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According to the ACP gender ideology harms children


Posted: Feb 28, 2017

Gender Ideology Harms Children

Updated January 2017 

The American College of Pediatricians urges healthcare professionals, educators and legislators to reject all policies that condition children to accept as normal a life of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex. Facts – not ideology – determine reality.

1. Human sexuality is an objective biological binary trait: “XY” and “XX” are genetic markers of male and female, respectively – not genetic markers of a disorder. The norm for human design is to be conceived either male or female. Human sexuality is binary by design with the obvious purpose being the reproduction and flourishing of our species. This principle is self-evident. The exceedingly rare disorders of sex development (DSDs), including but not limited to testicular feminization and congenital adrenal hyperplasia, are all medically identifiable deviations from the sexual binary norm, and are rightly recognized as disorders of human design. Individuals with DSDs (also referred to as “intersex”) do not constitute a third sex.1

2. No one is born with a gender. Everyone is born with a biological sex. Gender (an awareness and sense of oneself as male or female) is a sociological and psychological concept; not an objective biological one. No one is born with an awareness of themselves as male or female; this awareness develops over time and, like all developmental processes, may be derailed by a child’s subjective perceptions, relationships, and adverse experiences from infancy forward. People who identify as “feeling like the opposite sex” or “somewhere in between” do not comprise a third sex. They remain biological men or biological women.2,3,4

3. A person’s belief that he or she is something they are not is, at best, a sign of confused thinking. When an otherwise healthy biological boy believes he is a girl, or an otherwise healthy biological girl believes she is a boy, an objective psychological problem exists that lies in the mind not the body, and it should be treated as such. These children suffer from gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria (GD), formerly listed as Gender Identity Disorder (GID), is a recognized mental disorder in the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-V).5 The psychodynamic and social learning theories of GD/GID have never been disproved.2,4,5

4. Puberty is not a disease and puberty-blocking hormones can be dangerous. Reversible or not, puberty- blocking hormones induce a state of disease – the absence of puberty – and inhibit growth and fertility in a previously biologically healthy child.6

5. According to the DSM-V, as many as 98% of gender confused boys and 88% of gender confused girls eventually accept their biological sex after naturally passing through puberty.5

6. Pre-pubertal children who use puberty blockers to impersonate the opposite sex will require cross-sex hormones in late adolescence. This combination leads to permanent sterility. These children will never be able to conceive any genetically related children even via artificial reproductive technology. In addition, cross-sex hormones (testosterone and estrogen) are associated with dangerous health risks including but not limited to cardiac disease, high blood pressure, blood clots, stroke, diabetes, and cancer.7,8,9,10,11

7. Rates of suicide are nearly twenty times greater among adults who use cross-sex hormones and undergo sex reassignment surgery, even in Sweden which is among the most LGBTQ – affirming countries.12 What compassionate and reasonable person would condemn young children to this fate knowing that after puberty as many as 88% of girls and 98% of boys will eventually accept reality and achieve a state of mental and physical health?

8. Conditioning children into believing a lifetime of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is normal and healthful is child abuse. Endorsing gender discordance as normal via public education and legal policies will confuse children and parents, leading more children to present to “gender clinics” where they will be given puberty-blocking drugs. This, in turn, virtually ensures they will “choose” a lifetime of carcinogenic and otherwise toxic cross-sex hormones, and likely consider unnecessary surgical mutilation of their healthy body parts as young adults.

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Consider the source - hawk

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This is all you need to know: (from Wikipedia)

The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) is an advocacy group of pediatricians and other healthcare professionals in the United States.[1] The group was founded in 2002 by a group of pediatricians, including Joseph Zanga, a past president of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), as a protest against the AAP's support for adoption by gay couples.[2][3] The American College of Pediatricians has been described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a "hate group", with "a history of propagating damaging falsehoods about LGBT people".[11][12]

Exactly. It's not the American Academy of Pediatrics - nm

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This so-called "College" is a small group of anti-LGBT - advocates...

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not to be confused with the REAL American Academy of Pediatrics. This group you cite only has only a few hundred members, the real College of Pediatrics has 60,000 members. This one is essentially a hate group that is out to stir up trouble, involve itself in judicial matters, and stir up trouble for LGBT people. The same old familiar songs, "Judeo-Christian values," "life begins at conception." Beginning to get the picture now? Don't fall for this line.

I'm all for LGB rights, but I agree about the - transgender issue.

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People who identify as transgender have the same number of chromosomes as the rest of us. Changing one's gender is a choice. Changing one's sex is impossible.

What an offensive post. As the mother of a transgender - 18-year-old since age 6, to say...

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I am abusing my child is absurd.

As much as I appreciate the fact that you are trying to educate yourself on the subject, it matters the source you're getting your info from.

Try contacting TYFA (transgender youth family allies) at info@imatyfa.org with questions if you care to learn more accurate info on the subject. Or even NCLR (National Center for Lesbian Rights) who do a lot of great work for transgender people.

I will not discuss the topic on this politics board further. I realize this is an extremely sensitive subject and one most people cannot possibly wrap their heads around unless one knows someone transgender or has a child of their own living through it.

I would say most of us find that post - offensive

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There are people on here who seem to like to criticize anybody that is different than they are.

Judge not and walk a mile in my shoes, are appropriate here. nm - Stay strong mama bear!

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Education - Jesus

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Thank you for standing up, for your child and for all families with transgender children!

Unfortunately, I doubt the OP was in any way trying to educate themselves. Rather, they were trying to further their own hateful agenda by presenting something that seemed 'medical' to anyone who didn't look past the surface.

Though I don't think this should - be on the political

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board, have you ever heard of intersex? That is when you have both parts and maybe look female on the outside but have male parts inside. There are articles on that but I won't post them because they do mention organs and we can't post that stuff on here, at least I don't think so. But search "intersex." Are these people "sick." Do you know if maybe some transgenders have this situation? I don't judge people that I don't know anything about.

Hopefully this topic will get moved off the political board.

The technical term is called hermaphroditism. - I have transcribed reports on this.

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The babies are born with "ambiguous genitalia." The parents must decide at some point which sex they want their baby.

No, that's not what I'm talking - about.

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This is where they have found perfectly normal male external parts and ended up through surgery for some reason finding ovaries inside. This is just one example.

It has been made political so it does belong here. - Many of us are aware of the

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differences in people, but we also have small children and don't think boys should use the girl's bathroom. Why is this now an issue? Obama made it an issue when he forced schools to allow boys in girl's bathroom with fear of withholding federal funds.

I am a mamma bear too and I want to protect my young daughter. I understand about transgender, etc., but I also understand that there are men out there who will use that for their own gain.

Hollywood makes everything political, too. - Patricia Arquette is upset that her transgender

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sister was left out of the Oscars.


I'm sure Meryl Streep will be all over this. - ...
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maybe....

I'm a mama bear - too

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My belief on the bathroom issue is that if you have an inny, use the female bathroom; if you have an outy, use the boys bathroom. My reasons are the exact reasons you mentioned.

I do understand the mama bear that was offended by the OP though. She felt the post was calling her a child abuser and I saw that is basically what it was doing if you allow your child to be what they feel they are.

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