When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment - Ryan T. Anderson Audiobook
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The transgender movement has hit breakneck speed. In the space of a year, it’s gone from something that most Americans had never heard of to a cause claiming the mantle of civil rights.
But can a boy truly be “trapped” in a girl’s body? Can modern medicine really “reassign” sex? Is sex something “assigned” in the first place? What’s the loving response to a friend or child experiencing a gender-identity conflict? What should our law say on these issues?
When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment provides thoughtful answers to all of these questions. Drawing on the best insights from biology, psychology, and philosophy, Ryan T. Anderson offers a balanced approach to the policy issues, a nuanced vision of human embodiment, and a sober and honest survey of the human costs of getting human nature wrong.
He reveals a grim contrast between the media’s sunny depiction and the often sad realities of gender-identity struggles. He introduces readers to people who tried to “transition” but found themselves no better off. Especially troubling is the suffering felt by adults who were encouraged to transition as children but later came to regret it.
And there is a reason that many do regret it. As Anderson shows, the most helpful therapies focus not on achieving the impossible–changing bodies to conform to thoughts and feelings–but on helping people accept and even embrace the truth about their bodies and reality. This discussion will be of particular interest to parents who fear how an ideological school counselor might try to steer their child. The best evidence shows that the vast majority of children naturally grow out of any gender-conflicted phase. But no one knows how new school policies might affect children indoctrinated to believe that they really are trapped in the “wrong” body.
Throughout the book, Anderson highlights the various contradictions at the heart of this moment: How it embraces the gnostic idea that the real self is something other than the body, while also embracing the idea that nothing but the physical exists. How it relies on rigid sex stereotypes–in which dolls are for girls and trucks are for boys–while also insisting that gender is purely a social construct, and that there are no meaningful differences between women and men. How it assumes that feelings of identity deserve absolute respect, while the facts of our embodiment do not. How it preaches that people should be free to do as they please and define their own truth–while enforcing a ruthless campaign to coerce anyone who dares to dissent.
Everyone has something at stake in today’s debates about gender identity. Analyzing education and employment policies, Obama-era bathroom and locker-room mandates, politically correct speech codes and religious-freedom violations, Anderson shows how the law is being used to coerce and penalize those who believe the truth about human nature. And he shows how Americans can begin to push back with principle and prudence, compassion and grace.
Listening Length: 8 hours and 55 minutes
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34196009-when-harry-became-sally
https://www.audiobooksnow.com/audiobooks/when-harry-became-sally/2364723/
Amazon cancels bestselling book:
https://archive.fo/11gsl
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This post has 24 comments with rating of 5/5
March 23rd, 2021
This should not be tagged LGBT, Queer, or Trans. It’s not for them, it’s for those that oppose their existence and healthcare.
Anti-trans would be more accurate.
March 23rd, 2021
Great book - actual research shows that gender dysphoria, like any dysphoria, is a mental illness, and that post-transition outcomes are overwhelmingly poor.
March 23rd, 2021
Thanks….
March 23rd, 2021
This was banned from Amazon. Thanks for sharing.
March 23rd, 2021
Also read Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier and End of Gender, The: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society by Dr. Debra Soh.
March 23rd, 2021
Can the uploader remove LGBT and queer tags. This is triggering for actual queer people. This book, like one other coment said, is not for LGBT people, it’s for Cis-hets.
March 23rd, 2021
This book is a bigoted farce. It doesn’t rely on science, but on pseudo science blather and faux critical thinking.
March 23rd, 2021
@aristotlemendoza Stop lumping LGB people in with transgenders. Thx.
This book should be tagged as “Transgender.” “LGBT” is a fiction. And “queer” has no clear definition.
March 23rd, 2021
a TERF’s manifesto
March 23rd, 2021
So, a TERF war?
March 23rd, 2021
The comments like…
“This should not be tagged LGBT, Queer, or Trans. It’s not for them”
cause me to rethink books tagged “The Undead”.
