The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-male (Athene): No. 39 (Athene S.)

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This is the great fallacy behind the movement. This is how it should be argued. IF gender is simply in our MINDS, then why do we need hormones to complete transformation? Because gender is NOT in our minds.....it's a natural inclination decided at birth by your chromosomal makeup. PERIOD. My name is Righteous, first and foremost,” says an Ellis Center patient who now identifies as non-binary and uses they/them pronouns: In other words, HHS has concluded that it was the 1981 report that HHS used to issue an NCD banning trans services. [10 ] Bettcher, Talia; Garry, Ann (2009). "Introduction". Hypatia. 24 (3): 2–3. ISSN 0887-5367. JSTOR 20618161. In 1979, the first edition of The Transsexual Empire was published by Beacon Press, a nonprofit publisher in Boston run by the Unitarian Universalist Association. In 1980, the book was published in the United Kingdom by The Women's Press. [7] In 1994, a second edition was published by Teachers College Press. [8] Reception [ edit ]

Washington, Natalie (October 5, 2021). "Who's included? Views of the report on transgender participation in sport". The Guardian. UK . Retrieved May 23, 2022. a b Culter, Connie (July 12, 1980). "The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male". Gay Community News. Boston: The Bromfield Street Educational Foundation. 7 (50): 11. ProQuest 199398282.Serano, Julia (March 8, 2016). Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity. Seal Press. p.234. ISBN 978-1-58005-154-5. [...]Janice Raymond (who, in addition to writing the anti-trans screed The Transexual Empire, tried to convince the National Center for Health Care Technology to deny transsexuals the right to hormones and surgery)[...]

Providers, generally; physicians; acute facility administrators; long-term care facility administrators; other care givers; health/medical professional associations; consumer associations; employers; unions and other employee organizations; third party payers; government regulators; biomedical researchers; public policy-makers, legislators; policy research organizations; Federal health programs.” [2 ]To be the parent of a trans person now, in Britain, is also to witness a regular assault of distortions and half-truths. We hear that trans people can access medical treatment with dangerous ease, when they in fact face monstrous waiting times, or that there is a powerful trans lobby trampling on the rights of others when anti-trans groups are significantly better resourced. Hostility to trans rights runs across the political spectrum, from the Arkansas Republicans who have just banned treatment for young trans people, to George Soros-haters, to radical feminists and liberal opinion formers. FM I am constantly frustrated by the idea that women’s rights and trans rights are in opposition. These are not two separate categories. Some trans people are women, and therefore the struggle for women’s rights is also theirs, even if they do not experience all of the same issues as cisgender women. Some trans people who are not women are affected by issues that have historically been part of the women’s rights movement; for example, some transgender men and non-binary people also need access to reproductive healthcare. Trans people of all genders are affected by issues like domestic and sexual violence. Historically federal and state aid has not funded transsexual treatment for anyone so it could not be ‘eliminated’ by any paper I or anyone else wrote.” Janice Raymond desired to “morally mandate transexuality out of existence’ and her ideas…were taken up by Republicans anxious to slash expenditures by defunding medical programmes; many indigent trans women who turned to sex work to fund their hormones and surgery have ended up murdered as a result” ( https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2011/aug/06/anders-behring-breivik-melanie-phillips ). Fact: Equally dedicated to evaluating novel biomedical technology—thereby rationalizing decisions about appropriate use—was the National Center for Health Care Technology (NCHCT), established in the 1970s within the Public Health Service. This agency, too, received paltry funding and was dismantled by the Reagan administration. Replacing it was the Office of Health Technology Assessment (OHTA), with even less financial support.” – Carolyn L. Wiener, The Elusive Quest: Accountability in Hospitals, p 42

My paper was never published by the NCHCT but was treated as a consultative paper among many that were solicited from other experts and groups at the same time.” Sarah Lucia Hoagland (1980). "The Transsexual Empire: The Making of a She-Male. Janice G. Raymond". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 5 (3): 537–538. doi: 10.1086/493740. In 1818, Mary Shelley wrote the famous novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus . The premise of the book is that modern science, stripped from the constraints of ethics and nature, will end up creating monsters. “Trans-affirming” doctors are the post-modern version of the book’s protagonist, Doctor Frankenstein. Reality: The NCHCT commissioned Raymond’s paper to both support and inform only 1 of 3 conclusions found in the OHTA Report. The three conclusions were: To make an informed judgment about the impact of the OHTA and NCHCT reports, you need to know who the NCHCT asserted its audience to be. The reports coming out of the NCHCT, including OHTA reports, were targeted to the following “primary users”:

In the absence of contrasting views, the very highest form of propaganda warfare can be fought: the propaganda for a definition of reality within which only certain limited viewpoints are possible. ” Namaste, Viviane (December 15, 2000). Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People. University of Chicago Press. pp.33–35. ISBN 978-0-226-56810-2.

O]ur state government is firmly on your side, on the side of every gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer person in the state of Illinois. . . . Those of you in this room know better than anyone that marriage equality was never the endgame. . . . We’re gonna make sure that all transgender Illinoisans are ensured their basic human rights and that healthcare services are provided to them so that they can thrive. Take away the hormones and you revert. Nature(to me nature means God, but I don't insist people argue that way). Left to it's own devices, the body does what the chromosomes tell it to do. THAT is the nature of all beings. But the basis of the tribunal’s ruling was that Forstater aggressively denied the identities of people with whom she might have to work, more than that she said that “sex is real”. Rowling gives similarly one-sided accounts of other controversies, for example defending Lisa Littman against “a tsunami of abuse”, without mentioning the valid grounds for questioning her study. Also discussed is the role of physicians and medical literature in reinforcing this binary. Notably, she refers to Niels Hoyer’s report that after sex reassignment surgery, Lili Elbe’s handwriting changed drastically and she began to faint at the sight of blood. [11] :6,8 Stanford Clinic’s "charm school" or "grooming clinic" is also cited as one clear way in which predominately male doctors sought to teach transsexual women how to "behave like women". [11] :10In section four, "Whose story is this, anyway?", the essay discusses how much of the research and writing on transsexualism has been done by people who are not transsexual, and that transsexual women are similar to cisgender women in that both have been historically "infantilized" and considered too "illogical" to speak for themselves in the realms of science and literature. [11] :12-13 To be pedantic, I need to note that what HHS calls the 1981 “NCHCT Report” I call the 1981 OHTA report because by the end of 1981, the NCHCT had become the OHTA. The 1981 report states that it’s the product of the OHTA. If I had to guess, HHS refers to it as the “NCHCT Report” because when the report was being written, OHTA was still NCHCT and it’s easier to just refer to the organization as NCHCT instead of having to go into how and why a report which began life as an NCHCT report was published as an OHTA report.