Abigail Shrier and the choice to conform or live free

Published December 9, 2021 6:40pm ET



It’s one thing to complain about how the Left has hijacked all of our major institutions, from academics to healthcare to sports. It’s another to stand up and do something about it.

But that’s what we need — people willing to speak the truth, no matter what it costs them — if our society is to hold on to even a fraction of the freedom and ingenuity that made it so great. Abigail Shrier is one of those people. An independent journalist who has highlighted the radicalism of transgenderism and the Left’s woke gender ideology, Shrier has stared down the mob more times than she’d probably like. And she has some advice for younger people who, if they do as she did and question the Left’s orthodoxy, will face the same pressure.

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