And the Hey, it's Andrew Clavin, with this week's interview with Dr. Miriam Grossman, the author of Lost and Trans Nation.

Last Friday on the show, we were talking... the author of Lost and Trans Nation.

Last Friday on the show we were talking about the way language got detached from meaning

during the postmodern period about the kind of progression from faith where we understood what we were all

talking about and we all kind of had a sense of the human person to the disintegration

of the idea of the human being as a source of values, a source of experience.

Shakespeare saw this coming in Hamlet's mad scene,

where Hamlet is asked what he's reading and he said words, words, words words I genuinely believe that that was

Shakespeare's prophecy of where the culture was going and how words were going to

lose their meaning and it shouldn't come as any surprise that one of the ways in which this detachment of language

from meaning is being used is to detach us and alienate us from the central fact of human existence

and the central joy for most of us, the central joy for most of us the central joy and miracle of human

existence which is the fact that some humans are made male and some are female

for most of human history this has been the source of joy and it still remains

the source of the creation of the human race and somehow we have lost the plot of

that essential bit of business that is the creation and the love and the goal of humanity.

Miriam Grossman is a medical doctor.

She doesn't just call herself a doctor.

She is one.

She is board certified in psychiatry and in the subspecialty of child

and adolescent psychiatry. She's the author of four books including Unprotected and you're teaching

my child of what? And also the book I mentioned at first Lost in Trans Nation.

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