TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brunskell-Evans,Heather
AU  - Moore,Michele
TI  - Transgender children and young people: born in your own body 
SN  - 9781527510364
AV  - HQ77 .T736 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
KW  - Transgender children
KW  - Transgender youth
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 1; The fabrication of 'the transgender child'; Heather Brunskell Evans and Michele Moore --; The transgender experiment on children; Stephanie Davis-Arai --; Gendered mis-intelligence: the fabrication of 'the transgender child'; Heather Brunskell-Evans --; 'I'm not a hideously bigoted parent who doesn't 'get' it'; GenderCriticalDad --; 'Trans' kids: LGB adults come out; Josephine Bartosch --; The language of the psyche: symptoms as symbols; Lisa Marchiano --; The body factory: twentieth century stories of sex change; Susan Matthews --; A full life uninterrupted by transition; Miranda Yardley --; Unheard voices of detransitioners; Carey Maria Catt Callahan --; The view from the consulting room; Robert Withers --; Trans utopias: transhumanism, transfeminism and manufacturing the self; Jen Izaakson --; Standing up for girls and boys; Michele Moore; 2; b
N2  - 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
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