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Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
by Abigail Shrier
“Irreversible Damage” by Abigail Shrier made headlines when Target, responding to a tweet from a disgruntled reader, took the book off its shelves briefly in the fall.
The publisher, Regnery Publishing, which recently signed Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri after Simon & Schuster canceled his book deal, was kind enough to send me “Irreversible Damage” in exchange for what they termed “an honest review.”
Upon a careful look at the cover, it’s easy to see why many people would jump to the conclusion that Shrier’s book is anti-transgender. As we all tend to do in real life and at first glance, we judge the book by its cover, make our comments — mostly in a Twitter thread form — without researching or even opening the book.
This is how Shrier’s book became banned from Target’s shelves for a brief period. All it took was one person seeing it and tweeting about it for Target to remove it completely.
From the introduction, however, it’s clear that the author is not transphobic at all. She simply is concerned with the increased rates of girls who want to transition in what she calls an “unprecedented” fashion.
“Between 2016 and 2017 the number of gender surgeries for natal females in the U.S quadrupled, with biological women suddenly accounting for — as we have seen — 70 percent of all gender surgeries. In 2018, the UK reported a 4,400 percent rise over the previous decade in teenage girls seeking gender treatments,” Shrier says in Chapter 1.
She doesn’t write off gender dysphoria. She seeks in the book to show that this sudden spike in girls looking to change genders isn’t something to ignore and potentially can be attributed to the effects of social media and the loneliness that sweeps the current generation.
With each turn of the page, I found myself interested and constantly learning. Shrier does a great job at informing her audience while keeping them captivated.
From the information presented to the diction that Shrier uses, there is no doubt she researched her subject with care and did due diligence to get all sides of the story.
From reaching out to those who opposed her Op-Ed piece, she encouraged conversation so she could hear the other side of the story. She spoke to Trans activists and influencers, psychologists, doctors and many more.
This isn’t a transphobic book, but instead a concern for the popular trend that seems to be sweeping young women, along with how society’s reaction to it can be more harmful than helpful.
I definitely recommend opening this book, whether you agree or not with the title. It exposes issues we have with our doctors and the rampant diagnosing and throwing pills at people left and right.
The publisher, Regnery Publishing, which recently signed Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri after Simon & Schuster canceled his book deal, was kind enough to send me “Irreversible Damage” in exchange for what they termed “an honest review.”
Upon a careful look at the cover, it’s easy to see why many people would jump to the conclusion that Shrier’s book is anti-transgender. As we all tend to do in real life and at first glance, we judge the book by its cover, make our comments — mostly in a Twitter thread form — without researching or even opening the book.
This is how Shrier’s book became banned from Target’s shelves for a brief period. All it took was one person seeing it and tweeting about it for Target to remove it completely.
From the introduction, however, it’s clear that the author is not transphobic at all. She simply is concerned with the increased rates of girls who want to transition in what she calls an “unprecedented” fashion.
“Between 2016 and 2017 the number of gender surgeries for natal females in the U.S quadrupled, with biological women suddenly accounting for — as we have seen — 70 percent of all gender surgeries. In 2018, the UK reported a 4,400 percent rise over the previous decade in teenage girls seeking gender treatments,” Shrier says in Chapter 1.
She doesn’t write off gender dysphoria. She seeks in the book to show that this sudden spike in girls looking to change genders isn’t something to ignore and potentially can be attributed to the effects of social media and the loneliness that sweeps the current generation.
With each turn of the page, I found myself interested and constantly learning. Shrier does a great job at informing her audience while keeping them captivated.
From the information presented to the diction that Shrier uses, there is no doubt she researched her subject with care and did due diligence to get all sides of the story.
From reaching out to those who opposed her Op-Ed piece, she encouraged conversation so she could hear the other side of the story. She spoke to Trans activists and influencers, psychologists, doctors and many more.
This isn’t a transphobic book, but instead a concern for the popular trend that seems to be sweeping young women, along with how society’s reaction to it can be more harmful than helpful.
I definitely recommend opening this book, whether you agree or not with the title. It exposes issues we have with our doctors and the rampant diagnosing and throwing pills at people left and right.