Mental Health Crisis Among Young (Abigail Shrier With Joe Rogan)

Abigail Shrier is the writer of Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters. In her conversation with Joe Rogan, she discusses an ongoing, massive and yet under-discussed mental health crisis. More below.

The mental health crisis: ROGD. Abigail Shrier, describes Rapid onset Gender dysphoria(ROGD) as a social contagion that arrives abruptly in adolescence, afflicting teens who had never manifested any confusion about their sex.

Young females, in droves, are changing their gender identity in order to calm their inner angst and satiate their appetite for social approval.

Schools are educating kids about gender stereotypes, gender dysphoria and non-binary people at a very impressionable age. When the kids hit a rough patch, gender transition comes to their mind as the way out.

Social validation & Youtube trans stars propel them to action. Suddenly, gender-transitioning seems to be the answer to all their miseries

People are afraid to push back lest they infringe on the kids’ civil rights. This social hesitation means these kids self-diagnose & intake puberty blockers.

For some time, this “works.” For females, testosterone delivers euphoria and suppresses anxiety - the biggest problem in teenage years. This transitioning also makes their periods go away, making them feel like they just beat puberty. 

However, this comes at the cost of infertility, increased risk of cardiovascular attack, body hair and facial hair. Plus, the testosterone high is very short-lived.

In athletic events, trans women outcompete women and erase the legacy and records of legendary female athletes.

Bottomline: Contemporary discourse insists that sex is fluid and one can be born in the wrong gender. These ideas infect young women and lead them to make irreversible choices they may come to regret. Our culture must deal better with the identity crises of its young.