It certainly does not help them to permit let alone submit themselves to medical malpractice or protect professional service providers from scrutiny. It does not help transgender people of any description to promote bad science or irrational concepts. Ultimately, she argues that there is a large scale political lobby promoting ideas and positions that do not, in reality, serve the interests of transgender people themselves and that it would be desirable if her criticisms were seen as an opportunity for transgender people themselves to demand better and less self-defeating kinds of support. I personally find it hard to imagine how being informed and being neutral can be reconciled and so I find Stock’s stance unconvincing, even rather arrogant, but this remains an excellent discussion of the subject, it included some great material that I value and it is well worth reading. If she fails to impress those with strong views on either side of this debate, she may prove very helpful to civilians wishing to be informed without being pressured to take sides. She is impatient with what she perceives as tribal mantras and has sharp words for radical or gender critical feminists, claiming to believe only in “evidence based feminism,” a new category to my mind. When specific arguments turn out to be demonstrably unsupportable, her inclination is to make a distinction between the defective ideas, opinions or indeed political tactics on the one hand and the genuine interests and concerns of trans-people on the other.
Where possible, she aims to give a charitable reading of the beliefs that she is trying to understand and evaluate. She strives, courageously, to build a bridge between opponents and advocates of gender identity theory. Kathleen Stock teaches philosophy at an English university and brings to bear both her academic discipline and her evident competence as a teacher and mentor in this very accessible, readable account of gender identity theory in this country. Yes, trans women are oppressed too, but their oppression shouldn’t and cannot infringe on the safety of women and girls (meaning females) globally. But we live in a world where women - females - are oppressed not because their gender identity, but because of their biology. It would be lovely if we lived in a world where biological sex didn’t matter. This book explains why, in a pedagogical manner. These include but aren’t limited to: homo- and bisexuality, female genital mutilation, femicide, rape statistics, sex trafficking, forced marriage and, even, gender dysphoria. People are born either male or female - even the majority of intersex people are either male or female with DSD, which Stock also goes in to explaining - and if we can’t acknowledge this, we erase the reality of whole concepts. Of course I do.īut also believe that we need to be able to distinguish between perceivable biological reality and invisible gender identity.
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I 100% believe that trans people exist and that they deserve proper health care, equal opportunities in the job market and to live their lives free of hate.
Not about trans people - but about gender vs. I had doubts and questions, but I was terrified of being perceived as problematic, transphobic and a TERF.īut since I actually started reading about these things I’ve pretty much changed course. I couldn’t answer questions like “what is a woman” or “what is homosexuality”. I agreed wholeheartedly with the idea that gender is something invisible “inside” a person and that there’s no such thing as “biological sex”. Rowling is a TERF” bandwagon only a year ago, I mean, I wrote a whole essay about how problematic she is. I get that some people dismiss these kinds of books as transphobic right off the bat without actually reading them.
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