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"The "trans" epidemic sweeping teenage girls. 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, high schools, and even middle schools across the country 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 hip trans 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 agonized parents, and the counselors and the 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. She offers urgently needed advice about how parents can protect their daughters. A generation of girls is at risk. Abigail Shrier's essential book will help you understand what the trans craze is and how you can inoculate your child against it - or how to retrieve her from this dangerous path." --… (more)
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Regnery Publishing (2021), 256 pages
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1684510317 / 9781684510313
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English
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LibraryThing member Nicole_VanK
Right. We get it. You're a TERF. Even the cover - suggesting little children get such treatment, is deliberately misleading. Gross.
LibraryThing member wyclif
Essential reading, especially if you're the parent of daughters. This book is a serious inquiry into the surge of gender dysphoria among teen girls. Shrier is careful to cast her investigative net widely in consulting with physicians, teachers, trans-affirming psychotherapists, and administrators
The book is a sobering wake-up call to people who are in denial that the schools and colleges their children attend are providing transgender affirmation and even treatment without parental consent.
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promoting "gender affirmation" in American public schools. She also interviews many educators who lost their careers or reputations challenging the wisdom of puberty-blocking drugs or “binding” (physically obstructing the growth of breasts). She speaks directly to teens who transitioned and later regretted it. The book is a sobering wake-up call to people who are in denial that the schools and colleges their children attend are providing transgender affirmation and even treatment without parental consent.
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LibraryThing member malcrf
Sobering, particularly if you are a parent with daughters.
A great study in how this craze has spread, and continues to do so.
A great study in how this craze has spread, and continues to do so.
LibraryThing member Devil_llama
In a controversial but important book, the author details the risks to young girls of the current trans trend, encouraging girls who are not sufficiently "girly" to declare they are boys. What makes it worse is that they are being encouraged to take puberty blockers, followed by cross sex hormones,
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to bind their breasts, and to have double mastectomies. Well researched and well written, with a few weaknesses. For one, the author too often accepts the phrase "top surgery" which doesn't describe well what is really happening and lulls people into a false sense of not so bad. But what lost the book a star was the ending of the book where she declares that women have it pretty good, better than men mostly, and that we actually are a nurturing sex, prone to caring professions. In short, not men. This may be a function of being published by Regnery, a nod to the conservatism of the publishers, or she may actually be doing what she says she is doing and using her daughter as a sample size of one to declare how women behave (like a little girl, apparently). Otherwise, highly recommended. If you are a hypersensitive feminist (I am sometimes) you might start by tearing out that chapter before you read. Show Less
LibraryThing member highlander6022
An excellent book, extremely well researched. Every one with a daughter should read this book to help protect their daughter(s) from this trend. They need to know that the “system” is rigged against them and how to fight it. The author points out that only in transgenderism does the
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medical/psychology/psychiatric industry are patients allowed to declare themselves ill due to gender dysphoria and then allowed, at virtually any age to ask for and be granted their request to change their bodies in irreversible ways, WITHOUT any medical evaluation. Don’t believe it, or agree with it? Then READ this book cover to cover. It makes no difference what political way you lean. Show Less
LibraryThing member hatzemach
Irreversible Damage is a book filled with horror and tragedy. It is vital reading for everyone living in the contemporary English-speaking world, at the very least. It is, for outsiders of other cultures or of the (hopefully not too) distant future, an interesting journalistic account of the range
An opinion writer for the WSJ, Abigail Shrier has crafted a highly engaging text, her writing style keeping me hooked the whole way through. Her arguments are logically compelling; indeed, as she writes with regards to one, many arguments almost write themselves. It is somewhat an exercise of explaining the obvious to a culture that has become afraid of saying the wrong thing, even if it is true. With a wealth of information not only from textual research, but also from her many interviews with parents and their trans-identified children, internet personalities, gender "therapists", school officials, surgeons, psychiatrists, transgender adults, and finally de-transitioners, 'Irreversible Damage' is an excellent reference for facts and personal experiences helpful in understanding the current Transgender Craze.
Reading the book was frustrating, but in the way a tragedy is frustrating. Unfortunately, Irreversible Damage tells true stories of suffering and professional incompetence; I found myself filled with an urge to share the book with everyone I know who works with young people. There were some moments of relief: in particular, the middle chapter on dissenting psychiatrists was a welcome intervention of good sense in a narrative filled with interviews of individuals actively endorsing the psychic and medical harm of young girls and women. The final chapter, 'The Way Back', left me feeling hopeful: this tragedy can be overcome, and we as a culture have clear lessons to learn.
