💬 Off-Topic Gender critical resources - Recommend TERF-aligned websites and books

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In short: For me this forum is pretty much the only TERF aligned place I regularly visit, and I want to broaden my horizons (and to base my arguments on, with love, less deranged sources than this place). I keep finding good book recs and links here but they're kind of scattered all over, so I thought it would be nice to have a thread just for collecting resources.

Mentioned in the thread so far:

Books:
Ruth Barrett - Female Erasure
Kara Dansky - The Abolition of Sex
Kajsa 'Ekis' Ekman - Om könets Existens - for Swedish farmers only
Sheila Jeffreys - Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism (2014)
Helen Joyce - Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality (2021)
Kate Millett - Sexual Politics
Bonnie J. Morris - The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture (2016)
Janice Raymond - Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism (2022)
Janice Raymond - The Transsexual Empire - Link
Abigail Shrier - Irreversible Damage
Debra Soh - The End of Gender
Kathleen Stock - Material Girls

News, articles etc:
The Reduxx
Women are Human
Graham Linehan on Substack
Transgender Trend
4wave/4women
UNHERD
The Free Press
Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) on Substack
gender:hacked by Eliza Mondegreen on Substack
Article about Keira Bell in the Daily Mail
The True Story of John/Joan and an analysis of it by @Secret Asshole here

Other websites:
Sex Matters
Post Trans
Trans Widows' Voices
Terf is a Slur
The New Backlash
the new thoughtcrime

Healthcare:
Genspect
Beyond Trans
Gender Exploratory Therapy Association (GETA)
Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM)
Thoughtful Therapists

Stats & studies & such:
Stats for Gender
Griffin et al - Sex, gender and gender identity: a re-evaluation of the evidence
Murray & Blackburn - Losing sight of womens' rights
Correctional Service of Canada: Gender Diverse Offenders with a History of Sexual Offending

Podcasts & Video:
Women's Voices podcast
The Witch Trials of J. K. Rowling podcast
Genspect Unheard podcast
Gender: a Wider Lens podcast
Adult Human Female
Dysphoric: A Four-Part Documentary Series by Vaishnavi Sundar
the truth about being transgender: my detransition story
"I Transitioned My Child - I Regret It" and an article about the same on PITT

Forums & subreddits:
r/detrans
r/Scrambled_eggs_irl
Ovarit
Spinster
 
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More books:

Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality (2021) by Helen Joyce.
I'm not on board with some of her wider analysis and views, but the book is very good. I know she didn't copy Stock's book, since it was published just few months earlier, but they hit more or less the exact same issues.

Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism (2022) by Janice Raymond.
I don't know what happened. The anger is still there, but the book feels like a really rough draft and keeps hitting same notes over and over again in every chapter. She's almost 80. Some interesting analysis about the unholy alliance of neoliberal feminism, pro-prostitution activist and the online trans-movement.

Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism (2014) by Sheila Jeffreys
This is very good. Could have been written today. In fact, I think this was a major inspiration for Stock.

Bonus:
The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture (2016) by Bonnie J. Morris
In some ways, this is the really good shit. It's about the history of the lesbian feminist movement of the 70s, 80s and 90s, which she was part of, and how its legacy is now being wiped from history. No explicit trans bashing, although it is clear where she stands. The beginning haunts me:
If you destroy an entire generation of a people’s culture, it’s as if they never existed.
—Film trailer for The Monuments Men

“I write as woman, lesbian and feminist,” she told the Washington Post in 1981. “I make no claim to be universal, neuter or androgynous.”
—Obituary for Adrienne Rich, Washington Post, March 28, 2012

I, too, write as woman, lesbian, and feminist; a dinosaur facing extinction in this new queer jungle. I’m writing now to describe what it looks and feels like to be written out of history.
 
Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier, for a specific look into the trans trend amongst teenage girls and young women.

The End of Gender by Debra Soh is another good one - she does make it clear that she supports the sort of trans identified people who were around before the current madness, but she's got a background in science and I find her to be quite level headed.
 
