Irreversible Damage

{{short description|2020 book by Abigail Shrier}} {{Use American English|date=March 2021}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2022}} {{Infobox book |name = Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters |image = Irreversible Damage Cover.jpg |border = yes |alt = |caption = Cover of the first edition |author = Abigail Shrier |cover_artist= |country = United States |language = English |publisher = Regnery Publishing |pub_date = {{Start date|2020|6|30}} |media_type = Print and digital |pages = |isbn = 978-1-68451-031-3 }}

'''''Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters''''' is a 2020 book by Abigail Shrier, published by Regnery Publishing, which endorses the controversial concept of rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD).<ref name="Eckert-2021a"/><ref name="Parsons-2020"/><ref name="doi.org">{{cite journal |first1=V. Jo |last1=Hsu |date=1 January 2022 |title=Irreducible Damage: The Affective Drift of Race, Gender, and Disability in Anti-Trans Rhetorics|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/02773945.2021.1990381|journal=Rhetoric Society Quarterly|issn=0277-3945|pages=62–77|volume=52|issue=1|doi=10.1080/02773945.2021.1990381|s2cid=247295449 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> ROGD is not recognized as a medical diagnosis by any major professional institution nor is it backed by credible scientific evidence.<ref name="Eckert-2021a"/>

Shrier states that there was a "sudden, severe spike in transgender identification among adolescent girls" in the 2010s, referring to teenagers assigned female at birth.<ref name="Shrier-2020c" /><ref name="Eckert-2021a"/> She attributes this to a social contagion among "high-anxiety, depressive (mostly white) girls who, in previous decades, fell prey to anorexia and bulimia or multiple personality disorder".<ref name="Shrier-2020c" /> Shrier also criticizes gender-affirming psychiatric support, hormone replacement therapy and sex reassignment surgery (together often referred to as "gender-affirming care") as treatment for gender dysphoria in young people.<ref name="Turban-2020"/>

The book has received mixed responses. Several positive reviews were published endorsing Shrier's claims about trans people, but the book was also criticized for repeating anti-trans medical misinformation. Several retailers refused to sell the book in response to these criticisms.

==Summary== Shrier states that she began to investigate adolescent-onset gender dysphoria after being contacted by the mother of a young adult with no apparent history of childhood gender dysphoria, who identified as transgender in college.{{sfn|Shrier|2020|loc=Intro}} She describes what she sees as difficulties facing teenagers who were assigned female at birth, whom she refers to as "girls":<ref name="Eckert-2021a"/><ref name="Tracy-2020"/> isolation, online social dynamics, restrictive gender and sexuality labels, unwelcome physical changes and sexual attention. She profiles several teenagers who questioned their gender identities or came out as transgender while experiencing mental health or personal issues.{{sfn|Shrier|2020|loc=ch 1}} She discusses Lisa Littman's 2018 journal article on rapid onset gender dysphoria and the ensuing controversy and endorses Littman's findings.{{sfn|Shrier|2020|loc=ch 2}} She states that online trans influencers, on websites like Twitter, Tumblr and TikTok, frequently encourage questioning youth to identify as trans, experiment with breast binding and testosterone, and disown or lie to unsupportive family members.{{sfn|Shrier|2020|loc=ch 3}}

Shrier criticizes transgender-related curricula and policies in schools.{{sfn|Shrier|2020|loc=ch 4}} She describes parents distressed by their children's transgender identification or transition.{{sfn|Shrier|2020|loc=ch 5}} She critiques the gender-affirming model of care{{sfn|Shrier|2020|loc=ch 6}} and profiles its critics: Kenneth Zucker, Ray Blanchard, J. Michael Bailey, Lisa Marchiano, and Paul R. McHugh.{{sfn|Shrier|2020|loc=ch 7}} Shrier discusses trans activism and related controversies, including sex-specific privacy concerns; passing versus trans visibility; the role of celebrities in increasing trans acceptance; conflict between transgender people and lesbians or radical feminists; transfeminine/male-to-female athletes competing in girls' and women's sports; the use of trans-inclusive language; intersectionality; and identity politics.{{sfn|Shrier|2020|loc=ch 8}} She argues that medical interventions such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries include risks. As an example, she describes a transgender person who became disabled after a failed surgery.{{sfn|Shrier|2020|loc=ch 9}} She also profiles detransitioned young women.{{sfn|Shrier|2020|loc=ch 10}}

