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

    By Miriam Grossman and Jordan B. Peterson

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    Throughout our country, atrocities are taking place in doctor’s offices and hospital operating rooms. Physically healthy children and adolescents are being permanently disfigured and sometimes sterilized. Those youth say they’re transgender, and we—their parents, teachers, therapists, and doctors—are supposed to agree with their self-diagnosis and take a back seat as they make the most consequential decision of their lives: to alter their bodies in order to, we are told, “align” them with their minds.
     
    Medical, educational, and government authorities advise us to support the “gender journeys” of still developing kids, including medical interventions with poor evidence of long-term improvement.
     
    This would not be acceptable in any other field of medicine. Indeed, the treatments our medical authorities and Washington call “crucial” and “life-saving” have been banned in progressive Sweden, Finland, and Britain.
     
    Dr. Miriam Grossman is a child and adolescent psychiatrist whose practice consists of trans-identified youth and their families. In Lost in Trans Nation, she implores parents to reject the advice of gender experts and politicians and trust their guts—their parental instincts—in the face of an onslaught of ideologically driven misinformation that steers them and their children toward risky decisions they may end up mourning for the rest of their lives.
     
    The beliefs that male and female are human inventions; that the sex of a newborn is arbitrarily “assigned”; and that as a result the child requires “affirmation” through medical interventions—these ideas are divorced from reality and therefore hazardous, especially to children. The core belief—that biology can and should be denied—is a repudiation of reality and a mockery of what hard science teaches about being male and female.
     
    Dr. Grossman believes that parents know their child best; they especially know if they have a son or daughter. But currently in our country when it comes to gender identity, everyone knows better than mom and dad. Schools enable students to live double lives—Patrick at home, Patti at school. Activists tell kids their loving homes are “unsafe” when parents voice doubts about the child’s new identity. For refusing to see their son as their daughter, parents might be reported to protective services, a development that can lead to a family’s destruction.
     
    Lost in Trans Nation arms parents with the ammunition to avoid, or, if necessary, fight what many families describe as the most difficult challenge of their lives. Parents will learn what to say and how—at home, at school, and if necessary, to police when they appear at the door.
     
    “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.
     
    No child is born in the wrong body, Dr. Grossman reassures us, their bodies are just fine; it’s their emotional lives that need healing. Whether you’re facing a gender identity battle in your home right now, or want to prevent one, you need this book to guide you and your loved ones out of the madness.
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSkyhorse
    Release dateJul 18, 2023
    ISBN9781510777750
    Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness
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    Miriam Grossman

    Miriam Grossman, M.D., a child and adolescent psychiatrist, is the author of Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student and Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness. She is featured in The Daily Wire’s celebrated documentary What Is a Woman? and has testified before Congress on the dangers of gender ideology.

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    Dr. Miriam Grossman lays bare the criminal misbehavior of the medical professionals and counselors perpetrating the ‘gender-affirming care travesty.’ In doing so, she brings solace to those terrified that the children they love will fall prey to the demented excesses of the latest and worst of the contemporary psychological epidemics. In a time characterized by a shameful dearth of courage among medical professionals (and their counterparts in the field of psychology), Miriam Grossman has the courage to say what needs to be said.

    — Dr. Jordan B. Peterson, author, psychologist, online educator, and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto

    Dr. Miriam Grossman is a rare truthteller. This book is a necessary guide for everyone, especially parents, battling gender ideology today.

    — Debra Soh, PhD, author of The End of Gender, featured in the Daily Wire’s What Is a Woman?

    "Lost in Trans Nation is the compass and map today’s parents need to navigate the treacherous and inescapable gender-bending waters that engulf our youth from preschool forward. Written in her usual engaging and direct style, Dr. Miriam Grossman has crafted an indispensable tool to prevent and heal transgender indoctrination in children and young adults. Parents, grandparents, educators, health professionals, attorneys, and policymakers should all give this book a close read."

    — Michelle A. Cretella, MD, cochair of the Adolescent Sexuality Committee of the American College of Pediatricians, Advisory Board Advocates Protecting Children

    "Thank God for Dr. Miriam Grossman. Thanks to her, we may finally have the book that begins our exit from a madness in which America finds itself. That madness is the belief that men can become women and women can become men.

    Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist’s Guide Out of the Madness is mandatory reading for all parents who are enduring the indescribable trauma of having their beloved daughter insist she is a boy or whose beloved son insists he is a girl. It can literally be lifesaving and, at the least, sanity-saving and family-saving. For families who have a gender-distressed child, Dr. Grossman provides practical advice on how to respond to the child’s demands, how to find a non-ideology-driven therapist, and how to talk to the schools, teachers, physicians, and hospitals all collaborating in ruining their child’s life.

    All good in history has been accomplished by outliers. Miriam Grossman is such an outlier."

    — Dennis Prager, nationally syndicated radio talk show host, cofounder of PragerU and author of ten bestselling books

    "The mind virus of gender ideology is coming for your children, and it has captured the medical, educational, and legal institutions meant to protect them. Dr. Grossman’s Lost in Trans Nation serves as an essential resource for parents in a culture intent on confusion and chaos."

    — Matt Walsh

    American parents face a new epidemic: the sudden declaration by children of a transgender identity, with demands for a new name, pronouns, and risky medical interventions. Dr. Grossman arms parents with the science and practical guidance they need to survive this nightmare, or better yet, prevent it altogether. America needs this book.

    — Stanley Goldfarb, chairman, Do No Harm and former associate dean for curriculum the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine

    We are the largest support network in North America for parents of rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD). As parents who have been through this nightmare with our own kids, we are canaries in the coalmine. Parents need to understand that their children are being bombarded with gender ideology relentlessly. It is promoted in their children’s schools, among their friends, in the media, on the Internet, and even by the very medical professionals they turn to for help. Dr. Grossman’s book will help parents understand the depth and breadth of the problem and provide them with skills to protect and guide their children safely through.

    — Jane, national organizer of Parents of ROGD Kids

    Dr. Grossman warned parents about the gender movement a decade ago. Now that it’s in full force, her book arms parents with the tools to fight the gender hydra that lurks around every bend. A must-read.

    — Erin Friday, Esq., co-lead of Our Duty-USA, a support network for parents who wish to protect their children from gender ideology.

    "Parents, are you aware of the gender indoctrination happening in your child’s classroom? You better be—it’s a pipeline to a gender clinic, keeping you in the dark. Don’t be blindsided like so many parents in Dr. Grossman’s practice. Her explosive book provides a roadmap and practical guidance to safeguard your child’s physical and emotional health. Read this book, absorb every word, and inoculate your family against the scourge of transgender ideology.

    — Tina Descovich and Tiffany Justice, cofounders Moms for Liberty

    Dr. Miriam Grossman has done the public a tremendous service with this harrowing recounting of the ethical corruption of the medical profession and the devastation wrought by radical gender ideology on the lives of countless young and vulnerable Americans. If you want to know how the United States got to this crisis point, read this book.

    — Josh Hammer, opinion editor, Newsweek

    "In twenty-five years of experience as a health care policy expert at the state, national, and international levels, I have rarely met a more determined, strong, and courageous person than Dr. Miriam Grossman. In Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist’s Guide Out of the Madness, Dr. Grossman provides us with much needed information and ammunition to support what we already instinctively knew but were struggling to articulate. In the name of ‘affirmation’ and health care, a horrific tragedy is being perpetrated on humanity’s most vulnerable, impressionable, and malleable—our children. Dr. Grossman’s book is a crucial resource, a scientifically sound treatise, and a necessary call to action for all those who care about the future of our children, our culture, and our country."

    — Dianna Lightfoot, North Carolina Physicians for Freedom; White House Appointee USAID-Global Health 2017–2021

    "Lost in Trans Nation is a ground-breaking book, and required reading for anyone who cares about our school-age generation. Dr. Miriam Grossman details the war being waged over our children’s identities, with everyday parents and community members on one side, and proponents of a radical new ‘gender-affirming’ ideology on the other that is spreading like a contagion and is tearing apart families, threatening the fabric of society. She explains how this is a wholly different phenomenon than the rare cases of gender identity disorder seen in the past.

    In many cases the gender-affirming movement’s proponents are well-meaning teachers, guidance counselors, doctors, and even parents buying into the ‘need’ for incredibly invasive medical interventions that are grounded in, as we learn, corrupted science and driven by powerful organizations and government policy. Parents are terrified that if they don’t support their children’s ‘transition’ to an ambiguous or opposite sex, their children’s lives will be at risk.

