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On The Science of Changing Sex: A Layman’s Guide to Transsexuality and Transgenderism (Understanding Transsexuality) Paperback – November 29, 2020
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The book covers the scientific evidence that there is more than one kind of "transgender", that there are two distinct and non-overlapping etiologies leading to gender dysphoria, a diagnoses that was coined in the early 1970s, yet eschews recently introduced unscientific constructs such as "sex dysphoria". You will also learn about the way that cross-dressing men develop into autogynephilic transwomen. You will learn the deep connection between transkids and gender atypical gays and lesbians and the shameful history of efforts to "cure" them. Kay also explores about the new fad of teens and young people falsely claiming "trans" and "non-binary" identities to join the "cool kids club" that gave rise to the myth of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD).
Since the book is written for a lay reader, the evidence is discussed in non-technical, non-mathematical terms in the main body of the text. A bibliography is provided at the end for those wishing to further explore the evidence provided.
Kay Brown, herself a transsexual who was diagnosed as a teenager in the 1970s, while in high school, has spent a lifetime working to better the lives of transsexuals including co-founding the ACLU Transsexual Rights committee in 1980 among other notable achievements.
- Print length130 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateNovember 29, 2020
- Dimensions6 x 0.3 x 9 inches
- ISBN-13979-8574029015
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- ASIN : B08P3SFF88
- Publisher : Independently published (November 29, 2020)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 130 pages
- ISBN-13 : 979-8574029015
- Item Weight : 6.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.3 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,370,938 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,874 in Medical Psychology of Sexuality
- #2,831 in Psychology & Counseling Books on Sexuality
- #5,323 in General Gender Studies
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Candice H. Brown Elliott is an internationally recognized leader, entrepreneur, executive, and technologist / inventor in the flat panel display and microelectronic industries. She is a regularly invited speaker at international conferences, industry symposia, and universities. She has held engineering and managerial posts in leading semiconductor firms as well as start-up ventures. She has founded several technology companies and led industry research consortia programs. Candice has over a hundred US patents issued, with hundreds more internationally. She was awarded the Otto Schade Prize for her work in color displays, particularly PenTile subpixel rendering. In her forty-five year career, she has served in nearly every capacity from secretary to CEO / Chairman of the Board. She is an advisor for start-up company boards, entrepreneurs, and two venture capital firms.
Candice grew up in Silicon Valley (Sunnyvale and Los Altos, California) where she was imbued with the entrepreneurial and innovative spirit. She has two daughters, by now grown. She and her husband, Jeff, live in Santa Rosa, California, where they are restoring the historic Comstock House.
When not puttering in her half acre garden or finger picking out folk tunes on her mountain dulcimer, Seaby can be found at the local airport where she is a flight instructor (CFI, CFII, MEI). Seaby owns and flies a Piper Cherokee and a Piper Aztec she uses to travel across America.
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Although not a sex researcher or doctor herself, she is obviously well versed in the science, and the book does clearly deliver on its title “on the science of” as it goes over in detail the science of all things transgender and transsexual. This may actually be a bonus for the reader like myself who is not well versed in these areas, as her style is much more informal and accessible to the lay reader than some other more scientific tomes.
The authenticity of her having actually lived the life rings out throughout the book. Of particular note is the chapter on the difference between trangender and transsexualism, where she discusses the many complications and permutations of transgender and the fact that only 5% of transgender individuals actually transition physically. It was helpful in clarifying the politics going on around transgender at the moment, with a look inside the LGBTQ community.
The chapter on autogynephilia is excellent, one of the best and most thorough explanations of this phenomena I have read, and is worth buying the book for this alone. It is quite a complicated subject and she is able to clearly and concisely give the reader the information without belaboring too long into too much detail where the thread can get lost. It becomes clear that there are two types of transgender male to female types, one of which is the autogynephile, and Brown gives a clear explanation of the difference including the developmental stages through a life time.
All in all it is an excellent introductory text on the whole subject, surprisingly short at 110 pages yet packed with basic information with good scientific back up on all the points given. I would suggest this as a first reader for those becoming interested in the subject, as well as for those like myself who have gotten bogged down in the swamp of massive details regarding transgender issues that one finds in longer books written by scientists.
I’m learned in this area, but I found the perspective of this book to be unexpected and imprecise, sophomoric.
I found sex and gender to be sometimes used with discernment, sometimes conflated, gender identity used but sex identity not, gender dysphoric used but sex dysphoric not, the term transgender largely discarded in favor of types of transsexual that may will not even include sex reassignment surgery. Transgenderism is a very popularly accepted phenomenon, which I think is real, distinct from transsexualism, but that was lost in discussion of homosexual vs. autogynephilic transsexuals, adding in andropholia, etc., unduly intellectualized for a topic best kept clear and simple, if meant for the uninformed to learn.
Sometimes the book would get bogged down in studious details yet seem to miss the larger picture, while at other times it was fine.
I confess I did not read it all. I read the first half, found it unhelpful in relating real world transsexualism, and then I skimmed the latter half.
Its interest in such as J MIchael Bailey, PhD, etc., is good. Bailey is a good, underrated researcher who did not deserve the treatment he got from the radical transgender movement. Language in the book reflects a lot of Blanchard and Bailey, et al, which I have done some of, too, but doesn’t really address transgenderism in a way that seemed helpful. For example, the author seems to take the position of it as a form of transsexualism even without desiring to be genitally of the other sex, which I’d deem a requirement if the desire is to actually be of the other sex.
This is where distinctions between gender and sex become helpful for discussion and understanding. Virginia Prince, PhD, who the author also cited, did also note that there needs to be some terminology that refers to these distinctions.
Autogynephilia is real, I agree with that.
If you are not trans but aspire to be a good ally this, along with Alice Dreger's _Galileo's Middle Finger_, will give you some vital perspective you might otherwise never see.