In Irreversible Damage, Wall Street Journalist Abigail Shrier investigates why groups of female friends in universities and schools across the world are coming out as 'transgender'. These are girls who had never experienced any discomfort in their biological sex but consume a constant online diet of social media which feeds and magnifies every traditional insecurity. Feeling inadequate as girls, they are being encouraged to think that they are not girls actually at all and unsuspecting parents now find their daughters in thrall to YouTube stars and 'gender-affirming' educators and therapists, who encourage life-changing interventions. Shrier talks to the girls, their agonised parents, and the therapists and doctors who enable gender transitions, as well as to 'detransitioners'—young women who bitterly regret what they have done to themselves.