Who could possibly have predicted that would happen? The top category in a major music award goes ‘gender-neutral’ — and this year’s nominees are all men. The Brit Awards scrapped the best male and...

Accuracy is the cornerstone of journalism, especially when it comes to news reporting. If a man appeared in court, claiming to be a brain surgeon when he was actually a hospital porter, we wouldn’t...

Sometimes, gender stereotypes die hard. Males who identify as trans end up on the covers of magazines when they dominate a sport or succeed in business. Females who identify as trans grace the covers...

Someone had put me on the trends blacklist

On Wednesday, Elon Musk made another off-the-cuff policy announcement on Twitter. The billionaire tech titan tweeted that the words “cis” and “cisgender” were slurs on his platform, and that targeted...

I know how it feels to be in an abusive relationship

Prime ministers should have a firm grasp on reality. So what are we to make of the fact that the man who aspires to lead this country apparently believes that one in every thousand women has a penis?...

The Conservatives can’t be said to be in touch with the public mood on many subjects, but there is an important exception. Tory ministers and MPs have been outspoken in defence of women’s rights and...

Misogyny has always existed. Sometimes it’s more frowned upon than others, going quiet before bursting out in a fresh guise. But we are entering new and terrifying territory, where spittle-flecked...

Five years ago, Andy Shaw and I set up a monthly comedy night in London called Comedy Unleashed. Our objective was to challenge what we perceived to be the groupthink that was developing within the...

His softening stance on gender ideology can't be trusted

Cambridge The Cambridge Union’s Debating Chamber was filled to capacity last night with students eager to hear philosopher and UnHerd columnist Kathleen Stock argue in favour of the motion “This...

Emily Bridges, writes British Vogue, “never wanted to be a campaigner. Before May this year, she only had one goal: competing for Great Britain at the 2024 Paris Olympics.” That’s before British...

Pornography drips with misogyny. Teenage boys can easily find scenes of rape and sexual torture on their phones, changing the very idea of what constitutes “normal” sexual practices. It’s so nasty...

You can’t always get what you want. It’s something most people learn by the time they’re adults, which is just as well. Existing in a world where someone has a tantrum every time their wishes are...

Certain journalists aren't allowed to express scepticism about the transgender debate

You can’t always get what you want. It’s something most people learn by the time they’re adults, which is just as well. Existing in a world where someone has a tantrum every time their wishes are...

Its fight for gay rights was exemplary; now its trans dogma makes it unfit to work in schools

It’s like being in a strange, dystopian novel. I’m writing this in England, separated by an invisible border from a country where every single man is just a certificate away from being a woman. Make...

A former employee reveals how she was silenced

Last year they dropped me; now I'm back

In October 2020, the Great Barrington Declaration was published by three academics — Jay Bhattacharya, Sunetra Gupta and Martin Kulldorff — who appeared on UnHerd to break the story. It marked a...

Note: this is the video that YouTube took down for “violating guidelines”. They rejected our appeal to have the video reinstated. Judge for yourself if it is dangerous material… We had a wide-ranging...

First comes the pushback, then the pullback.  Yesterday, the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital announced that doctors there will no longer prescribe puberty...

The Government of Ukraine has issued a blacklist of individuals who they judge to be “promoting Russian propaganda” — including a number of prominent Western intellectuals. The “Center for Countering...

Few subjects are as contentious as the involvement of trans athletes in women’s sport. Pictures of the transgender American swimmer Lia Thomas towering over female athletes on the podium are a vivid...

Pornography drips with misogyny. Teenage boys can easily find scenes of rape and sexual torture on their phones, changing the very idea of what constitutes “normal” sexual practices. It’s so nasty...

Paris Lees has no idea what it feels like to be a girl. Of course not: Lees’s experience as a teenage boy, selling sex to predatory older men, tells us nothing about how girls feel about anything....

It was wise enough to resist school closures

Exposing a lie sometimes has dramatic consequences. For years we’ve been told there’s no conflict between women’s rights and the demands of trans activists. If that were really the case, no one could...

