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jessica

Be who you want

Commenté au Royaume-Uni 🇬🇧 le 25 mars 2023

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A great read

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Educative but also partial, reductive and regressive

Commenté au Royaume-Uni 🇬🇧 le 29 septembre 2021

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A partial account of contemporary difficulties in England for people who are changing or who have changed binary gender. I felt that the coverage leaned towards those who were in the process of changing or who had changed binary gender recently, and towards those who are ‘out’ by choice (or who are obliged to be). I felt that the book underplayed, for instance, what I understand to be the persistent, opportunistic, and often petty opposition of the General Register Office, the Justice system, the Department for Work & Pensions and the National Health Service towards people who have changed gender by law.

While I can understand that ‘trans activists’ might believe ‘visibility’ essential to the making of progress, should ‘visibility’ become involuntary as the result of a small number of activists’ initiatives? Should it be imposed systemically also upon individuals of other psychosexual minorities (as it would have been were extra descriptive flags added to NHS England’s patient medical records)? - I don’t believe that NHS staff need any extra help to target members of psychosexual minorities for mistreatment, sadly.

By contrast, I feel that the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ widely-endorsed ‘Good practice guidelines for the assessment and treatment of adults with gender dysphoria’ (CR181 of 2013) handles the question of the (non-)application of labels such as ‘trans’ more realistically and more sensitively.

I believe that the very idea of ‘trans’ is rooted in a reductive and outdated two-sex, two-gender binary. That is reflected perfectly, in my opinion, in the deliberate borrowing from organic chemistry of the contrast with ‘cis’ - both terms referring to the only two possible relative lateral attachments of groups of atoms on either side of a rigid double-bond between two carbon atoms in a molecule.

When the relative prevalences of other variants than the two main psychosexual social groups are considered as well, I doubt that people who identify as ‘trans’ should seek to assimilate, speak for, or gain credence from the greater numbers who are, or who identify, severally otherwise. I regretted, for instance, that inclusions about gender variance in the recent English census were celebrated, whereas the deliberate exclusion of intersex (on the minuted grounds that there was no interest of any importance) was not deplored. I felt the same about the complete exclusion of ‘asexuality’, ‘intersex’, ‘non-binary’ and ‘pansexuality’ from the new ‘Relationships and Sex Education (RSE)’ secondary schools programme: I’d say that the very existence of each of those four is far more erosive of the patriarchy’s ‘two-sex’, ‘two-gender’, ‘two-sexual-objects’ model than ever the idea of ‘trans’ could be.

To be following a ‘trans’ model of gender variance nowadays seems to me unnecessarily restrictive, as well as out of touch with both intellectual and generational change. I believe that better places to start one’s thinking are to be found in the sociological analysis captured retrospectively in Fenstermaker and West’s ‘Doing Gender, Doing Difference’ and with the later philosophical critique of gender contained within Judith Butler’s ‘Gender Trouble’.

A pity that so educative a book seems also partial, reductive and regressive.

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Angel

Outstanding in the truest sense of the word. Very different. Exceeded expectations

Commenté au Royaume-Uni 🇬🇧 le 12 septembre 2021

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There has been a slew of books published recently by well-known transphobes, books that have done little more than regurgitated transphobic rhetoric from the media, nothing new, nothing enlightening. They have been designed to produce ignorance.

Shon Faye's book it very different. Instead of spreading ignorance, disinformation and distrust, it enlightens the reader and reveals what it is really like to be trans. One of the main differences between Faye's book and the others is that she actually *talks to trans people*, something the recent publications by transphobes do not. How anyone can write a book about trans people without talking to trans people is beyond me.

Beyond that however Faye's writing is accessible and intelligent and really, genuinely informative, even for trans people, some of the information she explores will be new. Trans people's lives are explored in great depth and multidimensionally instead of one-dimensionally for a change. Trans people are portrayed as real people with real world lives and problems just like everyone else and she is clear about the different intersections with race, class, sexuality, age and (dis)ability. The issues she writes about are taken from trans people's point of view and consequently this book is so much more enlightening that the anything else currently published about trans people.

If you read this book you will finish by understanding a great deal more about trans people than when you started, which is the opposite of pretty much everything else published in the UK in the last couple of years, especially the stuff written by anti-trans campaigners. You will also start to understand transphobia and how insipid and fascistic it is in the UK. However beyond that she sets out to situate her argument in the context of other liberation struggles because ultimately the fight for trans liberation is also a fight for women's liberation, gay, lesbian and bisexual liberation, against racism and disability discrimination and for class liberation against the fascism of the likes of Trump and the 'Gender Criticals' and the dangers of neoliberal capitalism.

