The Breast Book

I think you can review it on their site
www.pinterandmartin.com/the-breast-book

I've never come across them.

This thread has just been posted and the synopsis is extremely relevant in this case:

Pique Resilience Project - young detransitioned women sharing their personal stories www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3507109-Pique-Resilience-Project-young-detransitioned-women-sharing-their-personal-stories

It is out of place in a puberty guide on breasts for children who are on the verge of puberty.

It would be better in a book exploring self harm and anorexia and other problems teenagers have. Do we have these for 10/11 year olds?

Thread

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3430608-Stella-OMalley-Trans-Kids-Its-Time-To-Talk

I hope the publisher is still reading.

Stella O'Malley on the issue of rushing into gender conformation surgery.

Stella O'Malley was the psychologist who did Trans Kids: it's time to talk on channel 4.

Boys can be born in girls bodies. Sorry, this is so crazy.

The section on slicing off breasts does present gender identity as a fact unquestioningly at the begining, so the authur is promoting fully the idea that girls can be born in boys bodies and is reproducing it here as factual.

How many stupid adults are there? I am genuinely amazed at how many there are and how many want kids to treat this barbarism as normal.

it'll have been printed already, they would have to pulp the stock. Which I think they should.

I am utterly shocked that a primary school teacher thinks this is fine. What the fuck has she been telling the kids at her school? I tell you for nothing, any teacher talks this crap at DD and I will rain hellfire and brimstone down on them.

www.transgendertrend.com/social-transition-and-chest-binding/

I think a few tweets have been deleted.

I'm linking transgender trend's article on breast binding here hoping the publisher will see it.

There's a massive duty of care in this. No official public bodies seem to be tackling any of this. SRE books cannot endorse self harm practices.

A book like this is very necessary given the lack of coverage on breastfeeding etc by SRE (recently mentioned on woman's hour) and perhaps it could go some way to helping young people deal with the body changes they go through and possibly help them to avoid thinking it's gender dysphoria and going down the rabbit holes on YouTube there. But it needs extremely careful thought.

www.transgendertrend.com/breast-binders-in-uk-schools/

So if it's not due to be published until mid March I suggest we all write to the publishers and demand these pages are removed before it goes on sale.

This is utterly shocking!!! Just dreadful. Time to wade in on amazon reviews. That will speak massively.

If it isn't published, how did OP buy a copy and receive it already?

it's on a par with self harm images om Instagram, as far as I'm concerned.

I hope you're still reading, Pincher & Martin.

It's very depressing to receive a "sorry you were disappointed" email rather than one that acknowledges your concerns that the content is dangerous. Pinter and Martin presumably wouldn't publish a book that advocated for eating disorders, self-harm or suicide, so why are they publishing a book that advocates for a double mastectomy in a perfectly healthy young woman?

can the publisher come onto the thread and explain why the hell they thought this content was in any way, shape or form appropriate?

She's replied here though it's muddled

twitter.com/Elfie41767774/status/1095626988369469441

it's a pinned tweet on her Twitter, so could those on Twitter go and challenge her about it?

twitter.com/makesmilk/status/1048946085228683265

Hes a woke Wagner.

Does nobody else think picking this apart thoughtfully as part of reading the book together could be a countermeasure?

No, I think the right approach is to end this brutality in the first place.

What are we saying to kids? Some children want parts of ther body chopped off, because they believe in myths about these body parts stopping them living their lives. The NHS will do this for them if they really cry a lot and threaten to kill theirselves.
Countermeasure: But really it's not necessay as yanno, you can do man stuff with tits.

Fucking hell.

Just had a response from Martin Wagner at the publisher:

I am so sorry that you are disappointed in the extract you read, and thank you for sharing your thoughts - it is always useful to receive feedback on our books.

Standard brush-off there and probably what I'd do in the circumstances. Would like to be a fly on the wall in his office this afternoon.

Just a quick response to Blue. I don't understand why you think that people not replying to you is blanking you. None of us is here to validate each other. I'm relatively new to this board. It moves quickly and it's never occurred to me that I wasn't getting a response because I was new. I assume that if there's no response to anything I write it's because my position or thoughts weren't clear or relevant or the conversation had moved on elsewhere. It's not all about you!

Please look at the twitter thread on this.