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Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters ハードカバー – 2020/6/30
英語版
Abigail Shrier
(著)
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NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2021 BY THE TIMES AND THE SUNDAY TIMES
"Irreversible Damage . . . has caused a storm. Abigail Shrier, a Wall Street Journal writer, does something simple yet devastating: she rigorously lays out the facts." —Janice Turner, The Times of London
Until just a few years ago, gender dysphoria—severe discomfort in one’s biological sex—was vanishingly rare. It was typically found in less than .01 percent of the population, emerged in early childhood, and afflicted males almost exclusively.
But today whole groups of female friends in colleges, high schools, and even middle schools across the country are coming out as “transgender.” These are girls who had never experienced any discomfort in their biological sex until they heard a coming-out story from a speaker at a school assembly or discovered the internet community of trans “influencers.”
Unsuspecting parents are awakening to find their daughters in thrall to hip trans YouTube stars and “gender-affirming” educators and therapists who push life-changing interventions on young girls—including medically unnecessary double mastectomies and puberty blockers that can cause permanent infertility.
Abigail Shrier, a writer for the Wall Street Journal, has dug deep into the trans epidemic, talking to the girls, their agonized parents, and the counselors and doctors who enable gender transitions, as well as to “detransitioners”—young women who bitterly regret what they have done to themselves.
Coming out as transgender immediately boosts these girls’ social status, Shrier finds, but once they take the first steps of transition, it is not easy to walk back. She offers urgently needed advice about how parents can protect their daughters.
A generation of girls is at risk. Abigail Shrier’s essential book will help you understand what the trans craze is and how you can inoculate your child against it—or how to retrieve her from this dangerous path.
"Irreversible Damage . . . has caused a storm. Abigail Shrier, a Wall Street Journal writer, does something simple yet devastating: she rigorously lays out the facts." —Janice Turner, The Times of London
Until just a few years ago, gender dysphoria—severe discomfort in one’s biological sex—was vanishingly rare. It was typically found in less than .01 percent of the population, emerged in early childhood, and afflicted males almost exclusively.
But today whole groups of female friends in colleges, high schools, and even middle schools across the country are coming out as “transgender.” These are girls who had never experienced any discomfort in their biological sex until they heard a coming-out story from a speaker at a school assembly or discovered the internet community of trans “influencers.”
Unsuspecting parents are awakening to find their daughters in thrall to hip trans YouTube stars and “gender-affirming” educators and therapists who push life-changing interventions on young girls—including medically unnecessary double mastectomies and puberty blockers that can cause permanent infertility.
Abigail Shrier, a writer for the Wall Street Journal, has dug deep into the trans epidemic, talking to the girls, their agonized parents, and the counselors and doctors who enable gender transitions, as well as to “detransitioners”—young women who bitterly regret what they have done to themselves.
Coming out as transgender immediately boosts these girls’ social status, Shrier finds, but once they take the first steps of transition, it is not easy to walk back. She offers urgently needed advice about how parents can protect their daughters.
A generation of girls is at risk. Abigail Shrier’s essential book will help you understand what the trans craze is and how you can inoculate your child against it—or how to retrieve her from this dangerous path.
- 本の長さ276ページ
- 言語英語
- 出版社Regnery
- 発売日2020/6/30
- 寸法15.24 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-101684510317
- ISBN-13978-1684510313
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“Courage is a rare trait. Abigail Shrier has it in abundance. She defies the politically correct tide to write a moving and critically needed book about a terrible new plague that endangers our children—‘rapid-onset gender dysphoria.’ This book explains what it is, how it has spread, and what we can do about it. And Irreversible Damage is as readable as it is important.”
—Dennis Prager, nationally syndicated radio talk show host and bestselling author of The Rational Bible
“Writing honestly about a difficult and vital topic, Shrier compassionately analyzes the evidence regarding rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD), a phenomenon declared off-limits by many in the media and the scientific establishment. Shrier simply isn’t willing to abandon the future of a child’s mental health to propagandistic political efforts. Shrier has actual courage.”
