A review by fictionesque
Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier

3.0

Four stars until I read that chunk of bio-essentialism at the end. This is such an important book but when you write a lightning rod like this, I don't think Shrier's highly emotional voice (trying not to sound sexist lol, but it's true. It's very, very steeped in emotion) is the best way of approaching? Moreover there were one or two 'citation needed' areas that showed her bias, as well as one or two places where emotionality did escalate to disgust or gross-out tactics. This is fine when used to underline the dangers of the highly experimental procedures these girls are getting, not so much to ridicule trans women's appearances. And no, undercutting it with a comment one sentence later about how elegant they look does not work lmao. Overall I still do recommend, but take uncited statements with a grain of salt, as there is a reason far-right propagandists like Ben Shapiro endorse this book.