First of all I'm a non-operative trans woman. I'm not going to get into how the non-operative status came about. Point being, when I saw the library list this book about people who choose not to take HRT during menopause, I was like oh cool this can be something to talk about with the older women in my community, (especially as it could relate to navigating the intersection of body horror & gender), especially since I'm older now & so the topic of fertility & having children comes up (since I'm still childless), in addition to me being disabled & older people developing disabilities as they age.

Germaine Greer is quoted around the 0:16:57 I don't know how else to explain that there's more than a thousand feminists in our world, and so your choice of sources is a statement of affiliation.

That being said, things I appreciated were the discussion of the intersection of disability politics & misogyny. (Some call this medical misogyny, but I think not acknowledging this is a compound is weaponized to police/surveil our bodies & lives as women more.) Like I checked this book out from the library because I wanted to hear about the things my family members went thru, etc. Also some menopausal people, trans people seeking medical transportation, and people with premature puberty, so I thought this book could give insight for that. 

That being said, I do not have a christian education & I thank God for that, so the focus on religious conversion experiences was really disorientating & I wasn't sure whether this was a sort of Christian nationalism or just spirituality (like how LGBT+ people sometimes compare themselves to various fairies & supernatural creatures)

For example, based on the information I gof from a world's religion textbook, I think "st paul" is a false prophet & was loaded with hate... That being said, the part about him possibly having epilepsy was interesting because as someone with bipolar I do like representation & it can be a weird sort of comfort to know that yeah they knew about this shit 2000 years ago, but it was Nero. But then the book elaborated more about other christian stuff that made no sense to me.

Anyways, this is a lovely topic, but I don't share the cultural references being used & so with that vulnerability, I had to stop once Greer was cited since that's usually a red flag.