Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness by Miriam Grossman

Author:Miriam Grossman
Format: epub

For two months Khan tried to prove Michelle and her husband were abusive, even bringing in school counselors to testify against them. During that time Sage was housed in—can you guess?—a home for disturbed teen boys, where she was, yes, assaulted again.

Listen closely: had Sage’s school prohibited social transitioning instead of encouraging it, if the boy’s bathroom was off-limits to her, if the school had shared and not concealed her gender struggles with her parents, if the words “abuse” and “neglect” were still interpreted in a reasonable manner, this nightmare, this dreadful horror (none of these words seem adequate) would not have happened. It was entirely preventable.

Sage told her math teacher she was going to run away, and the teacher gave her a backpack. Sage disappeared for months. Michelle dived into Sage’s social media, and her daughter was finally located locked away in a room in Texas, trafficked again.

There’s even more to this story, about attorney Khan and Judge Kershaw, enough to fill an entire book, maybe two. You can look up the details yourself—no one should ever suffer what poor Sage and her parents endured.⁸

Cleared of charges and with effective legal representation, Michelle and her husband finally brought Sage home. She’d been gone almost a year. Reflecting on her past confusion, she told her grandmother, “I never was a boy. Everybody was doing it, I just wanted to have friends.”⁹

Sound familiar? Sage had early trauma and comorbidities, and her peers were all LGBT, emo, and goth. Seeking acceptance, she became “Draco.” Yup—another case of ROGD.

I’m going to be generous here and assume all the people whose actions led to catastrophe had good intentions. I’m pretty sure Sage’s school counselor, her lawyer Issa Khan, and Judge Kershow never heard of Lisa Littman, the Dutch Protocol, or GIDS. They’re unaware that the few studies we have on kids like Sage are poor quality, there’s no consensus on how to help them, and some experts oppose new names and pronouns. They only know one thing: parents like Sage’s are abusive and drive their kids to suicide. Hence their mighty effort to prevent her return home.

I’m not saying everyone at every school, or every judge, lawyer, and CPS agent is entrenched in radical gender ideology. I’m saying some are, and you must be prepared.

Will the CPS agent at your door or the judge deciding your case see things as you do? Will they help your troubled child, or endanger him? Or are they activists with medicalized children of their own, fervent devotees of the Articles of Faith, following the Castro consensus, trusting the affirmation lobby?

In the legal system, it’s Russian roulette. Maybe the judge or CPS agent will be reasonable, they may compromise and permit use of a child’s nickname or the first syllable of her new name—parents sometimes come up with creative solutions to the name issue.

I want to recognize that social work agencies also have among their ranks individuals who truly protect children and families.

Brette in Illinois had an unexpected visit from a social worker after she posted a celebratory message about her daughter’s desistance.

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