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Originally posted by: pjstroh
. . . . Its just an issue of how one is identified as a "male" or "female". Evangelicals disagree with the consensus of modern scientists (aren't you shocked?) and use a different metric for this judgement.
So its really a case of what mechanism our public schools use to identify students' genders: the one offered up by scientists? Or the one offered up by people who teach dinosaurs walked the earth with humans?
I think the administration has got it right. And I'm confident history will bare that out.
The American College of Pediatricians responds:
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Gender Ideology Harms Children
1. Human sexuality is an objective biological binary trait: “XY” and “XX” are genetic markers of health – not genetic markers of a disorder.
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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.
People who identify as “feeling like the opposite sex” or “somewhere in between” do not comprise a third sex. They remain biological men or biological women.
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3. A person’s belief that he or she is something they are not is, at best, a sign of confused thinking.
When an otherwise healthy biological boy believes he is a girl, or an otherwise healthy biological girl believes she is a boy, an objective psychological problem exists that lies in the mind not the body, and it should be treated as such. These children suffer from gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria (GD), formerly listed as Gender Identity Disorder (GID), is a recognized mental disorder in the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-V).5 . The psychodynamic and social learning theories of GD/GID have never been disproved.
n.b. items 4 through 8 pertain to medical procedures to which the authors of this statement object:
4. Puberty is not a disease and puberty-blocking hormones can be dangerous.
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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 LGBQT – affirming countries.
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8. Conditioning children into believing that a lifetime of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is normal and healthful is child abuse.
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Michelle A. Cretella, M.D.
President of the American College of Pediatricians
Quentin Van Meter, M.D.
Vice President of the American College of Pediatricians
Pediatric Endocrinologist
Paul McHugh, M.D.
University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School and the former psychiatrist in chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital
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DonDiego does not know if the doctors who authored this document are among "people who teach [that] dinosaurs walked the earth with humans".
DonDiego does know that they apparently are in agreement with the American Psychiatric Association.
And they are in disagreement with pjstroh's "scientists". Oh, and also with The Obama.
