Hardcover, 320 pages
Published Sept. 7, 2021 by Oneworld Publications.
The factual and historical sections are well researched and interesting. However, the surrounding argumentation is scattered and in my view unlikely to change minds.
This book is utterly appalling. Imagine being the kind of person who writes a book about trans people, claims it's NOT about trans people, and fails to consult any trans people about it, whatsoever.
This book makes a ridiculous amount of unfounded claims from poorly researched sources, implies that trans women are merely men with a bunch of fetishes, designed to invade women's spaces, further claims that gender identity clinics are grooming children to their own agenda, makes some really, really offensive statements about chattel slavery, compares the struggles of Black people and how women's struggles should be compared to theirs in totally inappropriate contexts, completely denies that non binary and other people outside the gender binary are even valid, and a whole mess of other complete crap. In one moment she claims non binary identities are a a novel idea (they're not), and in another, she uses sources of …
This book is utterly appalling. Imagine being the kind of person who writes a book about trans people, claims it's NOT about trans people, and fails to consult any trans people about it, whatsoever.
This book makes a ridiculous amount of unfounded claims from poorly researched sources, implies that trans women are merely men with a bunch of fetishes, designed to invade women's spaces, further claims that gender identity clinics are grooming children to their own agenda, makes some really, really offensive statements about chattel slavery, compares the struggles of Black people and how women's struggles should be compared to theirs in totally inappropriate contexts, completely denies that non binary and other people outside the gender binary are even valid, and a whole mess of other complete crap. In one moment she claims non binary identities are a a novel idea (they're not), and in another, she uses sources of non binary people from non western cultures in a historical context, whilst still somehow claiming we aren't real.
It's an absolute mess.
Someone else has touched on the anti Semitic aspects of the book in another review, so please be sure to read the other low star ones.
