Our intention here is not to play any one article off against another but to begin the conversation with several different authors addressing different aspects of a delicate and somewhat new issue for society.
Alaistair has provided four reflections to the question: “How ought we to think of and respond to Jenner’s transition?”
“True transformation of an individual can never really occur at the superficial level; even subjecting sexual organs to the knife cannot truly reinvent who we are.”
“It’s a truth universally known that women in the public eye must be prepared to have their bodies scrutinised. It’s presumed part of the territory.”