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American College of Pediatricians: Gender Ideology Harms Children

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The American College of Pediatricians issued a position statement last month entitled “Gender Ideology Harms Children,” which will be followed by a peer-reviewed statement on the subject that’s expected to be released by summer, the college told CNSNews.com.

“The American College of Pediatricians urges educators and legislators to reject all policies that condition children to accept as normal a life of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex,” the statement issued on Feb. 2 stated. “Facts – not ideology – determine reality.”

The statement – written by Dr. Michelle A. Cretella, president of the American College of Pediatricians, Dr. Quentin Van Meter, vice president of the American College of Pediatricians and a pediatric endocrinologist, and Dr. Paul McHugh, university distinguished service professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School and the former psychiatrist in chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital – cites eight reasons why “gender ideology” instead of treatment based on biological facts is harmful to children.


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American College of Pediatricians: Gender Ideology Harms Children

Like most facets of life, we should wait till maturity sets in before making such decisions.
 
I'll wait for the "peer-reviewed statement (presumably a study somewhere) on the subject" before making too much of a comment.

But the point that we can discuss is the false assumption that there is somehow encouragement for gender identity problems. Even the American Psychological Association, and DSM-5, has strict guidelines on handling those with gender identity problems before sending anyone down the medical road of changing one's gender. The OP article mentions the DSM guide on this in subject and stats, but we should be clear that the "The American College of Pediatricians" is looking at this in a similar way to the APA. They may go a step further with their "statement" but we risk a problem looking at this exclusively in political terms of acceptance of that small percentage that legitimately have a gender identify issue of some kind.
 
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.

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

They are not the same as,

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

The latter is the most nationally recognized.
Just to give everyone a heads up.
 
These people broke away from the professional scientific body (AAP) and formed an organization based on conservative political and religious ideology (ACP). Spend enough time with those people and you'd think we haven't progressed beyond leeches or demonic possession as a medical diagnosis.
 
Well I am not a doctor, nor do I have any particular expertise in psychology. Here is my two cents on the article.

I accept the medical facts, and agree with the physiological issues raised. I also agree that children are very malleable mentally, and can make all sorts of mistakes which if encouraged could harm them over time.

On the other hand, my belief in individual liberty and the exercise of individual rights has been the foundation of my support for LGBT activism.

Still, I agree that children should be allowed to reach full puberty as well as metal adulthood before any action regarding transgender identity/change is allowed to occur. The individual must be able to make an informed decision, not an emotional one.

If the desire and need is real, waiting until one is a full-grown adult should not be a problem IMO.
 
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These people broke away from the professional scientific body (AAP) and formed an organization based on conservative political and religious ideology (ACP). Spend enough time with those people and you'd think we haven't progressed beyond leeches or demonic possession as a medical diagnosis.

Hyperbolic nonsense. Do you have any evidence to support your silly claim?
 
Hyperbolic nonsense. Do you have any evidence to support your silly claim?

I don't have to justify why the views of an organization that rejects science when they think it will offend the sensibilities of a big invisible man in the sky are so much trash.
 
I don't have to justify why the views of an organization that rejects science when they think it will offend the sensibilities of a big invisible man in the sky are so much trash.
In other words, you made that **** up. Got it. ;)

Unless you'd care to refute the science cited in their statement. I saw no mention of leeches or flying spaghetti monsters.
 
Unless you'd care to refute the science cited in their statement. I saw no mention of leeches or flying spaghetti monsters.

Their garbage is refuted by the professional scientific and authoritative body, the American Academy of Pediatrics. Not that its any more worthy of consideration than the notions of the Flat Earth Society, but the religious conservatives among us love their "alternative" science so its important for people to be able to distinguish between the authoritative scientific organizations (AAP) and the political and religious organizations riding on the coat tails of the former with a spin (ACP)
 
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Their garbage is refuted by the professional scientific and authoritative body, the American Academy of Pediatrics. Not that its any more worthy of consideration than the notions of the Flat Earth Society.

Sooo, you've got nothing. That's what I thought. ;)
 
Sooo, you've got nothing. That's what I thought. ;)

Hey, I'm not going to stop you from filling your mind with nonsense on par with reading chicken bones and tea leaves. If you know the difference between the AAP and the ACP then you're welcome to bask in ignorance.
 
Hey, I'm not going to stop you from filling your mind with nonsense on par with reading chicken bones and tea leaves. If you know the difference between the AAP and the ACP then you're welcome to bask in ignorance.

You cannot refute the statement, we've already established that. No need to continue to highlight that.
 
You cannot refute the statement, we've already established that. No need to continue to highlight that.

I don't need to. It stands refuted by the American Academy of Pediatrics, which is the authoritative scientific body. Go back to your chicken bones if it please you.
 
I don't need to. It stands refuted by the American Academy of Pediatrics, which is the authoritative scientific body. Go back to your chicken bones if it please you.

It's not that you don't need to, it's that you cannot. Their statement is solidly based in science, no dogmatic assertions to be found. And yet, you cannot refute it.
 
It's not that you don't need to, it's that you cannot. Their statement is solidly based in science, no dogmatic assertions to be found. And yet, you cannot refute it.

It's always funny when liberals complain about how dogmatic and superstitious conservatives are, while simultaneously going on about chicken bones and spaghetti monsters.
 
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