==Background and publication history== thumb|Shrier in an interview in 2020 Shrier attended Columbia and Oxford University and earned a J.D. at Yale Law School.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Strimpel |first1=Zoe |author1-link=Zoe Strimpel |title=Abigail Shrier: Taking on the trans lobby has made me Public Enemy No 1 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/abigail-shrier-taking-trans-lobby-has-made-public-enemy-no-1/ |work=The Telegraph |date=30 April 2022}}</ref><ref name="Lovell-2021a"/>

The contentious concept of rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD), which ''Irreversible Damage'' endorses, was first proposed in a 2018 paper by Lisa Littman.<ref name="Eckert-2021a"/><ref name="Parsons-2020"/><ref name="doi.org"/> ROGD is not recognized as a medical diagnosis by any major professional institution and is not backed by credible scientific evidence.<ref name="Eckert-2021a"/>

''Irreversible Damage'' was first published in June 2020 by Regnery Publishing, a conservative publisher.<ref name=Italie>{{cite news |last=Italie |first=Hillel |date=July 15, 2021 |title=Booksellers association apologizes for anti-trans mailing |url=https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-entertainment-business-arts-and-entertainment-amazoncom-inc-26035c9ee8c2720d1bd2dc7983b035f3 |website=AP News|publisher=Associated Press|access-date=January 1, 2022}}</ref> An audiobook narrated by Pamela Almand was released by Blackstone Audio.{{sfn|Shrier|2020}} In the UK, the book was published by Swift Press, with the subtitle "Teenage Girls and the Transgender Craze".<ref name="Beattie-2021"/> In a July 2020 interview on ''The Joe Rogan Experience'', Shrier called the desire to transition a "contagion" and compared it with eating disorders and self-harm.<ref name="Ellis-2020"/> She associated transgender youth with autism.<ref name="Cox-Maiberg-2020"/> Her remarks sparked calls by Spotify employees for the Rogan podcast episode to be removed from the platform,<ref name="Cox-Maiberg-2020"/><ref name="Quah-2020"/> but the company denied the request.<ref name="Steele-2020"/>

Chase Ross, a transgender YouTuber interviewed by Shrier for ''Irreversible Damage'', apologized in 2021 for his participation in the book, claiming he was misled about the book's contents and the author's intent.<ref name="Eckert-2021a"/>

==Marketing and distribution==

In June 2020, Amazon suspended a paid advertising campaign for the book one week prior to publication. Amazon stated this was because the book "infers or claims to diagnose, treat, or question sexual orientation."<ref name="Parsons-2020"/> In April 2021, employees petitioned Amazon to stop selling the book; a company official responded that the book did not violate Amazon's content policies and the company would continue to offer it.<ref name="Long-2021"/> In March 2022, a group called No Hate at Amazon circulated a petition demanding that Amazon stop selling ''Irreversible Damage'' and ''Johnny the Walrus'' and demanded that Amazon set up an oversight board that would allow employees to democratically determine what content can be sold on Amazon. At least 500 people signed the petition, which was presented to Amazon leadership in mid-2021. Some employees left Amazon over the company's refusal to stop selling ''Irreversible Damage'' and ''Johnny the Walrus''.<ref>{{cite news |last=O'Donovan |first=Caroline |date=June 1, 2022 |title=Amazon employees protest the sale of books they say are anti-trans |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/01/amazon-trans-pride-month-books-protest/ |access-date=June 2, 2022}}</ref>

