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Submitted by American College of Pediatricians on June 7, 2017 - 10:39am
The American College of Pediatricians is a professional organization confident in the science we present and in the traditional ethics we uphold. In the past, we have typically directed critics to the relevant content on our website. Mr. Jack Turban that is not only libelous, but also denies the fact that untold numbers of American children are being experimented upon, and many of them permanently sterilized, under the guise of treating a largely transient disorder known as Gender Dysphoria of Childhood. This warrants a more public response.

The American College of Pediatricians has held true to its founding principles summarized by its slogan, “Best for Children.” The College has also endured ad hominem attacks for making factual statements that threaten agendas which promote the wants of adults over the needs of children. Attacking the messenger is a tactic commonly used by those who cannot refute a truthful message. Labels, such as hate group, extremist, right wing, miniscule, Christian fundamentalist, and deceptively named, reveal desperate attempts to deflect attention away from facts that undermine a desired agenda.

The American College of Pediatricians is precisely what its name implies: a national nonsectarian organization of child and adolescent physicians and health professionals. We have never surveyed the religious identities of our membership, nor attempted to attract physicians of a given religion. In fact, members of our Board of Directors and various committees have identified themselves as Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Buddhist. We are physicians and healthcare professionals united by a commitment to traditional Hippocratic medicine; a medical tradition that respects life from conception to natural death and provides care to all patients, as delineated in our Statement of Inclusiveness. It is true that we are relatively smaller than other medical organizations; we have 500 members and counting. Ultimately, however, this is irrelevant to the veracity of our statements; sound science and ethics are not determined by majority vote.

Responsible journalism requires thorough investigation of the subject at hand. This appears lacking with Mr. Turban’s report on the ACPeds. He and others have expressed deep concern over our very legitimate name, yet they erroneously designate us as the “ACP,” which stands for the American College of Physicians. Our proper designation is ACPeds. Our web address, pretty much gives it away. Then again, most of our detractors have never bothered to give our website, position statements, let alone any of the hundreds of scientific references there, a careful read. Were they to do so, they would realize how easily their alternative facts would be refuted, particularly those regarding Gender Dysphoria in Children.

Yes, Mr. Turban, prior to the widespread promotion of transgender affirmation, 75 - 95 percent of prepubertal children with Gender Dysphoria eventually outgrew that distress. The vast majority came to accept their biological sex by late adolescence after passing naturally through puberty. The alternative fact, recently put forth by activists, that large numbers of children who desisted were actually “misdiagnosed” with Gender Dysphoria is debunked by data in Dr. Devita Singh’s doctoral thesis, and also by Dr. T.D. Steensma et. al., as noted in slides 23-25 of our Gender Dysphoria power point.

Yes, Mr. Turban, children diagnosed with Gender Dysphoria pre-pubertally are permanently sterilized when the World Professional Association for Transgender Health and Pediatric Endocrine Society Guidelines are followed. According to these Guidelines, children are placed on puberty blockers as early as Tanner stage II of puberty (as young as age 11) and then placed directly on cross-sex hormones by age 16. An article by Dr. A. Evan Eyler, referenced in our full position statement, confirms that children administered blockers beginning at Tanner stage II and seamlessly transitioned to cross-sex hormones are prevented from producing gonadal tissue (eggs or sperm) for cryopreservation. They will be unable to have genetic offspring of their own even with artificial reproductive technology.

There is an obvious self-fulfilling effect in helping children to impersonate the opposite sex both socially and pharmacologically. Logic leads one to predict that most, if not all, pre-pubertal gender dysphoric children treated in this way will lose the potential to identify with their biological sex, and instead go on to claim a transgender identity. As noted in our position statement, the single follow-up study of such children finds just that; 100% of the pre-pubertal children placed on the social affirmation/puberty blocker protocol failed to desist.

According to the APA Handbook of Sexuality and Psychology (2014), among those youth who did resolve their Gender Dysphoria prior to the present-day transgender affirmation ethos, 63 - 100% of boys would identify as gay adults, and 32-50% of the girls would identify as lesbian by young adulthood. Affirming pre-pubertal gender dysphoric children as transgender potentially translates into a significant percentage of LGB adults being sterilized. Consequently, some members of the LGB community stand with the ACPeds against this “transgendering of children” which they view as nothing less than the single greatest form of homophobic hatred, namely, eugenics.
Contrary to popular belief, there is no evidence that the elevated rates of mental illness and suicide among transgender-identified youth and adults are due solely, or even predominately, to societal prejudice or discrimination. At least one 2008 study by LGBT-affirming researchers, noted in our Gender Dysphoria position statement, found these factors not to be causative. Mr. Turban’s article also alleges that the College has ignored evidence that transition improves mental health in gender dysphoric children. The “evidence” consists of two small short term studies that contain methodological flaws, and therefore, prove no such thing. There is also no scientifically rigorous, large, prospective or sufficiently longitudinal evidence that transition of gender dysphoric children prevents suicide in the long term. However, there is long-term research on the mental health of adults who transitioned with Gender Dysphoria. This reveals that despite initial relief of the dysphoria, one or more decades after transition, they often present with worse mental health than that of the general population, including a suicide rate nearly twenty times greater. This observation raises more questions than it answers, and should, therefore, give pediatric health professionals great pause- at least those who value evidence-based medicine and are dedicated to ‘first do no harm’.