—Ben Shapiro, editor in chief of The Daily Wire and host of The Ben Shapiro Show
“In Irreversible Damage, Abigail Shrier provides a thought-provoking examination of a new clinical phenomenon mainly affecting adolescent females—what some have termed rapid-onset gender dysphoria—that has, at lightning speed, swept across North America and parts of Western Europe and Scandinavia. In so doing, Shrier does not shy away from the politics that pervade the field of gender dysphoria. It is a book that will be of great interest to parents, the general public, and mental health clinicians.”
— Kenneth J. Zucker, Ph.D., adolescent and child psychologist and chair of the DSM-5 Work Group on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders
“Thoroughly researched and beautifully written.”
—Ray Blanchard, Ph.D., head of Clinical Sexology Services at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health from 1995–2010
“Abigail Shrier dares to tell the truth about a monstrous ideological fad that has already ruined countless children’s lives. History will look kindly on her courage.”
—Michael Knowles, host of The Michael Knowles Show
“Abigail Shrier has written a deeply compassionate and utterly sobering account of an unprecedented and reckless social experiment whose test subjects are the bodies and psyches of the most emotionally vulnerable among us.”
—John Podhoretz, editor of Commentary magazine and columnist for the New York Post
“For no other topic have science and conventional wisdom changed—been thrown away—more rapidly than for gender dysphoria. For a small but rapidly growing number of adolescent girls and their families, consequences have been tragic. This urgently needed book is fascinating, wrenching, and wise. Unlike so many of the currently woke, Abigail Shrier sees clearly what is in front of our faces and is brave enough to name it. Irreversible Damage will be a rallying point to reversing the damage being done.”
—J. Michael Bailey, author of The Man Who Would Be Queen and professor of psychology at Northwestern University
“Abigail Shrier has shed light on the profound discontent of an entire generation of women and girls and exposed how transgender extremists have brainwashed not just these young women, but large portions of the country.”
—Bethany Mandel, editor at Ricochet.com, columnist at the Jewish Daily Forward, and homeschooling mother of four
“Every parent needs to read this gripping travelogue through Gender Land, a perilous place where large numbers of teenage girls come to grief despite their loving parents’ efforts to rescue them.”
—Helen Joyce, senior staff writer at The Economist
“Gender transition has become one of the most controversial issues of our time. So much so that most of us simply want to avoid the subject altogether. Such evasion can be just the thing that gives the majority an excuse to look away from the suffering of our fellow human beings. Abigail Shrier chooses to take the bull by the horns. She dives straight into this most sensitive of debates. The product is a work brimming with compassion for a vulnerable subset of our population: teenage girls. It is a work that makes you want to keep reading because it is accessible, lucid and compelling. You find yourself running out of reasons to look away. A must-read for all those who care about the lot of our girls and women.”
—Ayaan Hirsi Ali, research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and member of Dutch Parliament from 2003–2006
“Shrier’s timely and wise exploration is simultaneously deeply compassionate and hard-hitting. First carefully laying out many of the physical, psychological, and societal effects of the ‘transgender craze,’ she then points to the inconsistencies within the ideology itself. This book deftly arms the reader with tools for both recognizing and resisting, and will prove important for parents, health care professionals, and policy makers alike.”
—Heather Heying, evolutionary biologist and visiting professor at Princeton University
"If you want to understand why suddenly it seems that (mostly) young girls from (mostly) white middle- or upper-class backgrounds (many of whom are in the same friend groups) have decided to start dressing like boys, cutting their hair short, changing their name to a masculine one, and even taking hormones, using chest compressors, and getting themselves surgically altered, you must read Abigail K. Shrier’s urgent new book, Irreversible Damage."