This is a truly enlightening book which will not only make you think but will actually make you considerably more knowledgeable about trans people than you were before you started reading. It is written in an accessible style but one that does not insult your intelligence as a reader and it is engaging all the way through.

Something different, something new.

Thoroughly worthwhile reading and, for a change, a book that totally justifies all the praise it has received in the media, indeed in my view it exceeded expectations by a country mile.

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Bong

Goes outside of transgender issues and loses overall focus

Commenté au Royaume-Uni 🇬🇧 le 24 février 2023

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Its okay, but it focuses on multiple non-trans issues and for me loses focus and credibility. Some really great points in there though.

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Hanid

At last a book written by an author who is Trans.

Commenté au Royaume-Uni 🇬🇧 le 3 février 2022

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After previously reading 'another book' and being thoroughly disappointed and misled by it, it was so good to find another book that offered a much more verifiable and fairer picture.

'The Trans Gender Issue: An argument for Justice' by Shon Faye came as a breath of fresh air. Full of up-to-date facts and data in the now time of the 21st century, her book offers a clear, true and concise look into what our Trans Community faces. I've learnt so much, particularly of the political and media negativity and misleading influences, which allowed me to really question what others are wrongly promoting, along with legislation which has given me a better understanding. I would highly recommend this book, even just for the reason it is written by some one who really knows!

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Robert Watson

A great breakdown of all the issues we face as a society

Commenté au Royaume-Uni 🇬🇧 le 21 juillet 2022

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Extremely informative and a great read for anyone that wants to try to understand transgenderism and the issues faced not just by trans people, but by all of us. I'd urge anyone who knows someone who might be trans, could be trans themselves or even those who are a little transphobic to read this, although the language can be a little bit dry sometimes

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Vikzwrites

An essential read

Commenté au Royaume-Uni 🇬🇧 le 13 septembre 2021

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Please be aware that the publisher gave me this book in exchange for an honest review. But, I also brought a copy. This book is important since the author, Shon Faye, takes an issue often portrayed in individualistic terms and shows the sociological factors underpinning that personal experience. The author examines how institutions, such as the: media, medical services, and the police respond to the 'transgender issue'. In doing so, the author argues that the 'transgender issue' is one of human rights, inequality, and justice, requiring a societal response and not an individual tragedy that has individualistic solutions. It is a clarion call to action that should be heard in every stratum of human life. Read this book.”

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Eileen

Very good. Just started this book so far so good.

Commenté au Royaume-Uni 🇬🇧 le 12 octobre 2022

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Heard a lot about this book. Just started it but I'm hooked already 😊

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Anon

Not just another confessional

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 8 décembre 2021

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I'm halfway through, and so far it's a solid book that does what it purports to do: instead of talking about the issues other people have with trans people, it reclaims the political narrative and dives deeply into the issues trans people face. Anyone who's been looking for something informative that isn't a 101 or a memoir should absolutely take a look.

The only criticism I have at this point is of some of the praise directed towards the US healthcare system and social support system generally as it relates to trans people (okay, and the editor could've been a bit better). While I do appreciate that I didn't have to wait years for hormone help on this side of the pond, it is beyond bizarre Shon thinks our system is anything to be inspired by in addressing the UK approach!

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なつ

これこそトランスジェンダーのリアル

Commenté au Japon 🇯🇵 le 5 septembre 2022

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英国の話だが、日本の読者にも（いや、きっと世界中で）広く読まれる必要がある。性器の手術をしたかどうかや、オンライン上の差別への対抗など、トランスジェンダー当事者からしたら「くだらない」言説に足を引っ張られるのではなく、きちんと生活実態に沿った話がなされている。そう、「トランスジェンダー問題」とされる諸々は、そのシステムを構築したシスジェンダーの問題なのだ。著者の現状認識には信頼がおける。
3章の階級の話や、4章セックスワークから見てとれるように、トランス当事者といっても状況は大きく異なる。「きちんとした」「恵まれている」トランス像ばかりしか想像できない人々へ、現実はどうなのか示してくれる。イントロダクションからすでに、自殺したトランス女性のエピソードと酷すぎるメディア報道など厳しい現実が示されるのでなかなか読むのは大変だが、避けることのできない、これこそリアルだろう。

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