by Abigail Shrier
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For a quick Introduction to this subject please follow this link to a recent article written by Abigail Shrier the author of Irreversible Damage
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Irreversible Damage is informative, compelling, insightful, compassionate, apolitical, and, yes, disturbing… an eye-opener in so many ways.
Rather than attempting to summarize this book, a couple comments from Amazon have been excerpted.
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.
Sample Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Well-writen, factual, devastating Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2020 Verified Purchase
Anybody who has or knows children should read this book.
You don’t think of non-fiction as having the “page-turner”, “couldn’t put it down” quality but this one does.
Not a partisan or prissy-pants morality play, the author listens to all sides and presents what she finds with great love and sympathy.
They used to say that a lie marches across over the whole world by the time the truth laces up its boots. Today the truth cannot even touch a lace before the junk science bangs through the social media echo chambers and goes viral.
Kudos and illimitable respect to the author for taking the time and effort to present truth in the face of uneducated howls of outrage and literal death threats. They may rage today but someday they will thank her for standing up to them.
5.0 out of 5 stars Irreversible Damage indeed Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2020 Verified Purchase
This is perhaps the most important book you didn’t know you should be reading. I can not recommend it enough. Abigail Shrier writes in an approachable and engaging way what could be preconceived a rather esoteric subject to some/most. The book is poignant; it will shock you, it will move you, it brought me to tears many times, full blown bawling tears but the urgency of the book is warranted, rest assured, this is an emergency. Knowing that we’re living in times where everything can be deemed ‘transphobic’ and bigoted unless it fully embraces the transgenderism trend, Shrier is a modern day heroine, shedding light on this bizarre flying by the seat of their pants ideology that has run amok and without oversight