In an age when falsehoods are commonly taken as truth, Janice Raymond’s new book illuminates the ‘doublethink’ of a transgender movement that is able to define men as women, women as men, he as she, dissent as heresy, science as sham, and critics as fascists. Meanwhile, trans mobs are treated as gender patriots whose main enemy is feminists and their dissent from gender orthodoxies.
The medicalization of gender dissatisfaction depicted by Raymond in her early visionary book, The Transsexual Empire, has today expanded exponentially into the transgender industrial complex built on big medicine, big pharma, big banks, big foundations, big research centers, some attached to big universities. And the current rise of treating young children with puberty blockers and hormones is a widespread scandal that has been named a medical experiment on children.
Whereas transsexualism was mainly a male phenomenon in the past with males undertaking cross-sex hormones and surgery, today it is notably young women who are self-declaring as men in large numbers. The good news is that these young women who formerly identified as ‘trans men’ or gender non-binary, are now de-transitioning. In this book, they speak movingly about their severances from themselves and other women, their escape from compulsive femininity, their sexual assaults, the misogyny they experienced growing up, and their journeys in recovering their womanhood.
Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism makes us aware of the consequences of a runaway ideology and its costs — among them what is at stake when males are allowed to compete in female sports and when parents are not aware of school curricula that confuse sex with gender and that can facilitate a child’s hormone treatments without parental consent.
1 有用 LuvLikeAnthrax 2022-11-19 01:01:03 海南
很有意思的一本书。让我比较印象深刻的是,作者认为作为女性不仅要拥有相应的身体构造,还要经历作为女性在现社会遭遇的不平等。个人越看倒是越觉得,就算世界上真的有不止两种性别,还是会有人认为自己“生在了错误的身体”。
1 有用 LuvLikeAnthrax 2022-11-19 01:01:03 海南
很有意思的一本书。让我比较印象深刻的是,作者认为作为女性不仅要拥有相应的身体构造,还要经历作为女性在现社会遭遇的不平等。个人越看倒是越觉得,就算世界上真的有不止两种性别,还是会有人认为自己“生在了错误的身体”。