Transgender Body Politics, Paperback

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 in transgender politics has turned coloniser, erasing the bodies, agency, and autonomy of women and children, while asserting men's rights to bodily intrusion into every social and personal space. 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. An eye-opening book.

About author(s):Heather Brunskell-Evans is a social theorist and philosopher who specialises in ethics, medicine, sex, and gender. Having been an academic for nearly three decades, she is now also working on national and international political agendas driving the rights of women and girls. She is a Spokeswoman for FiLiA, a feminist charity; a Member of Management Committee for OBJECT a campaigning organisation, where she also contributes to research on surrogacy; and Co-author of Declaration of Women's Sex Based Rights. You can read more of her writing at www.heather-brunskell-evans.co.uk.