Open Letter to the AAP

Grandparent that is totally for this!

My child has type 1 diabetes and would never be appropriate for the medical recommendations made by the AAP for kids with gender dysphoria

We must stand in the gap for all children.

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As a concerned teacher and a parent, I oppose the unethical practice of letting children make monumental decisions, the long term affects of which they cannot possibly understand.

1100 plus parents cannot ALL be so out of tune with what is going on with their children. 1100 plus children with similar issues of eating disorders, mental instability, social anxiety, unable to accept their maturing bodies, self loathing etc CAN ALL BE TRANSGENDER!! STAND UP... be adults who won’t give into this ridiculousness. USE common sense!

The AAP policy statement is unethical and harmful to children. This has to stop.

This is a war on gay people, plain and simple. It has got to stop.

My daughter had severe emotional issues starting from age 11. At age 16, without ever having shown signs of gender dysphoria before, she suddenly declared herself transgender and started demanding hormones and surgery. This was 'affirmed' by her teachers, therapists and doctors without question. Since then, her mental health issues have exploded (as would be expected when a mental health issue is indulged)...And her doctors STILL keep pushing medical and surgical transition. You undermine our trust in the medical profession when you readily adopt the ideologically-driven agenda of a select few as policy for the entire group. Please return to your foundations of solid science and evidence-based medicine and retract this seriously harmful, ideologically-based policy statement.

The AAP’s position is anti science and acts against the best interests of all those affected. Treatment should be evidence based.

TESTOSTERONE is NOT for GIRLS

If nothing else this is one expensive pkan- future law suits to say the least Protect children please.

As parents we are being silenced for our concerns about our children's mental and physical well-being as they become involved in transgender ideology.

Please review the robust evidence that shows it is unethical to allow a child to make a dangerous choice to become a medical experiment with lifelong mental and physical dependency issues. Children are not equipped to make these adult decisions. You will be on the wrong side of history in the very near future if you agree to the mass sterilization of children. It's also messing with their emotional and sexual lives and is straight up child abuse in my opinion. De-transitioners are trying to tell us something - please listen. You will be responsible for institutionalized neglect of the health and futures of generations of kids if you go this most radical and uncompassionate route.

This is happening in the uk too. 4000% rise in young girls saying they are trans and over 1000% increase in boys

As a physician, we are called and trained to support and protect our youth. This includes counseling and exploring underlying factors of gender dysphoria, other comorbid or contributing diagnoses. Encouraging permanent changes that lead to sterility and lifelong dependence on exogenous hormones is inappropriate as most children and youth desist without need for these permanent measures. If we counsel to avoid tattoos because of subsequent regret regarding the permanence of such a measure and recognize that youth is a time for exploration of self-identity through “trying on” of various identities and interests, surely we should engage in extreme caution in this regard. The data on suicides need to be better reviewed as well since medical and surgical transition does not appear to improve the suicide rates. The AAP would do well to review this in greater detail and strive to protect and support children and youth in a more holistic manner.

We're facing the prospect of a generation of drugged & sterilised, pre-pubertal young adults. This cannot be allowed to happen.

Please stop the ROGD affirmation insanity before malpractice suits become the next “trend”.

"First do no harm". Medicalizing a normal part of growing into one's sexuality in a homophobic and misogynistic culture is NOT GOOD MEDICINE!

I am not the parent of a transgender identifying youth, yet, I consider every child's health and welfare in our human family worthy of my concern and utmost consideration. In good conscience there is but one thing that I can do - insist that the AAP address the great and growing disservice being done to youth that this petition so eloquently and knowledgeably addresses.