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[–]MarkTwainiac 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

In addition to Sheila Jeffrey's book, there's Heather Bruskell-Evans' "The Making of the Transgender Child," and a 2020 book called "2+2=5: How the Transgender Craze is Redefining Reality" by Katie Roche that takes a pretty feminist perspective and is available on Amazon. Roche's book has flaws, but it's a decent beginning.

Douglas Murray's "The Madness of Crowds" is terrible on feminism, which he doesn't get, but otherwise pretty good about transgenderism, and since he's gay it could be said it was written from "a gay perspective." He's a UK conservative but an erudite guy who presented his case without maligning Jews and calling for a rollback of gay rights, women's rights and sex education.

IIRC, "When Harry Became Sally," a critique of transgenderism by a conservative guy from the Heritage Foundation, also managed to state the case against this craze and cult without being homophobic or anti-Semitic.

I've always read a lot of work by outspoken, thoughtful gay conservatives like Andrew Sullivan, Bruce Bawer and Tammy Bruce. None of them are anti-Semitic, homophobic or against women's rights like the author of this book and those promoting it appear to be.

I'm not meaning I have a particular problem with Shrier and her book. And as far as I'm aware, she's not making any broader claims about issues with feminism or the gay movement.

Actually, in her public statements and TV appearances that I've seen, Shrier has adamantly said that it's radical feminists who picked up on this movement, saw it for what it was from the get-go, and were the first and only ones to sound the warning bells. She has said everyone should pay attention to what radical feminists have said about transgenderism, coz all we said and all we warned about has come true - and coz radical feminists were the ones who were decrying the sex stereotypes that are gender in the 60s and 70s, and it was radical feminists who invented modern theories and methods of safeguarding children and others who are vulnerable to sex predators and abuse.

Putting this particular book forward as one we need to hand out to our friends to educate the "normies" (OP's word, not mine) is detrimental to many groups, including feminists AND all the many secular conservatives of both sexes and all sexual orientations who are not racist, anti-Semitic crackpots who want to roll back women's rights and send women back to the hearth and kitchen barefoot and pregnant.