--Commentary Magazine [review by Naomi Schaefer Riley]
—Dennis Prager, nationally syndicated radio talk show host and bestselling author of The Rational Bible
“Writing honestly about a difficult and vital topic, Shrier compassionately analyzes the evidence regarding rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD), a phenomenon declared off-limits by many in the media and the scientific establishment. Shrier simply isn’t willing to abandon the future of a child’s mental health to propagandistic political efforts. Shrier has actual courage.”
—Ben Shapiro, editor in chief of The Daily Wire and host of The Ben Shapiro Show
“In Irreversible Damage, Abigail Shrier provides a thought-provoking examination of a new clinical phenomenon mainly affecting adolescent females—what some have termed rapid-onset gender dysphoria—that has, at lightning speed, swept across North America and parts of Western Europe and Scandinavia. In so doing, Shrier does not shy away from the politics that pervade the field of gender dysphoria. It is a book that will be of great interest to parents, the general public, and mental health clinicians.”
— Kenneth J. Zucker, Ph.D., adolescent and child psychologist and chair of the DSM-5 Work Group on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders
“Thoroughly researched and beautifully written.”
—Ray Blanchard, Ph.D., head of Clinical Sexology Services at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health from 1995–2010
“Abigail Shrier dares to tell the truth about a monstrous ideological fad that has already ruined countless children’s lives. History will look kindly on her courage.”
—Michael Knowles, host of The Michael Knowles Show
“Abigail Shrier has written a deeply compassionate and utterly sobering account of an unprecedented and reckless social experiment whose test subjects are the bodies and psyches of the most emotionally vulnerable among us.”
—John Podhoretz, editor of Commentary magazine and columnist for the New York Post
“For no other topic have science and conventional wisdom changed—been thrown away—more rapidly than for gender dysphoria. For a small but rapidly growing number of adolescent girls and their families, consequences have been tragic. This urgently needed book is fascinating, wrenching, and wise. Unlike so many of the currently woke, Abigail Shrier sees clearly what is in front of our faces and is brave enough to name it. Irreversible Damage will be a rallying point to reversing the damage being done.”
—J. Michael Bailey, author of The Man Who Would Be Queen and professor of psychology at Northwestern University
“Abigail Shrier has shed light on the profound discontent of an entire generation of women and girls and exposed how transgender extremists have brainwashed not just these young women, but large portions of the country.”
—Bethany Mandel, editor at Ricochet.com, columnist at the Jewish Daily Forward, and homeschooling mother of four
“Every parent needs to read this gripping travelogue through Gender Land, a perilous place where large numbers of teenage girls come to grief despite their loving parents’ efforts to rescue them.”
—Helen Joyce, senior staff writer at The Economist
“Gender transition has become one of the most controversial issues of our time. So much so that most of us simply want to avoid the subject altogether. Such evasion can be just the thing that gives the majority an excuse to look away from the suffering of our fellow human beings. Abigail Shrier chooses to take the bull by the horns. She dives straight into this most sensitive of debates. The product is a work brimming with compassion for a vulnerable subset of our population: teenage girls. It is a work that makes you want to keep reading because it is accessible, lucid and compelling. You find yourself running out of reasons to look away. A must-read for all those who care about the lot of our girls and women.”
—Ayaan Hirsi Ali, research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and member of Dutch Parliament from 2003–2006
“Shrier’s timely and wise exploration is simultaneously deeply compassionate and hard-hitting. First carefully laying out many of the physical, psychological, and societal effects of the ‘transgender craze,’ she then points to the inconsistencies within the ideology itself. This book deftly arms the reader with tools for both recognizing and resisting, and will prove important for parents, health care professionals, and policy makers alike.”
—Heather Heying, evolutionary biologist and visiting professor at Princeton University
"If you want to understand why suddenly it seems that (mostly) young girls from (mostly) white middle- or upper-class backgrounds (many of whom are in the same friend groups) have decided to start dressing like boys, cutting their hair short, changing their name to a masculine one, and even taking hormones, using chest compressors, and getting themselves surgically altered, you must read Abigail K. Shrier’s urgent new book, Irreversible Damage."
