Tell me, Mr. Anderson: what good is a book if you're unable to write one?
The book description for this religious diatribe tells you all you need to know about the non-content of this LGBTQIA 'Hate-Moment'. It begins by asking: "Can a boy be 'trapped' in a girl’s body?" The short anser is 'yes', and vice-versa. Gender is not binary, it never has been. It's a sliding scale, no matter what in-denial and i;;l-informed wannabe writers like Mr Anderson claim.
Mr Anderson, bigotry and hate speech are a disease; a cancer of this planet. LGBTQIA haters are a plague, and common-sense, science, and tolerance are the cure.
"Can modern medicine 'reassign'sex?" the description asked. Yes it can. Hundreds of people are living proof.
I'm going to enjoy watching this book die, Mr. Anderson.
"Is our sex 'assigned' to us in the first place?" No, it isn't. There are chemical changes necessary in the body and these can start and stop anywhere along the scale. The penis is nothing more than a repurposed clitoris. A fetus is not conceived either with a penis or with a vagina. Those organs grow, cued by genetics and hormones, and they stop when they're done regardless of whether they leave behind a perceived 'binary' female, a perceived 'binary' male, or something anywhere in between the two. if this is wrong, how does Mr Anderson account for true intersexed individuals? That's the 'I' in LGBTQIA for religious bigots.
"What is the most loving response to a person experiencing a conflicted sense of gender?" Mr Anderson may ask, and the correct answer to that is to take them at their true value, not at some arbitrary value religious zealots insist upon imposing. Anderson fails dismally here. He, and other religious zealots like him, would never have taken the Samaritan's route across the street. They would never go the extra mile. They would never give their shirt. In short, they reject the entire New Testament and insist on the Old instead.
"What should our law say on matters of 'gender identity'?" What does the fourth amendment say, Mr Anderson? Let me help you out: it says, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons...shall not be violated." Why does he want to overturn that by telling people what gender they are despite all evidence to the contrary?
The description claims that the book "provides thoughtful answers to questions arising from our transgender moment." It doesn't. It's not a moment. It's a momentum and those who try to hamper it will be pushed aside by it. The asshole bias in the very book description proves that this work of juvenile fiction isn't balanced. On the contrary, it's unbalanced, and cherry-picking a scattering of instances where gender reassignment or related situations seem not to have had perfect outcomes ignores the literal thousands of such issues where the outcomes are not regretted and not in question.
"Drawing on the best insights from biology, psychology, and philosophy" it waffles. Who gives a fuck about philosphy? And what best insights? This biased, spittle-soaked, apoplectic rant doesn't draw on the best insights, it draws on cherry-picked blinkered claims that support nothing except the author's pre-ordained and bigotted world-view. The best insights from medical experts and from the transgender community itself are completely ingored.
"Ryan Anderson offers a nuanced view of human embodiment" Nuanced? Really? That sound you just heard was my ass falling off from my laughing so hard.
"Everyone has something at stake in the controversies over transgender ideology" - yeah - everyone who has a religious stake. Which part of "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" isn't clear to the author? He's entitled to practice his beliefs. He is not entitled to force them upon others.
I'm not a fan of Amazon; far from it, but what these religious assholes don't seem to be able to get through their thick skulls is that Amazon is a private business. They can choose to publish or not even on a whim, and hate speech is not a whim.
You hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability. It is the sound of your inconsequence. Goodbye, Mr. Anderson.