Some members of the transgender community recognize this and have expressed solidarity with the ACPeds. Rene Jax, a Male to Female Trans author, wrote:

"Dear Dr. Cretella,
Chemical castration, sterilization and surgical mutilation are more than just words to me. They are personal and brutal realities; no child should be subjected to this. Thank you."

The ACPeds has also been contacted by clinicians and academic physicians across the political spectrum, including LGB affirming clinicians. They have expressed their gratitude to the ACPeds for saying publicly what they cannot. Division chairs in psychology and sociology, and many pediatric endocrinologists have told us that to stand for science and go against transgender group think is professional suicide and often results in relentless harassment including death threats.

Belief is in the mind; not in the body. Everyone knows that thinking or feeling that something is true does not make it true. When people consistently and persistently insist something that is contrary to physical reality, they are, at best, confused, or at worst, delusional. According to the alternative logic of transgender experts, however, this is true in every instance except where biological sex is concerned. In this case alone, the persistent and consistent insistence of something contrary to physical reality is definitive proof of the metaphysical claim that an immaterial essence, or in the words of Dr. John Money, “[an] internal sexed identity” is trapped in the wrong body. This foundational claim of transgender medicine has far more in common with a quasi-religion than it has with evidence-based science. How much longer will society sacrifice the health of its children upon these altars?

Michelle Cretella, MD, FCP President

Getting Started

Starting it slow ...

What’s it all about ?

Bascially data is retrieved from a consciousness field beyond time and space which stores information about quite everything. This is done by holding a thought in mind like for example “my neighbor did some gardening yesterday”. The statement will yield a true or false response depending on the fact if the neighbor actually did some gardening that day. And this without the subject consciously knowing any information about the neighbor at all. Confused or even excited? Yes you got it, anything that happened or any kind of information you can think of is already available and accessible for free, right now.

Ready for takeoff?

Getting to know the basics

- Former research

Beginning in the 1960’s Dr. George Goodheart developed Applied Kinesiology, which uses a simple muscle test to determine whether a certain remedy is beneficial for the body or not. If a tested muscle stayed strong, a substance was good for the body, and if it went weak, it was not.
Later in the 1980’s Dr. John Diamond continued the work and discovered that different images, paintings, music and objects affect the muscles strength as well. The findings of Diamond showed that everything we interact with either strengthens or weakens our life energy.
At the end of the 20th century Dr. David Hawkins found out that the muscle test really turns out to be a non-local response from the field of consicousness itself. He has taken Diamond’s work further, through the discovery that the kinesiologic response also reflects the capacity to differentiate truth from falsehood and the actual degree of truth. In the early 2000’s he tested anything and everything and documented the results that he called calibrations. Among them were calibrations of people, animals, buildings, sports, businesses, philosophical concepts, scientific theories, statements, books and whatnot. The implications of the work were startling.

If life would be easy we’d all be happy ...

The Theory behind it

Spiritual revelation by a few mystics showed that pure awareness is the irreducible stratum of life itself. The subjective knowledge and experience of these advanced states of consciousness brought forth an instantaneos understanding of how reality operates. This understanding correlates with the theories of Quantum Physics, Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos Theory and Attractor Research and some terms from these sciences are used to describe the findings.

- Chaos Theory

Is a subfield of nonlinear Dynamics and examines dynamic systems which are chronologically unpredictable, though still deterministic. Also called deterministic chaos, these systems are highly dependend on initial conditions. They are non-linear in practice. To determine the behaviour of the system on a spiceific time in the future the initial conditions have to be known with infinite precision. Therefore practical predictions can only be forecast for short periods of time like in meteorology (e.g. the butterfly effect).

- Nonlinear Dynamics

Is a subfield of the theory of dynamic systems where differential equations contain nonlinear functions. The solutions of these nonlinear equations show interesting characteristics like plots in phase spaces known as attractors and fractal structures under certain conditions.

- Attractor Field Theory

The term attractor is derived from the theory of non-linear dynamics and describes a subset of phase space (meaning a specific amount of system states) to which the dynamic system converges and which the dynamic system does not leave. This means that a certain value, curve or sub space comes to and stays near the attractor because of its inherent pull and potential. The attractor is a strict recognizable structure which can be called a stable condition of a system.

