Holly Lawford-Smith

Does VIC anti-vilification law threaten gender-critical speech? | Interview with Neil Foster

Reality Check Radio | Free Speech, Feminism and Australia’s Culture Battles

2018-present | Radical & gender-critical feminism

In early 2018 I became interested in radical and gender-critical feminism, and their perspective on questions about sex, gender, and gender identity, and the ethical and political questions arising from proposed legal changes to sex-based rights. Apart from the below, I’ve also written quite a bit for the media, and done some videos and podcasts

Quillette | The Australian Way of Life

2026

Lawford-Smith, Holly., Tuckwell, Will. ‘Lifestyle Politics Is Not Politics’ in Mattias Gunnemyr, Rutger van Oeveren, Jan Willem Wieland (Eds.) The Ethics of Inefficacy (Abingdon: Routledge, forthcoming). Lawford-Smith, Holly. ‘Is it morally wrong for transwomen to claim to be women?’ Journal of Controversial Ideas 6/1 (2026), pp. 1-23. Lawford-Smith, Holly. ‘What Does Trans Inclusion

What Does Trans Inclusion In A Liberal State Require? (Pre-print)

Times Higher Education | New Australian hate speech laws ‘threaten’ academic freedom

Quillette | The Uninvited Sermon

Quillette | Defaming The Dead

Fairer Disputations | A Supposedly Fun Thing You Should Never Do Again: An Argument For Sex-Negative Feminism