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Gender Ideology harms Children - American College of Pediatricians.

Courtesy of the ACP online.
https://www.acpeds.org/the-college-speaks/position-statements/gender-ideology-harms-children


Gender Ideology Harms Children

Updated May 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 diagnosed with gender dysphoria may be given puberty blockers as young as eleven, and will require cross-sex hormones in later adolescence to continue impersonating the opposite sex. These children will never be able to conceive any genetically related children even via articifial 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.

Michelle A. Cretella, M.D.
President of the American College of Pediatricians

Quentin Van Meter, M.D.
Vice President of the American College of Pediatricians
Pediatric Endocrinologist

Paul McHugh, M.D.
University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School and the former psychiatrist in chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital

Originally published March 2016
Updated August 2016
Updated January 2017

CLARIFICATIONS in response to FAQs regarding points 3 & 5:

Regarding Point 3: “Where does the APA or DSM-V indicate that Gender Dysphoria is a mental disorder?”

The APA (American Psychiatric Association) is the author of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition(DSM-V). The APA states that those distressed and impaired by their GD meet the definition of a disorder. The College is unaware of any medical literature that documents a gender dysphoric child seeking puberty blocking hormones who is not significantly distressed by the thought of passing through the normal and healthful process of puberty.
From the DSM-V fact sheet:

“The critical element of gender dysphoria is the presence of clinically significant distress associated with the condition.”
“This condition causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.”

Regarding Point 5:  “Where does the DSM-V list rates of resolution for Gender Dysphoria?”

On page 455 of the DSM-V under “Gender Dysphoria without a disorder of sex development” it states: “Rates of persistence of gender dysphoria from childhood into adolescence or adulthood vary. In natal males, persistence has ranged from 2.2% to 30%. In natal females, persistence has ranged from 12% to 50%.”  Simple math allows one to calculate that for natal boys: resolution occurs in as many as 100% – 2.2% = 97.8% (approx. 98% of gender-confused boys)  Similarly, for natal girls: resolution occurs in as many as 100% – 12% = 88% gender-confused girls

The bottom line is this:  Our opponents advocate a new scientifically baseless standard of care for children with a psychological condition (GD) that would otherwise resolve after puberty for the vast majority of patients concerned.  Specifically, they advise:  affirmation of children’s thoughts which are contrary to physical reality; the chemical castration of these children prior to puberty with GnRH agonists (puberty blockers which cause infertility, stunted growth, low bone density, and an unknown impact upon their brain development), and, finally, the permanent sterilization of these children prior to age 18 via cross-sex hormones. There is an obvious self-fulfilling nature to encouraging young GD children to impersonate the opposite sex and then institute pubertal suppression. If a boy who questions whether or not he is a boy (who is meant to grow into a man) is treated as a girl, then has his natural pubertal progression to manhood suppressed, have we not set in motion an inevitable outcome? All of his same sex peers develop into young men, his opposite sex friends develop into young women, but he remains a pre-pubertal boy. He will be left psychosocially isolated and alone. He will be left with the psychological impression that something is wrong. He will be less able to identify with his same sex peers and being male, and thus be more likely to self identify as “non-male” or female. Moreover, neuroscience reveals that the pre-frontal cortex of the brain which is responsible for judgment and risk assessment is not mature until the mid-twenties. Never has it been more scientifically clear that children and adolescents are incapable of making informed decisions regarding permanent, irreversible and life-altering medical interventions. For this reason, the College maintains it is abusive to promote this ideology, first and foremost for the well-being of the gender dysphoric children themselves, and secondly, for all of their non-gender-discordant peers, many of whom will subsequently question their own gender identity, and face violations of their right to bodily privacy and safety.

For more information, please visit this page on the College website concerning sexuality and gender issues.

A PDF version of this page can be downloaded here: Gender Ideology Harms Children

References:

1. Consortium on the Management of Disorders of Sex Development, “Clinical Guidelines for the Management of Disorders of Sex Development in Childhood.” Intersex Society of North America, March 25, 2006. Accessed 3/20/16 from http://www.dsdguidelines.org/files/clinical.pdf.

2. Zucker, Kenneth J. and Bradley Susan J. “Gender Identity and Psychosexual Disorders.” FOCUS: The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry. Vol. III, No. 4, Fall 2005 (598-617).

3. Whitehead, Neil W. “Is Transsexuality biologically determined?” Triple Helix (UK), Autumn 2000, p6-8. accessed 3/20/16 from http://www.mygenes.co.nz/transsexuality.htm; see also Whitehead, Neil W. “Twin Studies of Transsexuals [Reveals Discordance]” accessed 3/20/16 from http://www.mygenes.co.nz/transs_stats.htm.

