As trust in many American institutions has collapsed amidst scandals of fraud, corruption, partisan misinformation, and censorship, Americans still express a high degree of personal satisfaction with their own doctor. But should they, especially concerning their own children?

While Americans trust their own doctor on the scale of nearly 8 out of 10, their trust in the system is flipped with 8 out of 10 wanting major reform. The accelerated collapse in institutional trust can be traced back to the Covid19 debacle, even as trust has eroded over the past 20 years. The FUBAR of the response to the Wuhan Lung Rot was such that the ostensible medical rockstar, Anthony Fauci, was pre-emptively pardoned by President Autopen.

However, medical scandals aren’t confined to 2020. The one that has blown up over the past several years is the corruption of children’s medicine in pursuit of Trans ideology. While the usual activists and their waterbearers in mainstream media beat the “it’s not happening” drum about the medical experimentation and mutilation of minors, destransistioners like Chloe Cole continue to give sworn testimony over what they suffered (and still suffer today) under the care of medical doctors they trusted. Deep blue states like California are at the forefront of keeping sex-denying counseling, drugs, surgery on minors protected.

CA State Sen. Scott Wiener squirms like a guilty man as 23yo gay detransitioner Jonni Skinner rips into the nightmare:

“They poisoned my body with blockers and hormones. The result? I’m a 23-year-old gay man who’s never had an orgasm — and may never.”

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— DonaldTrump1_ (@tyranny_stop) April 9, 2026

This despite that so-called “gender-affirming” therapies for children were a fraud from the beginning.

THE WPATH FILES

Advocates of gender-affirming care say it’s evidence-based.

But now, newly released internal files from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) prove that the practice of transgender medicine is neither scientific nor medical.

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— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) March 4, 2024

And a recent Finnish study confirms what rational adults suspected from the beginning of this wildly dangerous and exploitive ideology …

Now, finally, from Finland comes vital research into the prevalence of severe psychiatric disorders among ‘gender-referred adolescents’, focusing particularly on ‘outcomes related to medical gender reassignment’. This study is remarkably extensive; it covers everyone in Finland under the age of 23 who was referred for clinical support with gender dysphoria between 1996 and 2019. The findings absolutely shatter the myth of the child made suicidal through thwarted gender transition.

The Finnish study shows that children who are distressed about their gender have significantly higher rates of psychological problems than in the general population, both before (46 per cent versus 15 per cent) and around two years after referral (62 per cent versus 15 per cent). In other words, struggles with the process of transitioning from one gender identity to another do not cause mental illness; instead, children with underlying mental health issues are more likely to see themselves as ‘born in the wrong body’.

Crucially, this study also shows that a child or young adult’s psychiatric needs do not subside after medical gender reassignment. This means that affirming a child’s delusions about their sex and allowing them to medically transition does nothing to alleviate their mental health difficulties. In fact, the researchers found that in adolescents who underwent medical gender reassignment, rates of mental illness actually increased markedly – from around 10 to 60 per cent in those undergoing ‘feminising gender reassignment’, or boys who wanted to become girls, and from roughly 20 per cent to 55 per cent among girls who underwent masculinising procedures.

Meanwhile, the American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP) appears to be holding fast to the “better a happy daughter than a dead son” ideological woo-woo.

America’s most powerful group of pediatricians, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), has called denying children puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries harmful.
Denying a child so-called “gender-affirming care” was labeled a form of “medical neglect” and “emotional abuse” in a December 2023 paper published in the AAP’s medical journal, Pediatrics. Parents across the country have had children removed by child protective services for affirming their child’s natural sex.

Buried in this belief is an open secret: pediatricians who embrace gender ideology view parents as harming — and possibly abusing — their children if they refuse to support the child’s transition to another sex. (snip)

The Daily Wire asked the AAP outright if it believes parents who affirm their child’s natural sex and refuse to provide so-called “gender affirming care” are abusing their children. The AAP did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

And it’s more than just holding a standard that pediatricians should only promote so-called “affirmation” of a child who says they feel like the opposite sex, it’s that AAP has/had a whole policy guide on how to spot and handle families who might not be fully onboard the transgender train.

The AAP’s gender medicine policy has an entire section devoted to the importance of “family acceptance” and warns pediatricians to look out for families that deny their child sex-change medical interventions, saying this could raise “safety” concerns. (snip)

The program has identified more than 50 harmful “rejecting” family behaviors and 50 “accepting” behaviors that create safety, according to its website. Harmful parental “rejecting” behaviors include not allowing children to cross-dress, not using a child’s chosen name or pronoun, and denying participation in LGBTQ support groups, documents show. Helpful parental “accepting” behaviors include connecting a child with an LGBTQ adult role model, using a child’s chosen pronouns, and participating in family LGBTQ support groups, documents show.​

Whoa, wait? What? “connecting a child with an LGBTQ adult role model”?

Parents should be encouraged to engage a groomer?

That should please Scott Wiener no end.

It should be noted, too, that the Daily Wire’s inquiries about the Family Acceptance (or else) Project resulted in their documents being promptly taken offline.

Maybe a face-to-face with your child’s pediatrician is in order. STAT.

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