Above is a petition to the American Academy of Pediatrics in response to their new policy that any child or young adult that self-diagnosis themselves to be of the other sex should be affirmed in their transition including non-FDA approved drugs and medical procedures.
I have no doubt that something is going on with these kids. Most of them now are girls, and their idea of becoming a man comes on very quickly. (”Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria” - ROGD).
Studies indicate it may be a social contagion - like anorexia. But obviously it is rooted in mental development, and in most cases is probably not a biological problem that can successfully be treated with drugs and surgery.
The petition is just getting started. They are hoping for 1200 signatures - just 500 now.
So sad that our kids are going through this with just a rubber stamp of approval by the industry.
We are so attentive nowadays to mental disorders, and quick to act to help correct with counseling and medications, quick to set up support groups, to educate the masses not to treat these people as broken, to acknowledge that mental illness is still REAL illness, and should be treated like that.
Except in this one case, where the government FORBIDS any medical professional from helping in any way, and instead forces them to support and push these kids to ACCEPT their mental illness.
It doesn’t bother me if, in some cases, there is a true disconnect, and that the best way to handle it is to take radical steps, especially in the cases where there is physical abnormality (the other 5 types of “sex” we have noted in rare instances, for example). But given that it seems 80% of children ‘play with” gender roles at some point, and end up staying identified with their birth sex, it seems like child cruelty to force them to transition just because they made the mistake of confessing curiousity to a medical professional.
And given that a significant minority of children today report fears of being accepted, and wanting to be considered cool, and given how “cool” it currently is to be transgender, non-binary, gay, etc amongst their peers, it should be OBVIOUS that a good number of these kids are just trying to “fit in”, the same way that in the past, gay kids forced themselves to have heterosexual relationships to “fit in”.