Doctors in the United States observed a four-fold increase in adolescent girls receiving gender transition surgeries from the year 2016 to 2017. In Great Britain, the increase in the last decade was an astounding 4,400%. In her book released in August, 「Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters,」 Wall Street Journal reporter Abigail Shrier investigates why.
美國的醫生觀察到，從2016年到2017年，接受變性手術的青春期女孩增加了4倍。在英國，過去十年的增長率達到了驚人的4400%。《華爾街日報》記者Abigail Shrier在她8月份出版的《不可逆轉的傷害:變性人的狂熱誘惑我們的女兒》(Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters)一書中探究了其中的原因。
Shrier’s book, which explores the phenomenon of many teenage girls suddenly and impulsively insisting they are now boys and how this affects their families and futures, has come under fire from transgender activists.
Shrier的書探討了許多十幾歲的女孩突然衝動地堅持她們現在是男孩的現象，以及這對她們的家庭和未來的影響。這本書遭到了跨性別活動人士的抨擊。
Unsuspecting parents are awakening to find their daughters in thrall to hip trans YouTube stars and 「gender-affirming」 educators and therapists who push life-changing interventions on young girls—including medically unnecessary double mastectomies and puberty blockers that can cause permanent infertility.
毫無戒心的父母們發覺，自己的女兒已被YouTube上的跨性別明星和「主張性別」的教育者和治療師所奴役，這些教育者和治療師推動對年輕女孩進行改變生活的幹預—包括醫學上不必要的雙乳切除手術和可能導致永久性不育的青春期阻斷劑。
Coming out as transgender immediately boosts these girls』 social status, Shrier finds, but once they take the first steps of transition, it is not easy to walk back. She offers urgently needed advice about how parents can protect their daughters.
Shrier發現，成為跨性別者會立即提升這些女孩的社會地位，但一旦她們邁出了轉變的第一步，就不容易回頭了。她提供了父母如何保護女兒的迫切需要的建議。
After launching her book on the Joe Rogan show, the famous American host reported great hatred. Several people said that her book invited to normalize hate speech towards transgender people.
在《喬·羅根秀》上發布她的書後，該美國著名主持人表示了極大的仇恨。一些人說，她的書是為了讓針對跨性別者的仇恨言論常態化。
Chase Strangio of the American Civil Liberties Union tweeted, 「Abigail Shrier’s book is a dangerous polemic with a goal of making people not trans. I think of all the times & ways I was told my transness wasn’t real & the daily toll that still takes. We have to fight these ideas which are leading to the criminalization of trans life again.」
美國公民自由聯盟(American Civil Liberties Union)的Chase Strangio在推特上寫道:「Abigail Shrier的書是一場危險的論戰，目的是讓人們不再去變性。我想起所有的時間和方式，我被告知我的轉變不是真實的，每天仍然要付出代價。我們必須反對這些導致變性人再次被定罪的想法。」
The author denounced that she has been censored and has not been allowed to promote her work on a large scale, while she has been given publicity on topics that encourage contrary views. She also points out that some editorials have prohibited journalists from reviewing her research.
作者譴責說，她受到了審查，不能大規模宣傳自己的作品，而她卻在鼓勵相反觀點的話題上得到了宣傳。她還指出，一些社論禁止記者評論她的研究。
After a heavy backlash from the trans activists and boycotts from some retailers, these inversely sent Shrier’s book into the best-seller category on Amazon, including No. 15 in all books.
在遭到跨性別活動人士的強烈反對和一些零售商的抵制後，這些反將Shrier的書列為亞馬遜的暢銷書，在所有書中排名第15位。
Some parents think, Shrier thoroughly pealed back the layers behind the transgender craze to reveal those civil and social institutions actively preventing such a state. As far gone as some may be, Shrier offers a message of hope for those who have gotten caught in the transgender craze’s mighty grip. Her call-to-action demands parents act now. The earlier they can stop their children from exploring a world they’re utterly unequipped to understand, the better they can address the issues leading them down that path.
一些家長認為，Shrier徹底地還原了跨性別狂熱背後的各個層面，揭示了那些積極阻止這樣一個國家的公民和社會機構。儘管有些人可能已經走得很遠，但Shrier給那些被跨性別狂熱所吸引的人帶來了希望。她呼籲家長們立即行動起來。他們越早阻止自己的孩子去探索一個他們完全沒有能力去理解的世界，他們就越能更好地解決引導他們走上這條道路的問題。
Reference:
https://www.amazon.com/Irreversible-Damage-Transgender-Seducing-Daughters-ebook/dp/B07YL6XK55
https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/23/after-trans-activists-try-to-ban-irreversible-damage-it-becomes-a-bestseller/
http://hillsdalecollegian.com/2020/11/review-irreversible-damage-the-gender-dysphoria-facing-our-daughters/
Vocabulary
1. Adolescent—青春期的
2. Astounding—令人震驚的
3. Irreversible—不可逆的
4. Impulsively—有推動力地
5. Gender-affirming—主張性別
6. Infertility—阻斷劑
7. Normalize—正常化
8. Criminalization—定罪
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