#american academy of pediatrics

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"I'm going to lose people. It is social suicide to be doing this. But I feel like I'm going to meet better people along the way."

Remember how we were told this was "life-saving care"? They were building the plane while flying it.

Another lawsuit for the thing that never happens.

#Jason Rafferty #Michelle Forcier #Isabelle Ayala #Leor Sapir #American Academy of Pediatrics #medical scandal #medical malpractice #gender affirming care #gender affirming healthcare #queer theory #gender ideology #medical corruption #detrans #detransition #lawsuits #medical experimentation #guinea pig #attempted suicide #testosterone #cross sex hormones #mental health issues #mental health #religion is a mental illness

[fatfox142]

It's actually really messed up of the AAP to issue such a controversial guideline when almost half of the family physicians and pediatricians participating in an American study stated that they would never refer an obese adolescent for bariatric surgery. This is a really informative thread on the medical ethics issues with severe obesity interventions that I just felt a little soapboxy on.

The drug that was referenced in the CBS article, Wegovy, also doesn't reduce pounds past 5% of your total weight about 22% of the time. You regain nearly all the weight you lost when you go off it, so you kind of have to be on it indefinitely if you want to stay that size.

There's even a petition on the AAP guideline that was made recently following the announcement.

In all seriousness to the thread, it's really messed up the American Academy of Pediatrics is recommending a drug that costs $1350/mo. without insurance to youth struggling with obesity.

So I did a bit of a research rabbit hole to see the medication Wegovy that was being mentioned in the article as this sort of near cure-all in other articles. It's not even an obesity drug, it was a diabetes medication that is now also being used to treat severe obesity thanks to new findings.

There's just so many issues, and at a time when 1 in 5 American youths are obese, this couldn't have come at a worse time!

#obesity #severe obesity #american academy of pediatrics #childhood obesity #morbid obesity #BMI #obesity and health #fat liberation

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interesting to post two articles about the American Academy of Pediatrics in one day

A first-of-its-kind lawsuit, showcasing the growing movement to expose the painful, life-altering impacts of gender ideology.

Press Team | October 24, 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following in the footsteps of two female detransitioners featured in Independent Women’s Forum’s “Identity Crisis” series who have filed lawsuits against healthcare professionals for medical malpractice, two new bombshell lawsuits have now dropped from the same law firm against the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and prominent healthcare providers. The lawsuits coincide with the AAP’s annual gathering in Washington, D.C., where pediatric providers discuss the latest best practices in pediatrics. Independent Women’s Forum, as part of its work to expose the harms of the gender ideology movement firsthand through “Identity Crisis”, calls the lawsuits groundbreaking and critical to the efforts to protect children.

Campbell Miller Payne, a law firm formed this year out of a heart for individuals who were misled and abused into psychological and physical harm through a false promise of “gender-affirming care,” filed the lawsuits on Friday and Monday for their clients, including a 14-year-old minor who was put on life-altering cross-sex hormones.

Isabelle Ayala, a female detransitioner from Florida is suing the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and her healthcare providers alleging civil conspiracy, fraud, and medical malpractice. The first detransitioner lawsuit in the nation to name the AAP, Isabelle alleges the organization knowingly mislead the public in publishing and disseminating a fraudulent “policy statement” that has been perceived by many as an authoritative guide for the treatment of gender-confused children in the U.S.

Among the providers Isabelle is suing are Dr. Jason Rafferty and Dr. Michelle Forcier. Dr. Forcier is among the country’s most prominent figures on “gender affirming hormones and care plans.” She attained broader national recognition after being featured in Matt Walsh’s “What is a Woman” documentary. 

Dr. Rafferty is the author of the 2018 AAP policy statement that essentially created the “affirmative care” model, as it has become known and implemented throughout the country. That document, the lawsuit alleges, underplayed the known risks of the medical interventions it advocated for and used misleading and fraudulent citations to support its conclusions and recommendations.

