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Endorsements
I devoured this essential history of the people and campaigns that turned Britain into Terf Island in a single sitting. Packed with sharp insights and telling details, this is social history written with the thrill and verve of a whodunnit.
—Helen Joyce, author of Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women’s Rights
When historians chronicle this period of insanity, due honour will go to the four heroic women whose stories are told in this engaging and important book. It’s easy to talk sense now that the tide has turned, but it took real courage in the days when you could lose your job, suffer savage bullying and almost universal ostracism, even physical violence, simply for stating a scientific fact.
—Richard Dawkins FRS, Emeritus Professor of the Public Understanding of Science, University of Oxford
A bracing account of the battle for sanity in a society that fancies itself so modern but has actually gone medieval. The gutsy women in this compelling book have risked everything to defend the reality of unalterable biological sex.
—Lionel Shriver, author of We Need to Talk About Kevin and Mania
A fascinating book about brave key figures in the UK sex-realist movement, told grippingly by another brave key figure. These women deserve to have their stories widely heard.
—Kathleen Stock, author of Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
I love this book. It’s calm and authoritative, a reminder of what women can achieve when faced with an overtly misogynist ideology. Anyone who’s heard the phrase ‘toxic on both sides’ should read it, and marvel at the patience and persistence of the inspiring women McAnena has written about.
—Joan Smith, author of Misogynies
History is mostly written by men, about men. This vastly entertaining and informative book is different; about a handful of women whose efforts changed the UK for everyone, including incisive portraits of heroines from Kellie-Jay Keen to Maya Forstater.
—Julie Burchill, journalist, polemicist, novelist; the TV adaptation of her YA novel Sugar Rush won an International Emmy
While much of the world has capitulated to gender identity ideology and its regressive impact on women’s rights, the UK has taken a different path. If you want to know how – and who made that happen – this is the book for you.
—Andrew Doyle, writer and broadcaster, author of The New Puritans and The End of Woke
One day the world will look back on this insane period of biology denial and the wilful mutilation of vulnerable children with true horror. All those in this book from Terf Island can say they did their very best to stop it. Feisty women, every one. I’m proud to be amongst them. Fiona tells the story in brilliant detail of just how hard it was to get facts, science, statistics and even simple respectful debate out into the public domain. All these women are modern day super- heroes.
—Sharron Davies MBE, legendary British Olympian, Olympic silver medallist and campaigner
Proud to have been an outspoken Terf Islander although I came to the protest a little later than the women in this book. Defending the rights of women and children was a tough, dangerous and painful battle. These women never gave up. We must all thank them for saving our sex.
—Dame Jenni Murray, writer and broadcaster