Science, the Transgender Phenomenon, and the Young | Abigail Shrier

Those who opine that Abigail Shrier's analysis is "hate speech" my retort is: "Truth sounds like hate only to those who hate truth."

I have a 20-year old ASD daughter who claimed to be pansexual all through high school. Never really quite fit in at school. I continuously taught her how your gender is how you pee and which dr you go to (gynecologist or urologist) and that everything else is your personality. I told her how i was a tomboy growing up but that didn’t mean i should identify as a boy. I taught her about all the power and beauty in being female and to be proud of it. Trust me....It was a lot of work! I was also very brutally honest about the side effects of these treatments and how they can affect fertility. She recently announced she’s not pansexual anymore and she thanked me for sticking with the truth even when she hated me for it.

I grew up a tomboy. I was a pitcher on a boys' baseball team. The beauty of it was I was a great pitcher, and no one told me that I had "gender dysphoria"... Thanks Dad 👍

I think the transgender movement enforces the gender stereotypes we tried so hard to get away from!

They got to my daughter and it was only after "top surgery" that she realized that she'd been a female all along and had just let a "friend" convince her otherwise. Like in so many of these cases, her friends, doctors and councilors warned her not to talk to her parents about it because we wouldn't have her best interests in mind. Now that she's done what she can to de-transition, those people who said they only cared about what was best for her are nowhere to be found.

I was a total tomboy. My Asian parents wanted a son, that didn’t help either. I hated my body. But my parents always said, life is unfair - make the best of it, never be a victim. Today, I’m a successful doctor, mother & wife. Began to wear high heels in my 40s. Loving it. Who knew.

What shocks me is that this speech was 2 years ago and it seems the world has learnt very little of this wisdom. And it IS great wisdom. If only everyone listened and I mean really listened to this articulate , intelligent and brave woman.

As a teen who grew up with this phenomenon, I can tell you how it goes. 1st step: be a weird kid who doesn’t fit in and has mental issues, trauma, ugly, etc, or have nerdy and unpopular interests such as anime, furry fandoms, folk punk and certain books. Second step: befriend other weird people, and build a community. You feel appreciated and affirmed with your weirdness and build an identity out of it. 3rd step: one friend falls into the trend of being trans because of its popularity right now (insta, tiktok, twitter). You see other weird kids being LGBT. 4th step: you dress odd to affirm an identity that is “main character” and bright to create your own character out of yourself that is fantasy to match your interests. You change your pronouns. You feel new and appreciated. A new identity away from the weirdo. 5th step: the rest of the group follows because they’re weird too and they have a strong knit community of victimhood and main character syndrome if they’re all trans. 6th step: their community grows and combined with others like a contaigen. They become the new cool popular kids and they’re appreciated while making false identities and they feel wanted. 7th step: attentions starts running out so you make more fuss and might even transition sexually.

It was Voltaire who said "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities".

Grew up a tomboy. So many times in my life I said “I should have born a man.” That’s not really what I wanted, I just wanted to feel like not being a “girly-girl” (which is a beautiful thing) and being a tomboy (which is a beautiful thing) was perfectly alright.

I am seventy years old and all I can say is that this world is getting nuttier and nuttier. When I was young it was all about working hard and making a good life for family and yourself.

It's worth to mention that a conservative binary society pushes people to feel uncomfortable in our own skin. As a feminine boy people constantly said I wasn't acting my gender. I suffered bullying, psychological and physical abuse in order to "man up", and of course this was cause of MUCH confusion. The "boys will be boys" and "girls will be girls" discourse boxes people to terrible extremes. So much in our society would be fixed by just letting people be people and embrace the beauty in diversity. It took me a lifetime to become comfortable in my own body.

When I was a young girl, I totally thought anything “girly” was lame (still do for the most part) and I also hated my body (I’m happy with my body now.). I also thought being child free would be wonderful so if someone told me that being g sterile was a risk from puberty blockers, that would have been just fine with me. I fear I would have totally been taken in by this trans movement had I been born today and that would have been a shame. I’m happily married with two wonderful kids and I love being a woman.

I was a unhappy teenager, sexuality and gender roles confused me. It wasn't until I gave birth and breastfeed that I understood how amazing being female was. I am now 54 and I have lived a amazing life. I weld, do construction, art, music. I have a beautiful capable grown daughter. I am grateful for being female.

Janice Clark-Espinoza 0 seconds ago My daughter falls into this category of girls. As her mother, I know for a fact that she does not have gender dysphoria. She was a girlie girl up until she was 15. What no one is talking about is how this phenomenon is affecting the parents and families of these children. As her mom, I am devastated by the choices she has made for herself at such a young age and angry with the whole system that has supported her in these decisions. I am desperate to save her but helpless in doing so. I am crying and so sad as I write this. She is all I see and think about.😔

Growing up in the 50's & 60's, anytime I asked my mom for permission to follow my friends into something stupid, she would ask me, "If your friends jumped off a cliff, would you?" The response then and now was/is a resounding, "NO WAY!" especially regarding this trans-cliff.

"Where is the money?" and "Who is benefiting from this?" are excellent questions that no one is asking.

Not so long ago there was a great outcry about female castration in Africa and religions around the world People stood up and said it was so wrong, to take action to stop it. Know we advocate doing worse to our children. We need more courageous people like this lady in positions to be heard and to speak out.

What can I say...? Brilliant doesn't even begin to cover it! Well constructed, well thought out, well argued...

Every teacher, principal, school administrator, doctor, counsellor and parent NEEDS to hear this. I personally will send it to all the school principals in our district. They are promoting this, and it is destroying our kids. God bless you for speaking out and so clearly.