Open Letter to the AAP

You are doctors. (Supposedly.) That used to mean something. Please, stop this insanity.

My daughter thought she was a boy for nearly a year. I did not affirm and she desisted. 2 years later she is a happy, healthy lesbian. She says that had she been affirmed she would have sought out medical transition. Without affirmation, but with love and support, most kids desist. Adults should not be perpetuating a delusion, they should be helping kids love themselves just as they are.

Do no harm is the first rule of medicine. Transing children is child abuse.

Please consider our children first, and stop bowing to those who would erase womanhood for actual women!

Please listen to the parents.

Transgenderism is an adult decision! Leave children alone.

As a transgender identified adult I am terribly concerned that our most vulnerable and troubled youths are being victimized by an insane ideology. That much of the "science" has big Pharma backing which is troubling. Children should not be transitioned ever, this was never necessary in history. t The social and psychological pressures that are put upon these kids are too much for them to comprehend or withstand. This is a form of medical mass hysteria and it needs to stop. The medical and psychological establishment needs to come to their collective senses and quickly before too many more young lives are completely destroyed.

Please: stop being politically correct and be the scientists you are. Merely because a girl "plays with Tonka trucks" he is not a boy, and just because a boy "like dolls" does not mean he is a girl. I hope you understand that the simplicity of these statements is not meant to be smarmy. Please go back to reason and logic, not emotion and feelings.

Socially and medically transitioning children is a radical overreach and a dangerous one size fits all approach to what are more likely a multitude of psychological, social, sexual and cultural underlying issues. Children’s bodies should remain healthy and intact until they are mature adults able to give proper consent (to loosing fertility and sexual function as well as living a life of cognitive dissonance and becoming lifelong medical patients) . Children who are “suicidal” need immediate psychological support, not hormones and amputations. How can anyone think this approach is wise ? This is all political and special interest driven.

All actions should be solidly evidence based and the main focus of any action should be the well being of the patient.

not only are you systematically playing into population control and some kind of post apocalyptic handmaids tale, you are creating gay eugenics and we will not conform to your gender neutral society that is wrapped up pretty in a PRIDE flag...we know and we see your end goals .

There are dozens of trans-identifying kids in my kid's school and all they can speak of is medical transition. Sounds like a new hot thing. But they are not mature enough to understand the consequences of medical transition for their bodies and minds. Many of them will regret the transition later. We need to be very careful. DO NOT HARM!

I am the mother of a newly trans-identifying youth. I believe transition should be the last option after all other options have been exhausted. This should not be a free for all.

First do no harm.

As a therapist who has been consulting with parents of kids who have come out as trans out of the blue, I can attest that the AAP should reconsider this statement.

There is nothing wrong with anyone's body. Outdated, misogynist stereotypes need to be resisted, not conformed to with dangerous chemicals and mutilating surgery.

Doctors, of all people, should know better than to encourage a child onto a path of long-term unnecessary hormones and mutilating surgeries. “Gender affirmation” inevitably leads to puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones which then causes a medically-induced disorder of sex development. Doctors who do this to children should be held criminally liable.

This trend is causing so much harm to our children. Please help us stop it and ensure that children get the proper help they need.

I have a SOGD child and ask for your attention.

This transgender trend will harm on scales we have never seen before. It has to stop