- Welcome back.

Well from banning to burning.

A top selling book ontransgenderism is making waves.

- The book examines why teenage girls

are suddenly coming out as trans.

CBN's Heather Sells reportson what the author found

and the backlash it's creating.

- [Heather] Author AbigailShrier believes it's okay

for adults to have medical procedures

changing their appearanceto fit their desired gender,

but she's against thatfreedom extending to children.

Her new book chronicles

the transgender crazeamong adolescent girls

and the professionalswho pave the way for them

to get puberty blockers and surgeries.

- All I'm asking for is moremedical oversight, caution,

and awareness that this isbeing a socially driven fad,

so nothing so outrageous at all.

- But transgenderactivists say no to that.

The outcry against the book

comes from some criticsthat you might not expect.

The American Civil Liberties Union,

which has defended freespeech for 100 years,

calls the book "dangerous" and says,

"We have to fight these ideas

which are leading to acriminalization of trans life."

An ACLU attorney wants tostop sales of the book.

A UC Berkeley professorcalled for it to be burned,

then reversed herself, andnow merely wants to mock it.

Top booksellers haveeven helped the cause.

Amazon blocked ads from the publisher

and Target agreed to ban the book

after some customer complaints.

Now Target has the booklisted again, but it sold out.

- I think these retailers,and there are very few of them

who control all the books at this point,

you know, they will, at whim I suppose,

disappear books when they've decided

that it's in their interest to do so.

- [Heather] For now,the backlash is helping.

Regnery Publishing reportsthat, after the Target ban,

the book's daily salesjumped from 40 to 800.

"Irreversible Damage" hasnow gone to a third printing

and it has enjoyed timeas Amazon's number one

best-selling book onLGBT demographic studies.

- The book had a lot ofgrassroots support from parents

who feel like they have no other voice.

They have lived through thehorror of having their daughter

suddenly identify astransgender out of nowhere

and have every adult aroundher undermine the parents

and push her towards transition.

- [Heather] Shrier, who writesfor the "Wall Street Journal"

and "Newsweek," says mainstream media

has generally refused to review her book.

She also predicts a new trend.

Any upcoming books thatchallenge so-called woke politics

will simply disappear, unable to survive

in a hostile marketplace.

Heather Sells, CBN News.