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Nancy Robertson's avatar

Bari, so delighted you're interviewing Abigail Shriver. I've watched all her youtube interviews and listened to every word of her terrific audio book, Irreversible Damages. You two are so brave to tackle the transgender craze now threatening the long term health and well being of many thousands of teenage girls and young women across our country and in Canada and Europe.

I'm not a parent, but this issue hits home for me. A young man I dated in college many decades ago eventually had two young biological daughters at Brown who became trans men around the time my old boyfriend was dying of cancer last year. He was a handsome, liberal, brilliant medical doctor, and on the Asperger's end of the autism spectrum. His daughters are equally brilliant and also on the spectrum. which made them especially vulnerable to the trans craze. One daughter is also bipolar and has other problems.

When I learned my old boyfriend was dying, we exchanged a few emails. He never told me his daughters were trans men, but his death announcement made that more than clear. He must have felt his "wonderful daughters," which is how he always referred to them, were making a serious, irreparable mistake. But he was obviously powerless to stop it, and he was such a devoted father, I know it broke his heart. Just thinking about this now breaks my heart.

Anyway, thank you so much for covering this story. I'm off to read the article now.

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Caroline Bollinger's avatar

Thank you for sharing. My husband has a friend, also a professor (genius), in a similar situation with his daughter. She was so academically precocious as a little girl--and extremely thin. She began to transition in 9th grade after her girlfriend and another friend transitioned.

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