A group of doctors, nurses, and pediatricians have signed on to a declaration calling on prominent United States medical organizations to stop performing experimental and harmful transgender procedures on children.
Members of the American College of Pediatricians, also known as ACPeds, and other medical professionals will announce their signing of the "Doctors Protecting Children Declaration" on Thursday during a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, The Daily Signal has learned.
"As physicians, nurses, other health professionals, psychotherapists, and behavioral health clinicians, scientists, researchers, and public health and policy professionals, we have serious concerns about the physical and mental health effects of the current protocols promoted for the care of children and adolescents in the United States who express discomfort with their biological sex," the declaration states.
It is co-signed by medical and health organizations including the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, Genspect, the American College of Family Medicine, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, the Catholic Medical Association, and many individual doctors, pediatricians, and nurses.
The declaration also highlights the very serious long-term risks of so-called gender-affirming care, including when doctors or medical professionals "Socially transition" children, put them on puberty blockers, prescribe them masculinizing or feminizing hormones such as testosterone or estrogen, or perform irreversible "Sex change" procedures.
Professional medical organizations in the U.S. continue to promote these interventions and call legislation protecting children from so-called transgender procedures "Dangerous."
The signers call upon top medical organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychological Association, and others to "Follow the science and their European professional colleagues and immediately stop the promotion of social affirmation, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries for children and adolescents who experience distress over their biological sex."
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