“Like a virus.” This is the phrase that a teenager in this book used to describe her gender identity in an online post, along with the words “trans, genderfluid, non-binary, demiboy”. At the time she was being ironic, or semi-ironic, but it didn’t take long for the sense of irony to disappear. After exchanging her “pro-ana” (pro-anorexia) Tumblr sites for “social justice” sites full of “trans testimonials”, she, along with four of her closest friends, decided to change her pronouns and her life. She tied her breasts, exchanged diet pills for doses of testosterone and hoped to be happy. Unfortunately, she was not, and neither, it seems, anyone else. “They are all miserable,” she told Abigail Shrier.
Helena was lucky. She changed her mind about her