Displaying 1 of 1 2021 Format: Book Author: Shrier, Abigail, author. Title: Irreversible damage : the transgender craze seducing our daughters / Abigail Shrier. Publisher, Date: Washington, DC : Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group, 2021. ©2020 Description: xxx, 274 pages ; 22 cm Summary: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2021 BY THE TIMES AND THE SUNDAY TIMES. 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. Subjects: Transgender people -- Identity. Transgender men -- Family relationships. Sexual minorities. Female-to-male transsexuals -- Surgery. Gender identity disorders. Parents of sexual minority youth. Transgenres -- Identité. Transgenres masculins -- Relations familiales. Minorités sexuelles. Transsexuels -- Chirurgie. Troubles de l'identité sexuelle. LGBTQ+. Gender identity disorders. Parents of sexual minority youth. Sexual minorities. Transgender people -- Identity. Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index. Contents: Forword -- Introduction: the contagion -- The girls -- The puzzle -- The influencers -- The schools -- The moms and dads -- The shrinks -- The dissidents -- The promoted and the demoted -- The transformation -- The regret -- The way back -- Afterword: the update. ISBN: 9781684512287 168451228X Other Number: 1243504007 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Place Request Please select and request a specific volume by clicking one of the icons in the 'Where is it?' section below. Add to My List Share Expand All | Collapse All Where is it? Author Biography 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. - (Simon and Schuster) Large Cover Image Suggestions and more Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1
