Безумие толпы. Как мир сошел с ума от толерантности и попыток угодить всем [заметки]

1

See Jean-Francois Lyotard (trans. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi), The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Manchester University Press, 1984, pp. xxiv and 37.

2

Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting your Social Media Accounts Right Now, Henry Holt, 2018, p. 26.

3

Coleman Hughes in conversation with Dave Rubin, The Rubin Report, YouTube, 12 October 2018.

4

‘Hunger strikers died for gay rights, claims Sinn Fein senator Fintan Warf eld’, Belfast Telegraph, 15 August 2016.

5

См. https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1066934424804057088

6

See Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting up a Generation for Failure, Allen Lane, 2018, pp. 5 – 7ff.

7

APA Guidelines for psychological practice with men and boys, August 2018: https://www.apa.org/about/policy/boys-men-practice-guidelines.pdf

8

See ‘Views of racism as a major problem increase sharply, especially among Democrats’, Samantha Neal, Pew Research Center, 29 August 2017.

9

Ekow N. Yankah, The New York Times, 11 November 2017.

10

Helen Pidd, ‘Women shun cycling because of safety, not helmet hair’, The Guardian, 13 June 2018.

11

Tim Hunt interview by Robin McKie, ‘I’ve been hung out to dry’, The Observer, 13 June 2015. What got him into trouble were these words: ‘Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they are in the lab. You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticise them, they cry.’

12

See the exchange between Senator Katy Gallagher and Senator Mitch Fif eld in the Australian Senate on 11 February 2016.

13

See for instance this thread: https://twitter.com/HarryTheOwl/status/1088144870991114241

14

CNN interview with Rep Debbie Dingell, 17 November 2017.

15

Kenneth Minogue, The Liberal Mind, Liberty Fund, Indianapolis edn, 2000, p. 1.

16

Good Morning Britain, ITV, 5 September 2017.

17

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, Penguin, 2006, pp. 60 – 1.

18

‘Nicky Morgan says homophobia may be sign of extremism’, BBC News, 30 June 2015.

19

Robert Samuels, Washington Post, 29 August 2016.

20

‘Desert Island Discs: Tom Daley felt “inferior” over sexuality’, BBC News website, 30 September 2018.

21

‘Made in Chelsea’s Ollie Locke to become Ollie Locke-Locke’, BBC News website, 1 October 2018.

22

The New York Times (International Edition), 16 October 2017, pp. 15 – 17.

23

See for instance Russell T. Davies, ‘A Rose by any other name’, The Observer, 2 September 2001.

24

See ‘Generation Z – beyond binary: new insights into the next generation’, Ipsos Mori, 6 July 2018.

25

These are: B. S. Mustanski, M. G. Dupree, C. M. Nievergelt et al., ‘A genome-wide scan of male sexual orientation’, Human Genetics, 116 (2005), pp. 272 – 8; R. Blanchard, J. M. Cantor, A. F. Bogaert et al., ‘Interaction of fraternal birth order and handedness in the development of male homosexuality’, Hormones and Behavior, 49 (2006), pp. 405 – 14; J. M. Bailey, M. P. Dunne and N. G. Martin, ‘Genetic and environmental in fuences on sexual orientation and its correlates in an Australian twin sample’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78 (2000), pp. 524 – 36.

26

Royal College of Psychiatrists’ statement on sexual orientation, Position Statement PS02/2014, April 2014 (https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/pdf/PS02_2014.pdf).

27

Royal College of Psychiatrists’ statement on sexual orientation, Position Statement PS02/2014, April 2014 (https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/pdf/PS02_2014.pdf).

28

Website of the American Psychological Association, ‘Sexual Orientation & Homosexuality’ (http://www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/orientation.aspx) accessed August 2018.

29

Bruce Bawer, A Place at the Table: The Gay Individual in American Society, Touchstone, 1994, p. 82.

30

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Everybody Lies: What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are, Bloomsbury, 2017, pp. 112 – 16.

