{"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":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/03\/25\/american-college-of-pediatricians-warns-youth-transgenderism-is-child-abuse\/\">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<p>\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<p>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<p>\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":"<p>Daily Caller: The American College of Pediatricians issued a sharply worded statement warning against any policies that condition children to accept transgenderism as normal. \u201cConditioning children into believing a lifetime of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=91325\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29664],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trannies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91326,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91325\/revisions\/91326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}