At the time of her purported “treatment,” Isabelle was a vulnerable 14-year-old girl suffering from numerous mental health comorbidities, including autism, ADHD, and PTSD from a sexual assault at a young age. Her parents had recently separated, and she moved from Florida to Rhode Island with her father and his girlfriend. Her story, like so many others, involved social isolation and finding trans ideology online, where she discovered community and celebration and was told—and eventually convinced—that she was “trans.” 

After a single, brief meeting with Dr. Rafferty, Isabelle was recommended for testosterone injections, but her mother refused to give consent. In a follow-up meeting, Dr. Rafferty and his team convinced her mother to drop her objection by misrepresenting testosterone as the only available treatment and suggesting that if she did not receive the hormones, Isabelle would commit suicide. Shortly thereafter, Isabelle was put on life-altering cross-sex hormones. She now suffers from a slew of debilitating conditions from the effects of years of testosterone injection, including vaginal atrophy, physical pain, and the triggering of an auto-immune disease only present in males in her family, among others.

Jordan Campbell, Campell Miller Payne counsel for Isabelle, said:

“Isabelle, like too many other vulnerable young adolescents, was an unknowing victim of a fraudulent medical regime that stems from the ideologies of a radical minority. Sadly, the AAP has thrown its support behind them. Isabelle is seeking to hold them and her health care providers accountable for the role they collectively played in causing life-changing damage to her physical and mental health.” 

Campbell Miller Payne filed another lawsuit last Friday against Drs. Rafferty and Forcier, among others, for medical malpractice on behalf of female detransitioner Layton Ulery.

The firm also represents Soren Aldaco and Prisha Mosley, two women featured in Independent Women’s Forum’s “Identity Crisis” series, in their lawsuits against their healthcare providers. Kelsey Bolar, executive producer of the IWF’s “Identity Crisis” series, responds to the new lawsuits:

“Isabelle’s lawsuit represents a historic step in the fight to obtain justice for detransitioners. For too long, health care ‘experts’ have used the AAP as a shield to harm children by encouraging social ‘transition,’ prescribing wrong-sex hormones, and puberty blockers, and performing irreversible surgeries. These guidelines have had serious consequences for individuals, like Isabelle, who now suffer from permanent conditions caused by the proposed treatments. It’s long past time that those responsible for publishing these guidelines face consequences, too.”

Prisha Mosley has been central to exposing gender ideology and the betrayal of health professionals. Her story told through Independent Women’s Forum’s “Identity Crisis” series can be viewed here. Following her attendance at the AAP conference and in response to these groundbreaking lawsuits, Mosley stated:

“I’m grateful to be standing alongside other detransitioners who are not only victims of medical practice with the bravery to speak out, but are also my friends.

“Filing a lawsuit is an incredibly stressful event. It takes courage, patience, and willpower. I am not only proud of my friends, but also hopeful that we all might be able to see justice and stop this preventable tragedy from destroying other families and the healthy bodies of the distressed.

“I attended the AAP conference this October to spread messages of truth and love and share the valuable stories of detransitioners lives. The reactions of many of the pediatricians made the importance of lawsuits clear to me: we aren’t collateral damage, we were failed by people who swore to Do No Harm, and those very same people refuse to acknowledge our existence and would prefer to call security on us rather than hear about the harms we live with.”

TO SPEAK WITH AN ATTORNEY FROM CAMPBELL MILLER PAYNE, ISABELLE AYALA, SOREN ALDACO, PRISHA MOSLEY, OR KELSEY BOLAR, PLEASE CONTACT [email protected].

#american academy of pediatrics #usa #Campbell Miller Paynr #Isabelle Ayala is a survivor of medical abuse #Dr Jason Rafferty should lose his license #Dr Michelle Forcier should lose her license #Trans ideology and traumatized girls #Life long impact of testosterone on young girls

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#american academy of pediatrics #trans kids #lgbtq rights #trans

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Els nens sords són 'iguals, saludables i plens', afirma un grup de pediatres

Denise Mann / healthday.com / infobae.com Ha arribat el moment que tothom canviï les paraules que utilitzem per a parlar sobre els nens sords o amb dificultats auditives…[…] (infobae.com)

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#Alisha West #American Academy of Pediatrics #American Speech-Language-Hearing Association #Arkansas Children’s Northwest #Barbara Kelley #Charles Bower #Estats Units #Hearing Loss Association of America #J. Thomas Roland Jr. #Marie Homsi #Regina Zappi

[sleepyleftistdemon]

The American Academy of Pediatrics reaffirmed its support for gender-affirming medical care for transgender children on Thursday, even as the treatments face a growing push for bans and restrictions from Republican lawmakers across the U.S.

