E86. Abigail Shrier Says You Don’t Have to Teach Gender Identity In Order to Prevent Bullying

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🗓️ 2 July 2020

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Abigail Shrier, author of Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, sits down with Bridget for a fascinating, in-depth and controversial conversation about the wave of transgender-identifying females sweeping various countries around the world. For the first time in history the predominant demographic of people identifying as “transgender” is teenage girls with no childhood history of gender dysphoria. Abigail and Bridget discuss how we got here, where this came from, and the social, educational and cultural influences playing a part in this unprecedented trend. They cover the role of teachers, therapists, social media influencers and activists, as well as the dynamics of teenage girl friend groups that make them particularly susceptible to the unconscious pressures and social rewards of coming out as “trans.” They discuss the long-term physical and mental damage that can result from a system that demands immediate affirmation from professionals, rather than a careful and considered approach to a complicated topic which can have permanent consequences. Full transcript available here: WiW86-AbigailShrier-Transcript

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production.
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0:08.3	This is Walk-In's Welcome with Bridget Petacy.
0:10.9	I'm Bridget Petacy, I'm Bridget Petacy and you are welcome. You know the drill.
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0:35.0	Very excited to sit down this week with Abigail Shrier.
0:39.0	She is a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal
0:43.0	and author of irreversible damage,
0:45.3	the transgender craze seducing our daughters.
0:49.4	Really fascinating conversation.
0:51.3	I learned a lot from her and she's just tackling a subject that I feel she's
0:57.8	very brave to tackle in this climate so enjoy. I'm with Abigail Shrier everyone. Welcome. Thank you. Thanks so much for having me.
1:06.5	Thanks for coming. I'm so excited to talk to you about all of the things. But first,
1:12.2	tell us about your new book. So my new book
1:14.6	irreversible damage it's about a pure contagion that's really swept the entire
1:19.7	West and that is transgender identification among teenage girls for the first time in
1:25.0	history and we have nearly a hundred-year diagnostic history of gender
1:29.1	dysphoria the condition of severe discomfort in one's biological sex. So for a nearly 100 year
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