Irreversible Damage
The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
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Publisher Description
NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2021 BY THE TIMES AND THE SUNDAY TIMES
"Irreversible Damage . . . has caused a storm. Abigail Shrier, a Wall Street Journal writer, does something simple yet devastating: she rigorously lays out the facts." —Janice Turner, The Times of London
Until just a few years ago, gender dysphoria—severe discomfort in one’s biological sex—was vanishingly rare. It was typically found in less than .01 percent of the population, emerged in early childhood, and afflicted males almost exclusively.
But today whole groups of female friends in colleges, high schools, and even middle schools across the country are coming out as “transgender.” These are girls who had never experienced any discomfort in their biological sex until they heard a coming-out story from a speaker at a school assembly or discovered the internet community of trans “influencers.”
Unsuspecting parents are awakening to find their daughters in thrall to hip trans YouTube stars and “gender-affirming” educators and therapists who push life-changing interventions on young girls—including medically unnecessary double mastectomies and puberty blockers that can cause permanent infertility.
Abigail Shrier, a writer for the Wall Street Journal, has dug deep into the trans epidemic, talking to the girls, their agonized parents, and the counselors and doctors who enable gender transitions, as well as to “detransitioners”—young women who bitterly regret what they have done to themselves.
Coming out as transgender immediately boosts these girls’ social status, Shrier finds, but once they take the first steps of transition, it is not easy to walk back. She offers urgently needed advice about how parents can protect their daughters.
A generation of girls is at risk. Abigail Shrier’s essential book will help you understand what the trans craze is and how you can inoculate your child against it—or how to retrieve her from this dangerous path.
Customer Reviews
Searching for truth
This book takes courage and self confidence to read. It offers a different perspective.
I believe the author and the study it is based on does not harbor any ill intent toward anyone.
Instead, I believe there is strong desire to attempt understand.
There is so much emotion and noise surrounding this subject matter and takes courage to venture into the fray.
In the current social/political environment, it is common place for anyone who offers a perspective that differs from the passionate vocal groups run the risk of being burned to the ground.
I give credit to the author for daring to step in and offer this perspective. Although the text can be a bit heavy handed in places, but my intuition tells me there are also truths with in the text.
Don’t listen to the hype surrounding this book... purchase or borrow it and decide for yourself. Don’t close off differing perspectives based on someone else’s strong opinion.
Be brave, trust your own intellect, be ever curious, and continue to search for truth.
Not Transphobic
As a mental health clinician who works with trans and non binary youth, I want to sing the praises of this book. It is describing a phenomenon I have seen time and time again in many of my clients. If you are looking for a book to better understand trans issues and stories, this is not the book for you.
This book isn’t really about trans folks, but rather the mental health of teenage girls. I have seen the exact paradigm the author describes played out in school, summer camp, and more clinical settings. It would be a mistake to assume this book invalidates trans folk’s existence. It does not. Nor should one draw sweeping conclusions about the trans community from this book, yet there is something going on that has very little to do with legitimate gender dysphoria.
Americans are suckers for anything cloaked in the language of civil rights, yet we must acknowledge, the level of controversy around this book surely indicates the author is onto something. Again, this book is not about trans people. It is about mentally unhealthy teenage girls hijacking the trans narrative as a means of coping with patriarchal standards.
There are very few things harder to be than a teenage girl (trans teenagers more so), and the availability of hormonal and transitional services for this population needs to be re-examined by professionals with a queer lens. Surely we can recognize the nuance of discussing this without invalidating or erasing the needs and stories of the LGBTQIA community. This is in fact another part of the story. A part that deserves to be discussed. End rant.
Excellent
Coming across gender critical perspectives and now reading this book has changed the way I see nearly everything going on in the Anglosphere, socioculturally speaking. I highly recommend reading this book, especially if you are like I was and had never really thought critically about the messages being promoted by this gender ideologue movement.