Recommended Books Exposing Gender Ideology's Harms Against Women and Girls
Our Substack’s mission is to be a one-stop hub to find the latest news and aggregated resources for understanding and staying informed on how gender ideology is harming women, children, and the greater society, as well as to advocate for women and girls.
Below is a list of books for further reading for those who support our cause. This post will be pinned on our Substack front page, and will be updated from time to time as new relevant books are released.
Trans
by Helen Joyce
Biological sex is no longer accepted as a basic fact of life. It is forbidden to admit that female people sometimes need protection and privacy from male ones. In an analysis that is at once expert, sympathetic and urgent, Helen Joyce, journalist and executive editor for events business at The Economist, offers an antidote to the chaos and cancelling.
Material Girls
When Reality Matters for Feminists
By Kathleen Stock
X (Twitter): @Docstockk
Material Girls is a timely and trenchant critique of the influential theory that we all have an inner feeling known as a gender identity, and that this feeling is more socially significant than our biological sex. It makes a clear, humane and feminist case for our retaining the ability to discuss reality, and concludes with a positive vision for the future, in which trans rights activists and feminists can collaborate to achieve some of their political aims.
Time to Think
The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock Gender Service for Children
By Hannah Barnes
X (Twitter): @hannahsbee
This urgent, scrupulous and dramatic book explains how, in the words of some former staff, GIDS has been the site of a serious medical scandal, in which ideological concerns took priority over clinical practice. Award-winning journalist Hannah Barnes has had unprecedented access to thousands of pages of documents, including internal emails and unpublished reports, and well over a hundred hours of personal testimony from GIDS clinicians, former service users and senior Tavistock figures. The result is a disturbing and gripping parable for our times.
Unfair Play
The Battle For Women's Sport
by Sharron Davies
website: https://www.sharrondavies.com
X (Twitter): @sharrond62
British Olympian Sharron Davies, who missed out on Olympic Gold because of doping among East German athletes in the 1980s, speaks out on the mass injustice currently inflicted on female athletes again under the auspice of “inclusivity” of gender ideology. This book provides the facts, science and arguments that will help women in sport get the justice they deserve.
Unsporting
How Trans Activism and Science Denial are Destroying Sport
by Linda Blade and Barbara Kay
X (Twitter): @coachblade, @BarbaraRKay
Former Canadian track champion Linda Blade and renowned National Post columnist Barbara Kay, examine the dangers of gender ideology in sports. They document the attack on biological facts upon which the level playing field of sports rests.
Gender Critical Feminism
by Holly Lawford-Smith
X (Twitter): @aytchellesse
A new view of gender has emerged in recent years, a view on which gender is an 'identity', a way that people feel about themselves in terms of masculinity or femininity, regardless of their sex. On this view, sex is dismissed as unimportant, and gender is made paramount. Holly Lawford-Smith, Associate Professor in Political Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, introduces and defends gender-critical feminism, a theory and movement that reclaims the sex/gender distinction, insists upon the reality and importance of sex, and continues to understand gender as a way that men and women are made to be, rather than a way they really are.
Hags
by Victoria Smith
X (Twitter): @glosswitch
In the last few years, as identity politics have taken hold, middle-aged women have found themselves talked and written about as morally inferior beings: the face of bigotry, entitlement and selfishness, to be ignored, pitied or abused. In Hags, Victoria Smith asks why these women are treated with such active disdain.
Testosterone Rex
Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
by Cordelia Fine
Website: http://www.cordelia-fine.com
Many people believe that, at its core, biological sex is a fundamental force in human development. According to this false-yet-familiar story, the divisions between men and women are in nature alone and not part of culture. Drawing on evolutionary science, psychology, neuroscience, endocrinology, and philosophy, Testosterone Rex disproves this ingrained myth and calls for a more equal society based on both sexes’ full human potential.
The Abolition of Sex
How the “Transgender” Agenda Harms Women and Girls
by Kara Dansky
X (Twitter): @KDansky
This book shines a light on the truth about “gender identity,” the “transgender” agenda, the very real threats that they pose to all of society—specifically to the rights, privacy, and safety of women and girls—and what the global Women’s Human Rights Campaign is doing to fight back.
Born in the Right Body
Gender identity ideology from a medical and feminist perspective
by Isidora Sanger
X (Twitter): @lascapigliata8
A collection of essays by retired medical doctor writing under the pen name Isidora Sanger, on feminists who have campaigned so painfully and courageously, and for so long, and those that continue to fight to this day - and beyond.
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