Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters

by Abigail Shrier

Over 85 percent of parents reported supporting the right of gay couples to marry. Over 88 percent of parents surveyed reported being supportive of transgender rights. Nearly 64 percent of parents had been called “transphobic” or “bigoted” by their children for such reasons as: disagreeing with the child about the child’s self-assessment of being transgender, recommending that the child take more time to figure out if the child’s feelings of gender dysphoria persisted, calling their child by the wrong pronouns, telling their child that hormones or surgeries were unlikely to help, calling their child by his or her birth name, or recommending that the child work on other underlying mental health issues before undergoing medical transition. Fewer than 13 percent of the parents believed that their adolescents’ mental health had improved after transgender identification. Over 47 percent reported that mental health had worsened.