What a surprise

I went to the Bibliotheque Nationale and after doing browsing in general stopped in the section on sexuality and gender to see what was available. Abigail Shrier's book "Irreversible Damage" was there and i began to leaf through it stopping at the section of who praised and recommended it.

It was of course a veritable who's who of the fringe right-wing and the gender critical movement. High praise came from Dennis Prager, Michael Knowles, Kenneth Zucker, J. Michael Bailey, Helen Joyce, Ray Blanchard and Ben Shapiro. Most are completely obtuse dolts on the topic (The Daily Wire and PragerU contingent) or have had agendas for decades. No need to go into detail with Zucker, Bailey or Blanchard if you are already read up.

You might recall that it was Lisa Littman who made up the concept of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria by simply polling frustrated parents of gender variant youth as subjects and calling it scientific rigor. Too bad for her that the overwhelming consensus of the clinical community refutes this crackpot theory; one which is equivalent to being gobsmacked as to why left handedness suddenly shot up once people stopped being scolded for it.

No one questions the reality that some youth transition in error (far more people err with plastic surgery) but certainly not all. However the aim of these people is to use detransition and regret stories to dilegitimize all transgender people. It's an approach as intelligent and as subtle as the elephant hiding behind the lamp post.

I keep hoping that people will at least try to be more clever and less predictable but alas no.