TRANSGENDER EXPLOSION IN YOUNG GIRLS NEVER SEEN BEFORE

December 10, 2020 By dwayman

It is difficult to measure the impact of culture on identity, especially sexual identity.  This review by Neil Shevni covering Abigail Shier’s 2020 book, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing our Daughters, explores the impact social media is having on very young women and sounding an alarm.  In her book advertisement on Amazon Shier writes:

“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.”

 

IN THE REVIEW OF HER BOOK, NEIL SHEVNI SAYS IN PART: 

“Do we want to be loving? Or do we want to be perceived as loving? When our beliefs about what is right force us to push against the culture,