Not everyone in the pediatrics profession has jumped on the transgender bandwagon. The American Academy of Pediatrics has. The American College of Pediatricians definitely HASN’T. Here are eight reasons why the ACP condemns sex-change “therapy” for children:
“1. Human sexuality is an objective biological binary trait: “XY” and “XX” are genetic markers of health – not genetic markers of a disorder.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Children who use puberty blockers to impersonate the opposite sex will require cross-sex hormones in late adolescence. Cross-sex hormones (testosterone and estrogen) are associated with dangerous health risks including but not limited to high blood pressure, blood clots, stroke and cancer.
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Rates of suicide are twenty times greater among adults who use cross-sex hormones and undergo sex reassignment surgery, even in Sweden which is among the most LGBQT – affirming countries.
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Conditioning children into believing a lifetime of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is normal and healthful is child abuse.”
https://www.acpeds.org/the-college-speaks/position-statements/gender-ideology-harms-children
Regarding child abuse and Point no. 5, consider what parents are doing to their children when they allow (or even compel!) them to undergo transgender therapy: They are turning a passing childhood phase into a lifelong condition the child may grow up to deeply regret, only to find that it is irreversible, in addition to carrying a high risk for disease and suicide.
Gender dysphoria is almost always a mental disorder—but also almost always transient (see no. 5 above). A major symptom of GD is the child’s belief that he or she has been born in the wrong body. Transgender advocates turn this on its head, claiming that “being born in the wrong body” is the CAUSE of GD, not the effect, and therefore needs to be “cured”by sex-change treatment. This is an irresponsible position to say the least, given the lack of evidence to support it.
This doesn’t mean that sex-change drug therapy or surgery should be abolished, or that ALL decisions to change sex are merely symptoms of mental illness. A persistent conviction that you are in the wrong body, if it lasts into the age of consent, may be a valid reason for undergoing sex-change treatment; at any rate every adult has a legal right to change sex. It DOES mean that MINORS should not receive such treatment. We take it for granted that a 12-year-old shouldn’t own a gun or drive a car—yet transgender advocates assume that this same child has the judgment and maturity to do something as momentous as changing their sex!
The social commentator Camille Paglia has put it this way:
“I think that experiments of unproven drugs — drug protocols — on children is a crime against humanity, and it should not be tolerated…These drugs have not been fully tested, and we’re using children as experiments? Boys forever are going to have, in adulthood, a child’s size penis? I cannot believe that this is happening without protest.”
Regarding sex-change drugs, it’s even worse than Paglia suggests:
“The FDA has documented thousands of deaths in adults linked to the hormone blocker Lupron — one that is now used as a puberty-blocker for children who suffer from gender dysphoria or claim to be ‘transgender.’”
But she is right that it is unethical if not criminal to use children as guinea pigs. To compare such children to the prisoners experimented on in Nazi concentration camps is of course an exaggeration—but less so than it should be. The identity-politics agenda behind transgender advocacy might be called “compassion fascism.”
A Johns Hopkins psychiatrist points out that: “Many people are doing what amounts to an experiment on these young people without telling them it’s an experiment…This is a very serious treatment. It is comparable to doing frontal lobotomies.”
“Healthcare givers” who do these experiments may sincerely believe they are humane people with their patients’ best interests at heart, but in their recklessness and ideological arrogance they are more like Joseph Mengele. To people not infected with the PC virus, what these doctors call a "cure" looks more like child abuse and even (as Paglia says) a crime against humanity.