Sunday, July 6, 2025

Lost in Trans Nation By Miriam Grossman: Chapter 5: Whistleblower

 Chapter 5: Whistleblower 

-Washington University Pediatric Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital

-In 2023, we all became aware of gender clinic malfeasance that was happening for years

-labeled a “traitor to the trans community” 

-she revealed a parade of malpractice and deception inflicted on vulnerable children and their parents, calling it “morally and medically appalling”

-Jamie Reed showed that from 2020-2022 600 children being transitioned about 74% of these children were assigned female at birth

-children coming to the center: autism, ADHD, depression, anxiety, PTSD, trauma histories, OCD, eating disorders

-instead of treating the the condition, the doctors just prescribed puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones

-even kids with diagnoses is schizophrenia or bipolar given only one solution: transition

-one size fits all model of care

-doctors dismissed  their young patients’ emotional disorders as well as the parents concerns

-clinicians were cheerleaders for transition


Reed exposed:

-puberty blockers worsen the mental health outcomes of children

-children who have not contemplated suicide, but after being on puberty blockers have attempted suicide after

-puberty blockers force children to go through premature menopause

-puberty blockers decrease bone density

***July 2022, FDA issued a “black box warning” for puberty blockers

-evidence shows that the medications causes brain swelling and loss of vision

-side effects: mood changes, headaches, nervousness, anxiety, agitation, confusion, delusions, insomnia, depression, mood swings, suicidal ideation, early menopause, lung disease, sexual dysfunction, inability to experience organisms, and genital atrophy

-puberty blockers cause osteoporosis, loss of bone density, spinal fractures, vertebral damage

-children and parents inadequately informed of the risks


Puberty is not a Disorder:

-it’s a complex biological process

-puberty isn’t an illness

-you can’t synthetically turn on and off puberty like a light switch

-hormones restructure the brain 

-puberty blocker interrupt the natural process so have cognitive & emotional consequences 

-normal puberty works on building brain balancing that deals with rationally weighing actions, predicting results, and balances pros and cons

-need to allow the prefrontal cortex is the last area of the brain to fully mature

-It is the thinking and planning part of the brain

-the amygdala is the feelings part

-puberty helps young adults regulate their emotions, control impulsivity, and make better decisions

-puberty blockers may threaten brain maturation and cognitive maturity

-puberty blockers potentially trap kids in a permanent gender-identity crisis

-puberty blockers are not safe and are not reversible 

-you can’t pause puberty without a price 


***WPATH now acknowledges that there is “reproductive regret” in young adults left infertile from medical transition


“The young brain is biologically and socially immature, tends toward short-term risk taking, does not possess the ability to comprehend long term consequences and is highly influenced by peers”


“Children cannot consent, and therefore should not be asked to consent to being treated with puberty blockers for gender dysphoria”


Dangers of synthetic puberty:

-Gender-Affirming care (GAC) disrupts every body system during puberty

-testosterone is a lifelong treatment as may end up having to take blood pressure, cholesterol, sleep apnea, and diabetic medications

-patients taking cross-sex hormones experienced near-constant abdominal pain

-Estrogen can cause liver damage, forever having a micro-penis, unable to orgasm 

-Testosterone causes permanent female damage as the voice drops, beards sprout, body fat redistributed, aggression increases, mood can be unpredictable, severe atrophy of vaginal tissue, vaginal laceration

-men on cross-sex hormones ar 40 times more likely to get breast cancer, stoke, heart attacks, and deep vein clots, no viable sperm making reproduction impossible

-women on testosterone report severe headaches, intracranial hypertension, visual loss from damage to the optic nerve, clots in the veins causing life-threatening pulmonary embolism, no viable eggs making reproduction impossible


***A Sterile Generation

***creating a whole cohort of kids with atypical genitals


Lost in Trans Nation By Miriam Grossman: Chapter 4: The Manipulating Consensus

 


Chapter 4: The Manipulating Consensus


Groups calling trans ideology a Junk Science:

-no such thing as rapid onset gender dysphoria (Journal of Pediatrics)

-wanted to eliminate rapid onset gender dysphoria (Coalition for the Advancement & Application of Psychological Science) (CAAPS)

-Dr. Littman’s paper was discredited for writing that rapid onset gender dysphoria is a lie

-Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD) is not a medical entity recognized by any major professional association

-there is evidence that gender dysphoria can result is social contagion 


***tried to tell people that puberty blockers at an early age followed by cross-sex hormones, leaves patient infertile 


Groups against truth:

-60 professional associations

-American Psychological Association

-Society for Behavioral Medicine

-American Psychiatric Association

-Human Rights Campaign (HRC)

-WPATH

-USPATH

-Endocrine Society (ES)

-American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

(who in 2018 endorsed gender-affirming care (GAC) for all gender dysphoria not matter the age of the child)

-Universities like Brown

-Southern Poverty Law Center 

-Toronto's Child Youth and Family Identity Clinic (GIC)

-US Food and Drug Administration


-opposers tried in 2020, 2021, and in 2022 to show their conclusions that the risks of hormones outweigh the benefits 

-2021, tried to submit a resolution to halt their promotion of medical transitions for minors until research demonstrated long-term benefit 

-no results would be published that discredited the efforts to support transgender youth and invalidate the perspectives of member of the transgender community

-Canada officially banned conversion therapy for gender-distressed people in 2021

-France joined UK, Finland, and Sweden urged great medical caution 


Affirming Care Proponents:

-society’s transphobia causes emotional problems

-minority stress model: the idea that sexual minorities are victims of hate and discrimination resulting in suffering mental health burdens like anxiety, bipolar disorder, and suicidal thoughts and attemps 

-children need to come to terms with their sex 


2022 Detransition Denials

-just because a trans decides to go back to biological sex doesn’t mean there is transitional regret

-only a small minority of people turn back to their biological sex

-these people just have evolving paths or  a shift of expression


Detransitioners:

-I made the mistake of my life

-I am infertile

-I am filled with regret

-the therapist and doctors failed me

-detransitioners are now called transphobic 


***gender dysphoria is a coping mechanism in response to multiple complex factors including anxiety, social isolation, and social contagion