Miriam Grossman

Grossman is a senior fellow of Do No Harm, an organization known for its support of bans on transgender healthcare,{{Cite journal |last1=Alstott |first1=Anne |last2=Olgun |first2=Melisa |last3=Robinson |first3=Henry |last4=McNamara |first4=Meredithe |date=2024 |title="Demons and Imps": Misinformation and Religious Pseudoscience in State Anti-Transgender Laws |url=https://openyls.law.yale.edu/handle/20.500.13051/18393 |journal=Yale Journal of Law and Feminism |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Wiggins |first=Christopher |date=15 June 2023 |title=Republican Dan Crenshaw Says Gender-Affirming Care Is 'The Hill We Will Die On' |url=https://www.advocate.com/politics/dan-crenshaw-gender-affirming-care |access-date=2024-06-13 |website=Advocate |language=en}} and a psychiatric consultant for the American College of Pediatricians,{{Cite web |title=Group dynamics and division of labor within the anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience network |url=https://www.splcenter.org/captain/defining-pseudoscience-network |access-date=2024-04-16 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en}} an organization known for its opposition to abortion, gender-affirming care, and marriage equality and support of conversion therapy.

Grossman has endorsed conversion therapy for gay people.{{Cite web |last=Zhou |first=Steven |date=2019-08-02 |title=A Leaked Report Links This Conservative Candidate to a Homophobic Past |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/leaked-report-linked-conservative-candidate-to-homophobic-social-media-posts/ |access-date=2024-04-16 |website=Vice |language=en}} In 2013, she spoke at a religious World Congress of Families conference in Australia in opposition to same-sex marriage.

In 2024, she attended a conference hosted by the Alliance for Therapeutic Choice and Scientific Integrity (formerly the "National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality").{{Cite news |last1=Pauly |first1=Madison |last2=Carnell |first2=Henry |title=First they tried to "cure" gayness. Now they're fixated on "healing" trans people|work=Mother Jones|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/conversion-therapy-lgbtq-anti-trans-gay-gender-affirming-care/ |access-date=2024-06-05 |language=en-US}}

Grossman opposes gender-affirming care for transgender people. She has been involved in amicus briefs arguing against gender affirming policies.{{Cite web |last=Eckert |first=AJ |date=2022-07-14 |title=In What Is a Woman?, Matt Walsh asks a question, but doesn't like the answers |url=https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/in-what-is-a-woman-matt-walsh-asks-a-question/ |access-date=2024-04-16 |website=Science Based Medicine |language=en-US}} Grossman wrote an affidavit in support of a Canadian father's attempt to block his teenage transgender son from taking testosterone; the court ruled in favor of the child. Grossman co-authored amicus briefs and commentaries with members of ACPeds and worked with them and members of the Catholic Medical Association to support Florida's ban on Medicaid coverage for gender affirming care.

Grossman is an opponent of sexual education in schools, which she describes as a "Marxist approach to human development". In 2013, she was commissioned by a New Zealand conservative lobby group, Family First, to author a report which condemned sex education in the country.{{Cite web |last=Tapaleao |first=Vaimoana |date=2013 |title=Sex report slams Kiwi lessons |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/sex-report-slams-kiwi-lessons/L26XX4QSGLOACTVNGRIM44BYSA/ |access-date=2024-04-16 |website=NZ Herald |language=en-NZ}} Critics argued that sex education aims to reduce high-risk behavior and improve sexual health and safety of young people.

Grossman appeared in Matt Walsh's 2022 film What is a Woman?.{{Cite news |last=Knefel |first=John |date=2022-09-23 |title=Mainstream coverage is obscuring American Principles Project's hateful, anti-trans agenda |url=https://www.mediamatters.org/politico/mainstream-coverage-obscuring-american-principles-projects-hateful-anti-trans-agenda |work=Media Matters for America|access-date=2024-06-05 |language=en}} In 2023, Grossman participated in the detransition media project Identity Crisis, which was founded by the Independent Women's Forum.{{Cite journal |last1=Wuest |first1=Joanna |last2=Last |first2=Briana S. |year=2024 |title=Agents of scientific uncertainty: Conflicts over evidence and expertise in gender-affirming care bans for minors |url=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116533 |journal=Social Science & Medicine |language=en |volume=344 |pages=116533 |doi=10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116533 |issn=0277-9536 |pmid=38401237 |url-access=subscription}}

In 2023, Grossman promoted a false claim that the CDC endorsed drugs to allow transgender women to breastfeed.{{Cite web |last=LaMagdeleine |first=Izz Scott |date=2023-07-20 |title=No, the CDC Hasn't Endorsed the Use of Powerful Drugs by 'Men Who Want to Breastfeed' |url=https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/07/20/chest-feeding-cdc-guidelines/ |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=Snopes |language=en}}

• Wonder of Becoming You: How a Jewish Girl Grows Up (Jerusalem ; New York : Feldheim Publishers, 1988). {{ISBN|0873064380}} {{LCCN|88007093}}
• Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student (Sentinel, 2007) {{ISBN|9781595230256}} {{LCCN|2006044355}}{{cite news |date=2007 |title=Media Scan / Sexual Health / Betrayal on Campus |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/health/2007/11/20/media-scan/a6a26afe-d08b-4b91-b607-d0eb57095c48/ |newspaper=Washington Post}}{{Cite magazine|first=Warren|last= Throckmorton|url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2006/12/unprotected-warren-throckmorton/|title=Unprotected|magazine=National Review |date=December 6, 2006}}
• You’re Teaching My Child What?: A Physician Exposes the Lies of Sex Ed and How They Harm Your Child (Regnery, 2009) {{ISBN|9781596985544}}
• Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness (Skyhorse, 2023) {{ISBN|9781510777743}}

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