Pediatrician: Transgender Treatments Are ‘Child Abuse’

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Pediatrician: Transgender Treatments Are ‘Child Abuse’

By David Thornton  |  July 7, 2017, 01:30pm  |  @captainkudzu

The movement to normalize transgender medical treatments for children has seemingly come out of nowhere. In the course of a few short years, cases of gender-confused children, some in kindergarten, seeking medical treatment to alter their sexual characteristics have become commonplace. Today, at least one pediatrician is speaking out to call the practice “child abuse.”

In an op-ed for the Daily Signal, Dr. Michelle Cretella writes that the treatments advocated by many in the “transgender affirming movement” can cause severe damage to children and “constitute nothing less than institutionalized child abuse.”

“Today’s institutions that promote transition affirmation,” Cretella says, “are pushing children to impersonate the opposite sex, sending many of them down the path of puberty blockers, sterilization, the removal of healthy body parts, and untold psychological damage.”

Michelle Cretella is no stranger to controversy and criticism from the left. A graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in 1994, she practiced pediatric medicine for 15 years before becoming president of the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) in 2015, a group that the Southern Poverty Law Center labels “an anti-LGBT hate group.”

Cretella attacks the sacred cows of the gay rights movement with science and logic. She points out that scientific studies of identical twins prove that gay and transgender identities are not a product of genetics since in 72 percent of cases of a transgender twin, the other twin’s sexual orientation is different. If sexual orientation were purely genetic, correlation would be 100 percent in identical twins.

She also points out that gender identity is very malleable in young children. Cretella cites the American Psychological Association’s Handbook of Sexuality and Psychology which acknowledges that 75 to 95 percent of children eventually come to accept their biological gender. In most cases, puberty is the cure for a confused gender identity.

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http://theresurgent.com/pediatrician-transgender-treatments-are-child-abuse/

[endicom]

Of course it's child abuse. Unless you'd give a kid a cutlass because he thinks he's a pirate.

[XenaLee]

How many folks here know someone that has gone to a shrink for many years?  How many know a shrink personally?  Aren't most shrinks lefties? 

Would it make sense...  that the agenda to mess kids up in their head by brainwashing them into thinking that they are a different gender than what their bodies would indicate... would accomplish several things?   

For one thing...it would further erode the nation, as founded (as sane and Christian, not as nuts and heathen).  It would, in other words, play right into the leftist agenda.  And it would propagate the paychecks of all those leftie shrinks that need more 'screwed up in the head' patients to pay for their Mercedes.   By shouting "transphobic!" at every non-compliant comment .....it would also make victims of all of those newly 'fundamentally transformed' transgenders.... which the left always loves to do.

[rodamala]

Dr. Cretella is not alone.

http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/06/15145/

[Smokin Joe]

Dr. Cretella is not alone.

http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/06/15145/

From the article at that link by Paul McHugh, MD, University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School and the former psychiatrist in chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

The larger issue is the meme itself. The idea that one’s sex is fluid and a matter open to choice runs unquestioned through our culture and is reflected everywhere in the media, the theater, the classroom, and in many medical clinics. It has taken on cult-like features: its own special lingo, internet chat rooms providing slick answers to new recruits, and clubs for easy access to dresses and styles supporting the sex change. It is doing much damage to families, adolescents, and children and should be confronted as an opinion without biological foundation wherever it emerges.

But gird your loins if you would confront this matter. Hell hath no fury like a vested interest masquerading as a moral principle.

I am glad to see there are those speaking out against this from the profession.
There are plenty of things to mess kids up nowadays without this stuff..