Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters

by Abigail Shrier

Before 2012, in fact, there was no scientific literature on girls ages eleven to twenty-one ever having developed gender dysphoria at all.

In 2018, the UK reported a 4,400 percent rise over the previous decade in teenage girls seeking gender treatments.

In a recent academic study, Kenneth Zucker found that the mental health outcomes for adolescents with gender dysphoria were very similar to those with the same mental health issues who did not have gender dypshoria. In other words, we have no proof that the gender dysphoria was responsible for the suicidal ideation or tendency to self-harm. It may have been the many other mental health problems that gender dysphoric adolescents so often bear.

a leaked 2019 report from the Tavistock and Portman Trust gender clinic in the UK, which showed that rates of self-harm and suicidality did not decrease even after puberty suppression for adolescent natal girls.19 The report was so damning that a governor of the clinic, Dr. Marcus Evans, resigned. He told the press that he feared the clinic was fast-tracking youths to transition to no good effect and in some cases to their harm.20

nearly 70 percent of kids who experience childhood gender dysphoria—and are not affirmed or socially transitioned—eventually outgrow it.23

In fact, there are no good long-term studies indicating that either gender dysphoria or suicidality diminishes after medical transition.19 Often a young woman’s dysphoria increases with testosterone, as it occurs to her that even with a man’s voice, body hair, squarer jaw, rounder nose, and full beard, she doesn’t look exactly like a man. She still has breasts, after all.

Sasha Ayad says that parents today are often afraid of upsetting their teens because they have the idea that their job is to ensure their child is “happy and perfectly adjusted and well-balanced 100 percent of the time.” Not only is that an unreasonable goal, it misunderstands the inherently tumultuous state of adolescence. Teenagers are supposed to get angry and emotional. Parents are supposed to set limits.

If you eliminate all conflict through endless agreement and support, it may only encourage her to kick things up a notch.