Just started this book. Had to wait almost a month to get it from the library. It is about the explosion of female to male transitions taking place in our society, focusing on teenage girls.
The author is supportive of adult trans people with dysphoria.
This book is not about them it is about teenage girls which the research is showing are self diagnosing their mental anguish as body dysphoria. Here’s an introductory paragraph which makes perfect sense to me:
The Salem witch trials of the 17th century are closer to the mark[of this phenomena.] So are the nervous disorders of the 18th century and and the neurasthenic epidemic of the 19th century. Anorexia nervosa, repressed memory, bulimia, and the cutting contagion in the 20th. One protagonist has led them all, notorious for magnifying and spreading her own psychic pain: the adolescent girl.