| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 232 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 29, 2018) |
| Subject |
Transgender children.
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Transgender youth.
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Transgender children -- Social conditions
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Transgender youth -- Social conditions
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Transgender children -- Psychology
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Transgender youth -- Psychology
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Education.
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Medical sociology.
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Gender studies, gender groups.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Transgender children
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Transgender youth
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brunskell-Evans, Heather, editor.
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Moore, Michele, 1962- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781527510364 |
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1527510360 |
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