Born in the Right Body: Gender identity ideology from a medical and feminist perspective

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I also didn’t quite appreciate how physically strenuous writing a book can be; finding a good chair and desk was essential. Brave and lucid account of the evils of gender ideology, its wrongheadedness, its insidious capture of our institutions, and particularly the wholly negative and confounding influence it has on the practice of medicine.

Sporting bodies are supposed to safeguard female athletes and female sport. Instead, too many of them changed their rules to allow male athletes to self-identify into competing 'as women'. These males had the benefit of male puberty - which is irreversible. Men have 30-60 per cent more muscle strength. Privately, all doctors know, via their training, that sex is binary, immutable and critical as the cornerstone of human physiology, with profound and immutable differences between the sexes which cannot be altered, amended or modified in any meaningful way. The state of being male or female, a man or a woman, is a matter of biological fact and reality, not self-proclaimed, narcissistic 'identity'. The small minority of people with chromosomal abnormalities leading to variations of sexual development who are routinely leveraged and weaponised by the trans lobby to justify men self-identifying as woman are all, indisputably either male or female. Hermaphrodites and 'gender-neutral' humans do not exist. The closest to this state are probably those who have undergone 'transition' - sterilised and stripped of sexual function by the trans movement and its Frankenstein treatments. Gender-reassigned males retain male-pattern criminality. As a result 'trans women' are far more likely to be perpetrators than victims of homicide. Why did you write it? In 2012 I first noticed men who identified as women starting to abuse feminists online. A woman could not say that women have unique biology and healthcare needs, and that female biology makes women vulnerable to abuse, without being called a “TERF”– which stands for “trans-exclusionary radical feminist”–“bigot” and even “Nazi”.Considering that evidence shows the long-term mental health outcomes worsen post medical gender reassignment (Dhejne, et al., 2011), it is not clear what the rationale is for these interventions, or why trans-identifying patients are encouraged to risk their own health in pursuit of a costly, yet unattainable, goal of sex change.” That quibble aside, anyone reading this book could be left in no doubt that the current mainstream medical approach to all things “trans” is profoundly off-beam, and at odds with reality. Gender laws and policies compel institutions like the NHS to lie. They will also understand how much we have all been let down by mainstream media. With a name that conjures ghosts of the first-wave past, retired medical doctor and women’s rights activist Isidora Sanger informs us that this essay collection is “a record of an ignoble moment in history that should not be swept under the carpet and forgotten.”

Welcome to the blog Isidora. I have just finished reading your book, and found your essays so well researched and well argued that I am happy to recommend them to others who want to look more deeply into this issue. The first chapter zeros-in on gender identity ideologues’ language games, and how they create a social reality in which human sexual dimorphism is secondary to gender-feels. The political erasure of sex starts a the level of language. By the power of naming, man purports to become ‘woman.’ Sanger is crystal clear about the medical consequences of that belief when applied to the human body in a surgical suite. Around 2012 she became aware of a growing discourse around transgender issues, and became concerned about ethics and the evidence-base for gender self-identification and gender reassignment interventions. She decided to look into it further and has since written about various issues connected to that topic.Writing non-fiction allows me to contribute to the conversation about issues that are important to me. However, my happy place is fiction-writing. Creating new worlds and characters, and seeing others enjoy and derive personal meaning from it, is a great privilege. Full Book Name: Born in the Right Body: Gender Identity Ideology From a Medical and Feminist Perspective Yet sporting bodies allowed these men to compete with elite women if they reduced their testosterone levels. Testosterone suppressants only reduce muscle strength by at most 9 per cent. So this treatment cannot remove male sporting advantage. We should support the organisation 'Fair Play for Women', which campaigns to keep men out of women's sports.

False narratives were allowed to prevail, woolly and nebulous claims like 'sex is a spectrum', the nonsense that some humans, unlike all other mammals, can be 'non-binary', presented as a matter of fact. The Emperor has been naked for a long time, but the social taboos and very real dangers to career and livelihood of pointing this out meant that most people felt safer keeping their scepticism and concerns to themselves, out of a sense of self-preservation. Having been a feminist for a long time, the insults and threats these men (who called themselves “transwomen”) hurled at women reminded me of Men’s Rights Activists and “incels”, who had been abusing feminists online for years beforehand. However, instead of being universally condemned in feminist circles, they were often being celebrated as “the most oppressed minority in history,” and allowed to take over women’s groups and conversations. Treatment cannot change your sex. It can change your appearance, but, as she patiently explains, "Doctors have never made a man's penis and testicles change into a vagina, uterus and ovaries, nor vice versa, and our sex chromosomes likewise cannot be changed. The latter is the most important because, apart from directing the development of the foetus in utero, gene expression differs between males and females and sex differences consequently reside in every cell of our body." Both the Gender Recognition Act and the Equality Act have been systematically misrepresented to justify prioritising gender self-identification over biological sex. LGBT+ lobby groups persuaded institutions that it was 'illegal' to ask for evidence of a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) or to question the validity of gender self-identification. It has become mandatory to affirm the self-declared 'female gender identity' of male criminals, even though over half of transgender prisoners in England and Wales are sex offenders, compared to less than a fifth in the ordinary male prison population, and the nature of their offences suggests that the vast majority are men.Ultimately, those harmed the most by trans ideology are those sold the lie that 'gender' is more real than biological sex. This can never be borne out by life experience. Those who sought relief from distress by 'transitioning' are increasingly finding that they were sold a con. The 'treatment' that was supposed to fix them leaves them in a permanent limbo, where their innate and irrevocable sex is no longer manifested in their healthy body, and the non-functioning simulacrum with which it is replaced neither alleviates their distress nor convinces the world they have become what their false beliefs told them they really were. PDF / EPUB File Name: Born_in_the_Right_Body_-_Isidora_Sanger.pdf, Born_in_the_Right_Body_-_Isidora_Sanger.epub This kind of insight is key to awakening medics from the denial they are encouraged to live with. It is not only unethical to sterilise children labelled “trans,” but adults, too. John Money’s ghoulish medical experiments in grafting gender role stereotypes onto human flesh have no curative value whatsoever. Written by a doctor under a pseudonym, this book will resonate with the majority of medical professionals. Owing to the aggressive approach of trans activists there is a climate of fear that inhibits open and honest discussion of matters relating to 'gender' and transgenderism. Trans lobbyists for a long time insisted upon an atmosphere that made it akin to heresy to discuss, debate or question trans ideology. Critics were shut down, women in particular were persecuted and vilified if they dared to point out the intellectual incoherence of trans ideology, or its inevitable undermining and destruction of the rights of women and girls.