AUGUST 10, 2020BY JEAN C. LLOYD
These issues hit home for me in a very deep way. At fifteen, I was hurting from childhood sexual abuse, same-sex attracted, and donning a tux for my high school dance. If transgenderism had been the “craze” of my day, I could easily have gone down the path of my own de-sexing. Instead, I got to simply grow up, which allowed me to navigate my life, sexual attractions, and choices in consonance with reality: as a woman. I now have two children, born of my body and nursed by my bosom. They are both girls, born into a culture that both devalues and “pathologizes girlhood.” I am determined to teach them the truth that, as Shrier puts it, “being a woman is a gift, containing far too many joys to pass up.”
Amazon blocked sponsored advertising for Irreversible Damage, even as the site advertises physically harmful chest-binders and trans-affirmative books to get our daughters started on their flight from themselves. Read Shrier’s book and then pass it on to pastors, parents, and grandparents. Let’s pay forward the costly gift she has given us. Because she is right—Irreversible Damage is “a story Americans need to hear.” And we need to hear it now.