Abigail Shrier

American journalist — Wall Street Journal contributor — author of Irreversible Damage and Bad Therapy — who argues that social contagion and therapy culture are harming adolescents, particularly girls.

Creates the social contagion argument for adolescent gender dysphoria — Irreversible Damage's argument (that the rapid increase in teenage girls identifying as transgender represents a social contagion pattern, not a biological phenomenon) is the most widely read account of the rapid-onset gender dysphoria hypothesis.