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When Ideology Meets Reality
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Helen Joyce
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Helen Joyce
The instant Sunday Times best seller
"An intelligent, thorough rejoinder to an idea that has swept across much of the liberal world seemingly overnight. Even those outraged by Joyce’s positions would benefit from understanding them.... Open conversation about such fraught issues is the only realistic path forward." (Jesse Singal, The New York Times)
"This rigorous and brave book nails the absurd idea that sex is just a 'social construct'." (David Aaronovitch, The Times)
Gender identity ideology is about more than Twitter storms and using the right pronouns. In just 10 years, laws, company policies, school and university curricula, sport, medical protocols, and the media have been reshaped to privilege self-declared gender identity over biological sex.
People are being shamed and silenced for attempting to understand the consequences of redefining "man" and "woman". While compassion for transgender lives is well-intentioned, it is stifling much-needed inquiry into the significance of our bodies.
If we recommit to our liberal values of freedom of belief, freedom of speech, and robust debate, we scan de-escalate this most vicious of culture wars.
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"An intelligent, thorough rejoinder to an idea that has swept across much of the liberal world seemingly overnight. Even those outraged by Joyce’s positions would benefit from understanding them.... Open conversation about such fraught issues is the only realistic path forward." (Jesse Singal, The New York Times)
"This rigorous and brave book nails the absurd idea that sex is just a 'social construct'." (David Aaronovitch, The Times)
Factual and objective
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That said, the viewpoint is clearly feminist. General principles and trans perspectives are less vividly explored. This is not too much of an issue in chapters concerning the origins and realities of transsexuality and its politics. But the bits on policy, legal battles, and media seemed to have a bit of a tint.
The biggest issue in my view is a staple in left-leaning politics: an unquestioned presupposition that politics should revolve around one-size-fits-all decrees by unaccountable third parties. Joyce takes issue not so much with the broad strokes of legal or institutional power, or broken processes that enable slander and legal trolling, but mainly with the wrong ideology being in control. Given feminism's various excesses of similar nature, this should raise some eyebrows. As I listened, I kept thinking of one of Thomas Sowell's big questions: who decides? Should a politician, bureaucrat, or judge dictate to a faraway sports event who can and cannot take part? "Trans" presents cases chosen by the author, then argues the feminist position quite well. So far, this is fine. But then, I often felt left behind by an implicit leap of faith that the resulting conclusions imply universal rules, which should apply to all kinds of people and situations. This has the old flavor of authoritarian infighting, where I prefer to get the popcorn.
All in all, I think this is a good book to learn about the problems brought by trans activism. Only, maybe not always on how to resolve the issue.
Interesting, but with a feminist-universalist lens
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