Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women's by Helen Joyce | Book Club

Suggested by: Member
Alternative Title: Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
Pages to read: 261
ISBN: 9780861540495 (Originally listed edition)
ISBN: 9780861540501 (Edition Eugene is using)

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While reading the book, consider the below questions:
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book? Why do people read this book?
•What are some limitations of the book?
•To whom would you suggest this book?
•What is the difference between public and private views about transgender?
•How has journalism and academia changed about how their approach transgender?
•What is gender self-identification?
•What is the purpose of single-sex spaces?
•What happened to single-sex spaces such as restrooms and jails?
•Can both sexes enter spaces legally restricted to single-sex?
•What is body autonomy?
•How should a democracy handle belief systems?
•What are transactivists?
•Who is silenced by transactivists?
•What is gender dysphoria?
•What is gender-affirmation medicine?
•What are puberty blockers?
•What do therapist and clinicians advise to gender-dysphoric children?
•Are the effect of puberty blockers easily reversible?
•What happens to clinicians who urge caution?
•What lawsuits are being made regarding transgender people?
•Who are detransitioners?
•Who are Anna and Einar Larssen? How did they effect transgender people?
•What is the difference between a one-sex model and two-sex model?
•How did Jorgensen effect transgender?
•What determines sex?
•How are humans socialized?
•What did Milton Diamond find out about John Money’s theories?
•How did British law change about transsexuals?
•How does culture effect gender non-conforming people?
•What was Clarke’s criteria for surgery?
•How is the Matrix, a transgender movie?
•How did computer games effect transgender people?
•What is applied postmodernism?
•What are Gish gallop?
•Can brain scans determine someone’s sex?
•Why do people choose to be transgender?
•What defines if a person is the wrong sex and needs to change?
•Who does media support and vilify?
•How does the transgender movement effect laws on child-safeguarding?
•How does the transgender movement effect inclusion?
•How does the transgender movement effect people of the past?
•Why did sports become sex-segregated?
•What defined womanhood in sports?
•How do movements normally get rights and who do those rights effect? How are trans rights obtained and who do they effect?
•How do businesses respond to the trans movement?

Your questions are important and will take priority. If you have questions about the book's content or related ideas, either let me know what your questions are or raise them during the discussion.