One of the books that sounded the alarm on the transgender medical complex was Abigail Shrier’s 2020 Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters. I interviewed her about the book at the time; the book itself became a story as Shrier faced censorship and trans activists tried to suppress the book. The American Booksellers Association actually released an apology for including the book in promotional shipments, and Shrier was viciously smeared for laying out facts that one can now read in the pages of the New York Times. She has not, to my knowledge, received an apology for any of this.

Indeed, trans activists are still trying to prevent Irreversible Damage from being published. Sankei Shimbun Publications Inc. in Japan, which is planning to publish a Japanese translation of Shrier’s book, recently received threats of arson against bookstores willing to carry it unless the publishing house reversed course and canceled publication. The email missive insisted that the book would cause discrimination against “transgender people.”