Cates feels that Western society is threatened by Cultural Marxism and falling birthrates. “Cultural Marxism” is a far-right and antisemitic term.
Anti-transgender comments
Cates has written, "If we erode the very concept of women – for example by saying that trans women are women... – we erase the rights of women."
Cates has accused leading LGBTQIA rights charities Stonewall and Mermaids of teaching "dangerous and contested extreme ideologies".