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If you’ve seen Matt Walsh’s invaluable documentary What Is a Woman?, you know that it was, in large part, a circus parade of credentialed freaks – out-and-out train wrecks who, incredibly enough, are certified as psychiatrists or psychologists and are therefore actually permitted to “treat” children and young people who’ve been convinced that they’re trans. The only responsible-minded mental-health professional in the whole film (unless I’m forgetting somebody) was a child psychiatrist named Miriam Grossman. The moment her segment began, you knew she was going to be the truth-teller in the bunch: whereas you could discern the madness in her colleagues’ eyes from a hundred yards, it was clear from the moment you saw Grossman that she was about to deliver a sane verdict on the wack jobs’ claptrap.
I’ve since run across interviews with Grossman online, and seen her give no-nonsense testimony before a congressional committee. She’s an impressive woman, profoundly knowledgeable and experienced in her field. Until not too long ago, transgenderism was a vanishingly small part of her practice; in recent years, however, because she’s been increasingly at odds with the medical establishment on the subject – and highly vocal about it – she’s found herself advising parents around the world whose children claim to be something other than what they are. In her new book, Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist’s Guide out of the Madness, she sums up that advice.
But first she spells out the hard facts – and she doesn’t mince words. Women are women and men are men, period. And they’re different in countless little ways that can’t be changed by a scalpel or a hormone shot. For example, “women are better at fighting bacteria, fungi, and parasites,” while “men are more likely to survive severe burns.” Sex differences manifest themselves even at one day old, when “boys look longer at a mobile, while girls are more interested in faces.” And to tell patients otherwise – to reinforce a girl’s delusions that she’s really a boy, or vice-versa –is to usher an ignorant minor down a highway to happiness that turns out to be a road to perdition.
In one chilling section, Grossman catalogs just some of the many common side effects of so-called “gender-affirming care” for kiddies – among them the alarming fact that teenagers, who during normal puberty experience increased bone density, will, if given puberty blockers, lose bone density, sometimes to the extent that their bones are indistinguishable from those of an octogenarian. What do endocrinologists, who administer these blockers, say when confronted with the reality of their side effects? Grossman quotes one of them who, while acknowledging the downsides of this kind of “treatment” (and the possibility that patients will later regret having undergone it), says that he offers it nonetheless because it makes his patients “happier in the moment.” Yes, says Grossman, and so does Ecstasy. “This,” she states emphatically, “is not practicing medicine.” And she sums up the danger of such “treatment” in one unforgettable sentence: “Parents, if you allow your children to go on puberty blockers, you are closing the lid on your biological grandchildren’s coffins before they have a chance to be conceived.”
For those who think that all this insanity started just the day before yesterday, Grossman provides some of the backstory. She recounts the career of John Money, the doctor at Johns Hopkins who won international respect and renown for an experiment that he touted as proof that children could be successfully “transitioned” – but who, it turned out, was a sick, lying, child-molesting creep whose experiment had, in fact, failed utterly. Grossman also rips the halo off of Alfred Kinsey, who has long been celebrated for liberating Americans from sexual prudishness (check out the nauseatingly hagiographic 2004 biopic starring Liam Neeson), but who was really, in her blunt but honest words, a “degenerate, disturbed” creature.
Despite Money’s chicanery, his cockamamie ideas began to make inroads into the medical profession. In 1997, Grossman attended a meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at which the French movie Ma Vie en Rose, about a boy who thinks he’s a girl, was screened. Grossman’s colleagues fatuously praised the film as a valuable critique of society’s “rigid definitions of male and female.” Grossman dissented, pointing out that “it was the boy who was disordered, not society.” Nobody backed her up. Seven years later, she attended a UCLA conference at which psychiatrists were instructed to accept unquestioningly the self-diagnoses of patients who say they’re transgender. And at a 2005 professional gathering, a male-to-female M.D. put out the same message, telling psychiatrists that their job wasn’t to be “gatekeepers” – i.e., to respond to claims of transgenderism by doing their job – but simply to “validate” such patients with “gender-affirming care.”
