Irreversible Damage: the trans threat to girls

spiked ^ | July 15,2020 | JULIAN VIGO

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Abigail Shrier’s Irreversible Damage is a brilliant exploration of the steep rise of transgender identity among adolescent girls, and the damage it is doing.

In particular, there has been a huge increase among teenage girls and female university students, most notably in the US, the UK and Scandinavia. Transgenderism is certainly no longer the preserve of adult males, as it once had been.

The first key factor for Shrier is the role of trans narratives propagated within schools. ‘Gender affirmation’ is rife within public schools across the US, she writes. She goes on to show how classrooms are being colonised by therapists eager to push children towards a pathway of lifelong medicalisation.

What’s more, the medical world offers no resistance. When Shrier asks Randi Kaufman, a gender therapist, about those parents who just can’t understand the discourse of gender identity, Kaufman responds: ‘I tell them that we can’t change the mind and so we have to change the body.’ Echoing the online trope, Kaufman says that if parents don’t support their trans kids, they may ‘try to commit suicide’.

Irreversible Damage is a must-read book. It portrays a generation of girls being exploited by a cultural contagion that too few adults are willing to question. It is an exhaustive and balanced investigation into what amounts, for girls, to rebranded sexism. A sexism that tells girls today that if they don’t like being female, don’t speak out or work for change; instead, become life-long medical patients.

[Secret Agent Man]

Bulcrap

Its bad for boys and girls

No one side of the same type of mental illnes is worse but this s just women complaining they are of course, as always, the bigger victim

Women brought this on society, oh b tolerant and accepting of gays, be tolerant and accepting of trans people

Oh now they are winning our sports competitions? We didnt se this coming, protect us from trans women, we are victims of our own unintended consequences.

Its just as bad having girls pretending tobe boys take up space and places in competitions that would have gone to boys. Its not great to have girls in boys private spaces either.

Its bad for both. Just as bad. It doesnt matter if they cant beat most boys, they arent boys and thy shouldnt be there.

Period.