Background reading
Cynical Therapies: Perspectives on the Antitherapeutic Nature of Critical Social Justice
A diverse international group of authors comprising psychotherapists, academics, and psychologists present critical perspectives on the antitherapeutic nature of Critical Social Justice
Dr Val Thomas (2023)
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When Kids Say They're Trans: A Guide for Thoughtful Parents
Essential reading for all parents and professionals supporting young people struggling with the issue of gender identity
Stella O'Malley, Sasha Ayad and Lisa Marchiano (2023)
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Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults
This book is aimed primarily at clinicians working in the field to provide a model for understanding, assessing, and treating gender dysphoria
Marcus and Susan Evans (2023)
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TRANS: An Accessible Guide to Understanding Gender Identity and Gender Dysphoria
TRANS is an easy-to-read, accessible guide to the psychology and the everyday reality of gender dysphoria, transvestism, gender reassignment and being trans
Dr Az Hakeem (2021)
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DETRANS: When transition is not the solution
This book is about the detransitioners and the desisters for whom gender transition was not the hoped for solution.
Dr Az Hakeem (2023)
Transgender Body Politics
A condensed but very readable summary of the above, probably cheaper and more accessible.
Heather Brunskell-Evans (2020)
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Irreversible damage: Teenage girls and the transgender craze
A truly shocking and moving book, charting the damage done to teenage girls' bodies and minds.
Abigail Shrier (2021)
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Material girls: Why reality matters for feminism
This is the book which cost the author her job at Sussex University, in bravely defining gender identity.
Kathleen Stock (2021)
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The abolition of sex: How the 'transgender' agenda harms women and girls
This is a short, punchy book, focusing particularly on the eclipse of women's sex-based rights in the US.
Kara Dansky (2021)
Trans: When ideology meets reality. London
This is a powerful blockbuster of a book, managing to be passionate and forensic at the same time.
Helen Joyce (2021)
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Inventing transgender children and young people -
A crucial starting point for therapists, particularly those working with children and young people
Michelle Moore and Heather Brunskell-Evans (2019)
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The madness of crowds: Gender, race and identity
This book takes a wider view, with a shortish chapter on 'Trans' in the context of the social justice movement.
Douglas Murray (2020)
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Cynical theories: How activist schloarship made everything about race, gender and identity and why this harms everybody
Densely written, but with crucial background on postmodernism, queer theory and intersectionality.
Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay (2021)
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Identity politics: Where did it all go wrong?
Analysing identity politics in the broadest sense, from both academic and activist perspectives
David Pilgrim (2022)