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(LifeSiteNews) – New evidence is dismantling the left’s dangerous transgender ideology.
A report written by an epidemiologist consultant to the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) and published by ACPeds last month found “compelling evidence” for treating gender dysphoria with therapy, rather than drugs and surgery, after reviewing more than a dozen studies.
“For decades, many of transgenderism’s researchers and clinicians have promoted a false ideology: if a man, woman or child claims to be a member of the opposite sex or expresses a keen desire to ‘change sex’ through hormonal and surgical intervention, then there is nothing one can do but ‘affirm’ or facilitate that person’s belief and desire,” the report said.
“A key component of this ideology is that psychotherapeutic interventions have been tried exhaustively in such patients and that nothing worked.”
“In reality, none of this is true,” the report stated. “The truth is that many clinicians have offered psychotherapy and behavioral therapies to help their patients with identity disturbances fixated on ‘gender’ or ‘change of sex,’ and often with success.”
The report noted that, decades after the emergence of “gender medicine,” “there has never yet been even one rigorous study comparing the use of psychotherapy in patients with gender dysphoria to any kind of control condition.”
The epidemiologist, who chose to
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