Although there were certain sentences or passages I might critique, none were necessary to the book: they were typically analogies meant to invoke pathos. Because of its quality as a reference and its urgent relevance to our contemporary culture, I without hesitation give this work five stars.
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of human social psychology, that may serve as a warning. For too many, the concept of "cult" is necessarily linked with religiosity; unfortunately, that has left many of us (including my younger self) vulnerable to the (often atheistic) Transgender Cult which is exerting worrying influence not only via the internet, but also on policies in schools, government, and medical centers.An opinion writer for the WSJ, Abigail Shrier has crafted a highly engaging text, her writing style keeping me hooked the whole way through. Her arguments are logically compelling; indeed, as she writes with regards to one, many arguments almost write themselves. It is somewhat an exercise of explaining the obvious to a culture that has become afraid of saying the wrong thing, even if it is true. With a wealth of information not only from textual research, but also from her many interviews with parents and their trans-identified children, internet personalities, gender "therapists", school officials, surgeons, psychiatrists, transgender adults, and finally de-transitioners, 'Irreversible Damage' is an excellent reference for facts and personal experiences helpful in understanding the current Transgender Craze.
Reading the book was frustrating, but in the way a tragedy is frustrating. Unfortunately, Irreversible Damage tells true stories of suffering and professional incompetence; I found myself filled with an urge to share the book with everyone I know who works with young people. There were some moments of relief: in particular, the middle chapter on dissenting psychiatrists was a welcome intervention of good sense in a narrative filled with interviews of individuals actively endorsing the psychic and medical harm of young girls and women. The final chapter, 'The Way Back', left me feeling hopeful: this tragedy can be overcome, and we as a culture have clear lessons to learn.
Although there were certain sentences or passages I might critique, none were necessary to the book: they were typically analogies meant to invoke pathos. Because of its quality as a reference and its urgent relevance to our contemporary culture, I without hesitation give this work five stars.
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LibraryThing member Steve777
Extremely well written, nuanced, engaging look into the movement that is plaguing American girls.
LibraryThing member HRC0826
I won't bother you with my beliefs, background or the stories of the transgender people in my family.
The author offers a balanced and well researched tool that you won't find anywhere else. She interviews people on both sides, provides insight into the beginnings of this phenomenon with it's
If you've read in a review that she's biased, well, maybe. She is concerned for our daughters. What's wrong with that, I'd like to know? I guess I will say that I have 2 grown daughters and work at a high school so I can confirm all that she said in regards to schools. Schools are hiding these things from parents and are providing life altering information and resources with no regard to the future and, sadly, most parents don't care but if you've read this far, you do. Parents need to stop being friends and be parents. Be informed and involved.
If you are too close minded to read this book than you are exactly who needs to read this.
The author offers a balanced and well researched tool that you won't find anywhere else. She interviews people on both sides, provides insight into the beginnings of this phenomenon with it's
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connections to the past - all with compassion and honesty.If you've read in a review that she's biased, well, maybe. She is concerned for our daughters. What's wrong with that, I'd like to know? I guess I will say that I have 2 grown daughters and work at a high school so I can confirm all that she said in regards to schools. Schools are hiding these things from parents and are providing life altering information and resources with no regard to the future and, sadly, most parents don't care but if you've read this far, you do. Parents need to stop being friends and be parents. Be informed and involved.
If you are too close minded to read this book than you are exactly who needs to read this.
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LibraryThing member teepland
An excellent and necessary study into the social contagion into which so many young girls are getting caught up. The author treats the subject fairly, noting that she supports many adults who identify as trans and interviews some for this book. The evidence she presents cannot be denied, however,
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showing that many young girls *are* feeling pressured to give up their identity as girls. There are many reasons: girls coming from middle-class white families looking for an identity as a minority in a society that places high value on such identity; girls raised in progressive households looking to push whatever boundaries they can find in acts of rebellion; the way we've raised kids today to believe that happiness must be a constant state of mind and, when uncomfortable in one's body (as so many teens are!), one *must* be in the wrong body, etc. Particularly valuable are chapters 7-10. Whether one agrees or not with the ultimate point of the book, this is a valuable addition to the conversation about trans identities in children and teens. Show Less
LibraryThing member FamiliesUnitedLL
An absolute must read if you have a daughter. I feel every adult should read this.
This balanced, compassionate, and fair book will help crystallize your thinking.
This balanced, compassionate, and fair book will help crystallize your thinking.
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