In November 2020, Target briefly stopped selling the book following criticism online, but made it available for purchase again a day later.<ref name="Halon-2020"/><ref name="Factora-2020"/> Several LGBT commentators expressed support for the book's removal. ''The Daily Dot'' columnist Ana Valens wrote that it contained obvious transphobia and encouraged conversion therapy.<ref name="Valens-2020a"/><ref name="Valens-2020b"/> In ''Them'', the writer James Factora stated that almost every claim in the publisher's description of the book was a "blatant lie".<ref name="Factora-2020"/> In ''Gay City News'', the journalist Matt Tracy criticized Shrier for misgendering subjects. Shrier had stated, "I refer to biologically female teens caught up in this transgender craze as 'she' and 'her{{' "}}, which Tracy wrote is "a choice by the author that disrespects transgender teens' gender identity and falsely assumes that all trans boys or non-binary individuals assigned female at birth have the same biological makeup."<ref name="Tracy-2020"/> In February 2021, Target again withdrew the book from sale.<ref name="Long-2021"/>

In April 2021, a petition was launched to have the Halifax Public Library system remove their two copies of the book from circulation. The library refused, citing intellectual freedom and stating that removal would constitute censorship. Following this, Halifax Pride announced it would no longer hold events at any Halifax library locations.<ref name="Ryan-2021"/>

In July 2021, the American Booksellers Association, a non-profit trade association that promotes independent bookstores, issued an apology for including the book in a monthly mailing, calling the decision to do so a "serious, violent incident" and characterizing the book as "anti-trans".<ref name=Italie/> This set off further controversy, with some arguing the association was now trying to censor the book, and others saying the apology was insufficient.<ref name="Iati-2021"/>

Chase Strangio, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), tweeted that "stopping the circulation of this book and these ideas is 100% a hill I will die on." Strangio later deleted the tweet, saying he was not calling for a government ban but "to create the information climate for the market to be more supportive of trans self-determination".<ref name="Kirchick-2021"/>

The book has been translated into multiple languages and foreign-language versions have been released in other countries such as Spain,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Carrión |first=Francisco |date=2021-09-14 |title="La ley trans española será un desastre para las jóvenes. Son soldados de una completa revolución social" |url=https://www.elindependiente.com/sociedad/2021/09/15/la-ley-trans-espanola-sera-un-desastre-para-las-jovenes-son-soldados-de-una-completa-revolucion-social/ |access-date=2023-05-29 |website=El Independiente |language=es}}</ref> France, Hungary<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-02-17 |title=A nemváltoztatástól nem lesznek boldogabbak a lázadó tinédzserek |url=https://magyarnemzet.hu/kulfold/2021/02/a-nemvaltoztatastol-nem-lesznek-boldogabbak-a-lazado-tinedzserek |access-date=2023-05-29 |website=A nemváltoztatástól nem lesznek boldogabbak a lázadó tinédzserek |language=hu}}</ref> and Israel where a speech by Shrier drew protesters.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Trans activists shut down book launch, sparking free speech debate |url=https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/article-743968 |access-date=2023-05-29 |website=The Jerusalem Post |date=May 23, 2023 |language=en-US |issn=0792-822X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Dayan |first=Linda |date=29 May 2023 |title=‘America Sent Gender Ideology Here’: Anti-Trans Author Shrier Finds Admirers – but Only a Few – in Israel |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-05-29/ty-article-magazine/.premium/america-sent-gender-ideology-here-anti-trans-author-finds-a-few-admirers-in-israel/00000188-688b-d2d1-afbe-7c8fb8ac0000 |access-date=12 May 2026 |work=Haaretz}}</ref>

