This article lacks balance and objectivity. Like something I’d expect from the Washington Post or NYT. But not Common Sense/Free Press.
I asked a young pediatrician for his thoughts on this article. I agree with his reply:
“I think that this article is written by someone who stands to benefit from people being riled up about gender affirming care, masking, COVID-19 vaccines, etc. Pediatricians are working to take the best care of children as is possible during these uncertain times and I think folks need to step back and wonder what the agenda of the author of this article is - it has nothing to do with protecting kids and more with stoking the unfocused rage of the article’s readers.
These are really frustrating times, I get it, but I really don’t think pediatricians are the enemy here.”
Pediatricians are not the enemy here but as far as "Gender Medicine" is concerned their professional associations, like the AAP, have been taken over by activists. This does not mean there are no good doctors out there who are are horrified. I think you must either be unaware or disingenuous.
Anyone who is not "riled up about gender affirming care" for children has his head in the sand.
Please have a view of:
"Gender Medicine Has Gone INSANE | An Inside Investigation, with Eliza Mondegreen"
The problem is not individuals so much as a small number of Gender Ideologues co-opting professional organizations (and government agencies):
"Florida demands American Academy of Pediatrics give evidence for their support of child sex changes
Judge Carl J. Nichols has ordered that the American Academy of Pediatrics hand over documents that provide scientific evidence to back up its support of the "gender-affirming care" model."
"The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has been ordered to provide the state of Florida with evidence explaining why it supports child sex changes and documentation showing the process the medical association went through in order to reach that stance.
The District Court ruling comes as part of the legal action against the state of Florida brought by four plaintiffs and backed by the AAP that seeks to overturn Gov. Ron DeSantis's ban on Medicaid funding for child sex changes.
In pledging its support for the four minors who identify as transgender that have launched a legal challenge to the ban, the spotlight has now turned on the AAP, which now needs to provide scientific evidence to back up its support of so-called "gender-affirming care," reports the Daily Caller.
Judge Carl J. Nichols ordered the AAP to hand over information on the total number of its members, documentation relating to how it establishes new guidelines and policy positions, as well as any guidelines or policy positions on gender-affirming care, including how these guidelines or policies were drawn up. All this information must be provided to the state of Florida by Feb 2.
Furthermore, Nichols ordered that all official communications that took place within the AAP regarding its policies and guidelines on gender-affirming care be provided.
The AAP released a position statement in 2018 endorsing the affirmative model of care for children and adolescents who identify as members of the opposite sex. This model requires that clinicians immediately affirm a child’s self-declared transgender identity and pushes for early medical intervention. The alternative model of care, known as watchful waiting, that focuses on psychotherapeutic support is considered outdated and even conversion therapy under the affirmative model.
In 2019, Canadian sexologist James Cantor was so alarmed by the AAP’s position statement that he published a scathing rebuttal debunking it point by point, in which he argued that the "AAP told neither the truth nor the whole truth, committing sins of commission and omission, asserting claims easily falsified by anyone caring to do any fact-checking at all."
Foreseeing the malpractice lawsuits that were likely to result from the position statement written by an activist-led sub-committee, Cantor wrote his paper in such a way that it could be used in a courtroom.
"AAP is advocating for something far in excess of mainstream practice and medical consensus. Problems do not constitute merely a misquote, a misinterpretation of an ambiguous statement, or a missing sentence or two. Rather, the AAP statement is a systematic exclusion and misrepresentation of entire literatures. Not only did AAP fail to provide extraordinary evidence, it failed to provide evidence at all. Indeed, AAP’s recommendations are despite the existing evidence," Cantor concluded.
Last year, five members of the AAP submitted a resolution requesting that the professional association perform a thorough systematic review of the available evidence for gender-affirming care, but the AAP took the unusual approach of enacting a new rule preventing members from supporting the resolution or contributing to the discussion
This led Genspect, an advocacy group campaigning for evidence-based care for youth suffering from gender distress, to accuse the AAP of "preemptively suppressing debate by not allowing comments."
