Welcome to the weekly Fairer Disputations round-up: your one-stop shop for the best in sex-realist feminism. This week: Eliza Mondegreen on testosterone treatment, Susanna Rustin on feminist Eleanor Rathbone’s economics, Faith Hill on endless parenting, Mary Poppins feminism, risks of surrogacy, why Gen Z doesn’t want kids, FD recommends a book—and more!
Featured Author Eliza Mondegreen writes on a recent Guardian piece about the dangers of testosterone treatment in postmenopausal women—and how it highlights the “medical exceptionalism” surrounding transgender treatments.
Next, Susanna Rustin, author of Sexed: A History of British Feminism, writes on the life and legacy of the little-known early feminist behind the UK’s child benefit.
Finally, Faith Hill writes on parents increasing involvement in the lives of their adult children–and whether this should be viewed as a problem.
More Great Reads:
- Mary Poppins Feminism, Siobhan Heekin-Canedy, Public Discourse
- Parents Need Help to Protect Their Kids from Online Pornography, Clare Morell, The Hill
- ‘Damning’ Information About Trans Medical Group Expected To Reach Supreme Court, as Justices Consider Challenge to Ban on Gender Treatments for Minors, Benjamin Ryan, The New York Sun
- Why Gen Z Doesn’t Want Kids, Poppy Sowerby, UnHerd
- Surrogates Twice as Likely to Suffer Dangerous Pregnancy Complications, Sarah Knapton, The Telegraph
- Giving until It Hurts: Helping Mothers Love, Mary Tillotson, Public Discourse
Fairer Disputations Recommends:
In Trans, Featured Author Helen Joyce explores the ideology of gender identity. It tells the story of how gender ideology became ascendant, and looks at the lobby of billionaires and transactivists pushing to replace sex with gender self-identification across society. In doing so, it attends to the “losers” in these debates over gender ideology: women forced to share prisons and playing fields with biological men, and detransitioners who believed the lies the transactivists were selling.
This book is a must-read—especially now, after the Cass Report in the UK and amidst the legal battles over youth gender treatments in the US.
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