Shrier in her book points out that adolescent girls today are much less likely to have had sexual experience in real life - from simply kissing to heavy "petting" to acts involving genital contact - than girls of the same age in preceding generations. But at the same time, girls today are much more likely than previous generations to have watched/been exposed to online pornography in which males subject girls/women to abuse, humiliation, degradation, violence & sexual acts that put the females' health at risk (anal penetration by one or more penises, fisting, rosebudding, sunflowering). And they are much more likely to have been force-fed misogynistic gender ideology that equates being female with being a brainless and submissive sex object who is a glutton for punishment & finds being dehumanized and abused by males for male sexual pleasure "empowering" and "liberating" and a measure of "authentic womanhood."

She says that violent porn "terrifies young girls about men and the prospect of sex with them" whilst at the same time trans ideology, pro-trans policies, liberal feminism and media emphasis on matters like the "gender pay gap" mean "young women are intruded on by men in locker rooms, trounced by biological boys on sports teams, and told work life will never offer them fair rewards. Intersectional language denies all their biological specialness. Hollywood - no longer in the rom-com business - offers them no fantasies on which to hang their girlish hopes. The gifts and presumptions of this culture make it hard to imagine why anyone should want to be a girl."

At the same time, she points out, no one has higher status in teen, campus and young adult culture today than trans people do. Plus adopting a trans identity is a shield against criticism coz in the new morality, trans people can do no wrong and no demand or claim made by a trans person is seen as unreasonable or posing an unfair burden on others. So no wonder a girl named Alison whom no one has ever shown respect to would jump at the chance to become Aiden... From bottom of the heap to king of the hill - and all it took was a declaration, a haircut & an announcement of "my pronouns"...