A coalition of medical professionals called the American College of Pediatricians issued a declaration called the “Doctors Protecting Children Declaration” demanding medical professionals stop recommending and using puberty blockers to “help” children who claim they are transgendered transition to their preferred gender.
ACP Executive Director Dr. Jill Simmons said, “It is time that these American medical institutions follow the science and the lead of our European professional colleagues and cease to promote protocols that harm children, including the promotion of social affirmation, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries for children and adolescents who experience distress over their biological sex.”
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At a June 6 press conference in the nation’s capital, the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) announced the Doctors Protecting Children Declaration, which implores the American Academy of Pediatrics, Endocrine Society, Pediatric Endocrine Society, American Medical Association, American Psychological Association, and American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry to “adhere to evidence-based research and utilize comprehensive evaluations and therapies for youth with gender dysphoria” in light of “recent research and the revelations of the harmful approach advocated by WPATH (the World Professional Association for Transgender Health) and its followers in the United States.”
The signatories urge establishment medical associations to “follow the science and their European professional colleagues and immediately stop the promotion of social affirmation, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries for children and adolescents who experience distress over their biological sex” and return to “identifying and addressing underlying psychological co-morbidities and neurodiversity that often predispose to and accompany gender dysphoria.”
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