Gender dysphoria | The Tennessee Center for Bioethics & Culture

Guest Column* by Janet Liljestrand, M.D., M.A.

Trust, once lost, is difficult to regain. In last month’s Tennessee CBC article Credibility and How to Lose it, Dr. D. Joy Riley questioned if the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) risks its credibility for recommending “gender affirming care” in the treatment of gender dysphoria. Such treatment involves radically and unnaturally changing the body and is not based on scientific data. The AAP is indeed an influential organization. It makes recommendations, but pediatric practitioners and Children’s Hospitals put those recommendations into practice for minors. Children’s Hospitals ...read more

Credibility — and How to Lose It

Blog, United States / joy / September 28, 2024

by D. Joy Riley, M.D., M.A.

Executive Director

Is the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) behaving badly? This is a cogent question. Recently (24 September 2024), the Attorneys General of twenty states, along with the President of the Arizona Senate and the Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives wrote to the AAP with multiple concerns:

Re: AAP’s Compliance with State Consumer Protection Laws

. . . When the American Academy of Pediatrics speaks, its 67,000 pediatrician members, the broader medical community, the public, and especially parents are listening. Since its founding in 1930, it has exercised great influence on the practice ...read more

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