4. Jeffreys, Sheila. Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism. Routledge, New York, 2014 (pp.1-35).

5. American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Arlington, VA, American Psychiatric Association, 2013 (451-459). See page 455 re: rates of persistence of gender dysphoria.

6. Hembree, WC, et al. Endocrine treatment of transsexual persons: an Endocrine Society clinical practice guideline. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2009;94:3132-3154.

7. Olson-Kennedy, J and Forcier, M. “Overview of the management of gender nonconformity in children and adolescents.” UpToDate November 4, 2015. Accessed 3.20.16 from www.uptodate.com.

8. Moore, E., Wisniewski, & Dobs, A. “Endocrine treatment of transsexual people: A review of treatment regimens, outcomes, and adverse effects.” The Journal of Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2003; 88(9), pp3467-3473.

9. FDA Drug Safety Communication issued for Testosterone products accessed 3.20.16: http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/PostmarketDrugSafetyInformationforPatientsandProviders/ucm161874.htm.

10. World Health Organization Classification of Estrogen as a Class I Carcinogen: http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/topics/ageing/cocs_hrt_statement.pdf.

11. Eyler AE, Pang SC, Clark A. LGBT assisted reproduction: current practice and future possibilities. LGBT Health 2014;1(3):151-156.

12. Dhejne, C, et.al. “Long-Term Follow-Up of Transsexual Persons Undergoing Sex Reassignment Surgery: Cohort Study in Sweden.” PLoS ONE, 2011; 6(2). Affiliation: Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Division of Psychiatry, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Accessed 3.20.16 from http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0016885.

Trans- Out of the military!

By Ryan T. Anderson:   (This is a portion of his blog on the following subject matter.)

Trump’s announcement that it would not be feasible to open the military to personnel who identify as transgender returns the military to the policy it had always observed, before the Obama administration’s 12th-hour, politically driven imposition of a transgender agenda.

As I explain in my forthcoming book, “When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment,” the best biology, psychology, and philosophy conclude that sex is a biological reality and that gender is the social expression of that reality.

The most helpful therapies for gender dysphoria focus not on achieving the impossible—changing bodies to conform to thoughts and feelings—but on helping people accept and even embrace the truth about their bodies and reality.

Unfortunately, 41 percent of people who identify as transgender will attempt suicide at some point in their lives, compared to 4.6 percent of the general population. And people who have had transition surgery are 19 times more likely than average to die by suicide.

People who identify as transgender suffer a host of mental health and social problems—including anxiety, depression, and substance abuse—at higher rates than the general population. Biology isn’t bigotry, and we need a sober and honest assessment of the human costs of getting human nature wrong.

So there were well-justified concerns that Obama was using the military to advance the latest social justice culture warrior agenda item—seeking to mainstream transgender identities and promote controversial therapies for gender dysphoria.

Obama’s policy change ignored the reality that placing individuals who might be at increased risk for suicide or other psychological injury in the most stressful situation imaginable—the battlefield—is reckless.

But even people who disagree about the underlying transgender issues should acknowledge that there are practical concerns for the military when it comes to people who identify as transgender.
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Colonial Hearts, Modern Hearts: Access to evil.

A group of Brothers in the Lord have now have serious problems with the law because they decided to block an entrance to an abortion clinic in Kentucky.  So much so, that now the federal government has placed felony charges on them.

Protesters don't usually block entrances to abortuaries and murder mills but I guess they felt convicted to try something else in the face of political stagnicity.  

I've seen videos of what has happened in old video footage when protesters have tried to block doors at abortuaries and the local police become brutal.

It's b/c our nation literally wants to murder and sacrifice its own children. There's no other way to look at it.     

"Evil and Greedy".   

For over 50-60 years our people have been working on making this happen and HOW it could have passed as law, demonstrates that our people no longer fear God.  


These 11 brothers in the Lord now have to go through the legal wringer. But before we start thinking that they crossed a line, I ask myself

what's going to happen when free speech is taken away - as in, you can't protest in front of abortuaries anymore?  

THAT would also become illegal and then many more would find themselves in the legal wringer.       What happens when you can no longer call out SIN? ... 


That's  extremely capable of happening in fact, that's the motive of the leftist machine in this country.  They've already tried
to call reading the Bible or free speech in front of abortuaries some form of abuse...  And that has been presented in court.  

Because of the strands that are still holding together our constitutional rights, they weren't imposed as law but we've 
seen just about every other tactic used to try and counter our constitutional rights already.

Who can trust what's law when "laws are made to be broken"?

Man gives law.... Man takes law away.   Ho-Hum!


My mind is starting to consider that it's not exactly all about whether our people are just more evil than we were at 
the start of our country.  After seeing for myself the remnants and images of an America from the past at our Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia vacation, I'm trying to wrap my mind around the comparison between those times and our times.  

Evils existed then also.  ... Just as evil men existed then.  

