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President of American Academy of Pediatricians Slams Transgender Drugs as "Child Abuse"

Raymond Wolfe : Dec 20, 2021  LifeSiteNews

"What we do know from pouring over data is that all of these children have severe emotional problems going in, and they're not because they are gender dysphoric and caused by societal rejection. They have deep emotional problems, which is why the world is now turning around and saying, those are what you evaluate, those are what you treat, leave the gender dysphoria on the sidelines and it will resolve with time, as it does in 80 to 90 percent of children who get the chance to have that kind of counseling and evaluation." — Dr. Quentin Van Meter

(Gainesville, FL) — [Lifesitenews.com] – Dr. Quentin Van Meter, president of the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds), slammed the use of puberty blockers for children with gender dysphoria, describing the practice as "child abuse." (Photo Credit: Dr. Quentin Van Meter via YouTube/Real Help for Transgender Children)

In an exclusive interview with LifeSiteNews, Dr. Van Meter, a Johns Hopkins-trained pediatrician and pediatric endocrinologist, reiterated ACPeds' position that prescribing hormone blockers for gender dysphoria violates medical ethics and said it should be criminalized.

"We said in our policy statement that it is child abuse for all intents and purposes," he said, "and that it is taking a very healthy, intentionally designed part of life where a child goes from being a non-reproductive individual to becoming a reproductive individual in a time frame and an age frame where the physiology is there to change the physical body in terms of bone structure, in terms of organ structure, in terms of brain maturation."

"If you are interrupting that with clearly the intent of never having it go the direction that nature intended, with biological males ending up as adult males and biological females ending up as adult female, if you interrupt that, you are basically setting up a disease state," Van Meter continued. "And then on top of that, the purpose is clearly in the vast majority of kids that get on puberty blockers, they will not be allowed to go through their own natural puberty. They will be held back and then given cross-sex hormones."

"So, it's a conveyor belt. And once that patient is placed on the conveyor belt of puberty blockers, they are carried down the assembly line to cross-sex hormones. And then at the end, have an option to do surgery to mutilate their bodies to appear like the opposite sex."

"I think the steps that have been proposed in terms of making this an offense and considering it to be medically unethical should be pressed to the max," Van Meter said. "It should be looked at in terms of licensure of physicians who do this."

Though federal regulators have never approved any medication for gender dysphoria, dozens of gender clinics around the country have started prescribing hormone blockers to children off-label in recent years to halt their puberty and affirm their so-called "transgender identities." Planned Parenthood has moved into the puberty blocker business as well, as have major health systems, like Kaiser Permanente and the Mayo Clinic, regardless of the fact that the drugs are linked to a host of serious, permanent side effects.

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