I am starting this blog as a way to offer my support to anyone who is considering or reconsidering gender transition. In the current climate, voices critiquing transgenderism are often intimidated into silence. I want to create a safe forum for those who have journeyed down, any distance, the path of transgenderism and now have doubt

I also want to welcome health care professionals who are questioning the current medical construct of transgenderism.

In 2015, I wrote an essay, My Disservice to My Transgender Patients, which received some attention, almost all positive. Clearly, there is desire for conversation about transgenderism.

I am a medical doctor, but I will not offer advice beyond my general opinions. A blog is not an adequate means to practice medicine.

My opinion is that transgenderism is not a problem with being born in the wrong body; transgenderism is an expression of anxiety. To treat it somatically, with hormones and surgery in an erroneous attempt to change one’s physicality, is not only ineffective but wrong. Transgenderism must be treated as an anxiety disorder, an expression of dis-ease with our society’s entrenched and maladaptive gender roles. As a culture, we will one day look back and see the current enthusiasm for transgenderism as dark days, when we willing misdirected people into wrong ideas and bad choices, sacrificing their health to serve the gender model.

While I advocate for the complete dismantlement of transgenderism, I am especially concerned about women who are opting for a male identity. Transgenderism is about the erasure of women, both the movement of women towards a male identity, and the infiltration into women’s space by men who adopt a female identity. Transgenderism does not provide freedom from gender roles; it exaggerates women’s inferior position in patriarchy.

There is a lot of useful information easily available, and I will not attempt to be a definitive resource. My questioning of the medical construct started with Janice Raymond and Sheila Jeffreys and radical feminism and Women’s Liberation Front. The response to my essay introduced me to an online community of like-minded trans questioners, blogs such as GenderTrender, 4thWaveNow, and The Dirt, and a valued network of allies.

To treat transgenderism, the place to begin is to question the construct; what follows is to stop all the physical interventions and begin to analyze and manage the anxiety. We may not be able to overturn patriarchy with one blog, but we can try to save individual lives, one at a time.