Wow, sounds like the multitude of problems with this text book are similar to the disaster that was the Covid response. Lies, deception, misrepresentation, facts used out of contexts, and a profit avalanche for the proponents of the data. The entire medical industry seems to be hopelessly corrupted by vested interests
Thank you so much for working with Dr. Grossman to speak out on this issue. It's shocking how many people have no idea of the number of kids being told by authority figures that they are transgender, and that all their problems will disappear if they pursue disfiguring and sterilizing medical treatments. Please let your readers know about Partners for Ethical Care (PartnersForEthicalCare.com), which raises awareness about this issue worldwide, and its Transition Justice project, which is finding legal help for detransitioners (transitionjustice.org).
The APA, and their DSM (catalog of mental diseases that can be treated with expensive pharmaceuticals) is a shameless racket. Every new version of DSM adds new mental diseases that purportedly need to be treated with drugs and/or expensive lifelong treatments. The APA's credibility among genuinely thoughtful and holistic therapists and healers is in the toilet. Whatever they recommend, hold on to your wallet and run the other direction.
Gender transitioning surgery is the result of psychological manipulative twisting of young minds, and the gaining of huge surgical fees by money hungry medical doctors.
No. Establishment Psychiatry has a lot of BS. Do you also say "medicine and surgery is TOTAL BS" because some pediatricians, endocrinologists, and surgeons are up to their elbows in this scam? I would hope not. There ARE good psychiatrists out there, like Dr. Grossman, who is mentioned in the report. She is not the only one. Do not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
I am sure there are and you can count them with the fingers in one hand, but if they prescribe drugs to "treat" mental "illness", they are quacks. Sadly, I know of family doctors that prescribe drug to "take off the edge."
“Not only do the authors ignore the most current systematic reviews, which count as the most reliable source of scientific information in evidence-based medicine, they also repeatedly undermine well-established standards of care in multiple mental and medical practices. We highlight just two examples of many.”
This letter is a tour de force and very important.
As a retired psychiatrist I saw the beginning of the politicization of the APA many decades ago when leftists began to petition to remove homosexuality from the DSM III. The fact that sexual perversions were listed as diagnoses was not a value judgment or a prejudice, it was based upon biology and what is known about psychosexual development. In individuals who chose a person of the same sex for love and sexuality, their development took that turn for specific reasons that could be understood. People could get help to learn more about themselves, even to the extent of character change, but also people who were in emotional pain about this could get help.
Once the political change was made, it was made under the false premise that people are born with these sexual perversions and therefore psychological treatment was harmful. I saw then that when you politicize science all you get is bad science. When you politicize treatment designed to help and respect individuals, what results is people go without help for their emotional pain.
Now the evil ones have been seducing children to mutilate their bodies as a hoped for solution to a child's emotional distress, when they are not even old enough to fully own their sexuality. It is soul-crushing and a form of child molestation done "for the benefit of the child."
All Americans need to wake up and realize genital mutilation and sex change operations are purely destructive to children's minds and bodies and should be outlawed as criminal.
Well said, but in a world where perversion is celebrated, and insight is non-existent, what can we expect? The reliance on chemical and surgical solutions to mental health problems is going to, and is already, damaging thousands, and poor communities will, and are, suffering disproportionately. When those charged with "helping" are endorsing chemical and surgical solutions for people already confused and lacking self-awareness, they are revealing their own mental health issues. Having the APA, doctors, social workers, therapists, etc. under the authority of people who lack insight, even regarding themselves, is dangerous, useless at best and destructive at worst.
But then again the APA always did have a basic problem. The basic inherent flaw is that no psychiatrist is required to have any kind of personal therapy or psychoanalysis. In order to become a psychoanalyst, however, you must have an analysis. Thus you have an in depth experience in bearing painful feelings over time, and getting perspective. You know the pain of revealing things about yourself you never wanted to even remember, and you know the emotional freedom that comes when you can face yourself fully, without having to hide feelings or conflicts from yourself.
But in psychiatry this isn't required. It means that psychiatrists often lack empathy and lack self-knowledge, and yet consider themselves knowledgeable about what their patients need. I would say the degree to which a psychiatrist focuses on drugs alone is proportional to the lack of insight he or she has into him or herself.
Loved listening to her views on Matt Walsh’s What is a Woman, and enjoyed reading her letter. Bless the leaders who have the understanding and platform to publicly fight for the next generation.
I look at the issue of Transgender surgery is another way for these cretins to kill/sterilize the world in support of WEF depopulation goals. It is plain for everyone to see that the major problems today are high national debt, uncontrolled immigration, loss of able bodied workers due to vax injuries, VAX deaths, gender multilatition, soaring food prices, etc etc leading to the destruction of the Western Civilization and channelling us towards a WEF dystopian future.
