“I was unaware that my story was used in this book,” he responded. His previous book, Truth Overruled, was about opposing marriage equality for same-sex couples, and When Harry Became Sally actually repackages some of his same arguments about the supposed “complementarity” of men and women.Ī detransitioned man who goes by TWT ( ThirdWayTrans) first learned about his inclusion in the book when ThinkProgress reached out. The Heritage Foundation opposes LGBTQ equality in all its forms, and Anderson is often the organization’s point person in that opposition. “I don’t personally know any detransitioned women who are on board with anything the Heritage Foundation does,” she added. “ am not okay with it, and the women mentioned are working together right now to figure out our next move.” “I was definitely not informed about that use of our stories until Carey learned about it after the book was written,” she explained. The same was true for a detransitioner named Max. I would never have agreed to be included in such a book.” “I was enraged to see my story distorted and used. “Anderson never contacted me and I had no idea I was written about in his book until I saw Carey Callahan’s tweets and read the article she was referring to,” she told ThinkProgress. This apparently did not include reaching out to them to learn how best to support them.Ĭrash, another detransitioner Anderson profiles in When Harry Became Sally, first learned of her inclusion in the book from Callahan’s tweets. I had to do what I could to prevent more people from suffering the same way.” “ I couldn’t shake from my mind the stories of people who had detransitioned,” he says. In the conclusion to When Harry Became Sally, Anderson explains that the detransitioners were his primary motivation for writing the book. “I was upset to be used as a rhetorical device by someone who does not respect me and other detransitioners enough to contact us, or even alert us that we are being used as rhetorical devices,” Callahan told ThinkProgress. All indicated some objection to being included in the book. ThinkProgress subsequently made contact with four of the six detransitioners Anderson profiled, and all four confirmed that they had never heard from Anderson. It’s unclear if Ruse’s “medical monsters” headline was referring to the detransitioners or their doctors, and Anderson didn’t use the term “medical monsters” himself, but it was clear that this was the first time Callahan had even heard of the book. I’m drinking grapefruit seltzer + I’ve got my night cream + the dog is curled up in the hamper, we’re enjoying some Josh Groban. I just don’t FEEL like a medical monster. Um some Catholic guy wrote a chapter about detransitioners called “Medical Monsters among us” (I swear) and he talks about me (this is real) and it’s not even close to the weirdest thing about this week. I don’t believe Pope Francis would approve.” “Um some Catholic guy wrote a chapter about detransitioners called “Medical Monsters among us” (I swear) and he talks about me (this is real) and it’s not even close to the weirdest thing about this week,” Callahan tweeted on January 26. This review caught writer and activist Carey Callahan’s attention, as she was named in it. In his review, titled “The Medical Monsters Among Us,” Ruse focused on the detransitioners included in Anderson’s book. Ruse is president of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM), an anti-LGBTQ hate group. It first became apparent that Anderson hadn’t reached out to the detransitioners when one of them responded negatively to a positive review of the book by Austin Ruse. Unfortunately, these detransitioners say they never consented to letting him appropriate their stories and object to how he used them in his book. Their negative experiences, Anderson argues, are proof that transitioning is bad for all people and that transgender people should not be affirmed in their gender identities. Anderson shares stories from “detransitioners,” individuals who regret steps they took to physically transition their bodies. In his new book, When Harry Became Sally, the Heritage Foundation’s Ryan T.
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