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[W:585:651]]Doctor's Viewpoint on Being Transgender

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This video will no doubt create tons of controversy but this is a doctor's view on being transgender, not that I agree or disagree with her.

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I peer into my crystal ball and see a doctor of philosophy talking mad crap. Could be medical and unrelated, the future is foggy.

Someone click and see if I'm psychic.
 
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ecofarm said:
I peer into my crystal ball and see a doctor of philosophy talking mad crap. Could be medical and unrelated, the future is foggy.

Someone click and see if I'm psychic.
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It's a medical doctor telling simple, politically incorrect truth.
 
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Anarchon said:
It's a medical doctor telling simple, politically incorrect truth.
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What kind of medical doctor. Sports, orthopedics?
 
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ecofarm said:
What kind of medical doctor. Sports?
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The below came from her interview...

I received my medical degree from the University of Connecticut and completed my internship and residency in pediatrics at the Connecticut Children's Medical Center. I did some additional training in adolescence at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, and had the privilege to practice general pediatrics for fifteen years before going on full-time with the American College of Pediatricians in advocacy for children. I am entering my second term as president with that organization.
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Anarchon said:
The below came from her interview...
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Could be related. General physician or psychiatrist matters. But it's not a phd, so gratz.
 
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The American College of Pediatricians is not the same as The American Academy of Pediatrics. The two groups are completely different. The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) is considered a fringe group and should never be confused with the mainstream American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

The American College of Pediatricians is basically the Bizarro World version of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Like the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) pushes and promotes “misleading and incorrect” recommendations based on the ideology of their members, not using science and evidenced based medicine. “…ACPeds was born from an ideological split within a profession. It was founded in 2002 as a protest against the much larger American Academy of Pediatrics’ support for LGBT adoption rights — and that opposition remains central to the group’s identity… But thanks to its deceptive name — which makes it sound as if it is the mainstream professional organization for pediatricians — ACPeds often serves as a supposedly scientific source for groups pushing utter falsehoods about LGBT people.”

That’s why most of the press releases and position statements from the ACPeds are against (while the AAP supports):

homosexual parents
HPV vaccination
protecting transgender kids
comprehensive sex education, wanting to focus instead on abstinence only sex education
emergency contraception
same sex marriage
Michelle A. Cretella, MD, FCP (Fellow of the College of Pediatricians), the President of the American College of Pediatricians, has even praised the book Preventing Homosexuality, calling it “an invaluable resource for parents.” She is also on the Board of Directors of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), a group that supports reparative or conversion therapy for homosexuals.

The American College of Pediatricians goes so far as suggesting adding a ‘P’ to LGBT acronym. No, the ‘P’ wouldn’t stand for pansexual in their world – it would stand for pedophile.

https://keepkidshealthy.com/2017/09/06/what-is-the-american-college-of-pediatricians/
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Serenity said:
The American College of Pediatricians is not the same as The American Academy of Pediatrics. The two groups are completely different. The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) is considered a fringe group and should never be confused with the mainstream American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
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Short version: How To Lie With Acronyms

Disguising yourself as a reasonable group of medical professionals when you’re just another cesspool of wingnut hate. These people are despicable, as are anyone who claims that their twisted, evil views are “the truth.”
 
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Kobie said:
Short version: How To Lie With Acronyms

Disguising yourself as a reasonable group of medical professionals when you’re just another cesspool of wingnut hate. These people are despicable, as are anyone who claims that their twisted, evil views are “the truth.”
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To be fair, busting out "the truth" (regardless of context) is fair warning of entering wackyland. I'm gonna go ahead and hit enter without searching my username and keyword truth. I think I'm safe.
 
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ecofarm said:
To be fair, busting out "the truth" (regardless of context) is fair warning of entering wackyland. I'm gonna go ahead and hit enter without searching my username and keyword truth. I think I'm safe.
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Not wrong there, amigo. Whenever I see someone crowing about how they are telling "the truth" (especially when it's in utter defiance of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS HURRR DURRR DURRR), I can guarantee it's going to be just a pile of manure.
 
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ecofarm said:
Could be related. General physician or psychiatrist matters. But it's not a phd, so gratz.
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So she is unqualified to say that there are only boys and girls because she doesn't have a Ph.D?
 
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Kobie said:
Valid arguments aren’t always “the truth.”
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The most absurd thing I've ever heard there are two sexes. It's not just the a valid argument it is a biological factual argument.

I guess you're just science denier.
 
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CLAX1911 said:
So she is unqualified to say that there are only boys and girls because she doesn't have a Ph.D?
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No, she's unqualified because she's not saying what 'they' want to hear.

I'll stick with the DNA, 'they' can have thwir feelings.
 
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I view it as an unfortunate programming error (for those that are gender misassigned as a person). Then there are those that take it the other way as a sexual fetish they delve into and that is another matter altogether.

I do think parents that encourage a son or daughter to convert to another gender (even before the kid has a clear understanding of what they are doing) is child abuse.
 
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hanger4 said:
No, she's unqualified because she's not saying what 'they' want to hear.

I'll stick with the DNA, 'they' can have thwir feelings.
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If say a 10 year old is qualified to say what she was saying.

It seems just a couple of years ago they were saying that the right wing was denying science. How the tables turn.
 
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CLAX1911 said:
So she is unqualified to say that there are only boys and girls because she doesn't have a Ph.D?
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So funny.
 
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CLAX1911 said:
The sad thing is you're laughing at yourself.

They're being only two Sexes is the most basic concept in human biology
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Gender is a social construct, not biological.
 
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This is a matter that is clearly way over her head. Sexuality is not binary, she meant to say sex which she is also confusing with gender. How can a native speaker, let alone a doctor speaking about the subject of sex not know this is beyond me. She refers to reproduction being "the rule" but what rule is that? she falsely claims that there is a binary of XX or XY, any person here (let alone a doctor) would know that THE sex chromosomes a person is born with are not binary; there are plenty of variation. Her next argument about thoughts and feelings being not biological is not accurate either, biology and chemistry influences how the brain develops and can influences "thoughts and feelings" that is why drugs can affect a persons mental health positively or negatively.

Individuals with DSD are not used as "pawns", they are mentioned because their existance disproves the definition you are using to claim sex is binary. Even if you are going to use a definition of sex that is binary, it says nothing about whether gender would be binary or whether it must correspond to sex.
 
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L0neW0lf said:
This is a matter that is clearly way over her head. Sexuality is not binary, she meant to say sex which she is also confusing with gender. How can a native speaker, let alone a doctor speaking about the subject of sex not know this is beyond me. She refers to reproduction being "the rule" but what rule is that? she falsely claims that there is a binary of XX or XY, any person here (let alone a doctor) would know that THE sex chromosomes a person is born with are not binary; there are plenty of variation.
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Actually variation is quite rare.

Gender and sex are often used as synonyms.

Her next argument about thoughts and feelings being not biological is not accurate either, biology and chemistry influences how the brain develops and can influences "thoughts and feelings" that is why drugs can affect a persons mental health positively or negatively.

Individuals with DSD are not used as "pawns", they are mentioned because their existance disproves the definition you are using to claim sex is binary. Even if you are going to use a definition of sex that is binary, it says nothing about whether gender would be binary or whether it must correspond to sex.
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I would agree with her, body integrity dismophic disorder is a psychological issue
 
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