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Abigail Shrier

Abigail Shrier is an American journalist and author who writes about culture, gender, mental health, and adolescence. She is best known for Irreversible Damage and Bad Therapy, books that sparked significant public debate over youth gender medicine and therapeutic culture, influencing discussions across media, education, and policy.

Biografía y Trayectoria del Autor

Abigail Shrier came to writing by a circuitous route. She grew up in Prince George’s County, Maryland, the daughter of two Maryland state judges, attended a community Jewish day school, worked as a teenage stringer for the Washington Jewish Week, and studied philosophy at Columbia, Oxford, and Yale Law School. After clerking on the D.C. Circuit and moving to Los Angeles, she spent a brief period in legal practice before leaving firm life for marriage, motherhood, and years of mostly private writing. The first decisive turn came when op-eds she wrote for a local Jewish paper were noticed by a Wall Street Journal editor, opening a national platform. ((https://www.thetruthfairy.info/p/what-i-told-the-students-of-princeton))

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But medicine for transgendered people has become so politicized that doctors now rush to meet patient demands, even for untested treatments on minor children
-Affirmative Abandonment
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When it comes to all things transgender that come at the expense of girls and women, America’s famously outspoken feminist organizations find themselves at a curious loss for words
-When Feminists Abandon Girls
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Absent is the one thing that might typically break up the party: a police car
-Predator’s Paradise
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gender ideology has already achieved a powerful hold on our court system
-Child Custody’s Gender Gauntlet
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We’re all going to pay for your defeatism
-Parent Your Kids
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I could go on. But as of January 28, 2025, I don’t have to
-How the Gender Fever Finally Broke
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Porn is a one-night stand, functional and forgotten—the rom-com is true love
-Things Worth Remembering: When Harry Met Sally
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I think most of the surveys that I’ve seen on mental health are incredibly irresponsible and likely to produce bad results
-Therapeutic Culture Is a Luxury Belief: Why Young People Are Struggling
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Oh, it's very obviously a social contagion
-Resisting Californication

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"Abigail Shrier, a Wall Street Journal writer, does something simple yet devastating: she rigorously lays out the facts"

Janice Turner

"Abigail Shrier has written a deeply compassionate and utterly sobering account"

John Podhoretz

"Abigail Shrier is the smartest and most courageous reporter in the country"

Caitlin Flanagan

"In Irreversible Damage, Abigail Shrier provides a thought-provoking examination of a new clinical phenomenon"

Kenneth J. Zucker

"Unlike so many of the currently woke, Abigail Shrier sees clearly what is in front of our faces and is brave enough to name it"

J. Michael Bailey

"Abigail Shrier's new book is an outstanding investigative report"

Public Discourse

"Abigail Shrier dares to tell the truth about a monstrous ideological fad that has already ruined countless children's lives"

Michael Knowles

"Abigail Shrier chooses to take the bull by the horns"

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