American College of Pediatrics - Gender Ideology/Transgenderism Harms Children

[Slick]

Updated May 2017

The American College of Pediatricians urges healthcare professionals, 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. Facts – not ideology – determine reality.

1. Human sexuality is an objective biological binary trait: “XY” and “XX” are genetic markers of male and female, respectively – not genetic markers of a disorder. The norm for human design is to be conceived either male or female. Human sexuality is binary by design with the obvious purpose being the reproduction and flourishing of our species. This principle is self-evident. 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 (also referred to as “intersex”) do not constitute a third sex.1

2. No one is born with a gender. Everyone is born with a biological sex. Gender (an awareness and sense of oneself as male or female) is a sociological and psychological concept; not an objective biological one. No one is born with an awareness of themselves as male or female; this awareness develops over time and, like all developmental processes, may be derailed by a child’s subjective perceptions, relationships, and adverse experiences from infancy forward. People who identify as “feeling like the opposite sex” or “somewhere in between” do not comprise a third sex. They remain biological men or biological women.2,3,4

3. A person’s belief that he or she is something they are not is, at best, a sign of confused thinking. When an otherwise healthy biological boy believes he is a girl, or an otherwise healthy biological girl believes she is a boy, an objective psychological problem exists that lies in the mind not the body, and it should be treated as such. These children suffer from gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria (GD), formerly listed as Gender Identity Disorder (GID), is a recognized mental disorder in the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-V).5 The psychodynamic and social learning theories of GD/GID have never been disproved.2,4,5

4. Puberty is not a disease and puberty-blocking hormones can be dangerous. Reversible or not, puberty- blocking hormones induce a state of disease – the absence of puberty – and inhibit growth and fertility in a previously biologically healthy child.6

5. According to the DSM-V, as many as 98% of gender confused boys and 88% of gender confused girls eventually accept their biological sex after naturally passing through puberty.5

6. Pre-pubertal children diagnosed with gender dysphoria may be given puberty blockers as young as eleven, and will require cross-sex hormones in later adolescence to continue impersonating the opposite sex. These children will never be able to conceive any genetically related children even via articifial reproductive technology. In addition, cross-sex hormones (testosterone and estrogen) are associated with dangerous health risks including but not limited to cardiac disease, high blood pressure, blood clots, stroke, diabetes, and cancer.7,8,9,10,11

7. Rates of suicide are nearly twenty times greater among adults who use cross-sex hormones and undergo sex reassignment surgery, even in Sweden which is among the most LGBTQ – affirming countries.12 What compassionate and reasonable person would condemn young children to this fate knowing that after puberty as many as 88% of girls and 98% of boys will eventually accept reality and achieve a state of mental and physical health?

8. Conditioning children into believing a lifetime of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is normal and healthful is child abuse. Endorsing gender discordance as normal via public education and legal policies will confuse children and parents, leading more children to present to “gender clinics” where they will be given puberty-blocking drugs. This, in turn, virtually ensures they will “choose” a lifetime of carcinogenic and otherwise toxic cross-sex hormones, and likely consider unnecessary surgical mutilation of their healthy body parts as young adults.

Gender Ideology Harms Children | American College of Pediatricians

[CaptainNemo]

Shocker! ...they won't allow research into anything like this ...it ruins the narrative.

...and they can talk about sexism at the same time as saying gender doesn't exist.

Where's that gay polygamy lobby? Trans-ethno-dysphoria, anyone?

[raycarey]

there's no comment at all with the copy and pasted article....what's on your mind, slick?

something you'd like to get off your chest?

and i'd be curious to know how you came across this article.


but anyway..... the 'american college of pediatricians' is widely recognized as an anti-LGBT hate group....and it has a whopping total of 500 members.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americ..._Pediatricians

[raycarey]

more positions from this strange and shady group....

Discouraging the adoption of children by same-sex couples or single parents

Opposition to abortion

Support for abstinence until marriage sex education rather than "comprehensive sex education"

and you might be thinking...hey, the 'american college of pediatricians' sounds like a trustworthy organization....well yeah, that's because they chose a name suspiciously similar to the respected 'american academy of pediatrics'. and...

The organization's view on parenting is at odds with the position of the American Academy of Pediatrics, which holds that sexual orientation has no correlation with the ability to be a good parent and to raise healthy and well-adjusted children.

quotes taken the wikipedia link above.

[Slick]

widely recognized as an anti-LGBT hate group

Anything and anyone that disagrees with even a sliver of LGBT ideology is labelled a hate group, so settle down precious.

[raycarey]

there's no comment at all with the copy and pasted article....what's on your mind, slick?

something you'd like to get off your chest?

and i'd be curious to know how you came across this article.

[Slick]

something you'd like to get off your chest?

Are you gonna sit here and dangle off my nuts or comment on the topic of transgenderism and children.

[raycarey]

the topic of transgenderism and children

the topic is 'the american college of pediatricians'....and its 500 members.


for those of you without a calculator...that's an average of 10 people in each state who are members of this fringe group.


as a comparison, the reputable 'american academy of pediatrics' has 64,000 members.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americ..._of_Pediatrics

[Slick]

the topic is 'the american college of pediatricians'.

Are you raising your children transgender or something?

[Maanaam]

The American College of Pediatricians urges healthcare professionals, 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. Facts – not ideology – determine reality.

So, the German woman who recently successfully won the right to NOT have her child's gender put on the birth certificate on the grounds that the child will develop as he/she will naturally and will identify his/her ("their") gender by "themself" as "they" grow, was forward thinking and before her time and quite correct to have taken the issue up.

