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Our Children Are Not Lab Rats
After following the positions on transgenderism for countless corporations, non-profit and professional organizations over the past few years, I’ve determined that there can be no other rational explanation for all of these groups to pursue this grotesque experiment on our young people; they are conducting outrageous medical procedures simply because they can, and no one knows how to stop them. Despite its claims to protect children, the American Academy of Pediatrics has distorted the scientific data available and quashed professional discussion; despite international rejection of its position, it insists on pursuing its agenda to treat patients with questionable protocols and drugs:
The care model is not one-size-fits-all, said Brittany Allen, M.D., FAAP, a member of the AAP Section on LGBTQ Executive Committee. It recognizes the wide spectrum of normal, healthy gender identities.
‘As I often tell families, gender-affirming care is creating space for children to be able to tell us their gender story, rather than filling in the end of the story for them. In that journey, gender-affirming care may draw on evidence-based medical tools — such as puberty blockers or hormone therapy — at developmentally appropriate ages. These tools have been shown to help reduce gender dysphoria and improve mental health for many transgender, nonbinary and gender-diverse youth.
The possibility that these children might actually be the gender into which they were born, and simply need counseling, rarely enters the picture. The fact that children are being influenced by the “popularity” of gender alternatives has repeatedly been discounted. But efforts to give this global medical research a kind of legitimacy continue:
A spate of headlines this month declared that America’s surge in transgender identification wasn’t being caused by a social contagion. These articles were prompted by a new study by Jack Turban and colleagues in Pediatrics, flagship journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. The study claimed that social influence isn’t the reason that as many as 9% of America’s youth now call themselves transgender. Thus, Dr. Turban argues, efforts in conservative states to regulate on-demand puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery must be resisted.
Yet Dr. Turban’s study is deeply flawed and likely couldn’t have survived a reasonable peer-review process. The swift response from the scientific community made both points clear—with even those who support hormones and surgery for gender-dysphoric youth noting that Dr. Turban’s shoddy science undermined their cause.
And yet the AAP persists in conducting these experiments:
The AAP has stifled debate on how best to treat youth in distress over their bodies, shut down efforts by critics to present better scientific approaches at conferences, used technicalities to suppress resolutions to bring it into line with better-informed European countries, and put its thumb on the scale at Pediatrics in favor of a shoddy but politically correct research agenda. Its preference for fashionable political positions over evidence-based medicine is a disservice to member physicians, parents and children.
One organization has set out to challenge these positions of AAP, with no obvious impact to date. Genspect wrote a letter to AAP, which included the following:
‘We are very concerned that the AAP is currently representing only one set of views on how best to help our children thrive — namely both social (names, pronouns, etc.) and medical transition (puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, surgeries), which the AAP refers to as ‘affirmative care.’ Many of our children have received this care and are anything but thriving.
‘It is alarming that not a single chapter or committee within the AAP was willing to ‘sponsor’ a resolution that asks to conduct a non-partisan and systematic review of evidence in pediatric gender medicine — something the AAP has never done,’ the group’s letter adds.
‘It is even more alarming that the AAP appears to be preemptively suppressing debate by not allowing comments on ‘unsponsored’ resolutions, a rule that did not exist last year when a similar ‘unsponsored’ resolution got many supportive pediatrician votes and comments.’
I understand that parents and children have a choice about participating in these kinds of medical experiments. But the medical practitioners have an aura of authority that can convince parents that these efforts are based on sound science (when they are not) and compassion for the families (which does not factor in).
It’s time that we called these practices what they are. They are insidious medical experiments that risk causing those very conditions they are supposed to cure: increased depression, physical mutilation, gender confusion, and increased suicide. Except for the fact that parents and their children are not literally being forced to participate, are these experiments that much different from people who will take almost any risk to have their children survive as whole and complete human beings? Isn’t it unethical to tell them that these experiments are perhaps the only way to save their children?
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Boston Children’s Hospital recently boasted about the “gender affirming” care they provide. In response to the publicity, the hospital and its staff received threats, and accusations were made that they were providing inappropriate treatments to underage children. The far right was accused of issuing these threats; they can’t imagine that ordinary citizens might find their work unethical and repugnant.
Completely agree. It’s awful.
From the first quote in the OP:
What a completely incoherent maroon. Gender-affirming care is not “creating space for children to tell us their gender story, rather than filling in the end story for them.” It is–finally and once and for all–filling in the end story for them, and locking them into an identity other than that into which they were born, at an malleable age when they’re just embarking on their journey to figure out who they are, by imposing a set of irreversible, life-altering procedures on them.
“You’re a five-year old girl who’s pretending she’s a boy? You must be a boy inside! Here you go! Now you’re a boy forever!”
“You’re an eight year old boy who likes to dress up in your sister’s clothes? You must really want to be a girl! Zap! You’re a girl! No going back!”
This loon is correct in only one thing: that childhood is a “journey.” Unfortunately, she and her ilk are the ones who are short-circuiting and short-changing our children’s journey by insisting that we must take seriously, and act–often in irreparable ways–on every manifestation of a child’s imagination or questioning of his or her identity as if that child is a rational adult. And oh, BTW, if the child’s parents disagree, then by all means collude with the child’s school system, turn the parents into enemies, and teach that child to lie and deceive by not telling the parents what’s going on.
It’s sickening.
The following is from a brief I filed in a Florida lawsuit challenging the parental rights in education law (mischaracterized as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill).
