This curiously recurring piece of discount bargain literature's provocative cover - do love me some 'Dick and Jane' and 'Death Becomes Her' homages? - caught my eye, so I had a couple of read-throughs.

Phew. I have never seen reckless endangerment of minors like this before.

As I wrote in The Los Angeles Review of Books this weekend, "It is unlikely that any reader, be they devoted MAGA hatter or benign suburban housewife, will pause to probe Irreversible Damage’s sources. If they did, they might realize that they originate, not from the peer-reviewed realms of medicine, science, and law, but from the partisan op-ed sections of Fox News and The Washington Post. It is even less likely that the parent of a transgender boy or gender outlaw daughter residing in a non-coastal community will make time to sufficiently research these laws and discover that they do not force anyone to speak on the governments’ terms — in fact, they champion the autonomy of the people, all people."

My full review: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-constitutional-conflationists-on-abigail-shriers-irreversible-damage-and-the-dangerous-absurdity-of-anti-trans-trolls/