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prairie_fairie 's review for:
Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
by Abigail Shrier
medium-paced
I didn't want to give a book of this nature four stars, but I found it compelling, well-written, full of information and covered a lot of areas, that quite frankly many of straight people wouldn't have considered. What does it even mean to feel like you're in the wrong body? That's not something I suspect many people have really considered. Our minds inhabit a body and that body (whether we like it or not) is part of who we are.
I've read some of the other reviews and those one-stars and those comments about the author being trans-phobic or out to perpetuate hate and shame are totally off base.
I'm a parent of a girl. This book was written for the likes of me. It was written to elucidate parents on the seductive nature of this counterculture social media that tells you how awesome you'll be as a transperson. That somehow by injecting yourself with hormones that don't belong in your body in such quantity, that you'll be better for it. That by changing the outward appearance, you'll somehow become magically transformed in your brain. Your depression will vanish.
When you go to another country, you take you with you. Cutting pieces off and altering your outward appearance will not change who you (your mind / personality) are. You might alter some aspects of your brain with chemicals, but you will never be able to get rid of those neurological parts that actually belong to the bits you chop off.
Shrier's book takes some time to explore some of the things that actually go wrong with taking cross-sex hormones. She doesn't gloss over the details.
Given that this book was written a couple of years ago and there have been some de-transitioners giving interviews since then, they've been backing up what she has written. It might be anecdotal, but the studies she has cited aren't.
Read this book. Educate yourself and protect our future.
I've read some of the other reviews and those one-stars and those comments about the author being trans-phobic or out to perpetuate hate and shame are totally off base.
I'm a parent of a girl. This book was written for the likes of me. It was written to elucidate parents on the seductive nature of this counterculture social media that tells you how awesome you'll be as a transperson. That somehow by injecting yourself with hormones that don't belong in your body in such quantity, that you'll be better for it. That by changing the outward appearance, you'll somehow become magically transformed in your brain. Your depression will vanish.
When you go to another country, you take you with you. Cutting pieces off and altering your outward appearance will not change who you (your mind / personality) are. You might alter some aspects of your brain with chemicals, but you will never be able to get rid of those neurological parts that actually belong to the bits you chop off.
Shrier's book takes some time to explore some of the things that actually go wrong with taking cross-sex hormones. She doesn't gloss over the details.
Given that this book was written a couple of years ago and there have been some de-transitioners giving interviews since then, they've been backing up what she has written. It might be anecdotal, but the studies she has cited aren't.
Read this book. Educate yourself and protect our future.