#american academy of pediatrics

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Latest Research Demonstrates Concerning Impact of Excessive Toddler Screen Time

How much time should toddlers spend staring at screens? With smartphones, tablets, and TVs becoming ubiquitous fixtures of modern life, this question weighs heavy on many parents’ minds. A new study published in JAMA Pediatrics suggests that excessive screen time as early as age 1 can hamper children’s communication skills and problem-solving abilities. Researchers in Japan analyzed data from…

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#American Academy of Pediatrics #child development #Cognitive Skills #Communication #critical thinking #educational apps #fine motor skills #interactive media #language skills #Parenting #problem-solving #screen time #social skills #toddlers

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Racial Bias in Medicine

Racial bias in medicine is still an issue, and $10 million in medical grants are meant to help fight it. The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is the legacy of one of America’s wealthiest women. Doris Duke, who passed in 1993 at the age of 80, was a tobacco heiress and an active socialite. During her life, she used her considerable wealth to preserve historical buildings and threatened heritage…

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#american academy of pediatrics #doris duke #doris duke charitable foundation #joseph wright #Medicine #racial bias #racism #racism in medicine

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#animal crossing #animals #art #beauty #celebrities #design #history #movies #music #nature #salmaan khan amitabh bachchan #sanders sides #drawing #greater kailash #@sinonome umi #us politics #american academy of pediatrics #america #aaja nachle #news #sir bchhan #lalo salamanca #television #animatic #animated gif #transformers animated #@ all my mutuals

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By: Leor Sapir

Published: Oct 31, 2023

For all its faults, the American legal system has an international reputation for ensuring that victims of injustice get their day in court. In recent weeks, two young women filed lawsuits against the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and some of its affiliated doctors, arguing that the doctors harmed them irreversibly by subjecting them to “gender-affirming” hormonal treatments when what they needed was mental-health support. One plaintiff argues that the medical group has defrauded the public and its own members in contravention of state deceptive-practice provisions.

Among the defendants are some of the leading advocates of “gender-affirming care.” One is Michelle Forcier, a professor of pediatrics and assistant dean at Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School, who gained notoriety last year after appearing in Matt Walsh’s documentary What Is a Woman? Walsh, a Daily Wire journalist, asked Forcier why she uses “assigned sex at birth” for humans but not, say, for chickens. The doctor responded: “Does a chicken have gender identity? Does a chicken cry? Does a chicken commit suicide?”

Another high-profile physician defendant is Jason Rafferty, a mentee of Forcier’s and author of the AAP’s 2018 policy statement on “gender-affirming care” that has become the U.S. medical community’s touchstone. Rafferty, who describes “gender-affirming care” as an approach that uses “a child’s sense of reality” as the “navigational beacon to orient treatment around,” allegedly approved one plaintiff for puberty blockers after only one visit. He did so, states the complaint, despite the patient’s suffering from multiple-personality disorder and having been hospitalized at the time for a suicide attempt.

Perhaps not coincidentally, the plaintiffs announced the new lawsuits on the opening and closing days of the AAP’s annual conference, which ran from October 20 to October 24 in Washington, D.C. According to Carrie Mendoza, a physician and director of the nonprofit FAIR in Medicine who helped set up a booth at the conference to bring awareness to the problems of gender medicine, “the vast majority of AAP members with whom we engaged in discussion either shared our concerns or had no knowledge of gender medicine and wanted to learn more. Unfortunately, those who agreed that something has gone wrong with how we help kids with distress over their bodies said they fear the personal and professional repercussions of voicing their concerns.”

