Recommended Reading
Gender IdENTITY & MEDICINE
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Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women's Rights
By Helen Joyce
Written by a senior staff journalist at The Economist, Trans is focused on the practical implications of trans policies. Joyce addresses the practical problems arising from transgender policy and the history of how those policies came into being. WoLF gets mentioned as one of the few organizations willing to defend women’s only spaces and speak to the problems of gender self-identification.
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Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
by Kathleen Stock
Material Girls is the work of a philosopher who taught at the University of Sussex. Stock’s book presents a logical argument against the illogical arguments of trans activism, such as the idea that intersex negates the binary sex categories.
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Female Erasure: What You Need To Know About Gender Politics' War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights
edited by Ruth Barrett
This feminist anthology includes a forward by Germaine Greer and essays by gender-critical mainstays such as GallusMag, Jennifer Bilek, Carol Downer, and WoLF Founder, Lierre Keith.
Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
by Abigail Shrier
This is the book that will not be canceled. At the end of 2020, Abigail Shrier’s Irreversible Damage sold out just about everywhere!
Providing a deep dive into Dr. Lisa Littman’s theory of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria in girls, this vital resource is helping to finally expose how a staggering number of teen girls are being irresponsibly medicalized by the transgender trend.
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Women and Madness
By phyllis chesler
If you weren’t mad already, this Phyllis Chesler’s Women and Madness will make you mad.
The book examines the long history of sexism in psychiatry and the pathologization of women’s responses to trauma, abuse, and oppression. Originally published in 1972, the book is still remarkably relevant.
The XX Brain
By Lisa Mosconi
This book takes a look at how hormones influence brain health in women, with a focus on the importance of estrogen.
While at first glance the flowery pink book may look like pseudoscience, Dr. Lisa Mosconi brings an impressive resume to back up her claims, as the Director of the Women's Brain Initiative at Weill Cornell Medical College. This book is helpful to anyone trying to understand how women’s hormones can impact their well-being.
Gender and Our Brains: How Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds
by Gina Rippon
While not explicitly about gender identity, this book by feminist and cognitive neuroscientist Gina Rippon provides a refreshing analysis of what neuroscience can tell us about sex differences in the brain and the impact of our heavily gendered lives on our thoughts, decisions, and behavior.
Doing Harm: The Truth About how bad medicine and lazy science leave women dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and sick
by maya dusenbery
A broad analysis that ties together many themes from previous suggestions, Doing Harm looks at how gender bias in medicine is leaving women “dismissed, misdiagnosed, and sick”.
Go Figure! The Astonishing Science of the Female Body
by LISA FALCO
This 2021 book by data scientist Lisa Falco is not explicitly about gender identity but examines the female experience. Falco’s book helps readers understand the science of the all-encompassing impacts of the uniquely female hormonal cycle, the anatomy, physiology, and changes that happen over a lifetime.
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Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism
by Janice G. Raymond
This 2021 book explores the current landscape of the transgender issue, specifically from the lens of how this movement threatens women's safety. Raymond discusses the effects on women in prisons, women's sports, free speech, lesbians, mothers, academics, and more.
Check out a review of this book, written by WoLF volunteer Lindsey!