Don’t criticize gender-affirming care! Medical associations such as the AMA, American Academy of Pediatrics and others have sent a demand letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland.

Leading health care organizations in a letter sent Monday to Attorney General Merrick Garland called on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate recent threats of violence against physicians, hospitals and families that provide gender-affirming care to transgender youth.

“We write to urge you to investigate the organizations, individuals, and entities coordinating, provoking, and carrying out bomb threats and threats of personal violence against children’s hospitals and physicians across the U.S.,” the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Children’s Hospital Association (CHA) wrote in the letter.

Remember last year when the school associations sent a letter to the DOJ? This reeks of the same. There are multiple issues with this entire demand letter sent to the DOJ.

One: while I don’t hold with threatening organizations or people for doing something you don’t like, no one seems to be able to articulate exactly WHAT the threats were, and what the content of the threats have been. In fact, there are at least two hospitals who’ve been found to lie about the threats. 

Two: Gender-affirming care? Oh REALLY? How can it be care when puberty blockers are so bad that even the FDA has issued major warnings about the drugs. Those drugs not only forever stunt growth, they are being found to lead to major health problems once the child attains adulthood, and the effects of those puberty blockers aren’t reversible. And let’s talk about the other part of this so-called “care.” The surgeries. As with the puberty blockers, bottom surgery and mastectomies aren’t reversible. Period. 

The letter, found here, is quite something. These medical associations are demanding to have free rein to ruin children’s lives and want the DOJ to hunt down those who spread supposed disinformation or threaten the hospital, clinic, or staff.

These coordinated attacks threaten federally protected rights to health care for patients and their families. The attacks are rooted in an intentional campaign of disinformation, where a few high-profile users on social media share false and misleading information targeting individual physicians and hospitals, resulting in a rapid escalation of threats, harassment, and disruption of care across multiple jurisdictions. Our organizations have called on technology companies to do more to prevent this practice on digital platforms, and we now urge your office to take swift action to investigate and prosecute all organizations, individuals, and entities responsible.

We aren’t supposed to criticize the gender-affirming care they engage in. We are supposed to step back and let them ruin the lives of children all over the country. Heck, we are supposed to send them to California where Newsom has decided that parents won’t EVER have a voice in what happens medically to their child. 

Gender-affirming care is mutilation pure and simple. Yet the medical associations don’t want to hear that criticism. They want to continue to do harm as it’s the new woke thing to do and rakes in the big bucks. Vanderbilt is a case in point. 

Vanderbilt was apparently concerned that not all of its staff would be on board. Dr. Ellen Clayton warned that "conscientious objections" are "problematic." Anyone who decides not to be involved in transition surgeries due to "religious beliefs" will face "consequences" pic.twitter.com/CgNicrG4Mg

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 20, 2022

We are supposed to accept that children as young as two absolutely know that they want to transition from boy to girl or girl to boy. We are told we must accept that a child or teen who requests to transition is the smartest kid in the room and we should just let the drugs and mutilation begin.

Worst line: “you should be the one to decide what changes you want to make to your body.” Result: girls identifying as “non-binary” because they have a perfectly normal dislike of getting periods. And, well, it’s just generally bad to see your body as medically customizable.

— Jane the Actuary (@JanetheActuary) October 3, 2022

Our medical betters are telling us to accept the science and back off. 

As we wrote about several years ago, a Texas father lost his case when his activist ex-wife decided their eight year old boy is going to be a girl. Now, we are seeing more and more stories of the same across the country. 

In 2021, the father said that he and the child’s mother were told about puberty blockers. At this time, the child was seeing a nurse practitioner in the gender clinic at Golisano, Amy Realbuto, who specializes in eating disorders. It was about this time that puberty blockers, which the manufacturer does not recommend for treatment of gender dysphoria given the negative side-effects, and does not recommend for more than 3-months’ use, were recommended for the child.

Hand them drugs. Speak approvingly about physical gender transition (medically irreversible surgeries), and if counseling is provided, make sure it’s slanted to get the results the medical establishment wants. 

They act like we are the aggressors when all we are asking for is a more cautious approach to treating children who have recently adopted a transgender identity, rather than pumping them up full of sterilizing drugs and hormones and performing irreversible surgeries on them.

— Christina Buttons (@buttonslives) October 4, 2022

Here’s something else about this demand letter and the push to let gender-affirming care go unchecked and uncriticized. If this isn’t such a bad thing and is, in reality, such needed and positive medical care… why are hospitals and clinics scrubbing their websites? 

The answer is, they know what they are doing is harmful in the short-term and in the long run. The medical organizations and hospitals know that what they are doing isn’t medical care, it isn’t science, it’s heinously evil experiments. 

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