IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE

ith a doozy of a name like , Abigail Shrier’s debut work of nonfiction is bound to generate much talk, little of which is likely to move beyond its dubious synopsis, its brutally insensitive cover, or its author’s increasingly hostile social media antics. Shrier’s screed is yet another attempt by a straight cisgender woman to frame trans people as the perpetrators of society’s ills, including but not limited to violence against women, the fracturing of the American nuclear family, and, inexplicably, even the purported dissolution of the First Amendment. The 276-page text basks in its endless misgendering and crass descriptions of the intimate process of transitioning in young adulthood, as though Shrier hopes disgust will