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Humans are social animals, who want to belong. Transgender people want safety, political and social acceptance, but the methods used to obtain the wants has consequences. There have been many movements to support transgender people, and laws changed. Society has changed to support transgender people, but misinformation harms society and transgender people.
Sex is biological while gender is social. Transgender people are those who are transitioning their gender to a different gender. Social aspects of a person can change more readily than sex differences. The sex of members of the human species depends on gametes, which are facilities for production of sperm or eggs. As humans mature, male and female bodies have various biological differences. Differences such as skeletal structure and hormones. Differences create different abilities in physical ability, that are not based on weight class.
Testosterone is a growth hormone that males produce in higher quantities, which increases the strength and size of those born male. When someone is thinking of transitioning at an early age, they can take puberty blockers to prevent the body from producing estrogen and testosterone. Those who transition after puberty do not lose their testosterone produced differences even if they take hormonal medications. Puberty blockers are a source of conflict for transgender due to the misinformation about them, for the side-effects of puberty blockers are not shared.
Puberty blockers are presented as reversible, but they can affect the long-term health of an individual. There are physical and mental health problems related to taking puberty blockers, which require a cascade of interventions, such as additional medications, to prevent the problems from exacerbating. Detransitioners are those who transitioned, experienced the medication and surgeries involved, but later regretted their decision. They have to live with health consequences of the interventions. The physical, mental, and other wounds.
To become transgender used require a major operation. Being transgender has become based on self-identification. A person can declare themselves to be whichever sex that they want, no matter their biology. Gender self-identification requires others to validate the sex of the individual, to treat them for how they identify as. While societies have been removing gender stereotypes for the harm they have caused, as no person represents any stereotype, and activities can be completed no matter the sex of the individual. The transgender movement is taking a different approach with gender stereotypes, as someone who does not fit into a gender stereotype is thought of as transgender.
How Do Transactivists Influence Transgender Views?
This is a book more about transactivists than the transgender. Transactivists are a lobby group who outnumber the transgender people they claim to speak for.
The methods transactivists use to obtain political and social support are based on persecution. Any views not aligned with transactivist, are considered hate speech. They silence anyone who does not affirm the transactivist beliefs, share the consequences of transitioning, or question those thinking about transition. Transactivists silence even the transgender themselves.
This leads people to self-censor their views, to prevent harassment. This has the effect of people publicly agreeing with transgender policies, while privately disagreeing. Societies can accommodate various belief systems even if they are contradictory, but societies have a conflict when a group attempts to impose their beliefs on everyone else.
How Does The Medical Industry Respond To The Transgender Movement?
There are people who changed their want to transition, they desist. Medical professionals claim to be good at picking out those who persist, to go through with the transition. Medical professionals who wanted caution or tried to make children comfortable in their own sex were harassed, resulting in a reduction of caution in the transitioning industry.
Children can undergo surgery based on the advice of the medical professionals. There are even regions that allow children to make their own claims on their medical treatment, overriding guardian’s consent and child-safeguarding rules.
What Are Some Effects Of The Transgender Movement On Politics?
With self-identification, any sex can enter spaces devoted to another sex. Such as men can enter women’s restrooms. This creates physical and social risk. Men in jail can self-identify as women for their own safety, but this risks the safety of the female inmates.
States are facing lawsuits to allow male athletes to compete as women, and lawsuits to prevent male athletes to compete as women. Those who transitioned do not have the same physical abilities as the sex they have transitioned into, creating unfair competition. A more appropriate response would be to add an additional category in sports for transgender, which would make sports safe and fair for everyone.
The transgender movement effects women’s political rights. When women were fighting for equality, women were considered oppressed and needed to challenge the oppression. With the transgender movement, women that want equal rights can become men, while those who remain women are considered content with supporting roles.
Caveats?
The topic is socially and politically sensitive. The author tries to error correct for various sources of misinformation. This book focuses on the harmful consequences on the health of transgender and social reactions, as these views are perceived to be more difficult to share. The author recognizes that there have been people who were improved through the transition process, but does not share those details. Details which could have included ways and reasons that can make transition appropriate. Along the missing details of those who appreciated the transition, are the missing references to transgender people who are being hurt through lack of inclusion and social support.
The author shares various conflicts of including transgender people into various social functions. What are missing are the alternative methods for safety and acceptance for transgender people which would not cause a conflict.
