Miriam Grossman

Miriam Grossman is an American psychiatrist and activist aligned with anti-LGBT and conservative advocacy organizations. She is an opponent of gender affirming medical care for transgender people,

Views and activities Grossman earned her undergraduate degree at Bryn Mawr College and received her Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree from New York University. She completed her residency in adult psychiatry at North Shore University Hospital, where she remained as a fellow in child and adolescent psychiatry for two years.

In the years that followed, she worked as a psychiatrist at various hospitals, focusing predominantly on adolescent patients.

Grossman is currently a senior fellow of Do No Harm, an organization known for its support of bans on transgender healthcare, and a psychiatric consultant for the American College of Pediatricians, In 2013, she spoke at a religious World Congress of Families conference in Australia in opposition to same-sex marriage.

Grossman opposes gender-affirming care for transgender people. 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. Critics argued that sex education aims to reduce high-risk behavior and improve sexual health and safety of young people.

In 2023, Grossman promoted a false claim that the CDC endorsed drugs to allow transgender women to breastfeed.

Books Wonder of Becoming You: How a Jewish Girl Grows Up (Jerusalem; New York : Feldheim Publishers, 1988). Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student (Sentinel, 2007) You're Teaching My Child What?: A Physician Exposes the Lies of Sex Ed and How They Harm Your Child (Regnery, 2009) Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness (Skyhorse, 2023)