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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Book: When Harry became Sally

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Lamaha · 25/02/2019 05:36

Has anyone read this? I came across it a few months ago but didn't buy it. It sounds good. I noticed that it's predictably received quite a few bad reviews on amazon.com, whereas in the UK exclusively five star. It looks like an interesting read.

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06Y39GXWF/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1&tag=mumsnetforum-21

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crsacre · 25/02/2019 06:50

Useful review:
quillette.com/2018/02/07/real-gender-trouble/

Lamaha · 25/02/2019 08:35

Thanks for the review; brilliant: This bit especially:

Dr. Deanna Adkins, a professor at Duke University School of Medicine and director of the Duke Center for Child and Adolescent Gender Care, asserted that gender identity is “the only medically supported determinate of sex” when there is not “complete alignment among sex-related characteristics” including gender identity. Moreover, in such cases “It is counter to medical science to use chromosomes, hormones, internal reproductive organs, external genitalia, or secondary sex characteristics to override gender identity for the purposes of classifying someone as male or female.”

Anderson points out that, “This is a remarkable claim, not least because the argument was recently that gender is only a social construct, while sex is a biological reality. Now, activists claim that gender identity is destiny, while biological sex is the social construct.” He queries whether this standard should apply to any other animals besides humans.

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