Biological essentialism about sex/gender is the view that in typical cases we are born as either a male or a female. On one version of this view, males are defined as having an X and a Y chromosomes ...

Rory Bowman’s letter (“Relevant category is sex, not gender,” Our Readers’ Views, May 19) merits a response. Bowman engages in faulty biological essentialism to deny that trans and intersex people ...

As a society we’re busier and more overwhelmed than ever. According to Mental Health UK’s 2025 burnout report, 91 per cent of adults have experienced high levels of stress in the last year. Seemingly ...

According to gender essentialism, gender and gender-based characteristics intrinsically link to biological traits, chromosomes, and the sex a person is assigned at birth. Gender essentialism doesn’t ...