The author disapproves the methods that transactivists use to gain social and political support. The problem is that the author sometimes uses the same harsh methods on the transactivists. Alternative methods to explain ideas would have set a better precedent on how to handle the sensitive topic.
The author tries to be scientific when approaching the topic of sex and gender. The problem is that the author sometimes uses inappropriate scientific reasoning for lack of supporting scientific research. In part, this is due to the lack of scientific research being done on the topics given the political sensitivity.
Al final, tras muchas dudas, he optado por una estrella simplemente por que no me ha gustado el libro. No está mal escrito ni es un mal libro en si, pero no estoy de acuerdo con la postura que defiende ni la argumentación en la que la basa. El libro se posiciona claramente en contra del movimiento Trans y, tras una introducción interesante sobre los origenes e ideas de género, pasa a explicar todo lo que esta mal en el asunto que a su entender es mucho.
Llegué a este libro a través de Richard Dawkins que considera que se silencia voces críticas y como biólogo y persona que no tolera tonterías parece haberse alineado con la premisa del libro. A mi que soy un señor blanco hetero de cincuenta, me resultan convincentes algunas de sus argumentaciones y, de no mediar experiencias personales, podría haberme vendido la moto. Pero lo cierto es que utiliza razonamientos tramposos, selecciona la evidencia y hace un ejercicio de falacia ad hominen y hombre de paja de gran calibre.
Al final, lo que resuta evidente es una total falta de empatia hacia las personas trans y la construcción de un enemigo que conspira en la mejor línea del antisemitismo de antaño (y no tan antaño) en "los activistas trans" que han ocupado sigilosamente (según la autora) el respetable movimiento LGB añadiendole siglas y llevandolo a la irrelevancia pues la doctrina de género elimina y hace irrelevante la tradicional homosexualidad.
No quiero dedicar esta reseña a rebatir argumentos que basados en los extremos sociales del deporte y las cárceles pretende extender a todo el conjunto de la sociedad aunque si agradezco al libro la oportunidad de reflexionar un poco, y perfilar mis poco definidas ideas sobre este tema. Como en muchas ocasiones en esta vida, antes de tomar partido basandote en tu primer impulso, es buena idea mirar alrededor y ver quienes estarían en tu mismo lado. En seguida notas dónde no quieres estar.
Llegué a este libro a través de Richard Dawkins que considera que se silencia voces críticas y como biólogo y persona que no tolera tonterías parece haberse alineado con la premisa del libro. A mi que soy un señor blanco hetero de cincuenta, me resultan convincentes algunas de sus argumentaciones y, de no mediar experiencias personales, podría haberme vendido la moto. Pero lo cierto es que utiliza razonamientos tramposos, selecciona la evidencia y hace un ejercicio de falacia ad hominen y hombre de paja de gran calibre.
Al final, lo que resuta evidente es una total falta de empatia hacia las personas trans y la construcción de un enemigo que conspira en la mejor línea del antisemitismo de antaño (y no tan antaño) en "los activistas trans" que han ocupado sigilosamente (según la autora) el respetable movimiento LGB añadiendole siglas y llevandolo a la irrelevancia pues la doctrina de género elimina y hace irrelevante la tradicional homosexualidad.
No quiero dedicar esta reseña a rebatir argumentos que basados en los extremos sociales del deporte y las cárceles pretende extender a todo el conjunto de la sociedad aunque si agradezco al libro la oportunidad de reflexionar un poco, y perfilar mis poco definidas ideas sobre este tema. Como en muchas ocasiones en esta vida, antes de tomar partido basandote en tu primer impulso, es buena idea mirar alrededor y ver quienes estarían en tu mismo lado. En seguida notas dónde no quieres estar.
Yikes. I wish I was stupid enough to understand the deliberate misinformation she is spreading. Books like this are the reason that anti-trans laws are getting considered or passed. She does not discuss trans joy at all. Thank goodness for public libraries as I did not have to directly pay for this.
A really fascinating book. Very well researched and gives a very interesting history of Trans people and the Trans rights movement and it’s once very positive effects but now are starting to make things harder for the people they were trying to help. It’s also give a blow by blow account of everything in the last few years regarding the clash between women’s sex based rights and the desire for Trans identified people’s desire for affirmation and inclusion.
