Born in the Right Body: Gender identity ideology from a medical and feminist perspective

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The failure of the SNP to gain a majority in the elections to the Scottish parliament has forced them into a huddle with the equally separatist Greens – and into a series of increasingly unpopular policies.

However, instead of being universally condemned in feminist circles, they were often being celebrated as “the most oppressed minority in history,” and allowed to take over women’s groups and conversations. From my perspective, a space which includes biological males who identify as women should be recognised as a m. Anthony Coughlan is known to most of us for his heroic work for the National Platform of Ireland, which campaigns for Ireland's independence from the EU.I found that children and young people were having their normal development arrested through the use of puberty blockers, their physiology was being thrown out of balance with cross-sex hormones, and they were undergoing radical yet unnecessary surgical procedures such as castration and double mastectomies, all in a pursuit of the unattainable goal of a “sex change”. Men usurped women's right to name their children for themselves, an act inconceivable for the hundreds of thousands of years when the male contribution to procreation was unknown. Fantastic exploration of the tactics used by transactivists to suppress and silence those who question the logic of replacing sex-based rights with gender-based rights. With a name that conjures ghosts of the first-wave past, retired medical doctor and women’s rights activist Isidora Sanger informs us that this essay collection is “a record of an ignoble moment in history that should not be swept under the carpet and forgotten. Now, instead of phrenology and fanciful ideas about “wandering wombs”, we have brain scans being used to allegedly prove that feminine males and masculine females were “born in the wrong body” and that their psychological distress can be cured by medical and surgical procedures designed to make them resemble the opposite sex.

This is an absolutely fascinating account of Alex Salmond's appalling behaviour towards many of his female colleagues, and of the SNP's failure to deal fairly with the women's complai. But it's not doing well… While efforts in the British parliament to halt our exit from the EU are being roundly defeated, pro-EU fervour has conti. Myths rarely offer facts, only metaphors for political or social forces, but myths about former female powers would not exist if men had always controlled women. When the desires of trans-identifying males dominate discourse on both trans rights and women's rights, women's needs become subjugated to men's wants.All institutions have customs or laws that give men prerogatives or advantages and that exclude or limit the participation of women and certain men. Isolated, confined, allowed only small amounts of certain foods and drink, taught that her body is powerful but contaminated, a girl learns that she has power - to pollute: in such cultures, menstrual blood is a source of horror and fear. This collection of essays is my testament to the feminists who have campaigned so painfully and courageously, and for so long, and those that continue to fight to this day – and beyond. It is hard to explain, but I find that I have to focus a lot more when I’m writing in English, than when I’m writing in Serbo-Croatian, which is my native tongue. Once the mechanisms of patrilineality, patrilocality, and exogamy were in place, it was difficult for women to escape.