Posted on 12/15/2019 4:14:57 AM PST by Kaslin
The transgender industry profits handsomely from experimenting on children who are confused about their sex. Experiments include puberty-blocking drugs, cross-sex hormones (estrogen for boys, testosterone for girls), and even mutilating surgery for kids who are too young to buy cough syrup but supposedly competent to make permanent life-altering medical decisions. When challenged about the horror of these medical interventions, the radicals smugly cite support from medical associations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Endocrine Society. Case closed.
But a look behind the curtain of these societies’ propaganda operations, plus a review of other medical organizations that have resisted the siren song of money and political correctness, shows that many if not most physicians oppose the macabre, ethically bankrupt policies of the pro-experimentation organizations.
Take the AAP. The political leanings of that organization’s leadership are clear from AAP’s partnership with the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a radical outfit that uses threats to force acceptance and celebration of practically every conceivable sexual practice. But do the views of HRC and AAP leadership align with those of AAP’s over 65,000 physician members? We don’t know, because the pro-experimentation policies were passed without input from those members.
Under AAP policy, any position statement is drafted by a small committee (usually 10-12 members, and maybe as few as seven) and then voted on by the roughly 12-member board of directors. The broader membership has no direct input into the statement and would generally learn of it only after it’s issued. So the only thing the AAP policy tells us is that less than 0.05 percent of the pediatricians who are still members of AAP believe in experimenting medically on gender-confused children.
Mental-health practitioners have excoriated AAP for its pro-experimentation policy. Dr. James Cantor, a (gay) psychologist from the Toronto Gender Identity clinic, analyzed the AAP statement and found that the studies on which AAP based its policy simply don’t say what AAP claimed they do.“In fact, the references that AAP cited as the basis of their policy instead outright contradicted that policy, repeatedly endorsing watchful waiting [rather than medical intervention].” Dr. Susan Bradley, a child psychiatrist with 40 years of clinical experience and an expert on gender-identity disorders, similarly warned that AAP has no scientific support for its pro-experimentation views.
What about the Endocrine Society, whose guidelines approve administering puberty-blocking drugs and cross-sex hormones to confused children? The Society designates each of its guidelines as supported by scientific evidence of “very low, low, moderate, or high” quality – and the Society admits that 68 percent of its transgender guidelines fall into the “very low” or “low” quality category. In fact, none are supported by high-quality evidence. The Society thus admits the scientific evidence for its recommendations is weak at best. Yet physicians across the country are using these guidelines to justify horrendous interventions that cannot be undone.
By contrast, multiple medical associations oppose these interventions. From the American College of Pediatricians: “Conditioning children into believing a lifetime of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is normal and healthful is child abuse.” From the director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons: “ [T]he use of [puberty blockers] in gender-confused children constitutes unethical experimentation.” Similar statements have come from the Alliance for Therapeutic Choice and Scientific Integrity, the National Task Force for Therapy Equality, and the Christian Medical and Dental Association.
>Medical organizations from other Western nations are warning against transgender medical interventions. The Royal College of General Practitioners in the U.K. decried the “significant lack of robust, comprehensive evidence around the outcomes, side effects and unintended consequences of such treatments for people with gender dysphoria, particularly children and young people . . . .” The Australian College of Physicians has called for an urgent national inquiry into unproven hormone drugs being administered to gender-confused children. The Swedish National Council for Medical Ethics declared that transgender experimentation, far from being standard medical practice, “raises a number of difficult ethical questions.”
Many physicians worldwide are risking professional retaliation from the transgender industry and its allies (see here, here, and here) by denouncing transgender madness. Among them is world-renowned child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr. Christopher Gillberg at Sweden’s Gothenburg University, who warns that medical interventions for trans-identifying children are “possibly one of the greatest scandals in medical history.”
History will record a particularly shameful part of that scandal: the collaboration of previously reputable medical societies. No one should be fooled by their perfidy.