Beautifully said, She. It is all heartbreaking and unconscionable. And yet it goes on. I’m glad I’m not the only one who spotted the contradictions in the doctor’s comments. She should be ashamed.
Excellent, David! We are clearly on the same page. These actions cannot be allowed to continue. Thanks!
It would be thoroughly baffling to me how the state agencies are willing to sacrifice children on the altar of experimental psychology if it were not for one thing. The statists do not believe that parents should have the right to raise their children, that is the state’s job. Children belong to the state. Parents are simply a nuisance.
I had momentarily forgotten that point, David. Thanks for reminding me, since it is a factor in this insanity.
Thank you, gender affirming laws and “caregivers” . . .
So if the parents approve, is it OK?
Susan, I agree with your criticisms of the horrible nature of the trans agenda and these diabolical medical procedures. But I think that I disagree about your identification of the cause. You wrote (my emphasis):
I can never be certain of the motives of another person, but I am not convinced that the purpose behind this agenda is an arbitrary exercise of power, “simply because they can.” I think that their motivation is much worse.
What I observe is a group of people, with extraordinary influence and power, who take the side of almost every sort of immorality, deviance, perversion, and abomination. Almost universally, they seem to oppose God’s established order of male and female — husband, wife, and family. This seems to be the thing that they hate. They seem to attack everything that upholds that order, and to defend almost every violation of it.
There do seem to be two exceptions, at the moment, though sometimes I wonder about the first. They still seem to oppose pedophilia (this is the one that I question, as they support things like “drag queen story hour”). They also oppose male premarital and extramarital promiscuity, sometimes, though only when the woman involved objects, and it doesn’t seem to matter to them whether the woman raises her objection in advance, or only after the fact.
So it seems to me that the motivation is not the exercise of arbitrary power.
Then again, we could both be right. As you say, we can’t really know the sickness from which they act.
I would like to see a state such as Florida create a cause of action so that doctors and hospitals can be sued by young people once they turn eighteen, and to extend that against doctors and hospitals in other states. Nothing gets attention as fast as lawsuits.
Thank you Susan for this story. I have a deep concern for this issue. Dr. Moynihan of Inside the Vatican offered a post in which he included a very disturbing report by writer Rod Dreher. In Dr. Moynihan’s post, he said a father of a young 12 year old girl in Eastern Europe (!) who was in a deep depression after being influenced by American teenagers on social media, was at his wit’s end. I cannot imagine what is happening to parents who are losing control over their own children through mass indoctrination of schools, social media, peer pressure, the LGBTQ+ agenda and now even medical facilities.
If this was a natural process, we would have seen it’s evolution in countries and societies where social media and indoctrination are absent. It’s only where those influences are present are we seeing the rise of this distorted view of gender on this scale. It’s appalling and un-natural.
https://insidethevatican.com/news/newsflash/letter-100-2022-wed-aug-17-dreher/
Yes. One only goes through puberty once. And when it is disrupted, it can’t be repaired.
“The statists do not believe that parents should have the right to raise their children, that is the state’s job. Children belong to the state. Parents are simply a nuisance.” Right out “Communists for Dummies”…..
Opposing God’s natural order is the exercise of arbitrary power – by the dark side…..and that’s who they are influenced by.
You’re assuming it’s an experiment. What if they already know and are just sterilizing everybody.
Conversion therapy, but with drugs and scalpels.
Thank you, FSC, for relating to this issue and for adding the link.
I assume they are not, only because not everyone has some type of surgery. But if they had their way . . . .
Surgery isn’t the only way to sterilize. I would think that stopping puberty would likely lead to permanent prepubescence and sterility in both boys and girls.
And apparently the covid vaccine is leading to increased miscarriages in adults, too. I haven’t read about any increase in female and male infertility, but I haven’t been looking either.
Added: I mean, you’re seeing purposeless cross-sexual changes and sterilization and I’m saying, why would they do it on such a massive scale if it were purposeless?
Points taken, Flicker. I don’t know if the damage is irreversible in every case, but it is in enough of them. Sigh.
You and I must have different definitions of the word arbitrary.
If it is Satanic, it is not arbitrary. It is purposefully evil.
I do not agree with this.
Do you really think that parents can do no wrong? That there is no such thing as child abuse?
The problem, I think, is that the evil people are in the positions of authority, supporting the mutilation of children. Good authorities would prevent it, over the parents’ objections, if necessary.
I think you have misread what David and FSC said. The state wants to take control of children because they think they own them. They consider parents to be inconvenient to their goals.
This is the [spoiler alert] premise of Iain Banks‘ The Wasp Factory. We are living in a wide-awake nightmare horror novel.
Has anyone figured out what is driving this obvious insanity? It can’t just be the greed of those who do it. Why would huge chunks of the population, the media and other professionals celebrate it and as a minimum not raise hell? I don’t think even the Chinese who want us destroyed would think such insanity would work.
I could make a number of guesses. (Let’s not forget those who are afraid to fight the leaders.) I really wonder if there’s a bit of the mad scientist involved; the idea that they get to try to do any experiment they wish? And they get away with it because “it’s for the children.” It’s also said they are determined to destroy any vestiges of religion and morality–they can just make it up. I don’t know. It’s all so repulsive to me, Iwalton, that my imagination freezes up.
And it gets worse: Yale Targets three-year-olds.
I suspect collective mental illness. Or, perhaps more accurately, collectivist mental illness.
NO. NO. NO. The world has truly gone mad.