College of Pediatricians Calls Transgender Ideology ‘Child Abuse’

[mountaineer]

College of Pediatricians Calls Transgender Ideology ‘Child Abuse’
by Austin Ruse, Breitbart
21 Mar 2016

The American College of Pediatricians warns educators and legislators that “a life of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex” is dangerous for children.

In a strongly worded statement issued today, the professional association of pediatricians says “a person’s belief that he or she is something they are not is, at best, a sign of confused thinking.” It describes such thinking as problem that exists in the mind and not the body and “it should be treated as such.”

The college of pediatricians is joining a heated debate that increasingly pits concerned parents against school teachers, administrators, legislators, and transsexual advocates who are pushing the trans agenda in grade-schools, city governments, state governments, and the federal government.

A wave of “non-discrimination” bills are appearing around the country that require public women’s restrooms to accommodate men who think they are women and even those who consider themselves “gender non-binary,” that is, men who appear to be men but who say there are neither male or female.

The American College of Pediatricians will release a full statement this summer. The statement released today explains, “human sexuality is an objective biological binary trait: ‘XY’ and ‘XX’ are genetic markers of health — not genetic markers of a disorder.”

The statement goes on:

    The exceedingly rare disorders of sex development (DSDs), including but not limited to testicular feminization and congenital adrenal hyperplasia, are all medically identifiable deviations from the sexual binary norm, and are rightly recognized as disorders of human design. Individuals with DSDs do not constitute a third sex.

The statement points out that such gender confusion should be treated as a psychological disorder called “gender dysphoria” and is “a recognized mental disorder in the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-V).”

The group is most concerned about the regimen of drugs that are given to children to block puberty. “Children who use puberty blockers to impersonate the opposite sex will require cross-sex hormones in late adolescence. Cross-sex hormones (testosterone and estrogen) are associated with dangerous health risks including but not limited to high blood pressure, blood clots, stroke and cancer.”

Rates of suicide among adults who use cross-sex hormones and undergo sex change reassignment surgery are “twenty times greater” than the rest of the population even in such trans-friendly places as Sweden.

The doctors argue that “Conditioning children into believing a lifetime of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is normal and healthful is child abuse.”

In other words, denying reality is not good for you.

[Sanguine]

The American College of Pediatricians warns educators and legislators that “a life of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex” is dangerous for children.

In a strongly worded statement issued today, the professional association of pediatricians says “a person’s belief that he or she is something they are not is, at best, a sign of confused thinking.” It describes such thinking as problem that exists in the mind and not the body and “it should be treated as such.”

Wow, clear thinking from the ACP?  It did get down to freezing here last night...

[Wingnut]

The Gay and BLT crowd will be all up in arms over this.  It is 'Hate Speech" because the science is settled and decent must be silenced.

[mountaineer]

It is surprising, isn't it? I thought PC had thoroughly permeated everything, including medicine.

[Wingnut]

It appears that Pediatricians have a childs best interest at heart. 

[sinkspur]

The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) is a socially conservative association of pediatricians and other healthcare professionals in the United States. The College was founded in 2002 by a group of pediatricians including Joseph Zanga, a past president of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), as a protest against the AAP's support for adoption by gay couples.[1][2] The group's membership has been estimated at between 60 and 200 members.[1][3] ACPeds describes itself as "a national organization of pediatricians and other healthcare professionals dedicated to the health and well-being of children... committed to fulfilling its mission by producing sound policy, based upon the best available research, to assist parents and to influence society in the endeavor of childrearing."[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_College_of_Pediatricians

The academy was founded in 1930 by 35 pediatricians to address pediatric healthcare standards.[2] It has 62,000 members in primary care and sub-specialist areas.[3] Qualified pediatricians can become fellows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Academy_of_Pediatrics

[sinkspur]

The American College of Pediatricians is a crank organization representing far-right religious causes.

It has no standing among 99.5 % of American pediatricians.

[musiclady]

The statement points out that such gender confusion should be treated as a psychological disorder called “gender dysphoria” and is “a recognized mental disorder in the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-V).”

The psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins, Paul McHugh, has said that it makes no more sense to do a sex change operation on a person suffering from gender dysphoria than it would to do liposuction on an anorexic.

You do not change physically what is perceived psychologically.

To do so is physical mutilation, and abusive.

[sinkspur]

I was not surprised to see a trans denialist cite Dr. Paul McHugh. In fact, Jackson’s article is largely just a repetition of McHugh’s on-the-record positions. McHugh is the kind of poster-expert science denialism often seeks out: an educated professional in the right field with a distinguished career who, nonetheless, supports their brand of willful ignorance. McHugh has taken a number of controversial stances in his career. He opposes the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the standard diagnostic tool in psychiatry; he disregards Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as a valid medical condition; he believes that homosexuality is a choice individuals make; and in all things transgender, he rejects the accepted, science-supported view in favor of his own antiquated ones.

McHugh rejects, as do all trans denialists, the notion that one’s biology (“sex”) is separate from one’s self-identity (“gender”), a position that is increasingly in the minority of both psychology and society. This position puts him at odds with the likes of the World Health Organization and even his own employer Johns Hopkins University.

https://skeptoid.com/blog/2015/02/18/bruce-jenner-paul-mchugh-and-science-denialism/