Politicizing Pediatrics: How transgender guidelines undermine trust in medical authority

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"The American Academy of Pediatrics is prioritizing the opinion of a five-year-old over the judgment of the child’s parents.

According to the new guidelines, any child who wants to transition to the other sex should be “affirmed.” Regardless of age. If a five-year-old boy tells you that he is a girl, your job is to buy him a dress and change his name to Emily. Any other response is outdated and transphobic. The authors specifically reject any “watchful waiting” for prepubescent children."

 
The AAP’s recommendations for transgenderism makes me question the validity of all thier recommendations.
 
I’ve seen kids un-transition.
This one girl I know, she insisted she was gender fluid (but mostly male), put her parents through living Hell with her insistence on male name and pronouns, wore a tux to prom , wore a man’s haircut, etc.
Now she’s one semester away from graduating from Uni and she’s back to being a girl again.
Thanks be to God she never delved into getting male hormones…
 
How many children express gender confusion all on their own, with zero outside encouragement to do so, versus those who are influenced?
 
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I’m taking an abnormal psychology class this semester. I have to say it’s odd how gender dysphoria is the only psychological illness we’re being instructed to affirm. 😔
 
I supervised a class of second graders playing with Legos today. The girls got together and made Lego families, unicorns, etc. The boys all made Star Wars fighters, construction equipment, etc. Neither gender had the slightest interest in working with the other.
If it were a Bay Area school, they might be forced to switch groups. To “explore” the opposite gender. Wouldn’t surprise me.
 
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Thom18 said:
I’m taking an abnormal psychology class this semester. I have to say it’s odd how gender dysphoria is the only psychological illness we’re being instructed to affirm. 😔
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Is it gender dysphoria that is supposed to be affirmed or the person who has it that is supposed to be affirmed? Affirmation of the patient’s gender identity and possible transitioning is probably considered by most doctors who treat Transgender patients to be the most effective medical treatment to alleviate the symptoms of gender dysphoria. I would think that they have decided that other treatments don’t work as well or they would probably be using them instead.

And different mental problems have different treatments. If someone has OCD, doctors often treat it and try to alleviate its symptoms by giving patients an antidepressant and if they have ADHD, they often treat it and try to alleviate its symptoms by giving the patient a stimulant like Ritalin. These have apparently been determined to be the most effective treatments for those disorders.

Isn’t the goal to help patients become both happier and more functional?
 
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What are the other successful treatments of gender dysphoria?
 
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I supervised a class of second graders playing with Legos today. The girls got together and made Lego families, unicorns, etc. The boys all made Star Wars fighters, construction equipment, etc. Neither gender had the slightest interest in working with the other.
If it were a Bay Area school, they might be forced to switch groups. To “explore” the opposite gender. Wouldn’t surprise me.
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Would you consider it a problem if a boy wanted to make unicorns and a girl wanted to make a Star Wars fighter?
 
In my observation, these teenagers who verbalize gender fluidity (do NOT tell these kids they are confused, you’ll only make them dig in their heels) usually have a bunch of other “broad-minded” teenagers in the background cheering them on.

The girl I mentioned went to a public high school with a gay-straight alliance club who were giving her ideas.
Also the internet.
But she was doing this for five or six years.
I wonder how quickly she would have resolved from it if she didn’t have her cheerleaders reinforcing it.
 
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^The upside down world we live in today.
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Oh please. You can’t vote until you’re eighteen, drink until you’re twenty-one or rent a car (or even a steam cleaner!) until you’re 23 😆😆😆

But we’re supposed to fall in line without question when a kid questions their own body.
 
At that age as with any other, gender confusion is abnormal behavior. The point is, they didn’t. And I won’t ever encourage them to.
 
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Exactly. When gender confusion is encouraged as “normal” or “cool,” more kids will play at it.
 
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If it were a Bay Area school, they might be forced to switch groups. To “explore” the opposite gender. Wouldn’t surprise me.
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The way you phrased that – “they might be” … “Wouldn’t surprise me” – it sounds like you have no evidence. How then can you pass such a judgment and share it with others?

We can discuss gender ideology without making stuff up. 😒🚬
 
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The guidelines suggest that we no longer use the term “transition,” because we are supposed to “view the process as an affirmation and acceptance of who they have always been rather than a transition.” The guidelines also endorse changing the child’s birth certificate, to erase any trace of Justin’s existence: the child’s name on the birth certificate will be changed to Emily, and the child’s gender at birth will be changed to female. Justin never existed.

George Orwell could not have made this up.
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Wow! This is scary. Lord help us!

Does anyone (here at CAF) have any good ideas how to make things better? I’m a firm believer in personally engaging the people around me, starting with family. I’ve told my kids what I think, that biology is reality, and that we are truthful when we apprehend reality and communicate it to others. People now are embracing lies and being convinced by persistent liars that those lies are truth. My kids seem to get it. What more can I do? What more can you do?
 
Do you have a specific gender-divergent person in mind, or are you speaking more generally?
 
I had no one specific in mind. I’m thinking that people see this stuff on TV or the internet and it’s easy to be an armchair commentator about the ills of society, but what can we personally do to turn this mess around? Probably have to start small and be patient. It will take a while, but as Christians we have reason to be hopeful.
 
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One huge problem is the lack of clarity as to what transgenderism is.
Right now, there are three different phenomena using the name “transgender”

First, you have the people, almost always male, who from their earliest age feel wrong in their bodies.
Unfortunately, there is no way to predict out of a group of little boys expressing their belief they are actually girls, which ones will naturally grow out of it, and which ones will have this as a permanent idea.

Second, you have the later-onset condition where a kid (usually a girl) is content with their sex until something triggers a distaste for being female (or their birth sex).

Third, you have the wanna-be’s who are in it to get attention.

LGBT activists demand that all three groups be treated as if they were the same.
 
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