31

This is why straight men watch porn’, Pink News, 19 March 2018.

32

‘Majority in U. S. Now Say Gays and Lesbians Born, Not Made’, Gallup, 20 May 2015.

33

See the discussion of this episode in Alice Dreger, Galileo’ s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar’s Search for Justice, Penguin, 2016, pp. 182 – 3.

34

‘Attitudes towards homosexuals and evolutionary theory’, in Ethology and Sociobiology. There is a useful summary of the Gallup – Archer exchange by Jesse Bering in Scientif c American, 9 March 2011.

35

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 7, chs 5 – 6. Incidentally among recent translations, the Cambridge University Press edition (2014) goes with ‘sodomy’ while the Oxford University Press edition (2009) goes with ‘paederasty’.

36

See for instance ‘What are the most cited publications in the social sciences (according to Google Scholar)?’, Elliott Green, LSE blogs, 12 May 2016.

37

Michael Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1 – The Will to Knowledge, trans. Robert Hurley, Penguin, 1998, p. 43.

38

David Halperin, ‘Historicising the sexual body: sexual preferences and erotic identities in the pseudo-Lucianic Erotes’, in Domna C. Stanton (ed.), Discourses of Sexuality: From Aristotle to AIDS, University of Michigan Press, 1992, p. 261. // See also Andrew Sullivan, Virtually Normal: An Argument about Homosexuality, Picador, 1996.

39

Foucault, The History of Sexuality, p. 156.

40

Hunter Madsen and Marshall Kirk, Aft er the Ball: How America Will Conquer its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the’ 90s, Doubleday, 1989.

41

See Paul Berman, A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968, W. W. Norton & Company Ltd, 1996, pp. 154 – 5.

42

Bawer, A Place at the Table, p. 191.

43

Bawer, A Place at the Table, p. 193.

44

Ibid., pp. 220 – 1.

45

Andrew Sullivan, Virtually Normal: An Argument about Homosexuality, Picador, 1996, p. 204.

46

Berman, A Tale of Two Utopias, pp. 160 – 1.

47

@TheEllenShow, Twitter, 25 October 2017, 5.53 p. m.

48

Daily Telegraph, 14 February 2018.

49

Stop Funding Hate, Twitter, 16 February 2018.

50

‘Children of same-sex couples happier and healthier than peers, research shows’, Washington Post, 7 July 2014.

51

Sunday Morning Live, BBC 1, 27 October 2010.

52

‘Study identifes predictors of relationship dissolution among same-sex and heterosexual couples’, The Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law, 1 March 2018.

53

Pink News, 25 March 2018.

54

Bawer, A Place at the Table, p. 188.

55

Sir Ian McKellen: Brexit makes no sense if you’re gay’, Daily Telegraph, 10 June 2016.

56

Jim Downs, ‘Peter Thiel shows us there s a difference between gay sex and gay’, Advocate, 14 October 2016.

57

Организация запрещена в России по решению Верховного суда. – примеч. пер.

58

‘Bret Easton Ellis goes on Twitter rampage after GLAAD media awards ban’, Entertainment Weekly, 22 April 2013.

59

‘How straight people should behave in gay bars’, Pink News, 30 November 2018.

60

‘In the reign of the magical gay elves’, Bret Easton Ellis, Out, 13 May 2013.

61

Ovid, Metamorphoses, trans. A. D. Melville, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 60 – 1.

62

Daniel Mendelsohn, The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity, Alfred A. Knopf, 1999, pp. 73 – 5.

63

‘The social and political views of American professors’, a working paper by Neil Gross (Harvard) and Solon Simmons (George Mason), 24 September 2007.

64

See https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefles/mcintosh.pdf

65

Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, ‘Socialist strategy: Where next?’, Marxism Today, January 1981.

66

Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (second edition), Verso, 2001, p. 133.

67

Ibid., p. 141.

68

Ibid.

