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January 20, 2025

To mark the solemn occasion of the Liar-in-Chief ascending to the US Presidency once again, I’m releasing an updated version of Crime Against Nature. This science picture book is fiercely feminist and full of facts about all the ways we’ve misunderstood what actually goes on in the natural world when it comes to gender and sex.

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You can download a free PDF or invite these facts to take up space in the real world by purchasing a print copy.


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Crime Against Nature 13th Anniversary Edition
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VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

This book repeats itself. It repeats itself so much that it actually repeated its entire self!

This is the thirteenth anniversary edition of the book Crime Against Nature, which I am releasing officially today. It contains a comprehensive new preface that explains why I decided to do a thirteenth anniversary edition and two new images. There are 56 images in all in this book and two of them are new to this edition. And then there’s also some formatting differences, but essentially this is a repetition of the 2012 original version of this book. And the book, in whatever edition, is full of repetitions.

For over a hundred pages, I repeat a single simple formula: boys are like this and girls are like that. And with every repetition of that formula, I am chipping away at traditional ideas of what boys and girls—and everybody else—can do with their lives.

When the book tells you that, among bald eagles and blue whales, girls can be bigger than boys, it’s telling you that assuming anything about an individual by looking at their relative size or strength is silly. When it says that, among peafowl and chameleons, boys can be prettier than girls, it’s showing you that categorizing an individual by looking at the care and/or flair in their appearance is useless. When it declares that, in many species, including zebra and rabbits, it can be hard to tell the difference between the sexes just by looking, it’s claiming the right for you and me to express our genders how each of us sees fit. And when the book points out that some species like elk and sparrow could be thought of as having more than two genders, it’s asserting the likelihood that the gender binary is wishful thinking rather than settled science.

Crime Against Nature repeats itself like this because it is a direct response to another kind repetition, a lie that’s been told so many times that many of us believe it must be true. And that’s the lie that there is a “natural order” in which boys are more powerful and just generally better than girls. This book proves that boys and girls are actually just kind of different from each other, but also, weirdly, very much the same. And also that boys and girls aren’t everything that there is when it comes to gender.

So, just like it’s been for thirteen years, Crime Against Nature in this new version is downloadable as a free PDF. But it’s also available in softcover like this for $35, and, for the first time ever, there’s a hardcover version of the book that’s $45.


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