Yeah, that fucking thing is like the TERF Bible. It’s the same thing I was talking about in my other post just now. The main title is ‘Irreversible Damage,’ and it promotes the idea that the medical-industrial complex is preying upon girls and young women (they infantilize teenage girls and young adult women a LOT in this book btw), especially neurodiverse girls/young women, and that transmascs cannot be trusted to make our own medical decisions and should be “protected from ourselves.” The concept of ROGD is specifically applied here to transmasc teenagers & college-age young women. The TERFs are REAL mad that they can’t control their sons/children in college, because those adults can make their own choices now.
This is actually a really good bit of coverage of it (if only part 1 of 2, I don’t think part 2 is up yet) from a scientifically critical, trans-affirming perspective, if you’d like to know what the TERFs are aiming at transmascs these days without actually having to like
because it’s fucking horrible.
And like, I absolutely recommend reading that article, because this shit permeates the discussion about trans ppl, especially in the UK and on Twitter.
That Book was recently (like, this past week) included in an American Bookseller’s Association promotional ‘white box’ sent to independent booksellers in the US, and trans ppl and our allies got understandably really pissed that a book of unscientific, nasty-ass anti-transmasc propaganda that’s been out for a year is like… in a promo box. So they took the ABA to task for it.
The ABA put out an apology (full of passive language, like these things just happened rather than that someone did these things, which is pretty fucking rich for a bookseller’s association, like they thought that the kind of extremely literate people who run independent bookstores wouldn’t notice) and so like… the book is receiving renewed attention from the same sort of First Amendment transphobes who love to screech about censorship when their favorite bits of propaganda get pushback. You’ll probably see a lot more of the ideas this book pushes in the near future.
So, like, yeah. It exists, and people are talking about it a lot, so knowing what kind of garbage is in it and what we’re up against?
Unfortunately necessary, IMO.
Also, I need to underline that this book specifically also attacks transmasculine non-binary people, not just trans men. They don’t really see any difference between us.
