content/drafts/book-review-irreversible-damage.md

   1 Title: Book Review: Abigail Shrier's <em>Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters</em>
   2 Date: 2021-01-01 05:00
   3 Category: commentary
   4 Tags: review (book), rapid-onset gender dysphoria, politics
   5 Status: draft
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   7 So, I like this book a lot. I just wish I lived in a world where I didn't _have_ to like this book a lot. As you can guess from the subtitle, _Irreversible Damage_ is not a work of careful, nuanced scholarship of the kind you would expect to be reviewed by such a refined blog as _The Scintillating But Ultimately Untrue Thought_ ([previously](/2020/Apr/book-review-human-diversity/), [previously](/2020/Jan/book-review-the-origins-of-unfairness/)). No, _Irreversible Damage_ is a work of sensationalist right-wing journalism. But damned if the situation on the ground doesn't call for more sensationalist right-wing journalism!
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   9 Well, maybe.
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  11 https://graymirror.substack.com/p/2b-negative-causes-are-frivolous