Last year, doctors, doctors, and health organizations from across the region joined forces, urging all U. S. health personnel to prevent research and abuse of children under the pretext of transgender care.
The” Doctors Protecting Children Declaration”, authored by the American College of Pediatricians (ACPEDS ), was a collaborative effort relying on the expertise of hundreds of doctors, researchers, health- care workers, and leaders who” for years have been sounding the alarm on the harmful protocols that continue to be promoted by the medical organizations within the United States”, said ACPEDS Executive Director Jill Simons, MD, at a June 6 press conference.
The American Academy of Pediatrics, Endocrine Society, Pediatric Endocrine Society, American Medical Association, American Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry need to “follow the science” their Western colleagues are ultimately acknowledging” and instantly quit the promotion of cultural affirmation, puberty blockers, mix sex hormones and surgeries for children and adolescents who experience distress over their natural sex”, Simons said. We are defying the assertions made by these medical organizations in the United States that those of us who are concerned are a minority and that their protocols are common. They are not consensus and we are speaking in a loud unified voice,’ Enough.'”
Admitted Mistakes and Neglections
Following the nearly 400-page Cass Review, an extensive and independent review of gender services for children commissioned by the British National Health Service, the declaration, which represents thousands of health-care workers in more than 50 countries, is released. The findings were glaring: there is no proof of positive mental health outcomes for children who were socially” transitioned,” social transitioning led to more medical interventions, puberty blockers reduced bone density in youth, and there is no improvement in gender dysphoria or body satisfaction; most long-term negative outcomes are still to be seen.
Some U.S. medical organizations have not changed their positions, Simons said, despite this and the recently leaked WPATH files that expose the dangerous pseudoscience base for gender medicine. Given that” clearly demonstrated evidence that these procedures are harmful and not helpful,” Simons and her colleagues anticipated that gender-transition professionals would step back from current protocols, but they instead “doubled down and said they’re going to continue with what they’re doing.”
According to Simons, attempts to silence and isolate the majority of health-care workers do not adhere to the transgender treatment ideology.  ,
” We are world leaders in health care, and if not, who else?”, we say? We are going to protect children”, Simons said.
Coalition of Co- Signers
In a variety of medical and policy organizations, thousands of doctors and health-care workers are pictured as declaration co-signers. Several spoke at the June 6 press conference.
” Gender dysphoria is a diagnosis, whereas transgenderism is an ideology”, said Andre Van Mol, MD, a private practice physician experienced in bioethics. ” Systematic literature reviews conducted in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland, and Germany demonstrate that the alleged gender-affirming health care is out of step with the available evidence for the development of gender dysphoric youth,” according to systematic literature reviews conducted in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland, and Germany. Long-term, transition affirmation has not been demonstrated to be safe or effective. It does not reduce suicides, it does not repair mental health issues or trauma. Minors cannot give truly informed consent”.
According to him,” There is always a more honest way to deal with gender confusion than the chemical sterilization and surgical mutilation of healthy young bodies,” and doctors take an oath to do no harm. Transgender health care is documented to lead to harm.
The protocols being pushed on children and adolescents violate the fundamental principles of Hippocratic medicine, which are to prescribe a regimen for the benefit of the patient and ultimately to avoid harm, according to Erika LeBaron, a family medicine physician and president-elect of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. It’s past time for our profession to stop harm done and instead offer care to children that is grounded in science and medical ethics, with a focus on patients and not political ideology.
Permissive Administration
” Protecting the life, health, and dignity of patients, especially children, should be the primary concern of federal and state health care laws and regulations”, said Louis Brown, attorney and vice president of public policy at the Catholic Health Care Leadership Alliance.
Under the current presidential administration, those protections have been distorted. According to Brown, the recent regulation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ( HHS) under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, which purports to “unlawfully mandate gender transitioning and related procedures in our country’s health care system,” is outrageous. ” This regulation endangers the health of children, undermines parental rights, and unlawfully exceeds HHS ‘ statutory authority. Additionally, the rule goes against the rights of medical professionals and health care providers who have legitimate legal and moral objections to engaging in or facilitating unethical behavior.
If HHS refuses to withdraw the regulation, Congress is obligated to pass legislation to stop these coercive, harmful interventions done on children, he said. In the meantime, the declaration continues to gain signatures and global support.
Ashley Bateman blogs for Ascension Press and writes for The Heartland Institute about policy. Her work has been featured in The Washington Times, The Daily Caller, The New York Post, The American Thinker and numerous other publications. She previously held positions as editor, writer, and photographer for The Warner Weekly, a publication for the German-speaking American military community in Bamberg. A Catholic homeschool cooperative in Virginia has Ashley on the board. Along with her brilliant engineer/scientist husband, she educates four of her incredible children at home.
