The author and debater Kajsa Ekis Ekman's book On the existence of gender was published in April.
The book claims that the definition of gender has changed over the past ten years.
According to Ekman, this has serious consequences, especially for women.
The book has both been criticized for being disrespectful to transgender people and reviews in, among others, Göteborgs-posten, SVT and Aftonbladet accuse it of containing several factual errors.
In a separate article in Aftonbladet, Kajsa Ekis Ekman now defends herself.
She dismisses some of the pointed out factual errors that the book reviews address and writes:
"Rather than discussing the issue: the philosophical thinking or the medical revelations made, dissidents have sought to make debate impossible through guilt by association, by fragmenting the book into footnotes and making baseless claims about factual errors."
RFSL responds with its own book
In her article, Kajsa Ekis Ekman then mainly attacks the book 100 errors in On the existence of gender.
A kind of contradiction that RFSL, the Swedish Association for the Rights of Homosexuals, Bisexuals, Transgender People and Queeras, published in early May.
In the book, the authors Cal Orre and Edward Summanen list what they mean are a hundred errors that Kajsa Ekis Ekman committed in his controversial book.
Some fact-based quotes are met with corrections while others, more hovering and philosophical quotes, are met with opinion-driven counter-arguments from the RFSL representatives.
In an email to Kulturnyheterna, the author Cal Orre explains that their purpose was to respond to the "transphobic political submission that we consider 'On the existence of gender'."
"Do another analysis"
But Kajsa Ekis Ekman rejects RFSL's compilation.
"When I go through the pamphlet, however, it turns out that RFSL by 'factual error' means that I do a different analysis than they do (...) Only 19 of the 100 points are about facts, the rest are comments of the type" This reasoning is strange ", she writes in Aftonbladet.
Cal Orre responds to Kulturnyheterna that RFSL's book should be seen as a contribution to the debate.
"We are honest that it is a debate book and that we have a clear agenda.
We are also honest with what errors we have found that are pure factual errors and what other, more political or philosophical, thought twists we think the book contains.
The fact that Ekman says that allegations of factual errors are unfounded does not make all the pure factual errors less incorrect. "
Kulturnyheterna has contacted Kajsa Ekis Ekman who declined an interview.