69

Ibid., pp. 159 – 60.

70

Laclau and Mouffe, ‘Socialist strategy: Where next?’

71

Laclau and Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, p. 1.

72

‘What happens to #MeToo when a feminist is the accused?’, The New York Times, 13 August 2018.

73

Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, Penguin, 2003, p. x.

74

Judith Butler, ‘Further refections on conversations of our time’, Diacritics, vol. 27, no. 1, Spring 1997.

75

Consider, for instance, Sheldon Lee Glashow, ‘The standard mode’, Inference: International Review of Science, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring 2018.

76

https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/conceptual-penis-socialcontruct-sokal-style-hoax-ongender-studies

77

‘Hoaxers slip breastaurants and dog-park sex into journals’, The New York Times, 4 October 2018.

78

‘American Psychological Association guidelines for psychological practicewith boys and men’, APA, August 2018, p. 10.

79

Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, Penguin, 2003, pp. 346 – 50.

80

Ibid., p. 350.

81

AccessOnline.com video, ‘Rosario Dawson talks grabbing Paul Rudd’s “package” onstage at the 2011 Independent Spirit Awards’, 27 February 2011.

82

The Late Late Show with Stephen Colbert, CBS, 20 March 2018.

83

Huffngton Post, 11 May 2007.

84

RSA Conference, 28 February 2014.

85

Mayim Bialik, ‘Being a feminist in Harvey Weinstein’s world’, The New York Times, 13 October 2017.

86

The Late Late Show with James Corden, CBS, 8 February 2016.

87

See ‘Loud and proud! Brand releases sets of $9.99 plastic stick-on NIPPLES that are sold in two sizes – “ cold ” and “ freezing ”’, Mail Online (FeMail), 4 April 2017.

88

‘The hottest new trend is camel toe underwear and we’re all over it’, Metro, 24 February 2017.

89

VICE News interview with Dr Jordan Peterson, 7 February 2018.

90

Christine Lagarde, ‘Ten years after Lehman – lessons learned and challenges ahead’, IMF blog, 5 September 2018.

91

BBC Question Time, 19 March 2009.

92

‘When women thrive’ report, Mercer, October 2016.

93

‘Wall Street rule for the MeToo era: avoid women at all costs’, Bloomberg, 3 December 2018.

94

United States Offce of Personnel Management, ‘Government-wide Inclusive Diversity Strategic Plan’, July 2016.

95

See https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit. //

96

See ‘Can we really measure implicit bias? Maybe not ’, Chronicle of Higher Education, 5 January 2017; ‘Unconscious bias: what is it and can it be eliminated?’, The Guardian, 2 December 2018.

97

See, for instance, Odette Chalaby, ‘Your company’s plan to close the gender pay gap probably won’ t work’, Apolitical, 22 May 2018.

98

‘Smaller frms should publish gender pay gap, say MPs’, BBC News, 2 August 2018.

99

Susan Faludi, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women, Vintage, 1992, pp. 16 – 17.

100

Marilyn French, The War Against Women, Hamish Hamilton, 1992, pp. 1 – 2.

101

Ibid., pp. 5 – 6.

102

Ibid., p. 7.

103

Ibid., p. 9.

104

Ibid., p. 14.

105

Ibid., pp. 159 ff.

106

Ibid., pp. 210 – 11. Incidentally the ‘women as the embodiment of peace’ theme has a signif cant lineage. See for instance Olive Schreiner’s Woman and Labour (1911).

107

See, for instance, Christina Hoff Sommers, Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women, Simon & Schuster, 1995, pp. 11 – 12.

108

Laurie Penny (@PennyRed) on Twitter, 6 February 2018: https://twitter.com/PennyRed/status/960777342275768320

109

Sama El-Wardany, ‘What women mean when we say “men are trash”’, Huffngton Post, 2 May 2018.

110

Ezra Klein, ‘The problem with Twitter, as shown by the Sarah Jeong fracas’, Vox, 8 August 2018.