Backlashes against the book have led to termination of its publication in Japan.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://nordot.app/1104892298117349795?c=445918389795193953 | title=Japan firm nixes translation of U.S. Book questioning trans surgery ｜ Kyodo News | date=December 5, 2023 | access-date=December 5, 2023 | archive-date=December 5, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205231200/https://nordot.app/1104892298117349795?c=445918389795193953 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Reception==  Responses to the book have been divided.<ref name="Pavia-2020"/> It was positively reviewed by Nick Cater in ''The Spectator Australia'',<ref name="Cater-2021"/> by ''The Economist'',<ref name="Economist-2020a"/> by Emily Hourican in the ''Irish Independent'',<ref name="Hourican-2021"/> by Madeleine Kearns in the ''National Review'',<ref name="Kearns-2020"/> by Christina Patterson in ''The Sunday Times'',<ref name="Patterson-2021"/> by Naomi Schaefer Riley in ''Commentary'',<ref name="Riley-2020"/> and by Janice Turner in ''The Times'' of London.<ref name="Turner-2020"/> It received mixed reviews from the theologian Tina Beattie in ''The Tablet''<ref name="Beattie-2021"/> and the psychologist Christopher Ferguson in a ''Psychology Today'' blogpost.<ref name="Ferguson-2021"/> It was negatively reviewed by Sarah Fonseca in the ''Los Angeles Review of Books''<ref name="Fonseca-2021"/> and by Jack Turban, a fellow in psychiatry and researcher in transgender mental health, in a ''Psychology Today'' blogpost.<ref name="Turban-2020"/> ''Science-Based Medicine'' retracted a positive review by their co-editor the physician Harriet Hall<ref name="Hall-2021"/> and subsequently published a series of articles criticizing the book.<ref name="Novella-2021"/> Hall published a revised review on her own website describing it as "An important book that is flawed but raises serious questions".<ref>{{Cite web |last=SkepDoc |date=2021-07-13 |title=Gender Dysphoria in Adolescents - |url=https://www.skepdoc.info/gender-dysphoria-in-adolescents/ |access-date=2025-02-11 |language=en-US}}</ref>

''The Economist'' included ''Irreversible Damage'' among its books of the year for 2020.<ref name="Economist-2020b"/> ''The Economist'' called the book "one of the first accessible treatments of a subject that has generated much fascinated coverage" but remarked it had not received many reviews in mainstream papers. It credited Shrier with "[telling] the stories of those she interviews with great care", but suggested that she might have overstated the extent to which teenagers were receiving medical interventions.<ref name="Economist-2020a"/> Madeleine Kearns reviewed ''Irreversible Damage'' alongside Debra W. Soh's ''The End of Gender''. She stated that Shrier's book provided "a personal, inquisitive, and often moving narrative".<ref name="Kearns-2020"/> Naomi Schaefer Riley wrote that Shrier was correct to ask "what's ailing" adolescents who appeared to suddenly begin identifying as transgender. She endorsed Shrier's criticisms of transgender healthcare and online transgender activism.<ref name="Riley-2020"/> Janice Turner called the book "fearless", remarking on the controversy surrounding it and endorsing its conclusions.<ref name="Turner-2020"/>

Tina Beattie called the book "a disturbing, infuriating and compelling study". She criticized Shrier's use of anecdotes from parents or professionals, apparently unbeknownst to the subjects themselves. She wrote that, while "many of Shrier's claims may be open to challenge", the reported increase in cases of adolescent-onset dysphoria "should be a cause for much greater caution and disquiet than is currently the case".<ref name="Beattie-2021"/> Christopher Ferguson wrote that Shrier had "some valid ideas" and that he was "not willing to dismiss her thesis entirely", but also that she failed to "carefully hew" to science and that "high-quality, preregistered, open science, scientific efforts" were needed in the area.<ref name="Ferguson-2021"/>

Sarah Fonseca condemned the book for its presentation, substance, and sourcing.<ref name="Fonseca-2021"/> Historian Ben Miller compared the cover's design, "with the little white girl's reproductive organs obliterated by a black hole," to that of Nazi propaganda posters.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Fox |first=Max |date=2022-10-26 |title=Learning From the "Bad Gays" of History |language=en-US |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/bad-gays-podcast-interview/ |access-date=2023-09-28 |issn=0027-8378}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=London |first=King's College |title=Historian and co-author of 'Bad Gays' discusses theories of identity and sexuality with students |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/historian-and-co-author-of-bad-gays-discusses-theories-of-identity-and-sexuality-with-students |access-date=2023-11-12 |website=King's College London |language=en}}</ref> Psychiatrist Jack Turban accused Shrier of promoting the denial of gender-affirming medical care from transgender youth, which he called a fringe position rejected by several professional societies. He also accused Shrier of misinterpreting and omitting scientific evidence to support her book's claims and criticized her for portraying transgender youth based on interviews with parents, and for "crass and offensive language."<ref name="Turban-2020"/>

