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"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."--

Front Cover -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Prologue -- My raised consciousness -- 1. 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 -- 2. 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' -- Child 'consent' to medical treatment -- The iatrogenic 'transboy' -- The body -- Detransitioners: Kiera Bell -- 3. 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 revisited -- 4. 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.

AbstractIn this article, the author foregrounds transgender as a useful category of analysis to shed light on the issue of gender variance and its articulations within the encounter between Syrian queer and gender-variant refugees and the humanitarian-asylum complex. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with Syrian queer and gender-variant refugees in Istanbul in 2014 and 2015, this article contends that transgender as a term first circulates among the queer and gender-variant circles as a thinkable possibility primarily through its function as a humanitarian category, especially as propagated by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). By highlighting this specific encounter, the author attempts to demonstrate, however, that rather than focusing on what the term does to the persons it interpellates, one must map out and document the ways the term is taken up and negotiated by the Syrian queer and gender-variant populations themselves, a method that could help ameliorate the negativity attached to transgender as a Western term and show that other systems of identification and histories of gender variance in the Syrian or Syrian diasporic contexts do not simply disappear or are subsumed by transgender, but are further complicated by it and continue to exist alongside it.

After changing its city branding several times, Semarang now has a new city branding, namely "Semarang Variety of Culture." However, the city branding reaped contra from academics and cultural figures because Semarang was considered not sufficient yet in terms of representing its cultural diversity. Responding to this, the Semarang City Government and the Semarang City Public Works Department created a public service advertisement on CCTV socialization for flood control in the city of Semarang with a transgender figure as the ad star. This research was qualitative research designed with Seymour Chatman's Narrative Analysis. The research found a commodification and objectification of transgender people who imitated the feminine style of women in the advertisement. In other words, the public service announcement of Semarang CCTV socialization lowered the femininity, which is synonymous with women.The public service advertisement also violated the moral codes adopted by the majority of the Indonesian people.

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Analytic philosophy has transgender trouble. In this article, the author explores potential explanations for this trouble, focusing on the notion of "cisgender commonsense" and its place in philosophical methodology.

Challenging binary gender norms and common conceptions of the differences between sexes, transgender individuals are misunderstood, feared, and often subjected to stigma. As a result, transgender individuals are exposed to harassment, violence, and employment discrimination. The negative outcomes of this exposure include poverty, unemployment, trauma, homelessness, arrest, and/or incarceration. Within the correctional system, stigmatization is heightened, leading to grave consequences for transgender inmates. The goal of this article is to highlight these outcomes, as illustrated from legal case histories, and to suggest best practice recommendations for correctional system improvements in ensuring the rights of transgender inmates.

BACKGROUND: Insurance-based denials are common barriers for transgender and non-binary individuals in accessing medically necessary gender-affirming care. Little is known about how experiences of transgender-related insurance denials may vary by insurance type. OBJECTIVE: This study investigates the association between transgender and non-binary individuals' experiences of different forms of transgender-related insurance denials and insurance type. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS: The 2015 United States Transgender Survey was conducted by the National Center for Transgender Equality to ascertain US transgender and non-binary experiences across multiple life experiences, including individual health status, health services access and utilization, and experiences with denials. MAIN MEASURES: Multivariate logistic regressions were conducted, and adjusted risk ratios were calculated, to analyze the likelihood of experiencing eight different forms of denials by insurance type, including private, Medicare, Medicaid, and military-related, and having multiple types of insurance coverage. KEY RESULTS: Models revealed significant relationships between transgender-related insurance denials and insurance type for 11,320 transgender and non-binary adults. Compared with those with private insurance, Medicaid coverage was associated with an increased likelihood of experiencing denials for hormone therapy (adjusted risk ratio (ARR) = 1.22; CI = 1.05–1.42; p = 0.02); having no in-network surgery providers was associated with Medicare (ARR = 1.84; CI = 1.29–2.62; p = 0.009) or Medicaid (ARR = 1.54; CI = 1.20–1.98; p = 0.003); and military-based insurance was associated with transition-related surgery denials (ARR = 1.53; CI = 1.36–1.72; p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Researchers and practitioners must consider the link between type of insurance coverage and experiences with different forms of transgender-related insurance denial. These results provide continuing support for broad non-discrimination policy efforts, but also direct our ...

AbstractIn 1970s Australia, magazines and newspapers regularly featured stories about transgender women. The articles were often exploitative and depicted transgender people as freaks, with headlines designed to shock and mock. Digging deeper, there is another side to transgender people in the Australian media. Notwithstanding the exploitative nature of the coverage, the media was still a site of transgender visibility in an era where there otherwise was none. Oral histories with transgender Australians often mention the importance of a particular television show, article or magazine because they saw others 'like them', and they realised that they were not alone. Some transgender people even kept those articles for years because of the connections they felt to an otherwise uncertain identity. There were also features in the press that were empathetic to transgender Australians, whether that be on the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC), in magazines such as Cleo or in broadsheet newspapers. This article analyses the complex role that media played representing and relating to transgender Australians in the 1970s. Drawing on a mix of newspaper, magazine and television sources, as well as oral histories, the article opens new lines of inquiry about histories of transgender visibility, public discourse and understanding the self.