Welcome to the weekly Fairer Disputations round-up: your one-stop shop for the best in sex-realist feminism. This week: Helen Joyce on how gender “medicine” subverts standard medical practice, Eliza Mondegreen on the online trans community as a cult, and Roxxanne “Tiger” Reed on transitioning—and now detransitioning—as an adult. Plus: giving mothers cash, gender divides American medical associations, the autonomy trap—and more!
First, Featured Author Helen Joyce explains how “gender-affirming healthcare” undermines the principles of evidence-based science that uphold traditional healthcare.
Next, Featured Author Eliza Mondegreen lays out several ways in which the online trans community takes on cult-like characteristics.
Finally, Roxxanne “Tiger” Reed, partner to youth gender-clinic whistleblower Jamie Reed, tells the story of her transition as an adult—and what led her to question her choice and revert to living as a woman.
More Great Reads:
- Aisha Nyandoro Showed America What Happens When You Give Mothers Cash, Belinda Luscombe, Time
- American Academy of Pediatrics Faces Internal Split over Gender Transitions, Laurel Duggan, UnHerd
- Evidence Over Ideology: Gender-Distressed Children Deserve Nothing Less, Jill Simons, Public Discourse
- Not All Men, but Any Man, Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic
- The Autonomy Trap, James R. Wood, Plough
Fairer Disputations Recommends:
In The Detransition Diaries, Featured Author Jennifer Lahl and Kallie Fell tell the stories of five women and two men who believed the lie that they could change their sex—and their eventual recognition of the truth.
Fairer Disputations previously published an exclusive excerpt from this book: “Afraid to Be Female:”
How do we stop this internalized misogyny? How do we learn to let children live outside the boundaries of gender stereotypes without labeling them “nonbinary” and ushering them to the closest gender clinic? How do we make this world safe for girls to grow up female?
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