Kujo Jotaro said:
So we're just straight up becoming an ideological information hub huh?

Yeah I'm out.
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Aaanddd... what? This is the first time someone on KF has made a link hub megathread on a political topic? How much have you actually used this site? If your problem is that someone is doing it to host anti-trans narrative information, I'm unsure why you would have been active in this side of the site.
 
Genevieve Gluck has a very good podcast, 'Women's Voices' on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and probably other platforms, too.

There's also Ovarit and Spinster for female-centered, alternative forums, but I resent not being able to say troons over there so I don't log in as much as I used to (and am so glad to be back on the Farms).
 
4wave/4women is another feminist blog and news site born out of women not bending the knee. Its more general feminist's content overall but they tackle Troonology quite often.

Glinner Linehan posts allot, but has a bunch of links to all kinds of different GC sites etc. Sure you might already have read most of it on the farms, but if anything is a good catch up.

Transgender Trend hosts a whole lot of articles challenging Transgenderism and is firmly holding the accurate position that all troons are autists.

Lastly is a book, I cant recommend it due to the fact that I haven't read it yet (and its Swedish only) but by all the signs its TERF-aligned. The book is called "Om könets existens" (About/on the existence of gender" by Kajsa "Ekis" Ekman. This book turned Kajsa from the culture-lefts pristine darling (who even received the illustrious Lenin Award) to Swedens own little TERF-queen pariah. Most recently getting fired form her position as an editor-in-chief for a small syndicalist paper know as Arbetaren, with most of her staff calling in sick just to avoid working with her.
 
Toolbox said:
Aaanddd... what? This is the first time someone on KF has made a link hub megathread on a political topic? How much have you actually used this site? If your problem is that someone is doing it to host anti-trans narrative information, I'm unsure why you would have been active in this side of the site.
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Enough to know I can click on your profile and see that you joined 2 years after me.
 
Faggery Daggery Doo said:
Janice Raymond's The Transsexual Empire comes up in some gencrit circles. She has it listed for free on her website.
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While we're at it with the second-wavers, I'd also recommend Kate Millett's 'Sexual Politics' to understand the radical feminist position well. It's a very good book.

Edited to add: Vaishnavi Sundar's four-part doco about dysphoria in girls. She has it up for free and it's great. (I'll edit with an archive later)




 
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Aero the Alcoholic Bat said:
What is a Woman, a documentary by Matt Walsh, and even a book.

I've watched both the movie and read the book, they're amazing.
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My understanding is that Walsh is not aligned with radical or any sort of feminism in any way, but is rather very hostile towards it. To be fair, I haven't seen the doc or read the book.
 
Faggery Daggery Doo said:
Janice Raymond's The Transsexual Empire comes up in some gencrit circles. She has it listed for free on her website.
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This is essential. It was published in 1979 and predicted so much of this cancer. She also released a follow up called Doublethink.
Female Erasure, an anthology by Ruth Barrett covering this topic is also great.
The Abolition of Sex by the fantastic Kara Dansky.
And I'm always fond of bringing up Robin Morgans keynote address at the 1973 West Coast Lesbian Feminist Conference. The full thing deals with feminism in general, but contains this important passage.
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Jetski Blues said:
My understanding is that Walsh is not aligned with radical or any sort of feminism in any way, but is rather very hostile towards it. To be fair, I haven't seen the doc or read the book.
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To be fair, not all gender critical people are radical feminists - can only speak for myself but I disagree with a lot of ideas that could be broadly considered RF, however also oppose gender ideology. I disagree with Walsh as well on various topics but the documentary was fairly ideologically neutral. (Except for the bit at the start where he implies that he's glad his kids are conforming to gender stereotypes - that bothered me quite a bit as he's almost definitely one of those ultra religious types who thinks men & women ought to like certain things and act in certain ways)
 
The opinions and articles website UNHERD does some interesting articles, especially if you're in the political wasteland of being generally progressive but not a fucking retard about it.
 
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