About Transmania, by Dora Moutot and Marguerite Stern

About Transmania, by Dora Moutot and Marguerite Stern

Claudio Rubiliani

Biologist, member of the Little Mermaid Observatory.
Despite these few reservations, the fact remains that Transmania is a powerful and useful book. Buy it, read it… and, if possible, have it signed (wearing a helmet is recommended).

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About Transmania, by Dora Moutot and Marguerite Stern

First, don't be fooled by the back cover or the sometimes trivial tone of the red (or pink) thread relating Robert/Catherine's ramblings. This book is terribly serious. Above all, terrible.

Second, it is not a novel but a detailed study of a disturbing contemporary sociological phenomenon.

Thirdly, it is not a transphobic book, contrary to what the morons and the elected officials who are calling for its boycott without having read it say (such as Emmanuel Grégoire, deputy mayor of Paris who demanded that JCDecaux withdraw the advertising poster campaign for this book and who, moreover, admitted not having read it. Profound objectivity and admirable intellectual rigor!). The various testimonies collected are very respectful of the choices of adults who have decided at some point in their lives to change their sexual identity and who explain this choice here. 

This book simply sounds the alarm in the face of what was considered a vital necessity by a tiny minority of individuals and which, through a fad linked to a deleterious ideology conveyed by mystifiers and sectarian activists, is today taking on a deadly dimension; in the face of a denial of the biological reality of Homo sapiens in favor of a mutilating transhumanism.

The strong points of this book are, firstly, to dismantle the workings of lobbying linked to this transsexualist movement with significant financial stakes (always looking for who benefits from the crime). Thus the authors unravel the threads that connect rich philanthropists and pharmaceutical or medical equipment companies. The link between these financial interests and the political sphere likely to legislate in their favour is also established. As well as the cowardice, even the compromise of institutions and companies that fear not being in the wind (dead leaf ambition, Kundera said).

Second strong point: the highlighting of the danger run by adolescents and pre-adolescents, the main target of this indoctrination orchestrated by trans-militant associations (who find there a breeding ground and the justification for their survival) and irresponsible doctors (who find there a justification for their practices and a certain profit). The emphasis is placed on puberty blockers, these chemical castrators and desire killers whose dangerous impact induced by the non-compliant use made of them on minors we can never emphasize enough. The book here renews the alarm call launched by Caroline Eliacheff and Céline Masson in The making of the transgender child.

Finally, in the chapter entitled "They go so far as to throw poop in our faces", the authors detail the various pressures and exactions committed against those "refractory to the transactivist dogma". Because, in a sectarian posture refusing all dialogue, all contestation of the dogma, by methods of spreading untruths and repression, the transactivists have generated what Nathalie Heinich called an "atmospheric totalitarianism"... or even a total totalitarianism, as the latest attacks reveal to us: the new fascism will come from the antifascists, Pasolini prophesied.

However, beyond the form, often humorous, which allows to reach a wider audience (and which I would be ill-advised to criticize, having used and abused it), but which can disorient professionals - psychologists, psychoanalysts, doctors or biologists - some more critical remarks. (In cauda venenum?).

First of all, there are some gaps or imprecisions on the biological level, on the modes of action and the side effects of hormones and puberty blockers (ok, that's my area, so I'm nitpicking!).

More disturbing is the testimony of Alexandra (pages 92 and following), an intersex who considers that transgenderism harms her. However, the presentation of this testimony can be misleading and reinforce the confusion, already too often made and exploited by activists, between intersexuality and transsexuality. It must be remembered that intersexuality is a biological problem of genetic or developmental origin, unlike transgenderism which does not relate to biology in its causes. Furthermore, Alexandra is a very atypical Klinefelter intersex (XXY genotype). The frequency of this anomaly is approximately one in 1000 male subjects and does not generally result in any ambiguity of sexual identity. Cases of intersexuality are limited to approximately 1 in 4500 births, of which 5% are considered to be "true" hermaphrodites. It should also be remembered that among intersex people, a large majority have no identity problems, either because this intersexuality remains unknown to the subjects, or because it does not call into question the identity "assigned" at birth and in which people have constructed themselves (even if the term "determined" remains preferable for these marginal cases). Thus, for example, some athletes have revealed themselves to be chromosomally male during tests and continue to live and compete as women (even if, here, financial and sporting interests are not to be neglected). (For more details, see our article " Gender, adolescents and so-called networks social » published in Topique n°156, 2022.). The authors should have insisted on the fact that Alexandra represented an exceptional case within a category that was itself extremely marginal, and was therefore not very significant. 

But the weak point of the book lies in its last part: "Are endocrine disruptors making us queer?"

After having rightly denounced the lack of culture, the inconsistencies and the crass stupidity of those that Franz-Olivier Giesbert calls the "escrologistes" (one only has to look at the title of a workshop at the 2024 Greens' summer days: "How to guarantee safe and legal routes for LGBTQIA+ refugees"... Look for ecology in that!), our authors unfortunately fall into a simplistic trap that has led some to say that the work contained a conspiracy bias (but this chapter and this alone, if the work were to be reissued - which I hope it will be and which it deserves - would have to be completely revised).

Indeed, endocrine disruptors – some of which have yet to be certified, others to be identified – have for the most part an impact on the development of cancers (see Cancer, the enemy within, by Jacques Robert, 2024, CNRS Editions) or embryonic development, such as the terrible diethylstilboestrol (= Distilbene or DES). They are probably involved in the drop in sperm concentration in semen observed over the past century, even if this phenomenon is multifactorial and generally unexplained (according to various studies, we have gone from around 110 million sperm per ml of semen in 1940 to around 60 million today, a drop of 1,4% per year). But presenting these endocrine disruptors (EDs) as a cause of "gender dysphoria" seems totally disproportionate and is scientifically unfounded. Furthermore, referring to the impact of these EDs on fish or frogs amounts to (un)reasoning like transactivists: relying on an animal model that cannot be transposed to humans to justify an ideological position. This is what we find in the inept articles of Médiapart, for example, or the Butlerian hodgepodge to "justify" the wanderings of the spectrum or the fluidity of genres. This chapter is therefore counterproductive. 

The spread of a fashion, a behavior, an ideology, however deleterious they may be, does not need a chemical trigger or catalyst or even climate change. This is the case with the recent fashion for tattoos, once the preserve of English sailors and cartel hitmen or the Russian mafia. This is also about the transformation of one's body, with a form of trauma and aggression. An oxymoronic need for gregarious personalization, for sheep-like individualization. And what about these fusions in mass phenomena such as joining a sect or a deadly ideology? No joint disruptor forced millions of Germans to stretch out their arms in the 30s. And no Orvietan is responsible for the hallucinatory anti-Semitic demonstrations by brainless students (who are supposed to have a brain) at Sciences Po and in American universities since the tragic October 7, 2023!

Notwithstanding these few reservations, the fact remains that Transmania is a powerful and useful book. Buy it, read it… and, if possible, have it signed (wearing a helmet is recommended).

Thanks to Jacques Robert and Sylvie Rubiliani for their careful proofreading.

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