"This aggressive approach discounts the possibility that many of these children, if not initiated on blockers and hormones, would eventually conclude that their early gender dysphoria was the developmental prelude to a healthy, non-heterosexual adult orientation."
Perhaps that last phrase is a typo. Are we saying here (and underwriting with our signatures) that healthy adult orientation is NON-heterosexual? Should this not instead read, ". . . their early gender dysphoria was the developmental prelude to a healthy, heterosexual adult orientation."?
"their early gender dysphoria was the developmental prelude to a healthy, non-heterosexual adult orientation" - and often to a healthy heterosexual orientation. For example, many girls have a phase when they feel ashamed about their changing bodies, And it is just just that - a phase, when a girl learns to accept herself.
Sign it, otherwise you are confused by the propaganda they have used to pick your moral prerogatives and better graces just like they have used calling anyone who points out their hierchal stance a racist, misogynist, and all the other ism’s they have used to get people to cower over decades of this insidious attempt to not just “change” things a little, which is how they present it by using their fabricated credentials but to expunge freedom and autonomy which the overlords can not compete with. We need academic professionals who actually earned their scientific degrees to step up. Or, you are just a coward willing to let these Faux Psychiatrist that got their position like Harvard, Yale, and U Penn presidents. These scumbags at the APA who are lying for money and promotion delude themselves rather than be forced out so they justify killing and mutilating youth and children to gain the next rung of WEF “stake holder” cowards. They are killing and ruining the lives of other people’s children. Do you care? You better because the next of the multi faceted attacks on family and this Constitutional Republic they want to destroy to rule the globe without vote or representation will be on your family. No one is asking you to carry a rifle to defend American values like the tiny minority of military who do for your family, but for humanity’s sake, do something. Do not delude yourself because you are afraid. If most people chose the lesser road all freedom of choice will be lost. This is way, way larger than most will allow themselves to comprehend, but it’s not a conspiracy per say although the destruction of American freedom did not begin quite this way, but make no mistake it, like many actual cabal conspiracies can take on its own life and metastasize.
Calm down, my friend. We are on the same side. I'm asking for clarification of a puzzling phrase in an otherwise clear and well-written statement. Or do you believe that the sentence I pointed out is accurate as stands?
Anybody remember the 2008 Democrat scion Trojan horse from nowhere? The Havaud whiz kid like the ones of my Boomer youth in strategically placed elite university that made Marxism so popular in the 1960’s using Alinsky’s “rules for radicles” to hate on America and anyone in uniform, cops, firemen, milkman, you name it, especially the military and weary Nam veterans. Alinsky was a Clinton university youth favorite in the old days of the early 60’s when America was divided to this day by filtering the hate America sloganeering down through tiered Colleges, high schools, and onto kitchen tables. Yeah, sure, somebody’s in America killed the three “K’s” and the military complex had corrupted elements in it and its covert opps could be worse, but “America Sucks” as a way of life? What the hell did America do?
It is factual that a cabal of Boomers and their older cousins that loved Communism did in fact follow Gramsci’s “march through the institutions” they hated. Today they and their loathsome followers and offspring are at the helm of all things government and institutions, still tearing them down by selling America out abroad before they completely destroy the unique Constitutional Republic to “building back better”. “Screw MAGA”? They never thought she was worth the effort. Was it not the Clinton administration that instituted the uniparty with a handful of weak Republicans living off Reagan’s laurels? They immediately made the CCP’s China a favored nation, simultaneously gutting middle American (deplorable) manufacturing, sending it abroad to slave regimes that severely depressed the middle into misfeasance and drugs to survive or get on the government Socialist dole. All that to the delight of coming big tech and American and China Pharma. Again, this only requires a cabal plus those they capture by Marxist blackmail and hijack because that’s what they do, yet Americans hear only “America sucks”.
Anyway, the task at hand by the Trojan horse and his plagiarizer and sociopathic liar “hot walker” was to implement government Socialized Medicaid, eventually compulsory for all to expunge Medicare by the 2030 WEF reset date when most Boomers like myself will have met our demise. That is those that Wuhan did not already get. But like all Democrat conspiracies propagandizing Boomer America for six decades saying that it is a “democracy”, just because we vote like Russia and China, the Dems with their legions and minions of morally superior liberal progressives are never satisfied with just immediate results and are always in the spirit of Marxist dystopian paths to utopia using Alinsky’s cheat sheet, looking to kill two birds or more with one stone as they progressively predict the future. Not all “Democrats” mind you, just the ones with so much Boomer hubris post WWII that they can not imagine America’s cancer. After all they do delude themselves in fear of what their own party does to dissenters. “Must keep head down, look for wink and nod”, like all mafia.
