<![CDATA[Abigail Shrier is a journalist who wrote the book Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters which was published in 2020. That book, which made her politically and socially radioactive made the case that the rapid uptick of trans identifaction, especially among young girls, was the result of social contagion. The book also criticized the basis of gender-affirming care, something that seems prescient now.]]>