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Leading U.S. Pediatricians Oppose Transgender Bathroom Bill
UPI ^ | April 22, 2016

Posted on 04/25/2016 8:33:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway

North Carolina's new transgender bathroom law will harm already vulnerable children, says a leading group of U.S. pediatricians that wants the law repealed.

The American Academy of Pediatrics this week joined other professional groups and business leaders in urging repeal of the law, which requires transgender people to use bathrooms and locker rooms that match the gender on their birth certificate.

"As pediatricians, we know firsthand how increasing burdens and barriers for youth who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender can increase their risk of depression, substance abuse, dropping out of school, or suicide," said Dr. Deborah Ainsworth, president of the AAP North Carolina Chapter.

"The law can also have unintentional consequences for children born with gender-related genetic disorders, children with disabilities who may need a different sex parent to help them in the restroom, and children who find themselves homeless due to lack of support for their gender identities," she added in an academy news release.

The bill signed by North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory in March and similar bills introduced in other states this year fail to meet children's most basic needs of validation and protection, explained Dr. Karen Remley, executive director and chief executive officer of the AAP.

"Pediatricians in North Carolina and across the country know what children need: They need the stability and support of nurturing adults, they need the acceptance and compassion of their peers and community, and they need to feel safe where they live and where they learn," Remley said in the news release. Such support, said Ainsworth, can buffer all young people -- especially LGBT youth -- from negative experiences and outcomes while promoting positive health and well-being.

"We all have a fundamental responsibility to support and nurture children and adolescents to ensure that they can grow and develop into healthy adults," Ainsworth said.

This type of law sends "a distressing message to transgender youth and can worsen the challenges many already face," she concluded.

Transgender teens are already more likely than others to be victims of violence, bullying and harassment, Remley said. The North Carolina law and similar measures elsewhere exacerbate those risks by creating hostile environments for transgender youth, she explained, "all implying the same message: 'You're different, something is wrong with you, you need to change in order to fit in here.'

"The message some public leaders have chosen is not the message we should be telling transgender children and teens," Remley added.

"The message of the American Academy of Pediatrics to transgender youth is this: We support you, and we will speak up for you. And so today, we do," Remley said. "We urge the governor of North Carolina and all other states considering similar measures to reconsider and repeal these harmful policies, and in so doing, stand up for transgender children."

More information The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more on LGBT health.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
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To: nickcarraway

There was a time when the American Academy of Pediatrics was a legitimate organization. Now it’s nothing but a bunch of raving, liberal activists. IMHO. If these idiots would stand back, shut up and watch what is going on, they’d probably find that this exploding epidemic of child transvestites is being caused by liberal, biological parental units suffering from a form of Munchausen’s syndrome.


21 posted on 04/25/2016 9:51:01 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If SCOTUS is really so fair and unbiased, why is it a campaign issue about who is on it?)
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To: nickcarraway
Even the pediatricians are going nuts and turning the kids over to the perverts.

Dude, this is one screwed up country we're dealing with here.

22 posted on 04/25/2016 9:59:51 PM PDT by Gritty (Freedom begins with speaking truth. A muzzle is a muzzle even if it is made of silk.-Viktor Orban)
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To: nickcarraway
increasing burdens and barriers for youth who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender can increase their risk of depression, substance abuse, dropping out of school, or suicide

what about the 'burdens and barriers for youth' who are straight?

23 posted on 04/25/2016 11:21:48 PM PDT by blueplum (March 11, 2016 - the day the First Amendment died?)
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To: pepsionice

24 posted on 04/25/2016 11:41:58 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: rockinqsranch
> That’s exactly right IMO. They are talking the children into a confused state of identity. Kids are kids, and haven’t developed enough to know if what is being pushed upon them is right, or wrong.

I think in time it will come out that this whole LGBT movement was about population control with the added bonus (?) of giving twisted homos pedophiles access to our children. Unfortunately we must have a higher percentage of homo pedophiles in office than I thought because they keep getting closer and closer access to our children and are doing nothing to stop it. In fact they keep giving away more and more ground to them. Speaks volumes.

25 posted on 04/25/2016 11:46:11 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

Good grief WTF is that!?


26 posted on 04/26/2016 1:32:28 AM PDT by Bobalu (Mark Levin can improve any radio show just by not being on it)
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To: nickcarraway

Parents, take note of the names here....these pediatricians are not to be with your kids.


27 posted on 04/26/2016 1:32:52 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper (Just say no to HRC)
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To: jsanders2001

Population control -— bingo.

Think about trannies: desperately reaching for hormones, devices, and surgery because they don’t know how to deal with their natural, healthy sex functioning the way it’s supposed to. They want to disable their sexual parts to get something they hope will be more satisfactory.

Women have been into this sexually self-deconstructing, self-disabling project big time for 50+ years now. It’s called contraception.

Think about it.


28 posted on 04/26/2016 1:55:10 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Do you mean now?" -- Yogi Berra, when asked for the time.)
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To: nickcarraway

What rotgut from the American Academy of Pediatrics.


29 posted on 04/26/2016 2:24:46 AM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: nickcarraway

I guess that it will take parents accompanying their children and pointing out the “transgendered” as perverts who need to be avoided....


30 posted on 04/26/2016 4:26:46 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: nickcarraway
As pediatricians, we know firsthand how increasing burdens and barriers for youth who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender can increase their risk of depression, substance abuse, dropping out of school, or suicide

Seems to suggest that it is not gender dysphoria that is the mental condition but how these kids are treated that causes the mental issues.

The transgenders are asking to be treated exactly the same way others of their chosen gender are. I'd like to ask one of these pediatricians how allowing a 13 year old girl who thinks she is a boy to undress for PE in the boys locker room is going to help her mentally. How will it effect all the boys in the room? Boys being boys, how will she like a titty twister? We're being told that acceptance is the problem, but the suggested solution seems a lot worse to me.

31 posted on 04/26/2016 4:39:27 AM PDT by IamConservative (There is no greater threat to our freedoms than Bipartisanship.)
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To: pepsionice

Exactly right - trans species is just around the corner, if we accept the premise that feelings determine sex.


32 posted on 04/26/2016 4:57:39 AM PDT by Dirt for sale
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To: nickcarraway

All the pubic school and university indoctrination of the last several decades is bearing fruit now.

As planned.


33 posted on 04/26/2016 5:18:26 AM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough!)
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To: DoughtyOne
"transgender children" Someone call the FBI already.
34 posted on 04/26/2016 6:11:13 AM PDT by darkangel82
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To: nickcarraway

These pediatricians are apparently in the business of playing to children’s fantasies in return for their parents’ cold cash. Who on earth would take their child to such “doctors”?


35 posted on 04/26/2016 6:20:06 AM PDT by madprof98
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To: nickcarraway

So, the few children who actually have a physical gender “disability” have precedence over the rest of the children?


36 posted on 04/26/2016 6:22:29 AM PDT by jch10 (Hillary in the Big House, not the White House .)
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To: Bobalu

It’s a man turning himself into a cat.


37 posted on 04/26/2016 8:33:49 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: darkangel82

They merely support the degeneracy at this point.


38 posted on 04/26/2016 10:21:40 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Ted Cruz. It's what plants need...)
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To: nickcarraway
Since transgenders represent less than 1 percent of the population they should be encouraged to use those truck driver catheters and avoid public restrooms.
39 posted on 04/27/2016 11:08:14 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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