So guess what? A few years later the hot walker is installed as America’s figurehead and bingo, opens the border globally to ten million illegals from 154 countries, mostly men in their twenties and anchor babies, flood the government controlled Medicaid corporate hospitals and Socialized corporate “practitioners” going broke, and suddenly we get a virus from Wuhan that “forces” the government to have the Feds bail them out with six trillion dollars to implement the first of three legs capturing all personal sovereignty. Just like the bank and investment corporations were bailed out by that same bunch of Boomer whiz kids in the Clinton 1990’s. Don’t even get me started on the Republican college “jackass” post 9-11. The next two legs of autonomy will be mobile restrictions via Climate emergency and digital currency to destroy financial autonomy. Then, like China comes the deductions for social discredits and taxes on assets contained in the rice size chip that tells them where you were and where you are going that was conveniently implanted in the meaty part of your thumb that hold every aspect of your life. Wild huh?
Nah, I don’t think it’s America that sucks, lest not the one I went to Nam for. Maybe just a select cabal that saw my groupthink Boomer generation as the perfect target given the programing opportunity of that innocent 12” black and white visual TV and the paradigm of and exponential rise of technology that controls the propaganda my Boomers did not know was existential.
People are not born good or bad but either can become conspirators depending on the degree of fear. Theory’s are just thoughts that only become conspiracy theories when conspirators are exposed by time and wisdom that Trumps academia alone. That’s why conspirators hate history and tear down the evidence. That same cabal control today’s government, media information, and determine the degree of corruption that global Oligarchy’s use to control culture, like Russia and China have done for the past century.
Your children have way more to worry about than blaming everything on the military complex or the convenient Ogre villain the cabal painted on conservative detractors to distract you.
Wow, sounds like the multitude of problems with this text book are similar to the disaster that was the Covid response. Lies, deception, misrepresentation, facts used out of contexts, and a profit avalanche for the proponents of the data. The entire medical industry seems to be hopelessly corrupted by vested interests
Thank you so much for working with Dr. Grossman to speak out on this issue. It's shocking how many people have no idea of the number of kids being told by authority figures that they are transgender, and that all their problems will disappear if they pursue disfiguring and sterilizing medical treatments. Please let your readers know about Partners for Ethical Care (PartnersForEthicalCare.com), which raises awareness about this issue worldwide, and its Transition Justice project, which is finding legal help for detransitioners (transitionjustice.org).
The APA, and their DSM (catalog of mental diseases that can be treated with expensive pharmaceuticals) is a shameless racket. Every new version of DSM adds new mental diseases that purportedly need to be treated with drugs and/or expensive lifelong treatments. The APA's credibility among genuinely thoughtful and holistic therapists and healers is in the toilet. Whatever they recommend, hold on to your wallet and run the other direction.
Gender transitioning surgery is the result of psychological manipulative twisting of young minds, and the gaining of huge surgical fees by money hungry medical doctors.
Sucks when your parents are morons
psychiatry is TOTAL BS
No. Establishment Psychiatry has a lot of BS. Do you also say "medicine and surgery is TOTAL BS" because some pediatricians, endocrinologists, and surgeons are up to their elbows in this scam? I would hope not. There ARE good psychiatrists out there, like Dr. Grossman, who is mentioned in the report. She is not the only one. Do not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
I am sure there are and you can count them with the fingers in one hand, but if they prescribe drugs to "treat" mental "illness", they are quacks. Sadly, I know of family doctors that prescribe drug to "take off the edge."
The War On The Child: Battlefront “GAC ATTAC”
“Not only do the authors ignore the most current systematic reviews, which count as the most reliable source of scientific information in evidence-based medicine, they also repeatedly undermine well-established standards of care in multiple mental and medical practices. We highlight just two examples of many.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/petermcculloughmd/p/an-open-letter-to-the-american-psychiatric
This letter is a tour de force and very important.
As a retired psychiatrist I saw the beginning of the politicization of the APA many decades ago when leftists began to petition to remove homosexuality from the DSM III. The fact that sexual perversions were listed as diagnoses was not a value judgment or a prejudice, it was based upon biology and what is known about psychosexual development. In individuals who chose a person of the same sex for love and sexuality, their development took that turn for specific reasons that could be understood. People could get help to learn more about themselves, even to the extent of character change, but also people who were in emotional pain about this could get help.