111

Georgia Aspinall, ‘Here are the countries where it’s still really diffcult for women to vote’, Grazia, 6 February 2018.

112

GQ magazine foreword by Dylan Jones, December 2018.

113

‘APA issues frst ever guidelines for practice with men and boys’, American Psychological Association, January 2019.

114

‘We are a nation of hidden feminists’, Fawcett Society press release, 15 January 2016.

115

Only 7 per cent of Britons consider themselves feminists’ The Telegraph, 15 January 2016.

116

YouGov/Huffngton Post, Omnibus Poll, conducted 11 – 12 April 2013.

117

‘Men with muscles and money are more attractive to straight women and gay men – showing gender roles aren’t progressing’, Newsweek, 20 November 2017.

118

James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times (1933), reprinted Prion Books Ltd, 2000, pp. 33 – 44.

119

See the case of the Covington Catholic High School boys in January 2019.

120

Jon Ronson, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, Riverhead Books, 2015.

121

Barrett Wilson (pseudonym), ‘I was the mob until the mob came for me’, Quillette, 14 July 2018.

122

Tess Townsend, ‘Google is still mostly white and male’, Recode, 29 June 2017.

123

Private account of discussions involving a major tech company in Brussels, 5 February 2019.

124

See ‘Twitter “bans women against trans ideology”, say feminists’, BBC News, 30 May 2018.

125

Meghan Murphy, ‘Twitter’s trans-activist decree’, Quillette, 28 November 2018.

126

‘Twitter has banned misgendering or “deadnaming” transgender people’, The Verge, 27 November 2018.

127

Jack Conte interviewed by Dave Rubin on ‘The Rubin Report’, YouTube, 31 July 2017.

128

Google video at https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/fairnessoverview.

129

Anne Helen Petersen, ‘Ten long years of trying to make Armie Hammer happen’, Buzzfeed, 26 November 2017.

130

‘Call Me By Your Name star Armie Hammer leaves Twitter after “ bitter ” Buzzfeed article’, Pink News, 28 November 2017.

131

Ashley Lee, ‘Why Luca Guadagnino didn’t include gay actors or explicit sex scenes in “Call Me By Your Name” (Q&A)’, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 February 2017.

132

“White privilege” lessons for lecturers’, The Sunday Times, 11 March 2018.

133

See footage on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTnDpoQLNaY.

134

See ‘Campus argument goes viral as Evergreen State is caught in racial turmoil’, Vice News, 16 June 2017; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= 2cMYfxOFBBM

135

See footage on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzrPMetGtJQ

136

See footage on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZtuDqbfO5w

137

See footage on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf5fAiXYr08&t=1941s

138

Evergreen State College, Board of Trustees meeting, 12 July 2017, on YouTube at https://www.you-tube.com/watch?v=yL54iN8dxuo

139

Vice News, 16 June 2017.

140

See full video at YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiMVx2C5_Wg

141

See video on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6ZVEVufWFI

142

Nicholas A. Christakis, ‘Teaching inclusion in a divided world’, The New York Times, 22 June 2016.

143

‘Identity politics: the new radicalism on campus?’, panel at Rutgers University, published on You-Tube, 13 October 2017; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ijFQFiCgoE

144

Michael Harriot, ‘” Diversity of thought ” is just a euphemism for “white supremacy”’, The Root, 12 April 2018.

145

The letter of 17 April 2017 can be viewed here: http://archive.is/Dm2DN

146

Andrew Sullivan, ‘We all live on campus now’, New York magazine, 9 February 2018.

147

National Geographic, April 2018.

148

David Olusoga, ‘National Geographic’s righting of its racist wrongs is well meant but slow in coming’, The Guardian, 1 April 2018.

149

Emily Lakdawalla, Twitter, 13 February 2018.

150

The Root, Twitter feed, 22 November 2018.

151

Vice, Twitter, 6 December 2018.

