(The Daily Signal)—A group of doctors, nurses, and pediatricians have signed on to a declaration calling on prominent United States medical organizations to stop performing experimental and harmful transgender procedures on children.
Members of the American College of Pediatricians, also known as ACPeds, and other medical professionals will announce their signing of the “Doctors Protecting Children Declaration” on Thursday during a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, The Daily Signal has learned.
“As physicians, nurses, other health professionals, psychotherapists, and behavioral health clinicians, scientists, researchers, and public health and policy professionals, we have serious concerns about the physical and mental health effects of the current protocols promoted for the care of children and adolescents in the United States who express discomfort with their biological sex,” the declaration states.
It is co-signed by medical and health organizations including the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, Genspect, the American College of Family Medicine, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, the Catholic Medical Association, and many individual doctors, pediatricians, and nurses.
The document emphasizes that most children and adults whose “thoughts and feelings do not align with their biological sex will resolve those mental incongruencies after experiencing the normal developmental process of puberty.”
It also notes that the young children who are going through attempted “gender-transition” procedures cannot really give “responsible informed consent” due to the “extremely limited long-term follow-up studies of interventions, and the immature, often impulsive, nature of the adolescent brain.”
Notably, the declaration points out that the many ”gender clinics” in the U.S. are basing their transgender protocols on the “Standards of Care” developed by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, or WPATH, which was recently exposed for hiding the dangerous and experimental nature of these procedures. The declaration points out that the very foundation of WPATH’s guidelines is “demonstrably flawed, and pediatric patients can be harmed when subjected to those protocols.”
The declaration also highlights the very serious long-term risks of so-called gender-affirming care, including when doctors or medical professionals ”socially transition” children (by referring to kids with pronouns or names that don’t match their biological sex), put them on puberty blockers, prescribe them masculinizing or feminizing hormones such as testosterone or estrogen, or perform irreversible ”sex change” procedures.
Sterility is just one of these long-term risks.
Social affirmations make youth more likely to progress on to puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, the declaration states.
Puberty blockers “permanently disrupt physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development” and can worsen psychological illness, cause low bone density, impair memory, lead to brain swelling, and more.
Cross sex-hormones, such as testosterone for girls and estrogen for boys, are “associated with dangerous health risks across the lifespan including, but not limited to, cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, heart attacks, blood clots, stroke, diabetes, and cancer,” the declaration continues.
And genital surgeries, perhaps most obviously, affect “future fertility and reproduction.”
“Evidence-based medical research now demonstrates there is little to no benefit from any or all suggested ‘gender affirming’ interventions for adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria,” the document says. “Social ‘affirmation,’ puberty blockers, masculinizing or feminizing hormones, and surgeries, individually or in combination, do not appear to improve long-term mental health of the adolescents, including suicide risk.”
The document also emphasizes that European countries like England, Scotland, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland have all paused such protocols given the evidence demonstrating that social, hormonal, and surgical interventions are “not only unhelpful but are harmful.”
Yet professional medical organizations in the U.S. continue to promote these interventions and call legislation protecting children from so-called transgender procedures “dangerous.”
The signers call upon top medical organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychological Association, and others to “follow the science and their European professional colleagues and immediately stop the promotion of social affirmation, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries for children and adolescents who experience distress over their biological sex.”
“Instead,” the declaration says, “these organizations should recommend comprehensive evaluations and therapies aimed at identifying and addressing underlying psychological comorbidities and neurodiversity that often predispose to and accompany gender dysphoria. We also encourage the physicians who are members of these professional organizations to contact their leadership and urge them to adhere to the evidence-based research now available.”
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Truly is a level of wickedness not seen since Nero enslaved a young boy, chopped off his genitals, dressed him up as a girl, and called him his “wife”.
They completely destroy the physical body of the child under the premise that the mind and heart cannot change. Then turn around and demand that everyone else accept, affirm, support, advocate, and celebrate the abominable sin under the premise that everyone else can change heart and mind.
Yet if you objectively ask the question, which is better for the child, a change of heart and mind, or destruction of the body, the answer is plain. If something must change, then the child is unquestionably better off with a change of heart and mind, and acceptance of the gender God made them to be, rather than destruction of their physical body, setting them up for a lifetime of disappointment knowing no matter how much they operate on the physical body and how much the appearance may change, they will never truly physically be the opposite sex. They will not be able to naturally procreate. They will not be desirable to any mate who does want to naturally procreate and have a family. They will be forced to live a lie, to constantly bear false witness to others and to themselves. Which is pretty much the only reason for the surgeries in the first place – to try to do a better job of bearing false witness – to try to tell a better lie.
Pondering why the SPLC has labeled these pediatricians as an extremist hate group. Just from a purely objective, logical standpoint, it makes no sense. Even if it were true that the heart and mind of the child cannot change (for which there is no concrete evidence), it’s still also true that the physical body cannot truly change either. So why is one remedy considered hateful and the other not? It makes no sense.
Plainly asking a simple objective question. Will the child be better off with a change of heart and mind, or a change of physical appearance? The answer is obvious to me. The child will be better off with a change of heart and mind. There’s no question about it, in my mind.
Yet what’s most ironic is that the very existence of the SPLC, the goal of the SPLC, and the efforts of the SPLC are purposed specifically for what? To try to change hearts and minds.
It boils down to nothing but plain and simple wickedness. Nothing but blatant rebellion against the Creator. That’s all it is and that’s all it ever will be. Because He says the mind and heart can change, but the flesh cannot. They’re dead set on trying to prove Him wrong. To try to justify their wickedness. And they never will.
They think they’re rebelling against us personally. Against what they perceive to be bigotry. That they’re going to “fix” us. That they’re going to “fix” mankind.
No, they’re just rebelling against Almighty God …
As they’re trying to force us to do the same …
It’s not the child they’re trying to fix. No, they’re trying to fix society. They’re trying to fix us. Mutilation and destruction of the physical bodies of children is just a means to an end. They don’t truly give a flying flip about the children. For them, the children are just useful leverage. Just a tool to be used and abused. Cannon fodder in their war against Almighty God.