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Transgender Children and Young People: Born in Your Own Body Paperback – Unabridged, 1 May 2018

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This book is a collection of essays about the current theory and practice of transgendering children. Essays are written against the grain of the popularised medical definition of the transgender child as a young person whose true gender lies in the brain, or pre-social identity. Contributors contest this diagnosis from a range of perspectives, including as social theorists, psychotherapists, persons living as transgender, individuals who have de-transitioned, and parents of adolescents identifying as transgender. They argue that medicine, social policy and the law build ideas about the transgender child, and contend that it is politics, not science, which accounts for the exponential rise in the number of children diagnosed as transgender by gender identity clinics. They conclude that todays medical and social trend for transgendering children is not liberal and progressive, but politically reactionary, physically and psychologically dangerous and abusive.
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  1. ISBN-10
    1527509303
  2. ISBN-13
    978-1527509306
  3. Edition
    2nd
  4. Publisher
    Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  5. Publication date
    1 May 2018
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    15 x 1.3 x 21 cm
  8. Print length
    244 pages
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"The editors of this groundbreaking book, Helen Brunskell-Evans and Michele Moore, deserve both our congratulations and our gratitude for compiling such a comprehensive selection of arguments, which together provide an analysis of the complex phenomenon that falls under the term ‘trans’, an analysis that is very different from the narrative currently capturing the minds of young people and professionals alike."(Melissa Midgen, Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 2018)

About the Author

Dr Heather Brunskell-Evans is a social theorist and philosopher with an interest in the work of Michel Foucault and in feminist philosophy and politics of the body. She is a Visiting Research Fellow at Kings College London. Having been an academic for nearly three decades, she now also works on national and international political agendas driving the rights of women and children. She is a Trustee of the charity FiLia, and co-ordinator of its Stop Violence against Women and Girls section. She is a commentator on TV and radio. Her latest book is The Sexualized Body and the Medical Authority of Pornography: Performing Sexual Liberation (2016). Professor Michele Moore is Editor of the world-leading journal Disability & Society and an expert in the field of Inclusive Education. She works on developing inclusion in communities at local, regional, national and international levels. She leads consultative participatory human rights projects across the world to support children, their families and those who work with them. She has published widely on education, childhood and family life, disability and inclusion.

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge Scholars Publishing; 2nd edition (1 May 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 244 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1527509303
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1527509306
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15 x 1.3 x 21 cm
  • Customer reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

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Amee
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read!!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 August 2022
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No child has ever been born in the wrong body.
The authors have done an incredible service to all of humanity, and in particular children, by penning this book. Thank you so much xx
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Ms. Sharon Brown
1.0 out of 5 stars Drivel
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 September 2020
basically, the authors have invented a condition (rapid-onset gender dysphoria) which does not exist in the DSM-5 (mental health diagnostic manual) and seek to validate their theory with a bunch of poorly researched confirmational bais on mumsnet. you just need to google their names to find out what they are is TERF's plain and simple.
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