Subtitle: When Ideology Meets Reality The book is a slim 320 pages but author Helen Joyce, mathematician by education, journalist by trade, wastes no words in examining and explaining the anti-Civil Rights movement of our age.

No ordinary American citizen of 15 years ago would have ever accepted as plausible that biological boys would be playing on girls’ sports teams. And it would be considered a sick fantasy that not only would the boys be in the girls’ locker rooms, naked and watching, but men would be doing the same thing and they’d be backed up by the Federal government threatening states who dared to protect women’s rights to intimate spaces.

How did we get here? Why has this anti-reality ideology become so powerful, seemingly overnight? Especially in the face of polls that indicate that policies that put males into female prisons or allow schools to keep mental health issues of students secret from parents are overwhelmingly opposed?

Joyce pulls no punches. In the chapter “Behind the scenes” she not only shows how some polls are manipulated to show support of “trans rights” without the responders having a clue to the definition of “trans” let alone the practical implications of gender-self-id (e.g. where the magic phrase *I identify as X* turns words into reality). She also names names when speaking of how this has never been a grass-roots movement but rather a top-down imposed one driven by a cadre of hard-core activists and by billionares and policed via violence and intimidation. There’s billionaire Jennifer (James) Pritzker, billionare Jon Stryker (who partners with Creepy Joe’s ‘Advancing Acceptance Initiative’ that targets children), and, of course George Soros by way of his Open Society Foundations (OSF).

OSF has made large donations to the ACLU, Plannd Parenthood, Human Rights Watch (including $100 million in 2010, its biggest donation ever) and the HRC, all of which campaign for gender self-identification.

Joyce points out that many of the tropes trotted out, like how dangerous the world is for transpeople (cuz of you, you bigot! you TERF!) have little at all to do with “trans”. e.g. Many of the ‘trans’ murders are of South American travestis – trans-id’d males who retain their male genitalia working as street prostitutes. Needless to say that street-walking is dangerous for any one engaged in it.

Joyce’s book is also a great primer on how transactivists control the language and use modern-day social mobbing to bully people into silence. And the push to lie to little children! Here’s Joyce, along with Jordan Peterson on what that means:

Joyce also covers some of the territory that Abagail Shrier did about the social contagion part of the Trans Ideology movement. She moves further with it as the ideology is pushed downward into grade schools via all sorts of “gender fluid” teaching materials all in the name of grooming kids into believing there is no sex binary and one’s thoughts create reality, even to boys being girls.

This wide-ranging body denialism, as Joyce writes, is resulting in the erasure of women. Birthing people, people who bleed, chest feeding … the litany of the linguistic torture, even leaving aside the crybullying about “misgendering” … gets longer each day.

Joyce spares few in this book and even takes on fellow journalists and their cowardice in covering the topic of males in female spaces. Joyce quotes Upton Sinclair in exasperation with her peers

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Joyce’s book is a fast read and an eyeopening one. For those of us who have been observing the rise of the transcult and its power, it confirms what we suspected. For those who just recently realized they aren’t in Kansas anymore, it is a great tool to get up-to-date.

A bit of a caution here. I respect Joyce, I’ve watched many of her interviews — not just with Peterson, but also with the guys at Triggernometry, and Peter Boghossian. Remember when reading or listening to her, she is not a conservative. She’s an atheist, a classical liberal and a 2nd wave feminist. It makes for a few awkward moments in her book when she touches upon how only “the right” is willing to reach across the aisle and lend help to people targeted by transactivists. She mentions the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) specifically and that only conservative media steps up to cover subjects like males in women’s prisons.

But Joyce never examines the why. She’s under no obligation to, but the lack of examining conservative opposition to radical Queer Theory is conspicuous by its absence. She seems to feel confused that those who opposed same-sex marriage would come to the aid of gay kids and lesbians. There is one brief moment when she admits that the “T” of LGBT rode into “civil rights” prominence on the same-sex marriage coattails, but she hasn’t allowed herself to go down that road at all. Yet.

I hope Joyce completes taking the red pill and writes that book in the future. In the meantime, as Ronald Reagan said “The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally – not a 20 percent traitor.” And we need people who can courageously stand up for reality. This is an important book to have on your shelf. Definitely 5 stars.

featured image, original artwork by Darleen Click