Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters

by Abigail Shrier

For a few months, Kristal was truly happy, able more or less to pass as a woman or at least get by without harassment. “So my life was good, I had no complaints. I was just doing my thing,” Kristal remembers. “And then Caitlyn happened and suddenly, I was under a microscope. I mean, every trans person was. We couldn’t walk down the street, you know.” For many classic sufferers of gender dysphoria, celebration of their trans identity is anathema. They aren’t looking to show off a “costume,” they want to be accepted as the real thing. “I knew I looked like a man in women’s clothing,” Kristal said. “But it became a freak show. I couldn’t have dinner in a restaurant without strangers hugging you. It was really bizarre. It was a really strange experience. So I felt that something weird was happening, and everywhere I went, people were asking my opinion on Caitlyn Jenner and, you know, it was just, it was awful.” Kristal’s gender dysphoria has been an unrelenting source of discomfort. She doesn’t want to be celebrated and she certainly doesn’t want to make other women uneasy. In fact, she says, transgender people’s ability to use the bathrooms of their choosing was really no issue until the activists politicized it. “I mean, they’re cubicles, you walk in, you do your business, you walk out.” She abhors what she sees as efforts by trans activists to make biological women feel unsafe, and she says the gender ideologues’ “pseudoscience is nuts.” Kristal knows that she is biological...