Irreversible Damage: Teenage Girls and the Transgender Craze

Abigail Shrier

• Irreversible Damage is not an anti-trans book

• It is, instead, an investigation of the recent and previously unknown phenomenon of groups of teenage girls suddenly describing themselves as transgender – and of the cowardice of the therapeutic and medical establishment in the face of some trans activists

• The result is that girls across the world are having unnecessary and risky hormone treatments and surgeries that can leave them permanently infertile or unable to have orgasms.

• The craze is seen worldwide and the ‘gender affirmation’ movement is increasingly strong in the UK – right now, the detransitioner Keira Bell is suing the NHS for not challenging her self-diagnosis sufficiently when she was 16

• Wall Street Journal writer Abigail Shrier is a rare example of a writer who was prepared to investigate the story – trans activists in the US succeeded briefly in getting the book removed from sale by Target, but it has only succeeded in driving it up the bestseller lists