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Feminists around the globe joined Heather Brunskell-Evans to launch her new book in the Spinifex Shorts series - Transgender Body Politics.
Heather Brunskell-Evans talks to Graham Linehan
Listen to Renate Klein and Susan Hawthorne from Spinifex Press talk to Heather Brunskell-Evans about her book Transgender Body Politics.
The Women's Human Rights Campaign (WHRC) international launch for Transgender Body Politics.
Table of Contents
Prologue
My raised consciousness
Chapter One: Women's Bodies
1.1 What is a Woman?
Women with Penises: Queer Theory
Transwomen are women: Get over it
Affirmative psychology: A man is a woman if he says he is
1.2 Shaming Gender Critical Feminists
Intersectional feminism
1.3 A Woman Is an Adult Human Female
Women’s bodies and binary sex
Pregnancy and reproduction
Pregnant men
Reclaiming biology
Gender neutrality
Lesbians: Same-sex attraction or 'lesbians' with penises?
Lesbians are adult human females
Patriarchy
Chapter Two: Girls’ Bodies
2.1 The ‘Transboy’
Trans affirmative psychotherapy
A girl is a boy if she says she is
The ‘transboy’ and ‘his’ body: Hormone therapy
The ‘transboy’s’ ‘existential choice’ to use hormone treatment
2.2 A Girl Is a Young Human Female
Sex/Gender
Clinical psychology
Muzzling dissent
2.3 The Sacrificial ‘Transboy’
The iatrogenic ‘transboy’
The body
De-transitioners: Kiera Bell
Chapter Three: The Male Body Politic
3.1 Queering the Law and Social Policy
The Gender Recognition Act 2004
‘Feminist’ politicians speak with one voice
The erosion of single-sex spaces
A Woman’s Place is standing her ground
3.2 The Trans Human Rights Paradigm
Women’s prisons
The case of Karen White
The authoritarian left: The case of the Labour Party
Intersectional feminism
Chapter Four: The Naked Emperor
4.1 Sex Matters
Diversity and exclusion
4.2 The Butlerian Jihad
4.3 The Transgender Empire
‘The Gender Industrial Complex’
Big business dressed in civil rights clothes
Reform of the Gender Recognition Act (GRA)
Conclusion
Epilogue
References
Acknowledgements
Reviews
Transgender Body Politics is a welcome addition to the gender critical literature. It is a small (around 7’ x 5’x 1/3’) pocket book, which succinctly gives the reader an easy to understand and very easy to read condensed whistle-stop tour of current gender critical thinking in relation to the hot topic of the moment; transgender, one which is a topic which is guaranteed to spark debate and emotions.
It would be difficult to have a problem with much of what Brunskell-Evans writes in her book and it would be a useful addition to the bookshelves of anyone working in psychology, psychotherapy, psychiatry, or social work, and those who are involved in policy making in local and national government, so as to be better informed on transgender and gender from an informed and thoughtful perspective.
— Az Hakeem, Dignity Journal
…I’d recommend Heather’s work to every reader even remotely interested in this subject. It’s an accessible introductory volume and eloquent summary of the issues, useful to read even if you’re already quite familiar with them. Heather’s voice will prompt thoughts, reflections, memories and maybe, as for me, profound relief to see these feminist ideas collected and articulated so well in a printed book.
— SD, FiLiA
Transgender Body Politics is an excellent critique of the current trans-activist movement and its threat to, not only the safety and well-being of women, but to the human rights of women and children. The author explores the medical harms being done to children in the name of trans politics, and how this is being promoted by powerful, rich men to intrude on women’s rights and has been so influential in the political and legal system. She also addresses how the medical and pharmaceutical industry is benefiting by this movement.
— MairiVoice
Packed with concrete examples, well referenced and clearly written, Transgender Body Politics cuts through the bullshit. It systematically exposes the intolerance, misogyny, sexism and child abuse inherent in transgender politics.
— Redline
In ‘Transgender Body Politics’, Brunskell-Evans has created for the reader a thickly woven tapestry of fact and philosophy; history and ideology.
“The way to defeat bad ideas,” she suggests, “is by exposure, argument and persuasion.”
This book does all three. As a document for and about these times, it will no doubt become a feminist classic. I encourage you to buy a copy.
— Lily Maynard
FIVE STARS. An excellent critique of the current trans-activist movement and its threat to not only the safety and well-being of women, but a threat to the human rights of women and children. The author explores the medical harms being done to children in the name of trans politics, and how this is being promoted by powerful, rich men to intrude on women's rights and been so influential in the political and legal system. She also addresses how the medical and pharmaceutical industry is benefited by this movement.
Her analysis leads her to conclude that the transgender movement is in fact a men's rights movement, with the intent of invading not only women-only spaces, but as a silencing of women's voices and colonising and erasing our bodies, agency and autonomy.
Highly recommended.
— Hannah Wattangeri, Reader Review, GoodReads
FIVE STARS. Transgender Body Politics by Heather Brunskell-Evans is a fairly short, concise, and articulate exploration of the complex issues facing Westernised capitalist society today with regard to gender identity ideology.
— Louise Hewett, Reader Review, GoodReads
Eine absolute LOGIKBOMBE wie man sie in dieser postmodernen postfaktualen perversen Welt kaum noch finden mag. Neben Abigail Shriers Buch wohl das Wichtigste, was ich je gelesen habe. (Trans: An absolute LOGIC BOMB that is hard to find in this postmodern post-factual perverse world. Besides Abigail Shrier's book, probably the most important thing I've ever read.)
— L. Reichard, Reader Review, Amazon
Read an extract
Women are Human shared an excerpt of Heather’s book. Read the full article here.