Hi Sam, I understand and I appreciate this response. I would not take a child to a young pediatrician or a young therapist right now. I think they have come up in the Woke environment and have likely drunk the Koolaid. Older doctors have seen crazes come and go, like Satanic Panic. "Gender Affirming Care" is a travesty IMO. - LM
1. Here's a 2014 article by Dr. Paul McHugh of John's Hopkins:
3. Experts: We must defeat gender ideology and protect children
"Teaching children to deny biology is maddening. Telling them they get to choose if you're a girl or boy, or both or neither, because they may have been incorrectly assigned an identity at birth, that's a man made idea," said Dr. Miriam Grossman.
Also, sometimes an individual pediatrician - even a a young one :-) - might be great but have hands tied over all this "affirmation" that is required by many states and medical associations.
And, don't get me started on First Female Richard Levine and his promotion of child mutilation. There is a great deal of money being made in pharma and medicine over "gender affirming care". Testosterone is handed out without question to teen girls via Planned Parenthood and have you read about "Yeet the Teet" Dr. Gallagher?
Here is a lawsuit to watch: "Chloe Cole v. Kaiser Permanente"
You could ask your Dr. W. to have a look at the Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans substack: PITT.substack.com There are anguished, frustrated parents motivated by love, not money. I am motivated by love and wanting to see justice done. I'd like to see a few of the worst actors lose their positions and their licenses.
This article lacks balance and objectivity. Like something I’d expect from the Washington Post or NYT. But not Common Sense/Free Press.
I asked a young pediatrician for his thoughts on this article. I agree with his reply:
“I think that this article is written by someone who stands to benefit from people being riled up about gender affirming care, masking, COVID-19 vaccines, etc. Pediatricians are working to take the best care of children as is possible during these uncertain times and I think folks need to step back and wonder what the agenda of the author of this article is - it has nothing to do with protecting kids and more with stoking the unfocused rage of the article’s readers.
These are really frustrating times, I get it, but I really don’t think pediatricians are the enemy here.”
Hi Sam.
Pediatricians are not the enemy here but as far as "Gender Medicine" is concerned their professional associations, like the AAP, have been taken over by activists. This does not mean there are no good doctors out there who are are horrified. I think you must either be unaware or disingenuous.
Anyone who is not "riled up about gender affirming care" for children has his head in the sand.
Please have a view of:
"Gender Medicine Has Gone INSANE | An Inside Investigation, with Eliza Mondegreen"
with Benjamin A Boyce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk0-s9LEAxM&t=3595s
and
"Doomed to Repeat: Gender Ideology and the Repressed Memory Movement
How bad science and good intentions can ruin people's lives."
by Lisa Marchiano on Colin Wright's substack
https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/doomed-to-repeat-gender-ideology
I’m not disingenuous. Just unaware.
Which is why I asked Dr W for his opinion. He’s a pediatrician at John’s Hopkins, formerly chief resident at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
One reason I hesitate to comment here and elsewhere is that people can’t resist an opportunity to go after another.
The problem is not individuals so much as a small number of Gender Ideologues co-opting professional organizations (and government agencies):
"Florida demands American Academy of Pediatrics give evidence for their support of child sex changes
Judge Carl J. Nichols has ordered that the American Academy of Pediatrics hand over documents that provide scientific evidence to back up its support of the "gender-affirming care" model."
https://thepostmillennial.com/florida-demands-american-academy-of-pediatrics-give-evidence-for-their-support-of-child-sex-changes?utm_campaign=64487
"The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has been ordered to provide the state of Florida with evidence explaining why it supports child sex changes and documentation showing the process the medical association went through in order to reach that stance.
The District Court ruling comes as part of the legal action against the state of Florida brought by four plaintiffs and backed by the AAP that seeks to overturn Gov. Ron DeSantis's ban on Medicaid funding for child sex changes.
In pledging its support for the four minors who identify as transgender that have launched a legal challenge to the ban, the spotlight has now turned on the AAP, which now needs to provide scientific evidence to back up its support of so-called "gender-affirming care," reports the Daily Caller.
Judge Carl J. Nichols ordered the AAP to hand over information on the total number of its members, documentation relating to how it establishes new guidelines and policy positions, as well as any guidelines or policy positions on gender-affirming care, including how these guidelines or policies were drawn up. All this information must be provided to the state of Florida by Feb 2.
