Some news...
So… I’m writing a book. For Polity!
My focus will be on the psychological dimensions of the trans movement and how I’ve come to think of gender as a siren song—as tantalizing as it is dangerous. This song tells patients and clinicians just what they most desire to hear—appeals that I plan to explore in this book. For patients, gender promises transformation, a fresh start, and access to a community where you will finally be understood and celebrated—often for the very things that singled you out for ridicule and ostracism in the past. For clinicians, embracing gender means joining a vanguard. You don’t just get to practice medicine but transform it, saving lives and advancing the next great social-justice cause. Together, patient and clinician immerse themselves in a fiction that causes them to lose sight of the real-world fallout of their actions.
At this point, I’m hoping to set up some interviews for the book with people who have firsthand contact with ‘gender-affirming’ care as patients (current or former) or clinicians (same). If that sounds like you and you are open to being interviewed and quoted (anonymity is fine!), please reach out at elizamondegreen@gmail.com!
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I look forward to reading this. I appreciate the empathy you always show when so much of this transgender issue has us polarized to the point of demonizing the opposite side. Much success to you in your writing.
Well, your writing is so powerful that I would be absorbed by your account of watching paint dry, so it goes without saying that I will eagerly anticipate reading every word of your book.