Erlick wrote in the book in response to the current attack on trans people, particularly trans youth in the US and UK (which turned out to be a very strong theme of the conversation, surprise, surprise). He chose the stories according to how useful they would be in providing counterpoints to arguments presented by the gender critical movement. So, not at all cynical then.
Category: Book
Book review: Talk to Me by Munroe Bergdorf
It’s been a big year for Bergdorf, as this Penguin how-to/self-help book, called Talk To Me (how to talk about the things that matter) was published. And there was also the documentary Love & Rage: Munroe Bergdorf. These were released within days of each other. As of the date of writing, there is one review on Amazon, and, unusually, not a single endorsement embedded into the official blurb. These people all have the same agent, so it’s not like there’s a dearth of Z-list slebs to gush over the truly inexecrable, therefore I suspect a marketing choice.
Torrey Peters: Stag Dance
Clark felt that being able to identify your own failures in gender presentation was incredibly threatening and this was why certain people were so obsessed with trans people. Peters leapt to agree, feeling that trans people were used as a scapegoat but also acted as a beacon for peoples’ potential freedoms, which some people found terrifying. ‘When you hear terfs talk about gender you really get the sense that they fucking hate being women,’ said Clark, adding that she thought terfs were petrified by the idea of ‘you actually don’t have to do this’. Which was a perfect piece of intellectual google, given Peters had just said – and Clark had agreed – that we all have to do gender. Doh!
In Conversation: Shon Faye on his new book ‘Love in Exile’
It always startles me just how popular trans still is; Shon Faye almost sold out the event, a thousand seater, in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank. It was mainly young women but a fair few trans-identified males of various ages were dotted throughout. On the whole it felt like a cis-het crowd though, if you’ll pardon the lingo, one desperate to align itself to everything woke and a poke in the eye to its mums. Pre-signed books were available in the foyer, a neat way of letting us know that Faye was not to rub shoulders with us later. That didn’t bother Faye’s biggest fan though, sat next to me, who literally laughed, gasped, sighed, etc, non-stop in response to his asinine lispy utterances.
In conversation event with ‘trans bearish man’
‘Fucking Myself Goodbye’ is the title of the last chapter. It was going to be the title of the book but she was persuaded otherwise by her publisher. Ben-Zeev did her reading, torpid prose indeed and also very confusing. Talia is the woman she wants to fuck, – as a man, as Avi. She wanted connect to the physical parts of the herself which caused her pain and self-loathing. She can’t really do this via her imagination so settles instead on finding a Talia-lookalike (another trope of AGP males, trying to imitate the women in their lives).
Trans Pride Panel at Waterstones Piccadilly
Pechey has also written a book. The Book of Non-Binary Joy. It was certainly an uphill struggle getting people to believe that trans non-binary people exist. Pechey claims that books about non-binary people were ‘prescriptive’ or ‘telling you how to be’ – showcasing that he has literally no clue of the genre.
The Lies They Tell 
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