Target Tried To Ban Transgender Therapy Book, The ‘Irreversible Damage’ Of Censorship
Another week, another bout of Twitter outrage. At the center of the latest scandal is a book by Abigail Shrier of the Wall Street Journal . Shrier has the pedigree of an elite journalist. She attended Columbia University and the University of Oxford as an undergraduate and graduated from Yale Law School. Related: ‘Power to the people’: Target removes, then reinstates, teen transgender book In Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters , she details the results of her investigation into “the sudden, severe spike in transgender identification among adolescent girls.” This trend concerned Shrier. So, she set out to find its cause. Shrier was alarmed by what she found. She learned about the “social contagion” aspect of the spike in transgender identification, especially among friend groups. She discovered the rapid pace at which teenage girls are undergoing gender transition surgeries, making irreversible decisions with irreversible consequences. Americans can’t