Union_Jack_Houses_of_Parliament Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date April 18, 2025 CategoriesBioethicsBiologyIntelligent Design Tagged , biology, boys, California, children, Colorado, courts, dead name, discrimination, female sports, feminists, gender, girls, hormones, ideology, law, Maine, men, parental custody, puberty blockers, Scotland, Supreme Court (UK), United Kingdom, United States, women From the UK, Good News for Biology Wesley J. Smith April 18, 2025 Bioethics, Biology, Intelligent Design 2 Here’s hoping that in the U.S., women and girls can again be secure in female-only spaces. Read More ›
monkey-in-mirror Type post Author Jonathan Witt Date December 2, 2021 CategoriesBioethicsEvolutionEvolutionary Psychology Tagged , boys, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Darwin critics, evolution, girls, human behavior, ID the Future, materialism, natural selection, podcast, sexual selection, Social Darwinism, sociobiology, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, The Descent of Man, Victorian England, World War II Evolutionary Psychology: Checkered Past, Checkered Present Jonathan Witt December 2, 2021 Bioethics, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology 3 If we want to effectively explain human behavior in all its messy richness, we would do well to look beyond this box of just-so stories. Read More ›
transgenderism Type post Author Jonathan Wells Date December 11, 2020 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , Abigail Shrier, autism, boys, cell phone, documentary, Dutch Protocol, embryos, evolution, Food and Drug Administration, gender dysphoria, girls, HBO, Lisa Littman, mental disorders, parents, Phoenix, psychiatry, puberty blocker, sexual abuse, spirits, surrogate mother, Texas, transgenderism, Transgenderism Series Examining Causes of Gender Dysphoria Jonathan Wells December 11, 2020 Bioethics, Medicine 6 In recent years, there has been increased interest in a possible connection between gender dysphoria and autism. Read More ›
gender Type post Author Jonathan Wells Date December 10, 2020 CategoriesMedicine Tagged , boys, children, cross-sex hormones, Endocrine Society, gender, gender dysphoria, girls, GnRHa, growth hormone, medicine, National Health Service, Netherlands, puberty, puberty blocker, sex reassignment, transgenderism, Transgenderism Series, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Delaying Puberty, or Destroying It? Jonathan Wells December 10, 2020 Medicine 6 For children with gender dysphoria, blocking puberty is not just buying time. It is more like a point of no return. Read More ›
pituitary gland Type post Author Jonathan Wells Date December 9, 2020 CategoriesMedicine Tagged , boys, brain, Brenda Reimer, Dutch Protocol, Endocrine Society, gender dysphoria, girls, GnRHa, hormones, John Money, mental disorders, Netherlands, ovaries, pediatricians, puberty, puberty blocker, sex reassignment, testicles, The New Atlantis, transgenderism, Transgenderism Series, United States On Delaying Puberty Jonathan Wells December 9, 2020 Medicine 6 The pituitary gland produces hormones that stimulate the ovaries in girls and the testicles in boys. Read More ›
Tinkertoy Type post Author Jonathan Wells Date December 7, 2020 CategoriesMedicine Tagged , ambiguous genitals, As Nature Made Him, Baltimore, boys, Brenda Reimer, Bruce Reimer, Canada, castration, circumcision, developmental biology, gender, gender identity, girls, Janet Reimer, John Colapinto, Johns Hopkins University, kindergarten, New Zealand, pediatricians, penis, Ron Reimer, sex, Tinkertoys, toys, transgenderism, Transgenderism Series, vagina, Winnipeg Money, Sex, and Gender Jonathan Wells December 7, 2020 Medicine 6 "We both wanted to play with guys, build forts and have snowball fights and play army… She played with my toys: Tinkertoys, dump trucks." Read More ›
newborn Type post Author Jonathan Wells Date December 4, 2020 CategoriesMedicine Tagged , ambiguous genitals, babies, biological sexes, boys, brains, chromosomes, Colin Wright, females, feminists, gametes, genitalia, girls, human behavior, intersex people, Jerry Coyne, John Money, Leonard Sax, males, ova, Simone de Beauvoir, sperm, surgery, transgenderism, Transgenderism Series Is It a Boy or a Girl? Jonathan Wells December 4, 2020 Medicine 6 Parents with a new baby are almost always asked, “Is it a boy or a girl?” And the answer is almost always one or the other. Read More ›