The American Academy of Pediatrics
In fairness, I’ve intensely disliked the American Academy of Pediatrics for a long time now. They are a left-wing, big government/SCHIP pushing, whiny ass bunch that I still blame in part for my no longer being able to prescribe Rondec infant drops for sleepless mothers in the middle of the night. These bastards are presently recommending the completely unnecessary COVID vax/non-vax for children 5 and up. They are bad news.
But not content with passively harming children, the cynical maniacs are adding to their record of active assault on children.
Now the AAP is sponsoring a book “You-ology: A puberty guide for EVERY Body,” written by “Dr. Trish Hutchison, a pediatrician and Dr. Melisa Holmes, an OB/GYN, teach puberty classes and co-founded an online puberty education hub called Girlology. The third, Lowe is a pediatrician who helps steer the AAP on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender health and wellness.”
I imagine that every one of us hated puberty and all the confusions that came with the rapid changes, which these three witches exploit: “Traditional puberty education only contributes to a sense of isolation and often does not include all kids’ experience of puberty and leaves kids with questions about how puberty will affect their friends and classmates.” The “all kids” is the clue, as in the preceding descriptive sentence they promise, “A new kind of puberty guide, You-ology embraces an inclusive approach that normalizes puberty for all kids.” That is the camouflage tarp for advocacy, and we all know it.
NPR tells us that, “One early reader endorsed the book. Stella, 12, a sixth-grader from Chicago, who identifies as nonbinary and uses them/them pronouns, read an early copy (their mom is an acquisitions editor at AAP).” Kids are confused, some more than others, we get that. But a sixth-grader who is gender confused is being exposed to harmful propaganda, and encouraged by mush-brained leftist who is certainly using her child to work out her own insecurities.
Co-authoress Hutchinson says, “We wanted this book to be in every school in the country, so that any kid could pick it up and see themselves and their peers … there are certain states out there where you can’t even say [some] of these words” (doubtless a smug slur on the recent legislation in Florida called the “Don’t Say Gay Bill”, which does not say anything of the sort, which makes Hutchinson a repeat-offender liar).
Across the cauldron, Lowe says, “Regardless of what’s going on in state capitals, our jobs are to be pediatricians, and to teach kids about their bodies and how to take care of themselves.” Then why not do just that “Dr.” Lowe, with accurate pictures, explanations, and above all, a freaking mirror? Yes, DO teach them about their bodies, honestly, and yes DO address their feelings, honestly, but don’t lie to the kids or their parents about who these fragile souls are.
Think I’m off the rails? Lowe reached for the shelf, got a jar of newt eyes and a rabid fox tail, threw them all into the cauldron, gave it a good stir, and then told the NPR interviewer, ““With this book, we’re trying to change that language to be more inclusive. With traditional puberty education, whether it’s in schools or in books, we talk about how girls get their periods and boys get erections. But some girls — for example, transgender girls — might not get their periods. They need to understand about erections and those changes in their bodies.”
“The style we settled on is to use terms like ‘for most girls, this happens; for most boys, this happens.” This is not compassionately dealing with mind-body dysmorphia in an adult. This is encouraging and amplifying normal confusions in children.
Remember a few years back when so many of us were outraged over so-called “female circumcision”, more properly called female genital mutilation? The AAP came out against it as recently as 2020. But fashionable politics and their own moral cowardice has allowed these monsters to recommend psychological mutilation of children.
Are pediatricians trying to do away with need for their specialty in 20 years? Abort 20% (and prevent all their children and grandchildren too); “educate” kindergartners about transgenderism and sterilize a lot of them; inject as many as possible with vaccines whose long-term effects on fertility are unknown but that do seem to be associated with heart attacks. Why aren’t they doing something about formula shortage–or policies that will result in serious food shortages? And what about the suicides and stunted development we already have owing to COVID policies?
Prescribing Puberty Blockers to Children is MALPRACTICE ,bythe schools, by parents if actively involved and by supposed PHYSICIANS?.. FIRST DO NO HARM.. They did studies in the 1950’s thru 1990’s At John Hopkins ,in BALTIMORE. TERRIBLE OUTCOMES AND BEFORE TRANSITION 40 TO 44% SUICIDE RATE NO MATTER WHAT THEY DID… 40% RATE OF SUICIDE AFTER TRANSITION… HAS NOT CHANGED…WHEN our science is advanced enough to change from Y to an X or X to Y, we might be helpful..Maybe? WE are ONLY human, not gods, or GOD.. STOP ,shut down the DEATH CULT DAMAGING OUR CHILDREN.. Get counseling and Get These Warped “professionals” out of our schools,away from our Children.. The Damage is horrible..
I can tell this blog is one of the “oldest blogs”, and also becoming a dinosaur. Your bashing of transgender people is obvious. My community is getting hit very hard and you are not helping; this article is not helping either. Maybe you support the “other” pediatric association known for their hatred. You all should consider a few more writers that are not republican, cisgender, male, white.
Nope. Free speech here. Go away if you don’t like it.
I wonder if we have a Dutch Walter Freeman here.
Just operating on the other end of the body.
State specifically how I bashed so-called “transgenders” – I didn’t. I criticized awful doctors for trying to cause unnecessary harms, and you are lying about what I said. Criticizing my skin color exposes your insecurity.
Bio shows law school before medical school.
No surprise there.
Do you subscribe to the blog “Retraction Watch”? They report the retraction of academic publications. They keep very busy.
I’ve been around to see EC-IC bypasses come and go. Remember a Time or Newsweek article in the 1980’s publish a puff piece on our great modern American medicine, showing a surgeon connecting the temporal artery to the middle cerebral. At the time the article came out, reports coming in showing the surgery caused more strokes than prevented.
Then chymopapain injections, we’ll, you know the drill.
Maybe same with these surgeries. We’ll find out, one way or another.
The opioid crisis of 10-15 years from now.
Actually I’m thinking frontal lobotomy.
Re: Puberty blockers–even the Swedes are rethinking this:
Published on: (12 February 2020)
RE: Pubertal Suppression for Transgender Youth and Risk of Suicidal Ideation
Avi Ring, Prof. emeritus neuropysiology, Univ.. Oslo, Norway (guest prof)
Turban et al. present an analysis of subjects from the database of the 2015 U.S. Trans Survey of more than 20,000 respondents. The authors extracted responses of 89 adult transgender subjects who experienced gender dysphoria (GD) in childhood and demonstrated that those who received puberty blockers (PB) fared better in measures of adult suicidality than those who did not.
This result is intuitive; adults more readily “pass” in society when development of secondary sex characteristics of the non-preferred biological birth sex was inhibited. The authors’ result supports this hypothesis.
Nevertheless, a word of caution is in order. The authors conclude that all who wish should be given PB. Presently, however, there is no method to predict persistence in GD. Estimates vary (1), but on average only about 15% persist; in contrast, when given PB, virtually 100% persist (2). Thus, an indiscriminate prescription of puberty blockers will significantly increase the number of adolescents who continue to full transition, which may worsen long-term outcomes in attempted suicides.
The differences in expected outcomes if PB is or is not prescribed can be estimated. Of 1000 children with GD, if all receive puberty suppression then we expect all 1000 to go on to full transition whereas without the pubertal inhibition only 150 (15% of 1000) will transition. As the authors correctly state in the paper, 40% of transpersons attempt suicide in a lifetime, which means that with PB administration to all, we expect 40% of 1000 = 400 persons to attempt suicide. The authors show, however, that because of the benefits of PB, this may perhaps be adjusted downward by a factor of 0.6; the expected outcome is then 240 attempted suicides. In contrast, if none of the 1000 subjects receive puberty suppression then only 60 persons (40% of 150) are expected to attempt suicide.
The estimate here excludes a number of details such as the baseline of suicide attempts in a control population, lifetime suicide attempts of desisters, and differences in suicide risk for different subgroups of transgender subjects (e.g. FtM, MtF), but these omissions are consistent with the assumptions in the analysis by Turban et al. and unlikely to affect the conclusion.
Thus, pending reliable prediction of who will desist or persist, prescription of PB is not warranted. Giving PB to all who wish it is expected to significantly increase the total number of suicide attempts, up to 240 per 1000, compared with the outcome when not giving puberty suppression to anyone, 60 per 1000.
1. Ristori, J., Steensma, T.D. (2016) “Gender dysphoria in childhood” International Review of Psychiatry, DOI: 10.3109/09540261.2015.1115754
2. Steensma, T. D., McGuire, J. K., Kreukels, B. P. C., Beekman, A. J., & Cohen-Kettenis, P. T. (2013). “Factors associated with desistence and persistence of childhood gender dysphoria: A quantitative follow-up study” Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 52: 582–590