This unique, comprehensive book on the global child and adolescent transgender crisis highlights the fallacies of gender ideology and explains why social contagion is a major factor in the upsurge of young people wishing to transition. It underscores for the first time how social contagion also influences the many professions involved in treatment of gender dysphoric young people. The book includes a discussion of the many perils of medicalized gender treatments, including puberty blockade, cross sex hormones, and genital surgeries that create lifelong patienthood. The book concludes with a detailed discussion of psychotherapeutic management of gender dysphoric young people and their families. Drawing on years of clinical experience, the author offers new insights and many case studies from her own practice that delve into the complex factors that contribute to the desire to change sex. In an epilogue, the author calls for an informed government response and a public health campaign to curtail the medical madness of “gender affirming care.” This book has international appeal and will be an invaluable resource for paediatricians, endocrinologists, psychiatrists, general practitioners, psychologists, sociologists, legislators, politicians, educators, and parents.
