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Book SynopsisIf the human being is allowed to be genetically manipulated and made by artificial means in the laboratory in an unstoppable crescendo of experimentation, what will be left to defend? This book is a radical critique of gender ideology and transhuman design. Silvia Guerini shows how the TQ+ rights agenda is being pushed by eugenicist capitalist technocrats at the top of Big Business, Big Philanthropy, Big Tech and Big Pharma companies. She argues that dissociation from our sexed bodies leads to dissociation from reality, with the human body transformed into a permanent construction site besieged by synthetic and artificial interventions. Erasure of the material dimension of bodies and sexual difference is an erasure of women. She explains how fundamental struggles such as the fight against genetic engineering and the fight against artificial reproduction can only advance in conjunction with an opposition to gender ideology. By linking ‘gender identity’ to the genetic modification of bodies, she warns that humanity itself is at risk of becoming a synthetic life form with synthetic emotions within a virtual, fluid, deconstructed metaverse. Today, being revolutionary means preserving everything that makes us human. It means defending the living world and nature as entities to be respected, not as parts that can be broken down and redesigned in a laboratory world. The idea of the ‘neutral’ body and body modification pave the way for the construction of the post-human cyborg and the genetic engineering of bodies. Is the last bioethical barrier about to be breached to give way to transhumanist demands? And at what cost?
Trade Review"Silvia Guerini’s From the ‘Neutral’ Body to the Posthuman Cyborg: A Critique of Gender Ideology gives a vital, highly engaging critique of transgenderism, focusing on it as an industrialized, alienated war against the body." — Donovan Cleckley, The Distance "With uncompromising clarity of vision, Silvia Guerini turns our eyes in the necessary direction. Our task now is to gather the courage not to look away." — aurora linnea, Women's Liberation Radio News
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Sex Is Not Gender 2. ‘Gender Identity’ 3. Women’s Prisons in California and Canada 4. Gender ‘Neutral’ Ideology in Schools 5. In Europe: The Matić Report 6. France and Spain: Significant New Legislative Steps 7. Steps Forward in Italy 8. Where Are We in Italy? 9. Unicorns and Inclusivity: How Gender Ideology Enters Italian Schools 10. Child Transitions in Italy: The ‘Debate’ on Puberty Blockers 11. Dissenting Voices: The Italian Opposition to Gender Ideology 12. The Tavistock and Portman Foundation: Its History at the Intersection of Psychiatry, Eugenics and Cybernetics 13. Trans-industry Attacking the Little Ones 14. The Transition of the Tavistock 15. We Were Wrong 16. An Experiment on Girls and Boys: The Consequences of Puberty Blockers and Cross-sex Hormones 17. No Girl or Boy is ‘Born in the Wrong Body’ 18. A Broader Reflection on Transsexualism, Transition Pathways, and Their Rise 19. Not Wanting to Be a Woman: The Link between Anorexia and Trans-Identification 20. Gender Ideology and Paedophilia 21. Who Funds the LGBTQ+ Movement? 22. From the Laboratory to Queer Cyborg Activism 23. The New Transhumanism and Posthuman Humanity
