Gender Identity
Growing Pains – Problems with Puberty Suppression in Treating Gender Dysphoria
by Paul W. Hruz, Lawrence S. Mayer and Paul R. McHugh
A comprehensive, well documented analysis of gender dysphoria and the use of puberty suppression. The authors explore what is puberty, the origin of puberty suppressors, advocacy for these methods and more. Read Growing Pains in the Atlantis Journal of Technology & Society online or download the PDF version.
FACTS ABOUT YOUTH
Facts About Youth is a resource created by health professionals to provide policymakers, parents and youth with the most current medical and psychological facts. Read the letter to Superintendents from the American College of Pediatricians introducing this website. [Download Letter]
Medical Organizations Come Together to Explain Why Gender Ideology Harms Children
The belief that transgenderism is innate is not based in science, that affirmation of gender dysphoria has no basis in science and is highly controversial among experts and that gender ideology has no basis in science and harms all children.
Gender Ideology Harms Children
by Dr. Cretella of the American College of Pediatricans
The American College of Pediatricians urges educators and legislators to reject all policies that condition children to accept as normal a life of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex. Facts – not ideology – determine reality. [continue reading…]
DON’T BE FOOLED
The American Psychological Association (APA) was censured by Congress for a sham study challenging the harm of sexual abuse of children. Print out and use this flyer to help people understand why no one should be relying on statements by the American APA. Their work is political, not scientific!Read why you are not required by law to mix genders in bathrooms and locker rooms! [Download PDF]
“Gender Radicalism” is a powerful and toxic cultural mandate sweeping through our schools, our government and our civil institutions.
It claims full moral authority over our children, subverting the very knowledge of biology and freedom of conscience, exposing them to great physical, emotional, and mental harm. What is Gender Radicalism based on? A sweeping denial of science [continue reading…]
How a Scientific Cover-up Led to the Gender Identity Deception
by Barb Anderson
John Money—sexologist and professor of pediatric psychology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland—was a pioneer in the field of gender identity and transsexualism. He believed in the plasticity of human gender identity and viewed it as a social construct. Money was convinced that people were born sexually neutral—a blank slate. He just needed to prove it. Then he met David Reimer. [Download PDF]
Mounds View High School study of gender in Sociology class.
April 2014
Transgender
Title: War on the Family Biological Sex
by Laurie Higgins, Illinois Family Institute
Disciples of the “trans”-affirming movement have been advancing their science-denying, intellectually incoherent beliefs at blinding speed. One would think it impossible that the belief that men can become women or that humans can be “born in the wrong body” could catch fire in the modern world, but we don’t live in modernity. We live in postmodernity, which denies the existence of objective reality and objective moral truth. Continue with this engaging article The War on the Family Biological Sex (PDF)
Transgender Resources
The Minnesota Family Council (MFC) has online resources addressing the issue of transgenderism from various authors that may be helpful to our readers. Use at your discretion. Resources by MFC
Detransitioning: Former Transgenders Speak Out
March 8, 2017: Men and women who once considered themselves “trans” realize they got it wrong and have regrets. Some have gone to extreme medical intervention, including hormones and surgery, and are currently seeking to return to their natural biological sex. This growing movement is called “detransitioning.” Their stories are being denied and hidden by transgender activists and the media.
Science Refutes Transgenderism
I’m a Pediatrician. How Transgender Ideology Has Infiltrated My Field and Produced Large-Scale Child Abuse
“Transgender ideology is not just infecting our laws. It is intruding into the lives of the most innocent among us—children—and with the apparent growing support of the professional medical community.” Michelle Cretella, M.D., president of the American College of Pediatricians, explains in this must read article. Read more….
New Paper Says Puberty Blockers Aren’t the Answer to Gender Confusion
Three medical experts reveal that there is little scientific evidence to support such a radical procedure. Read about their findings….
I Used to Be Transgender. Here’s My Take on Kids Who Think They Are Transgender.
Life in society is not some fantasy world where a boy should pretend he has magically transformed himself into a girl simply by uttering the words “I am a girl” and changing how he presents himself. Read More.
70% to 80% of Transgender Youth Lose Transgender Feelings
When young people who identified as transgender did not take medical or surgical treatment, 70% to 80% of them spontaneously lost those feelings, according to Dr. McHugh, former psychiatrist in chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital. [Download PDF]
Prominent Psychiatrist: Transgender is ‘Emotional Unhappiness … Purely Psychological
by Michael W. Chapman
Dr. Joseph Berger, a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, states that from “a scientific perspective,” being “transgendered” is a psychological issue – “emotional unhappiness” – and “cosmetic surgery” is not the “proper treatment.” [continue reading…]
Transgenderism: A Pathogenic Meme
by Paul McHugh
The idea that one’s sex is a feeling, not a fact, has permeated our culture and is leaving casualties in its wake. Gender dysphoria should be treated with psychotherapy, not surgery. [continue reading…]
Privacy Rights
Disturbing Video Shows Risk to Girls and Women Posed by Co-Ed Restrooms and Locker Rooms
by Laurie Higgins
Please watch this compelling and frightening video that illuminates the risk posed to girls and women when men intrude into women’s private, safe spaces:
6 Myths About Allowing Transgender Students to Use Restrooms of the Opposite Sex
by Matt Sharp
No federal law requires public schools to allow boys into girls’ restrooms or girls into boys’ restrooms. In fact, schools and school districts could be exposing themselves to legal liability for violating students’ privacy rights. [continue reading…]
Disturbing Video Shows Risk to Girls and Women Posed by Co-Ed Restrooms and Locker Rooms – Illinois Family Institute
There are multiple reasons to oppose policies and laws that permit people to use opposite-sex restrooms, dressing rooms, and locker rooms, including the risk posed to young girls and women. What’s sickeningly ironic is that “progressives” argue that since many gender-dysphoric women pretending to be men look exactly like actual men, their presence in women’s facilities would be troubling to women. They’re right, but whose fault is that?. Read More.