Zealot Burns and her minions write yet another idiotic piece of 'trans' propaganda. Trans Britain consists almost entirely of 'trans' people writing about the realities of their own lives. This sloppy obsession with fact and reality is a blatantly ideological attempt to promote the book's unstated ideological premise that real human lives matter.
We have seen in many other contexts how this "real lives" ideology leads to absurd political demands. In the United States it has led to black people bizarrely demanding that police stop shooting them. In Ireland it has led to women insisting that those making laws relating to pregnancy actually listen to the lived experiences of women and the professional expertise of doctors and midwives.
Sadly, many of these ideologues appear to hold the weird belief that each person has innate human dignity. They want society to uphold that dignity, and allow each person to flourish. In their dystopian vision, people would not be shot for having the wrong skin colour, pregnant women would not die because the law bans simple medical treatments, and gay and lesbian people would not be persecuted. Mad.
In Burns's case, her realist fanaticism means that the book is almost entirely devoid of the brilliant analysis of writers in the Janice Raymond tradition, whose fact base wisely has minimal contact with reality. It's more than 40 years since Raymond produced her famous paranoid-essentialist classic 'The Transsexual Empire' ... but ideologue Burns's realism will consign this tome to the scrapheap of unread, out-of-print works of realism such as the long-forgotten George Orwell's 'Road to Wigan Pier'.
So buy this book just to learn about this whole "real lives matter" thing. It might just catch on ... and you'd wanna know about it, wouldn't you?
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