Posted on 10/24/2018 3:30:34 PM PDT by reaganaut1
In child health care, the bond of trust between parents and doctors is critical. But when it comes to the treatment of youth with gender dysphoria, that bond is under a new threat. As part of an investigative series, I have been in touch with an overwhelming number of parents of trans-identifying youth who feel their voices are being shut out by activists.
One online group with a membership of over 1,000 parents has written a moving letter to the American Academy of Pediatrics about their recent one-size-fits-all, trans-affirming policy statement. They beg for consideration. They beg for critical thinking. They beg for their children. Here is their response:
Dear American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP):
We need you and our children need you. There is a great and growing disservice that needs your attention, scientific curiosity, critical thinking, clinical experience, and compassion.
We have serious concerns about the AAPs Policy Statement Ensuring Comprehensive Care and Support for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Children and Adolescents (Rafferty et al., 2018). While we believe that AAPs intention behind this position statement is to protect the health of todays gender-diverse youth (children through young adults), we are deeply concerned that the clinicians using affirmation therapy are inadvertently inflicting physical and psychological harm.
We are members of a rapidly growing online community of over 1,100 parents of transgender-identifying youth who need your help. We have no unifying political affiliation. We empathize with mature transgender-identifying people who deserve respect. We need to stop the harm to our children.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Dead by their own hand!
You are a fool if you do not think the culture and the net is not a predominate factor.
You have no idea of what is real.
This dog is in the hands of many others and I assure you that the kennel has more power and control
re: “Many parents are trapped with this issue.”
Do you know how a large ship makes a turn?
It is similar to how children are inculcated into life, into society.
It is my contention these parents have abrogated just that responsibility of managing the ‘turning’ of that ship ...
Actually I’m fairly certain it’s closer to 60%.
One day people will look at this madness like people do today about lobotomies.
I fear for our next 2-3 generations. There are two genders, not 64 or whatever they keep coming up with. This is just science and biology. Male, or Female. But with all the hormones being injected into meat these days, babies and then children are already messed up mentally because of all the chemicals they are eating in the food. And because of this, we “create” genders when its a chemical imbalance from our ow FDA that approves this. Liberals call this evolution; Science calls this the death of mankind
YOu are a fool. The local State Human Rights Tribunals which are active in every state had made it impossible for parents to remove the child from these circumstances. The tribunals will make sure the child is placed in a trans affirming home.
Then you are a fool.
There are many circumstances that make this turn these days. The wonderful thing is that it is finally after ten years being questioned. Do you realize that the Human Rights Tribunals in each state would A) remove the child and place them in a trans friendly environment and B) possibly remove all the other children in the home, and remove the licenses of the parents if they deem it warranted so parents could not earn a living??
Probably is, I thought it was higher then 50% but couldn’t remember how much!
One day people will look at this madness like people do today about lobotomies.
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You are absolutely right. I tell people trapped in this particular hell to keep the names and addresses of everyone who is facilitating this with their children, for the lawsuits down the road.
And the kids who want to be cats or dogs or monkeys or mermaids?
The psychs went crazy when they normed same sex desire.
WTF?
Are you and I the only ones who read the post?
These parents DO NOT want affirmation to be the default treatment for their troubled kids...so why are all these lunkheads bitching about the parents?
re: “Then you are a fool.”
AND you’re an idiot. We’re even now.
because they are fools.
and it is easy to blow air about something they have no concept of and blame people who they have no idea about.
Fools.
Thank you for reading it.
re: Then you are a fool.
AND youre an idiot. Were even now.
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no you are still a stupid fool who does not look into the article or the issues.
Just blowing air. Make yourself useful and blow something else.
Mass hysteria
I seriously wonder about the reading ability of some on this site.
I read posts like this, then see the responses, and the only thing I can think is “functional illiterate.”
That’s how I read it too. I think several posters here just made assumptions without reading the entire letter.
I read posts like this, then see the responses, and the only thing I can think is functional illiterate.
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I actually think it has more to do with intellectual laziness coupled with rigid thinking.
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