From Rousseau to trans-sexuality: the modern self

Michael Trimble  |  Reviews
Date posted:  1 Mar 2021
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From Rousseau to trans-sexuality: the modern self

THE RISE AND TRIUMPH OF THE MODERN SELF:
Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism and the Road to Sexual Revolution
By Carl R. Trueman
Crossway. 425 pages. £27.99
ISBN 978 1 433 556 333

Whilst I was reading this book, news media were carrying reports of comedian Eddie Izzard, who had previously used the line ‘I’m a lesbian trapped in a man’s body’ in his stage routine, having announced that it was to be ‘girl mode from now on’.

I suspect that Izzard’s former comment, made in 1994, had been assumed by many to be a joke. What are we to make of this more recent statement?

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