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Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality by Helen Joyce
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Glad Storygraph gives the option of zero stars as that is what this book deserves.
Helen Joyce ignores all modern research on transgender identity and healthcare, instead citing fringe pseudoscientific theories such as Blanchard’s typology of transsexualism, ‘rapid onset gender dysphoria’, and the myth that 80% of trans children ‘desist’. Her brief section of references is largely drawn from anti-trans campaign groups who use exclusionary feminism and ‘think of the children’ as covers for their transphobia. She maliciously misquotes and misrepresents her opponents and their arguments. She repeatedly calls trans women ‘males’ and deadnames and misgenders the individuals she brings up. Her arguments are based on lies, anecdotes and hypotheticals. The gender critical (aka anti trans) movement, in which Joyce is a prominent figure, is linked to alt right conspiracies, antisemitism, anti-abortion and anti-gay political movements.
When she isn’t trying to appear somewhat respectable in print, Joyce can be found online stating that she thinks trans people are all a ‘huge problem to a sane world’, even stating that it doesn’t matter whether transition has been personally beneficial for them or not. She has called for the number of trans people to be ‘reduced’.
This book is poorly argued, reactionary, transphobic screed.
Helen Joyce ignores all modern research on transgender identity and healthcare, instead citing fringe pseudoscientific theories such as Blanchard’s typology of transsexualism, ‘rapid onset gender dysphoria’, and the myth that 80% of trans children ‘desist’. Her brief section of references is largely drawn from anti-trans campaign groups who use exclusionary feminism and ‘think of the children’ as covers for their transphobia. She maliciously misquotes and misrepresents her opponents and their arguments. She repeatedly calls trans women ‘males’ and deadnames and misgenders the individuals she brings up. Her arguments are based on lies, anecdotes and hypotheticals. The gender critical (aka anti trans) movement, in which Joyce is a prominent figure, is linked to alt right conspiracies, antisemitism, anti-abortion and anti-gay political movements.
When she isn’t trying to appear somewhat respectable in print, Joyce can be found online stating that she thinks trans people are all a ‘huge problem to a sane world’, even stating that it doesn’t matter whether transition has been personally beneficial for them or not. She has called for the number of trans people to be ‘reduced’.
This book is poorly argued, reactionary, transphobic screed.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Transphobia