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Eric Kaufmann vs. transgender people

Eric Kaufmann is a Canadian conservative academic and anti-transgender activist based in the United Kingdom.

Kaufmann has prepared reports on sex and gender minorities for anti-trans publications Quillette and City Journal, as well as for anti-trans extremist Richard Hanania via Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology.

Background

Eric Peter Kaufmann was born 11 May 1970. Kaufmann’s parent Steve is a polyglot and diplomat. Kaufmann’s younger sibling Mark Kaufmann is a former hockey player and software developer.

Kaufmann attended Hillside Secondary, then earned a bachelor’s degree from University of Western Ontario in 1991. Kaufmann then attended The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), earning a master’s degree in 1994 and a doctorate in 1999.

Kaufman has studied transitions in politics, religion, and demography in Western cultures, particularly as it pertains to white populations and culture.

After teaching at University of Southampton from 1999 to 2003, Kaufmann served as Professor of Politics at Birkbeck, University of London from 2003 to 2023

Kaufmann left for the same appointment at University of Buckingham:

“After 20 years, I am leaving a full University of London professorship for the University of Buckingham. In January, I launch a new low-cost online course open to the public on Woke: the Origins, Dynamics and Implications of an Elite Ideology.

Why leave? My university’s uncertain financial position played a role, but I was also repelled by cancel culture and attracted by the chance to help build Buckingham as the only ‘free speech university’ in Britain.

Whereas the US has some 150 non-leftist research centres, nothing of this kind exists in Britain. In January I will therefore establish the Centre for Heterodox Social Science at Buckingham to pursue countercultural social science and humanities research.

Progressive conformity and cancel culture are distorting the teaching and research mission of universities. Between the extremely controversial and the progressive-controlled monoculture of academia is a vast and growing zone of unspoken truth.”

Kaufman (2023)

Anti-transgender activism

Kaufmann believes that being trans is a trend or social contagion that will eventually “peak.”

“Limiting the social spread of transgenderism (linked to worse life outcomes) is compatible with wanting truly transgender people to flourish. Those who insist the two are incompatible are committing an error known as the fallacy of composition.”

Kaufmann frequently appears in anti-trans platforms, including Debra Soh, Heterodox Academy, Coleman Hughes, Gad Saad, Matt Goodwin, Alex Kaschuta, Lotuseaters, and GBNews.

References

Kaufmann, Eric (May 29, 2022). Born This Way? The Rise of LGBT as a Social and Political Identity. Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology https://www.cspicenter.com/p/born-this-way-the-rise-of-lgbt-as-a-social-and-political-identity

Kaufmann, Eric (June 14, 2022). Progressivism, Sexuality, and Mental Illness. Quillette https://quillette.com/2022/06/14/progressivism-sexuality-and-mental-illness/

Staff report (May 31, 2022). Have we passed peak trans? UnHerd https://unherd.com/thepost/have-we-passed-peak-trans/

Kaufmann, Eric (June 5, 2023). Don’t Take This Personally: How the fallacy of composition produces policy failure. City Journal

Media

(Nov 7, 2022). Why are so many people identifying as LGBT? | Eric Kaufmann. Aporia Podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYPeR-JYsaw

May 16, 2023 Eric Kaufmann | In Defense of Particularistic Nationalism | NatCon UK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVzUfl1RQU0

(Dec 16, 2022). Britain’s future is woke Canada if the Left wins culture war | Eric Kaufmann interview. The Telegraph https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V3Ni8_8Z70

Connor Tomlinson (Dec 15, 2023). Are Demographics Destiny? | Interview with Eric Kaufmann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YWbKHXFhGU

CSPI Oct 24, 2022 Identity and Elite Polarization | Eric Kaufmann & Richard Hanania. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUoE3PjeA4E

Resources

Eric Kaufmann (sneps.net)

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

Twitter (twitter.com)

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LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

The Spectator World (thespectator.com)