How did this reality-denying viewpoint become an orthodoxy in the medical world? Because over the years, transgender ideologues elbowed their way into positions of influence at all the major medical organizations. Dissenters were silenced. Grossman quotes one doctor’s lament: “the AAP [American Academy of Psychiatry] is a lost cause.” So are the leading scientific journals. Part of this grim story is that after same-sex marriage became the law of the land in 2015, the Human Rights Campaign cynically pivoted from gay rights to trans “rights,” pressuring professional organizations to agree that anything other than medical “affirmation” of self-declared trans people amounted to prejudice. It was owing largely to pressure from the HRC (as well as other groups, such as the Southern Poverty Law Center) that the Endocrine Society, without discussion or debate, issued new guidelines in 2017 calling for “affirmation” of gender dysphoric children and teenagers, and the AAP, in 2018, seconded this endorsement of “affirming” treatment, whatever the patient’s age.
Just how far, then, has transgender medicine drifted from – well – real medicine? Grossman tells of sex-change surgeons who use lighthearted jokes about breast removal to advertise their butchery on TikTok. She tells horror stories about people whose lives have been damaged or destroyed by the mainstreaming of transgender ideology – among them, a self-identified “trans boy” who, after being rescued by the FBI from a sex trafficker, wasn’t released to her family because they forgot to use her male name and who instead, after a series of institutional screw-ups, ended up being trafficked again. Grossman tells of children’s books with titles like Bye, Bye, Binary (for ages 0-4), The Rainbow Parade (ages 2-5), and True You: A Gender Journey (ages 4-8). She tells of a family in which all three sisters identify as trans and quotes an Army colonel who “fought Jihadis for fifteen years” and who “writes than when his transgender-identifying daughter goes on a rant, ‘she sounds like the true believers we captured on the battlefield.’”
Founded on a massive lie, transgender ideology is riddled with self-contradictions. Grossman exposes some of them. For example, trans advocates assert that the number of trans-identifying teens has risen because society is more accepting – but at the same time they attribute those same teenagers’ psychiatric problems to societal transphobia. “This,” observes Grossman, “is intellectually dishonest. It’s one or the other, you can’t have it both ways.” Another paradox: transgender ideology professes that transgender identity is “‘unchangeable’ but also ‘fluid.’” Yet another: as a psychiatrist, Grossman is expected to instantly “affirm” a four-year-old boy who says he’s a girl; but if a 25-year-old woman regrets transitioning, Grossman isn’t supposed to provide instant affirmation but, instead, perform “a complex analysis of external and internal factors,” including the possibility that the woman is plagued by “internalized transphobia.” (I would add that many medical professionals simply turn their backs on detransitioners, often refusing even to acknowledge the reality of their existence, because it poses a challenge to their belief system.)
Routinely, medical professionals who deal with “trans kids” insist that they carefully tailor their treatment to the individual patient. By way of refutation, Grossman cites the testimony of Jamie Reed, a former employee in the trans clinic of a St. Louis hospital. According to Reed, the clinic’s “working assumption” was that it was best to treat cases of alleged gender dysphoria as early as possible. Reed assumed there was evidence to support this assumption, but discovered otherwise. She was also shocked to discover that all children who claimed to be trans received “affirmative” treatment – no matter whether they were bipolar or schizophrenic, or changed their identity daily, or admitted to requesting hormones “because they do not want to be gay,” or were obviously being pushed to transition by a psychologically twisted parent. Reed, who reported that every patient given puberty blockers at her clinic ended up with “near-constant abdominal pain,” encountered one child who identified not only as trans but as blind; the claim to be blind was dismissed, but the claim to be trans was taken seriously.
Of course, Grossman recognizes that a tiny percentage of self-identified trans people really have suffered since early childhood from a deep-rooted identity disorder. But she also understands that teenagers who experience what researcher Lisa Littman calls Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria are falling for a trend. Many of them, she perceives, embrace the trans label because it “offers a way for adolescents to be absolved of privilege and join the ranks of the oppressed.” (In short, the trans craze wouldn’t have happened if not for the victimhood craze.) Such children, urges Grossman, need to be helped to understand that “like the Earth, their bodies are delicate ecologic symptoms to be honored and preserved.” And parents need to know that letting their kids surf unsupervised on the Internet, where many of them first encounter material that convinces them they’re trans, “is like driving them to the most crime-ridden part of town and leaving them there to go in and out of strangers’ homes.”
Packed with practical information and wise counsel, Lost in Trans Nation concludes with a useful series of appendices that outline basic biology, sum up the conclusions about transgenderism that have been reached by responsible researchers, and explains how to deal with schools and Child Protective Services and find a good therapist. Wise, compassionate, and brave, Grossman has put together a fine guide for parents of children who’ve been caught up in this folly. On a podcast the other day, Jordan Peterson confessed that one thing he’s discovered in recent years is that “courage is a very, very rare virtue.” Alas, Miriam Grossman’s isolation in her profession is proof of that. Meanwhile the pusillanimity of other child psychiatrists on the trans issue proves that if courage is rare, cowardice, alas, is as common as dirt.