    In Lost in Trans Nation, Dr. Grossman charts a path for navigating the madness of our times, a path that will help keep children safe, families whole, and society functional. Through this captivating work, readers will also find the courage to stand up for reality and truth, and for future generations."

    — Jan Jekielek, senior editor at The Epoch Times and host of American Thought Leaders

    Copyright © 2023 by Miriam Grossman

    Foreword copyright © 2023 Jordan B. Peterson

    All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without the express written consent of the publisher, except in the case of brief excerpts in critical reviews or articles. All inquiries should be addressed to Skyhorse Publishing, 307 West 36th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10018.

    Skyhorse Publishing books may be purchased in bulk at special discounts for sales promotion, corporate gifts, fund-raising, or educational purposes. Special editions can also be created to specifications. For details, contact the Special Sales Department, Skyhorse Publishing, 307 West 36th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10018 or info@skyhorsepublishing.com

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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available on file.

    Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-5107-7774-3

    eBook ISBN: 978-1-5107-7775-0

    Cover design by Brian Peterson

    Printed in the United States of America

    The information presented in this book is for educational purposes only and not intended to serve as a substitute for diagnosis, treatment, or advice from a qualified, licensed medical professional or therapist. Neither the author nor the publisher bears any responsibility for the accuracy or content of the sites, books, or resources listed or for the therapeutic approach of mental health providers listed therein.

    CONTENTS

    Dedication

    Foreword by Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

    A Note on Language

    Introduction

    Articles of Faith

    Chapter One: John Money’s Dangerous Idea

    Chapter Two: Psychiatry’s Dangerous Idea

    Chapter Three: Rosa

    Chapter Four: The Castro Consensus

    Chapter Five: The Whistleblower

    Chapter Six: A Dangerous Dutch Idea

    Chapter Seven: Emma or Oliver?

    Chapter Eight: Educators’ Dangerous Idea

    Chapter Nine: Lawyers’ Dangerous Idea

    Chapter Ten: Mourning the Living

    Chapter Eleven: Euphemisms

    Chapter Twelve: Surgeons’ Dangerous Idea

    Chapter Thirteen: Lasagna Surprise

    Conclusion

    Appendix One: Biology 101

    Appendix Two: Key Scientific Papers

    Appendix Three: Dealing with Schools

    Appendix Four: Dealing with Child Protective Services

    Appendix Five: Finding a Therapist

    Appendix Six: Guide to Internet Accountability Tools

    Appendix Seven: Responses to International Parent Survey

    a. Parent-to-Parent Advice: Ideology

    b. Parent-to-Parent Advice: Schools

    c. Parent-to-Parent Advice: Therapists

    d. Parent-to-Parent Advice: Internet and Social Media

    e. Parent-to-Parent Advice: Parenting

    Notes

    Acknowledgments

    Dedication

    This book is dedicated to the parents of kids with Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria and to the groups who support them.

    I spoke with you from your cars, basements, and bathrooms. You huddled and whispered behind closed doors, as if seeking my help was criminal behavior. You’re not criminals, you are heroes. The criminals are the therapists, teachers, school counselors, and sex educators who indoctrinate your children with falsehoods, and the doctors who then disfigure and sterilize them. They are guilty of crimes. Their day will come.

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    Foreword

    Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

    We are all familiar—at this point in time, far more than we want to be— with the epidemics caused by viruses, bacteria, and parasites, but their equivalent can also emerge on the psychological front—and this has been the case for a very long time.¹ As the great Swiss analytical psychologist Carl Gustav Jung stated in 1957:

    Just as people can catch measles and scarlet fever from one another, so can they catch the ways of feeling, thinking, and behaving. The more people live together in heaps, the less each individual counts, and the more he or she will be inclined to take his or her cue from the collective rather than pursue an individual ideal.²

    The rapid exchange of information, which perhaps above all else characterizes the age we now live in, has increased the speed at which social contagions can spread, as well as producing a more varied plethora of forms. It is the case with viruses that the faster a given pathogen can spread, the more deadly its form, at least under certain conditions,³ and that the same could well be true on the psychological front. How deadly can such epidemics become? We are, no doubt, in the process of finding out. Hopefully, the answer won’t be universally fatal. But that possibility certainly beckons.

