American Academy of Pediatrics Article Says Laws Banning Trans ‘Care’ for Kids is ‘Medical Neglect’
Emily Georges, Emily C.B. Brown, and Rachel Silliman Cohen of the Seattle Children’s Hospital published a recent article in Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), arguing that laws safeguarding minors from life-altering hormone treatments and disfiguring surgery “amounts to state-sanctioned medical neglect and emotional abuse.”
The December article urged a “reframing” of the “discussion” surrounding such laws.
Further underscoring their agenda, one of the article’s subjects is listed as Child Abuse and Neglect. Additionally, the search keywords for topics are child abuse, emotional abuse, gender, neglect, reframing, and gender identity.
The writers preface the article by saying they want to “refute the idea that gender-affirming care (GAC) [sic] is child maltreatment” and also “demonstrate how withholding GAC is harmful to children and amounts to state-sanctioned medical neglect and emotional abuse.”
Referencing what the article calls “a dangerous trend of transphobia and prejudice toward transgender and gender diverse (TGD) children,” i.e.