--Commentary Magazine [review by Naomi Schaefer Riley]
著者について
Abigail Shrier is a writer for the Wall Street Journal. She is a graduate of Columbia College, where she received the Euretta J. Kellett Fellowship; the University of Oxford; and Yale Law School. She lives in Los Angeles, CA.
登録情報
- 出版社 : Regnery (2020/6/30)
- 発売日 : 2020/6/30
- 言語 : 英語
- ハードカバー : 276ページ
- ISBN-10 : 1684510317
- ISBN-13 : 978-1684510313
- 寸法 : 15.24 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm
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さえないアメリカの少女があるとき自分の心の問題がGIDだと思い、親に内緒でテストステロンの服用を始め、ネットでトランス宣言。するとインスタのフォロワー爆上がり、ところがその成功に反比例するかのように彼女のこころは壊れていく・・・わ・・・わたしはトランスなんかじゃなかった・・・華やかなレインボーフラッグに隠れた闇の部分のルポは、心を打ちます・・・これはほんの一例。アビゲイル・シュライアーはトランスのリアルをうまく描いてます。とくに進歩的な親が陥りやすい罠なんかもあって、親世代は必読です。
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All parents (particularly of girls), teachers, and anyone who is in a position of responsibility over children and teenagers should read this book. Brilliantly written, this book rebuts every single argument TRAs come up with in favour of affirmative care for girls with rapid onset gender dysphoria. I’m very glad this mania hasn’t (yet?) reached the country I live in. Will buy the author’s next book, too.
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ジェンダーなんちゃらに騙されるような若い子たちは
そもそも何かの問題を抱えていることが少なくない
若い子だまくらかして、利用してる輩は
ご想像のように そういう人たちです
日本の近未来がこうならないように 祈ります
Gender activists are exploiting troubled teenage kids, burdening them with new problems and discarding them once they've served their purpose.
そもそも何かの問題を抱えていることが少なくない
若い子だまくらかして、利用してる輩は
ご想像のように そういう人たちです
日本の近未来がこうならないように 祈ります
Gender activists are exploiting troubled teenage kids, burdening them with new problems and discarding them once they've served their purpose.
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Interesting.In Japan, I want read many readers, especially feminists.
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米国では自分をトランスジェンダーだと思い込み、思春期ブロッカーや手術までしてしまう思春期の少女が急増しています。
作者は個々の事例を検証し、原因を解明しました
作者は個々の事例を検証し、原因を解明しました
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私は子どもがいないので、「へえ、今はこんなことがあるんだ」くらいの感じで読んだが、
お子さんのいる方はもっと色々感じることがあると思う。
なぜこの翻訳書を出版できないのか、理解不能。
お子さんのいる方はもっと色々感じることがあると思う。
なぜこの翻訳書を出版できないのか、理解不能。
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角川文庫がこの本の翻訳版の出版を差し控えた理由として『タイトルやキャッチコピーの内容により結果的に当事者を傷づける事となり誠に申し訳ございません』と発表している。
タイトルとキャッチコピーに問題があるなら差し替えれば良いだけの話。またその際、原著についてその題名や著者についてまったく触れていない。
明らかにこの本の存在を日本国民に知らせたくないという意図が垣間見える。
その背後には一部の過激な人権派の反対運動があったと予想するが、LGBTにおいて世界から周回遅れの岸田政権の政策を考える上で、是非多くの国民に読んで頂きたい内容です。
タイトルとキャッチコピーに問題があるなら差し替えれば良いだけの話。またその際、原著についてその題名や著者についてまったく触れていない。
明らかにこの本の存在を日本国民に知らせたくないという意図が垣間見える。
その背後には一部の過激な人権派の反対運動があったと予想するが、LGBTにおいて世界から周回遅れの岸田政権の政策を考える上で、是非多くの国民に読んで頂きたい内容です。
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一般向けにアメリカでAffirmative Careの名のもとティーンエイジャーの性転換医療問題への入門書として素晴らしい。
多くの親御さんに読んでもらいたい。
多くの親御さんに読んでもらいたい。
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今私たちが知るべきことが書いてあります。
キャンセル攻撃に負けず、翻訳本が出版されることを願います。
真実の声を聴いて下さい。
キャンセル攻撃に負けず、翻訳本が出版されることを願います。
真実の声を聴いて下さい。
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Left-wing progressive here
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Every parent of a child of any age should read this book. It sticks to the research and facts, while acknowledging the emotional trauma involved in this horrific, Kafka-esque nightmare we are all in.
