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'Compellingly explains the anti-trans alliance of radical feminists and conservative evangelicals. Intellectually rich yet accessible' Pippa Catterall, Professor, University of Westminster and Chair of AIDS Memory UK
'We live in a time when anti-trans politics is becoming increasingly dehumanising and dangerous. Reading this illuminating book will help the open-minded, open-hearted Christian reader hear, encounter, and love their trans neighbours. I learned much from this book' David P. Gushee, Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics, Mercer University
For decades, conservative evangelicals and so-called gender critical feminists have worked hand-in-hand to oppose trans liberation. But how did this alliance come about? What makes it tick? And how can trans people and allies respond?
In
Gender Heretics, Rebecca Jane Morgan tackles this reactionary alliance head on. With unique insight, she explores how theological arguments snaked their way from anti-trans feminist tracts into the everyday practices of evangelical churches today, and how the unlikely alliance remains strong in spite of seemingly irreconcilable worldviews.
Shedding light on the roots of today's transphobic backlash, she provides crucial tools to overcome it, offering a hopeful way forward for Christians and advocating for a full recalibration of evangelical thought on gender identity and trans activism.
Rebecca Jane Morgan is a transfeminist and evangelical Christian, a historian of modern Britain, popular culture, and queer identities.
List of contents
Preface: A Tower to the Heavens
Introduction
Part I: An 'Unlikely' Alliance
1. Warzone
2. Of Feminists and Mystics
3. Trans as Heresy in Evangelical Thought
4. The Alliance Goes to War
Part II: The Theological Bit (And Why It Matters)
5. Gender Orthodoxy
6. Rebellion
Part III: Covering the Cracks
7. 'God is bullshit, and so is gender'
8. Masking Strategies
Part IV: The Future
9. A Coming Storm?
10. Getting Christianity Right
Acknowledgements
Notes
About the author
Rebecca Jane Morgan is a transfeminist and evangelical Christian, a historian of modern Britain, popular culture, and queer identities. Her PhD research at the University of Nottingham explores the history of trans politics in the UK since the 1970s.
Rebecca Jane Morgan is a trans historian and recent PhD graduate (University of Nottingham). She is the author of Gender Heretics: Evangelicals, Feminists, and the Alliance Against Trans Liberation (Pluto 2023) and has published articles in the International Journal of Heritage Studies, the Midlands Historical Review, and DiGeSt – The Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies. She has a chapter in a forthcoming book edited by Kit Hayem and Jon Ward and published by Bloomsbury – New and Decolonial Approaches to Gender Nonconformity: Forging a Home For Ourselves.
Summary
Exposes and explains the unlikely alliance between Evangelical Christians and anti-transgender feminists
