My Favorite Transgender Author
Reading Andrea Long Chu’s book length rumination, Females, is like watching a favorite nephew self-destruct. It is to often ask, “If only…”
Tag: #TransgenderIdentity
An Important Book, Part I (Review of The Genesis of Gender, by Abigail Favale)
A thoughtful intellectual travelogue from a previous Gender Studies professor helps move the Church’s needed conversation forward.
An Unlikely Advocate Building on Borrowed Foundations
Helen Joyce, in “Trans,” takes a stand. She seeks to build an edifice of why the pursuit of gender-imitation, especially in the very young, is very wrong.
No Fixed Outcome Except for One: Review of When Children Come Out: A Guide for Christian Parents, by Mark Yarhouse and Olya Zaporozhets
The 2022 book is supposed to help with LGBT+ confessions in the family. Its “no fixed outcome” approach presses for any but one particular outcome.
Strange Science in the Service of a Statement
The Endocrine Society’s position statement on transgender health promises that “considerable scientific evidence has emerged demonstrating a durable biological element underlying gender identity.” The Society uses these results to advise insurance companies to cover sex changes operations. I am still waiting to see the “considerable scientific evidence” of a biologically based gender identity apart from one’s biological sex.