![]() ![]() In this book, Dr Kathleen Stock deconstructs the underlying philosophical issues surrounding this statement. The starting point, really, and the crux of why the book came about can be summed up in one statement: βIt is now a dictum of modern trans activism that we each have a gender identity.β (p 25). This book is an attempt to examine some of these issues, and attempts to do so with compassion, understanding and empathy for women and transpeople who are the most affected by the topics addressed. This not an appropriate forum to dissect the hows and whys I came to adopt a gender critical approach in my own thinking, but while gender critical views do inform my feminism, I also think it is important to challenge them, to understand the rationale underlying them, and to consider the issues more broadly, recognising that there are real people who are affected by the ideological issues that arise when one discusses sex and gender, and the conflation of those two terms. I would define my feminism as being gender critical. First of all, this is not an academic review β simply my own personal response to the book. I need to start my review with a disclaimer. ![]()
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