Sunday, July 6, 2025

Lost in Trans Nation By Miriam Grossman: Chapter 2: Psychiatry’s Dangerous Idea

 Chapter 2: Psychiatry’s Dangerous Idea 


-in 1997, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) a film about a young child who truly believed he was a  girl 

-this child was a true example of one suffering with gender identity disorder (GID)

-the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) had coined GID

-but instead of discussing the boys delusion the group focused on his victimization in a society with rigid definitions of male and female

-they announced that society must change

**the boy had a disorder not society and should be treated that way but that is not what happened


Gender Identity, Then and Now:

-Money proposed that in identity of either male or female is imposed on a child by society and that by age three it’s  permanent

-”Gender identity” = do not match their genitals

-“Gender binary” = male and female, fixed in childhood

-Money’s bogus ideology was exposed as a failure in 1997, but it has just evolved into a whole new concept

The bizarre evolution of gender identity:

Then: Male and female, Now: Limitless possibilities

Then: Imposed on Culture, Now: An inner experience

Then: Fixed at age three, Now: Fluid through life

Then: An academic theory, Now: a turbocharged crusade


Post-Secularism:

-1st wave feminism, queer theory, gender schema theory

-2nd wave feminism, Marxist feminism, anti-essentialism, radical feminism

-3rd wave feminism and radical gender theory 


WPATH

-foremost authority on transgender health

-embraced the phony psychological theory

-foundation for a global social justice movement

-current and future victims movement

-young people who are disfigured and sterilized

-shattering their lives and their family’s shattered

-the lies: two-sex options, binary are oppressed 

-gender and sex are instruments of power


“The goal is to replace notions of biological sex, the male-female binary, and the nuclear family with “queer alternatives” and “a world beyond binaries.”


-the number of young people identifying as “gender variant” has exploded 


This should not be surprised:

-kids have been being indoctrinated with gender ideology since at least the 90’s

-Today’s version of Money’s gender identity has limitless options: fluid throughout life, a normal variant, oppressed by society

-decades of lecture that our understanding of gender is evolving

-current outbreak of youth who believe they can defy biology 

-infiltrated all institutions: medicine, mental health, ex ed, education, and government 

-children uncomfortable with their sex had various treatments including family therapy


Before 2000’s

-professional organizations accepted just 2 sexes, identity fixed by age 3, and distress over one’s sex called for psychological evaluation

-textbooks both stated male and female 


***Reminder that the 1st gender experiment failed


After 2000’s

-new concepts appeared in gender and feminist studies 

-ideas like gender variance  or gender binary is oppressive 

-introduction of books “My Gender Workbook: how to become a real man, a real woman, the real you, or something else entirely” by Kate Bornstein 

-the book is an activist tract recruiting kids 

-the book tries to dismantle the gender system

-identifying as a boy or girl is neither natural or essential

-the full-blown modern version of gender theory, non-binary, fluid, oppressive

-kids being instructed it’s normal to feel they’re the opposite

-led to activist literature: radical gender beliefs “these are the facts, the binary is false and oppressive


2002:

-students were instructed that “being transgender is as normal as being alive” by Advocates for Youth is the flagship sex ed organization

-education being infiltrated by organizations like Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) and Planned Parenthood


2010:

-planned parenthood and SIECUS were at the forefront of gender indoctrination



2019:

-SIECUS didn’t hide their ambitions “sex ed for social change”

-claim gender variant if all about inclusivity and acceptance

-Orwellian manipulation of language influences how we think

-activists use “gender” and “sex” interchangeably

-it is deliberate weaponizing of language

-gender, we are told, subjective, fluid, on a spectrum, multidimensional


**they want sex to be synonymous with gender, so they can destroy it 


Transgenderism Conferences:

-genderists argue sex is endlessly complex and nuanced

-”I am a male with a vagina” and I should be able to talk about it

-culture and language are evolving

-society restricts with the gender binary

-gender is fluid

-exploring options is normal

“My gender is a sliding scale. It’s the rejection of male and female that I find attractive.”


Political Movement:

-AACAP and UCLA and American College Health Association

-accepted “transsexualism is a variation of being alive, not a disorder”

-students must be validated

-students need to lead us 

-2005: physicians only presented gender affirming care

-2006: American Psychological Association (APA) recommended reading “My Workbook”

And promoted “blending or alternate genders”

-2008: University of Massachusetts published “What Does Transphobia Look Like?” Only one answer “assuming everyone is male or female”


Mighty Social Movement:

-infecting medical billing 

-creating specific conditions to the billing codes

-in 1980 is was known as gender identity disorder

-2006, APA wanted to disorder removed 

-in 2008, is was still known as gender identity disorder

-debate was driven by politics

-doctors felt compassion toward transgender identifying individuals and believed in social change

-contagion of social change 

***”it is difficult to find reconciling language that removes the stigma of having a mental disorder diagnosis while maintaining access to medical care”

-Change: transsexualism was nothing more than a normal variant of gender identity, that its classification as a mental disorder contributed to stigma 

***biological sex is unethical

***not a disorder but a human right 


Violation of Human Rights

-2010, World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)

-wrong to believe that gender confusion is a disorder, it violates human rights

-labeling gender variance as a disorder or mental illness is not appropriate

-labeling undermines human rights

-undermines legitimacy of identity and sustains social stigma

-2012, WPATH attempted to change gender identity and expression to become congruent with biological sex is ineffective and “unethical”

-2013, American Psychological Association drafted a diagnosis manual in a “secret and closed process”

-normalization of gender distress


***goodbye gender identity disorder, hello gender dysphoria 


Human Rights Campaign:

-2015, they won the case that redefined marriage

-2014, HRC barely mentioned the term transgender

-today, trans and transgender is used 100 times in 33 pages of its annual report


The Federal Government Game:

-Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) tells us “gender identity is an inborn self-perception: it can be male, female, both, or neither

-International Classification of Disease (ICD) lists diagnosis and includes codes for health records and billing

-2022, gender dysphoria was removed; in its place is gender congruence

-this change was not based in evidence but on activists agenda

-rejecting your biology is a healthy and ordinary process like giving birth


****Admiral Levine portrayed as adult-onset gender dysphoria

****introduced late/adolescent onset in teens and young adults


***gender incongruence is considered a sexual health condition in the same category as pregnancy


-World Health Organization (WHO) removed “gender identity disorder” from its global manual of diagnosis altogether

-WHO “assigning gender identity on the basis of genitalia makes about as much sense as assigning it on the basis of height”

-belief in Money’s theory that all are born “gender neutral”


Biology vs. Inner Sense

-institution have fell to gender tyranny

-scientists explored a new field of medicine: the biology of sex

-inborn: sex is established at conception, unchanging, sex is permanent, binary, sex is male or female, there is no spectrum

-Hard Science: explores the natural world, ex. Biology, chemistry, physics

-Hard Science: is based on the scientific method which has experiments have controlled variables, objective measurements, critical analysis, and verification

-Hard Science is a straightforward method 

-Soft Science: explores intangibles, ex. Behaviors, thoughts, and emotions like psychology, sociology, anthropology

-Soft Science: the Y chromosome is a genetic wasteland

-Soft Science: social transitioning promoted as facts not theories

-gender ideologues want society to believe your daughter can take testosterone and viola she’s your son