Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters

by Abigail Shrier

Dr. Zucker believes mental health professionals need to look at the whole kid. Some children latch onto gender dysphoria as a way of coping with trauma or other distress. A therapist needed to question the patient’s understanding of gender in order to determine why the patient might have fixated on that as a source of their problems. What beliefs did the patient have about boys or girls? Why did the child or adolescent come to believe changing gender would lead to a happier life? The goal of the questioning was often to challenge the notion that biological sex was the source of the patient’s problem and, wherever possible, to alleviate the dysphoria. He was stunningly successful. Zucker’s colleague Devita Singh examined the outcomes in the cases of more than one hundred boys who had been seen by Dr. Zucker at his clinic.3 In cases in which a child had not been socially transitioned by parents, she found that 88 percent outgrew their dysphoria.4