Transgender children and young people : born in your own body /
Transgender children and young people : born in your own body /
Born in your own body
edited by Heather Brunskell-Evans and Michele Moore.
- Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource (xii, 232 pages)
Includes bibliographical references.
The fabrication of 'the transgender child' / The transgender experiment on children / Gendered mis-intelligence: the fabrication of 'the transgender child' / 'I'm not a hideously bigoted parent who doesn't 'get' it' / 'Trans' kids: LGB adults come out / The language of the psyche: symptoms as symbols / The body factory: twentieth century stories of sex change / A full life uninterrupted by transition / Unheard voices of detransitioners / The view from the consulting room / Trans utopias: transhumanism, transfeminism and manufacturing the self / Standing up for girls and boys / Heather Brunskell Evans and Michele Moore -- Stephanie Davis-Arai -- Heather Brunskell-Evans -- GenderCriticalDad -- Josephine Bartosch -- Lisa Marchiano -- Susan Matthews -- Miranda Yardley -- Carey Maria Catt Callahan -- Robert Withers -- Jen Izaakson -- Michele Moore.
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 today's medical and social trend for transgendering children is not liberal and progressive, but politically reactionary, physically and psychologically dangerous and abusive.
9781527510364
Transgender children.
Transgender youth.
Transgender children--Social conditions.
Transgender youth--Social conditions.
Transgender children--Psychology.
Transgender youth--Psychology.
Electronic Books.
HQ77 / .T736 2018
Includes bibliographical references.
The fabrication of 'the transgender child' / The transgender experiment on children / Gendered mis-intelligence: the fabrication of 'the transgender child' / 'I'm not a hideously bigoted parent who doesn't 'get' it' / 'Trans' kids: LGB adults come out / The language of the psyche: symptoms as symbols / The body factory: twentieth century stories of sex change / A full life uninterrupted by transition / Unheard voices of detransitioners / The view from the consulting room / Trans utopias: transhumanism, transfeminism and manufacturing the self / Standing up for girls and boys / Heather Brunskell Evans and Michele Moore -- Stephanie Davis-Arai -- Heather Brunskell-Evans -- GenderCriticalDad -- Josephine Bartosch -- Lisa Marchiano -- Susan Matthews -- Miranda Yardley -- Carey Maria Catt Callahan -- Robert Withers -- Jen Izaakson -- Michele Moore.
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 today's medical and social trend for transgendering children is not liberal and progressive, but politically reactionary, physically and psychologically dangerous and abusive.
9781527510364
Transgender children.
Transgender youth.
Transgender children--Social conditions.
Transgender youth--Social conditions.
Transgender children--Psychology.
Transgender youth--Psychology.
Electronic Books.
HQ77 / .T736 2018