Open Letter to the AAP

This is affecting my generation. Young people need counselling not intrusive intervention with no decent evidence base

Please watch this video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ATNRbJW_JI8

Another concerned parent of an autistic female child who thinks they are a boy. I am very concerned that gender non-conforming children are being put on a path to sterilisation without exploration of other issues first; and without the benefit of maturity. Your guidance is woefully uncritical os likely to lead to many damaged young adults

Please recognize these young kids, mostly girls, are different than other trans individuals. Our kids are caught up in social contagion and deserve to be treated with caution.

I'm a detransitioner.

I’m concerned that we’re on the cusp of the biggest medical malpractice suit in history. Children are being sold a fiction where they can change sex, involving the mutilation of healthy bodies and a lifetime of medication. Do they understand that these changes will sterilize them for life and limit their romantic prospects? That people may pretend out of kindness that they believe their identity but never truly accept that they have become the opposite sex, given that it’s an impossibility? A huge disservice is being done. Massive. Please. Do no harm.

I strongly support this petition; having been a child/youth mental health clinician for 20yrs. having worked with child/youth for 20 yrs.

Your statement is 100% politics and zero percent real consideration of science and zero percent consideration of the future health and happiness and physical functioning of children. You should all lose your licenses for promoting the drugging, sterilization, mutilation, and brain washing of children.

I am a detransitioner, please check my videos in Youtube where I talk about the dangers of the affirmative approach and of transition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kFw1MQixXk&lc=z22qivthpu2mgx5bv04t1aokgwlpyos3sgattgt0ub1ebk0h00410 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDMts05-xyA

Do no harm.......

Parents are speaking out and their voices will only grow louder.

All voices matter

Gender dysphoria doesn't continue with most children into adulthood.

Didn't Hitler do something similar to this, except with gas chambers and ovens? Either way, it's homophobic and pushes unnecessary gender stereotypes, not to mention harms several children in a selfish and greedy attempt to push an agenda.

America Academy of Pediatrics has unfortunately fallen into what could be called a totalitarian ideology, violating freedom of conscience

I’m from Canada and I am a Registered Nurse. There needs to be a moratorium on instant affirmation of transgender identity in young people. Further mental health assessment and treatment are needed prior to prescribing off label cross hormone Rxs or surgery to remove healthy body parts.

We are here. We are here. We are here. Parents who love their rapid onset gender dysphoric children (ROGD) are here. Please listen. We can’t speak publicly for fear of harassment. So many of us do not believe “affirmation only,” which socially transitions a child to live as the opposite sex, should be the default, only treatment option. Social transition is NOT neutral. In word and deed, if we unquestioningly agree to our teen’s desire to be treated as the opposite sex, we are reinforcing that belief and agreeing that there is something wrong with their body. It is one of the hardest decisions a parent can make in navigating care for their child and so much depends on the severity of their gender dysphoria, the age of onset, any comorbid diagnoses, and the motivational behaviors behind the reinvention of self. At a minimum, any “affirmation only treatment” should fully inform the teen and their parents of all the iatrogenic risks of social transition before any treatment begins. The greatest predictor of persistence in an identity is social transition, and many of those supported in this belief seek medical interventions that do harm to their body, seen and unseen. It is becoming extremely easy for youth to get access to cross sex hormones, even without any psychological evaluation. If you aren't aware of this, you aren't paying attention. The AAP policy on self-ID trans youth pushes social transition whether it is in the best interest of a child or not, irregardless of whether social transition will make it more likely that child will suffer more mental anguish or undertake medical interventions they may regret. Our kids should not be the experiment. Please consider our views. It’s like living through a plague others refuse to see.

As a gender non-conforming child who is gay, I am horrified that I would have been swept up in this wave of trans-ing children who don't fit gender stereotypes. I questioned my gender as a child, as many, many gay kids do, because they're treated differently for not conforming. This trend is harmful to gay children and regrets will come tumbling down on people who rush children to transition who are simply non-conforming. This would have ruined my life. Please don't make this mistake on children like me.

Please stop the experimenting on our young, until there is medical statistics and know what TESTOSTERONE can do to young females, they shouldn’t be allowed these horrors. FIRST DO NO HARM! You are letting this generation down,

For the Love of God, don’t let my Greandaughter become a lifelong Medical patient. Testosterone, SRS are for adults not for our young!