March 23rd, 2021
“It’s not for them” cause me to rethink books tagged “The Undead”.”
Mightycranium strikes!
March 23rd, 2021
Yeah, you guys are totally right. How dare I ask for the tags to be changed? It’s not like LGBT people click that tag looking for books for them, it’s definitely for people who don’t understand them. They’re for sure going to be happy to click the tag and find BS about how their existence and experiences are invalid.
Tools.
March 23rd, 2021
Thanks for this, but I paid for it a week ago on Google! Lol! F*** Amazon! It’s a good book. Well researched and honest. Why should I pretend to be confused about your gender just because you are? It’s like you’re free to be who you are now let me be free to think for myself. “I’m oppressed so now I’m gonna oppress others” will never win.
March 24th, 2021
My partner is trans. This book does not trigger me.
It’s an important discussion to be had.
March 24th, 2021
Alternate title:
When a Bigot Becomes an Author
March 26th, 2021
@GordonCoon
I am trans and it triggers me. This is exactly the conversations I have been having with my mother since coming out to her (now over 3 years ago). She still doesn’t accept me and never will.
Everyone’s situation is different and I for one really don’t need terfy detransition narratives in a tag which doesn’t offer me much in the first place.
March 27th, 2021
Detrans here. My best friends are all transsexuals, and I am a lesbian.
Social contagion and ideological contagion is a real problem. The “identifying as trans” craze is a mass delusion and it will go away at some point, just like other mass social delusions.
Some people really are transsexual and these people deserve compassion and the chance to live their lives as best as they are able without being harassed or descriminated against in employtment or housing.
“Queer gender theory” is a different beast, and it is nonsense.
Current queer theory claims that a biological male is a woman - not “it would be polite to treat him like a woman,” but an actual LITERAL woman just as much as a real woman - on the basis of reciting magic words which boil down to “because I say so.”
Trigger warning guys: no one, anywhere, for any reason, is obligated to tiptoe around your triggers.
NO one, anywhere, for any reason, is obligated to believe you or play along when you declare your “self-identification.”
There is NO SUCH THING as a “right” to have your inner feelings validated. There is NO right to expect anyone, anywhere, to adjust their beliefs, behavior, or boundaries around your inner feelings. How you feel about yourself on the inside is your business.
LGBT is the correct tag for this, because this is a discussion that needs to be had. “Trans identities” ARE in fact up for debate, legitimately and necessarily so.
Sorry, people with “identities.”
March 28th, 2021
@selkiebrave,
Riddle me this, if no one is obligated to respect your identity, would it be cool if I told everyone you are a straight man, always referred to you with male pronouns, and introduced you to everyone as as a super misogynistic dude named George would that be ok? since I’m generally not obligated to respect your identity right? I don’t need to tiptoe around any triggers you might have right?
I have sympathy for detransitioners because I believe you often get caught in a fight between terfs and us (trans people) in which both sides often can treat you as either a token or enemy. I am glad you figured out who you are.
My problem with what you are saying begins with where you shift from “trans people deserve respect” to “actually trans people don’t deserve respect and no one is obligated to give you that, snowflakes!” (I am aware that you did not use those exact words, but it came off as the same sort of reactionary rhetoric nonetheless.) I don’t know if this somehow helps you feel more comfortable with your self discovery, but it’s not a good look and if all your friends are in the transsexual you would know that we are trans people have very complicated discussions and understandings of what gender and sexuality are. The reason simplified and streamlined narratives end up in the mainstream it’s because that is all this cisgender people can handle and wrap their minds around. And they often can’t even do that. but please reconsider how you convey these messages because from your post, it seems much more like you’re trying to exercise a vendetta against trans people due to your own struggles with self discovery rather than creating some sort of liberatory discussion or framework.
