Abigail Shrier | Social Contagion and Gender Identity

In this Direct interview, John is joined by Journalist Abigail Shrier, author of Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters. They discuss why and how the transgender phenomenon is particularly impacting young women in the West, and what the way forward is.

A graduate of Columbia College, the University of Oxford, and Yale Law school, Abigail Shrier’s work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Federalist, and various other publications. She has also featured on The Joe Rogan Experience, The Jordan Peterson Podcast, and The Rubin Report
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00:00 Intro
00:44 Introducing Abigail Shrier
1:23 What is the central argument of your book?
3:38 How has our society’s response to transgenderism changed over time?
5:01 What do medical professionals think about the transgender phenomenon?
6:56 How has activism impacted the medical community and the transgender debate?
10:35 What do you think is driving the transgender phenomenon amongst young women?
11:58 How has the transgender phenomenon impacted traditional notions of romance and relationships?
13:20 Social media’s impact upon the transgender debate
14:40 Victimhood and the transgender movement
15:43 The impact of pornography on young women
20:20 The ‘coming out’ of young people as LGBTQI
22:18 What are the dominant demographics of young women coming out as transgender?
24:20 Transgender surgery and infertility
26:07 Facts vs feelings
31:00 What is the relationship between rising levels of anxiety, depression and transgenderism?
34:00 How prevalent is the issue of detransitioning?
36:40 Transgenderism teaching in school curriculum
43:13 Why transgenderism shouldn’t be a political issue
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