Abigail Shrier in the Telegraph

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It was a book whose publication was a shot heard round the Western world. It promptly made Shrier the American Left’s Public Enemy Number One. Target, the US retail chain, briefly stopped selling it for its allegedly transphobic content. An English professor at Berkeley called for a burning of the book – which, she later claimed on Twitter, she had meant ironically. The censorship storm went on. No major outlet would review it. Chase Strangio, a lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union, which once defended Nazis’ rights to free speech in public, tweeted: “Stopping the circulation of this book and these ideas is 100 per cent a hill I will die on”.

www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/abigail-shrier-taking-trans-lobby-has-made-public-enemy-no-1/

That is quite a long article.

I like this bit:

“I’ve known people who’ve cut off their families and it’s so cruel to their parents, but I’ll tell you something,” she says. “I do think that [the kids] are often hurt the worst. I’ve now talked to easily over a thousand parents. And what these parents wake up every morning thinking about is their kids. And let me tell you, these kids get themselves into trouble and there are two people on Earth who will do anything for them, and it’s not the therapist who only sees them during certain hours for money. And it’s not their queer family or whatever, you know, the new family who only likes them if they agree with the activist agenda. It’s their actual family. And no, I don’t think that means every family is great and that you should never create distance” – especially where abuse is concerned.

It ties in very well with their article on the Tavistock dropping support for Bayswater.