Alex Byrne is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy at MIT and the author of the book Trouble with Gender: Sex Facts, Gender Fictions. Last week, Alex revealed in a Washington Post op-ed that he was one of the nine co-authors of the anonymous HHS report on pediatric gender medicine. He is married to the evolutionary biologist Carole Hooven.

CORRECTIONS: UPenn is restoring titles and records and issuing apologies to female athletes. Not Penn State. And it’s Title IX, not Title X.

* HHS report

* Executive Order 14187

* “In Defense of Transracialism,” Rebecca Tuvel

* “A Defense of ‘Transracial’ Identity Roils Philosophy World,” NY Times

* Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism, Kathleen Stock

* “What Is It like to Have a Gender Identity?,” Florence Ashley

* “Ashley on Gender Identity,” Alex Byrne

* “The Deposition of Jack Turban,” Leor Sapir

* The Man Who Would Be Queen, Michael Bailey

* Ray Blanchard’s transsexualism typology

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