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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 BPhil from the University of Oxford; and a J.D. from Yale Law School.<p><strong>A <em>Times</em> Best Book of 2021</strong></p>
<p>‘<strong>Punchy, analytica</strong>l and written with the <strong>zest and elegance </strong>of a journalist at the top of her game’<strong> - </strong><em>Sunday Times</em></p>
<p>'<strong>Courageous. Vital. Brilliant. Humane</strong>' - <em>Mail on Sunday</em></p>
<p>‘Every parent needs to read this <strong>gripping travelogue</strong> 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 <em>The Economist</em></p>
<p>‘In <em>Irreversible Damage</em>, Abigail Shrier provides a <strong>thought-provoking examination</strong> of a new clinical phenomenon mainly affecting adolescent females that has, at lightning speed, swept across North America and parts of Western Europe and Scandinavia. It is a book that will be <strong>of great interest to parents, the general public and mental health clinicians</strong>’ - Dr Kenneth J. Zucker, adolescent and child psychologist and chair of the DSM-5 Work Group on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders</p>
<p>‘A work <strong>brimming with compassion</strong> for a vulnerable subset of our population: teenage girls. It is a work that makes you want to keep reading because it is <strong>accessible, lucid and compelling</strong>. A <strong>must-read</strong> for all those who care about the lot of our girls and women’<strong> </strong>- Ayaan Hirsi Ali<strong><br />
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'Every parent needs to read this' Helen Joyce
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 and schools across the world 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 now find their daughters in thrall to YouTube stars and 'gender-affirming' educators and therapists, who push life-changing interventions on young girls – including medically unnecessary double mastectomies, and hormone treatments that can cause permanent infertility.
Abigail Shrier, a writer for the Wall Street Journal, has talked to the girls, their agonised parents, and the therapists 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.