Tag: Eugenics

How Passive Eugenics Kills Transgender Reproductive Rights

Ina 2012 article titled The transgendering of children: Gender eugenics, famously transphobic academic Sheila Jeffreys argues that transgender healthcare is a form of modern eugenics. Jeffreys doesn’t quite miss the point with her article, as much as play a game of chick...

Eugenics — What’s in a Word?

Will we ever be able to talk rationally about eugenics? The word ‘eugenics’ has a bad reputation to put it mildly. Even writing an article about it is asking for trouble, but here goes. Eugenics is immediately associated with the Holocaust and since then it has been quite rightly pu...