Abigail Shrier Books

Abigail Shrier is a journalist who has focused on what are commonly called trans issues or (less commonly) gender dysphoria issues. With degrees from Columbia College New York, the University of Oxford and Yale Law School, Shrier writes for the Federalist and The Wall Street Journal with numerous opinion pieces to her name on issues including gender pronouns, the issues of biological males competing in women’s sports, and the problems created by having biological males who identify as women sentenced in women’s prisons.

Her book, “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters,” has brought her to be one of the leading voices of the risks associated with gender dysphoria. An interview on the Joe Rogan Experience led to calls within Rogan’s employer Spotify to have him ousted. She has also made an appearance on the Jordan Peterson podcast, which is particularly noteworthy for his stance against government-enforced use of gender pronouns. Her book was banned by the American Booksellers Association and briefly censored by Amazon before being reinstated.

Shrier has also taken to challenging Critical Race Theory and examining the fundamental tie-ins between it and the gender ideology movement.

Abigail Shrier Books

Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters – 2020

Named Book of the Year by The Economist and one of the best books of 2021 by the Times of London, Abigail Shrier tackles the growing surge of transgender issues by focusing on the facts.

Tackling the issues of gender dysphoria, a medical condition defined as being in severe discomfort with one’s biological sex, she highlights the sudden surge in a movement around transgenderism with women. In 2007 there was just one transgender clinic in the United States. Today there are over 300.

Traditionally gender dysphoria impacted only a tiny percentile of the population and most of them were male. Now, all of a sudden, there’s a growing trend amongst young women to want to transition. It’s happening specifically when they hit their teenage years and in individuals with no childhood issues relating to gender dysphoria.

Shrier looks at the culture of transgenderism, from YouTube stars, to educators, to doctors and therapists who at best do nothing to question an individuals’ thoughts on altering their body and at worst, promote it without any serious thought to the consequences.

Many young women are being quickly ushered down a path of irreversible medical procedures like double mastectomies, while being proscribed puberty blockers that can result in infertility. In part this is due to the medical establishment having taken a stance to affirm a patient’s self-diagnosis of being transgender. (This runs contrary to all other medical advice, as it starts from the conclusion and also accepts the patients self-diagnosis as correct).

Her theory, in part, is that “coming out” as transgender is a new form of achieving social status and likens it to eating disorders.

In her book Shrier interviews worried parents, complacent and complicit educators and medical professionals as well as detransitioners – women who regret what they’ve done.

More than an observation of this dangerous issue, she provides information for parents on how to get educated about the issues as well as critical advice for parents on how they can protect their daughters from this dangerous idea.