A review by caffeinecrow
Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society by Cordelia Fine

medium-paced

1.5

A decent introduction to the concept of neurosexism and the falsity of the "Testosterone Rex" theories of sexual dimorphism for those completely unfamiliar with them, but I was left wanting. This book was published in 2017 and managed to go 194 pages before mentioning trans people, once, in an easily overlooked single sentence at the very end of the book that doesn't even use the word "trans". Arguably, trans people are eluded to (and still not mentioned explicitly) in "a note about terminology", but only to say that they are not included or accounted for in this book. If your 200 page book on neurosexism and how the line between "male" and "female" is much blurrier than most people think can't account for the existence of trans people outside of excluding them (and can't even mention them til the end, and still only in a way that most people will miss), your book has, at best, painted an incomplete picture of its topics.