152

Vice review of Dumbo, 13 June 2018. Incidentally the online version of this was changed aft er wide online ridicule.

153

Eliana Dockterman, ‘Altered Carbon takes place in the future. But it’ s far from progressive’, Time, 2 February 2018.

154

Mathieu Murphy-Perron, ‘Let Nora Loreto have her say’, National Observer, 11 April 2018.

155

‘Sierra Boggess pulls out of BBC West Side Story Prom over “whitewashing”’, BBC News website, 25 April 2018.

156

Ritu Prasad, ‘Serena Williams and the trope of the “angry black woman”, BBC News online, 11 September 2018.

157

Carys Afoko, ‘Serena Williams’s treatment shows how hard it is to be a black woman at work’, The Guardian, 10 September 2018.

158

The video (one of a series) is available on YouTube, produced by Soyheat (posted 23 September 2016).

159

See Andy Ngo, ‘Would you like some strife with your meal?’, Wall Street Journal, 31 May 2018.

160

Robby Soave, ‘White-owned restaurants shamed for serving ethnic food: it’s cultural appropriation’, Reason, 23 May 2017.

161

Dawn Butler Twitter, 18 August 2018.

162

‘Teenager’s prom dress sparks cultural appropriation debate’, Independent, 30 April 2018.

163

Lovia Gyarke, ‘Lionel Shriver shouldn’t write about minorities’, New Republic blog, September 2016.

164

Yassmin Abdel-Magied, ‘As Lionel Shriver made light of identity, I had no choice but to walk out’, The Guardian, 10 September 2016.

165

The Atlantic, 7 May 2018.

166

The original article is captured online here: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/44655/1/__Libfile_repository_Content_LSE%20Review%20of%0Books_May%20 012_week%204_blogs.lse.ac.uk-Intellectuals_ver-sus_society_ignorance_and_wisdom.pdf

167

Aidan Byrne, ‘Book Review: Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell’, LSE Review of Books, 26 May 2012.

168

The View, ABC, 15 June 2015.

169

MSNBC, 17 June 2015.

170

‘Benedict Cumberbatch apologises after calling black actors “coloured”’, The Guardian, 26 January 2015.

171

Sarah Jeong tweets from 23 December 2014; 25 November 2015; 31 December 2014; 18 November 2014; 1 April 2014.

172

Sarah Jeong tweets from 28 November 2014.

173

Sarah Jeong tweet from 24 July 2014.

174

Statement from The New York Times, 2 August 2018.

175

Quoted in Zack Beauchamp, ‘In defence of Sarah Jeong’, Vox, 3 August 2018.

176

Ezra Klein, ‘The problem with Twitter, as shown by the Sarah Jeong fracas’, Vox, 8 August 2018.

177

Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir, Spiegel & Grau, 2008, p. 6.

178

Ibid., p. 70.

179

Ibid., pp. 74 – 5.

180

Ibid., p. 168.

181

Ibid., p. 177.

182

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me, The Text Publishing Company, 2015, pp. 86 – 7.

183

Dr Cornel West on Facebook, captured at https://www.alternet.org/2017/12/cornel-west-ta-nehisi-coates-spat-last-thing-we-need-right-now/

184

For some chapter and verse examples of this see Kyle Smith, ‘The hard untruths of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Commentary, October 2015.

185

‘Leak: The Atlantic had a meeting about Kevin Williamson. It was a liberal self-reckoning’, Huff ngton Post, 5 July 2018.

186

Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I’m no Longer Talking to White People about Race, Bloomsbury, 2017, pp. 14 – 15.

187

Photo via Martin Daubney on Twitter, 21 January 2018.

188

This piece was later retitled ‘How white women use strategic tears to silence women of colour’, 7 May 2018.

189

See The Tab, n.d. 2016.

190

See ‘Asian Americans suing Harvard say admissions fles show discrimination’, The New York Times, 4 April 2018.

