One day it was about a handful of individuals who had sexual identity problems; the next, it was about the US federal government telling schools they had to let boys into the girls' toilet block. How did transgenderism (and it really is an ism) come up on us so fast? What is driving this issue?
That is the question we put to some scholars and today we begin publishing their answers. Professor Mark Regnerus puts it down to marketing, and specifically to "framing" of the issue as an urgent human rights one. Marketing takes money, of course, but the LGBT movement seems to have pots of that.
One thing is clear: if anyone thought the sexual revolution was something that happened in the 1960s, they are sadly mistaken. What it's ultimately about is the subject of Stella Morabito's very perceptive article. Her concluding advice is something I agree with and am newly resolved to practise more consistently: never to use the word "gender" when we really mean "sex".
There's a cute video from The New Yorker on the front page -- about social awareness in the Facebook generation.
Enjoy, and see you Monday.
Carolyn Moynihan
Deputy Editor,
MERCATORNET
 | Where did transgenderism come from?
Mark Regnerus | CONJUGALITY | 3 June 2016
The first article in our symposium on its astonishing rise.
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 | A de-sexed society is a de-humanised society
Stella Morabito | FEATURES | 3 June 2016
Tyranny comes disguised as 'civil rights'.
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 | IVF pregnancies for the elderly
Tamara El-Rahi | FAMILY EDGE | 3 June 2016
How old is too old to get pregnant via reproductive technology?
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 | The daycare generation now demands ‘safe spaces’ at university
Laura Perrins | FEATURES | 3 June 2016
It makes sense, if they missed out on 'comfort and home' as toddlers.
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 | Israel’s Christian Community
Marcus Roberts | DEMOGRAPHY IS DESTINY | 3 June 2016
Arab, religious, insular, and distrustful of the Israeli state.
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 | The teenage brain on social media
Stuart Wolpert | CONNECTING | 3 June 2016
Teenagers are definitely influenced by their online 'friends,' even if they barely know them.
Read more... |
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