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Doctors Unite To Protect Children From Dangers Of So-Called Gender-Affirming Care [VIDEOS]

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A coalition of top medical groups and physicians across the United States has signed the “Doctors Protecting Children [1]” declaration, voicing serious concerns about the treatment of minors with gender dysphoria. The declaration calls for a halt to current protocols involving transgender drugs and surgeries for children and adolescents, urging medical institutions to adhere to evidence-based research.

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Press Release:

“Therefore, given the recent research and the revelations of the harmful approach advocated by WPATH and its followers in the United States, we, the undersigned, call upon the medical professional organizations of the United States, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Ā Endocrine Society, the Pediatric Endocrine Society, American Medical Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 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.Ā  Instead, these organizations should recommend comprehensive evaluations and therapies aimed at identifying and addressing underlying psychological co-morbidities and neurodiversity that often predispose to and accompany gender dysphoria. We also encourage the physicians who are members of these professional organizations to contact their leadership and urge them to adhere to the evidence-based research now available.ā€ – Doctors Protecting Children

Jill Simons, executive director of the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds), told EWTN News [4] Nightly anchor Tracy Sabol that the medical community has been “sounding the alarm” after leaked files from the World Professional Association of Transgender Health revealed that children undergoing transgender procedures are too young to give informed consent. Additionally, England’s Cass Review found no comprehensive evidence to support the routine prescription of transgender drugs to minors.

Both the WPATH Files (242 page) and Cass Review (388 pages) documents can be found in full at the bottom of this article.

Those revelations “had overwhelming evidence that these so-called gender-affirming care treatments should not continue,” Simons said. “We thought that our colleagues here in the U.S. would take heed and also do the same and put a pause, but theyā€™ve continued. We just came together as a coalition of medical doctors, and organizations, and said, ā€˜Enough.ā€™”

The declaration has been co-signed by eighteen health policy and medical organizations, including the Catholic Medical Association (CMA), and nearly 100 doctors and health leaders. It affirms that sex is an “innate trait” unaltered by drugs or surgical interventions and criticizes gender ideology for not being based on biological reality. The statement emphasizes that medical decisions should “respect biological reality and the dignity of the person.”

CMA executive director Mario Dickerson emphasized the importance of protecting children. “At the heart of it is protecting children. Thatā€™s first and foremost. Thereā€™s a study that [transgenderism] affects 1% of the children in the United States. [There are] 72 million children in the United States, so thatā€™s 720,000 childrenā€¦ Weā€™re really advocating for the children is the primary reason.”

Dickerson noted that 16% of hospitals in the U.S. are Catholic and encouraged them to sign the declaration. “We would certainly encourage them to sign this declaration and reassure their patients that they are standing on the side of not doing any harm to their children and make a public statement. If the Catholic hospitals and healthcare systems were to sign on to this document, I think it would make a tremendous impact on healthcare in general in the United States.”

The physicians also highlighted the developmental immaturity of the adolescent brain, making responsible informed consent impossible. The declaration underscores the serious long-term risks associated with social transition, puberty blockers, and hormonal or surgical interventions, including potential sterility. It advocates for psychotherapy as the first line of treatment to address underlying mental health issues such as autism, anxiety, emotional trauma, and depression.

In a first major pushback against sex change operations in children, the declaration calls on prominent American medical institutions, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association, to follow the science and their European colleagues by halting the promotion of these treatments for minors.

“As physicians, together with nurses, psychotherapists, behavioral health clinicians, other health professionals, scientists, researchers, and public health and policy professionals, we have serious concerns about the physical and mental health effects of the current protocols promoted for the care of children and adolescents in the United States who express discomfort with their biological sex,” the document states.

The declaration emphasizes that sex is a dimorphic, innate trait defined by an organismā€™s biological role in reproduction, determined at fertilization by the X and Y chromosomes, and unaltered by drugs or surgeries. It criticizes gender ideology for misrepresenting these biological realities and for promoting interventions that can harm healthy bodies.

The document calls for comprehensive evaluations and therapies aimed at identifying and addressing underlying psychological conditions rather than affirming gender dysphoria through medical interventions.