Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters

· Blackstone Publishing · Narrated by Pamela Almand
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Irreversible Damage is an exploration of a mystery: Why, in the last decade, has the diagnosis “gender dysphoria,” transformed from a vanishingly rare affliction, applying almost exclusively to boys and men, to an epidemic among teenage girls?

Author Abigail Shrier presents shocking statistics and stories from real families to show that America and the West have become fertile ground for a “transgender craze” that has nothing to do with real gender dysphoria and everything to do with our cultural frailty. Teenage girls are taking courses of testosterone and disfiguring their bodies. Parents are undermined; experts are over-relied upon; dissenters in science and medicine are intimidated; free speech truckles under renewed attack; socialized medicine bears hidden consequences; and an intersectional era has arisen in which the desire to escape a dominant identity encourages individuals to take cover in victim groups.

Every person who has ever had a skeptical thought about the sudden rush toward a non-binary future but been afraid to express it—this book is for you.

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4.0
51 reviews
Julie Brown
May 21, 2022
This is by far the worst, misleading, untruthful and hate mongering book for anyone looking for answers about their child. Please do not throw your money away on this libelous trash. Instead, have difficult discussions with your child. Talk to a couple of different doctors. I wasted half of my life trying to be something I wasn't because of fear and ignorance. Be your child's biggest supporter, not their worst bully.
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Sharifah Nabilla (T-2-da-Rouble)
December 20, 2020
So important. I hated my body as a teenager too, and I'm sure I'd have transitioned if I was born more recently. We need to look closer at the high rates of teen girls transitioning instead of blindly accepting them all as trans. It's normal to feel uncomfortable with puberty, it's a tough time!
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Becky Zima
April 10, 2024
Well written with an array of sources. She admits that not everyone agrees with or appreciates this book...friends of hers included. But as a mother of two adult daughters, I like her voice in this.
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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.

Pamela Almand, a former international 747 pilot for Delta Airlines, launched an unlikely second career after appearing in a national television spot for Tylenol in 1995. Several regional spots for Northwest Airlines followed, and she began narrating training and industry videos, built a professional recording studio, and launched the Captain’s Voice. Since then, Pamela has provided voice-over for major corporate clients worldwide, including Microsoft, Disney, Canadian Realtors, the United Nations, Zurich, International Red Cross, and the hotels and casinos of Monte Carlo. She is a SAG/AFTRA voice actor and audiobook narrator with multiple awards and nominations from the Audio Publishers Association’s Audie Awards, Society of Voice Arts and Sciences’ Voice Arts Awards, and AudioFile magazine’s Earphones Award. She lives in Atlantic Beach, Florida, with her husband, Amos.

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