One of the good things we can say about Pope Francis's statements on secular issues is that he opposes gender ideology. But there is a caveat to his opposition, because while he opposes it, he has a whole section in AL in which he would leave sex education to schools and institutions and leaves parents out altogether. And it's certainly not parents who indoctrinate their children about this false idea of self-assigned gender that contradicts the person's biological sex. All that indoctrination is taking place outside the home now - in schools, institutions and the media who willingly serve this spurious and damaging ideology.
US pediatric doctors say
it is child abuse and dangerous
to push gender ideology on kids
and encourage 'sex change'
August 19, 2016
“Facts – not ideology – determine reality,” the American College of Pediatricians (ACP) said in a warning to legislators and educators about the dangers of surgical and medical sex change operations to children.
“Conditioning children into believing that a lifetime of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is normal and healthful is child abuse,” the physicians said.
“Rates of suicide are twenty times greater among adults who use cross-sex hormones and undergo sex reassignment surgery, even in Sweden which is among the most LGBTQ–affirming countries.”
The group, which aims at getting parents involved in their children’s health and education about health, said,
“Gender (an awareness and sense of oneself as male or female) is a sociological and psychological concept; not an objective biological one,” and that,
“A person’s belief that he or she is something they are not is, at best, a sign of confused thinking.”
To the contrary, the group maintained that
human sexuality is a “binary trait” and said the XY and XX chromosomes that determine female or male sex are “genetic markers of health” not “genetic markers of a disorder.”
“No one is born with a gender. Everyone is born with a biological sex,” the statement said.
The American Academy of Pediatricians, the larger professional society from which the ACP broke away in 2002, has allowed surgical and medical interventions in minors to suppress the hormones that naturally cause girls to grow into women and boys to men.
AThe ACP says this practice puts American teens at higher risk for physical and mental illness. “Puberty is not a disease and puberty-blocking hormones can be dangerous… as many as 98% of gender-confused boys and 88% of gender-confused girls eventually accept their biological sex after naturally passing through puberty,” the ACP pointed out.
It also noted that children who use puberty blockers to “impersonate the opposite sex” will require cross-sex hormones in late adolescence that in turn can cause dangerous health risks such as high blood pressure, blood clots, stroke and cancer.
One of the statement’s authors is psychologist Paul McHugh. Drawing upon his clinical work with LGBTQ persons as chief psychologist at Johns Hopkins hospital and research as distinguished professor at the university’s medical school,
McHugh has criticized what he sees as the American Psychological Association’s embracing of gender ideology at the expense of sound medical practice. McHugh authored an amicus brief filed in the U.S. Supreme Court case that overturned man-woman marriage laws in the U.S. last year.
Pro-LGBT groups criticized the ACP statement saying it would incite discrimination; one group called it an “attack on transgender children”.
A public interest law firm labeled the ACP a “hate group” when it filed an amicus brief with the Alabama Supreme Court which favored exceptions to the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling knocking down U.S. laws protecting marriage as between a man and a woman.
Activists similarly criticized Pope Francis’s recent remarks to Polish bishops where he identified gender “ideology” as a form of “ideological colonization” and linked it to government corruption.
He said,
“Today children – children! – are taught in school that everyone can choose his or her sex. Why are they teaching this? Because the books are provided by the persons and institutions that give you money. These forms of ideological colonization are also supported by influential countries. And this is terrible!”
[Well, there he goes again - finding an economic motive for the advances of secular ideology! He is, of course, right to be outraged about what is taught in schools - but why then, in AL, does he leave parents out of the picture in the sex education of children? It couldn't be an editorial oversight, because the omission of parents in this section is very obvious - whereas parents should not only be primarily responsible for the sex education of their children but also to protect them from the crap like gender ideology now being taught in schools by counter-acting all that garbage with the right Catholic instruction at home.]
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 20/08/2016 02:58]