A selection of my articles on gender identity ideology and its impact on law, politics and society.
Roz Adams’s tribunal win is a victory for liberty
The Spectator, May 20, 2024
Our weak-kneed ‘leaders’ have been brutally exposed by gender review – it’s time for change
Scottish Daily Mail, April 14, 2024
Have Scottish politicians read the Cass Review?
The Spectator, April 11, 2024
Will NHS Scotland follow suit and ban puberty blockers?
The Spectator, March 13, 2024
Substack, January 10, 2024
Substack, December 9, 2023
Reason, debate and tolerance have given way to a dangerous new fanaticism
Scottish Daily Mail. August 20, 2023
Is this Wickes’s Gerald Ratner moment?
The Spectator, June 16, 2023
The cynical treatment of Pauline McNeill
The Spectator, June 7, 2023
The Spectator, June 5, 2023
The importance of Joanna Cherry
The Spectator, May 13, 2023
Joanna Cherry and the fight for women’s rights
The Spectator, May 9, 2023
How the gender debate shaped the new face of moralism
The Spectator, May 1, 2023
Resurrecting Scotland’s gender law battle is an error for Humza Yousaf
The Spectator, April 12, 2023
A change of plan? The First Minister needs to go back to the drawing board
Scottish Daily Mail, January 29, 2023
Holyrood is drifting further and further away from the true priorities of Scots
Scottish Daily Mail, January 22, 2023
Scotland’s gender bill mess was made in Westminster
The Spectator, January 17, 2023
Sturgeon’s gender bill poses a problem for the Tories
The Spectator, January 12, 2023
Are Holyrood and Westminster heading for another Supreme Court showdown?
The Spectator, December 23, 2022
What Sturgeon’s Gender Recognition Act could mean for England
The Spectator, December 21, 2022
Scotland’s messy Gender Recognition Act is a symptom of Holyrood’s weaknesses
The Spectator, December 20, 2022
In defence of Ash Regan’s gender bravery
The Spectator, October 27, 2022
The problem with Mordaunt’s trans conversion
The Spectator, October 22, 2022
The uncertain future of the Equality Act
The Spectator, March 13, 2022
Asking about male inmates in women’s jails isn’t transphobic
The Spectator, January 27, 2022
Sex, trans rights and the Scottish census
The Spectator, January 21, 2022
The persecution of Marion Millar and Kathleen Stock
The Spectator, October 28, 2021
Sturgeon is playing politics with her clumsy trans rights intervention
The Spectator, January 28, 2021
Andy Wightman and the limits of trans tolerance
The Spectator, December 18, 2020
The SNP, trans rights and the war on women
The Spectator, October 17, 2020
The Lib Dems’ transphobia meltdown is complete
The Spectator, September 20, 2020
The legal battle over how Scots define ‘woman’
The Spectator, August 28, 2020
Why ‘progressives’ love to hate Rosie Duffield
The Spectator, August 4, 2020
Is Scotland changing the law on gender by stealth?
The Spectator, July 31, 2020
Network Rail’s cowardly JK Rowling decision
The Spectator, July 30, 2020
SNP risks tearing itself apart over trans rights
Scottish Daily Mail, March 9, 2020
Are women’s libraries still a safe space for women?
The Spectator, February 29, 2020
The Spectator, February 24, 2020
Mumsnet, Flora and the spread of the corporate culture wars
The Spectator, October 14, 2019
Holyrood’s trans rights pause is a good thing
The Spectator, June 22, 2019
An SNP politician’s lonely fight in the gender identity debate
The Spectator, May 7, 2019
Stephen Daisley 