I'm 55, with a 19 and a 22 year old. Either one of my kids could easily have fallen prey to this seductive movement and entered into a lifetime of medicalization. At 12, my youngest "came out" to me as lesbian, and I simply told her she can form romantic attachments to whoever she likes, but I wasn't willing to label her at that point. She didn't like my firmness, but now she looks back on that phase with embarrassment, as a moment when she felt left out, wanted to be special, belong, and be celebrated... the queer kids were getting stuff she wasn't getting, so she joined the LGBTQ club at school. Now she is exclusively heterosexual, it seems. By the grace of whatever, she didn't get hooked into trans back in 2016. But I wouldn't consider any of these kids to be "out of the woods" until they're at least 28. and In my limited circle of friends and acquaintances I know:
• A dear friend of mine, 57-year-old progressive father of a 21-year-old daughter who he says was likely drawn into the trans idea when she developed breasts and attracted unwanted attention from males. He thinks she was likely lesbian. His wife immediately affirmed the girl coming out as trans, and the name and pronoun changes. She is now is on testosterone and has had a double mastectomy. My friend felt that he had to affirm this, or be estranged from the family. He talks about the intense loneliness of being skeptical. I wish he'd had this book four or five years ago.
• My 19-year-old daughter's best friend, born female. The two girls met at the start of the grade 12 year of high school, and the relationship has been rocky because of this girl's mental health issues. The girl obsessively pursued my daughter romantically as a 17-year-old, and at that time, was presenting as a female. She had a meltdown over my daughter's insistence that they be platonic friends, and they were estranged for over a year. Now this girl is back in my daughter's life, with a double mastectomy, lower voice, and a beard. She just happily told me about her surgery, and how grateful she was that her wait time had been shortened because of a cancellation in the schedule. I see nothing but carnage.
• A 22-year-old young woman who began "transitioning" to male in high school, she came from a very troubled family situation, and appeared at my dinner table as an additional guest when I invited my dear friend and her son. She had changed her name to a boy's name, her voice was artificially low, and my dear friend, who has followed the girl on instagram, recently showed me photos of her proudly displaying her mastectomy scars, and then subsequent photos showing she was back to wearing fancy dresses and letting her hair grow longer. My friend assumes she is detransitioning.
• A friend of mine whose 16-year-old daughter with autism wanted to have her breasts removed. This woman was distraught that the medical system would perform the surgery on a teenager, even without Mom's consent. This was several years ago, and I saw the girl last year, talking about her creative work, dressed to accentuate her female figure, and I thought she had disisted. I just found out that at age 24, a few months ago, the girl decided to have a double mastectomy after all.
