09-Jan-2019, 07:27 AM
(08-Aug-2018, 08:34 PM)GCDad Wrote: This letter presents what parents, scientists, and psychologists have to say about the sharp rise in transgender-identifying youth.
I'm posting this to maintain the writers anonymity, I can't take credit for the work that has gone into it, but would like to express my thanks for their hard work and my delight that people are doing great stuff here, that I wasn't even aware of.
Please share this far and wide.
A Note About This Letter:
This letter may be a shock to people who have been assuming that gender dysphoric youth have extensive investigation and evaluation before they are affirmed in their transgender identification.
We as parents have experienced the lack of mental health evaluation, the immediate acceptance of the youth's self-diagnosis, and the effort to silence and ignore parents’ questions and concerns when the youth's claim does not match the child's life experience.
The research into what it means when a youth says they are transgender is in its infancy. There is no biological-based diagnosis or proven scientific theories and the clinical evidence evaluating different treatment paradigms is extremely lacking.
Yet, our children are immediately affirmed in their transgender belief by psychologists, schools are enacting policies to affirm a youth's claim of being transgender without question, schools are preventing the parents from being informed about their child's claim as well as "educating" elementary school children that their gender is a choice that can be medically altered if it doesn't match their "assigned birth sex."
It's time to bring ethical scientific debate and evidence-based care to our youth. This letter is meant to aid in that cause in a non-discriminatory, diversity-embracing fashion.
Our target audience is very broad with the first wave directed to schools and subsequent waves directed to psychologists, media, politicians, and physicians.
Please consider supporting this letter campaign in any way that you can.
"IMPORTANT UPDATE - October 27, 2018
-- The letter has been downloaded over 730 times. It was updated today which resets the download count to 0.
-- Please continue to disseminate!
-- As background, and in case anyone asks you about the letter or about specific points:
Statements within the letter are
(1) pulled from reliable sources as referenced within the document,
(2) supported by additional scientific findings that couldn't be included for length reasons,
and/or
(3) they reflect our collective experiences as parents that have not been recorded in the literature because the ROGD phenomenon is so new.
hi,
I am newly registered, but I am not sure if I am doing things right. how can i access the letter you posted.
