One day, Shrier writes, many girls wake up with no breasts and no uterus and wonder: I was just a teen. A kid. Why didn’t anyone stop me?
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As devastating as her account is, Shrier leaves the reader with hope.
She advises parents to find support groups of other parents dealing with the same issue; avoid giving children a smartphone, and push back against the gender ideology infusing their daughters’ education. 2/7
She advises parents to find support groups of other parents dealing with the same issue; avoid giving children a smartphone, and push back against the gender ideology infusing their daughters’ education. 2/7
Above all, she writes, parents should not relinquish their parental authority, and should stop supporting these new fads unquestionably. 3/7
Dramatic steps may be necessary—she cites parents who needed to physically move to separate their daughters from poisonous peer groups and “affirming” schools. And above all, she writes movingly, we must stop pathologizing girlhood. 4/7
Girls are different, and puberty is hard. It is not something to be cured. It is, she writes, wonderful to be a girl, and an ideology based on outdated sex stereotypes should not be the path to drugs, mastectomies, and a longing to escape girlhood. 5/7
Thanks to @JVanMaren for this great piece.
Jonathon Van Maren speaks with @AbigailShrier here: thebridgehead.ca/2020/07/08/the…
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Jonathon Van Maren speaks with @AbigailShrier here: thebridgehead.ca/2020/07/08/the…
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You can also find his talk with me, here: thebridgehead.ca/2021/04/08/the…
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