Books

Society didn’t anticipate the steep rise in number of children questioning their gender over the past decade and to a large extent is still considering its significance and implications. We offer some title suggestions below as a way for parents to read around the subject, and to situate their own family’s experiences within a wider context.

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A Guide to Mental Health Issues in Girls and Young Women on the Autism Spectrum

This book addresses the specific mental health needs of girls and young women with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Looking at...

Bad Science

Ben Goldacre’s wise and witty bestseller, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, lifts the lid on quack...

 Ben Goldacre
Brainwashing

Throughout history, humans have attempted to influence and control the thoughts of others. Since the word 'brainwashing' was coined in...

 Kathleen Taylor
Breakthrough: Guided Practices for Navigating Estrangement with Dignity, Strength and Resilience

It’s a 274-page, full-color healing workbook designed specifically for parents and grandparents navigating estrangement at any stagewhether the rupture is...

 Dr. Joshua Coleman, Ph.D.
Bully Proof Kids

We can’t always be there to protect our kids as they make their way in the world. What we can...

 Stella O'Malley
Change for the Better

'This is a guide for real people living and struggling in real life, ordinary circumstances… it is full of humane,...

 Elizabeth Wilde Mccormick
Combatting Cult Mind Control

On November 18th, 1978, over 900 people including a U.S. congressman Leo Ryan died because of Cult Leader Jim Jones....

 Steven Hassan
Cynical Theories: How Universities Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity – And Why this Harms Everybody

Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Or been told that being obese is healthy,...

 Helen Pluckrose & James Lindsay
Desist, Detrans and Detox

Blindsided when a child suddenly announces a transgender identity, many parents today find their families under assault by an insidious...

 Maria Keffler
Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults

In recent years, there has been an explosion in the number of children and young people who diagnose themselves as...

 Sue Evans and Marcus Evans
Hold on to Your Kids

Children take their lead from their friends: being ‘cool’ matters more than anything else. Shaping values, identity and codes of...

 Gordon Neufeld & Gabor Maté
Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain

WINNER of the 2018 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2018

'Finally, a book about the...

 Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Inventing Transgender Children and Young People

The essays in this volume are written by clinicians, psychologists, sociologists, educators, parents and de-transitioners. Contributors demonstrate how ‘transgender children...

 Michele Moore & Heather Brunskell-Evans
Invisible Women

*THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER*

'HELL YES. This is one of those books that has the potential to change...

 Caroline Criado Perez
Irreversible Damage

Until just a few years ago, gender dysphoria—severe discomfort in one’s biological sex—was vanishingly rare. It was typically found in...

 Abigail Shrier
Martian in the Playground

This deceptively little book contains more truth and provides more insight into what it is like to have Asperger′s Syndrome...

 Clare Sainsbury
Material Girls

Material Girls is a timely and trenchant critique of the influential theory that we all have an inner feeling known...

 Kathleen Stock
Mistakes Were Made But Not By Me

Why is it so hard to say 'I made a mistake' and really believe it?

When we make mistakes, cling...

 Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
Neurodiverse Relationships

Comprised of the accounts of twelve heterosexual couples in which the man is on the Autism Spectrum, this book invites...

 Joanna Pike & Tony Attwood
Parenting a Teen Who Has Intense Emotions

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The teen years can be daunting for any parent. But if you are the parent of a teen...

 Pat Harvey and Britt Rathbone
Parenting Girls on the Autism Spectrum

Parents of girls on the autism spectrum often wish their daughters were celebrated for their talents, rather than discouraged for...

 Eileen Riley-Hall
Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science

So much relies on science. But what if science itself can't be relied on?

Medicine, education, psychology, health, parenting -...

 Stuart Ritchie
Sex Matters

'McGregor is kickass; a respected crusader. If you're a woman, she's definitely the doctor you'd want to see in an...

 Dr Alyson J McGregor
Strange Contagion

Picking up where The Tipping Point leaves off, respected journalist Lee Daniel Kravetz's Strange Contagion is a provocative look at...

 Lee Daniel Kravetz
Testosterone: The Story of the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us

The biological source of masculinity has inspired fascination, investigation and controversy since antiquity. From the eunuchs in the royal courts...

 Carole Hooven
The Coddling of the American Mind

Have good intentions, over-parenting and the decline in unsupervised play led to the emergence of modern identity politics and hypersensitivity?

...
 Jonathan Haidt & Greg Lukianoff
The End of Gender

International sex researcher, neuroscientist, and columnist Debra Soh debunks popular gender myths in this fascinating, research-based, scientific...

 Dr Debra Soh
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year

'Douglas Murray fights...

 Douglas Murray
The Science of Fate

'A truly fascinating - if unnerving - read'

The Telegraph

'We can all benefit from Critchlow's book'

New Scientist

'Acute,...

 Hannah Critchlow
The Tipping Point

A wonderful page-turner about a fascinating idea that should affect the way every thinking person thinks about the world around...

 Malcolm Gladwell
Trans: Exploring Gender Identity and Gender Dysphoria

What is gender dysphoria? How does it affect people? What do terms like intersex, cisgender and transsexualism mean?

This book,...

 Dr Az Hakeem
Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality

Knowing more has never meant more.

Gender identity ideology is about more than Twitter storms and using the right pronouns....

 Helen Joyce
Transgender Children and Young People: Born in Your Own Body

This book is a collection of essays about the current theory and practice of transgendering children. Essays are written against...

 Michele Moore & Heather Brunskell-Evans
Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood

We expect an enormous amount from our teenage girls in a world where they are bombarded with messages about how...

 Lisa Damour
What’s Left?: How the left lost its way

From the much-loved, witty and excoriating voice of journalist Nick Cohen, a powerful and irreverent dissection of...

 Nick Cohen
Women & Power: A Manifesto

Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda...

 Professor Mary Beard