Once the political change was made, it was made under the false premise that people are born with these sexual perversions and therefore psychological treatment was harmful. I saw then that when you politicize science all you get is bad science. When you politicize treatment designed to help and respect individuals, what results is people go without help for their emotional pain.
Now the evil ones have been seducing children to mutilate their bodies as a hoped for solution to a child's emotional distress, when they are not even old enough to fully own their sexuality. It is soul-crushing and a form of child molestation done "for the benefit of the child."
All Americans need to wake up and realize genital mutilation and sex change operations are purely destructive to children's minds and bodies and should be outlawed as criminal.
Well said, but in a world where perversion is celebrated, and insight is non-existent, what can we expect? The reliance on chemical and surgical solutions to mental health problems is going to, and is already, damaging thousands, and poor communities will, and are, suffering disproportionately. When those charged with "helping" are endorsing chemical and surgical solutions for people already confused and lacking self-awareness, they are revealing their own mental health issues. Having the APA, doctors, social workers, therapists, etc. under the authority of people who lack insight, even regarding themselves, is dangerous, useless at best and destructive at worst.
So true.
But then again the APA always did have a basic problem. The basic inherent flaw is that no psychiatrist is required to have any kind of personal therapy or psychoanalysis. In order to become a psychoanalyst, however, you must have an analysis. Thus you have an in depth experience in bearing painful feelings over time, and getting perspective. You know the pain of revealing things about yourself you never wanted to even remember, and you know the emotional freedom that comes when you can face yourself fully, without having to hide feelings or conflicts from yourself.
But in psychiatry this isn't required. It means that psychiatrists often lack empathy and lack self-knowledge, and yet consider themselves knowledgeable about what their patients need. I would say the degree to which a psychiatrist focuses on drugs alone is proportional to the lack of insight he or she has into him or herself.
Loved listening to her views on Matt Walsh’s What is a Woman, and enjoyed reading her letter. Bless the leaders who have the understanding and platform to publicly fight for the next generation.
I look at the issue of Transgender surgery is another way for these cretins to kill/sterilize the world in support of WEF depopulation goals. It is plain for everyone to see that the major problems today are high national debt, uncontrolled immigration, loss of able bodied workers due to vax injuries, VAX deaths, gender multilatition, soaring food prices, etc etc leading to the destruction of the Western Civilization and channelling us towards a WEF dystopian future.
Thank you for your tenacity and medical integrity. Your leadership is essential!
Great letter Dr. McCullough! It appears parts of the medical profession are coming to their senses, I hope so.
That APA has become a captured organization is old news in a sense. Back when Bush & Co were torturing at Guantanamo (and Abu Ghraib and everywhere else) , APA went onboard with the torturers like Dr. Jensen and a few others. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dangerous-ideas/201304/guantanamo-and-the-apa-where-accountability-goes-to-die
"This aggressive approach discounts the possibility that many of these children, if not initiated on blockers and hormones, would eventually conclude that their early gender dysphoria was the developmental prelude to a healthy, non-heterosexual adult orientation."
Perhaps that last phrase is a typo. Are we saying here (and underwriting with our signatures) that healthy adult orientation is NON-heterosexual? Should this not instead read, ". . . their early gender dysphoria was the developmental prelude to a healthy, heterosexual adult orientation."?
"their early gender dysphoria was the developmental prelude to a healthy, non-heterosexual adult orientation" - and often to a healthy heterosexual orientation. For example, many girls have a phase when they feel ashamed about their changing bodies, And it is just just that - a phase, when a girl learns to accept herself.
Sign it, otherwise you are confused by the propaganda they have used to pick your moral prerogatives and better graces just like they have used calling anyone who points out their hierchal stance a racist, misogynist, and all the other ism’s they have used to get people to cower over decades of this insidious attempt to not just “change” things a little, which is how they present it by using their fabricated credentials but to expunge freedom and autonomy which the overlords can not compete with. We need academic professionals who actually earned their scientific degrees to step up. Or, you are just a coward willing to let these Faux Psychiatrist that got their position like Harvard, Yale, and U Penn presidents. These scumbags at the APA who are lying for money and promotion delude themselves rather than be forced out so they justify killing and mutilating youth and children to gain the next rung of WEF “stake holder” cowards. They are killing and ruining the lives of other people’s children. Do you care? You better because the next of the multi faceted attacks on family and this Constitutional Republic they want to destroy to rule the globe without vote or representation will be on your family. No one is asking you to carry a rifle to defend American values like the tiny minority of military who do for your family, but for humanity’s sake, do something. Do not delude yourself because you are afraid. If most people chose the lesser road all freedom of choice will be lost. This is way, way larger than most will allow themselves to comprehend, but it’s not a conspiracy per say although the destruction of American freedom did not begin quite this way, but make no mistake it, like many actual cabal conspiracies can take on its own life and metastasize.