[Maanaam]

the topic is 'the american college of pediatricians'....and its 500 members.


for those of you without a calculator...that's an average of 10 people in each state who are members of this fringe group.

And no mention of unanimity amongst the group. Perhaps it was just a majority on the board? Perhaps 5 people in the entire country?
Just saying.

[bsnub]

Anything and anyone that disagrees with even a sliver of LGBT ideology is labelled a hate group

Riiight...


Sounds like a credible group...

Meet the Anti-LGBT Hate Group that Filed an Amicus Brief with the Alabama Supreme Court


The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) is an anti-LGBT hate group founded in 2002. It bills itself as “a national organization of pediatricians and other healthcare professionals dedicated to the health and well-being of children.”


Like other organizations, ACPeds involves itself in judicial matters, and files amicus briefs with various courts in support of or in opposition to various cases. What its website will not tell you is that this fringe organization, under the veneer of its professional-sounding name and claims, works to defame and discredit LGBT people, often by distorting legitimate research. It consists of around 200 members and started because a small group of anti-LGBT physicians and other healthcare professionals broke away from the 60,000 member American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), composed of leaders in the professional field, to form its own group after the AAP issued a new policy statement in 2002 in support of adoption and foster parenting by same-sex couples.

ACPeds has a history of propagating damaging falsehoods about LGBT people, including linking homosexuality to pedophilia, and claiming that LGBT people are more promiscuous than heterosexuals, and that LGBT people are a danger to children. In 2010, for example, ACPeds mailed a letter to over 14,000 school district superintendents pushing so-called “ex-gay” therapy and making other false claims about LGBT people in its “Facts About Youth” campaign, which brought a scathing response from a researcher whose work the group had distorted. That wasn’t the first time ACPeds had been called out for distorting legitimate research, but clearly, if the brief they filed is any indication, the lesson didn’t take.

ACPeds filed the brief with the Alabama Supreme Court on Nov. 6 in response to that court’s pending decision regarding the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges last June, which legalized same-sex marriage in the United States. In defiance of Alabama federal district court judge Callie Granade, the Alabama Policy Institute and Alabama Citizens Action Program petitioned the Alabama Supreme Court to uphold Alabama’s state law, which declares that marriage is between one man and one woman. While the Alabama Supreme Court requested that the parties in the case have their briefs filed by July 6, 2015, amicus briefs seem to still be tricking in and the court has yet to rule. The ACPeds brief urges the court to defy the U.S. Supreme Court and confirm that marriage is only between one man and one woman. The brief states that ACPeds is “concerned by the delay of the Alabama Supreme Court and the immediate threat of Obergefell to the stability of families, the safety of children and our constitutional republic.”

Unsurprisingly in the brief, ACPeds cites professors Loren D. Marks and Mark Regnerus, both of whom have attempted to claim through discredited research that children “do worse” in same-sex parent households than in heterosexual-parent households. Regnerus’s infamous study, which received almost a million dollars from right-wing anti-LGBT think tanks, was released in 2012 and was immediately trumpeted by anti-LGBT groups around the country and has been used repeatedly in various amicus briefs in opposition to same-sex marriage. Regnerus has become a darling on the anti-LGBT circuit, though in legitimate social science circles, his credibility continues to wane. Last year, Regnerus testified in a federal court case in Michigan regarding the legality of same-sex marriage. Federal judge Paul Friedman dismissed Regnerus’s testimony as “unbelievable” and “not worthy of serious consideration” and wrote that his study was “hastily concocted at the behest of a third-party funder.” In addition, Regnerus’s own academic department has distanced itself from him. In spite of that, ACPeds relies heavily on Regnerus as well as on other researchers affiliated with the National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH; now the NARTH Institute), which supports the discredited “ex-gay” therapy movement. So-called “ex-gay” or “reparative” therapy seeks to change gay people to heterosexual.

The ACPeds brief also cites outdated sources from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s to bolster claims that same-sex relationships don’t last very long, and that same-sex relationships are “more violent” than heterosexual. “This Court,” the brief implores, “should take care that innocent and helpless Alabama children are not sacrificed on the altar of adult passions, judicial will, or politically correct opinion.”In a supreme case of irony, the brief further claims that legitimate research by professional organizations like the American Psychological Association are the result of a “biased political agenda.” The brief goes on to cite, for example, a 2002 report by physician Ellin Perrin in support of ACPeds’ views that legitimate research is “biased.” That 2002 report actually found the opposite of what ACPeds claims. The report states that, “the weight of evidence gathered during several decades using diverse samples and methodologies” is persuasive in demonstrating that “there is no systematic difference between gay and nongay parents in emotional health, parenting skills, and attitudes toward parenting.” The report further notes that “no data have pointed to any risk to children” as a result of growing up in a family of one or more gay parents.”
Perrin’s report, co-authored by the Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health is part of what caused ACPeds to break away from the AAP in the first place, because it helped form the basis for AAP’s support of adoption and foster parenting by same-sex parents, which ACPeds vehemently opposes. Nevertheless, the group has no problem taking one line in that report out of context and using it to bolster their own flagging position.

But in the strange world of the anti-LGBT right, damaging falsehoods about LGBT people are considered true while legitimate science is seen as false. This is why fringe think tanks like ACPeds have formed in hard-right circles: a means to hold on to and perpetuate views that are being proven wrong with every passing day.


https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/...-supreme-court

[AntRobertson]

something you'd like to get off your chest?

Are you gonna sit here and dangle off my nuts or comment on the topic of transgenderism and children.

Err you haven't commented on it beyond your cut 'n paste save for referencing your own nuts. Which is weird. And probably Freudian.

Oh well, angry right-wing hypocrites be hypocriting and not checking their sources again.