Abigail Shrier

Author and Journalist

Abigail Shrier is a journalist and author. Her best-selling book: Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, was named a “best book” by the Economist and the Times (of London) and has been translated into six languages. She was a 2021 recipient of the Barbara Olson Award for Excellence and Independence in Jouranlism. She regularly publishes on her own Substack newsletter, The Truth Fairy.

Shrier graduated summa cum laude from Columbia University, where she received the Euretta J. Kellett Fellowship to Oxford University. She holds a B.Phil. from Oxford and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

The goal of language in the public sphere must always be to speak truthfully and as clearly as possible. If you can avoid offense, so much the better. If you cannot, then at least you’ll have been understood.”

“Biological sex matters because truth matters. Any society that abandons sex-based protections for women and girls plunges into demoralization and darkness.” 

“I’m not a provocateur. I don’t get a rush from making people angry. You don’t have to be a troll to find yourself in the center of controversy. You need only be two things: effective, and unwilling to back down.

Abigail Shrier
Author and Journalist