Miriam Grossman
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Dr. Miriam R. Grossman is a child and adolescent psychiatrist, author, and anti-trans activist based in New Hampton, New York. She is a senior fellow with Do No Harm, a group that provided model legislation to statehouses which sought to ban gender-affirming care for youth.
Grossman has written for and been interviewed by many conservative and far-right publications and appeared in Matt Walsh’s anti-trans documentary “What is a Woman?”
I blasted the idea of gender separate from sex and warned parents of the coming disaster. The disaster has arrived.
Education and Psychiatry
Grossman earned her bachelor’s degree from Bryn Mawr College in 1974, followed by her medical degree from the New York University Medical School in 1979. She completed an internship in pediatrics at Beth Israel Hospital in New York City, and a residency in psychiatry at North Shore University Hospital – Cornell University Medical College. She is board certified in psychiatry with a subspecialty in child and adolescent psychiatry.
Do No Harm
Grossman is a Senior Fellow of Do No Harm, a conservative nonprofit that initially launched with the goal of opposing racial diversity in medicine. More recently, the group has shifted towards anti-trans activism and has provided model legislation for multiple states attempting to ban gender-affirming care.
Written Work and Media Appearances
Grossman was interviewed for Matt Walsh’s What Is A Woman?, an anti-trans film that hosts transphobia, outdated gender norms, and harmful gender stereotypes while positioning itself as a scientific inquiry on gender. The film has been repeatedly flagged as hate speech by platforms like Twitter, despite the platform removing its harassment policies regarding transgender people.
In 2023, Grossman published Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness. The book’s description explains how it aims to “arm[ ] parents with the ammunition to avoid, or, if necessary, fight what many families describe as the most difficult challenge of their lives.” Notably, it states “No child is born in the wrong body, Dr. Grossman reassures us, their bodies are just fine; it’s their emotional lives that need healing.” Grossman’s stance runs contrary to the mainstream medical consensus, which has found that gender-affirming care greatly lowers the risk of suicidal thoughts and depression among transgender youth. There is no evidence that talk therapy improves outcomes for gender dysphoric youth or adults.
Grossman has written or been interviewed for articles by many conservative and far-right publications including Breitbart News, Fox News, the Federalist, and The Daily Wire.
Grossman appeared on Jordan Peterson’s podcast, participating in a discussion on transgender youth that focused on unsupportive parent’s fears of being “shunned and alienated if they refuse to affirm their own child's delusion.”
Court or Legislative Appearances/Briefs/Citations
In 2011, Grossman testified against California’s Senate Bill 48, which disallowed teaching materials designed to cast marginalized groups in a negative light. During her testimony, she stated “This bill mandates the introduction of ideas into the classroom without considering the capacity of students to grasp and absorb these ideas, for example: The idea of transgenderism, that a person can feel trapped in the wrong body, that the person feels that nature made a mistake, and this idea of going to a doctor and asking the doctor to remove a normal body part.”
Grossman submitted an amicus brief in the case of Doe v. Boyertown Area School with Paul Hruz, Michael Laidlaw, Quentin Van Meter, and André Van Mol. The case claimed that transgender boys using the boys’ locker room violated a cisgender boy’s right to privacy. The district court found in favor of the school, allowing transgender boys to continue using boys’ locker rooms. The 3rd circuit affirmed that decision on appeal and the Supreme Court declined to hear the case.