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 ...
Thank you Mrs. Don-o
By understanding these parents OPPOSE "mutilation" and the parents you wrote of encouraged it.
Are you unable to understand how democrats behave has no connection to how Republicans behave even though both are defined by "politics?"
Are you a journalist? I don't know of any other group that regularly blames Republicans when Democrats act up.
I have no idea? YOU HAVE NO GUTS! These are your children we’re talking about. If you can’t be motivated to defend them, then you are truly a despicable coward, one no child should be so unfortunate to have as a parent.
Who said the parents brought the doctors in?... So you didn’t read the article afterall, or understand the title.
National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly
Thanks for posting this. Some of your objectors do not understand what they are reading.
The NCBQ is AGAINST hormonal and surgical intervention to "validate mistaken beliefs."
I READ the article. My example given displays what happens when you allow the schools’ sex ed program and other associations to guide your children.
Plus whacky weak parents guiding a confused socially awkward child ultimately made it happen. Someone had to pay for the expensive surgery, and that’s where lies the ultimate responsibility. And there will be more surgery to fully transform. F to M , including adding masculine facial features with cosmetic surgery. It could easily exceed 100K.
"Don't mutilate my child with hormones and surgery"?
Please notice that these people are agreeing that "TRANS" is NOT the answer.
I understand that there the bioethics group is against transitioning.
How ever it is not necessarily the case on the street.
I think we can all agree with that.
I have no idea? YOU HAVE NO GUTS! These are your children were talking about. If you cant be motivated to defend them, then you are truly a despicable coward, one no child should be so unfortunate to have as a parent.
Who said the parents brought the doctors in?... So you didnt read the article afterall, or understand the title.
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I read it and I understood it. You are the one who objected to the parents bringing in the medical interventions. I am saying that in these cases the medical consults were not precipitated by parents. I watch parents with lots of guts fearful of losing the rest of their children. And their livelihoods.
Easy for you to posture.
Didn’t read the article I see.
psychologists and psychiatrists are often on the cutting edge of trans changes, as are social workers and teachers.
They have no choices for they will lose their livelihoods when their licenses are challenged and removed by the state’s Human Rights Commission by activist lawyers working on behalf of the child.
Plus whacky weak parents guiding a confused socially awkward child ultimately made it happen. Someone had to pay for the expensive surgery, and thats where lies the ultimate responsibility. And there will be more surgery to fully transform. F to M , including adding masculine facial features with cosmetic surgery. It could easily exceed 100K.
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Hate to break it to you, but if the kid is out of the home and placed by social workers on medicaid, they can qualify for the full Monty transition. Courtesy of the state.
I didn't notice because that isn't what he did! Go back to his first post on this thread.
He was quoting the NCBQ to undermine Chickensoup's Christianity without realizing he was undermining himself.
As I’ve said here before, and perhaps picked up from someone here: someone with a “pre-transgender” little kid is like a cat lady with a vegetarian cat. While they both have a problem, the cause of the problem isn’t the cat. And it isn’t the little kid.
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Over and Out.
I agree, and the young ones who are enabled are perpetrated upon by the parents in a Munchhausen by proxy diagnosis.
The anxious young teens who disappear into their screens and peers and the system they need protections instead of “rights.”
Not even one, evidently.
Try reading the article.
I was only referring to the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, which he quoted, which came out explicitly against Trans Hormones and Surgery.
The money quote:
To do so, you would have to be literate.
You have proven beyond all doubt that reading comprehension is not your forte.
Perhaps English is your forty-third language.
The people who have read the article (which you have failed to do, probably because you just lack the intellect) are aware that the parents in the article oppose all this transsexual crap. You have gone on to (hilariously, in a sort,of watching a drunk stuck on an electric fence way) disparage the people attempting to point out to you that the position you are adamantly presenting is the exact same position that the parents in question hold.
Why don't you just go take a nice nap, Jim. Revisit the thread after you sober up.
Before the hormones kick in at puberty, kids do not have ONE SINGLE CLUE about their sexuality. I don’t really care what imbecile adults do, but allowing. your child to c change sexes is immoral and should be illegal, punishable by having ones own organs mutilated. Shredded, even.
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