Fame-seeking parents and political ideologues bent on transgenderizing children are — just as some of us “intolerant bigots” have said — harming children, according to the American College of Pediatricians.
Key takeaway points:
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.
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.
Real, psychologically healthy acceptance of oneself must come from within. Changing the exterior through chemical and surgical mutilation of the body isn’t going to help anyone feel better about themselves if the problem is fundamentally interior and psychological.’
And doing it to children is nothing less than child abuse.
Plato and his crowd were confused about how to identify truth, beauty, justice and the like. They were darned good at mathematics and they were pretty certain that when things can be objectively measured through the application of mathematics, then when the results never vary, the “truth” has been discovered.
But they were quick to realize that the “ideal” and the “truth” are on entirely different plains. Therefore, these ancient philosophers set off on trying to deal with what they called essence. It is the same thing as the soul, free will or the spirit.
Puberty is a measured, biological transition which has had a great deal of study by scientists. Hormones are understood to the point that you can get them dosed, blocked, manipulated, etc.
Sigmund Freud came up with the “id” which he claimed was the “strictly unconscious structure of the ‘psyche’.” Do you see what happened there? We are now juggling two hypotheticals in our search for “truth.”
Anyway, Freud was toying with the libido which he said was the “energy, regarded as a quantitative magnitude … of those instincts which have to do with all that may be comprised under the word ‘love’.” Do you see what happened there, again? Energy is a quantitative element, but it is subject to the voodoo of “instincts” buried within the mysterious manifestation we call “love.” Whew!
So, what the hell are we doing when we get ourselves all girded up at the loins over crap that has no scientific truth to back it?
VtheK states:
Guess what? We are back at the soul, spirit, free will, etc. Anyone who is surprised by this is a fool. When you get enough of these fools together, they make an idiot-ocracy which creates the consensus of psychobabble and unicorn farts and then proceeds to force it on the masses.
American College of Pediatricians. . .
The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) is a socially conservative association of pediatricians and other healthcare professionals in the United States. The College was founded in 2002 by a group of pediatricians including Joseph Zanga, a past president of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), as a protest against the AAP’s support for adoption by gay couples. The group’s membership has been estimated at between 60 and 200 members.
#2 – Knock it off, Rusty – your premise is invalid.
Regards,
Peter H.
In summary, tradition and science agree that biological ties and dual gender parenting are protective for children. The family environment in which children are reared plays a critical role in forming a secure gender identity, positive emotional well-being, and optimal academic achievement. Decades of social science research documents that children develop optimally when reared by their two biological parents in a low conflict marriage. The limited research advocating childrearing by same-sex parents has severe methodological limitations. There is significant risk of harm inherent in exposing a child to the homosexual lifestyle. Given the current body of evidence, the American College of Pediatricians believes it is inappropriate, potentially hazardous to children, and dangerously irresponsible to change the age-old prohibition on same-sex parenting, whether by adoption, foster care, or reproductive manipulation. This position is rooted in the best available science.
http://www.acpeds.org/the-college-speaks/position-statements/parenting-issues/homosexual-parenting-is-it-time-for-change
Lots of same sex couples have been wonderful foster and adoptive parents.
Yes, bio parents in a loving, caring relationship provide the best opportunity for a child.
But as we all know, there are many dedicated gay and lesbian individuals and couples who have very happy and productive lives as foster, adoptive and bio parents.
Rusty @#4:
Sorry, Rusty, but this is pure gibberish.
You have no prayer of explaining the meaning of “the best available science” or how one can find the “best available science” or why “the best available science” differs from scientific “fact.”
You are standing on weasel words. You mistake hypotheses with conclusive studies. First, every hypothesis is a guess based on limited knowledge used in formulating a theory.
Progressives are eternal short-cut artists. That is precisely the route they took from Darwin’s formal works to social Darwinism and eugenics. Just because a couple of people in white coats make a specialty of homosexuality and transgenderism, we need not take their observations as “the best available science.” Phrenology was “the best available science” in another age when pseudo-sceince was all the rage. And, as I recall, you have rejected conversion therapy as “the best available science.”
Critical thinking requires much more than just posting stuff that agrees with your half-baked musings.
this is pure gibberish.
Totally agree Heliotrope.
It is from the American College of Pediatricians. The group V is touting in his post
rusty, so you’re reduced to attacking the messenger because you can’t refute the message.
got it.
The American College of Pediatricians, linked by V, is an group started back in 2002.
Acpeds.org
I don’t know what rusty is arguing about – puberty is, indeed, not a disease; it’s a perfectly normal phase of life; a normal process.
Why is it controversial to say so? It would just as true whether it was said by Bernie Sanders or James Dobson.
I don’t know what it’s got to do with same-sex parents.
I’ve always found it odd that when it comes to sex, drugs, rock-n-roll, and, now, life-altering decisions about screwing with hormones – society seems to think it’s perfectly OK for children to make decisions.
But when the same kids, say, shoot someone in a liquor robbery then, all of a sudden, they become helpless infants with brains not able to sort out right from wrong, etc.
I agree. Before someone takes the steps to change their biology, there has to be a great deal of soul-searching.
Just geld the little bastards, they’re more tractable that way.
Even the pope is against transgenderism. Uh oh the leftists and the lgbt activists will be upset about this.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/04/11/pope-says-no-trans-kids-teach-young-accept-body-created/