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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.

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“Courage is a rare trait. Abigail Shrier has it in abundance. She defies the politically correct tide to write a moving and critically needed book about a terrible new plague that endangers our children—‘rapid-onset gender dysphoria.’ This book explains what it is, how it has spread, and what we can do about it. And Irreversible Damage is as readable as it is important.”

—Dennis Prager, nationally syndicated radio talk show host and bestselling author of The Rational Bible

“Writing honestly about a difficult and vital topic, Shrier compassionately analyzes the evidence regarding rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD), a phenomenon declared off-limits by many in the media and the scientific establishment. Shrier simply isn’t willing to abandon the future of a child’s mental health to propagandistic political efforts. Shrier has actual courage.”

—Ben Shapiro, editor in chief of The Daily Wire and host of The Ben Shapiro Show

“In Irreversible Damage, Abigail Shrier provides a thought-provoking examination of a new clinical phenomenon mainly affecting adolescent females—what some have termed rapid-onset gender dysphoria—that has, at lightning speed, swept across North America and parts of Western Europe and Scandinavia. In so doing, Shrier does not shy away from the politics that pervade the field of gender dysphoria. It is a book that will be of great interest to parents, the general public, and mental health clinicians.”

— Kenneth J. Zucker, Ph.D., adolescent and child psychologist and chair of the DSM-5 Work Group on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders

“Thoroughly researched and beautifully written.”

—Ray Blanchard, Ph.D., head of Clinical Sexology Services at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health from 1995–2010

“Abigail Shrier dares to tell the truth about a monstrous ideological fad that has already ruined countless children’s lives. History will look kindly on her courage.”

—Michael Knowles, host of The Michael Knowles Show

“Abigail Shrier has written a deeply compassionate and utterly sobering account of an unprecedented and reckless social experiment whose test subjects are the bodies and psyches of the most emotionally vulnerable among us.”

—John Podhoretz, editor of Commentary magazine and columnist for the New York Post

“For no other topic have science and conventional wisdom changed—been thrown away—more rapidly than for gender dysphoria. For a small but rapidly growing number of adolescent girls and their families, consequences have been tragic. This urgently needed book is fascinating, wrenching, and wise. Unlike so many of the currently woke, Abigail Shrier sees clearly what is in front of our faces and is brave enough to name it. Irreversible Damage will be a rallying point to reversing the damage being done.”

—J. Michael Bailey, author of The Man Who Would Be Queen and professor of psychology at Northwestern University

“Abigail Shrier has shed light on the profound discontent of an entire generation of women and girls and exposed how transgender extremists have brainwashed not just these young women, but large portions of the country.”

—Bethany Mandel, editor at Ricochet.com, columnist at the Jewish Daily Forward, and homeschooling mother of four

“Every parent needs to read this gripping travelogue through Gender Land, a perilous place where large numbers of teenage girls come to grief despite their loving parents’ efforts to rescue them.”

—Helen Joyce, senior staff writer at The Economist

“Gender transition has become one of the most controversial issues of our time. So much so that most of us simply want to avoid the subject altogether. Such evasion can be just the thing that gives the majority an excuse to look away from the suffering of our fellow human beings. Abigail Shrier chooses to take the bull by the horns. She dives straight into this most sensitive of debates. The product is a work brimming with compassion for a vulnerable subset of our population: teenage girls. It is a work that makes you want to keep reading because it is accessible, lucid and compelling. You find yourself running out of reasons to look away. A must-read for all those who care about the lot of our girls and women.”

—Ayaan Hirsi Ali, research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and member of Dutch Parliament from 2003–2006

“Shrier’s timely and wise exploration is simultaneously deeply compassionate and hard-hitting. First carefully laying out many of the physical, psychological, and societal effects of the ‘transgender craze,’ she then points to the inconsistencies within the ideology itself. This book deftly arms the reader with tools for both recognizing and resisting, and will prove important for parents, health care professionals, and policy makers alike.”