Skeptic and physician Harriet Hall published a positive review of the book on the website ''Science-Based Medicine'' in June 2021, stating that Shrier "brings up some alarming facts that desperately need to be looked into", that care centered on gender affirmation "is a mistake and a dereliction of duty", and that the current political climate has made scientific study of these matters nearly impossible.<ref name="Novella-2021"/><ref name="Hall-2021"/> The site's two other editors, Steven Novella and David Gorski, took the unprecedented step of retracting this review, which was republished in ''Skeptic''.<ref name="Hall-2021"/> Novella and Gorski later explained the retraction, concluding that both Hall's and Shrier's claims are "not supported by any evidence and [are] cobbled together with a gross misreading of the scientific evidence", and are based on "anecdotes, outliers, political discussions, and cherry-picked science". In the following weeks, the site published a series of articles about the book by guest authors and physicians Rose Lovell and AJ Eckert that also criticized the book for scientific errors, cherry-picked data, and misinformation.<ref name="Lovell-2021a"/><ref name="Eckert-2021a"/><ref name="Novella-2021"/><ref name="Eckert-2021b"/>

==See also== * ''Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism'', a 2021 book by Kathleen Stock * ''Time to Think'', a 2023 book by Hannah Barnes * ''Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality'', a 2021 book by Helen Joyce

==Citations== <references> <ref name="Beattie-2021">{{cite magazine |last1=Beattie |first1=Tina |author-link=Tina Beattie |date=March 10, 2021 |title=No Turning Back |url=https://www.thetablet.co.uk/books/10/19579/no-turning-back-polemicist-abigail-shrier-on-transgenderism |magazine=The Tablet |language=en |volume=275 |issue=9393 |page=25 |issn=0039-8837 |access-date=October 17, 2021 |archive-date=March 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210320161359/https://www.thetablet.co.uk/books/10/19579/no-turning-back-polemicist-abigail-shrier-on-transgenderism |url-status=dead }}</ref>

<ref name="Cater-2021">{{cite news |last1=Cater |first1=Nick |author-link=Nick Cater |date=January 30, 2021 |title=Queer Teen Craze |url=https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/01/queer-teen-craze/ |work=The Spectator Australia |access-date=February 2, 2021 }}</ref>

<ref name="Cox-Maiberg-2020">{{cite news |last1=Cox |first1=Joseph |last2=Maiberg |first2=Emanuel |date=September 16, 2020 |title=Spotify CEO Defends Keeping Transphobic Joe Rogan Podcasts Online |language=en |work=Vice |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/spotify-joe-rogan-transphobic/ |access-date=December 19, 2020}}</ref>

<ref name="Eckert-2021a">{{cite web |last=Eckert |first=A.J. |date=July 4, 2021 |title=Irreversible Damage to the Trans Community: A Critical Review of Abigail Shrier's book Irreversible Damage (Part One) |url=https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/irreversible-damage-to-the-trans-community-a-critical-review-of-abigail-shriers-book-irreversible-damage-part-one/ |access-date=July 5, 2021 |website=Science-Based Medicine |language=en-US}}</ref>

<ref name="Eckert-2021b">{{cite web |last=Eckert |first=A.J. |date=July 18, 2021 |title=Irreversible Damage to the Trans Community: A Critical Review of Abigail Shrier's Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters (Part Two) |url=https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/irreversible-damage-to-the-trans-community-a-critical-review-of-abigail-shriers-book-irreversible-damage-the-transgender-craze-seducing-our-daughters-part-two/ |access-date=July 19, 2021 |website=Science-Based Medicine |language=en-US}}</ref>

