Being Pure Woman

For centuries, everyone knew what a woman was. Then suddenly women were required to prove it. And when they did, they were called TERFs.

Being Pure Woman is a historical, cultural, and legal examination of how the biological category of "woman" came under systematic redefinition — and the women who refused to let it happen without a fight.

Written from the outsider perspective of a male author who has no incentive to redefine womanhood for his own benefit, this book traces the deliberate project of replacing biological sex with self-identification: from the Salmacis Society in 1971 and the Journal of Male Feminism in 1977, through the expansion of gender into an unlimited number of identities, to the gradual infiltration of institutions built for women — sports, prisons, healthcare, shelters, and language itself.

It documents the real-world consequences: female athletes who lost races and scholarships. Female prisoners housed with male-bodied inmates. Female professionals fired for saying that sex is real. And it follows the legal battles that eventually turned the tide — from Maya Forstater's employment tribunal to the UK Supreme Court's ruling that "woman" means biological female, to the 2026 U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding sex-based sports categories.

Being Pure Woman is not a polemic. It is a case — presented methodically, argued from biology, documented with primary sources, and concluded as a lawyer rests a case. Whether you agree or disagree, you will not be able to say the question was never asked.

If the word "woman" can mean anything, what does it mean?
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