It’s very easy to book to read, you could pick it up knowing absolutely nothing about the subject but by the end, be very well informed and there’s plenty of information for further reading.
It’s very easy to book to read, you could pick it up knowing absolutely nothing about the subject but by the end, be very well informed and there’s plenty of information for further reading.
This is not a book about trans people.
How much transphobia is acceptable in society today?
Trans says “Yes.”
Let’s hear it for the girls (doing dishonest and horrific things)!
Being trans is about being horny. It says so in the chapter on horny transgender people ambitiously titled "history". It says so in the chapter about how people with transgender urges might just be homosexual. And in case you missed it, the point is jackhammered home with Joyce worrying deeply about possible infiltration of the trans movement by paedophiles, just like the gay movement (?) or leftists (??) were:
Paedophiles gained such a hearing on the Left partly by persuading Leftists that their enemies’ enemies were automatically friends. In this case, the enemies were Conservatives, Catholics, evangelicals and fascists, all of whom opposed both gay activists and paedophiles.
Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath, for some reason.
Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, also for some reason.
Joyce has a problem though: Trans people aren't sexually perverted enough! No matter, unisex toilets accounted for ninety percent of sexual assaults and harassment at public swimming pools in 2018. There's no suggestion, not one, of trans people being involved, but surely they had something to do with the father covertly filming teenage girls. The possibility that unisex toilets exist because of trans people is cudgel enough for Joyce. And if that isn't sufficient, trans women are coming to a women's prison near you. Imagine the idea of men given the opportunity to exert power over the vulnerable. Unfathomable. What gender are the security guards again?
When they aren't committing hypothetical sexual assaults, trans women are really shattering sports records. High School records. For the 55 metres. In Connecticut. Prepare to clutch your pearls over a student who ran a 12.29 100m sprint, just behind... ...barely in sight of... the college record of 10.75. How about Caster Semenya? She's won a few big events... ...sure, she isn't trans in the slightest, just born that way like Michael Phelps' oversized torso... ...but she's not quite right, not quite "womanly" enough for Joyce.
Lucky Joyce is herself a "can do" woman, as in she "can do" a citation free read of the Supreme Court in Bostock v Clayton County. It's very brave and bold of Joyce to conflate the minds of nine justices into one entity that cannot have been thinking, nor can it have meant or seems to undercut. The only downside of Joyce's can do attitude is that a carnival clairvoyant would have written a more coherent analysis. Actually, a carnival clown could have.
Did I mention Joyce isn't writing a book about trans people?
Empathy is about me me me
One reason for this backlash, I realised was selective compassion. Activists who expressed genuine and reasonable concern for the struggles of trans-identified people would simultaneously dismiss women’s desire for safety, privacy, dignity and fair competition.
There are a miniscule number of trans people in society. The issue with trans people is not that they are (somehow) gaining an outsized influence. It’s this:
And this:
And this:
Trans launders the worst elements of the alt right movement, and sources regularly from them, often lazily so. Joyce didn’t cite three Jewish billionares because she wanted to make Trans deliberately anti-Semitic, it’s because she pulled her material (right down to the error of Soros’ donees) from 2018 Federalist article from a Nazi-adjacent fellow traveller (https://thefederalist.com/2018/02/20/rich-white-men-institutionalizing-transgender-ideology/). Crazy how the people opposing trans rights seem to oppose a lot of other minority rights too. Though, Joyce is pretty cool about some of that too:
I don't dismiss women's desires for safety, dignity and "fair competition". I dismiss that Trans has anything to do with any of those things.
The Right to hurl abuse from the bully pulpit
Proclaiming that transwomen are women is a way of showing that you are a member of an elite intellectual tribe
Trans desperately wants you to debate it on its terms, splitting hairs over gender identity as though the book isn’t against transgenderism in every form.
Trans damns the community for the actions of individuals, like Jessica Yaniv, who clearly has her own separate issues.
Trans damns the community for actions that individuals could do, like how they could allow paedophilia (I’m eargerly awaiting Joyce’s cannonade against the Catholic Church).
It damns the community for the actions of people who aren’t trans, like German kindergarten teachers.
Joyce mixes with, and sources from, the worst in society, then has the effrontery to play the victim when it’s pointed out to her. The only irony is that now men are invading her safe spaces:
Funny how these guys feel about your right to be transphobic, Joyce.
