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3.44 AVERAGE
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This book broke my heart and left me with much to consider. Shrier looks at the massive outbreak of teenage girls who determine that they've always been boys at heart and in their soul, and who therefore make the transition. The activists all say Shrier is a vehicle for hate--someone who promotes prejudice against the transgender community. I saw none of that here. This author isn't a lectern-pounding Bible-waving hellfire-screeching evangelical. She is a thoughtful academic whose personal politics likely leans left of center. She stresses here frequently the positive interactions she had while interviewing those who have successfully transitioned. But that doesn't stop her from sounding the clarion voice of warning. She decries a mental health industry and educators who eagerly affirm a young woman's decision to transition. Shrier seems to call for a more measured more thoughtful approach to things. She says loneliness and the extreme prevalence of the smart phone in the lives of young teenage girls are major factors in moving someone toward transitioning.
Quite frankly I was heartbroken as I read this. I read about acute vaginal and breast damage. I learned about transgender activists who learn of a young woman's decision to make the switch and eagerly pour out love and offer to provide her with everything from breast binders to testosterone supplements. I learned new and, for me, horrifying uses for duct tape. I learned about permanent sterility and tentative steps that became life sentences.
I wish Shrier had spent more time looking at what I assume would be cataclysmic disruptions in the family structure as uncertain parents who just want to show love to their daughter desperately look for direction that either isn't coming or is so skewed in one direction as to make the decision-making process potentially faulty. She focuses on it to some degree, but I suspect there are studies she wasn't able to site in an effort to keep this brief enough to be readable.
I love the immediacy and almost-intimate nature of her writing style. There's nothing detached, clinical, or academically sterile about this book. Her treatment of the subject seems well thought out and incredibly thorough.
The audio edition is brilliantly narrated. They picked the right narrator for the job. She is neither boring and detached nor is she melodramatic and sensationalistic. It's a solid, straight read that lets you focus on the message of the book rather than be distracted by the antics of a narrator.
Quite frankly I was heartbroken as I read this. I read about acute vaginal and breast damage. I learned about transgender activists who learn of a young woman's decision to make the switch and eagerly pour out love and offer to provide her with everything from breast binders to testosterone supplements. I learned new and, for me, horrifying uses for duct tape. I learned about permanent sterility and tentative steps that became life sentences.
I wish Shrier had spent more time looking at what I assume would be cataclysmic disruptions in the family structure as uncertain parents who just want to show love to their daughter desperately look for direction that either isn't coming or is so skewed in one direction as to make the decision-making process potentially faulty. She focuses on it to some degree, but I suspect there are studies she wasn't able to site in an effort to keep this brief enough to be readable.
I love the immediacy and almost-intimate nature of her writing style. There's nothing detached, clinical, or academically sterile about this book. Her treatment of the subject seems well thought out and incredibly thorough.
The audio edition is brilliantly narrated. They picked the right narrator for the job. She is neither boring and detached nor is she melodramatic and sensationalistic. It's a solid, straight read that lets you focus on the message of the book rather than be distracted by the antics of a narrator.
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I don't know whether I'm more shocked that someone actually found a publisher for this collection of unscientific, illogical nonsence - or that it has been advertised on this website.
This is what harmful prejudices are being made of... that's the real damage. Goodreads, why are you promoting this????!!!
This is what harmful prejudices are being made of... that's the real damage. Goodreads, why are you promoting this????!!!
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Abigail Shrier boldly confronts the transgender epidemic sweeping across the Western world and debilitating our teenage girls. Of course, the usual class of professional victims will cry transphobic but Shrier leaves no stone unturned in exposing this irreversible self-damage for what it truly is: a craze rooted in faulty psyches.
With references to accredited scientific studies; incorporating the words of leading world-class authorities battling gender dysphoria and quoting affected parents Irreversible Damage lays bare the entire unnerving falsity of the trans gamut and its inimical affect on our society today.
A book of heroic proportions.
With references to accredited scientific studies; incorporating the words of leading world-class authorities battling gender dysphoria and quoting affected parents Irreversible Damage lays bare the entire unnerving falsity of the trans gamut and its inimical affect on our society today.
A book of heroic proportions.
Phew, na dit te lezen, ben ik wel in voor een boekverbranding. Ik gooi dit "boek" eerst, iemand nog andere suggesties?
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