In the early summer of 2020, Vera Lindner watched in shock and bewilderment as her teenage daughter and her friends persuaded each other they were all transgender, except for one girl who identified as bisexual.
The girls dared one another to use male names and pronouns that summer, she said, and by August her daughter told Lindner she was “trans.”
Realizing something was wrong, Lindner decided to research the transgender movement. She read Abigail Shrier’s “Irreversible Damage,” and witnessed the same phenomenon described in the book unfold at home: an “epidemic of teenage girls … rushing to hormones and surgeries,” according to Shrier….