Posted on 03/05/2021 4:18:13 AM PST by RandFan
Rand Paul accused of 'transphobic attack' in confirmation hearing
Paul claimed that "most genital mutilation is not typically performed by force but, as WHO notes, by social convention." He then argued that "American culture is now normalizing the idea that minors can be given hormones to prevent their biological development of their secondary sexual characteristics."
Facts First: Paul's analogy relies on a misunderstanding of gender affirmation treatments and misinformation from non-credible sources. In making his comparison, Paul draws on data from the American College of Pediatricians, a group that many health experts believe is on the wrong side of a number of controversial medical topics, especially the issue of gender conversion therapy.
Most medical professionals disagree with Paul's comparison, including Dr. Jason Rafferty, who authored the American Association of Pediatricians' policy statement on transgender and gender diverse youth health care. The World Health Organization (WHO), which the Kentucky senator cited, also distinguishes between the two practices, outlining best practices for the gender-affirming health care in 2017 while opposing all forms of female genital mutilation.
"The outcome is trying to better align [a trans young person's] body with their sense of self rather than a process that causes [an] ongoing sense of distress and harm throughout their lives," said Rafferty, differentiating between gender confirmation surgery and genital mutilation, respectively. In addition to the WHO, gender-affirming treatment is supported by the AAP, as well as the American Medical Association, among other mainstream medical organizations in the United States. It should be noted that it is the AAP, not the ACP, that is the primary organization representing pediatricians in the United States. The ACP formed in 2002 over the AAP's endorsement of same-sex couples adopting children. The ACP, among other things, also supports conversion therapy for LGBTQ youth, a medically discredited practice.
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Fact check, my behind. Any “gender affirmation surgery” is butchery and quackery. These “doctors” should be laughed out of town. That health secretary from PA simply cannot be taken seriously.
Paul’s statement seems pretty simple and straight-forward.
Their “fact-checking” seems like a word salad of pretzel logic.
It’s a relief to know that there’s a medical association that still cares about children and not about leftist political and social agendas.
And this is written as if to make the distinction that the AAP are on the right side of things and the ACP are off base and a bunch of backward thinking kooks. Good grief. What a perverted crowd....both the AAP and their CNN promoters.
Agree ClearCase but the fact that CNN does this ‘Fact check’ allows liberals on social media and elsewhere to post it and say: “See! Rand Paul’s wrong!”
Then the biased media will claim his points have been “widely debunked” citing such articles...
Rand Paul has a better hairdresser.
CNN is paraphrasing Whoopi Goldberg, “It’s not really mutilation-mutilation.”
somehow, I am not compelled to read their fact check on this repulsive subject.
Thinking, believing, feeling or imagining you are different than your genetically determined sex is a delusion. These surgeries are assaults on reality. They are like trying to make the insane who think they are Napoleon look like Napoleon with plastic surgery.
Thinking, believing, feeling or imagining you are different than your genetically determined sex is a delusion. These surgeries are assaults on reality. They are like trying to make the insane who think they are Napoleon look like Napoleon with plastic surgery.
CNN staff are completely soulless.
Why not also give diet pills to anorexics? Or ipecac to bulimics?
“Most medical professionals disagree with Paul’s comparison”: stated by not proved.i
At least Rand Paul isn’t confused about his sex, aka “gender”.
This is typical CNN “fact check” nonsense — cherry picking sources, denigrating others with the amorphous words “some” or “many”, and nitpicking phrases with wordplay, ignoring in the process other voices or studies that run counter to their narrative.
So now the American College of Pediatricians is a fringe group of kooks?
I really don’t care if an adult wants to mutilate their body and change their hormones. I think it harms them, but have at it.
My biggest problem with this in kids is that: until puberty is complete, their hormones haven’t completely balanced. So their sexual desires aren’t really fully formed yet.
To alter that chemistry before it is complete is just wrong, and short sighted.
Hell, I won’t cut freshman lacrosse players because half of them are on the wrong side of puberty and you never know what they will become in a year.
Richard can pretend to be a female but I don’t have to share that same perverted thought. Freak in my opinion.
Right?
I remember a few kids in 9th grade that were 120lbs of elbows and knees and when we came back after summer vacation, they’d turned into grown men.
If you see a gender confused child, look to the mother. I believe that child genera issues are really mom’s Munchausen by proxy.
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