<ref name="Economist-2020a">{{cite magazine |date=November 26, 2020 |title=Miss gender – A book on transitioning girls is denounced as transphobic |url=https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/11/26/a-book-on-transitioning-girls-is-denounced-as-transphobic |magazine=The Economist |location=Washington, D.C. |publication-place=London |access-date=December 30, 2022 |url-access=registration |issn=0013-0613 |language=en}}</ref>

<ref name="Economist-2020b">{{cite magazine |date=December 3, 2020 |title=Cold comforts – Our books of the year |url=https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2020/12/03/our-books-of-the-year |magazine=The Economist |access-date=December 30, 2022 |url-access=registration |issn=0013-0613 |language=en}}</ref>

<ref name="Ellis-2020">{{cite news |last1=Ellis |first1=Philip |date=July 22, 2020 |title=Joe Rogan Is Spreading Transphobic Hate Speech and It's Putting Lives in Danger |url=https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a33391944/joe-rogan-abigail-shrier-interview-transphobia/ |access-date=December 19, 2020 |work=Men's Health |issn=1054-4836 |quote=Shrier invalidated the lived experience of trans and nonbinary kids and teens, and made numerous dangerous, entirely unsound false equivalencies. She compared transitioning among teenagers to historic adolescent phenomena such as eating disorders, self-harm, and (bafflingly) the occult, calling this age group 'the same population that gets involved in cutting, demonic possession, witchcraft, anorexia, bulimia.' She even described wanting to transition as a 'contagion' with the potential to infect other children with the same ideas, drawing yet more scientifically baseless parallels with eating disorders.}}</ref>

<ref name="Factora-2020">{{cite news |last=Factora |first=James |date=November 17, 2020 |title=Target Removed a Transphobic Book From Shelves — Then Replaced It a Day Later |url=https://www.them.us/story/target-transphobic-book-removed-irreversable-damage-abigail-shrier |access-date=December 19, 2020 |work=them.|language=en-US}}</ref>

<ref name="Ferguson-2021">{{cite web |last1=Ferguson |first1=Christopher J. |date=January 19, 2021 |author-link=Christopher Ferguson (psychologist) |title=A Review of 'Irreversible Damage' by Abigail Shrier |url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/checkpoints/202101/review-irreversible-damage-abigail-shrier |website=Psychology Today |language=en}}</ref>

<ref name="Fonseca-2021">{{cite news |last1=Fonseca |first1=Sarah |date=January 17, 2021 |title=The Constitutional Conflationists: On Abigail Shrier's 'Irreversible Damage' and the Dangerous Absurdity of Anti-Trans Trolls |work=Los Angeles Review of Books |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-constitutional-conflationists-on-abigail-shriers-irreversible-damage-and-the-dangerous-absurdity-of-anti-trans-trolls/ |access-date=January 19, 2021 |issn=}}</ref>

<ref name="Hall-2021">{{cite web |last1=Hall |first1=Harriet |author-link=Harriet Hall |date=June 17, 2021 |title=Trans Science: A review of Abigail Shrier's Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters |url=https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/trans-science-review-of-abigail-shier-irreversible-damage-transgender-craze-seducing-our-daughters/|website=Skeptic |language=en}}</ref>

<ref name="Halon-2020">{{cite news |last=Halon |first=Yael |date=November 16, 2020 |title=Author accuses Target of caving to 'woke activists' by briefly pulling book deemed 'transphobic' on Twitter |url=https://www.foxnews.com/media/abigail-shrier-book-deemed-transphobic-target-pulls |access-date=March 18, 2021 |website=Fox News |language=en-US}}</ref>

<ref name="Hourican-2021">{{cite news |date=January 17, 2021 |title=Girls who would be boys: The rise in teen gender dysphoria |url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/girls-who-would-be-boys-the-rise-in-teen-gender-dysphoria-39975855.html |work=Independent.ie |first=Emily |last=Hourican |access-date=January 19, 2021 |issn=0021-1222}}</ref>

