Pediatrician drops a bomb on idea that transgenderism is real — completely destroys it with truth
Chemical castration is what you’re doing when you put any biologically normal child on puberty blockers. It’s treating puberty like a disease, arresting a normal process which is critical to normal development and bad for kids.
Sterilization: not good for kids. Prepping them for what will likely result in a case in girls a double mastectomy at 16 — not how you treat depression or anxiety and I have plenty of experience treating teenagers with depression, anxiety, even suicidal depression. Indoctrinating pre-school kids with the lie that you can be trapped in the wrong body, again, that’s disrupting their normal reality testing and cognitive development. Those things are abusive.
As to the studies, there are two that I am aware of that claim affirming your child’s gender confusion is good for them. Number one, it assumes that coaching a child into a fixed-false belief is mentally healthy. Science doesn’t allow you to assume your conclusion. Number two, those studies are extremely small. Number three, those studies are very short term. And number four, the control group of “mentally healthy children” are the siblings, most of them are siblings of the trans-identifying child. Oh, and there’s a number five, the parents were the ones evaluating the mental health of the children.
This is not science…I don’t think you need to have an M.D. or a Ph.D to know that’s not science — that’s ideology masquerading as science.
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She absolutely nails it!
What a nice piece of plagiarism! You didn't even provide the citation for your claims.
He copied it from either The Blaze or Breitbart.
Yes, but the point is that HE should have provided that information. Without it, the piece is plagiarized.
Plagiarizing this conservative nonsense is the least of his problems. CCM is attempting to discuss a problem and offer solutions to a medical problem that he doesn't have the mental ability to understand.
They know it to be true. Why would they comment? You sound like John Russell posting something to start controversy when there isn't.
This article panders to people who don't understand gender identity and how it is treated.
Sterilization is desired as part of the treatment because the sex hormones that align with the child's gender identity will block them. Sterilization is also irrelevant because the gonads are removed as part of the reconstruction surgery.
Cretella belongs to the socially conservative American College of Pediatricians, which is estimated at 500 members. The American Academy of Pediatrics, a socially unaligned group of about 64,000, recommends the following with respect to Gender Identity Disorder: “… early evaluation of children exhibiting GID, but treatment with medications should not be started until they reach puberty. Pediatricians and parents should consult with experienced mental health professionals for children and adolescents experiencing gender-related issues. When patients are sufficiently physically mature to receive medical treatment, they should be referred to a medical specialist or program treating GID.” So, the first two paragraphs in the OP are straw men, if people are doing these things to prepubescent kids, they are acting improperly.
The third paragraph is culled from a paper written by Cretella; a point-by-point takedown of that paper can be found here:
If you are the parent of a kid with GID disorder, taking action based on Net ‘studies’ which you aren’t qualified to evaluate is a bad idea. Relying on a small group with an agenda like Cretella’s is no better. Start with the much, much larger American Academy of Pediatrics professional group whose focus is only on the welfare of your kid.
a propaganda piece
disagreements in diagnosis, treatments, does not mean other doctors are not practicing for the welfare of the child
ROFLMAO! And something like this, taken from the Heritage Foundation, is not "propaganda"?
As soon as I saw Heritage Foundation, I knew were dealing with pure BS.
Newsvine had a higher class of trolls than New Stalkers.
blogs? now you are citing blogs?
Do you have any proof to the contrary?
Snopes says that you are wrong.
If the blog includes links to credible sources, as this one does, then what's the problem?
Too bad you never learned how to do research.
"Indoctrinating pre-school kids with the lie that you can be trapped in the wrong body, again, that’s disrupting their normal reality testing and cognitive development. Those things are abusive."
Indoctrinating pre-school kids with the lie that they are sinners or evil for displaying traits of a gender other than the one they were assigned at birth is abusive. Using peer pressure and shame to force children to conform to a pre-conceived sexuality is abusive. Sending children to some religious anti-gay reform programs in hopes of "fixing" them is abusive. Telling your child they are broken and need to be fixed is mental abuse.