May 21st, 2021
Excellent book based in biological reality. This book is definitely for the gender critical. It is for all people who wish to separate the LGB from the T as the T isn’t a sexuality, but a dysphoric mental illness. It is for all women who wish to keep their sex-based spaces for biological women only. It is for those angered that biological men are ousting women from their own sports achievements and scholarships and political seats and prisons. It’s for everyone who has been peaked by the gender identity cult. It is for liberal people who refuse to affirm the delusions of autogynephiles.
June 8th, 2021
To those who say, ‘this is not about queer/transgender people’ yes it is, it simply is not the opinion you agree with. There’s a difference between having a different view of a topic and said view not being applicable TO the content.
June 11th, 2021
@corveau Correct!!! Yes!
You “can tell everyone” whatever you want about me. I do not have a LEGAL RIGHT to demand that you validate how I feel about myself.
(Unless you are accusing me of a crime or inciting violence against me, I think there might be laws about those things?)
It seems to me that if you did “mis-gender” me as in your example, you would be saying those things just to be reactionary and to make a point. In my eyes that would be rather immature or perhaps you’d be just trying to be mean.
But either way - I don’t have the RIGHT to expect you to validate my feelings. Your decision to tell everyone that my name is George would not violate my legal or social or human rights, or “oppress” me, in any way.
Now, when I say, for example, that “self-identification does not entitle a biological male to be legally considered a woman and have access to women” - that is not something I am saying just to be mean, or just to make a point. It’s not hypothetical. It is something I sincerely believe in as a feminist who cares about women’s rights, and I am very worried about the loss of rights for women and children under the “queer gender self-identification” narrative.
But even so, my motive doesn’t actually change the argument. Some people really are being mean. Some people say, for example, “transwomen are not actually women” just to be mean. It is still their right to say so! (And in this case what they are saying is the truth).
I do not have a vendetta against trans people. The trans people in my life are also very concerned about queer gender theory, and they also oppose the “validate identities above all!” and “self-identification defines your true gender” narratives.
(Or as my best friend of 25 years put it: “I worked hard to change my sex. I’m not going to call some bearded guy in a dress ’she!’”)
The problem with the movement to change society to accomodate “self-identification” is that gender dysphoria is a SYMPTOM. It could indicate that someone is genuinely transsexual, or it could be that someone is over-exposed to queer ideology and has mistakenly applied the belief system to themself - or perhaps has some other mental health problem that needs to be treated, not validated. Responding to a symptom as though its validation is a human right is bad medicine and bad law.
So yes, I still say the same thing: No one has the right to have their feelings validated. Especially when these “feelings” might indicate an unhealthy mind.
Here are some NON-TRANSPHOBIC things I believe. Transwomen are not actual, literal women. Transmen are not actual, literal men. Women have the right to say “no” to transwomen in any and all women-only spaces, full stop. Women owe biological males absolutely nothing, regardless of “identity,” and are not obligated under any circumstances to “accept” ttranswomen as sister women. Children under 18 must not under any circumstances be given transgender drugs or surgeries. Any circumstances at all. Genderqueer is a social construct and functionally, therefore legally, meaningless.
And none of the above words - or corresponding legal and social efforts to protect women and children based on these words - causes any real harm either to actual transsexuals or to people who “identify” as trans.
It will hurt some peoples’ feelings.
It will mean that biological males get told “NO” when they feel entitled to hear “yes.” Since it’s not women’s job to provide the emotional labor of validating male entitlement, I’m okay with that. Guess what, I’m so very very okay with that.
July 16th, 2021
I appreciate real data over the subjectivity of feelings, triggers and microaggressions and other terms of vagueness being pushed to make decisions.
I can’t tell someone how to feel.
Don’t tell anyone what I mean when they say something.
October 6th, 2023
The language used is so carefully pointed, a balancing act in the attempt to sound non-confrontationaland reasonable. I want to listen to a range of opinions, but it’s hardly going to be a fair and honest weighing up both sides when within minutes the author expresses their rejection of trans identity and any other identity other sex assigned with traditional gender presentation (except same sex attraction types who can present “some,” aspects of the opposite sex). Men and women have innate desires and motivation very different….it contradicts itself.
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