Her group’s “major takeaway from the conference,” Mendoza said, was “that there is a broken chain of trust in the field of pediatrics.” The AAP’s members “reasonably trust their professional association to adhere to scientific methods” and “reasonably trust that the AAP will convene committees to issue statements and guidelines based on the best available evidence,” she said. But “when the chain of trust is broken, it can take time before members notice dysfunction.”

An example of that dysfunction played out on the convention center’s second floor, just above Mendoza’s booth, where Ilana Sherer, a pediatrician and gender clinician from California, led a panel on gender and sexuality. Sherer asked that the session not be video-recorded, and “deputized” audience members to enforce her request. One of the attendees took an audio recording of the session and, through a mediator, shared it with me.

Sherer began by insisting that pediatricians practice “personal disclosures . . . in any kind of professional setting,” and disclosed that she is “a queer, cisgender, white, able-bodied woman” who lives and works “in the Bay Area, which is unceded Ohlone territory.”

She then suggested that pediatricians not wait until their patients are adolescents to talk to them about “gender care and sexual health” but instead start conversations about “sexual identities” in “childhood.” She also recommended using “updated language,” which pediatricians can learn from their patients. For girls who want male bodies, that new language includes “innie” and “front hole” instead of vagina; “dicklet” and “T-penis” instead of clitoris (a side effect of testosterone injections is clitoral growth, which can be extremely painful); and “chesticles” instead of breasts. For boys who want female bodies, Sherer mentioned “outie,” “junk,” “strapless,” and “bits” as replacement words for penis.

Sherer’s recommendations for dealing with kids who feel discomfort with their bodies or their sex directly contradicts the guidelines the AAP published in April. The guidelines, ��10 Tips for Parents to Teach Children About Safety and Boundaries,” are meant to help parents and caretakers protect children against sexual abuse and assault. “Use appropriate language,” the first recommendation, instructs parents to “Teach children proper names for all body parts, including their genitals: penis, vagina, breasts and buttocks. Making up names for body parts may give the impression that they are bad or a secret and cannot be talked about.”

Sherer also discussed sexuality, noting that the term bisexual “assumes that there are two genders,” whereas the term “pansexual . . . recognizes multiplicity of gender.” She encouraged audience not to “assume that LGBT-identified youth are . . . only having sex with certain genders.” Sherer’s presentation included a visual aid to help fellow AAP members grasp the new concepts of gender and sexuality. It was a “cute” image of a “gender unicorn,” complete with a “little rainbow brain.”

“I see a couple of confused faces,” Sherer promptly admitted. Perhaps the attending pediatricians had overlooked the unicorn section in their biology textbooks in medical school. 

When discussing pronouns, including “they/them,” Sherer admitted that “it’s hard,” but said that kids can educate their doctors. “One of my young patients told me: pretend there’s a hamster in my pocket, and you’re talking to both of us. So, if you’re struggling with they/them pronouns, imagine the hamster. Okay? They are a doctor. I like them. This is their stethoscope. Hamster with a stethoscope. Think about it.”

In 2018, participating in a panel hosted by the organization Gender Spectrum, Sherer said that she saw “lots and lots of kids” who “don’t have [gender] dysphoria, that really don’t have mental health issues, and so to say to them ‘you have to go get a letter from a mental health provider’ feels challenging to me. And so what we’ve started to do in our clinics is have someone like Diane [Ehrensaft, a leading proponent of the gender-affirmative model] . . . go in and do brief assessment, and give their rub—I know you [addressing Ehrensaft] said you don’t rubber-stamp, but basically in my mind that’s what it feels like, and so then we can move on and say ‘OK, now we can talk about what you’re actually here for”—that is, hormones.

Which brings me back to the lawsuits.

That the AAP gave Sherer a stage is further evidence that the organization has abandoned science in pursuit of political fashion. (Neither Sherer nor the AAP could be reached for comment.) Mounting evidence suggests that U.S. pediatric gender clinics are not practicing differential diagnosis—that is, attempting to identify other potential conditions or causes of a patient’s distress—and instead are pushing hormonal and surgical options on kids. Just yesterday, Finland’s top gender clinician and researcher, Tampere University Hospital’s Riittakerttu Kaltiala, claimed in the Free Press that American medical societies are “actively hostile” to gender clinicians and researchers who raise concerns about the “affirmative” approach. “Medicine, unfortunately, is not immune to dangerous groupthink that results in patient harm,” she observes.

