Abigail Shrier

Abigail Krauser Shrier is a journalist for the Wall Street Journal and the author of the book Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters which has proved controversial for its views about transgender issues and its use of unreliable testimony.
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Shrier works as a journalist and columnist for the Wall Street Journal.
In 2020, her book Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters was published by Regnery Publishing. The book was based on and supports the theory of socially mediated gender dysphoria, citing a widely discredited descriptive study published by Lisa Littman in a 2018. The study notably did not include any trans people, rather parents of trans children were recruited from various anti-trans web forums. The book also repeatedly misgenders subjects of discussion, for example Shrier repeatedly referred to Leela Alcorn, a trans woman who committed suicide after she was forced to undergo conversion therapy, by male pronouns. Her book has proved controversial for its views about transgender issues and has been described by the author and other commentators as subject to a campaign of censorship. It was first withdrawn, and then reinstated, by retailer Target. The Economist has described the book as the "first book-length study of a fascinating phenomenon" but also noted that "it has been widely ignored". By contrast, a reader erected a billboard in Los Angeles in support of the ideas in the book. Her book has been criticized by mental health experts for misinterpreting and omitting scientific evidence to support her claims. It's an Economist Book of the Year, and a Times of London Best Book of 2021 for its UK publication.
Shrier has described social media as playing an influential role in girls' decisions to become transgender.

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