Opening Insights: 2017 Parenting 101
In the quest to be the GOOD ENOUGH mother or father, whose words are we willing to believe, what are we willing to do and how much control should we give to the feelings of our children?
The gender identity crisis is very real... yet, is it a crisis of gender or merely identity?
There is nothing worse than seeing your child/children in pain and agony, However, where do we:
- Draw the line between feelings, thinking, behavior and reality?
- Draw the line between tolerance, compromise, ignorance and stupidity?
Informational Insights: Truth Bomb
Michelle Cretella, M.D., is president of the American College of Pediatricians, a national organization of pediatricians and other healthcare professionals dedicated to the health and well-being of children. She has served as a board-certified pediatrician for the last 17 years and has become an out spoken critic "of the medical consensus on the nature of gender identity. What doctors once treated as a mental illness, the medical community now largely affirms and even promotes as normal."[1]
She shares a concerning reality of The New Normal.
Pediatric “gender clinics” are considered elite centers for affirming children who are distressed by their biological sex. This distressful condition, once dubbed gender identity disorder, was renamed “gender dysphoria” in 2013.
In 2014, there were 24 of these gender clinics, clustered chiefly along the east coast and in California. One year later, there were 40 across the nation.
With 215 pediatric residency programs now training future pediatricians in a transition-affirming protocol and treating gender-dysphoric children accordingly, gender clinics are bound to proliferate further...
Two leading pediatric associations—the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Pediatric Endocrine Society—have followed in lockstep, endorsing the transition affirmation approach even as the latter organization concedes within its own guidelines that the transition-affirming protocol is based on low evidence.
They even admit that the only strong evidence regarding this approach is its potential health risks to children.
The transition-affirming view holds that children who “consistently and persistently insist” that they are not the gender associated with their biological sex are innately transgender.
(The fact that in normal life and in psychiatry, anyone who “consistently and persistently insists” on anything else contrary to physical reality is considered either confused or delusional is conveniently ignored.)
The transition-affirming protocol tells parents to treat their children as the gender they desire, and to place them on puberty blockers around age 11 or 12 if they are gender dysphoric.
If by age 16, the children still insist that they are trapped in the wrong body, they are placed on cross-sex hormones, and biological girls may obtain a double mastectomy.
So-called “bottom surgeries,” or genital reassignment surgeries, are not recommended before age 18, though some surgeons have recently argued against this restriction.
The transition-affirming approach has been embraced by public institutions in media, education, and our legal system, and is now recommended by most national medical organizations.
There are exceptions to this movement, however, in addition to the American College of Pediatricians and the Alliance for Therapeutic Choice. These include the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, the Christian Medical & Dental Associations, the Catholic Medical Association, and the LGBT-affirming Youth Gender Professionals.
The transgender movement has gained legs in the medical community and in our culture by offering a deeply flawed narrative. The scientific research and facts tell a different story...
The crux of the matter... is that while the transition-affirming movement purports to help children, it is inflicting a grave injustice on them and their nondysphoric peers.
These professionals are using the myth that people are born transgender to justify engaging in massive, uncontrolled, and unconsented experimentation on children who have a psychological condition that would otherwise resolve after puberty in the vast majority of cases.
Today’s institutions that promote transition affirmation are pushing children to impersonate the opposite sex, sending many of them down the path of puberty blockers, sterilization, the removal of healthy body parts, and untold psychological damage.
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.
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.[1]
Top News Daily [2]
Cretella said:
Chemical castration 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.
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. 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.
As to the studies, there are two that I am aware of that claim affirming your child’s gender confusion is good for them. 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…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. [2]
Sources:
[1] I’m a Pediatrician. How Transgender Ideology Has Infiltrated My Field and Produced Large-Scale Child Abuse: //dailysignal.com/2017/07/03/im-pediatrician-transgender-ideology-infiltrated-field-produced-large-scale-child-abuse[2] Top News Headlines Daily: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYz5WwEHWyI
Hundreds of people on TheBlaze commented on this topic, some of the comments are shared below:
dokidog on said: "Promote hallucinogenic drugs, distort reality, absolve responsibility, and create dependency. That is how one keeps power over the masses."
Protoham on Oct 16, 2017 1:59 pm said: "I look at it this way. You have hardware (your body) and you have software (your mind). There may be a mismatch, however it is much easier to reprogram the mind than change the hardware."
Shepherdess Anne on Oct 16, 2017 7:44 pm said: "The problem isn’t with the software, though. It’s with a part of the hardware; the brain and its wiring across the nervous system as well as the metabolism expect a different set of circumstances than are present.
This is what creates the Gender Dysphoria. It’s an extremely tactile, sensory malady. Hormone Replacement Therapy makes that feel better.
Could there be other treatment options? Certainly. However, in order to discover them we need to take transgender patients seriously and not treat this as a psychological problem. The mind might get…novel about the way the pain is interpreted, but if you ask any transgender person with a higher level understanding of injury, tissue types, neurology, etc they will usually tell you that it feels like constantly being injured or like some kind of nerve/limb pain."
Possibilities for Consideration:
The bottom line is... this topic brings to light many questions with regards to the role of medicine, mental health and parenting within the new normal of child development, healthcare and MOST IMPORTANTLY, PARENTING. When we are so concerned about WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK and our own identities are so dependent on external forces knowing who and what to trust can be frightening:
- Who do we trust?
- Who do we believe?
- How do we effectively parent?
- How do we provide children with the "software" (human intelligence) they need to navigate life?
Add Your Insight
Issues of identity raise concerns for any parent, yet in order develop true self-identity we need a proven process of causation and understanding. We need experiential and transformational learning - learning HOW TO THINK and HOW TO COMMUNICATE.
Understanding the human science of who we are as human beings, gaining the emotional resources (emotional self-regulation and emotional self-control) and human intelligence is necessary in order for us to uncover and discover who we are and who we are not. WITHOUT such tools, we learn to live life at the mercy of WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK and life becomes confusing and frightening.
...In normal life and in psychiatry, anyone who 'consistently and persistently insists'
on anything else contrary to physical reality is considered
either confused or delusional is conveniently ignored.
MICHELLE CRETELLA