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Jul 2020
1h 33m

Why Are So Many Girls Becoming Boys?

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From injecting testosterone to undergoing double mastectomies, choosing to be "trans" is the new bulimia among thousands of young women, author Abigail Shrier tells Danielle and guest co-splainer Caitlin Flanagan. 
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