—Heather Heying, evolutionary biologist and visiting professor at Princeton University

"If you want to understand why suddenly it seems that (mostly) young girls from (mostly) white middle- or upper-class backgrounds (many of whom are in the same friend groups) have decided to start dressing like boys, cutting their hair short, changing their name to a masculine one, and even taking hormones, using chest compressors, and getting themselves surgically altered, you must read Abigail K. Shrier’s urgent new book, Irreversible Damage."

--Commentary Magazine [review by Naomi Schaefer Riley]

About the Author

Abigail Shrier is a writer for the Wall Street Journal. She holds an A.B. from Columbia College, where she received the Euretta J. Kellett Fellowship; a B.Phil. from the University of Oxford; and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Regnery Publishing (20 August 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 276 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1684510317
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1684510313
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm

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Compassionate, well researched, confronting

Reviewed in Australia on 19 August 2020

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This is a brave book, and a hugely interesting and respectful investigation of the relationships between social anxiety, gender dysphoria, social contagion, and adolescence. It's been really well researched, and offers a lot of food for thought.

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Angela

Don’t share this with the trans teen in your life

Reviewed in Australia on 4 April 2021

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While the author raised some valid questions about the medical risks of FTM transitions and adolescent mental health this is not the smoking gun against the adolescent trans process that it presents itself as. The writing was inflammatory and had a lot of the authors assumptions presented as fact. I wouldn’t recommend family members share this book with a trans adolescent in their life unless they want to further alienate the child.

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Natalie Coleman

Great resource for parents questioning ROGD

Reviewed in Australia on 3 August 2020

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Thanks Abigail, a great resource for parents, I will be recommending this to other parents I know too.

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Renate Klein

Mandatory reading

Reviewed in Australia on 13 October 2020

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The book shows the ease with which US colleges facilitate teenage girls‘ transition. It has become a real fad to say ‚I am trans‘ with the hope to escape the toxic sexualising culturethat girls face. But medication for life plus mutilating surgery is notthe answer. Changing patriarchy is.

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Amazing book.

Reviewed in Australia on 25 November 2020

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Wow, what a book, loved it from beginning to end. A stern warning of the culture crazy imposed upon us by those who wish us harm. Hang on to your kids.

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Dr Chuck

Essential reading. Thoughtful, balanced and 100% relatable.

Reviewed in Australia on 2 August 2021

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Our daughter has fallen prey to this insanity, and as parents, well, this book reads like salvation, if only to show us that we are not isolated in experiencing literally the most profound sorrow of our existence.

Seeing our beloved child be turned against us by her teachers and therapists in what can only be called a social insanity thanks to antisocial media… I could go on for days..

Needless to say we were isolated in a special vault of hell with no support and no one to really share our experience with. This book read like supercharged relief.

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S. Birds

An opinion lacking objectivity and personal experience, dressed up as a book.

Reviewed in Australia on 11 April 2022

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I read this book as the father of a trans-boy, thinking that it’s important on the journey we are on together, to listen to contrary or opposing views. Probably all you need to know about this book is that the author is anti-trans and you won’t learn anything useful or scientific in its pages. In fact, a quick scan of the internet will provide well written criticism of the selective science and breadth of the writer's ‘evidence’. There are some potentially interesting topics here to consider e.g., the impact of social media on the current teen generation or the seeming increase in depression and self-harm, but these are glossed over. When I was young, the UK government introduced a law which banned the ‘promotion’ of homosexuality in local government and schools. The idea that talking about being gay or covering the topic in a classroom will somehow provoke the entire generation of young people to become gay was as preposterous then as it is now – and it is applicable to transgender. I have 3 children. My trans-son is the only person in the school to come out as transgender. We worked with the school to put together frameworks to deal with the situation. My 2 daughters laugh at the idea of a transgender craze, neither having the experience of meeting anyone in the school or in their wide circle of friends who have been encouraged, coerced, or decided themselves to pursue such a fundamental life choice. And my experience of dozens of psychologists, psychiatrists, therapists, teachers, doctors, and paediatricians is that not one of them have pushed, persuaded, or forced their views upon us, nor encouraged our child to be trans. In fact, quite the opposite. The journey through puberty blockers and testosterone is a very slow one, with multiple checkpoints and ongoing discussion throughout. I get that the topic of being transgender is a very, very difficult one for all of us to wrap our head around - believe me I do. This book is nothing more than an emotive rant and does little to further understanding or foster compassion or empathy for our fellow humans who happen to be trans. The transgender population continue to be one of the most marginalised and misunderstood groups and this book just pours petrol onto an already raging fire.

