Michelle Cretella, M.D., is president of the American College of Pediatricians, a national organization of pediatricians and other healthcare professionals dedicated to the health and well-being of children.
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I’m a Pediatrician. Here’s What I Did When a Little Boy Patient Said He Was a Girl.
Dr. Michelle Cretella
December 11, 2017
“Congratulations, it’s a boy!” Or, “Congratulations, it’s a girl!”
As a pediatrician for nearly 20 years, that’s how many of my patient relationships began. Our bodies declare our sex.
Biological sex is not assigned. Sex is determined at conception by our DNA and is stamped into every cell of our bodies. Human sexuality is binary. You either have a normal Y chromosome, and develop into a male, or you don’t, and you will develop into a female. There are at least 6,500 genetic differences between men and women. Hormones and surgery cannot change this.
An identity is not biological, it is psychological. It has to do with thinking and feeling. Thoughts and feelings are not biologically hardwired. Our thinking and feeling may be factually right or factually wrong.
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If I walk into my doctor’s office today and say, “Hi, I’m Margaret Thatcher,” my physician will say I am delusional and give me an anti-psychotic. Yet, if instead, I walked in and said, “I’m a man,” he would say, “Congratulations, you’re transgender.”
If I were to say, “Doc, I am suicidal because I’m an amputee trapped in a normal body, please cut off my leg,” I will be diagnosed with body identity integrity disorder. But if I walk into that doctor’s office and say, “I am a man, sign me up for a double mastectomy,” my physician will. See, if you want to cut off a leg or an arm you’re mentally ill, but if you want to cut off healthy breasts or a penis, you’re transgender.
No one is born transgender. If gender identity were hardwired in the brain before birth, identical twins would have the same gender identity 100 percent of the time. But they don’t.
I had one patient we’ll call Andy. Between the ages of 3 and 5, he increasingly played with girls and “girl toys” and said he was a girl. I referred the parents and Andy to a therapist. Sometimes mental illness of a parent or abuse of the child are factors, but more commonly, the child has misperceived family dynamics and internalized a false belief.
In the middle of one session, Andy put down the toy truck, held onto a Barbie, and said, “Mommy and Daddy, you don’t love me when I’m a boy.” When Andy was 3, his sister with special needs was born, and required significantly more of his parents’ attention. Andy misperceived this as “Mommy and Daddy love girls. If I want them to love me, I have to be a girl.” With family therapy Andy got better.
Today, Andy’s parents would be told, “This is who Andy really is. You must ensure that everyone treats him as a girl, or else he will commit suicide.”
As Andy approaches puberty, the experts would put him on puberty blockers so he can continue to impersonate a girl.
It doesn’t matter that we’ve never tested puberty blockers in biologically normal children. It doesn’t matter that when blockers are used to treat prostate cancer in men, and gynecological problems in women, they cause problems with memory. We don’t need testing. We need to arrest his physical development now, or he will kill himself.
But this is not true. Instead, when supported in their biological sex through natural puberty, the vast majority of gender-confused children get better. Yet, we chemically castrate gender-confused children with puberty blockers. Then we permanently sterilize many of them by adding cross-sex hormones, which also put them at risk for heart disease, strokes, diabetes, cancers, and even the very emotional problems that the gender experts claim to be treating.
P.S. If a girl who insists she is male has been on testosterone daily for one year, she is cleared to get a bilateral mastectomy at age 16. Mind you, the American Academy of Pediatrics recently came out with a report that urges pediatricians to caution teenagers about getting tattoos because they are essentially permanent and can cause scarring. But this same AAP is 110 percent in support of 16-year-old girls getting a double mastectomy, even without parental consent, so long as the girl insists that she is a man, and has been taking testosterone daily for one year.
To indoctrinate all children from preschool forward with the lie that they could be trapped in the wrong body disrupts the very foundation of a child’s reality testing. If they can’t trust the reality of their physical bodies, who or what can they trust? Transgender ideology in schools is psychological abuse that often leads to chemical castration, sterilization, and surgical mutilation.
10 comments:
What everyone forgets is that God is in charge and it was HE that determines what the sex of the child will be. Al are made in His image and likeness. By alluding to some sinful so-called transgenderism is actually spitting in the face of God and telling God that He made a huge mistake. That itself is a terrible thing, and I can't imagine He is not extremely angry for such blatant arrogance.