191

See Malcolm W. Browne, ‘What is intelligence, and who has it’, The New York Times, 16 October 1994.

192

Steven J. Rosenthal review of The Bell Curve at https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/steverbc.html

193

Douglas Murray in conversation with Jordan Peterson, UnHerd, YouTube, 4 September 2018.

194

David Reich, ‘How genetics is changing our understanding of race’, The New York Times, 23 March 2018.

195

Pete Shanks, ‘Race and IQ yet again’, Center for Genetics and Society,13 April 2018.

196

Sam Harris, ‘Waking up’ podcast, with Charles Murray, 23 April 2017.

197

Ezra Klein, ‘Sam Harris, Charles Murray and the allure of race science’, Vox, 27 March 2018.

198

Quinn Norton on Twitter, 27 July 2013.

199

Ibid., 4 September 2009.

200

Quinn Norton, ‘The New York Times fred my Doppelganger’, The Atlantic, 27 February 2018.

201

‘Labour, Work, Action’, in The Portable Hannah Arendt, Penguin, 2000, pp. 180 – 1.

202

Manchester University students paint over Rudyard Kipling mural’, The Guardian, 19 July 2018.

203

See ‘Toby Young quotes on breasts, eugenics, and working-class people’, The Guardian, 3 January 2018.

204

Toby Young, ‘Confessions of a porn addict’, The Spectator, 10 November 2001.

205

The Times, 6 January 2018.

206

See Toby Young, ‘The public humiliation diet’, Quillette, 23 July 2018.

207

‘Conor Daly loses Lilly Diabetes sponsorship over remark his father made over 30 years ago’, Associated Press, 25 August 2018.

208

‘Lewis Hamilton apologises for “boys don’t wear dresses” remark’, BBC News, 26 December 2017.

209

GQ, August 2018.

210

‘Moeder van Nathan spreekt: “Zijn dood doet me niks”’, Het Laatste Nieuws, 2 October 2013.

211

Mother of sex change Belgian: “I don’t care about his euthanasia death”’, Daily Telegraph, 2 October 2013.

212

For instance, see The Sunday Times, 25 November 2018, p. 23.

213

In relation to the public consultation on the Gender Recognition Act (2018).

214

See ‘Schools tell pupils boys can have periods too in new guidelines on transgender issues’, Daily Mirror, 18 December 2018.

215

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1006

216

Alice Dreger, Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar’s Search for Justice, Penguin, 2016, p. 21.

217

Ibid., p. 20.

218

Ibid., p. 6.

219

Masculine Women, Feminine Men’, lyrics by Edgar Leslie, music by James V. Monaco, 1926.

220

Jan Morris, Conundrum, Faber and Faber, 2002, p. 1.

221

Ibid., p. 42.

222

Ibid., p. 119.

223

Ibid., p. 122.

224

Ibid., p. 123.

225

Ibid., p. 127.

226

Ibid., p. 134.

227

Ibid., p. 138.

228

Ibid., p. 128.

229

Ibid., p. 143.

230

Dreger, Galileo’s Middle Finger, p. 63.

231

‘Criticism of a gender theory, and a scientist under siege’, The New York Times, 21 August 2007.

232

Dreger, Galileo’s Middle Finger, p. 69.

233

Andrea Long Chu, ‘My new vagina won’t make me happy’, The New York Times, 24 November 2018.

234

See Anne A. Lawrence, Men Trapped in Men’s Bodies: Narratives of Autogynephilic Transsexualism, Springer, 2013.

235

‘Stonewall to start campaigning for trans equalit y ’, The Guardian, 16 February 2015.

236

New York Post, 16 July 2015.

237

When women become men at Wellesley’, The New York Times, 15 October 2014.

238

Julie Bindel, ‘Gender benders, beware’, The Guardian, 31 January 2004.

239

Suzanne Moore, ‘Seeing red: the power of female anger’, The New Statesman, 8 January 2013.

240

See Suzanne Moore, ‘I don’t care if you were born a woman or became one’, The Guardian, 9 January 2013.

