The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male

In this book, Janice Raymond critiques the medical-psychiatric complex's approach to transsexualism, arguing that it medicalizes gender identity and reinforces traditional gender stereotypes.

She contends that the notion of transgender identity is based on 'patriarchal myths' and serves to 'colonize feminist identification, culture, politics, and sexuality.

' The book challenges the medical psychiatric definition of transsexualism as a disease and questions the motivations and outcomes of gender-affirming treatments and surgeries.