I presume they live, except that would be to assume they exist because there is zero hint of that. That’s the real tragedy here.Īnd what about the trans men? No idea. Not on a single one of those men who have died, but on the women caught up in her plan.īecause clearly, why would anyone ever mourn a man? Clearly the murder of three million men isn’t enough to paint Greywytch as having done something wrong. That’s where all the focus goes within a single line. The women on planes piloted by men the women on operating tables when the surgeon keeled over. Three million men, boom, gone, but oh my God, the real tragedy here is the poor women who died too.

So I was sceptical about this plan, and how this author would pull it off.Īnd I was right to be. And God forbid anyone but trans women speak about trans issues, so trans men sit in a double-whammy of do not discuss. But you’re not allowed to discuss it, because God forbid anyone but women have problems. It’s constant and pervading and it leads directly to heightened rates of mental illness and suicide for men, both cisgender and transgender ones. So there’s thing I’ve noticed since coming out as a trans man: that rhetoric about men being scum, men being trash, men being garbage, masculinity being this horrible, toxic thing? That’s everywhere. I mentioned the supervillain’s plan: kill off all the men. If anybody recommends me anything by this author again, I’m going to point straight to this review and follow it up with a middle finger salute.īut that was the grand finale of what was already a dubious book for me.

Even without the other issues, that in and of itself would have been a zero stars from me. It destroyed everything that came before. And it’s not something I expected to find in a trans book-and an own voices one, no less. There is nothing else there about intersex identities except this, and it’s beyond revolting. Their identity is a befitting joke played on the villain, and nothing more. It mocks gay people, and this mocks intersex people.

This is no better than mocking homophobes by photoshopping pictures of them in same-sex kisses. How dare you use being intersex as a cruel last laugh at the villain. How dare you use being intersex as a punishment. Turns out she’s got a Y chromosome herself, take that! But haha! She gets her comeuppance when her curse hits her as well. The supervillain is a hardcore TERF, and creates a spell/technology hybrid that tries to kill off everyone with a Y chromosome. And not in a good way.įirstly, nobody going to mention the big middle finger to intersex people that’s given by this book? Okay, I will.

Sovereign by april daniels