Open Letter to the AAP

We are talking about CHILDREN, not adults. They deserve protection from this "ideology".

Do not give in to, or accept the seriously misguided, leftist liberal agenda of affirming LGBTQA+ ideology. It is wrong, harmful to society, and this is simply a form of child abuse.

Please do not cave in to the leftist liberal agenda of affirming LGBTQA+ ideology. It is harmful to society, especially out children. Thank youfor your consideration.

As a "scientific" organization the AAP should practice what they preach about evidence based medicine. Fortunately the American College of Pediatricians does.

My child has decided out of the blue (rapid onset of gender dysphoria) that she is transgender... no history of tomboy behavior, boy toys, not even boy clothing... Shr at 12 was automatically affirmed in this delusion and affirmed for body mutilation towards boy goal. Pediatrician did NOT address crippling anxiety about puberty, growth of breasts and menses or depression that has come on as well. Major history of thyroid disease in my family and that was NOT tested for either! This is an outrage and AGAINST science. mutilation into the delusion does NOT cure these children of their dysphoria it makes it worse!

Please reconsider

Most children desist by puberty. Gender is fluid. Hormones and SRS has not been tested long term. Mental health disorders and trauma in children (and adults) is being ignored.

Excessive research must be done to find the related factors and the cause of the gender preference and belief prior to the hasteful affirmation of the youth’s preferred gender. This should apply to the AAP or any treating doctor or precessional. The youths born healthy and normal with no sexual anomalies or defects that are going thru GD should especially be diagnosed for the cause and treated for it prior to administering any puberty-blockers and synthetic hormones which will be irreversible if the youth’s preference returns to his/hers natural born sex. The treatment must be for the cause and not for the transformation.

I support transgender rights, but have grave concerns about the current transgender trends. I work in a 7-12 grade building in a rural area in NY and witness, daily, the distress this issue causes youth and their families.

Give Mother Nature a chance. If after consideration of what transgenderism means, and not just the encouragement to adopt the identity that has now become popular. Go ahead, but please consider the science.

Couldn't;t agree more - I'm a parent of a now desisting teen who had co morbid mental health issues.

You are harming the human race by not making sure that you are giving the best care to transgenders, cisgenders, people that are misdiagnosed or self diagnose themselves as transgender (such as transtrenders on some social media platforms, and all of the other humans on this planet. Because you are so bigoted in your own opinions and do not use the scientific method to test your theories; you have harmed the youth of this world and have not helped any of them to the best of their ability. You best get to restudying the diagnosis of a transgender or cisgender individual and stop using outdated gender stereotypes to diagnose them. Most of us humans are aligned with outdated stereotypes based on sex or gender. Some of us are complete individuals that are bullied or teased for not fitting into your damn little boxes you made up over the years. So, time to go back to the drawing board so we get treatment, not lies based on you padding your numbers for research or you having fun playing savior roles and not giving the best treatment for your fellow human beings.

Please allow people/children to grow up first before allowing them to be so drastic. I agree it should not be a blanket statement... I hate those laws/ideas too. But children need to be children & not sexualized at such a tender time in life. You -- the Doctors... need to use common sense & back up your decisions with a little patience with our children. Did you make really good decisions as a child? Would you make those same decisions today? Some of these treatments are not pretty to be undone. Please as leaders... take a step back & let children be children...

I’m a detransitioned woman who was on testosterone for 2 years. The affirmative care model has hurt me personally, because I am mentally ill and a gender nonconforming bisexual woman, and should not have had my beliefs about my gender identity affirmed. I wish someone had seen that I was struggling and helped me navigate the problems of my adolescence, such as my years of experience with suicidal ideation and bulimia with body dysmorphic disorder, instead of instantly granting me testosterone and affirming my gender identity which I now know was a result of mental illness and negative life experiences. If the affirmation model of care did not exist, I as well as hundreds of other detransitioners would not have gone through what we have with transitioning and hopefully would have learned to accept ourselves and heal in a natural way.

Leave my nephew alone. Affirming that he is the opposite sex is ridiculous. Medical transition should be available to only those who truly have issues or to those who wish to pay out of pocket for it.

My young adult child is part of a friend group where half are now on hormones. One girl has a history of serious suicide attempts bi polar and with the "help of a social worker had breasts removed all in a very quick time period. These informed consent clinics are a sham and your agency is making this worse by supporting the affirm method. This can happen to anyone's child and until it happens to someone you know you won't believe how quick the whole process to medicalize and remove healthy body parts is. I just can't believe that such a well respected agency such as yours has for whatever reason turned a blind eye to first do no harm. Shame on you!

First do no harm. As a parent of a young teen recently diagnosed ASD with anxiety and depression issues who declared themself transgender following school presentation, you tuber following and multiple friendship trans identity exploration, I’m deeply concerned. Kids that feel different, don’t fit in, are uncomfortable with their changing bodies in puberty are looking for answers. An answer that puts confused kids with mental health issues on a pathway of lifetime medicalisation and surgery should be a last resort. The blind affirmation and fear of questioning is doing a great disservice to our vulnerable youth. First do no harm. Our kids deserve better.

What a farce, pretending this is anything but cowering to trans rights activists and their deplatforming and labeling threats. You completely misconstrue every single bit of data from the studies you cite, all of which say the exact opposite of your conclusion. Every single one found the same, easily repeatable data sets; the vast majority will desist on their own, and transitioning almost never relieves a patients dysphoria. Full stop. You repeatedly mention Conversion Therapy being ineffective (as a scare tactic) despite there having never been a conversion therapy clinic ran for Transgender people. Pathetic. After 1-2 hour long doctors visits, children are being certified for treatments that will permanently alter their bodies, make them sterile, and have not been around enough to know the long term effects. Oh wait, we know some of the side effects, after all, DEATH is the #8/20 ranked side effect of Lupron-PED. This is lunacy. And it's all for the sole purpose of molding them into outdated gender stereotypes that belong in the 50's. Do. No. Harm.

We ask only for care and compassion for our children.

What other condition allows a patient to self diagnose and get medical interventions? If I decide I am a cat, do you confirm that and treat me as a cat? This is so far down the rabbit hole and the emperor has no clothes. For the sake of our children and some of our nation's brightest young people, I implore you to consider the long term impact.