<ref name="Iati-2021">{{cite news |last1=Iati |first1=Marisa |date=July 16, 2021 |title=Booksellers association apologizes for 'violent' distribution of 'anti-trans' title |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/07/16/irreversible-damage-anti-trans-booksellers-association/ |access-date=July 23, 2021 |newspaper=The Washington Post |issn=0190-8286}}</ref>

<ref name="Kearns-2020">{{cite magazine |last1=Kearns |first1=Madeleine |date=October 19, 2020 |title=The Beginning of Gender |volume=72 |issue=19 |pages=36–39 |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2020/10/19/transgender-craze-harms-young-women-especially/ |magazine=National Review |issn=0028-0038 |language=en}}</ref>

<ref name="Kirchick-2021">{{cite news |last1=Kirchick |first1=James |date=March 31, 2021 |author-link=James Kirchick |title=The Disintegration of the ACLU |url=https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-disintegration-of-the-aclu-james-kirchick |work=Tablet |access-date=October 17, 2021 |issn=1551-2940}}</ref>

<ref name="Long-2021">{{cite news |last1=Long |first1=Katherine Anne |date=May 3, 2021 |title=Amazon overrules employees' calls to stop selling book questioning mainstream treatment for transgender youth |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-overrules-employees-calls-to-stop-selling-book-questioning-controversial-treatment-for-transgender-youth/ |access-date=October 9, 2021 |work=The Seattle Times |issn=0745-9696}}</ref>

<ref name="Lovell-2021a">{{cite web |last=Lovell |first=Rose |date=July 2, 2021 |title=Abigail Shrier's Irreversible Damage: A Wealth of Irreversible Misinformation |url=https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/abigail-shriers-irreversible-damage-a-wealth-of-irreversible-misinformation/|access-date=July 5, 2021|website=Science-Based Medicine |language=en-US}}</ref>

<ref name="Novella-2021">{{cite web |last=Novella |first=Steven |date=June 30, 2021 |author-link=Steven Novella |title=The Science of Transgender Treatment |url=https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-science-of-transgender-treatment/ |access-date=July 4, 2021 |website=Science-Based Medicine|language=en-US}}</ref>

<ref name="Parsons-2020">{{cite news |last=Parsons |first=Vic |date=June 23, 2020 |title=Amazon refuses to advertise renowned anti-trans journalist's book suggesting trans teens are a 'contagion' |url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/23/amazon-abigail-shrier-book-refuse-adverts-regnery-publishing/ |access-date=December 10, 2020 |work=PinkNews |language=en-GB}}</ref>

<ref name="Patterson-2021">{{cite news |last1=Patterson |first1=Christina |date=January 3, 2021 |author-link=Christina Patterson |title=Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier review — the risks of transgender activism |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/irreversible-damage-by-abigail-shrier-review-the-risks-of-transgender-activism-tmlwhpdm9 |access-date=January 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210103071510/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/irreversible-damage-by-abigail-shrier-review-the-risks-of-transgender-activism-tmlwhpdm9|archive-date=January 3, 2021|work=The Sunday Times |url-status=live |language=en}}</ref>

<ref name="Pavia-2020">{{cite news |last=Pavia |first=Will |date=November 21, 2020 |title=Author Abigail Shrier faces threats after warning of trans epidemic |language=en-GB |work=The Sunday Times |url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/article/author-abigail-shrier-faces-threats-after-warning-of-trans-epidemic-sd6qjt8ww |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://archive.today/20201121113642/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/author-abigail-shrier-faces-threats-after-warning-of-trans-epidemic-sd6qjt8ww |archive-date=November 21, 2020 |issn=0140-0460}}</ref>

<ref name="Quah-2020">{{cite news |last=Quah |first=Nicholas |date=November 3, 2020 |title=Should Spotify Be Responsible for What Joe Rogan Does? |url=https://www.vulture.com/2020/11/spotify-responsible-joe-rogan.html |access-date=December 27, 2020 |work=Vulture |language=en-US}}</ref>