God bless this courageous doctor. These are the people who simply must speak out in defense of children. If anybody will be listened to, it is professionals like this doctor.
We had a 14 year old commit suicide last year. This child was a member of the "GSA" (Gay Student Association) and now his life is over. Suicide is high among this population of kids but grownups are so busy cheering for them they seem to care not at all if they kill themselves in misery before they get out of the gate. The superb group "MassResistance" which does excellent work in this area, has a study that demonstrated that adults use those groups as opportunities for sex with confused children. Yet adults keep signing their kids up, and schools look the other way.
Something like 90% of confused children leave it all behind, but we let them make life-changing decisions, and we allow them to be used by more experienced grownups or older teens. These kids are extremely vulnerable! I can tell you this is hitting the Special Ed population very hard. These kids have a hard time sorting out concrete facts, let alone the very abstract notions of "gay rights" or "gender". This is messing these kids up, and they often fall victim to it.
God help us, this blasted world is a mess. Better, please God, protect these children.
I am curious and I ask this objectively.
Are there more XX beings who identify with being male, percentage wise? Or are their more XY beings who identify with being female?
Are there any accurate studies out there or are there any folks, particularly in the healthcare fields, who could venture an educated guess from their clinical experience(s)?
I have not been disciplined in thinking/observing things in a way to address the specific questions that I just asked. However, I am finding it, percentage wise, based upon living with sight for 63 years, increasingly difficult to be certain of the gender of folks in their later teens, 20's and, perhaps, into their early 30's, by sight/their appearance and to some extent their behavior(s). That did occur in years gone by. But it has been increasing, in my impressions, particularly in the last 10 to 15 years.
Karl
Karl,
so called Gender Studies were pushing this gender ideology on students long before Bruce Jenner decided to dress like a woman.
I know for a fact that Women's Studies in a university could change a brilliant young man into an apologist for his sex in the span of one semester. He took the course for fun, and he has never been normal since. It became impossible to talk to him, while previously it was intellectually stimulating. His entire world view was fundamentally transformed - he realized that in Canada we lived under the heavy boot of the privileged white male (himself being white, I suggested he should show some respect for his good parents).
He began to wear women's jackets, to cook and bake.
It was progressive (meaning superior to those who did not appreciate this "progress") and the only acceptable path to treat manhood as something broken, that needed to be fixed - to become feminine. He oozed a sense of moral superiority. His hair grew log, and was arranged in a bun. Suddenly he even moved like a girl. Then he became a BLM fan, and talked about systemic racism in Canada. I asked for examples, and got police brutality, IQ testing and racist grammar rules imposed on blacks, whose English is too unique for rules. He himself stopped using them.
If you are enlightened, Karl, the only thing you can be is non-binary. Note also, that it is privilege to be cisgender. However, to be heterosexual is bigoted. Monogamy is refusal to non-discriminate.
One more thing, that I frequently say to the horror of the remaining polite society, who still talks to me - This is like a most contagions virus. In Great Britain gender ideologues (usually transdressers) began entering publicly funded nursery schools for 2-3 year olds with this "progress". Many young people have a so called rapid onset of gender dysphoria, especially after exposure to it. Sometimes it happens simultaneously in 6 different girls from the same home room - all at the same time.
Did you know that in Alberta schools teachers are forbidden to share with parents, without a child's (as young as 5) consent that the child is functioning in school as a different gender than at home?
Dorota,
I guess that I am not very enlightened. I seem to be "wrong" on every count.
Karl
It is the work of demons, given power by sins.
St John Bosco, pray for the children. All you holy angels, pray for the children. OL of Guadalupe, pray for us.
Karl,
I am glad. Truly.
May God continue to bless you with an ability to see in this darkness.
Dorota,
Not that it matters but I am of Polish decent.
In my experience, Dorota, is Polish. Sorry, third
generation. I only speak English. My Catholicism
was from my mother's side.
Karl
People today are addicted to attention, via our social media world. Parents now, we have one locally, are finding the attention their newly discovered "transgender" children are getting to be quite intoxicating. We have a local mother who is dressing up her six year old son as a girl, and taking him to our local Gay Pride events, showing him to all. It's better than cocaine, the thrill of being thought a hero by this demonic culture, for being so good a parent that you would support your boy turning into a girl. That these deranged and incompetent people bred children is a tragedy for the child, who will likely try, or will, commit suicide quite young.
God, help the children. God help us. Was Sodom as bad as we now are?
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