EPISODE 54: IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE

Her premise is a simple one.

After discovering that increasingly large numbers of teenage girls, mostly in friend groups, are deciding they are trans, meaning male, Abigail Shrier investigated why this might be happening, and what it means for these teenagers. What she exposes is a medical system that “affirms” a girl’s feelings instead of probing for a deeper understanding of what might be going on, narrowing her options and sending her off on a sometimes complicated and dangerous medical odyssey.  

 In the meantime, Halifax Public Library is caught in a conflict with activists trying to censor Shrier’s best-selling book.