• My dear friend's son, who I watched grow up, was always a very impulsive, physical, aggressive boy. In his teen years, his father left the country, and he descended into addiction. A talented musician, he was the lead in the high school band. He treated his mother very badly, was volatile and violent, and said awful misogynistic things to my daughter, who looked up to him as a brother figure. Then, suddenly, he came out as a trans woman. The counsellor my friend brought him to immediately affirmed him, and told her, in his presence, "What would you prefer, a dead son or a live daughter?" He was combative about his pronouns and chosen name, and an arrangement was made for him to move in with his father in a country where the health authorities have suddenly done a 180º on medicalizing people who claim a trans identity. When his estrogen ran out, he would have had to jump through many hoops to access more of it, and apparently, couldn't be bothered, so has ceased. My friend has no contact with her son, and when her brother died, the boy made no contact to offer condolences, and did not attend the funeral.
• A female friend has twin daughters, one of whom insisted she was a boy from about age 3 or 4. This would be over a decade ago. Mom decided to affirm the child with her chosen male name and pronouns, dad was reluctant but got on board. There was a complete social transition by kindergarten at school, etc. I don't know for certain, but I assume there was full medicalization that began at puberty. Certainly this child currently presents as male, and I can't imagine they didn't receive the "life-saving, gender-affirming" hormones and surgery treatment.
I don't think I know a single family in my peer group that isn't dealing with some kind of profound mental health issue with one or more of their kids, and the transgender dysphoria is more common now that the nut allergies that transformed school lunch policies 15 years ago. I'm the child of two PhD biologists, and I chafe at the notion that we should talk about "pregnant people" and define lesbians as "non-male." There is a biological reality that no superficial chemical or surgical treatments can change. My own daughter is caught up in this tangentially, as a friend to girls who insist they are boys, and also because her rights as a woman are being eroded by trans activists who have hijacked the federal protections in place and marginalized biological females who deserve remedies in cases of discrimination on the basis of sex.
This book highlights the capture of once-trustworthy medical institutions like the Endocrine Society, where ideology now trumps biology, and activism thwarts scientific research. It's quite a scandal, and the irreversible damage being done to young people is not rare. It's happening over and over again in my own social circle. I'm not willing to keep quiet about it.
I'm 55, with a 19 and a 22 year old. Either one of my kids could easily have fallen prey to this seductive movement and entered into a lifetime of medicalization. At 12, my youngest "came out" to me as lesbian, and I simply told her she can form romantic attachments to whoever she likes, but I wasn't willing to label her at that point. She didn't like my firmness, but now she looks back on that phase with embarrassment, as a moment when she felt left out, wanted to be special, belong, and be celebrated... the queer kids were getting stuff she wasn't getting, so she joined the LGBTQ club at school. Now she is exclusively heterosexual, it seems. By the grace of whatever, she didn't get hooked into trans back in 2016. But I wouldn't consider any of these kids to be "out of the woods" until they're at least 28. and In my limited circle of friends and acquaintances I know:
• A dear friend of mine, 57-year-old progressive father of a 21-year-old daughter who he says was likely drawn into the trans idea when she developed breasts and attracted unwanted attention from males. He thinks she was likely lesbian. His wife immediately affirmed the girl coming out as trans, and the name and pronoun changes. She is now is on testosterone and has had a double mastectomy. My friend felt that he had to affirm this, or be estranged from the family. He talks about the intense loneliness of being skeptical. I wish he'd had this book four or five years ago.
• My 19-year-old daughter's best friend, born female. The two girls met at the start of the grade 12 year of high school, and the relationship has been rocky because of this girl's mental health issues. The girl obsessively pursued my daughter romantically as a 17-year-old, and at that time, was presenting as a female. She had a meltdown over my daughter's insistence that they be platonic friends, and they were estranged for over a year. Now this girl is back in my daughter's life, with a double mastectomy, lower voice, and a beard. She just happily told me about her surgery, and how grateful she was that her wait time had been shortened because of a cancellation in the schedule. I see nothing but carnage.
• A 22-year-old young woman who began "transitioning" to male in high school, she came from a very troubled family situation, and appeared at my dinner table as an additional guest when I invited my dear friend and her son. She had changed her name to a boy's name, her voice was artificially low, and my dear friend, who has followed the girl on instagram, recently showed me photos of her proudly displaying her mastectomy scars, and then subsequent photos showing she was back to wearing fancy dresses and letting her hair grow longer. My friend assumes she is detransitioning.
