Transgender Body Politics

Heather Brunskell-Evans-Evans is a social theorist and philosopher who specialises in ethics, medicine, sex and gender. Having been an academic for nearly three decades, she is now also working on national and international political agendas driving the rights of women and girls. She is: A Spokeswoman for FiLiA, a feminist charity; A Member of Management Committee for OBJECT a campaigning organisation, where she also contributes to research on surrogacy; and Co-author of Declaration of Women's Sex Based Rights.

• PrologueMy raised consciousnessChapter One: Women's bodies1.1 What is a Woman?Women with Penises: Queer TheoryTranswomen are women: Get over itAffirmative psychology: A man is a woman if he says he is 1.2 Shaming Gender Critical FeministsIntersectional feminism1.3 A Woman Is an Adult Human FemaleWomen’s bodies and binary sexPregnancy and reproductionPregnant menReclaiming biologyGender neutralityLesbians: Same-sex attraction or 'lesbians' with penises?Lesbians are adult human femalesPatriarchy Chapter Two: Girls’ Bodies2.1 The ‘Transboy’Trans affirmative psychotherapyA girl is a boy if she says she isThe ‘transboy’ and ‘his’ body: Hormone therapyThe ‘transboy’s’ existential ‘choice’ to use hormone treatment 2.2 A Girl Is a Young Human FemaleSex/GenderClinical psychologyMuzzling dissent 2.3 The Sacrificial ‘Transboy’ The iatrogenic ‘transboy’The bodyDe-transitioners: Kiera BellChapter Three: The Body Politic3.1 Queering the law and social policyThe Gender Recognition Act 2004‘Feminist’ politicians speak with one voiceThe erosion of single-sex spacesA Woman’s Place is standing her ground3.2 The Trans Human Rights Paradigm Women’s prisonsThe case of Karen WhiteThe authoritarian left: the case of the Labour PartyIntersectionalist Feminism3.3 The Transgender EmpireSex mattersDiversity and exclusionDeclaration on women’s sex-based rightsThe Butlerian jihadPower, medicine and the lawResistanceEpilogueReferencesAcknowledgements