by “We have serious concerns about the physical and mental health effects.”
More than 100 health care professionals and groups have signed onto a declaration calling on major medical organizations to halt dangerous transgender medical interventions for children.
The “Doctors Protecting Children Declaration” was signed by doctors, nurses, psychotherapists, scientists, researchers, and others, who announced the declaration at a Thursday press conference in Washington, D.C., The Daily Signal first reported.
“We are here defying the claims made by these medical organizations in the U.S. that those of us who are concerned are a minority, and that their protocols are consensus,” Dr. Jill Simmons, a pediatrician and the executive director for the American College of Pediatricians, said at the press conference. “They are not consensus, and we are speaking in a loud and unified voice: enough.”
The group said in their declaration that they 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 declaration sounded the alarm on subjecting gender dysphoric children to medical interventions like transgender surgeries, cross-sex hormones, and puberty blockers, saying these treatments involve “serious long-term risks” including “sterility.”
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I have to write thank God some doctors are finally speaking out about this! It’s a well known fact that the human brain is not fully developed until the age of 25. I’d like to know what kid is comfortable with their body? A growing developing body to a young person is often very uncomfortable. Kids are unsure of themselves, and don’t have the confidence of maturity. Plus kids don’t fully understand the repercussions of these surgeries and all that it involves. Finally some doctors and organizations are speaking out, it’s about time.
Genie