• A friend of mine whose 16-year-old daughter with autism wanted to have her breasts removed. This woman was distraught that the medical system would perform the surgery on a teenager, even without Mom's consent. This was several years ago, and I saw the girl last year, talking about her creative work, dressed to accentuate her female figure, and I thought she had disisted. I just found out that at age 24, a few months ago, the girl decided to have a double mastectomy after all.
• My dear friend's son, who I watched grow up, was always a very impulsive, physical, aggressive boy. In his teen years, his father left the country, and he descended into addiction. A talented musician, he was the lead in the high school band. He treated his mother very badly, was volatile and violent, and said awful misogynistic things to my daughter, who looked up to him as a brother figure. Then, suddenly, he came out as a trans woman. The counsellor my friend brought him to immediately affirmed him, and told her, in his presence, "What would you prefer, a dead son or a live daughter?" He was combative about his pronouns and chosen name, and an arrangement was made for him to move in with his father in a country where the health authorities have suddenly done a 180º on medicalizing people who claim a trans identity. When his estrogen ran out, he would have had to jump through many hoops to access more of it, and apparently, couldn't be bothered, so has ceased. My friend has no contact with her son, and when her brother died, the boy made no contact to offer condolences, and did not attend the funeral.
• A female friend has twin daughters, one of whom insisted she was a boy from about age 3 or 4. This would be over a decade ago. Mom decided to affirm the child with her chosen male name and pronouns, dad was reluctant but got on board. There was a complete social transition by kindergarten at school, etc. I don't know for certain, but I assume there was full medicalization that began at puberty. Certainly this child currently presents as male, and I can't imagine they didn't receive the "life-saving, gender-affirming" hormones and surgery treatment.
I don't think I know a single family in my peer group that isn't dealing with some kind of profound mental health issue with one or more of their kids, and the transgender dysphoria is more common now that the nut allergies that transformed school lunch policies 15 years ago. I'm the child of two PhD biologists, and I chafe at the notion that we should talk about "pregnant people" and define lesbians as "non-male." There is a biological reality that no superficial chemical or surgical treatments can change. My own daughter is caught up in this tangentially, as a friend to girls who insist they are boys, and also because her rights as a woman are being eroded by trans activists who have hijacked the federal protections in place and marginalized biological females who deserve remedies in cases of discrimination on the basis of sex.
This book highlights the capture of once-trustworthy medical institutions like the Endocrine Society, where ideology now trumps biology, and activism thwarts scientific research. It's quite a scandal, and the irreversible damage being done to young people is not rare. It's happening over and over again in my own social circle. I'm not willing to keep quiet about it.
Enock
5つ星のうち5.0
Muito esclarecedor
2023年9月30日にブラジルでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
O livro aborda questões muito interessantes e que merecem ser pesquisadas mais a fundo.
Bambi
5つ星のうち5.0
Excelente lectura, interesante e informativa.
2022年3月10日にメキシコでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Me sorprendió mucho encontrar este libro en Amazon y lo compré sin pensarlo dos veces. Una lectura muy interesante e informativa. Puede que en 2022 la gente aun crea que esto es "transfobia" y "discurso de odio"...yo creo que lo de verdad es transfobia y odio es tratar de silenciar todas las historias que se cuentan en este libro y silenciar las voces de las personas que tienen preocupaciones verdaderas y válidas sobre el movimiento transexual en la actualidad. Más lecturas como estas.
Tutto perfetto, ottima base letto!
5つ星のうち5.0
Parents should read this
2024年3月3日にイタリアでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
In today's society we should all be informed of what is really going on, not only should parents read this to protect their children but also doctors who think they are doing good when instead they are doing more harm.
