Transgender identification among children has 'no scientific basis,' pediatricians claims

Chiqui Guyjoco Friday, August 19, 2016

The American College of Pediatricians said that science does not substantially support claims among children who identify as transgender.

The coalition of conservative pediatricians released its report early this month that categorized gender dysphoria (GD) in children merely as a psychological condition and that although many men may identify as transgender women, "this belief has no scientific basis."

Lulu, a transgender girl, reads a book in her room at her home in Buenos Aires July 25, 2013. Lulu, a six-year-old Argentine child who was listed as a boy at birth, has been granted new identification papers by the Buenos Aires provincial government listing her as a girl. According to her mother Gabriela, Lulu chose the gender as soon as she first learned to speak. Gabriela said her child, named Manuel at birth, insisted on being called Lulu since she was just four years old, local media reported. Argentina in 2012 put in place liberal rules on changing gender, allowing people to alter their gender on official documents without first having to receive a psychiatric diagnosis or surgery. | Reuters/Stringer

According to ACP's findings, 80 to 95 percent of children with GD eventually grow into their adolescence with the acceptance of their biological sex.

"The treatment of GD in childhood with hormones effectively amounts to mass experimentation on, and sterilization of, youth who are cognitively incapable of providing informed consent," wrote ACP.

The group denounces the unethical intervention of the administration under President Barack Obama that easily allowed for sex reassignment surgery and other procedures to be performed on minors. ACP maintains minors do not yet possess the capability to make such major life-changing decisions.

This became the plight of Dr. Kathleen Levinstein, an academic mother who found herself helpless from preventing her 19-year-old autistic daughter from undergoing major body altercations. Levinstein accused her daughter's gender therapist of easily approving the surgeries after only two meetings.

ACP decried sex change among children as another form of child abuse.

"Conditioning children into believing that a lifetime of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is normal and healthful is child abuse," the group said.

The health professionals, who argued that "no one is born with a gender" but only biological sex, also published a statement in March where they pointed out at least eight reasons to explain why gender ideology harms children.

"A person's belief that he or she is something they are not is, at best, a sign of confused thinking," they said.

Christian conservative speakers and identical twins David and Jason Benham spoke last week at the Charlotte Mecklenburg School system's board meeting to urge parents "not to let our kids become pawns in the hands of radical, sexual revolutionaries who don't care about them, you, me or anyone but themselves."

The Benham brothers accused the radical left of launching the sexual revolution and vehemently opposed "The Gender Unicorn" character introduced by the CMS board.