Inventing Transgender Children and Young People by Michele Moore

“The core value that a child’s biological sex could be socially constructed had not been made clear to me.” observed Heather, wryly. Heather was stripped of her role and resigned. but the problem comes when we decide that the child is genuinely internally and in some sense not a boy but a girl and that is where we get into trouble.”įor this, Brunskell-Evans was accused of transphobia, of being unfit to represent of the party and of fundamental disagreement with the ‘core values’ of the party. ““A genuinely progressive society would allow boys and girls to be whatever they want to be, so I am absolutely perfectly happy if boys want to wear dresses…. In November 2017 she spoke on the Moral Maze, expressing her concern about the transitioning of children: A founder member of the Women’s Equality Party (WEP) she was a spokeswoman for their policy on Violence Against Women and Girls. Heather has not only the welfare of little people to consider, she is no stranger to the harm that the current trans narrative can pose to female rights and the no-platforming that stalks women who speak out against the transitioning of children.

The book is dedicated to her grandchildren, the wonderfully named Hugo, Hera and Octavia, “in the hopes that their healthy bodies can be kept whole and safe throughout their childhood, free from the tyranny of gender identity” and Heather fuses the personal with the practical on a whirlwind tour with a primary focus on the damage done to women and girls by the current trans ideology.

Unlike her first two books, which many choose to order from their local library, ‘Transgender Body Politics’ is a reasonably priced £12.71 on Amazon UK and just over six quid on Kindle. Her latest book ‘Transgender Body Politics’ was published by Spinifex press in October 2020- making my review somewhat tardy, but better late than never!ĭon’t be fooled by the slightly-smaller-than-average 7″ x 5.5″ format: this little book is 163 pages of ‘exposure, argument and persuasion’ (excluding references and acknowledgements) offering explanations for and chronicling the political history of transgender politics in recent years. She has co-edited, with Michele Moore, the books Transgender Children – Born in Your Own Bodyand Inventing Transgender Children and Young People. Heather Brunskell-Evans is an academic a philosopher, co-founder of the Women’s Human Rights Campaign and co-author of the Declaration on Women’s Sex-based Rights.

Inventing Transgender Children and Young People by Michele Moore