Eager to ‘Affirm,’ Yet Unwilling to Debate A prominent South Carolina doctor and transgender rights activist has made a great show of calling England’s Cass Review “a sham at best”—but now refuses to say why. Colin Wright 31 May 2024 · 7 min read
I Got Thrown Off Etsy and PayPal for Expressing My Belief in Biological Reality Apparently, selling mugs and shirts that glorify violence against ‘TERFs’ is just fine. But ‘I 💜 J.K. Rowling‘? That‘s hate speech. Colin Wright 23 Jun 2022 · 9 min read
Weekly Roundup Dear Quilletters, Last week the world lost one of the true greats of biology—E.O. Wilson, who died at age 92. While known to the public primarily for his work on ants and later as a leading popularizer of conservation biology, Wilson was also perhaps the first major target Colin Wright 6 Jan 2022 · 6 min read
On Sex and Gender, The New England Journal of Medicine Has Abandoned Its Scientific Mission The very idea of “a dichotomous sex-classification system” is dubious, the authors believe. Colin Wright 23 Dec 2020 · 14 min read
PODCAST 103: Colin Wright on the State of Academic Science, Gender, and His Latest Career Move Evolutionary Biologist (and new Quillette Managing Editor) Colin Wright on the State of Academic Science, Gender, and His Latest Career Move Quillette / Colin Wright 8 Aug 2020 · 1 min read
Think Cancel Culture Doesn’t Exist? My Own ‘Lived Experience’ Says Otherwise By means of this damned-if-you-do/damned-if-you-don’t logic, cancel-culture Truthers can pretend away the existence of thousands of victims. Colin Wright 30 Jul 2020 · 11 min read
JK Rowling Is Right—Sex Is Real and It Is Not a "Spectrum" Biological sex in humans is a binary system. Colin Wright 7 Jun 2020 · 14 min read
The New Evolution Deniers The massive social media website Twitter—the central hub for cultural discourse and debate—is now actively banning users for stating true facts about basic human biology. Colin Wright 30 Nov 2018 · 10 min read
