🧵 1/ When I graduated from medical school, I took an oath. I stood up, raised my right hand, and vowed to prevent disease whenever I could. At the time, I expected to go to war against cancer and schizophrenia. 2/ But after forty years, I’ve realized my most challenging fight is not against deadly diseases, but deadly ideas.

Here's the cover of my new book. And in the thread that follows, an excerpt from the description of it. Throughout our country, atrocities are taking place in doctor’s offices and hospital operating rooms. Physically healthy children and adolescents are being permanently disfigured and sometimes sterilized. Those youth have announced they’re transgender, and we - their parents,

Why am I flooded with emails from parents desperate for help with their gender-confused child? Where are the hundreds of thousands of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, counselors? Are so few of them honest and brave? /1 A mother told me today, “when we saw you on What Is A Woman? we cried.” They cried! Why? Because I shared my outrage at surgeons removing the breasts of little girls? Because I said a “trans woman” is a man? That moved her and her husband to tears!/2