Trans-Fanaticism: "Gender-Affirming" Treatment for Children Has No Scientific Basis, Medical Experts Warn Court
Allegra Thatcher writes at the College Fix:
Medical professionals who study youth psychology and treat gender-confused youth are sounding the alarm about court rulings that they claim put transgender ideology ahead of "sound science" and the law.
The Alliance Defending Freedom filed a friend-of-the-court brief on their behalf just after Christmas, in a K-12 bathroom case being appealed to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
By questioning the scientific underpinnings of "gender-affirming" treatment for gender-confused youth, the brief seeks to halt the momentum of LGBT activists who are pressuring public schools to comply with their students' gender-identity requests.
"Gender is an engineered term," Andre Van Mol, a board-certified family physician who signed the brief, told The College Fix in a phone interview.
"Nouns have gender. People have a different sex," the College Fix quotes Van Mol as saying. Van Mol "serves as co-chair of the Committee on Adolescent Sexuality for the American College of Pediatricians," according to the Fix.
"It's an ideological term -- this is not a scientific thing," Van Mol says, the Fix reports. "Gender went from applying to nouns to becoming a substitute for biological sex."
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