As public knowledge of this scandal grows, lawyers will try to go further and further upstream in the referral pipeline to hold providers accountable. In the U.S. legal system, courts play a leading role in crafting standards of medical liability; given their independence, American judges are known to offer novel and creative interpretations of the law. It is only a matter of time before judges become skeptical of pediatricians who referred vulnerable teenagers to facilities that they knew or should have known were unsafe.

It is not news that the AAP has endorsed novel theories about sex and gender in defiance of empirical evidence. What is increasingly clear, and what was confirmed at the conference last weekend, is that the AAP is too shortsighted to protect even the interests of its own members. By deceiving them about the science of gender medicine and infantilizing them with unicorn-themed propaganda, the AAP is not only undermining the public’s trust in its authority as a scientific organization. It is also creating legal risk for pediatricians who, perhaps in good faith, rely on its guidance.

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These institutions are being run by insane people.

#Leor Sapir #American Academy of Pediatrics #lawsuits #medical scandal #medical corruption #medical malpractice #gender ideology #queer theory #genderwang #gender woo #medical experimentation #ideological capture #ideological corruption #religion is a mental illness

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Do You Use A Pillow For Your Newborn Baby? Wait, Read This First!

Welcoming a newborn baby into the family is an exciting time for parents. With the arrival of the baby, parents may want to ensure that they have everything the baby needs for a comfortable and safe environment. One of the most common items parents often think of is a pillow for their newborn baby. However, it’s important to be aware that using a pillow for a newborn baby may not be safe. Here…

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#Alternative options #American Academy of Pediatrics #Baby #comfort #Development #Firmness #Head support #Infant #Neck muscles #Newborn #Pediatrician #Pillow #Safety #Sleep #Sleep environment #Sleep position #Sleep Quality #Sleeping baby #Sleeping Care #Sleeping tips #Softness #Suffocation #Support #Swaddle

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The Devastating Consequence Of Screen Overdose: Children Cognitive Skills At Risk

A new study that was published in JAMA Pediatrics found a link between time spent in front of a screen during infancy and lower cognitive skills later in childhood. In the study that was carried out on 437 children, those who had spent an average of two hours per day watching screens during their first year of life performed worse on tests of executive functions when they were 9 years old.…

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#American Academy of Pediatrics #Babies #Cognitive Skills #Executive Functions #JAMA #Memory #Research #Study

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The right is anti-woman and the left is this...

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#“Rachel” Levine #American Academy of Pediatrics #Gender cult #puberty blockers for kids

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Marjorie Taylor Greene is outraged that doctors oppose her anti-trans kids bill

Marjorie Taylor Greene is outraged that doctors oppose her anti-trans kids bill

The American Association of Pediatrics said that affirming trans youth’s gender is “best-practice medical care.” That set Greene off. Marjorie Taylor Greene is outraged that doctors oppose her anti-trans kids bill

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#American Academy of Pediatrics #Jeff Hudson #Lee Savio Beers #LGBTQ #Protect Children&039;s Innocence Act #Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene #Transgender

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An American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) “puberty guide” created for children ages 9-12 teaches them that girls can get erections and boys can experience menstrual cycles.

Promoted by the tax-funded outlet NPR, “You-ology: A Puberty Guide for Everybody” is meant to “take the embarrassment out of growing up.”

#kelen mcbreen #infowars #american academy of pediatrics #npr

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US pediatricians' group moves to abandon race-based guidance

US pediatricians’ group moves to abandon race-based guidance

For years, pediatricians have followed flawed guidelines linking race to risks for urinary infections and newborn jaundice. In a new policy announced Monday, the American Academy of Pediatrics said it is putting all its guidance under the microscope to eliminate “race-based” medicine and resulting health disparities. A re-examination of AAP treatment recommendations that began before George…

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#American Academy of Pediatrics #health #health disparities #Race and Ethnicity #racial injustice #science #U.S. news