Arlington Parents Coalition keeps strange bedfellows

[Anonymous]

There's been a lot of noise on my nextdoor lately from something called the Arlington Parents Coalition (link) related to Arlington's draft J-2 PIP transgender policy.

Gotta love how they link to a statement by the American College of Pediatricians, which appears to be a political group formed mostly for the purpose of being confused with the American Academy of Pediatrics which is the actual professional organization you've heard of. Wikipedia says American College of Pediatricians is listed as a hate group by the Southern Policy Law Center.

Approve of the policy or not, it's pretty sad that in Arlington people are using fake academic organizations and politicians passed of as actual research to make their point. The "research' section on that web site is a complete joke. Every single piece of "research" linked to is associated with the fake American College of Pediatricians or some other super right wing organization. The first five links:

"Unethical NIH Study Causes Irreversible Medical Harm to Children" - posted on youtube by "The Kelsey Coalition" - speech by Dr. Michael K. Laidlaw, who's a vocal anti-trans activist and writes frequently in church, pro-life journals and ultra-conservative journals. Read about him..
"What’s Wrong with the New NIH Study on Transgender Kids?" by Jane Robbins/ Erin Tuttle = employees of the American Principles Project, an ultra-conservative think tank
"Dr. Michelle Cretella on Transgenderism: A Mental Illness is Not a Civil Right" Michelle Critella = vice president of fake American College of Pediatricians
"The Medical Harms of Hormonal and Surgical Interventions for Gender Dysphoric Children" - the actual heritage foundation, enough said
"The Terrible Fraud of 'Transgender Medicine" - Quentin L. Van Meter = president of fake American College of Pediatricians

.. got tired of googling the authors after the first five turned out to be are all sourced from highly political organizations or are agenda-driven. None of these is actual research.

[Anonymous]

Call ‘em out on Nextdoor. People deserve to know who their neighbors really are.

[Anonymous]

Why did AAP get political?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why did AAP get political?

OP went to great lengths to explain that this wasn’t from the AAP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why did AAP get political?

ACP not AAP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Call ‘em out on Nextdoor. People deserve to know who their neighbors really are.

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Disgusting.

[Anonymous]

your cherrypicking references- and ignoring their subtitles. Here are the articles they list under the category 'if you only read one thing' Especially the Littman article is sound research .

If you only read one thing:
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Paul W. Hruz, Lawrence S. Mayer, and Paul R. McHugh, "Growing Pains: Problems with Puberty Suppression in Treating Gender Dysphoria," The New Atlantis, Number 52, Spring 2017, pp. 3-36.

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More research is needed to resolve these unanswered questions. At the same time, research into how and why gender dysphoria occurs, persists, and desists must also continue, as it could elucidate new ways to help people cope with gender dysphoria with less permanent and drastic treatments than sex reassignment. In light of the many uncertainties and unknowns, it would be appropriate to describe the use of puberty-blocking treatments for gender dysphoria as experimental.

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GENDER IDENTITY DYSOPHORIA (GID) & RAPID-ONSET GENDER DYSPHORIA (ROGD)



Littman, Lisa (2018). Rapid-onset gender dysphoria in adolescents and young adults: A study of parental reports. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202330

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Conclusion: Rapid-onset gender dysphor?ia (ROGD) describes a phenomenon where the development of gender dysphoria is observed to begin suddenly during or after puberty in an adolescent or young adult who would not have met criteria for gender dysphoria in childhood. ROGD appears to represent an entity that is distinct from the gender dysphoria observed in individuals who have previously been described as transgender. The worsening of mental well-being and parent-child relationships and behaviors that isolate AYAs from their parents, families, non-transgender friends and mainstream sources of information are particularly concerning. More research is needed to better understand this phenomenon, its implications and scope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:your cherrypicking references- and ignoring their subtitles. Here are the articles they list under the category 'if you only read one thing' Especially the Littman article is sound research .

If you only read one thing:
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Paul W. Hruz, Lawrence S. Mayer, and Paul R. McHugh, "Growing Pains: Problems with Puberty Suppression in Treating Gender Dysphoria," The New Atlantis, Number 52, Spring 2017, pp. 3-36.

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More research is needed to resolve these unanswered questions. At the same time, research into how and why gender dysphoria occurs, persists, and desists must also continue, as it could elucidate new ways to help people cope with gender dysphoria with less permanent and drastic treatments than sex reassignment. In light of the many uncertainties and unknowns, it would be appropriate to describe the use of puberty-blocking treatments for gender dysphoria as experimental.

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GENDER IDENTITY DYSOPHORIA (GID) & RAPID-ONSET GENDER DYSPHORIA (ROGD)



Littman, Lisa (2018). Rapid-onset gender dysphoria in adolescents and young adults: A study of parental reports. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202330

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Conclusion: Rapid-onset gender dysphor?ia (ROGD) describes a phenomenon where the development of gender dysphoria is observed to begin suddenly during or after puberty in an adolescent or young adult who would not have met criteria for gender dysphoria in childhood. ROGD appears to represent an entity that is distinct from the gender dysphoria observed in individuals who have previously been described as transgender. The worsening of mental well-being and parent-child relationships and behaviors that isolate AYAs from their parents, families, non-transgender friends and mainstream sources of information are particularly concerning. More research is needed to better understand this phenomenon, its implications and scope.

I'm cherry picking references? Those are, literally, the FIRST SIX THINGS on the "research" page. The only person "cherry picking" here is the person who finds a bunch of hacks with made-up studies to support their point, and links to a fake political organization called "American College of Pediatricians", when the ACTUAL "American Academy of Pediatrics" urgest support & care of transgender/gender divers kids: https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/Pages/AAP-Policy-Statement-Urges-Support-and-Care-of-Transgender-and-Gender-Diverse-Children-and-Adolescents.aspx

Where's the link to that?

Anyway, that's nice that there's an article about "puberty suppression" that isn't written by someone associated with a fake pediatric professional organization, or a right-wing think tank. I read it, and I'm not sure what it has to do with APS's policy. The policy has no mention of "puberty suppression" nor does this study have anything to do directly with the debate at hand here. I don't know much about puberty suppression to say whether I think it's a good thing or not, but since APS doesn't say anything about it either, it seems completely irrelevant to this discussion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Call ‘em out on Nextdoor. People deserve to know who their neighbors really are.

Or post their names & schools on AEM again.

POSs

[Anonymous]

Bigots are not strange bedfellows for bigots.

[Anonymous]

You all need to take a chill pill. I looked up Lisa Littman and she is a well respected professor and MD at Brown U. Just because her study challenges your ideas doesn't mean she is bigot or that her research is bigoted. There is nothing fake about her or Brown University.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You all need to take a chill pill. I looked up Lisa Littman and she is a well respected professor and MD at Brown U. Just because her study challenges your ideas doesn't mean she is bigot or that her research is bigoted. There is nothing fake about her or Brown University.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You all need to take a chill pill. I looked up Lisa Littman and she is a well respected professor and MD at Brown U. Just because her study challenges your ideas doesn't mean she is bigot or that her research is bigoted. There is nothing fake about her or Brown University.

Nobody's complaining about the article from Lisa Littman. Nor does it have anything to do with the proposed policy. The existence of one legitimate article, that's not really on topic anyway, among a half dozen fake ones makes everything ok?

Why don't you take a chill pill, then explain why I should listen to someone who refers repeatedly to a hate group (the American College of Pediatrics) on their web site as a source of truth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Call ‘em out on Nextdoor. People deserve to know who their neighbors really are.

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Disgusting.

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bigots are not strange bedfellows for bigots.

This.