{"id":91325,"date":"2016-03-25T09:43:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T17:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=91325"},"modified":"2016-03-25T09:43:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T17:43:59","slug":"american-college-of-pediatricians-warns-youth-transgenderism-is-child-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=91325","title":{"rendered":"American College Of Pediatricians Warns: Youth Transgenderism Is Child Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daily Caller<\/a>: The American College of Pediatricians issued a sharply worded statement warning against any policies that condition children to accept transgenderism as normal.<\/p>\n

\u201cConditioning children into believing a lifetime of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is normal and healthful is child abuse,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

One of the statement\u2019s three co-authors is John Hopkins Medical School professor Paul McHugh. The former chief psychiatrist at John Hopkins Hospital, McHugh has long warned that sex-reassignment operations ignore and even worsen a patient\u2019s underlying problems. Monday\u2019s statement made a similar point: \u201cFacts \u2014 not ideology \u2014 determine reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen 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,\u201d the doctors went on to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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