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Abigail Shrier is a writer and not a scientist, and it can be clearly seen even from the title of the book that she has an agenda. The thesis of the book has be
by makeworld 5y ago
Abigail Shrier is a writer and not a scientist, and it can be clearly seen even from the title of the book that she has an agenda. The thesis of the book has been "rejected by the American Psychiatric Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Endocrine Society, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreversible_Damage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreversible_Damage
If you have a peer-reviewed study, that would be much more worthwhile to look at.
- honkdaddy 5y agoHere's a study referenced in the book. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6095578/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6095578/ The layman's explanation of the phenomenon is that parents observe a rapidly onset expression of gender dysphoria in their teenage daughters which "seemed to occur in the context of belonging to a peer group where one, multiple, or even all of the friends have become gender dysphoric and transgender-identified during the same timeframe."
- makeworld 5y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27610041 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27610041