Transgender Activists Tell Our Daughters
They’re Not Acceptable The Way They Are'Irreversible Damage: the Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters,'
adroitly addresses a controversial topic without shirking from the truth.
Author: Maria Keffler Via The Federalist
Transgenderism has been called the medical scandal of our time. Facilitated by contemporary culture’s voyeuristic fascination with all things sexual, and its blithe willingness to turn a blind eye to the mutilated bodies and psychological devastation in transgender activism’s wake, this social and political movement is sweeping through our nation’s schools with catastrophic consequences for children, families, and society.
Abigail Shrier’s latest book, Irreversible Damage: the Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, accomplishes the Herculean task of revealing and explicating the history, circumstances, and repercussions of an ideology that has to a great extent targeted adolescent and teen girls, evidenced by a 4,000 percent increase in child referrals to gender clinics in the last ten years, most of whom are females.
Shrier, a parent and Oxford-, Columbia-, and Yale-educated attorney and journalist who writes for the Wall Street Journal, digs deeply and widely into this phenomenon, interviewing doctors, researchers, teachers, therapists, transgender-identified adults, and transgender-identified children and their parents in a search for answers to two questions: “Why?” and “What now?”
She parses out in shocking clarity how social media influencers, school administrators, medical and mental health practitioners, and calculated activism have created and propagated a social contagion that preys upon young girls as they navigate the struggles common to all females as they come of age. At the time girls’ bodies and minds are transforming from those of children to those of adult women, the transgender ideology that’s been diffused like mustard gas into every corner of our social atmosphere capitalizes on these girls’ search for identity and meaning by affirming their deepest fear: You are not acceptable the way you are.
The Damage Done
Irreversible Damage lays bare the social, psychological, and political forces that converge in a ghastly maelstrom to ravage young lives. At school and online, “teens and tweens today are everywhere pressed to locate themselves on a gender spectrum and within a sexuality taxonomy–long before they have finished the sexual development that would otherwise guide discovery of who they are,” Shrier declares, led there by “so much gender identity and sexual orientation education, delivered with the tireless passion of priests.”
As I read Shrier’s apt and piercing commentary on the origins of transgender ideology and how it’s taken such a stranglehold on our society and children, I found myself underlining whole passages and scribbling commiserative notes in the margins. At the end of a section on bullying, in her chapter on schools’ complicity in the harms wrought on these girls, I penned an epiphany: “Schools and activists have turned their weaponry against the family. The bullies, according to them, are no longer society or other students; by transgenderism’s twisted and sadistic logic, parents are now deceitfully vilified as their own children’s worst oppressors. That is evil.”
Hope and Direction
In Irreversible Damage Abigail Shrier has done for us the preponderance of work necessary to demonstrate exactly who are the enemies of all who value healthy children, healthy families, and a healthy society, and what tactics they employ. The gatekeepers we trusted to safeguard our children have not only failed, they have turned their teeth and claws on our kids as well as on us. We can no longer afford to be blissfully ignorant of what’s happening to our children.
In fact, deliberate ignorance explains the overwhelming lack of widespread inquiry into the transgender narrative and its results: “You cannot let yourself imagine that [affirmation therapy] might be a mistake because then you’d have to accept that you’ve been participating in something truly awful,” Shrier quotes Lisa Marchiano, a Jungian analyst, researcher, social worker, and therapist who does not hold with her profession’s party line on gender affirmation. Full Article @ The Federalist
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 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 of trans “influencers.”
Are Women Inherently Lesbian ?
Are Women inherently Lesbian ? Many lesbian feminists believe so, perhaps it is just another warped fantasy, perhaps not.
Feminazi Charlotte Bunch wrote ...
" Lesbians must become feminists and fight against woman oppression, just as Feminists must become Lesbians if they hope to end male supremacy.... Race, class, and national oppression come from men, serve ruling class white men's interests, and have no place in a woman-identified revolution....Changes which will have more than token effects on our lives will be led by women-identified Lesbians who understand the nature of our oppression and are therefore in a position to end it." [Lesbians in Revolt]
At least one study conducted by Meredith Chivers, Ph. D., of Queens University in Ontario, tends to indicate that women are aroused by sexually explicit imagery of other women.
