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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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You wanna know what I think? It’s religious. The first recorded command to mankind in the Bible is sexual! Go forth and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it.
And all my adult life I’ve been aware that I AM a man, a male. And I look at and I treat women differently than I look at men. And I think and act as a man. And I, too, really wonder, What do women want? And my life has instilled within it a character, a role that is uniquely male. I’m saying that the sexes are not interchangeable, and are not the same except for the plumbing. I’ll never think or act like a woman.
And I’m not supposed to.
There are other fundamental differences between men and women: physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual. And all these differences involve the ordinally first commandment: go forth and multiply. Man being created make and female, is not just how we reproduce or what we do, it’s who we are.
Every family, every tribe, every society, every culture and every great civilization has been build upon and for this distinction: male and female He created them. “So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.”
In God’s own description of mankind, these are the foremost and fundamental characteristics of man. We are created in His image, and we are created male and female.
If one intends to destroy humanity, God’s greatest creation, these are the first and foremost things to obliterate.
There is money to be made. Hop on the bandwagon.
It is so tragic. The differences are so beautiful, so life-affirming, so uplifting. And yet they would destroy all of it for a sick agenda. You said it so well, Flicker.
Indeed. There always is. But they’re such compassionate people!
Leftist compassion: mutilating children during their 5 minutes of gender confusion/exploration.
Im not religious, have’t been since grade school, but the evil we’re seeing is different. It’s more than just greed, desire for power, or stupidity although those feed it. It’s beyond human understanding.