Will she ever escape her Cinderella story?

Last year they dropped me; now I'm back

Gender ideologues have captured his party conference

A former employee reveals how she was silenced

'Minor Attraction' is not a queer sexual identity

I wrote my first article for The Guardian in 1996. I was a feminist campaigner against male violence and used the platform to get the message out about crucial issues such as rape, child abuse and...

Macron may have won, but it's the elderly who will rule

Trans people are pawns in his narcissistic war

The NHS exists to look after patients. Some of them will be scared or embarrassed about having intimate procedures performed by a stranger, which is why women often ask for a female doctor or nurse....

To the annual FiLiA conference in Portsmouth. A 1,000-strong gathering of women of all ages and viewpoints, united by a desire and commitment to ending male violence, oppression and domination of...

It can be satisfying as a writer to take aim at a public figure, to fire a shot at someone more successful and better-known. This is especially true if you believe the subject deserves it: the...

An Arts Council England (ACE) employee who won an employment tribunal over her gender-critical views in June has this week settled her case. Denise Fahmy made the announcement on her CrowdJustice...

Concerned women are hardly extremists

It’s magic, though probably not the type JK Rowling had in mind. Composer Christian Henson said something supportive of the Harry Potter author on Twitter and he was gone, just like that, disappeared...

Yesterday, while watching the Allison Bailey case online, I heard one of the worst takes on the ‘transgender rights’ to date. Bailey, a criminal defence barrister, is suing her former chambers,...

I keep being told that the Labour Party has changed. Friends claim there are encouraging signs that it’s edging away from the knee-jerk support for extreme gender ideology that has left so many women...

The New York Times is a righteously proud beast. It has Pulitzer-pulling power, a global reach and, by US standards, a long history. Yet for some years, the behemoth brand has been in the crosshairs...

It's not just Russian men waiting to exploit them

Trans activists are trying to destroy the LGB Alliance

The science behind gender ideology is dubious at best

There's nothing harmless about denying the truth

I don’t know if the candidates to succeed Nicola Sturgeon as leader of the SNP have had time to consult Eddie Izzard. But the comedian has entered one of the great debates in Scotland at the moment,...

I know how it feels to be in an abusive relationship

Could Labour's first female leader be a man?

Frugality has been turned into a middle-class virtue

The Duke and Duchess of Woke shouldn't raise the subject of 'unearned privilege'

It wouldn’t have happened even a couple of years ago. Until very recently, most of our institutions appeared to have been captured by an extreme ideology that insisted on the existence of something...

Riddled with blind obstinance, its vaccine crisis was inevitable

Students aren't the source of the culture wars — they're the solution

Illustration by Stephen Collins This is the fourth of UnHerd’s audio documentaries – all produced for us by Sean Glynn. The first examine

Elon Musk has claimed that the Global Disinformation Index (GDI) “should be shut down” in response to an UnHerd investigation into the company. The billionaire X CEO was responding to a post on the...

The underreported story of the entire pandemic is excess deaths — not from Covid, but from other health conditions which were so brutally pushed to one side. There have been huge rises in the number...

When FINA announced that natal males would not be able to compete alongside women in swimming, it was rewritten by much of the press as well as trans activists as ‘trans women banned from competing’....

America has betrayed the one positive legacy of 9/11

Gender ideologues are the real bullies

Trans activists are excluding women from history

Its rainbow reign is finally over

Its ideological roots were rotten from the start

Sexual predators are finding new ways to hide

Ireland is routinely cited as a beacon of best practice on all matters transgender. Over the water, self-identification of legal gender was introduced in 2015. The Scottish Government — when pursuing...

Concerned women are hardly extremists

Sexual predators are finding new ways to hide

On 19th August, England passed a significant milestone, which since today we can report with some confidence: there were zero reported deaths following a positive Covid-19 test in hospitals or other...

Feminism has recoiled from female biology

Vasily Grossman's masterpiece explores two unique, yet similar, evils

Certain journalists aren't allowed to express scepticism about the transgender debate