241

Julie Burchill, ‘The lost joy of swearing’, The Spectator, 3 November 2018.

242

Germaine Greer, The Whole Woman, Doubleday, 1999, p. 66.

243

Ibid., p. 74.

244

‘Germaine Greer defends views on transgender issues amid calls for cancellation of feminism lecture’, ABC News, 25 October 2015.

245

Ibid.

246

Eve Hodgson, ‘Germaine Greer can no longer be called a feminist’, Varsity, 26 October 2017.

247

Woman billboard removed after transphobia row’, BBC News website, 26 September 2018.

248

Debate between Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull and Adrian Harrop, Sky News, 26 September 2018.

249

Blogger accused of transphobia for erecting a billboard defning “woman” as “adult human female” is branded “disgraceful” by This Morning viewers – as she insists trans women do not ft the criteria’, Mail Online, 28 September 2018.

250

Julie Bindel, ‘Why woke keyboard warriors should respect their elders’, UnHerd, 24 October 2018.

251

See ‘April Ashley at 80’, Homotopia festival. On YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX-NhWb47sc

252

See video from 2 mins in here: https://vimeo.com/185149379

253

‘The school was already calling her “him”’, The Sunday Times, 25 November 2018.

254

Trans groups under fre for 700 % rise in child referrals’, The Sunday Times, 25 November 2018.

255

Trans groups under fre for 700 % rise in child referrals’, The Sunday Times, 25 November 2018.

256

Michelle Forcier interview on NBC, 21 April 2015: https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/one-doctor-explains-the-journey-for-kidswho-are-transitioning-431478851632?v=railb&

257

https://vimeo.com/185183788

258

Johanna Olson-Kennedy, MD, ‘Mental health disparities among transgender youth: rethinking the role of professionals’, JAMA, May 2016.

259

Singal, ‘When children say they’re Trans’.

260

Wylie C. Hembree, Peggy T. Cohen-Kettenis, Louis Gooren, Sabine E. Hannema, Walter J. Meyer, M. Hassan Murad, Stephen M. Rosenthal, Joshua D. Safer, Vin Tangpricha, Guy G. T’ Sjoen, ‘Endocrine treatment of gender-dysphoric/gender-incongruent persons: An Endocrine Society clinical practice guideline’, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, vol. 102, no. 11, 1 November 2017.

261

Video at https://archive.org/details/olson-kenne-dy-breasts-go-and-get-them

262

Audio available here: https://vimeo.com/226658454

263

GP convicted of running transgender clinic for children without licence’, The Telegraph, 3 December 2018.

264

‘Things not to say to a non-binary person’, BBC Th ree, 27 June 2017.

265

Figures from the World Economic Forum, June 2018.

266

‘Philosopher’s article on transracialism sparks controversy (updated with response from author)’, Daily Nous, 1 May 2017.

267

Gay Times fres “Jews are gross” editor who sent vile tweets’, Pink News, 16 November 2017.

268

‘Transgender women in sport: Are they really a ‘threat’ to female sport?’, BBC Sport, 18 December 2018.

269

Stephie Haynes, ‘Dr. Ramona Krutzik, M. D. discusses possible advantages Fallon Fox may have’, Bloody Elbow, 20 March 2013.

270

Joe Rogan conversation with Maajid Nawaz and Sam Harris, Joe Rogan Experience 1107, YouTube, 18 April 2018.

271

Trans activists call for boycott of flm starring Matt Bomer as transgender sex worker’, Pink News, 15 April 2018.

272

Camille Paglia, Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism, Canongate, 2018, p. 133.

273

Ibid., pp. 131 – 2.

274

CNBC on Twitter, 24 January 2019.

275

Here’s how much you save when you don’t have kids’, CNBC, 17 August 2017.

276

The Economist, Twitter feed, 17 November 2018.

277

House of Commons, Hansard, 21 November 2018.