Irreversible Damage

Teenage Girls and the Transgender Craze

Abigail Shrier

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Swift Press
01 February 2022

Society & Social Sciences; Social issues & processes; Gender studies: transsexuals & hermaphroditism

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 and secondary schools across the world 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 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 agonised parents, and the therapists 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.

By: Abigail Shrier
Imprint: Swift Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781800750364
ISBN 10: 1800750366
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 February 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Address book
Publisher's Status: Active

Abigail Shrier is a writer for the Wall Street Journal. She holds an A.B. from Columbia College, where she received the Euretta J. Kellett Fellowship; a BPhil. from the University of Oxford; and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

Reviews for Irreversible Damage: Teenage Girls and the Transgender Craze

The Best Books of 2021, The Times Book of the Year, The Economist 'Explosive...Punchy, analytical and written with zest and elegance' Sunday Times 'Courageous. Vital. Brilliant. Humane' Mail on Sunday 'A folksy, anecdotal tour of a well-evidenced phenomenon' Private Eye 'A detailed look at the context and consequences of this rise in transgender identity' Irish Independent 'A thought-provoking examination of a new clinical phenomenon'' Dr Kenneth J. Zucker, adolescent and child psychologist and chair of the DSM-5 Work Group on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders