Pediatrician Issues Finding That Transgenderism Is Child-Abuse
Oct 18, 2017 10:02:19 #
Pediatrician Michelle Cretella probably isn’t going to be invited to any liberal cocktail parties after her recent appearance on a Heritage Foundation panel. That’s OK by her, though — because she thinks part of the transgender agenda is a form of “institutionalized child abuse.”
Dr. Cretella, president of the American College of Pediatricians, went viral when she ranted against so-called “puberty blockers” and other methods used to “transition” young children suffering from gender dysphoria.
“Chemical castration, which is what you’re doing when you put any biologically normal child on puberty blockers. It’s treating puberty like a disease, arresting a normal process which is critical to normal development and bad for kids,” Cretella said.
“Sterilization: Not good for kids. Prepping them for what will likely result in a case in girls a double mastectomy at 16 — not how you treat depression or anxiety and I have plenty of experience treating teenagers with depression, anxiety, even suicidal depression,” she continued. “Indoctrinating pre-school kids with the lie that you can be trapped in the wrong body, again, that’s disrupting their normal reality testing and cognitive development. Those things are abusive.”
Watch this pediatrician shut down leftists on giving puberty blockers to children with gender dysphoria. http://pic.twitter.com/xHmGMx9d8N
— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) October 13, 2017
“As to the studies, there are two that I am aware of that claim affirming your child’s gender confusion is good for them,” Cretella continued.
“Number one, it assumes that coaching a child into a fixed-false belief is mentally healthy. Science doesn’t allow you to assume your conclusion. Number two, those studies are extremely small. Number three, those studies are very short term. And number four, the control group of ‘mentally healthy children’ are the siblings, most of them are siblings of the trans-identifying child. Oh, and there’s a number five, the parents were the ones evaluating the mental health of the children.
“This is not science,” Cretella concluded. “I don’t think you need to have an M.D. or a Ph.D to know that’s not science — that’s ideology masquerading as science.”
That’s the problem with the transgender agenda — so much of it is based on political correctness. As for the evidence, there’s a paucity of it. But point that out, and liberals start screaming bloody murder.
In a July editorial for The Daily Signal, Cretella cited plenty of evidence to the contrary — including that “(c)ross-sex hormones are associated with dangerous health risks … (n)euroscience shows that adolescents lack the adult capacity needed for risk assessment (and) (t)here is no proof that affirmation prevents suicide in children.”
“These harms constitute nothing less than institutionalized child abuse. Sound ethics demand an immediate end to the use of pubertal suppression, cross-sex hormones, and sex reassignment surgeries in children and adolescents, as well as an end to promoting gender ideology via school curricula and legislative policies,” Cretella wrote.
“It is time for our nation’s leaders and the silent majority of health professionals to learn exactly what is happening to our children, and unite to take action.”
https://conservativetribune.com/transgenderism-child-abuse/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=romulusconstitution&utm_campaign=can&utm_content=2017-10-18
Dr. Cretella, president of the American College of Pediatricians, went viral when she ranted against so-called “puberty blockers” and other methods used to “transition” young children suffering from gender dysphoria.
“Chemical castration, which is what you’re doing when you put any biologically normal child on puberty blockers. It’s treating puberty like a disease, arresting a normal process which is critical to normal development and bad for kids,” Cretella said.
“Sterilization: Not good for kids. Prepping them for what will likely result in a case in girls a double mastectomy at 16 — not how you treat depression or anxiety and I have plenty of experience treating teenagers with depression, anxiety, even suicidal depression,” she continued. “Indoctrinating pre-school kids with the lie that you can be trapped in the wrong body, again, that’s disrupting their normal reality testing and cognitive development. Those things are abusive.”
Watch this pediatrician shut down leftists on giving puberty blockers to children with gender dysphoria. http://pic.twitter.com/xHmGMx9d8N
— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) October 13, 2017
“As to the studies, there are two that I am aware of that claim affirming your child’s gender confusion is good for them,” Cretella continued.
“Number one, it assumes that coaching a child into a fixed-false belief is mentally healthy. Science doesn’t allow you to assume your conclusion. Number two, those studies are extremely small. Number three, those studies are very short term. And number four, the control group of ‘mentally healthy children’ are the siblings, most of them are siblings of the trans-identifying child. Oh, and there’s a number five, the parents were the ones evaluating the mental health of the children.
“This is not science,” Cretella concluded. “I don’t think you need to have an M.D. or a Ph.D to know that’s not science — that’s ideology masquerading as science.”
That’s the problem with the transgender agenda — so much of it is based on political correctness. As for the evidence, there’s a paucity of it. But point that out, and liberals start screaming bloody murder.
In a July editorial for The Daily Signal, Cretella cited plenty of evidence to the contrary — including that “(c)ross-sex hormones are associated with dangerous health risks … (n)euroscience shows that adolescents lack the adult capacity needed for risk assessment (and) (t)here is no proof that affirmation prevents suicide in children.”
“These harms constitute nothing less than institutionalized child abuse. Sound ethics demand an immediate end to the use of pubertal suppression, cross-sex hormones, and sex reassignment surgeries in children and adolescents, as well as an end to promoting gender ideology via school curricula and legislative policies,” Cretella wrote.
“It is time for our nation’s leaders and the silent majority of health professionals to learn exactly what is happening to our children, and unite to take action.”
https://conservativetribune.com/transgenderism-child-abuse/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=romulusconstitution&utm_campaign=can&utm_content=2017-10-18
Oct 19, 2017 09:57:23 #
After reading this I realized that the 'once' great USA has become the leading land of sick morals.Watch TV lately ?
Oct 19, 2017 11:09:14 #
teaman wrote:
Pediatrician Michelle Cretella probably isn’t goin... (show quote)
This "quackess" should have her license yanked.
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