In its position paper entitled “Gender Ideology Harms Children,” the American College of Pediatrics clearly presents medical and psychological facts relating to transgender individuals and strongly opposes the ideology that underscores modern fascination with transgender-ism.
Here are the 8 points made by the ACP. The original article provides more scientific and factual detail.
“The American College of Pediatricians urges 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 health – not genetic markers of a disorder…
“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…
“3. A person’s belief that he or she is something they are not is, at best, a sign of confused thinking…
“4. Puberty is not a disease and puberty-blocking hormones can be dangerous… and inhibit growth and fertility in a previously biologically healthy child…
“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…
“6. 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.
“7. 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 LGBTQ – affirming countries…
“8. Conditioning children into believing that 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 that 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.”
“So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” Genesis 1:27
Comments
Esther Dangana
Wednesday May 25th, 2016 at 06:28 AMMay God strengthen our faith in him by holding our hands so that we can not fall. God bless you pastor Hal Mayer.
Erin Fuller
Thursday May 26th, 2016 at 01:01 PMAh yeah the American College of Pediatrics is the sole medical establishment speaking out against Transition related care for Transgender people the American Medical Association The American Psychological Association are the leading medical authority so American College of Pediatrics word means nothing
admin
Thursday May 26th, 2016 at 08:43 PMAt least they stated the issues clearly. Being politically correct is perhaps not the intention of the ACP.
Maria Orosco
Thursday May 26th, 2016 at 04:35 PMCheers for the American College of Pediatricians!!! Thank you for thinking in the health of our children and making things easy to understand. This has nothing to do with hate speech or any kind of manipulation. I will call it science with a lot of sense and scientific ground. Isn’t this written also in the Word of God? Why is it so difficult to admit it? I guess we are in a world where true science plays a great rol in preserving healthy mankind and if this is according to what the Word of God says how much more we should follow God’s principles for a healthy mind, body and spirit. Many of the scientists that made a difference in our world with their inventions in the past based their inventions in the principles of physics expressed in the Bible. This is not a mystery!! God bless America, America that grounded its principles in the Word of God!!!!
Jaime Pereira
Thursday May 26th, 2016 at 11:28 PMWhy are you Christians so gullible? This is hilarious. The American college of pediatricians is not a legitimate medical institution. It is a small, socially conservative advocacy group of pediatricians and other healthcare professionals in the United States with anywhere from 60-200 members. This organization was founded in 2002 by some nut job conservative doctors who were against the real legitimate medical organization of Pediatricians known as the American Academy of Pediatrics composed of over 60,000 members, an organization who understands the real scientific evidence regarding transgender individuals, in conjunction with every other medical organization in the world, including the 36,000 member American Psychiatric Association. This American College of Pediatrician’s sole reason for existing was to try to fight again the LGBTT community with falsehoods and half truths, and therefore has been designated as a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center, for their tactics of disinformation and propagating unsubstantiated and unscientific claims and demagoguery. People really should stop believing the first thing they see online and accepting them as the sole truth and continue spreading them forward. Just because something sounds appealing to our beliefs and preconceived ideas , doesn’t make it right or a fact.
admin
Friday May 27th, 2016 at 02:10 PMTrue Christians believe the bible to be the foundation of their faith and the moral guide of their lives. Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for the sort of things the American College of Pediatricians have stood against. Those who do not believe the bible as both an authoritative moral guide, and an accurate historical record will always see something wrong with the true Christian’s point of view. And those who do not have the bible as the foundation of their faith will never have a basis on which to talk with Christians using heavenly wisdom. While God loves all LGBTQ and Trans individuals, and so do true Christians, this does not change the nature of their orientation. This website is dedicated to linking current events to bible prophecy and therefore stays out of the political issues unless they directly related to prophecy. Consequently there is a higher issue that needs to be understood. The bible determines what is moral and what is not to the true Christian. An organization like the ACP or Southern Poverty are evaluated by scripture not by political issues.
Nako C Kgati
Saturday May 28th, 2016 at 02:47 PMI’m sorry to say, but those who are pro LGBT keep on whipping people with empty “science”. It’s now become a scare tactic to make those who disagree with them look naive
Lori
Friday May 27th, 2016 at 07:09 AMThank God for the moral courage of the ACP. And, thank you Pastor Mayor for sharing! May God keep us all faithful.
Ty or loose
Monday May 30th, 2016 at 01:41 PMI would like to ask all persons who born with a sex to satisfy their desire with sex .
Those who were born with a gender to satisfy their desire with a gender .
Have your own children grow in your own urtherus and placenta , so they can be born genders .
What ever you desire to make or use …do not use anything that you see on this earth God created .
In other words create your own matter from gender .
Then let rate gender verses sex .
Children God's Gift
Saturday June 11th, 2016 at 11:55 AMThe attempt to discredit the ACP by using the following argument: (1) it is a recent organization in comparison to the other organizations of a similar nature; (2) that it has a small membership compared to the other organizations of a similar nature; and (3) accusing the ACP of coming into existence for the purpose to fight the LGBT community with absolutely evidence. I would like to suggest, in an attempt to expose the biasness of the ACP, that evidence(s) should be provided that is contrary to their submission in their position paper entitled “Gender Ideology Harms Children”.