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Queer Teen Craze

30 January 2021

9:00 AM

30 January 2021

9:00 AM

Irreversible Damage: Teenage Girls and the Transgender Craze Abigail Shrier

Swift Press, 2021, pp.264, $29.95

It is remarkable how quickly the cause of transgenderism has moved from being a strange object at the back of the social justice fridge to the hottest of potatoes. Fortunately, that hasn’t deterred Abigail Shriver from taking a bite, spitting it out, and revealing its squidgy centre.

Transgenderism is a reconstituted cause, developed in the laboratory by queer and gender theorists, designed to satisfy the craving of activists once the dish of marriage equality had been wiped clean.

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Nick Cater is executive director of the Menzies Research Centre.

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