Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness

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So he coined the term gender identity, which, according to him, is an inner feeling or experience of oneself, an inner identity that is nonetheless socially constructed.

a b c "Heather McDonald, Esther Drill, and Rebecca Odes, authors: A chat about life as a "gURL." ". CNN. September 17, 1999. Archived from the original on May 9, 2015 . Retrieved June 26, 2021. a b Gordon, Jane (March 5, 2000). "Controversy surrounds handbook for teen girls". Hartford Courant. p.G2. Archived from the original on July 15, 2021 . Retrieved July 14, 2021– via Newspapers.com. Roan, Shari (November 29, 1999). "Guidance on Tapping Into That Girl Power". The Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on July 1, 2021 . Retrieved June 26, 2021. a b c d "Deal With It!: A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life as a Gurl". Publishers Weekly. August 30, 1999. Archived from the original on June 27, 2021 . Retrieved June 26, 2021. Miriam Grossman, MD is board certified in psychiatry and in the subspecialty of child and adolescent psychiatry. The author of five books, including Unprotected and You’re Teaching My Child WHAT?, Dr. Grossman's work exposing the origin and hazards of the sexuality and gender industry has been translated into eleven languages. She has testified in Congress and lectured at the British House of Lords and the United Nations. She is featured in Daily Wire’s What Is A Woman?, Fox Nation’s The Miseducation of America, and many other documentaries. Her expert psychiatric opinion is sought for witness testimony and court reports. Visit her at www.MiriamGrossmanMD.com

Don’t be blindsided like so many parents I know,” warns Grossman, “be proactive and get educated. Feel prepared and confident to discuss trans, nonbinary, or whatever your child brings to the dinner table.” Whether it’s the “trans is as common as red hair” claim, or the “I’m not your son, I’m your daughter” proclamation, or the “do you prefer a live son or a dead daughter’ threat, says Grossman, no family is immune, and every parent must be prepared.

MG:Excellent. Yes, I’m glad more people are re-examining the research fueling these treatments; it’s become increasingly clear how little basis there is for them. Jane Gordon wrote in the Hartford Courant that a parent had expressed disgust with the book and suggested that topics about sex should be discussed between parents and their children; however, the authors noted that teenagers preferred the book, as they find it embarrassing to discuss sex with their parents. [17] Psychiatrist Miriam Grossman included Deal With It! in her criticisms of sex education, calling the book "offensive material" for including information such as BDSM. [18] :5 The book was also met with opposition by The Library Patrons of Texas and Parents Protecting the Minds of Children from Arkansas for including LGBT content. [19] In 2009, the West Bend Citizens for Safe Libraries challenged to ban the book from West Bend Community Library, claiming it to be "pornography." [20] Deal With It! is listed at #82 on the American Library Association's Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books from 2000 to 2009. [21] PW: Children's Bookbag". Publishers Weekly. Vol.244, no.37. September 14, 1998. Archived from the original on July 4, 2021 . Retrieved July 1, 2021. MG:They are shoving these confusing and insidious ideas down kids’ throats. They are promoting these ideas. The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychological Association, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, they all drank the Kool‐Aid, and they are all telling kids that they could be born in the wrong body, and that it’s normal to have these feelings, and that it’s a variant of normal human expression to want your healthy body irreversibly damaged, your breasts to be removed.DG:In the book, you quote Israeli child psychologist Haim Ginott as saying something like “children are like wet cement,” in that virtually anything can make a lasting impression. I wonder to what extent today’s gender activists appreciate or comprehend what they are doing to children, raising them in a world that is so different from the one in which they themselves were raised. Some of them feel they were wronged as children by being given fixed definitions of male and female, and they want to prevent that for coming generations. That is a major medical organization. It claims it has 67,000 members. I want parents to understand that when they go to their pediatrician, doctors are busy and we don’t have time to do research on every subject that we are supposed to know about. So, we are taught throughout our training, that we trust our professional organizations. Makes sense, right? The Looks Book: A Whole New Approach to Beauty, Body Image, and Style". Publishers Weekly. October 1, 2002. Archived from the original on June 27, 2021 . Retrieved June 26, 2021. MG:Well, Money was not only wrong, he was a bad person—a pedophile who promoted incest, among other things. But he succeeded because he was an egotistical tyrant with elite credentials. He strove to gain as much publicity as possible, writing articles and books not only for professional audiences, but for lay audiences. He took his ideas about gender identity and the corresponding bogus—now utterly disproven—results, lied about them, and promoted his research as being genuine when it was nothing of the sort.

DG:Thank you. As much as I was aware of what these surgeries and other physical processes entail, reading about them in detail in your book was, it was heartbreaking and just so difficult to get through. But I also appreciated that you shed light on the parents who I think are often the quieter actors in this. I think there are some detransitioners who are very outspoken, and courageously so, but parents dealing with their children’s crises occupy a strange role. But as you detail in the book, some parents protesting their children’s medical transitions have been legally challenged and even imprisoned. MG:It’s a tyranny. There are currently 24 pediatricians who have signed Julia Mason’s resolution to the American Academy of Pediatrics. And as we speak, as far as I know, it still is not going to be considered. There’s an update, they announced they are doing a review. You should probably have an addendum. a b Malam, John (October 6, 2001). "Learning about it". The Guardian. Archived from the original on July 9, 2021 . Retrieved June 26, 2021. MG:First of all, I’m at the end of my career. I’m not just starting off and having to worry about being rejected from job applications or being fired. So I don’t have that issue to deal with. Although I have been turned away from work because of my positions. But I survived. Now, the problem is when it comes to this issue of gender identity and being transgender; on this particular subject the organizations have been captured by activists.Shade, Leslie Regan (July 19, 2004). "Gender and the Commodification of Community". Community in the Digital Age: Philosophy and Practice. By Feenberg, Andrew. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. pp.151–160. ISBN 9780742529595. The book, Deal With It!, is marketed to mature teens and young women in their early 20s due to its frank discussions about sexuality; however, the authors stated that they believe there is no specific age for any girl learning sexual information. [7] Contents [ edit ] Format [ edit ] His idea was, put simply, that we are born “gender-neutral,” that we are all blank slates, and that our identity as men or women hinges merely on the way we’re treated during the first two and a half to three years of life. Given the debates at the time regarding nature and nurture, and what we knew and didn’t know about chromosomes, this seemed plausible.