How much transphobia is acceptable in society today?
Trans says “Yes.”
Let’s hear it for the girls (doing dishonest and horrific things)!
Being trans is about being horny. It says so in the chapter on horny transgender people ambitiously titled "history". It says so in the chapter about how people with transgender urges might just be homosexual. And in case you missed it, the point is jackhammered home with Joyce worrying deeply about possible infiltration of the trans movement by paedophiles, just like the gay movement (?) or leftists (??) were:
Paedophiles gained such a hearing on the Left partly by persuading Leftists that their enemies’ enemies were automatically friends. In this case, the enemies were Conservatives, Catholics, evangelicals and fascists, all of whom opposed both gay activists and paedophiles.
Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath, for some reason.
Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, also for some reason.
Joyce has a problem though: Trans people aren't sexually perverted enough! No matter, unisex toilets accounted for ninety percent of sexual assaults and harassment at public swimming pools in 2018. There's no suggestion, not one, of trans people being involved, but surely they had something to do with the father covertly filming teenage girls. The possibility that unisex toilets exist because of trans people is cudgel enough for Joyce. And if that isn't sufficient, trans women are coming to a women's prison near you. Imagine the idea of men given the opportunity to exert power over the vulnerable. Unfathomable. What gender are the security guards again?
When they aren't committing hypothetical sexual assaults, trans women are really shattering sports records. High School records. For the 55 metres. In Connecticut. Prepare to clutch your pearls over a student who ran a 12.29 100m sprint, just behind... ...barely in sight of... the college record of 10.75. How about Caster Semenya? She's won a few big events... ...sure, she isn't trans in the slightest, just born that way like Michael Phelps' oversized torso... ...but she's not quite right, not quite "womanly" enough for Joyce.
Lucky Joyce is herself a "can do" woman, as in she "can do" a citation free read of the Supreme Court in Bostock v Clayton County. It's very brave and bold of Joyce to conflate the minds of nine justices into one entity that cannot have been thinking, nor can it have meant or seems to undercut. The only downside of Joyce's can do attitude is that a carnival clairvoyant would have written a more coherent analysis. Actually, a carnival clown could have.
Did I mention Joyce isn't writing a book about trans people?
Empathy is about me me me
One reason for this backlash, I realised was selective compassion. Activists who expressed genuine and reasonable concern for the struggles of trans-identified people would simultaneously dismiss women’s desire for safety, privacy, dignity and fair competition.
There are a miniscule number of trans people in society. The issue with trans people is not that they are (somehow) gaining an outsized influence. It’s this:
And this:
And this:
Trans launders the worst elements of the alt right movement, and sources regularly from them, often lazily so. Joyce didn’t cite three Jewish billionares because she wanted to make Trans deliberately anti-Semitic, it’s because she pulled her material (right down to the error of Soros’ donees) from 2018 Federalist article from a Nazi-adjacent fellow traveller (https://thefederalist.com/2018/02/20/rich-white-men-institutionalizing-transgender-ideology/). Crazy how the people opposing trans rights seem to oppose a lot of other minority rights too. Though, Joyce is pretty cool about some of that too:
I don't dismiss women's desires for safety, dignity and "fair competition". I dismiss that Trans has anything to do with any of those things.
The Right to hurl abuse from the bully pulpit
Proclaiming that transwomen are women is a way of showing that you are a member of an elite intellectual tribe
Trans desperately wants you to debate it on its terms, splitting hairs over gender identity as though the book isn’t against transgenderism in every form.
Trans damns the community for the actions of individuals, like Jessica Yaniv, who clearly has her own separate issues.
Trans damns the community for actions that individuals could do, like how they could allow paedophilia (I’m eargerly awaiting Joyce’s cannonade against the Catholic Church).
It damns the community for the actions of people who aren’t trans, like German kindergarten teachers.
Joyce mixes with, and sources from, the worst in society, then has the effrontery to play the victim when it’s pointed out to her. The only irony is that now men are invading her safe spaces:
Funny how these guys feel about your right to be transphobic, Joyce.
This book was very readable, not at all shrill or transphobic. It explores some of the unforeseen social consequences that are arising in so many different spheres of our lives since we've begun conflating biological sex with gender identity.
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