    Three relevant kinds of transmissible psychological disease appear to exist—or, at least, such might be argued on historical grounds. The first kind is transmitted through the general population. Examples of those, which abound, include multiple personality disorder⁴ (whose cycles of sporadic emergence and social dissemination have been traced back centuries⁵;) hysteria (big in Freud’s day, although more complex than originally considered⁶;) cutting or other forms of self-mutilation;⁷ eating disorders,⁸ including anorexia and bulimia; trichotillomania;⁹ Tourette’s symptomatology;¹⁰ and, more recently, bodily dysmorphia of the form that manifests itself as cross-sex identity.

    The pattern underlying the emergence of such social contagion is this: sufferers, typically young women, suffer disproportionately and more generally and primarily from elevated levels of trait or state neuroticism, including its clinical and subclinical variants, depression, anxiety, self-consciousness, and confusion.¹¹ This tendency toward a basic and undifferentiated psychopathology then seeks a socially acceptable form of expression.¹² That form varies with the times. In Freud’s time¹³—which, at least among the upper classes from whom Freud drew his clients, was obsessed with the theater— depressed, anxious, neurotic young women had dramatic fits of weakness and fainting (which would often attract the attention of young men, striving to be knights on horseback, but which also sometimes resulted in hysterectomy, as a consequence of medical misdiagnosis). More recently, young women in similar straits found themselves exchanging photos of their emaciated bodies and tips on self-starvation on social media channels.¹⁴

    The second kind of transmissible psychological disease might be considered political. National Socialism spread like a virus. So did communism. The former, like smallpox, has been virtually eliminated. The latter has mutated very effectively and continues to make its terrible effects known. Much has been written on both; we won’t spend much time on this variant here, although the topic at hand has its ideological element, as the ideology that fosters the development of the stunningly immature, philosophically shallow, and incoherent, hedonistic, and narcissistic claims of absolute subjectively defined identity underlying the trans/gender-dysphoria/gender-affirmation movement is in part ideological and political.

    The third kind of transmissible psychological disease spreads among medical professionals and their clinical colleagues (psychologists and counselors first and foremost among them). These diseases emerge when poorly trained clinicians entice themselves into leaping on the latest medical bandwagon. Unaware of the literature on psychological contagion, or otherwise incompetent, greedy, manipulative, narcissistic, or downright sadistic, they offer unproven treatment to those in dire straits, creating tremendous damage in their wake, lining their own pockets, trumpeting their incompetence as cutting-edge clinical wisdom, and demonizing those who dare to question their ethics. Up to 40,000 people were lobotomized in the US between the 1930s and the 1950s. Walter Freeman introduced the procedure in the US (importing it from Portugal). He and his colleagues developed a variant involving the insertion of a long, thin, sharp metal implement (imagine an ice pick) through the eye socket into the prefrontal cortex of the patient and slicing through the brain—with all the accuracy one might imagine would accompany such a procedure.

    They outfitted vans to travel from town to town offering lobotomies, which could be done in a very short period of time, to all takers. These surgeries were often performed without anesthesia, and in the absence of proper consent. Post-surgery, the patients were not so much cured as rendered permanently docile, as the prefrontal cortex is the part of the brain that makes plans before they are implemented, so that damage to its structure is very likely to decimate higher-order will.

    These variant forms of transmissible psychological disease can interact, or dance, with one another. Medical personnel played a key role during the Nazi regime in the euthanasia programs and the Holocaust. The Nazis relied on the public trust in and perceived expertise of nurses, doctors, and other medical professionals to justify and implement its policies of public and racial hygiene and then genocide. Physicians, in particular, were instrumental in the selection of individuals for euthanasia and genocide and developed the methods and techniques used to kill them. This typically involved identifying disabled or chronically ill individuals deemed life unworthy of life. Often, justification for such identification was couched in the language of compassion.

