Exploring the Potential Consequences of the Growing Acceptance of Transgenderism Among Young Girls

Enock: O livro aborda questões muito interessantes e que merecem ser pesquisadas mais a fundo.

Brazil on Sep 30, 2023

Ein Kunde: Die Autorin setzt sich intensiv mit dem Thema des vermeintlich „falschen Körpers“ auseinander und richtet ihren Blick dabei auf die zunehmende Anzahl von Mädchen im Teenageralter ohne spezifische Kindheitsgeschichte, die mittlerweile in den USA wohl den weit überwiegenden üTeil der Betroffenen ausmachen. Es werden auf Basis fundierter Recherche viele Fakten zusammengetragen, die in der öffentlichen Diskussion zu diesem Thema in Deutschland schlichtweg nicht vorkommen. Es fand sich lange kein deutschsprachiger Verlag gab, der sich an eine Übersetzung des Buches herangetraut hat, was angesichts des vorherrschenden Meinungsdiktats zwar nicht verwunderlich, aber ausgesprochen bedauerlich war. Der Kopp Verlag war nun endlich mutig genug. Aufklärung tut dringend not und dieses Buch leistet dazu einen wichtigen Beitrag.

Germany on Sep 09, 2023

Brian Austin: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters Abigail Shrier

This is a book I haven’t enjoyed reading. It’s a book I don’t expect anyone else to enjoy reading. Yet it is a book I believe is absolutely essential. If you check on-line reviews you will find hatred and thanks for it, with little in between. The subject matter is heart-breaking.

There seem to be strong indications that Abigail is suspicious of all things “Christian.” Yet the research she has done, and the documentation give overwhelming weight to her arguments. I’M RECOMMENDING IT HIGHLY to the ladies in our church, particularly the Mom’s and Grandma’s of teen and pre-teen girls. I think ladies especially will understand it in a way that as a Grandpa approaching 70, I can’t.

I don’t expect any of you TO LIKE IT. I wish, almost desperately, that I could discount most of what it says, but as Grandpa to seven beautiful granddaughters, all in or approaching the age demographic the book deals with, I CAN’T.

It is available on-line as an e-book or to order directly. I will also make it available at cost in my store. I wish I was in a position to offer it at a large discount.

Canada on Sep 04, 2023

Lisa Day-Lewis: It is important to read Abigail Shrier’s book Irreversible Damage, just as it is important to occasionally watch Fox News: so that one can understand and can intellectually and reasonably comment on the narrow minded if not all out factually wrong views and baseless opinions of those who possess them. Given that the book is written by a journalist (not a member of the trans community, nor a parent of a trans person, nor doctor, nor psychologist), I expected it to at the very least present a broader and more impartial view of the cultural phenomenon that the author focuses her lens on. If that were the case, I might be able to overlook the lack of compassion and understanding some evidence of which you would hope to see in a book written about such a sensitive topic. Alas, the book lacks both impartiality and compassion, and instead takes on a completely irreverent and downright offensive tone at times, not just towards transgender people, but towards schools, counselors, churches, and any who chose to support them. While reading I was actually appalled at not just the lack of these qualities, but the blatant mocking, sarcasm, and poor attempts at humor presented in the book....

United States on Mar 31, 2022

The Scientific Method: The central thesis, that the sudden burst of sudden onset body dysmorphia is linked to social media (tumble and youtube) usage and is more of a craze (trans trenders) than real transgenderism (itself a misnomer, they are describing transexualism) is supported by research that has led to the UK Online Safety Bill, the white paper of which found levels of self-harms directly inked to 2007 and social media (and the rise of the iPhone). So through triangulation, this thesis has merit.

A secondary thesis, that schools actively encourage this, is supported by the fact that in the UK, 'active normalisation' is a school policy to normalise 'everything' and there are teaching materials associated with this (I spend a day with teachers discussing it). The teachers I met were pleased with the materials and thought they were doing good.

Anecdotally, I met children 10 and 11 years old claiming they were pansexual, bisexual or lesbianwho had been through this teaching process.

Tagging oneself with these behavioural labels may be harmless. But the thesis that sudden onset gender dysmorphia leads to medicalisation and a conveyor belt of harms is distinctly different. This...

United Kingdom on Feb 21, 2022

Aleks: These are some points I want to make, not a summary of the book. Shrier may or may not agree with what I say or how I say it.

To be clear at the start, I support basic human rights for all people, including people who wish to present socially as the stereotypic opposite sex, or even, as adults, alter their bodies as part of that quest. However, it is not a basic human right to force other people to deny material realities. Sex is a material reality, not a social construct. I do not support the anti-science ideology that conflates and confuses sex with personality/gender, claiming human sex (biology) is therefore a “spectrum”, or a “social construct”, or that a person’s sex at conception can later be changed — it cannot.

Personality is a spectrum, or actually a series of spectrums, and hopefully evolves somewhat over a lifetime as we mature. The political left seems to think that supporting the LGBT population requires total capitulation to an irrational ‘genderist’ (sexist) ideology that, like far right religious conservatism, locks sex and personality together. On the right, a girl who likes to play with trucks should squelch that interest and strive...

United States on Jul 09, 2020

SLJ: This is an incredibly compassionate and thorough book looking, mainly, at the vast increase in young girls identifying as transgender (and often later detransitioning).

I felt compelled to read this after several women I know who have detransitioned said that it tackled what they had been through sympathetically and with honesty.

For anyone unaware of the current landscape around gender, particularly for adolescents, this is both timely and eye-opening.

For those of us who have been studying these issues for years and are aware of many of the facts laid out here, it’s nonetheless an important read, especially hearing the stories of young people and understanding what a little of what it is like to be an adolescent in the internet age (terrifying, it seems).

There are a lot of one star reviews for this. That isn’t, I believe, because this is a bad book or because it is mistaken. I think it’s getting a lot of negativity because the truth feels dangerous to people who would have you believe that hardly anyone detransitioners and that being trans is nothing to do with a medical condition and everything to do with identity.

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United Kingdom on Jul 06, 2020