Look—I admit that I came into this with a bias. However, as many who support the ideas in this book like to say, many of us have not read it at all—so I did; finding that I was correct in my assumptions.

I will give a tiny increment of a star purely on the basis of the writing quality, though to be clear, I believe half of this book can be dismantled by sourcing every single study cited (I have already found many incongruences and disingenuous ways the author presented things). It claims to take the stance that trans adults are real; yet literally refers to an adult as “her pronouns are they/them.” It refers to a young transgender girl who committed suicide because her parents forced her into conversion as a he no less than seven times in two sentences. Whether you agree or not, it’s clear Shrier did not put away any biases before beginning this book. 

It writes about real people in cruel ways, and compares their bodies—even when they’re satisfied with them—to disgusting things like hamburger meat. She makes things up about the trans YouTubers she writes about; they were very unpleased to find they had been written of and portrayed in such a manner. All of it was clearly biased and clearly mean-spirited. Would not recommend.