The Times- Material Girls by Kathleen Stock, review — a controversial look at transgender issues
Material Girls by Kathleen Stock, review — a controversial look at transgender issues This author fights back against the modern orthodoxy of gender theory Christina Patterson Sunday April 25 2021, 12.01am, The Sunday Times Reality check: Kathleen Stock’s arguments about gender identity certainly pack a punch ALAMY I n 2018 the LGBT charity Stonewall came up with a slogan that was a rallying cry for a revolution. “Trans women are women,” it declared. “Get over it.” It was punchy. It was clear. It was slightly aggressive. It was also a statement of a new orthodoxy, one in which sex gives way to feeling, and feeling trumps facts. This is the central argument of Kathleen Stock’s controversial new book and, boy, does she pack a punch. In 2004, she tells us in the introduction, “it was estimated there were about 2,000–5,000 trans people in the UK”. That was the year the UK government introduced the Gender Recognition Act, which allowed trans people to apply for a gender recognition certific...