    One prominent example is the Nazi propaganda film titled I Accuse (Ich klage an), released in 1941, which depicted a fictional case of a woman suffering from multiple sclerosis. The film aimed to evoke sympathy and promote the idea of mercy killing. In the film, a husband pleads for the euthanasia of his wife, who is depicted as suffering greatly and being a burden on him and society. The film’s narrative portrays euthanasia as an act of compassion, presenting it as a way to end the woman’s suffering and release her from her deteriorating condition. The systematic killing of disabled people started with child euthanasia in 1939, and quickly expanded to include adults, and then whole classes of peoples. This was common language and practice in the lead-up to the genocides. Is there anything worse than torture and murder masquerading as compassion? It is a long and hard search indeed to find a deeper and more contemptible pit of hell, or worse demons native to that abyss.

    Doctors in the National Socialist era were responsible for completing the appropriate questionnaires and determining which patients would be sent to the killing centers (after completing the requisite questionnaires). They were also recruited (or signed up) to administer the lethal injections or organize the gassing of patients in gas chambers. Medical professionals played key roles in the genocide of Jews and other minorities during the Holocaust. They also helped plan and carry out medical experiments on prisoners in concentration camps, which involved testing new drugs, surgical procedures, and sterilization techniques. Such experiments were often performed without consent and resulted in the death or permanent injury of the subjects. Doctors and their professional compatriots also helped identify prisoners too weak or sick to work, so that they could be sent to the gas chambers.

    Why did this happen? Why, indeed? And why have we failed to learn? To begin with, there is no reason to assume that physicians, et al., would be particularly less prone than any other class of persons to fall prey to the blandishments of demented ideologues, and there is some evidence to suggest that they may in fact be more rather than less likely to participate in the perpetration of political and other forms of horror. Medical personnel have access to vulnerable people, at the points in their life when that vulnerability is most magnified. This can create opportunities for those characterized by the darkest of personality traits. Surgeons and anesthesiologists, in particular, may exhibit higher levels of narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism than those typifying the general population.¹⁵ These traits, collectively referred to as the Dark Tetrad, are characterized by callous disregard for others, manipulative behavior, desire for power and control, and a positive delight in the subjugation and suffering of others.

    This all creates a very toxic brew—psychological and political, with regard to victim and perpetrator—and one whose analysis sheds substantive light on the newest set of transmissible diseases plaguing our current culture. There has been a substantive increase in the number of young people presenting with so-called gender dysphoria in recent years. This has been caused, in all likelihood, by the same mechanisms operative when other psychogenic epidemics have spread through the population: that is, by the marshalling of social forces, for oft-political reasons, to shape the manifestation of an underlying non-specific proclivity to anxiety, depression, and hopelessness among a vulnerable subset of children and adolescents. This marshalling is done under the rubric of hypothetical compassion for young people suffering through the increased self-consciousness and negative emotion commonly associated with puberty (particularly among girls¹⁶—particularly if they reach puberty earlier).

    What is the cause, in more detail—and the outcome, individually and socially? This is precisely what Dr. Miriam Grossman outlines in the present work, documenting as she does the rapidly increasing prevalence of gender-affirming treatment for vulnerable children and adolescents, the role political and ideological ideas play in shaping that treatment, and the oft-terrible consequences for confused children, destroyed physically and psychologically by those who should be caring for them, and for the parents of such children, betrayed in the most profound sense by precisely the professionals that they should most be able to rely on when dealing with the very real distress of their children.

    She begins by documenting the appalling case of Dr. John Money, whose now-widely-discredited efforts laid the groundwork for justifying the current butchery of children. He developed the idea of gender identity—the idea that there was a separate subjective element to sex, purely psychological in nature—an idea that has infiltrated the psychiatric and other medical sub-professions, to the great detriment of those most practically affected by it (and that would be children and adolescents subject to gender reassignment protocols, ranging from the therapeutic to the hormonal and surgical).

    The consequence: a veritable explosion in the number of child and adolescent referrals to psychiatric and other medical clinics for gender dysphoria (the subjectively defined mismatch between biological sex and gender identity). It is now the case that in many jurisdictions in the Western world the theory that sex and subjective gender identity are separate is now enforced by law, and therapists and medical professionals are therefore compelled to affirm the subjective identity claimed by their clients and patients in preference to their—in the terrible lingo of the times—sex assigned at birth¹⁷—the sex designation recorded on an infant’s birth certificate, typically as either male or female, based on an assessment of the infant’s external anatomy.

