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Miriam Grossman

Disciplines:
psychiatry
developmental psychology/child and adolescent psychology

Summary

Miriam Grossman is an American child and adolescent psychiatrist and author known for her medical-clinical critique of gender ideology as applied to children and adolescents. She argues that the medical and psychiatric establishment has abandoned evidence-based practice in treating gender dysphoria, particularly in minors, and that affirmative-only care protocols cause harm.

Core Contribution

Applied clinical psychiatric and medical expertise to critiquing the consensus on pediatric gender transition; provided detailed clinical and scientific arguments against puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors, contributing to policy debates in multiple countries.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • gender medicine critique
  • pediatric gender transition
  • psychiatry and gender ideology
  • evidence-based medicine

Notable Works & Achievements

Unprotected

You're Teaching My Child What?

Lost in Trans Nation

Historical Influences

evidence-based medicine Paul McHugh biology-first developmental psychology

Intellectual Lineage

classical psychoanalytic developmental psychologyevidence-based medicine traditionbiological psychiatry

Contemporaries & Peers

Paul McHugh Lisa Littman Abigail Shrier

Minds Influenced

gender medicine policy debates parental rights movement medical gender skepticism literature

Intellectual Posterity

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