Hey, if this transgender crap isn’t enough to start a civil war, what is? Communists do every thing they can to provoke civil wars, especially when they have control of the military.
Obama and his communist goons never thought Hillary was going to lose in 2016. Since then, they have resorted to one criminal act after the next, through a corrupt DOJ and the stolen election in 2020. They are doing everything they can to piss off Trump supporters and decent, God-fearing Americans. It’s deliberate.
By the way, how come we never heard of gender dysphoria when we were kids?
Because we called men who got their kicks out of dressing up in women’s clothing transvestite perverts.
It was the beginning of the end when the American Academy of Psychiatry removed homosexuality as a mental illness in the 70s. Look what has happened. (By the way, I have gay friends.)
“(By the way, I have gay friends.)”
Do you feel that this gives you an extra dollop of credibility?
You have hоmоsexual friends (and perhaps friends with diarrhea, flatulence, and similar) yet this is not what must be mentioned at all.
It’s a formula that works It’s victim versus evil oppressor. Just insert new victim group … it was workers of the world, then Blacks or non Whites, for a time women (forget that one now) then gay, now trans. If not in victim group you must cry for them, respect them, use new terminology about them. Lucrative roles emerge whether in race baiting or even more horribly in affirming trans. It may even become law and professional guidelines. It is shameful to dissent, it is “ anti-new victim group.” If you dissent, you lose a job, a license, are vilified, isolated. Hence the need for courage.
When necessary sympathy for past victim group is discarded, as we see with women.
What’s next? I saw internet video of a man in a “collie suit.” Could be the next craze? Idk.
They’re here, they’re queer and they’re coming for your children.
Sorry Bruce but I believe that the majority of gay people have been abused as kids.
Nurture is infinitely more powerful than nature.
‘Nurture is infinitely more powerful than nature.’
Not in any universe I know of.
Dr Grossman is a great fighter for truth and intellectual honesty in the psychiatric world
So, then, how would the psychiatrists whose idea of treating a delusional patient is to affirm their delusion treat a patient who believes he is Napoleon Bonaparte or that he is covered by spiders or that his toothbrush is talking to him? They are a disgrace to their profession.
Or, a better analogy: Would they affirm an anorexic’s belief that she is too heavy and prescribe bariatric surgery? With these butchers the answer might be yes.
Going back more than 70 years to December 1, 1952 when the New York Daily News headlind screamed, “Ex-GI Becomes Blonde Beauty” transgender ideology was a fraud. The “blonde beauty” was a man who had received estrogen shots and had his testicles and penis amputated. He had no vagina, and certainly did not possess a uterus, ovaries or female chromosomes. Moreover, the “enlightened” Danish doctors who castrated him perceived him as an effeminate homosexual and transvestite and heir mutilation of him was a “humane” response to his “illness”. in 2023 (or even 1952) their scalpel happy mutilation hardly seems humane or enlightened. It was not unlike what was done to Alan Turing (who broke the Nazis Enigma Code) who was forced to take estrogen after a conviction for homosexual activity in Britain. He committed suicide in 1954.
Moreover, the “Blonde Beauty” reportedly leaked the story to the press and shamelessly cashed in on her notoriety. Christine Jorgensen was the most written about personality of the early 1950s. After a nightclub career had run its course, she became a lecturer (she was one of John Money’s most vocal defenders). In her last decade (she died of cancer in 1989) she became an alcoholic harridan, embittered by the fleeting nature of fame, even sending Playboy nude photos of her 60 year old self.
There’s a meme where a little girl says to her Mom “I think I’m a boy” and her Mother simply says “Well, you’re not”! The meme’s illustration looks like it came from a 1950’s era commercial. THAT should be the “AFFIRMING TREATMENT” that the CHILDREN receive and if they grow up and become LEGAL AGE and still “think she is a boy” then have at it, but LEAVE THE CHILDREN ALONE!!!
MAKE KIDS PROUD OF THEMSELVES AGAIN
TEACH THEM TO LOVE THEMSELVES AND NOT FEEL DEFECTIVE
It’s apparent the repercussions of this madness are not coming fast enough or are not yet serious enough for anyone to endure the suffering they so justly deserve for promoting this unconscionable depraved act of ‘transitioning’.
