Activists Are Trying to Cancel My Book. Why Is Silicon Valley Helping Them?

SV gets the blame because they control the platforms (e.g. Twitter, Facebook) and have no problem with doing whatever they want to further their agendas.

She addressed that specifically - did you read the whole article?

That isn’t the thesis of her book. It focuses on irreversible damage to entire friend groups of children who spontaneously decide together that they want to change their gender. The school is required to support them in this without informing the parents, and as young as 13 in some states, they can get hormone therapy and undergo gender reassignment procedures without parental consent and without any visits to a therapist. Call me old fashioned, but if my 13 year old girl thinks getting permanently sterilized and getting a double mastectomy is a reasonable thing to decide to do along with her group of friends, and schools and surgeons will do it without anybody telling me, I’m going to be very upset.

Unsurprisingly, kids often regret this later, and nothing can be done. And worst of all, this _increases_ suicide rates.

Nobody is trying to “cancel trans folks”.

Of course, nothing of value could be in a book with that type of cover! Activists must be right!

You probably should have read just a little further:

" I wrote specifically about the sudden, severe spike in transgender identification among adolescent girls. I fully support medical transition for mature adults. And I have no desire to be a provocateur. (I dislike pointless provocation, in part because I think provocateurs often have a good argument—one they’re too lazy or inept to make). Nor do I have any prurient interest in others’ social lives.

What I aim to do, as a journalist, is to investigate cultural phenomena, and here was one worth investigating: Between 2016 and 2017, the number of females seeking gender surgery quadrupled in the United States.

Thousands of teen girls across the Western world are not only self-diagnosing with a real dysphoric condition they likely do not have; in many cases, they are obtaining hormones and surgeries following the most cursory diagnostic processes. Schoolteachers, therapists, doctors, surgeons, and medical-accreditation organizations are all rubber-stamping these transitions, often out of fear that doing otherwise will be reported as a sign of “transphobia”—despite growing evidence that most young people who present as trans will eventually desist, and so these interventions will do more harm than good."

You effectively reacted in the way the journalist said: "fear that doing otherwise will be reported as a sign of 'transphobia' ".

That's just the problem, don't you think? Had you kept reading you might have found something worth engaging with.

Way to demonstrate everything that’s wrong with cancel culture. Try hearing what people actually have to say. As with most of your snap judgments on people engaging in social issues, you got this one very wrong. She’s not operating in bad faith, but you certainly are.