I can’t say that I know how AAP works, but if AAP members are electing leaders that believe in the mutilation of children, then one can only assume that those same AAP members also support the mutilation of children.
Scary stuff. It is bad enough when pediatricians are asking about guns in the home and other personal questions (such as about corporal punishment), as that means us conservatives have to look at pediatricians as threats to our children (and us), rather than people helping us raise our kids. In other words, we have to look at pediatricians the same way we’re forced to look at school teachers.
It’s alright, here comes another truckload of money from the anti-tobacco groups to push for even stronger condemnation of vaping. (Translation: the makers of Chantix and patches are tired of this upstart decimating their business.)
That’ll fund the next declaration that it’s okay to give puberty blocking hormones to a 5 year old who last week thought they were a dinosaur or a princess.
Stay on the subject. This has nothing to do with vaping but rather with making children confused about their gender
The evil most fundamental to the decadence, and to its concomitant internal moral rot and decay, the destroyer of civilizations, is contempt for truth.
My darling little 3 year old son LOVED Minnie Mouse. It never occurred to me he was wanting to become a little girl, but if I had been a liberal looney tune, I could have made myself think so. As it is, he is now a smart 30 year old all male.
The panic over vaping is another example of medical associations’ choosing politics or money over science, and that’s an example of the more general corruption of self-declared “elites.”
One really cannot understand any of this without some prior knowledge the author is either ignorant of or purposefully obscuring to create propaganda. Every physician in America still practicing is a SJW. The statement may not be technically true since one conservative p;hysician negates it but it is accurate enough to be true. I am retired now but spent my last two decades trying to deprogram a few of these people. Trust me, it can’t be done. They are all drinking the Kool Aid and not in little sips, either. The ONLY organization that is not a 100% collective of SJWs is the one mentioned “American Association of Physicians and Surgeons”. It was started just a few years ago by the remaining conservative physicians. IOW it is about as meaningful as AAA in Antarctica.
The AAP has been and is all in for Obamacare.
Nuff said.
My doc ain’t a leftie.
But she’ll likely retire soon.
Sigh.
They should keep speaking out.
I think that much of the "transgender" madness arises from young women who have been brought up in a culture where they equate sexual deviancy with rights. These young women, when their infant sons exhibit behavior that they always viewed as stereotypically female, immediately start assuming their sons are "transgender" and encouraging that behavior. The reality is that yes, boys do show interest in stereotypical "girl" activities, and vice versa. And because they do not understand that and want to be "enlightened," these young mothers end up doing incalculable harm to their children.
No they embrace money -— THATS ALL.
I wouldnt call what so many of them are these days ‘doctors’ any more.
I recall they haven’t taken the traditional “DO No Harm” oath for decades.
It is normal for young children to be vague or confused about both biological sex and social “gender.” How could it be otherwise? They’re born knowing basically nothing, and they have to learn from adults or other children.
I think social media and the larger celebrity culture have provoked an epidemic of Munchausens By Proxy Syndrome. Instead of explaining, “You’re a boy, Pat, even though you had long hair when you were two,” the parents are saying, “OMG, maybe he’s ‘trans,’ like that kid we saw on ‘Oprah’! We can be on ‘Oprah’! Look at MEEEEEEEEEE with my trans-kid!”
Any group that starts to gain in size and prestige is subject to corruption. That goes for medical associations and charitable associations. Self sufficient and informed physicians do no usually stay in those organizations when they realize that they are self serving.
Wrong, it's exactly the same topic, where politics is overriding every rational and scientific result, and being paid for by those who aren't doctors or scientists but those pushing political agendas.
The next massive influence will come from the anti-gun fanatics who are seeing just how effective it is to buy a couple journals and some expensive dinners (as well as tax deductible funding for faked research that supports their cause.)
I recall seeing films on this in high school back in the early sixties. Nobody gave them credit. But the future is now, and here they are.
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