Posted on 08/18/2022 9:40:21 AM PDT by consult
Pediatrics, flagship journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics a study claimed that social influence isn’t the reason that as many as 9% of America’s youth now call themselves transgender. ....study is deeply flawed and likely couldn’t have survived a reasonable peer-review process.....Nevertheless, the media have promoted his work as a refutation of the claim that the wildfire spread of transgender identity is an example of social contagion—a phenomenon in which members of a group (mostly young and female) mutually influence one another’s emotions and behavior. Pediatrics then published his highly flawed 2020 study alleging that puberty blockers reduce suicide in teens. The journal even chose the article as its “Best of 2020” despite receiving rebuttals that pointed out the rate of attempted suicide was twice as high among the puberty-blocked group...... The AAP has ignored the evidence that has led Sweden, Finland and most recently the U.K. to place severe restrictions on medical transition for minors. The largest pediatric gender clinic in the world, the U.K.’s Gender Identity Development Service, was ordered to shut down in July after an independent review expressed concerns about clinicians rushing minors to medical transition. Medical societies in France, Belgium and Australia have also sounded the alarm. The U.S. is an outlier on pediatric gender medicine..... Its preference for fashionable political positions over evidence-based medicine is a disservice to member physicians, parents and children.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Kids are hearing about sex confusion from everywhere.
THere is no science involved. It is purely political.
During a time period roughly around the early 1950’s, physicians performed pre-frontal lobotomies on about 40,000 patients. The European doctor who developed the initial version of the procedure received a Nobel Prize for that work.
Sometimes the experts don’t know squat - and that’s not even taking account of the effects of a highly-politicized situation with a substantial amount of social hysteria, as is the case with this radical childhood gender mutilation controversy.
There are lots of doctors who will do anything for money.
Many a person will do things for $, including doctors. However doing this to children permanently changes them in ways that they will never recover from. Not to mention changing the landscape of our society.
One in five (20%) Gen Z adults identify as LGBT as of 2022. Prior to 2020, the number for the entire US population was 3%. This is a national emergency.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/389792/lgbt-identification-ticks-up.aspx
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