Detransition : beyond before and after / Max Robinson
- Bib ID:
- 8632145
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Robinson, Max, (Writer on gender transition), author
- Description:
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- North Geelong, VIC : Spinifex, 2021
- ©2021
- v, 189 pages ; 19 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781925950403 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Many feminists are concerned about the way transgender ideology naturalizes patriarchal views of sex stereotypes, and encourages transition as a way of attempting to escape misogyny. In this brave and thoughtful book, Max Robinson goes beyond the before and after of the transition she underwent and takes us through the processes that led her, first, to transition in an attempt to get relief from her distress, and then to detransition as she discovered feminist thought and community. The author makes a case for a world in which all medical interventions for the purpose of assimilation are open to criticism. This book is a far-reaching discussion of womens struggles to survive under patriarchy, which draws upon a legacy of radical and lesbian feminist ideas to arrive at conclusions. Robinsons bold discussion of both transition and detransition is meant to provoke a much-needed conversation about who benefits from transgender medicine and who has to bear the hidden cost of these interventions. Transition is not an unconstrained choice when we are fast-tracked to medical intervention as if being female was a tumour that required immediate removal to save our lives.
- Full contents:
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- 1. 'Choice': Freedom inside Patriarchy
- 2. Detransition in Mainstream Media: How Journalism Fails Us
- 3. The Assimilation Industries
- 4. Progress: On Being Trans Youth
- 5. Feelings
- 6. Legacy
- 7. Transitional Medicine as Sado-Ritual.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-186)
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 2021
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