More than 200 children under the age of 14 died in the United States in 2014 after being struck by a car. Another 8,000 suffered injuries, according to the National Center for Statistics and Analysis.
A new research study conducted at the University of Iowa has determined children younger than 14 do not possess the cognitive skills and judgment to safely cross a street. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published an excerpt of the study in its Daily Briefing, a nod some physicians found ironic, given the organization’s support for transgender treatment.
“This same AAP, however, also frequently promotes the claim that children this age or younger are cognitively capable of deciding that they are the wrong sex,” noted Michelle Cretella, president of the American College of Pediatricians, a conservative alternative to the AAP. “Moreover, the AAP also deems children cognitively competent to consent to puberty blockers, toxic sex hormones, and mutilating sex reassignment surgery.”
The Iowa researchers studied children between the ages of 6 and 14. The children engaged in a 3-D simulated activity in which they crossed a single lane of virtual traffic with approaching vehicles traveling 25 mph. Each child crossed the road 20 times. The results showed 6-year-olds got struck by vehicles an alarming 8 percent of the time, 8-year-olds 6 percent, 10-year-olds 5 percent, and 12-year-olds 2 percent.
The researchers concluded impatience combined with immature cognitive and motor skills means children lack the skills to make safe judgments about crossing a busy street.
Cretella noted that children are not “miniature adults.” But the AAP appears to only selectively heed research that documents how the cognitive limitations of children compromise their judgment and ability to provide informed consent, she said.
“Cognitive immaturity and impaired risk assessment during adolescence has always been recognized,” she said. “That’s why society has long had age restrictions not only for consenting to medical procedures, but also for driving, voting, joining the military, and purchasing alcohol and cigarettes.”
Professional recommendations for the treatment of transgender children often ignore their cognitive limitations. Norman Spack, a pediatric endocrinologist at Boston Children’s Hospital, believes doctors should give puberty blockers to even younger children. In a recent issue of the journal Endocrine News, he claimed the best age for boys is between 12 and 14, while girls should start between 10 and 12.
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Let children be children not pawns in this sick diabolical radical sex agenda. Protect our children because they are our greatest resource created by Almighty God. Children are the future of America. Turn from the culture of death to the culture of life. Pray America Pray. Our Lady of Fatima pray for children throughout America and the rest of the world.
Oh come on. Hormonal puberty blockers are not the same as a “sex-change”. They merely put a hold on physiological development UNTIL the young person has a chance to mature cognitively. They are used BECAUSE a person of 12 or 13 or 14 doesn’t have the cognitive development needed to consent to a sex change. They are completely reversible, CCD, please report the truth, not scare tactics.
It mutilates a child — plain and simple. It stops them from becoming what God (or nature, take your pick) intended them to be. It is child abuse — plain and simple. Parents should not be listening to these quack “doctors”. They are going to have a whole bunch of medical problems later in life from pumping hormones into their bodies later that were not meant to be there. This is sick! Stop pushing this insanity.
YFC stop with your gay/trans agenda this transgender craze are nothing more than mental disorders whether you accept it or not.
I pray for those with hardened hearts.
You are the one with the hardened heart. If you believe in this so much, than you should be the first to let such “doctors” experiment on you. Women who encourage boys to be “girls” should have to go to the two “doctors” in the United States, who were performing female genital mutilation, and have their parts mutilated and see how they like it.
Pretending is good for creativity, but when someone can no longer tell reality from fantasy, it is not loving to encourage their inability to face reality and pay for their mutilation. There are websites run by those who regretted have such things done to their bodies.
Correction: “regretted having such things done to their bodies.”
Anne, you seem to have a basic misunderstanding of what doctors do in these cases. They administer hormone blockers that, as long as they are present, prevent hormones from inducing secondary sex characteristics. They do not mutilate, and their effects are not permanent. If administration of blockers ceases, puberty proceeds as if they had never been administered, except of course, at a later date. That’s all. It’s not in any way a “mutilation”, nor is it a “sex change”. You may agree or disagree that this is a good thing in these situations, but I think it is important to stick to facts, and not make up alternate facts, otherwise we can’t even have a civil conversation.
YFC, delaying the onset of puberty is to further confuse and frustrate that which God created. It is important to stick to facts. So while this chemical method may not produce a permanent deformity, interfering with the natural development is to mutate the natural process.
Chemically manufacturing a period of stasis is unnatural and can interfere with cognitive development. Much like isolating a child during the early years of childhood will permanently affect their capacity to learn. Not because their brain is deformed but rather because that which should have come naturally – conversation, education, interaction – was withheld.
YFC, I understand what they do. Has it occurred to you that blocking a boy or girl’s normal hormonal change affects his/her brain? If the person insists he/she is the opposite sex (most likely from some psychological reason — like a parent wanting an opposite sex child) he will not receive any testosterone to make him consider otherwise. Like the lobotomies and shock treatments of old, these “cures” are worse than the problems they seek to cure, unless the person has a real physical defect from birth. That is why the Hopkins hospital stop doing them.
You do seem to have a hardened heart in this area, YFC. Good thing you are praying!
YFC “Woe to those who call good evil and evil good”…
For anyone who tries to change the sex of a child, “It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea.”
Joel, see how they twist evil into good and good into evil.
We are not talking about cultural things here such as Scotsmen wearing kilts, certain male vestments for men having lace or women wearing ladies slacks at appropriate times. We are not talking about corrective surgery, where the person is born with an actual genital defect (though I believe such decisions are best made as an adult). We are talking about the serious mutilation of a child all in the name of “helping” him/her.
One man reported he was confused about his gender most of his life because he grandmother dressed him in girls dresses when she babysat him and told him how pretty he was. He felt the only way to get her love was to be a girl. There is a lot of potential for child abuse here if a parent dislikes the opposite…
Cont: the opposite sex. There is a strong potential for serious abuse is all this as a parent might do this to a child out spite to get even with a separated spouse of the same sex. Some doctors can have an “agenda” too. If an adult wants to do this to their body, they will always find some doctor who will be willing to experiment on them, but this should never be done to a child. The surgeon who first did these types of procedures stopped doing them because he said it did not help the person. Now they are trying to pressure the Hopkins Hospital into doing these types of procedures and surgeries again. Should we bring back lobotomies also? No!
Correction to the first line in last post: “A parent might do this to a child out of spite to get even with a separated spouse who is of the same sex as the child.”
Who needs a Lobotomy… Just listen to Sen. Chuck Squirmer and his Goleta Gaystapo Gangsta propaganda network (aka the Lamesteam Media) – At Length… At least until the nausea clears some or closes it all down.
That way you won’t be harmed by exposure to politically un-good facts in advance of their public release date (Kind of like former Judge Von-Wanker’s coverup of a massive Conflict of Interest) and you won’t know anything you might needn’t to know to, yet.
Gotta be careful – lots of stray cognition going around – which is why Colleges have ‘Safe Zones’ now – where the hatred of Men is Safe.
Lobotomies for those who push this stuff is like the saying “There should have been abortionists around to abort the abortionists.” Just wishful thinking but understandable. (Laughter.) Of course the first paragraph of my post to YFC on May 10 at 5:22 pm was said “tongue in cheek”, but how does one get through to these unethical people? Anyway I am getting off of the Merry-go-round. I have had enough.