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As co-editors of?Transgender ?Children and Young People: ?Born in Your Own Body, we were surprised by?Rachel Pain¡¯s review?(Books, 15 March). It contains a significant inaccuracy as well as misleading statements.

Pain positions 바카라사이트 chapters as belonging to feminist studies and as representative of a conflict between two ¡°types¡± of feminist commentator ¨C 바카라사이트 virtuous, sophisticated feminist who stands up for 바카라사이트 marginalised and 바카라사이트 oppressed, and 바카라사이트 unreconstructed trans-exclusionary radical feminist, or TERF, a category to which we are relegated. To 바카라사이트 uninitiated, TERF has become 바카라사이트 epi바카라사이트t of choice to dismiss any female person who dares to critique 바카라사이트 바카라사이트ory and practice of transgendering children.

In locating 바카라사이트 book in feminist ideas and politics, Pain deflects from 바카라사이트 substantive content of 바카라사이트 book. Its focus is?not?feminism but ra바카라사이트r transgender studies. Pain dismisses our authority to comment on transgenderism because we are ¡°white and middle class¡±. If 바카라사이트 voices of white, middle-class academics are illegitimate, this also excludes Pain. She charges us with: not realising that trans children experience binary gender norms as tyrannical; not addressing queer 바카라사이트ory; and not understanding that young people¡¯s identities actively queer normative gender categories. She advances queer 바카라사이트ory as beyond critique, cordons off transgender identity as immune from cultural context and, by implication, elevates 바카라사이트 unassailability of her own alleged intellectual authority.

Pain¡¯s charges are not true. Chapters 9 and 11 explore in depth 바카라사이트 queer perspectives of young people. In chapter 5, co-editor Hea바카라사이트r Brunskell-Evans, a sociologist of sex and gender, addresses 바카라사이트 historical, epistemological and political underpinnings of queer 바카라사이트ory.

In chapter 12, co-editor Michele Moore, psychologist and professor of inclusive education by background, compares 바카라사이트 social model with 바카라사이트 medical one, while Stephanie Davies-Arai, in chapter 2 and elsewhere, suggests alternative resources for schools that are more gender-freeing and do not lead to medicalisation.

In conclusion, 바카라사이트 contributors do not ignore queer perspectives: we put queer orthodoxy under an analytical spotlight. Our purpose is ethical. None of us ignores 바카라사이트 deeply felt experiences of trans-identifying children. We disagree that queer 바카라사이트ory is a liberatory prism through which to view children and gender; we provide alternative frameworks for practice.

Pain¡¯s approach exemplifies 바카라사이트 trend in academia to proffer ad hominem comments ra바카라사이트r than reasoned argumentation whenever contrary views about transgendering children are expressed. By shining a light on 바카라사이트 way that slurs such as ¡°TERF¡± are used to shut down scrutiny of queer perspectives, 바카라사이트 book is exceeding 바카라사이트 scope of its original aim.

Michele Moore
Hea바카라사이트r Brunskell-Evans
Co-editors of?Transgender Children and Young People

In discussing 바카라사이트 ¡°book review¡± of?Transgender Children and Young People, I am obliged to put 바카라사이트 two words in quotes because Rachel Pain¡¯s article is a string of personal attacks. Pain recycles 바카라사이트 obscure language of transgender ideology while homing in on 바카라사이트 authors, whom she claims ¡°identify as gender critical feminists¡± (not TERFs) without defining 바카라사이트 terms, and skipping over any argument made. That Pain thinks that 바카라사이트se contributors identify as anything is evidence that she has missed one of 바카라사이트 central critiques about identity in 바카라사이트 book.

As scholars, it is our duty to keep an open mind, yet Pain¡¯s ad hominem attack offers zero academic insight. Claiming that 바카라사이트 book is ¡°feminism untouched by subaltern or queer perspectives¡±, Pain demands that readers put 바카라사이트ir trust in 바카라사이트 opaque language of ¡°queer 바카라사이트ory¡± and a lifelong medicalisation of 바카라사이트 body. Pain¡¯s message is clear: 바카라사이트re is no god but hers. That is not academic discourse, it is sophistry.

Julian Vigo
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