    Dr. Grossman details the fact that although endless assurances have been delivered that children will be subjected to the proper evaluation prior to any dramatic medical intervention, assessment for gender dysphoria, prior to the initiation of hormone treatment (and, too often, subsequent surgery) such assessment often occurs in the most cursory and unprofessional of manners, producing the implicitly and explicitly desired catastrophic outcome. She also discusses the now-discredited¹⁸ Dutch Protocol that hypothetically established the standards for so-called gender-affirming care, as well as the terrible Tavistock scandal that rocked the UK (the now-disgraced Tavistock Clinic was practicing at the forefront of gender-affirming care provision, following precisely that Dutch Protocol) and others similar scandals in the US.

    Grossman spends some time, as well, discussing the most egregious and evil lie told to the parents of so-called trans children: Would you rather have a live trans child or a dead child? There is, to put it mildly, no evidence that the only alternative to early medical transition for a child with gender dysphoria is suicide. Providing desperate parents in a time of crisis with this appalling piece of utterly unjustified medical advice is professional misconduct of the most unforgivable sort. Equally egregious lies are now disseminated by schools and other institutions, including—as Dr. Grossman also details—the courts and the social work systems nominally devoted to the protection of children. It should be noted in this regard that it is not only the lives of children that are being irreparably damaged by their subjugation to the terrible processes of psychological and physical transformation accompanying the affirmation of their new gender. All of their family members suffer dreadfully, watching a child they love being harmed in an irrevocable manner and being changed into something false and foreign— finding themselves, as parents and grandparents and other loved ones, in the position of those who are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. Furthermore, the availability of trans-hormonal and surgical procedures have added another weapon to the arsenal of narcissistic parents perfectly willing to use their children either to emphasize the purity and extent of their terrible compassion or to wage war against their estranged spouse in an all-out custody or divorce battle. If you are one of the naive ones who don’t think that such things can and do happen, then you are setting yourself and those dependent upon you for your security for a serious fall at the hands of some malevolent actor perfectly willing and able to exploit your blind faith in the goodness of man—and woman.

    I had beautiful breasts. Now they’re in the incinerator. Thank you, modern medicine: so laments Miss Chloe Cole, pioneering detransitioner, currently dragging various members and corporate bodies of the medical establishment (including Kaiser Permanente) deservedly through the courts for the barbarities perpetrated upon her when she was a minor. Such enterprise is a growth industry, trumpeted for its economic possibilities by the marketing types who will line themselves up to make money regardless of the source. Global Market Insights, for example, has estimated a greater than 11 percent compound annual growth rate in the possibility of services to be offered and outlined the money, money, money to be made.¹⁹

    Get in while the getting’s good: the mad physician and counsellor gold rush continues apace, providing an ever-expanding source of money (opportunity abounds!) to those perfectly willing to exploit miserable, wretched, unhappy children and their desperate, clueless parents: $632 billion in the US in 2022; $1.9 billion in 2032 (projected). Thus, the absolute worst of capitalism meets the most dismal and destructive of ideologies in a truly unholy alliance.

    What the hell is wrong with us? And why won’t more nurses, physicians, and counselors speak up? There is a cowardice, mendacity, and self-serving morality making itself manifest in our society at the individual, political, and medical levels that makes previous psychogenic epidemics look like a walk in the park. Dr. Miriam Grossman has courageously stood up for the victims and victims-to-be of this appalling growth enterprise and written a book bound to be both welcome and of clear practical use to parents and others who have had bloody well enough of this miraculously hypocritical, self-serving, and truly near-murderous lying and butchery.

    Hopefully, her book will put another nail in the coffin of the so-called gender affirmation movement. Hopefully, it will serve to expose its stunningly cynical co-opting of the civil rights movement, its greedy exploitation of confused children, its offering of the cheapest and most contemptible virtue to its adherents and promoters. Hopefully, it will awaken sleeping parents, teachers, nurses, physicians, counselors, legislators—and, most of all, police officers and members of the judiciary—to the reality of the horrors being perpetrated by the delusional, mendacious, corrupt, narcissistic, and, indeed, psychopathic (particularly on the counselling and medical front) on the most vulnerable members of our deeply confused and more-than-metaphorically possessed and increasingly willfully blind society.

    A Note on Language

    At the start of this project, I had to decide whether to comply with my profession and use a newly mandated vocabulary. To me it’s a language without clarity: even the word gender has no coherent definition, to

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