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082 _a305.3 JOY-H
100 _aJoyce, Helen
245 _aTrans :
_bwhen ideology meets reality /
_cHelen Joyce
260 _aLondon
_bOne World Publications
_c2021
300 _a311p.
365 _aINR
_b499.00
500 _aGender self-identification is often described as this generation’s civil-rights battle. And it is promoted by some of the same organisations that fought for women’s suffrage, desegregation in the American South and gay marriage. But, demanding that self-declared gender identity be allowed to override sex is not, as with civil-rights movements, about extending privileges unjustly hoarded by a favoured group to a marginalised one. Most people are in the dark about what is being demanded by transactivists. They understand the call for “trans rights” to mean compassionate concessions that enable a suffering minority to live full lives, in safety and dignity. I, alongside every critic of gender-identity ideology I have spoken to for this book, am right behind this. Most, including me, also favour bodily autonomy for adults. A liberal, secular society can accommodate many subjective belief systems, even mutually contradictory ones. What it must never do is impose one group’s beliefs on everyone else.'
650 _aSex role
650 _aGender identity
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