pritzker cousins have set their sights on a new God-like goal: using gender ideology to remake human biology
And let’s ban both positive and negative discrimination on the basis of anyone’s self-assigned identity
Debates around gender identity go back to Talmudic times
As a butch lesbian, wearing a yarmulke connects me to my people—and to myself
RIGit wants you to focus on beautiful clothes, not traditional gender roles
A Jewish women’s ritual gets its guy on
Elana Sztokman on the status of Israeli women during the war
Praying on the side with their chosen gender is a quiet political statement for some, and a personal milestone for others
Girls and women have long been relegated to domestic roles—when they’re included at all. But that may finally be changing.
New memoirs by transgender authors Kate Bornstein and Joy Ladin illustrate the power of religion to shape how people construct their identities
Purim calls for costumes, and we’re fine with seeing little girls dressed up as boys. But a boy dressed as a girl makes us uncomfortable, thanks to stubborn ideas about gender roles. It shouldn’t.