Furthermore, Nichols ordered that all official communications that took place within the AAP regarding its policies and guidelines on gender-affirming care be provided.
The AAP released a position statement in 2018 endorsing the affirmative model of care for children and adolescents who identify as members of the opposite sex. This model requires that clinicians immediately affirm a child’s self-declared transgender identity and pushes for early medical intervention. The alternative model of care, known as watchful waiting, that focuses on psychotherapeutic support is considered outdated and even conversion therapy under the affirmative model.
In 2019, Canadian sexologist James Cantor was so alarmed by the AAP’s position statement that he published a scathing rebuttal debunking it point by point, in which he argued that the "AAP told neither the truth nor the whole truth, committing sins of commission and omission, asserting claims easily falsified by anyone caring to do any fact-checking at all."
Foreseeing the malpractice lawsuits that were likely to result from the position statement written by an activist-led sub-committee, Cantor wrote his paper in such a way that it could be used in a courtroom.
"AAP is advocating for something far in excess of mainstream practice and medical consensus. Problems do not constitute merely a misquote, a misinterpretation of an ambiguous statement, or a missing sentence or two. Rather, the AAP statement is a systematic exclusion and misrepresentation of entire literatures. Not only did AAP fail to provide extraordinary evidence, it failed to provide evidence at all. Indeed, AAP’s recommendations are despite the existing evidence," Cantor concluded.
Last year, five members of the AAP submitted a resolution requesting that the professional association perform a thorough systematic review of the available evidence for gender-affirming care, but the AAP took the unusual approach of enacting a new rule preventing members from supporting the resolution or contributing to the discussion
This led Genspect, an advocacy group campaigning for evidence-based care for youth suffering from gender distress, to accuse the AAP of "preemptively suppressing debate by not allowing comments."
Hi Sam, I understand and I appreciate this response. I would not take a child to a young pediatrician or a young therapist right now. I think they have come up in the Woke environment and have likely drunk the Koolaid. Older doctors have seen crazes come and go, like Satanic Panic. "Gender Affirming Care" is a travesty IMO. - LM
1. Here's a 2014 article by Dr. Paul McHugh of John's Hopkins:
https://couragerc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/TransgenderSurgery.pdf
2. A 2022 article by Stephen Levine on "Informed Consent":
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0092623X.2022.2046221
3. Experts: We must defeat gender ideology and protect children
"Teaching children to deny biology is maddening. Telling them they get to choose if you're a girl or boy, or both or neither, because they may have been incorrectly assigned an identity at birth, that's a man made idea," said Dr. Miriam Grossman.
https://thepostmillennial.com/experts-we-must-defeat-gender-ideology-and-protect-children
4. The US government and medical establishment are contributing to the deaths of minors at the altar of “gender identity”
And they’re getting away with it Kara Dansky
https://karadansky.substack.com/p/the-us-government-and-medical-establishment?utm_medium=email
5. "Diane Ehrensaft, 'Satanic Panic' Woo Peddler, Now Champions the 'Gender Angels' Among Us
The dangerously consequential career of a quack"
https://www.thedistancemag.com/p/diane-ehrensaft-satanic-panic-woo
Sorry so many.... but I could go on :-)
Also, sometimes an individual pediatrician - even a a young one :-) - might be great but have hands tied over all this "affirmation" that is required by many states and medical associations.
And, don't get me started on First Female Richard Levine and his promotion of child mutilation. There is a great deal of money being made in pharma and medicine over "gender affirming care". Testosterone is handed out without question to teen girls via Planned Parenthood and have you read about "Yeet the Teet" Dr. Gallagher?
Here is a lawsuit to watch: "Chloe Cole v. Kaiser Permanente"
https://www.dhillonlaw.com/lawsuits/chloe-cole-v-kaiser-permanente/
You could ask your Dr. W. to have a look at the Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans substack: PITT.substack.com There are anguished, frustrated parents motivated by love, not money. I am motivated by love and wanting to see justice done. I'd like to see a few of the worst actors lose their positions and their licenses.