This is a well-researched, well written, eye opening book about an ideology which originated from ideas by social scientists and gender ideologists but which has been spread to other areas of societies, such us governmental, political, educational, medical institutions, social media, etc. This ideology has managed to remain invisible, unnoticed, under the radar, to the eyes of the common people. However it is very influential as it has managed to gain access to key political spaces and it is changing laws which affect lots of (vulnerable) people.
The ideology is called Gender Self Identification, and it means that anyone can claim to have any gender identity they want. This ideology has influenced law in several countries. Through a series of distortions and misinterpretations, concepts such as sex, woman, man, female and male are redefined or erased. Leaving gender identity as the sole idea to guide it all. (Gender used to be understood as a social construct associated with sex. Now it is a "feeling" disconnected from sex, because sex doesn't exist.) K. Donelly says, this ideology is an intellectual illness lacking rationality and reason. And if you think how can something like this could affect you or society in general, this book explains all the implications brilliantly.
It starts by explaining the trans sexual/gender phenomena, mainly from a medical and psychological perspectives. It introduces concepts such as androphilia and autogynephilia as well as dysphoria which explain some of the causes of transgenderism. It then introduces the idea of gender identity and how through time it co-existed with the concept of sex but now it has to make “sex” disappear from the collective memory to be able to go with their expansion plans. So for example, now women or men are not people who were born female or male but people who feel like they are women or men. The words women and men are disconnected from biology. This explains why now trans-ideologists consider a transgender woman (a man who transitions to woman) a woman and a female. As this ideology has been adopted in several areas of our societies, including the UK, now a born-male person can claim to be a woman (like your mother who gave birth to you) and access for example Women’s prisons, Women’s sports, Spaces where women recover from rape, domestic abuse and the like and others.
Another related and disturbing issue is the epidemic of transgenderism with so many people wanting to transition to the other gender. The book explains how trans-activists groom children and young people into trans-identification, followed by social transition, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and medical interventions. All this is done by repeated gender-affirmation on social media, by therapists and doctors. The book also explains how most of these medical treatments and procedures are novel, and that there are little if any long term studies in these topics. There is no idea of the long-term consequences of using cross-sex hormones for example or how experimental are bottom surgeries are.
There are many more issues discussed in the book but little space here. So I will just mention one more, and it is that the gender self-identification ideology rejects biology and science. It is not based on facts and truths and it resembles a cult or religion with fanatic followers repeating mantras such “a trans-woman is a woman”.
I wish I could express my thoughts in a better and more organised way but I this is what I am able to do at the moment. I hope I’ll be able to write more when I manage to process all the information I have read.
I totally recommend this book if you are interested in the topic and/or if you are worried about children, women and the future of our society.
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