Mental health professional warns of experts putting children on ‘transgender assembly line’.
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Despite growing awareness and concern over the explosion in doctors and mental health experts prescribing gender-confused children puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and irreversible surgeries, the medical establishment remains dug-in on promoting what advocates call “gender-affirming care.”
Medical ethics are being replaced with trans ideology — where woke political correctness trumps medical, ethical, and scientific considerations.
Miriam Grossman, MD, a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist who treats gender-confused children and their families in her private New York practice, is a rare dissenting voice among medical professionals who uniformly support “gender-affirming care.”
“In no other field of medicine would we put the child in a position of making medical decisions. The child is focused on what they want at the moment.”
Many children facing gender confusion have comorbidities, which can include anxiety, depression, autism, or a slew of other mental health issues. Of great concern, Dr. Grossman warns, 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.
Currently, puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones don’t even have FDA approval for pediatric “gender care.” No clinical trials have established their safety for such off-label use, and they carry significant long-term risks.
Yet, medical centers like Planned Parenthood and Boston Children’s Hospital’s gender clinic continue to promote “gender-affirming care,” despite countries including the UK, Finland, and Sweden shutting down gender clinics after finding that, in many cases, the scientific evidence does not support medical intervention. Dr. Grossman warns that many medical professionals in the U.S. are still recommending this path despite studies showing that an average of 80% of children who developed gender dysphoria before puberty reach a point of acceptance of their bodies when they go through natural puberty.
“That's a piece of information that my colleagues are not giving parents and are not giving kids. It's malfeasance.”
Dr. Grossman risks being blacklisted and punished in her career for speaking out against “gender-affirming care.” Despite that, she refuses to be silenced.