Transgender Body Politics
Transgenderism in the twenty-first century is patriarchy emblazoned in imperial form.
At a time when supposedly enlightened attitudes are championed by the mainstream, philosopher and activist Heather Brunskell-Evans shows how, in plain view under the guise of liberalism, a regressive men’s rights movement is posing a massive threat to the human rights of women and children everywhere.
This movement is transgender politics which, while spouting platitudes about equality, is in reality colonising and erasing the bodies, agency and autonomy of women and children, while asserting men’s rights to bodily intrusion into every social and personal space. The transgender agenda redefines diversity and inclusion utilising the language of victimhood.
In a complete reversal of feminist gender critical analyses, sex and gender are redefined: identity is now called ‘innate’ (a ‘feeling’ located somewhere in the body) and biological sex is said to be socially constructed (and hence changeable). This ensures a lifetime of drug dependency for transitioners, thereby delivering vast profits for Big Pharma in a capitalist dream.
Everyone, including every trans person, has the right to live freely without discrimination. But the transgender movement has been hijacked by misogynists who are appropriating and inverting the struggles of feminism to deliver an agenda devoid of feminist principles.
In a chilling twist, when feminists critique the patriarchal status quo it is now they who are alleged to be extremists for not allowing men’s interests to control the political narrative. Institutions whose purpose is to defend human rights now interpret truth speech as hate speech, and endorse the no-platforming of women as ethical.
This brave, truthful and eye-opening book does not shirk from the challenge of meeting the politics of liberalism and transgender rights head on. Everyone who cares about the future of women’s and children’s rights must read it.
The micro-politics and the macro-politics of identity interact to form one of the most misogynistic expressions of patriarchy in recent times under the guise of equality, diversity and inclusion.
OCTOBER 2020 | ISBN 9781925950229 | Paperback | 135 x 180 mm | 190 pages
THIS BOOK IS PART OF THE GENDER CRITICAL COLLECTION
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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.
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Listen to Kellie-Jay talk to Heather Brunskell-Evans about 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
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Women are Human shared an excerpt of Heather’s book. Read the full article here.