She has criticised the Gender Recognition Act 2004, and opposed transgender rights, describing them as a "an evil trans ideology".
During a period of scrutiny on British policing of pro-Palestinian protests during the Israel–Hamas war, Pearson had posted a photo of Greater Manchester Police officers standing besides supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party waving the party's flag.
Essex Police reported The Daily Telegraph to the Independent Press Standards Organisation, saying that it had body camera footage proving that they had never said it was a non-crime hate incident.
[15][16] Suzanne Moore writing about the incident and its implications in The Telegraph likened the Police's treatment of Pearson to Ruhollah Khomeini's Fatwa against Sir Salman Rushdie in the wake of the Satanic Verses controversy stating: "The new authoritarianism says that words are actual violence and somehow people must be protected from them.
The novel, How Hard Can It Be, continues the story of the protagonist Kate Reddy, now approaching 50 and struggling with bias against older women in the workplace.
[3] Shortly after the first of the 22 March 2016 Belgian bombings, Pearson suggested that the attacks were a justification for the Brexit cause in the then-upcoming referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union, writing on Twitter that "Brussels, de facto capital of the EU, is also the jihadist capital of Europe.
[25][26] Writing for the Telegraph about the NHS's decision to log their patient's sexual orientation on every visit; she claimed that politicians were capitulating to the will of LGBT lobby groups.
She questioned the allocation of public funds to the advocacy group LGBT Foundation: "It's clear that spineless politicians, pathetically eager to be on-trend, are being manipulated by lobby groups such as the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Foundation, a “charity” reportedly behind the new NHS policy".
[27] In September 2020, Pearson suggested purposely infecting young people with COVID-19 to create herd immunity within the population.
[27] In December 2020, she wrote in her Telegraph column that "Last week, Sir Patrick Vallance and Prof Chris Whitty presented another of their Graphs of Doom; this one cherry-picked several hospitals on course to run out of beds."
[33] Allison Pearson was declared bankrupt following a personal insolvency order made by the High Court of Justice in London on 9 November 2015.