Calm down, my friend. We are on the same side. I'm asking for clarification of a puzzling phrase in an otherwise clear and well-written statement. Or do you believe that the sentence I pointed out is accurate as stands?
I hadn’t read your statement and mine was not intended to respond to your comment. I don’t know how that happened.
Anybody remember the 2008 Democrat scion Trojan horse from nowhere? The Havaud whiz kid like the ones of my Boomer youth in strategically placed elite university that made Marxism so popular in the 1960’s using Alinsky’s “rules for radicles” to hate on America and anyone in uniform, cops, firemen, milkman, you name it, especially the military and weary Nam veterans. Alinsky was a Clinton university youth favorite in the old days of the early 60’s when America was divided to this day by filtering the hate America sloganeering down through tiered Colleges, high schools, and onto kitchen tables. Yeah, sure, somebody’s in America killed the three “K’s” and the military complex had corrupted elements in it and its covert opps could be worse, but “America Sucks” as a way of life? What the hell did America do?
It is factual that a cabal of Boomers and their older cousins that loved Communism did in fact follow Gramsci’s “march through the institutions” they hated. Today they and their loathsome followers and offspring are at the helm of all things government and institutions, still tearing them down by selling America out abroad before they completely destroy the unique Constitutional Republic to “building back better”. “Screw MAGA”? They never thought she was worth the effort. Was it not the Clinton administration that instituted the uniparty with a handful of weak Republicans living off Reagan’s laurels? They immediately made the CCP’s China a favored nation, simultaneously gutting middle American (deplorable) manufacturing, sending it abroad to slave regimes that severely depressed the middle into misfeasance and drugs to survive or get on the government Socialist dole. All that to the delight of coming big tech and American and China Pharma. Again, this only requires a cabal plus those they capture by Marxist blackmail and hijack because that’s what they do, yet Americans hear only “America sucks”.
Anyway, the task at hand by the Trojan horse and his plagiarizer and sociopathic liar “hot walker” was to implement government Socialized Medicaid, eventually compulsory for all to expunge Medicare by the 2030 WEF reset date when most Boomers like myself will have met our demise. That is those that Wuhan did not already get. But like all Democrat conspiracies propagandizing Boomer America for six decades saying that it is a “democracy”, just because we vote like Russia and China, the Dems with their legions and minions of morally superior liberal progressives are never satisfied with just immediate results and are always in the spirit of Marxist dystopian paths to utopia using Alinsky’s cheat sheet, looking to kill two birds or more with one stone as they progressively predict the future. Not all “Democrats” mind you, just the ones with so much Boomer hubris post WWII that they can not imagine America’s cancer. After all they do delude themselves in fear of what their own party does to dissenters. “Must keep head down, look for wink and nod”, like all mafia.
So guess what? A few years later the hot walker is installed as America’s figurehead and bingo, opens the border globally to ten million illegals from 154 countries, mostly men in their twenties and anchor babies, flood the government controlled Medicaid corporate hospitals and Socialized corporate “practitioners” going broke, and suddenly we get a virus from Wuhan that “forces” the government to have the Feds bail them out with six trillion dollars to implement the first of three legs capturing all personal sovereignty. Just like the bank and investment corporations were bailed out by that same bunch of Boomer whiz kids in the Clinton 1990’s. Don’t even get me started on the Republican college “jackass” post 9-11. The next two legs of autonomy will be mobile restrictions via Climate emergency and digital currency to destroy financial autonomy. Then, like China comes the deductions for social discredits and taxes on assets contained in the rice size chip that tells them where you were and where you are going that was conveniently implanted in the meaty part of your thumb that hold every aspect of your life. Wild huh?
Nah, I don’t think it’s America that sucks, lest not the one I went to Nam for. Maybe just a select cabal that saw my groupthink Boomer generation as the perfect target given the programing opportunity of that innocent 12” black and white visual TV and the paradigm of and exponential rise of technology that controls the propaganda my Boomers did not know was existential.
People are not born good or bad but either can become conspirators depending on the degree of fear. Theory’s are just thoughts that only become conspiracy theories when conspirators are exposed by time and wisdom that Trumps academia alone. That’s why conspirators hate history and tear down the evidence. That same cabal control today’s government, media information, and determine the degree of corruption that global Oligarchy’s use to control culture, like Russia and China have done for the past century.
Your children have way more to worry about than blaming everything on the military complex or the convenient Ogre villain the cabal painted on conservative detractors to distract you.