Sunday, July 6, 2025

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