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Doctor Sounds Alarm on ‘Transgender Assembly Line’
Miriam Grossman, MD, a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist whose private practice includes gender-confused children and their families, rails against her profession for prioritizing political correctness over public health. Watch @independentwomensforum
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“There’s an unwritten understanding that intelligent, informed, educated people will hold certain views,” said Miriam Grossman, MD, a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist whose private practice includes gender-confused children and their families. “People who challenge the current narrative about transgender kids are marginalized or worse.”
Dr. Grossman is a rare dissenting voice among medical professionals who uniformly support “gender-affirming care,” which begins with socially transitioning a child by using a new name and pronouns. Supporters believe it’s harmless and compassionate to affirm a child’s “gender identity,” even by keeping it a secret from parents in schools or therapy settings. But what many often don’t realize is that “gender-affirming care” incorporates an array of medical treatments such as puberty blockers, hormones and, in some cases, irreversible surgeries.
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“In no other field of medicine would we put the child in a position of making medical decisions. And yet that is actually what’s happening,” she noted.
Many children facing gender confusion have “comorbidities,” Dr. Grossman added, which can include anxiety, depression, autism, or a slew of other mental health issues. Of great concern is the trend of doctors and mental health experts overlooking these issues and using “gender-affirming care” as a superficial solution, while leaving the underlying issues untreated.
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“The transgender path is a difficult path, and it’s a path of many lifelong appointments with doctors,” she said. “Once you are on puberty blockers, there’s a close to 100% chance that after those puberty blockers, you will go on to cross-sex hormones. Depending on the age at which these treatments are started, they could make reproduction impossible. In other words, the child will be sterilized. We must recognize that this is a huge decision with lifelong impacts.”
It is shameful that Democrats have made transgenderization of children a part of their tribalism. Wanting to medicate and mutilate kids just to throw it in the face of their perceived political enemies. We need to have an adult discusstion about this issue.