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    When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment
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    When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment
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    When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment

    Written by Ryan T. Anderson

    Narrated by Tom Parks

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    The transgender movement has hit breakneck speed. In the space of a year, it’s gone from something that most Americans had never heard of to a cause claiming the mantle of civil rights.

    But can a boy truly be “trapped” in a girl’s body? Can modern medicine really “reassign” sex? Is sex something “assigned” in the first place? What’s the loving response to a friend or child experiencing a gender-identity conflict? What should our law say on these issues?

    When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment provides thoughtful answers to all of these questions. Drawing on the best insights from biology, psychology, and philosophy, Ryan T. Anderson offers a balanced approach to the policy issues, a nuanced vision of human embodiment, and a sober and honest survey of the human costs of getting human nature wrong.

    He reveals a grim contrast between the media’s sunny depiction and the often sad realities of gender-identity struggles. He introduces listeners to people who tried to “transition” but found themselves no better off. Especially troubling is the suffering felt by adults who were encouraged to transition as children but later came to regret it.

    And there is a reason that many do regret it. As Anderson shows, the most helpful therapies focus not on achieving the impossible—changing bodies to conform to thoughts and feelings—but on helping people accept and even embrace the truth about their bodies and reality. This discussion will be of particular interest to parents who fear how an ideological school counselor might try to steer their child. The best evidence shows that the vast majority of children naturally grow out of any gender-conflicted phase. But no one knows how new school policies might affect children indoctrinated to believe that they really are trapped in the “wrong” body.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateJul 2, 2018
    ISBN9781974919284
    Author

    Ryan T. Anderson

    Ryan T. Anderson is the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. The author of Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom and the co-author of What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense and Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination, he has appeared on all the major networks, and his work has appeared in publications such The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and has been cited by U.S. Supreme Court justices.

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    • 5/5
      Thoughtful analysis of the transgender moment sweeping through the culture. Gets to the roots of the problems and offers practical, reality-based solutions. Perfect tool of understanding for the person who knows the current transgender movement is wrong, but can’t quite articulate why.
    • 1/5
      The scare lots alone are enough to tell you this is biased. Poorly written, poorly researched, and obviously pushing an agenda rather than providing a balanced view on the issue.

      Read this only if you want to confirm your existing views, not if you want to actually engage with the issue
    • 5/5
      Thought provoking. This book showed me for the first time that people suffering from gender dysphoria have been greatly harmed by the experimental medical practices of the day.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Excellent. Well researched and a fair approach to the topic.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Transphobic trash that willfully misrepresents the issues. The author should be ashamed of their bigotry.

      10 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Excellent and thoughtfully written to explain the truth about gender identity as it relates to biology and how it is being pushed politically to radically change our culture.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      99% Great. Very helpful thinking through the issues, very fair and generous to those on the opposite side of his view, but there are a couple of times, and I do mean one or two, when I would have been more careful with my language. Using "The Media" and "The Wealthy" as of they are monolithic entities gets is a bit fear monger-ish. It's not bad, and like I said, it's used like that two times, but one must be careful, some people use those phrases as dog whistles for antisemitism. He's not, I'm sure, but some do.

      4 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Finally, some clear thinking and writing on the subject. Well researched and reasoned.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Anderson has done a masterful job of displaying compassion while not impugning the integrity of biblical fidelity. Bravo, my Brother!

      I better understand now why Amazon pulled his book. We do not fight against flesh and blood. Amazon is just the Adversary's latest ploy to keep the unregenerate in self-imposed darkness.

      I sincerely have compassion for anyone struggling with their gender identity, but our nation’s current response is seriously misguided and wrong-headed.

      Acting in a manner explicitly contrary to God’s means of human flourishing will always end in a failed human experiment.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Nazi trash not worth reading. Be mindful of the authors own insecurity with gender.
    • 5/5
      Thoughtful, well reasoned, well written. Listen especially to the chapter on stories of those who detransitioned.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This is an excellent resourse for understanding our times, and how to respond compassionately to those who suffer from gender dysphoria.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Calm and reasonable book.
      I think it gave grace to both sides yet also called them both out. I appreciate the stories that never make the news. It’s calm and does not make fun of either side. It does not condemn either side. It gives a thoughtful and realistic analysis of the transgender issue.
      Good narration as well.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      WOW, I never knew all that, an eye opener , very informative, young families with children has to listen to it
      THANK YOU VERY MUCH
    • 1/5
      Regardless of your views on transgender identity, this book is poorly written, relying entirely upon an assumption of the reader’s agreement with the author’s biases in order for arguments to hold together. The author carelessly throws around subjective & qualitative language where neutrality is needed - for example, describing certain scientific studies as “the best studies” without any explanation of how he came to make this judgement; repeatedly mixing up “sex” with “gender” (he describes transgender activists as insisting that sex is assigned at birth rather than being determined by the sex organs of the fetus, when in fact no one is saying this). Mostly - and again, regardless of your views on the issue - we should all be asking, if people like the author are dismayed by the damage that surgeries & hormones have allegedly done to individuals who regret transitioning, why then haven’t people like the author historically been just as worried that waves of plastic surgery trends might lead to regret in patients, particularly young ones? Or, if people like the author are so bothered by the threat to women of alleged transgender predators invading women’s safe spaces, why people like the author have not historically been fiercer advocates for rape & abuse victims? One issue the author clearly has with the transgender “moment” we’re in is the enactment of policy around transgender rights - obviously this should be up for discussion & debate, as are all policy decisions - but his rhetorical sloppiness badly damages his reliability as a narrator.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      A very helpful book to think through many of the issues that come with being transgender and how to address it. I felt the first half was more helpful than the second half. I loved the personal stories of people who had transitioned back to their biological sex.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This book, together with CYNICAL THEORY by Helen Pluckrose & James Lindsay (another Scribd audiobook) will reinforce your existing commonsense, protect you & arm you against the radical social justice warriors and LGBT gender-benders hellbent on changing the social order. More importantly, if you have children at school, this book will help you counsel them if they come home confused after having been told that being a boy or a girl is not a real thing, but only a label given to them by their parents who do not understand that a boy can change into a girl and a girl can change into a boy if that makes them feel better. I have not checked out the credentials of the author of WHEN HARRY BECOMES SALLY, but he must be congratulated by many grateful parents like me for helping us understand the T part of the LGBT agenda

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This is an important subject as we cannot bend to the new religion of "feelings" but have good constructive argument why girls are girls and boys are boys. Good read.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Extremely thorough, compelling evidence and nuanced views which are refreshing in such a complex issue.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Extremely important for this day and age going forward. Very well researched. Listened to Audio-book first , highly recommend purchasing hard copy for referencing.

      2 people found this helpful