Abigail Shrier says parents are gagged by PC culture:’Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters’ 

An outspoken author has blamed ‘aggressive schools and Twitter culture’ for leaving ‘open-minded parents’ too scared to question their children declaring themselves as transgender at a young age.

Writer Abigail Shrier, from LA, recently released a book titled ‘Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters’, in which she explores gender dysphoria.

Sharing her concern that the decision to take puberty blockers is often taken too lightly, she appeared on womens’ rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen’s Woman By Definition’s podcast.

Speaking about the children who are most likely to transition, she said: ‘I think this seems to be in prominent in politically progressive communities, partly because their schools tend to be more aggressive on the gender ideology, so they’re getting pushed culturally. 

Writer Abigail Shrier, from LA, blamed ‘aggressive schools and Twitter culture’ for ‘undermining open-minded parents’ into being too scared to question their children’s choice to declare themselves as trans at a young age

‘One of the cruel reasons this has hit progressive families so hard, is because they were genuinely so open-minded and supportive, and it really got turned against them.

‘It was because they sometimes weren’t willing to put their foot down and say, “No you’re not starting testosterone”.’

She continued: ‘I often get parents telling me they’re not able to take binders (hormone blockers) away from their children, and I say to them, “Would you give your children cigarettes?”. 

‘Because we know binders are really harmful, they can deform breast tissue, cause rib cracking and shortness of breath. They’re quite dangerous for your 14-year-old to be going around with.’

Sharing her concern that the decision to take puberty blockers is often taken too lightly, she appeared on womens’ rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen’s Woman By Definition’s radio show

Sharing her experience of parents’ concerns, she said: ‘Parents often say to me “I don’t want to be seen as a transphobe”, and it’s very clear to me that sometimes these parents feel like they can’t speak the truth or go against their own children’s wishes.

Abigail recently released a book titled ‘Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters’, in which she explores gender dysphoria

‘They have nowhere they can comfortably say the truth – not even in their own home – because everything can be broadcast now. 

‘We’ve allowed everything to become a political statement even if it isn’t, because we now have iPhones in which everything can be broadcast to millions of people.’

Abigail argued: ‘I’ve never seen parents so beaten down and undermined. They send them to school in good faith and now schools are helping them fill out forms with new names as different sexes and hide it from their parents. They turn their kids against their parents.

‘Medicine has become so politicised that parents can’t even rely on honesty from medical professionals even when it comes to transition.’

Abigail also criticised the culture of women falling victim to Twitter tirades based around their opinions.

Last month JK Rowling came under fire last month after tweeting against the use of the phrase ‘people who menstruate’. 

Rowling retweeted an opinion article published on website Devex which bore the headline, ‘Creating a more equal post-COVID-19 world for people who menstruate’.

Above the article, she questioned the use of the phrase, which was used to include transgender men who were born women and are still capable of menstruating. She wrote: ‘I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?’

Her tweet immediately provoked a barrage of criticism from her LGBTQ followers. 

 In 2018 the UK’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) saw almost 1,200 children under 15 referred to the service last year, with 63 under-15s sent on to its endocrinology clinic, of whom the majority took powerful puberty-blockers.

In August Health chiefs revealed they were reviewing the service, which gives transgender children drugs to pause puberty.

The country’s top health organisation, NHS England, said they were investigating issues around hormone-blocking drugs prescribed to under-18s to ‘pause’ their adolescence and prevent changes to the body like breasts or facial hair.

Children as young as 10 are being referred for hormone-blocking drugs, despite concerns they could cause emotional problems and long-term effects on the brain and body which are not yet known. 

The ongoing NHS England review came as Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, which runs GIDS, is considering doctors seeing children who think they are transgender over Skype in order to cope with the surge in demand, which has led to a two-year waiting list.

Puberty blockers are said to give children ‘breathing space’ to decide if they wish to be a different gender, by preventing distressing changes to their body such as their voice getting deeper or breasts growing.

If they then decide they want to, at 16 they can begin the physical transition from male to female, or female to male, using the ‘cross-sex’ hormones oestrogen or testosterone.

They can also change their mind and come off the hormone-blockers before reaching a further stage, at which time puberty would happen normally.

JK Rowling, who came under fire last month after tweeting against the use of ‘people who menstruate’ phrase