The female to male transgender actor Elliot Page is being cheered on by Oprah and others for having a double mastectomy, apparently referred to euphemistically in transgender circles (and by the BBC) as "top surgery".

Elliot Page: Actor wins praise for sharing swimming shorts image after top surgery

I came across a reference to the writer Abigail Shrier not long ago, and have watched some interviews with her on YouTube. She says that many teenage girls/young women are succumbing to a craze to change sex, driven in part by social media, taking hormones that can cause irreversible damage and having surgery.

Abigail K. Shrier graduated summa cum laude from Columbia University (where she was awarded a Kellett Fellowship), Oxford University, and Yale Law School; clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals D.C. Circuit for the Honorable Judith W. Rogers; and then worked as a lawyer before beginning to write for The Wall Street Journal and other publications. (source)

Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier

Until just a few years ago, gender dysphoria—severe discomfort in one’s biological sex—was vanishingly rare. It was typically found in less than .01 percent of the population, emerged in early childhood, and afflicted males almost exclusively.

But today whole groups of female friends in colleges, high schools, and even middle schools across the country are coming out as “transgender.” These are girls who had never experienced any discomfort in their biological sex until they heard a coming-out story from a speaker at a school assembly or discovered the internet community of trans “influencers.”

Unsuspecting parents are awakening to find their daughters in thrall to hip trans YouTube stars and “gender-affirming” educators and therapists who push life-changing interventions on young girls—including medically unnecessary double mastectomies and puberty blockers that can cause permanent infertility.

Abigail Shrier, a writer for the Wall Street Journal, has dug deep into the trans epidemic, talking to the girls, their agonized parents, and the counselors and doctors who enable gender transitions, as well as to “detransitioners”—young women who bitterly regret what they have done to themselves.

Coming out as transgender immediately boosts these girls’ social status, Shrier finds, but once they take the first steps of transition, it is not easy to walk back. She offers urgently needed advice about how parents can protect their daughters.

A generation of girls is at risk. Abigail Shrier’s essential book will help you understand what the trans craze is and how you can inoculate your child against it—or how to retrieve her from this dangerous path.
One of the 5* Amazon reviews:

I am quite shocked there are not more books on this topic so lovely to see this one. I have watched in horror over the past 10 years as the surge in girls asking to be referred to GIDS has increased 4000% and in my local area support services for autistic teens report 70% of their female service users are transitioning to male.

I was a teen lesbian in the late 1990s and attendedva LGB youth group, this was before the T joined the gay movement. There were no trans teens and indeed most girls were very boyish but in no way questioning their gender. Many of my friends now lead youth groups and have been horrified by the number of FTM teens saying their reasons for transitioning were around not conforming to social norms feminity. Most of us do not conform but this does not mean we need to medical or even socially transition.

I hope this massive increase will lead to happier, better adjusted young women, but with mental health services on their knees I worry this is a symptom of a deeper problem. We need discuss and research about this to help people like me understand why this is happening and how to support young people to lead happy and fulfilled lives.

And there's millions of women who need their breasts removed due to cancer, I have never heard it been called "top Surgery". Winfrey needs her brains looked at the BBC needs to be dismantled. I am happy I don't support either in both in viewership and contribution by given them money. JK, if I was you I would ask for Entertainment USA masters and anything else with your name on !

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It is quite the rage at the moment to feed puberty blockers to your tomboy daughter or effeminate son.

It is promoted in some schools as a positive choice, and feeds into the farcical idea that if you don't fit the stereotype for one sex, you must be the other.

Consenting adults can chop off whatever bits they like and call themselves a pony if that's what they want, but interfering with children's bodies is child abuse, just the same as FGM and ritual Circumcision, ear piercing, and squashing little toes into tight shoes.

These things can not be fully reversed, and you can pass whatever laws you like, call it what you like, but everybody with common sense will see it for what it is!

Honey wrote:
It is quite the rage at the moment to feed puberty blockers to your tomboy daughter or effeminate son.

It is promoted in some schools as a positive choice, and feeds into the farcical idea that if you don't fit the stereotype for one sex, you must be the other.

Consenting adults can chop off whatever bits they like and call themselves a pony if that's what they want, but interfering with children's bodies is child abuse, just the same as FGM and ritual Circumcision, ear piercing, and squashing little toes into tight shoes.

These things can not be fully reversed, and you can pass whatever laws you like, call it what you like, but everybody with common sense will see it for what it is!

No matter what there's only 2 genders. If we want to follow the science !

Green Man wrote:
And there's millions of women who need their breasts removed due to cancer, I have never heard it been called "top Surgery".
Exactly. I doubt many women suffering from cancer or genetically programmed to get cancer would call it "top surgery", as if it's as simple as blowing your nose.

Honey wrote:
It is quite the rage at the moment to feed puberty blockers to your tomboy daughter or effeminate son.

It is promoted in some schools as a positive choice, and feeds into the farcical idea that if you don't fit the stereotype for one sex, you must be the other.

Consenting adults can chop off whatever bits they like and call themselves a pony if that's what they want, but interfering with children's bodies is child abuse, just the same as FGM and ritual Circumcision, ear piercing, and squashing little toes into tight shoes.

These things can not be fully reversed, and you can pass whatever laws you like, call it what you like, but everybody with common sense will see it for what it is!
Well said, Honey. I completely agree. Not sure where the transgender movement leaves people who are gay. Pigeonholing people into stereotypes like that seems to be saying that gays aren't right.