I Am Always Amazed…

But I shouldn’t be that these so called “Family” organizations will do anything for their cause even deceit which everyone knows is a “family” value.

The American College of Pediatricians Is an Anti-LGBT Group
A small but clever anti-LGBT group created a legit-sounding name.
Psychology Today
By Jack Turban MD MHS
Posted May 08, 2017

Did you read this headline and think I was accusing The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) of opposing the LGBT community? That’s the problem. A small anti-LGBT group called the “American College of Pediatricians (ACP)” created a name that is easily confused with the AAP, the largest pediatrics organization in the country.

It is disturbing that news organizations and physicians are citing the "ACP" as a reputable source. The ACP is a small group of physicians that left the AAP after the AAP released a 2002 policy statement explaining that gay parents pose no risk to adopted children. The Southern Poverty Law Center has repeatedly labeled the ACP as an anti-LGBT hate group that promotes false claims and misleading scientific reports. Chillingly, the group has moved beyond its online reports, deeper into the political arena. They have gone as far as filing amicus briefs to U.S. courts for major cases concerning LGBT rights. Their reports have gained traction, despite clear criticism from expert physicians in the field. When asked about the ACP, Dr. Scott Leibowitz, medical director of the THRIVE program at Nationwide Children's Hospital and chair of the sexual orientation and gender identity issues committee for the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, did not parse his words, "It can hardly be a credible medical organization when it consistently chooses to ignore science and the growing evidence base that clearly demonstrates the benefits of affirmative care with LGBT youth across all ages."

Look at what they are saying…

1. Reparative Therapy for Homosexual Youth Is a Good Idea 
2. Gay Parents Are Bad Parents
3. Affirming Transgender Youth Is a Bad Idea

And they twist legitimate research in to sounding like the results supports their “finding”

¹The ACP, in this report, claims that 97.8 percent of prepubescent transgender children change their minds about being transgender after they hit puberty. This is based on a study from 1987, and researchers explain here why such studies are flawed (the gist is that the kids in that study and others were never transgender to begin with). Furthermore, pre-pubertal children do not receive hormonal interventions under Endocrine Society Guidelines. Only adolescents who have reached puberty do, and all existing literature suggests that transgender identity is stable after kids hit puberty (Cohen-Kettenis 2003, deVries 2014).
² The ACP claims that hormonal interventions make it impossible for transgender individuals to have biological children. This is false. Transgender teens receiving hormonal interventions are offered fertility preservation measures as explained in Endocrine Society Guidelines and detailed here.

Now take a look at what is happening in Hartford CT where the City Council passed an ordinance requiring anti-abortion agencies to tell the truth. The agency was intercepting clients going to a OB/GYN clinic and lying to them that they were the family planning clinic when in reality they were an anti-abortion organization.

Hartford Council Approves Proposal To Halt Alleged Deceptive Practices At Anti-Abortion Centers
Hartford Courant
By Jenna Carlesso
December 11, 2017

Beginning next year, Hartford’s faith-driven crisis pregnancy centers, which critics say sometimes pose as clinics to lure women and hand out misleading information about abortions, will have to disclose whether its staff carry medical licenses.

The centers are also banned from engaging in false or deceptive advertising practices under a proposal adopted Monday by the city council. The new regulations take effect July 1.

The hot-button issue of the so-called anti-abortion centers has stirred debate in recent weeks, and drew hundreds to a public hearing in Hartford last month.

Advocates of the proposal say staff at the centers have approached women looking for legitimate clinics and beckoned them inside. The employees sometimes pose in white coats to make visitors believe they’ve arrived at a medical facility, they said, and then provide them with false information.

So the ordinance is basically a “truth in advertising” for businesses, but what does the “family” organization has to say?

“It was always a steep climb,” he said after the vote. “It was always unlikely that we were going to stop this.”

“If it’s not going into effect until July, why the rush?” he added. “It seems to us further evidence that there were larger forces at play here, that the majority of the council is very much in bed with the abortion industry.”

Council members said the new regulations are not meant to take a side for or against the anti-abortion centers. They said the plan was simply about banning false advertising.

They are claiming that it is a First Amendment issue; they feel that it is their free speech to use deceptive advertising. All the ordinance does is require a business to tell the truth, also the ordinance is modeled after other ordinance that have passed to the courts.