In The Name Of Gender
Conversation and debate regarding transgenderism or gender ideology has been effectively forbidden and shut down for many years, and people who have dared to raise concerns have been hounded and punished in all sorts of ways. Like many outspoken feminists, Laura Lecuona was cancelled and attacked in her native country of Mexico for daring to ask questions about concepts such as ‘born in the wrong body’ and ‘gender affirming care’.
In this episode Elle talks with Laura about her new book Gender Identity: Lies And Dangers; about what sparked the transgender movement, how gender ideology became such a pervasive social phenomenon, what exactly it entails for boys and men and girls and women who become trans identified, as well as the impact of this movement on women and women’s rights.
We also discuss why radical feminists in particular have been sounding the alarm and mounting such an opposition to gender ideology, and why there is such an authoritarian prohibition against debate.
EPISODE LINKS
Gender Identify: Lies And Dangers by Laura Lecuona
The Transexual Empire by Janice Raymond
The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner
The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir
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CREDITS
Host: Elle Kamihira
Produced by Elle Kamihira
Audio Engineering by Jason Sheesley at Abridged Audio
Cover Art by Bee Johnson
Music by Beware of Darkness
Laura Lecuona
Editor, Author & Lecturer
Laura Lecuona studied Philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. An editor and translator specializing in memoirs, young adult fiction, philosophy and social sciences, she has held editorial coordination positions at Paidós Mexicana, Fondo de Cultura Económica and Ediciones SM.
As a popularizer of feminism, she is a regular lecturer and writer. She is author of Las Mujeres son Seres Humanos (Secretaría de Cultura, 2016), a short introduction to feminism. In the Spanish-speaking world she is one of the main referents of the feminist criticism of the doctrine of gender identity. In 2017 she founded Feministas Mexicanas contra Vientres de Alquiler (Femmva), a grassroots organisation against surrogacy, and Laura is Mexico’s country contact for Women’s Declaration International and the author of Gender Identity: Lies and Dangers (Spinifex Press, 2024).