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Janie Worth

A must read for everyone.

Reviewed in Australia on 14 February 2021

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Irrefutable facts.

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Aleks

I am LGBT. If you have a daughter or you care about girls — read this book.

Reviewed in the United States on 9 July 2020

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These are some points I want to make, not a summary of the book. Shrier may or may not agree with what I say or how I say it.

To be clear at the start, I support basic human rights for all people, including people who wish to present socially as the stereotypic opposite sex, or even, as adults, alter their bodies as part of that quest. However, it is not a basic human right to force other people to deny material realities. Sex is a material reality, not a social construct. I do not support the anti-science ideology that conflates and confuses sex with personality/gender, claiming human sex (biology) is therefore a “spectrum”, or a “social construct”, or that a person’s sex at conception can later be changed — it cannot.

Personality is a spectrum, or actually a series of spectrums, and hopefully evolves somewhat over a lifetime as we mature. The political left seems to think that supporting the LGBT population requires total capitulation to an irrational ‘genderist’ (sexist) ideology that, like far right religious conservatism, locks sex and personality together. On the right, a girl who likes to play with trucks should squelch that interest and strive to enjoy only properly “feminine” (?) activities like the universe intended. Ridiculous. On the left, a girl who likes to play with trucks should recognize she is a boy and start puberty blockers, then testosterone, then double mastectomy. Ridiculous — a blatant revival of old-fashioned sexism in an even more destructive form. What to do? Make sure she has some trucks to play with. It’s part of her girlhood.

Many on the left either have no idea what is going on, or they are blinded by genderist ideologues who have captured the conversation with BIG MONEY support ultimately coming from the gender clinics, hormone manufacturers, and pornography empires who want all the bodies and eyeballs they can get. On the11thhourblog, you can follow the money powering the insidious marketing campaign. These big dollar interests, disguised as a civil rights movement, have corrupted LGBT organizations, the ACLU, the Dems, the academy, feminism, the liberal media, healthcare professionals and more. This left-leaning LGBT person could not be more pleased with Shrier’s compassionate, factual and balanced book. Someone who actually cares enough about young girls to stick her neck way out there in this era of unreason.

I do not want teenage girls to be misdirected and gaslit about the nature of sex, or forced to compete with boys in sports where male physicality gives an innate advantage, or forced to share female spaces with boys.

So...what a breath of fresh air this book is, exposing the role of social media, money, and the new cultish version of “trans” in making life for some adolescent girls too painful to bear. If you care about your children’s science education and/or sex education, read this book. If you have a daughter, read this book.

7/11/20 Edit:
Schrier ends the book with seven ideas for parents of girls to consider. I would add one more idea into the mix:

8. Learn how destructive relationships and groups can gain control of a person, and teach your children how to recognize the tactics of cults and thought control.

I recommend TERROR, LOVE AND BRAINWASHING by Alexandra Stein. Also consider books by Robert Lifton or Steven Hassan. Finally, read a disturbing 2017 paper written by Jenn Smith, a Canadian trans-identified male: “Synanon, the Brainwashing Game and Modern Transgender Activism: The Orwellian Implications of Transgender Politics.” You can google it.

7/25/20 Edit:
I have just learned about a new organization of healthcare professionals who recognize the problem with the current ‘gender affirmative’ model and have banded together to promote evidence-based gender medicine. These adults are standing up together in a way that makes them more difficult to silence. I am grateful.