Nina
5つ星のうち5.0
Endlich ein faktenbasiertes Buch!
2022年8月30日にドイツでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Ich kann der Rezension der Times zur englischen Ausgabe dieses Buches nur zustimmen. Abigail Shrier legt klar und unmissverständlich die Fakten zum Transgender-Hype dar. Ihre Recherchen sind umfassend und fundiert, sie lässt keine relevante Perspektive aus. Sie hat den Mut, offenzulegen, was Psychiater/innen und klinische Epidemiologen aus Angst vor einem Shitstorm in den sozialen Medien lieber verschweigen: Dass es beim Transgender-Hype um ein soziales Phänomen geht. Junge Mädchen und Frauen, die mit typischen Adoleszenz-Problemen kämpfen, glauben den haltlosen Aussagen von Trans-Influencern, z. B. "Wenn du darüber nachdenkst, ob Du trans sein könntest, dann bist mit 90%iger Wahrscheinlichkeit trans" oder "Deine psychischen Probleme werden erst aufhören, wenn Du eine Testosteronbehandlung machst." Also Königsweg zum Glücklichwerden wird von den Internetgurus "top surgery" angepriesen, eine Euphemismus für Mastektomie. Inklusive sind Ratschläge, wie man Eltern oder andere, die eine Selbstidentifikation als trans möglicherweise kritisch hinterfragen, aus seinem Leben entfernt und wie man vorgehen muss, damit Ärzte Testosteron verschreiben.
Die Recherchen von Abigail Shrier bringen klar zutage, dass der Trans-Hype nichts mit einer angeborenen und klinisch beobachtbaren Gender-Dysphorie zu tun hat. Sie lässt Wissenschaftler/innen aus dem Bereich der Psychatrie, Sexualforschung und klinischen Epidemiologie zu Wort kommen, deren Forschungsergebnisse dies untermauern.
Es wäre zu wünschen, dass diese Erkenntnisse endlich auch in der Psychotherapie-Praxis hierzulande ankommen und überforderte Therapeuten und Therapeutinnen aufhören, aus Unsicherheit vorsichtshalber affirmativ zu arbeiten. Hoffentlich wird das Buch bald ins Deutsche übersetzt und von vielen Therapeutinnen und Therapeuten gelesen.
Um es noch einmal mit der Times zu sagen: Hoffen wir, dass Ärzte, die grinsend mit Reagenzgläsern posieren, in denen die abgenommenen Brüste gesunder junger Frauen zu sehen sind, eines Tages (hoffentlich bald) in die Galerie der fatalen medizinischen Irrwege eingereiht werden, wie das False-Memory Syndrom oder die Lobotomie-Eingriffe der 1940er Jahre.
Die Recherchen von Abigail Shrier bringen klar zutage, dass der Trans-Hype nichts mit einer angeborenen und klinisch beobachtbaren Gender-Dysphorie zu tun hat. Sie lässt Wissenschaftler/innen aus dem Bereich der Psychatrie, Sexualforschung und klinischen Epidemiologie zu Wort kommen, deren Forschungsergebnisse dies untermauern.
Es wäre zu wünschen, dass diese Erkenntnisse endlich auch in der Psychotherapie-Praxis hierzulande ankommen und überforderte Therapeuten und Therapeutinnen aufhören, aus Unsicherheit vorsichtshalber affirmativ zu arbeiten. Hoffentlich wird das Buch bald ins Deutsche übersetzt und von vielen Therapeutinnen und Therapeuten gelesen.
Um es noch einmal mit der Times zu sagen: Hoffen wir, dass Ärzte, die grinsend mit Reagenzgläsern posieren, in denen die abgenommenen Brüste gesunder junger Frauen zu sehen sind, eines Tages (hoffentlich bald) in die Galerie der fatalen medizinischen Irrwege eingereiht werden, wie das False-Memory Syndrom oder die Lobotomie-Eingriffe der 1940er Jahre.