Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters

Abigail Shrier

Jun 2020 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2021 BY THE TIMES AND THE SUNDAY TIMES

"Irreversible Damage . . . has caused a storm. Abigail Shrier, a Wall Street Journal writer, does something simple yet devastating: she rigorously lays out the facts." —Janice Turner, The Times of London

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 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.

Ratings and reviews

are the people in the reviews kidding? are they being paid or something? this book is extremely transphobic, with a lot of fake information, not backed up by any scientific information nor with the consent most of these said "influencers" someone who is transgender would never try to "seduce" a teenage girl to feel like a gender they aren't because they know whats its like to feel that way, and wouldn't wish for that in anyone else being transgender isn't "contagious", maybe a teenage girl watching a youtube video about someone who is transgender may *help* the girl figure out she is transgender, but its not contagious or "trendy" for someone who is transgender it literally feels so bad to have gender dysphoria, to personally feel the feeling of being put in the wrong body, no one who is transgender would *ever* want that for someone else as of with the quotes (typically from youtubers) who are telling teenage girls to think the parent is the villain, the author heavily edited those quotes, and on top of that they were trying to tell their non-supported viewers that everything will be alright, and if their parents don't support them, then they can make a small family online with people who do support them, because a family is someone who loves you, biologically or not (what i just said is controversial but i, myself, have found people on the internet incredibly supportive and helpful thru hard situations, people who i vent to that give better responses than my parents will ever give me, this may not work for you but you can certainly try) these girls also have all the right to not talk to their transphobic parents (as well as homophobic *or* abusive) because the parents are no good to them and don't act like "good" parents if they treat them that way because of who they, who they love, or any other reason, its unfair and teenagers shouldn't be alright with that way of being treated this book is horrible and i sincerely cannot see why people would ever agree, even a bit with these lies and not researched "facts" can people just respect each other for who they are, who they love, or any other thing that doesn't harm anyone else and not hate them, make them feel less, hurt them, offend them, or any other thing you are *not* supposed to do? is it really that hard to try to understand someone who just wants to live a happy life but can't because people like the author of this book exist, its really disgusting to see this happens just be respectful to people, and if you "can't" for some reason, don't do what this author did, don't make a book about it or share your opinion, if only transphobic people care, then go share it with them, but people who are decent human beings, certainly don't care its not that hard to have common sense and be alright with people who just want to live happily and not do harm to the world leave them alone please and be respectful!!

I hated my body. I hated being female. I wished so much to be born a male, to be a boy, especially when I was very young. I'm sure if I was born more recently, I'd be one of these girls who transition to escape these realities. Teenage brains are not fully developed, which is why we have things like age of consent, yet when it comes to transitioning to look like the opposite sex, teenagers suddenly know better than their parents. Thank you for speaking up.

Excellent, as is obvious with the content of many 1* reviews... They have an agenda, they don't want people reading this and they haven't read the book themselves. They will smear anything they view as dissenting from the narrative, don't let them. Read the book, make your own damn mind up. They lie loudly and broadly, aiming to discourage people from looking into this topic. Reading into it yourself, it becomes clear why they are doing that and it isn't some nobel cause.

About the author

Abigail Shrier is a writer for the Wall Street Journal. She is a graduate of Columbia College, where she received the Euretta J. Kellett Fellowship; the University of Oxford; and Yale Law School. She lives in Los Angeles, CA.