In those days, people didn't think twice about owning a slave.  In fact, people could perhaps disappear like nothing and who would wonder about them?  

Who could care for a slave other than the person profiting from them?   Families could be torn apart at a blink of an eye, and again, who would care?

Families torn apart, just as they are today.


To own and enslave a person has to be one of the worst evils ever known to mankind, and yet it was everywhere back then IN THIS NATION.   What was done to the native Indians living all over this country, was unfathomable, and yet it did happen.

My recent trip to Colonial Williamsburg, VA opened up more interest in learning about those times and what was really going on.  I expect to do a lot more research on Colonial times.   I feel like immersing myself in that time to see if I could really get to understand the type of people who lived then.  Because I know there's a political side that wants me to believe that those people where God-conscience people, and then there is the other political side that wants me to recognize the evil that was in them.

Lately, another issue has come up and that is the issue of how could those people who seemed to be "more" moral than us today and more "God"-conscience, enslave people w/ no apology-- even to the degree that it would send them to a civil war in order to defend owning slaves???

These people had to be just as greedy and evil as we are today if they did that - and they did!   

So who were these people on the inside?? ... 

And when I read my Bible, Jesus would often say, "This wicked and adulterous generation", and that was 18 THOUSAND YEARS BEFORE the start of this nation!!!

The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do w/ the reason why we broke off from England.   If these Protestants left the church of Eng. b/c they wanted to be free and start a "free" life somewhere away from the Church of Eng., due to their new found ability to interpret that Bible for themselves, etc.   

But what about the interpretation of owning slaves? ... They apparently got that all wrong.   What happened to their idea of "all men are created equal"?   Didn't that come from that break from the church of england.?

What interpretation of the Bible allowed them to slaughter the Native Indians?

As in, "Do not murder", and "God created man in His image"?

There's more to lead me to believe that perhaps they left the Church of Eng. in order to be atheists and do whatever they wanted as hedonists - if anything!   Because it wasn't the freedom to practice the Bible as it was read.   

If it was the ignorance they had of the scriptures and how Judaeo-Christianity really worked, perhaps this is why they could tote their guns, Bibles and slaves back then.   

What about the puritans?  Were they all puritans?... Apparently not.
Some where perhaps more "pure" in the Word than others?...  

So then more emphasis has to be added to my thinking that these people where not more God-conscience at all.   I think it's just that TODAY we have MORE ACCESS to SIN and as time has passed, our hearts have hardened more and more.   Our blessings and modernization has allowed out to kick God out of the picture more and more, and thus our imaginations to sin increase as a result of it.   Which is the natural thing that happens when you give a child a gift, ... the gift becomes more important than the gift giver.   People get lost in the gift.

Does that make us more evil today? ... Perhaps as a result, it does.


As it's written in the Book of Genesis, God looked down and saw that "Man had BECOME progressively MORE wicked as time lapsed, and the intention of the evil w/in their hearts increased on the earth...   Their intentions to do evil increased more and more all the time.. and that's when God's judgment had to put a stop to it.

There's quite a bit of language and description of progressive evil in the book of Genesis AS WELL AS approaching the end times.  

Therefore, things are going to become more and more evil before the coming of The Lord.    With more access to sin, WE WILL ACCESS SIN MORE.. it's as simple as that.

Were those people in those funny clothes, living in those "backward" colonial times less evil than us today??..... YES AND NO.

Look what they did when they grew in power over the native Indians... 

They over-powered people, enslaved, raped, pillaged, and took over and slaughtered.  They created evil and murdered.... 

It HAS repeated itself over and over again in other circumstances after that, in other countries where we've had access and power, and leverage, etc.   

The only diff. between us and those people w/ the funny shoes is that they had funny shoes and less access to porn than us!  We decided we didn't want to inconvenience ourselves with the responsibilities of family life, so we diminished and keep diminishing the power of "the family", and murder our own children as a result.   

The destroying our own nuclear family has become the evidence of a hard and contrite heart, and a heart that "wants what it wants".   

God's order to "Be fruitful and multiply" is not being heeded.  Male headship which is the image of God as to His order on how to run the family is being blasphemed and cursed by man in rebellion all sorts of ways, and 
we're allowing it because we no longer FEAR God.   Because we don't fear God, we no longer know Him.

Not knowing God means that what is "god to us" becomes our god or our idolatry, and so we've become a VERY PAGAN nation serving MANY DIFFERENT gODS.    We're becoming just as pagan as the pagans we ran off from the land.

And that too is reminiscent of what happen after the children of Israel received the promise -- land to the disgrace of their people.


So those Colonial people were people just like people are.   Whether they knew or followed the true God of the Bible, it's still the case, that you're only Christian if you're Christ-like (and truly born again of the Spirit of God).  Just like today.

And this seems to me to be the more Biblically sound way to compare and contrast them and us today.

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