The Transgender Craze

Book Review

Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier

Regnery Publishing. 2020.

“Irreversible Damage” is written by Abigail Shrier who writes for the Wall Street Journal. This book of investigative journalism is particularly enlightening as the “mainstream” media will not address this subject. The subject has to do with girls (some as young as thirteen years old) believing themselves to be “transgendered”.

Shrier recounts the influential role that both social media and youtube have played in convincing girls that they are transgendered. Furthermore, schools and Universities have contributed to undermining parents by encouraging these girls to adopt male names and identities without informing their families. Shrier has conducted interviews with both defenders of “transgenderism” and critics.

There are numerous interviews with distressed parents whose daughters went off to Colleges and Universities and subsequently proceeded to “transition” on the advice of “mental health councillors”. These stories are profoundly disturbing. Most disturbing is the hidden role played by women who have transitioned into men on Youtube who encourage their very impressionable female viewers that they are “trans gendered”.

Social media is cited as a particularly destructive influence. In some cases girls who thought they were transgendered changed their minds but found themselves under pressure by “friends” on social media not to change their minds. There are at least two mothers mentioned in this book (one who is now a member of a group that combats the trans movement) who felt it necessary to move across the country in order to remove their daughters from the influences of their friends and the schools which have been tainted by pro trans “social progressives”.

The book is very balanced and recognizes that some people have in fact benefitted from having surgery and changing genders. But, these people are very few in numbers and the author suggests that the large number of girls around America who consider themselves “trans” is a cause for alarm. Examples are made of therapists who indulge minors in their belief that they are trans and no efforts are made to be critical or objective in the interest of preventing girls from making mistakes that cannot be reversed.

The book is fascinating reading and will leave many with utter disgust at the way that young women and girls are being exploited by social and political activists in twenty first century America.