I watched Matt Walsh’s documentary twice and will watch it again. These trans ideologues remind me of the expression of the deer staring at the headlights and not budging from their position. Dr. Grossman is the only psychiatrist in that documentary who makes sense. It baffles me how the rest of them obtained their “credentials” as professionals since they don’t seem to take biology into account at all.
Dr. Grossman also specializes in treating the abused or scammed parents of “trans” individuals when they suffer the guilt of being defrauded by the Mengelesque butchers of the “transition” industry.
A problem is the subjectivization of the mentality through the pressure of social constructivist post modern ideologues and the exploitation of this by gramscian Marxist ideologues. We are constantly told we can be whatever we want to be, and this includes being the other sex. And of course everyone who comes over the open border illegally, including criminals, perverts, drug smugglers and cartel members, spies, etc. are just dreamers who deserve respect and automatic status as citizens and voters for the far left, naturally. So we can reimagine the family, it is just a social construct and can be disassembled and reconstructed like it was made of lego blocks. Now we have lego-men and lego-women, socially reconstructed. And thus lego-sexuality, trans-legomen so to speak. Joe is our lego president. He is made up of lego blocks and speaks like a puppet, everything that Obama tells him to say and does whatever helps the great reset in the manner of Klaus Schwab and the globalist ideologues.
No More Ritlan no Floridated Drinking Water Period
Not only courage, but the true mind of a REAL medical professional in that she seeks TRUTH.
Bob Spitzer (the famous professor of psychiatry at Columbia University) would be proud of her for speaking her EVIDENCE-BASED opinion, ad opposed to the rest of the HERD who do not take responsibility for their damaging positions, but who are just are sounding boards for the TRIBAL ELDERS.
Spitzer was screamed at, denigrated and “cancelled” by his so-called professional colleagues for the sin of presenting his opinions on homosexuality- opinions that were EVIDENCE-BASED on scholarly research. The most respected psychiatrist (the “,Alan Dershowitz” of Psychiatry) was suddenly frowned upon by his peers -, like Dershowitz was when he defended Trump.
So this psychiatrist also learned as well the difficulty in facing the force of the herd – but, unlike her colleagues, she is the only one with clothes on while all the other emperors are completely naked.
A fact that no one has mentioned is that our medical schools depend heavily on funding from pharmacutical corporations. This has to influence the kind of medicine being taught in schools. Doctors graduating today are too often little more than sales agents for big pharma.
Now consider what happens to a transitioned human body. Nature’s natural healing mechanisms begin repairing after the surgery, undoing the transitioning. This requires further surgeries in perpetuity. That costs money, and guess who will make that money? Big pharma and gender-affirming centers. Of course they don’t like Grossman, she threatenes their business. It’s sad that this is what medicine has become.
I am proud of the good doctor Miriam Grossman – may God bless her. And I am thankful to Mr. Bruce Bawer for reporting this honestly.
Transgenderism (in the 21st century!) is the most obscure and savage practice comparable to medieval obscurantism, but actually worse, because unlike the medieval people devoid of knowledge, the contemporary frauds of medicine and science have full access to knowledge.
Transgenderism is the most obscure and savage, but not the only massive obscurantism infecting the scientific and medical community! Normalization of sоdоmy, mistreatment of COVID, climate alarmism, attempts of a massive transition to EVs, and even attempts to build a (1 hp) car fed by solar panels – it all manifests the defeat of civilization, when “the AAP [American Academy of Psychiatry] is a lost cause, and so are the leading scientific journals”.
Meanwhile the pusillanimity – in fact, LYSENKOISM and FRAUD! – of other child psychiatrists on the trans issue proves that if courage is rare, cowardice, alas, is as common as dirt.
Victor Hugo wrote “The Man Who Laughs” (trans) about roving bands of vagabond called “comprachicos” who mutilated children for fun and profit. Sadly this same epithet can be applied to many of the medical charlatans of today.
So I read this recently…
Not sure if I have it exactly right….
So we can change a persons sex
But if we / they got it wrong
We can’t change them back.
The lie explained. Should work both ways right?
Thank you for that breath of fresh air, Miriam Grossman. Sincerest of hope
that someday soon sanity will prevail and we’ll no longer be plagued by
brainwashing from the radical Leftist media. My respects, Erwin Pari in Estonia