Polity is a publisher that has published a disproportionate number of anti-trans books. They have also published a number of balanced and measured books, including works by trans and gender diverse authors.
Polity author and anti-trans activist Susanna Rustin stated, “Polity is making a speciality of gender-critical and radical feminism – filling the space left by others – while also publishing books by gender-identity advocates in line with its pluralist values.”
Selected work by anti-trans authors
Jo Bartosch, Robert Jessel (2026). Pornocracy. ISBN 978-1509565139
Rogers Brubaker (2026). Gender Identity. ISBN: 978-1509575558
Tara Henley (2026). The Trust Spiral: Why the Media Needs Objectivity. ISBN 978-1509570935
Kate M. Phelan (2025). Feminism, Defeated. ISBN 978-1509566556
Robert Wintemute (2025). Transgender Rights vs Women’s Rights: From Conflicts to Co-existence. ISBN 978-1509560752
Holly Lawford-Smith (2025). Feminism Beyond Left and Right. ISBN 978-1509564798
Glenn C. Loury (2025). Self-Censorship. ISBN 978-1509567409
Frank Furedi (2024). In Defence of Populism: The War Against the Past. ISBN 978-1509561254
Susanna Rustin (2024) Sexed: A History of British Feminism. ISBN: 978-1509560134
Jenny Lindsay (2024). Hounded: Women, Harms and the Gender Wars. 978-1509563647
Alex Byrne (2024). Trouble With Gender: Sex Facts, Gender Fictions. ISBN 978-1509560035
Louise Perry (2022) The Case Against the Sexual Revolution. ISBN: 978-1509550005
Karen Ingala Smith (2023). Defending Women’s Spaces. ISBN 978-1509554430
Paul Embery (2021). Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class. ISBN 978-1509539987
Slavoj Žižek: various works not specifically about trans topics
Selected work by trans and gender diverse authors
Kylan Mattias de Vries and Carey Jean Sojka (2025). Transgender Intersections: Race and Gender through Identities, Interactions, and Systems of Power. ISBN 978-1509560158
Sophie Grace Chappell (2024). Trans Figured: On Being a Transgender Person in a Cisgender World. ISBN 978-1509561506
Miquel Missé (2022). The Myth of the Wrong Body. ISBN 978-1509551873
Judith Butler (2013). Dispossession: The Performative in the Political. ISBN 978-0745653808
Anti-trans coverage
Parker, John (September 19, 2023), Oxford University Press refuses to publish professor’s book that challenges gender ideology. Campus Reform https://www.campusreform.org/article/oxford-university-press-refuses-publish-professors-book-challenges-gender-ideology/23996
Ruth, Sibyl (October 11, 2024). How trans activists hound female writers into silence: Jenny Lindsay’s Hounded explores her experience of a modern-day witch hunt. Spiked https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/10/11/how-trans-activists-hound-female-writers-into-silence/
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