Transsexual Empire by Janice Raymond

[–] sunhatpat 11 points

I read this book in the early 80's, when I was in medical school. It was a mind-blower then, and it still is. She was prescient, no doubt about it. I think reading that book helped me see the reality of pornography too. Not because she discusses it much; but because suddenly the depth and breadth of male sexual weirdness was much more apparent.

[–] [Deleted] 7 points

So fucking weird. Make sexual weirdness and the catering to it might be why the world is on fire.

I held these views instinctively as a young woman. Then through my twenties gaslighting in the form of intellectual discourse/thought tempered them and had me so confused. It feels so good to be out of it.

[–] madderthanhell 11 points

She published a follow up, Doublethink, A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism last year (or maybe year before?). You can order it on her website, here

[–] Caerulea 5 points

From the book introduction:

“In an age when falsehoods are commonly taken as truth, Janice Raymond’s new book illustrates the ‘doublethink’ of a transgender movement that is able to define men as women, women as men, he as she, dissent as heresy, science as sham, and critics as fascists. Meanwhile, trans mobs are treated as gender patriots whose main enemy is feminists and their dissent from gender orthodoxies.”

[–] Caerulea 3 points

Thanks for the tip, it looks really good. I will read it.

[–] WatcherattheGates 7 points

It really is a great book! I read it a few years back and found myself underlining nearly every sentence! Sorry it's not fresh in my mind for me to sustain a discussion, though . . .

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