My DH sent a copy of Helen Joyce's Trans to the head of a Gender Faculty of a London University that has been encouraging incel behaviour by its students, through the Sex Matters distribution facility. I was rather impressed! He isn't an alumni of the uni, but has professional friends who are. I only found out when he showed me the email from Sex Matters confirming the the copy had been despatched.
I'd be disturbed if the library at Sussex Polytechnic (I refuse to call is a 'university' any more) threw away a contributed copy of a book. Wouldn't that be a particularly bigoted action?
I would though certainly contribute to sending a copy of Material Girls to recipients if Sex Matters wanted to follow-up on the huge success of the campaign with Helen's book. I think an awful lot of such potential recipients would find it disturbing to find that Dr. Stock's book is remarkably balanced, well-written and certainly not transphobic - as in, no-one can actually quote a single transphobic sentence or paragraph that is transphobic inside its 320 pages. It's a book about women's rights, or rather, girl's rights, and the importance to ensure that crucial decisions are taken with sufficient consideration and peer-review.
If discussing women-and-girls rights is now being deemed 'transphobic', then I guess it will be classed as such, but is that what the TRA's are seeking? It appears they are managing to make that association in the eyes of the social media community and increasingly, amongst the general public. Are they though really thinking what the consequences of doing that are - notably they are encouraging way more opposition from more than just the GC community?
Although I enjoyed (is that the word?) Helen's book, I reckon it was missing an absolutely crucial element; an index. I hope a second edition - I'm sure they'll be an updated edition - includes this.
The hardback edition of Material Girls is currently #90 in the Amazon UK Bestseller list and of course number #1 in the Feminist Bestseller list.
Trans is #31 in the Best Sellers in LGBTQ++ listing (it does after all discuss the rampant homophobia promoted by the TRA's).
Looking through the 'Trans' bestseller list (Shon's book doesn't get a look-in) I noticed, and subsequently ordered Trans: Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities published in 2018 by Rogers Brubaker which is apparently, judging by the reviews on the back cover, a plea for transracialism to be promoted equally with transgenderism. Seeing as Dr. Stock's former union, UCU, has has managed to draw intense attention to its national policy of promoting self-identification as black, Brubaker's book might be a good insight into how the transracial cause is being apparently adopted by at least a sub-set of TRA's. It certainly helps to go some way in explaining why Dr. Stock is feared so much, as the likes of her (mostly white) academic opponents would be terrified that she will turn her attentions to studying transracialism. It seems that the ultimate desire for the TRA lobby is to extend the self-id ethos into being able to self-id/colonise another racial identity - enscapulated by the UCU national policy.
I'll post a review after it is read.