Ryan T. Anderson

When Harry Became Sally (eBook, ePUB)

Responding to the Transgender Moment

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Can a boy be "trapped" in a girl's body? Can modern medicine "reassign" sex? Is our sex "assigned" to us in the first place? What is the most loving response to a person experiencing a conflicted sense of gender? What should our law say on matters of "gender identity"? When Harry Became Sally provides thoughtful answers to questions arising from our transgender moment. Drawing on the best insights from biology, psychology, and philosophy, Ryan Anderson offers a nuanced view of human embodiment, a balanced approach to public policy on gender identity, and a sober assessment of the human costs of getting human nature wrong. This book exposes the contrast between the media's sunny depiction of gender fluidity and the often sad reality of living with gender dysphoria. It gives a voice to people who tried to "transition" by changing their bodies, and found themselves no better off. Especially troubling are the stories told by adults who were encouraged to transition as children but later regretted subjecting themselves to those drastic procedures. As Anderson shows, the most beneficial therapies focus on helping people accept themselves and live in harmony with their bodies. This understanding is vital for parents with children in schools where counselors may steer a child toward transitioning behind their backs. Everyone has something at stake in the controversies over transgender ideology, when misguided "antidiscrimination" policies allow biological men into women's restrooms and penalize Americans who hold to the truth about human nature. Anderson offers a strategy for pushing back with principle and prudence, compassion and grace.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Encounter Books
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781641774901
• Artikelnr.: 74717906

Autorenporträt

Ryan T. Anderson, Ph.D., is the President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center,¿and the Founding¿Editor of¿Public Discourse, the online journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton, New Jersey. He is the author of¿When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment¿and¿Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom.¿He is the co-author of¿What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense¿and¿Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination, and the co-editor of¿A Liberalism Safe for Catholicism? Perspectives from "The Review of Politics." Anderson's research has been cited by two U.S. Supreme Court justices, Justice Samuel Alito and Justice Clarence Thomas, in two Supreme Court cases. He received his bachelor of arts degree from Princeton University, graduating¿Phi Beta Kappäand¿magna cum laude, and he received his doctoral degree in political philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. His dissertation was titled: "Neither Liberal Nor Libertarian: A Natural Law Approach to Social Justice and Economic Rights." Anderson has made appearances on ABC, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, and Fox News. His work has been published by the¿New York Times, the¿Washington Post, the¿Wall Street Journal, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, the¿Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, the¿Harvard Health Policy Review, the¿Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy, First Things, the Claremont Review of Books, and¿National Review. He is the John Paul II Teaching Fellow in Social Thought at the University of Dallas, a member of the James Madison Society at Princeton University, and a Fellow of the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America. For 9 years he was the¿William E. Simon senior research fellow¿at The Heritage Foundation, and has served as an adjunct professor of philosophy and political science at Christendom College, and a Visiting Fellow at the Veritas Center at Franciscan University. He has also served as an assistant editor of First Things.