SEGM - Society for Evidenced-Based Gender Medicine. “Our aim is to promote safe, compassionate, ethical and evidence-informed healthcare for children, adolescents, and young adults with gender dysphoria.”

12/6/20 Edit:
In the UK on 12/1/20, Keira Bell age 23 won her case against the NHS Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service. The Court determined that adolescents and children under age 16 are NOT capable of giving consent to life-altering medical and surgical interventions such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries to address gender dysphoria. Further, at ages 16-17 physicians should consider obtaining a court order for such treatment. This is a major win in the fight against the rampant medical transing of children. You can read the judgment for yourself by searching Bell-v-Tavistock.

12/21/20 Edit:
Within the last couple of days Amazon has deleted all the comments made in response to reviews. About 23 comments were made in response to my review. That dialogue was genuine and beneficial. I am sorry to see it has been removed from view.

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A book all parents should read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 July 2020

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This is an incredibly compassionate and thorough book looking, mainly, at the vast increase in young girls identifying as transgender (and often later detransitioning).

I felt compelled to read this after several women I know who have detransitioned said that it tackled what they had been through sympathetically and with honesty.

For anyone unaware of the current landscape around gender, particularly for adolescents, this is both timely and eye-opening.

For those of us who have been studying these issues for years and are aware of many of the facts laid out here, it’s nonetheless an important read, especially hearing the stories of young people and understanding what a little of what it is like to be an adolescent in the internet age (terrifying, it seems).

There are a lot of one star reviews for this. That isn’t, I believe, because this is a bad book or because it is mistaken. I think it’s getting a lot of negativity because the truth feels dangerous to people who would have you believe that hardly anyone detransitioners and that being trans is nothing to do with a medical condition and everything to do with identity.

Parents, particularly, will be doing themselves a disservice if they don’t read this book. It might help your child.

Most especially your daughter.

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Dee

Thought-provoking and well researched

Reviewed in the United States on 30 June 2020

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As the parent of a trans teen, I always try to keep an open mind and read as much as I can on the topic. Shrier's focus in Irreversible Damage is on the fairly recent explosion in trans-identifying teens--particularly girls--and since my own child is one of 6 FTMs in a friend group, it would be foolish for our family to have our head in the sand about the possibility of peer influence. I expected Shrier to be too right-wing for my taste, but I came away feeling that the book is thorough with its research, clearly written, and not remotely as biased as I'd been lead to believe it would be. Certainly it made me realize that we should continue to scrutinize carefully and independently the best way forward for our teen's mental and physical health.

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K. Stephenson

An important, but not the only, perspective

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 July 2020

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I am extremely well-read in this subject area, so I can't say I learned anything new from this book. However, I do think it's a good starting point for anyone who is interested in learning more or exploring different perspectives. The book contains many personal stories from parents and detransitioners that are easy to connect to. If you are looking for a variety of opinions and perspectives, you probably won't find them in this book. This book is written from a critical perspective and makes no attempt to apologise for it, as it shouldn't. I think this is an incredibly important book for our time as the transgender rights movement seeks to promote a single, narrow narrative with no room for questioning or discussion.

That brings me to my next point. I'm disappointed that autism is barely mentioned in this book. I believe it should have been, since a large percentage of trans-identifying girls of the ROGD subtype are on the autism spectrum. The percentage may be even higher than currently known, due to the underdiagnosis of autism in women and girls. However, the author makes no attempt to explore this link at all. As an autistic woman, I believe this issue cannot be fully understood until the unique and discrete psychology of women and girls with autism is taken into account.

If you are wondering if you should read this book: yes, absolutely, you should. But don't make it the only thing you read, because there is much more to know about the subject than just what is written here.

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Annette K. Blanas

Finally! A book that discusses this issue from a different perspective.

Reviewed in the United States on 3 July 2020

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I am so happy to finally find someone willing to say something that makes sense. This book could have been written from my experiences with my daughter. I felt like I was loosing my mind, nothing happening made sense. Thank you for writing this amazing book.

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