<ref name="Riley-2020">{{cite magazine |last1=Riley |first1=Naomi Schaefer |author-link=Naomi Schaefer Riley |title=The Trans Cult |url=https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/naomi-schaefer-riley/transgender-children-craze/ |access-date=December 27, 2020 |magazine=Commentary |date=June 16, 2020 |issn=0010-2601 |language=en}}</ref>

<ref name="Ryan-2021">{{cite news |last1=Ryan |first1=Haley |date=May 30, 2021 |title=Pride breaks with Halifax libraries after controversial book kept on shelves |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/pride-breaks-with-halifax-libraries-after-controversial-book-kept-on-shelves-1.6045823 |work=CBC |access-date=June 2, 2021}}</ref>

<ref name="Shrier-2020c">{{cite news |last=Shrier |first=Abigail |title=Gender activists are trying to cancel my book; Why is Silicon Valley helping them? |url=https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/2020/11/22/Gender-activists-Silicon-Valley-Transgender-LGBTQ/stories/202011220021 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=November 24, 2020 |issn=1068-624X |ref=none}}</ref>

<ref name="Steele-2020">{{cite news|last=Steele |first=Anne |date=October 31, 2020|title=Joe Rogan's Podcast Sparks Tensions Inside Spotify |language=en-US |work=The Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-rogans-podcast-sparks-tensions-inside-spotify-11604156400 |url-status=dead |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://archive.today/20201031153328/https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-rogans-podcast-sparks-tensions-inside-spotify-11604156400|archive-date=October 31, 2020|issn=0099-9660}}</ref>

<ref name="Tracy-2020">{{cite news |last=Tracy |first=Matt |date=November 13, 2020 |title=Bigots Swarm Twitter as Target Flip-Flops on Transphobic Book |language=en-US |work=Gay City News |url=https://www.gaycitynews.com/bigots-swarm-twitter-as-target-flip-flops-on-transphobic-book/ |access-date=December 13, 2020}}</ref>

<ref name="Turban-2020">{{cite web |last=Turban |first=Jack |date=December 6, 2020 |author1-link=Jack Turban |title=New Book 'Irreversible Damage' Is Full of Misinformation |language=en |work=Psychology Today |url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/political-minds/202012/new-book-irreversible-damage-is-full-misinformation|access-date=October 17, 2021 |quote=Shrier claims that 'in most cases—nearly 70 percent—gender dysphoria resolves,' and thus youth should not be provided gender-affirming medical care. That statistic is false. }}</ref>

<ref name="Valens-2020a">{{cite news |last1=Valens |first1=Ana |date=November 13, 2020 |title=Bari Weiss Defends Transphobic Book Pulled From Target |url=https://www.dailydot.com/irl/bari-weiss-transphobic-book-target/ |work=The Daily Dot |language=en}}</ref>

<ref name="Valens-2020b">{{cite news |last1=Valens |first1=Ana |date=November 16, 2020 |title=Target restocked a transphobic book because of money—not 'censorship' |url=https://www.dailydot.com/irl/target-transphobia-book/ |work=The Daily Dot |access-date=December 28, 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

<ref name="Turner-2020">{{cite news |last=Turner |first=Janice |date=December 30, 2020 |author-link=Janice Turner |title=Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier review — resisting the 'transgender craze' |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/irreversible-damage-by-abigail-shrier-review-resisting-the-transgender-craze-8mzrt3gk9 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20201230200422/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/irreversible-damage-by-abigail-shrier-review-resisting-the-transgender-craze-8mzrt3gk9 |archive-date=December 30, 2020 |work=The Times |language=en-GB}}</ref> </references>

==References== {{refbegin}} *{{cite book |last=Shrier |first=Abigail |date=2020 |title=Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters |publisher=Blackstone Publishing |isbn=9781094175515 |location=|language=en}} {{refend}}

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