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Strange Attractor

- Quantum Physics

In Quantum Physics when we move in the area of microscopic scope we see phenomena that are discontinuous with our understanding of Newtonian Causality and yet proved to be as real in observation and practice. These principles are already used in a variety of ways like in satellite communications, atom physics, solid state physics and so on. The nature of consciousness itself can be said to reside in a realm beyond time and space and thus shows characteristics related to quantum physics.

A quantum physics view of reality

In the paradigm of causality it postulates that A causes B causes C like billiard balls sequentially striking each other. But consciousness research indicates that the very nature of causality functions quite differently:

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The very cause of a phenomenon is an unobservable non-deterministic attractor pattern which cause the detetministic A, B and C at the same time. But A, B and C from an observable linear point of view are still perceived as the cause of each other. The operants can then be seen as transcending both the linear and non-linear domain. This depiction is in accord with what physicist David Bohm describes as the enfolded and unfolded universe.

Launching the rocket!

Through the technique of neurophysiologic modelling it has been discovered that there are classes of brain neuronal networks that act as attractors as a whole, though single neurons may behave randomly. These network classes of interconnected neurons operate within a series of limits and are defined by feeling patterns. These patterns are actually dominated by fields of consciousness which reside beyond the body and are activated by choice. Thus one’s consciousness can be said to be like a needle in electrostatic fields of different dominance. These different fields have been calibrated on a scale from 1 to 1000 and are presented on the Map of Consciousness©.

Ordninarily the processing of problems requires going from the known condition to the unkown answer. In nonlinear dynamics it is the other way around: from the unknown nondeterministic data of the question to the known answer. And this is the same process that is used by muscle testing. A high energy attractor pattern interconnected with the human nervous system via the meridians known in accupunture yields the response.

Getting to know the numbers

Map of Consciousness of David R. Hawkins unfortunately had to be removed due to copyright issues. You can find it elsewhere.
You can find an outline through the link below.
©spiritualwiki, Germany

For most people the levels up to 500 are easily verifiable. To get an intuitive understanding of the map it is best to take a look at the massive amount of data that has been retrieved over the years.

Still with me? No need to, this is for the pros...

- How to muscle test: Two pair testing

Choose a friend or a family member for testing. We’ll call him or her your subject.

1. Have the subject stand erect, right arm relaxed at his side, left arm stretched out parallel to the floor, elbow straight.
2. Face the subject and place your left hand on his right shoulder to steady him. Then place your right hand on the subject’s extended left arm just above the wrist.
3. Tell the subject you are going to try to push his arm down as he resists your downward pressure.
4. Now push down on his arm fairly quickly, firmly, and evenly. The idea is to push just hard enough to test the spring and bounce in the arm, not so hard that the muscle becomes fatigued. It is not a question of who is stronger, but of whether the muscle can lock the shoulder joint against the push.
5. Let the subject hold someone in mind that they love and push down the arm. The arm should be able to resist the pressure. Then again let them hold someone they hate. The arm should go weak.
6. If this works well you might start holding statements, people and books in mind you want to test.
7. Now you can go for the numbers.

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- How to muscle test: O-Ring Method for single testing

Shape a ring by putting your middle finger on top of your thumb. Place your forefinger on the middlefinger in the ring and try pushing them apart while holding the favored statement in mind.

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More to know about testing…..

- General Information

1. The energy field of consciousness is infinite, a certain spectrum that is useful for the human domain has been mapped from 1 to 1000.
2. Everything in the universe emanates a specific energy, which stays in the field of consciousness permanently. Thus any event thought, deed, feeling, or attitude is recorded forever an can be retrieved.
3. The intention as well as both tester and the one being tested, must calibrate over 200 in order to allow for accurate results.
4. Experience has shown that many people are still not able to achieve accurate results. This issue will be addressed elsewhere in detail.
5. At a personal calibration level 0f 200, research shows that there is still a 30% chance for error.
6. The chance for error diminishes as one moves up the scale and becomes more conscious of one’s intentions.
7. The attitude that serves best for testing is one of clinical detachment. Emotionally charged states should be avoided while testing.
8. Adding the prefix “In the name of the highest good ____ calibrates as true. Over 100, Over 200 increases accuracy, because it transcends self-serving personal interest and motives.
9. Saying “resist” also benefits results.
10. Any muscles of the body can be used.
11. Alterations in pupillary response and brain function are associated with changes in consciousness as well.
12. Before a statement is presented it is necesarry to qualify permission: “I have permission to ask about what I am holding in mind” (Yes/No)
13. The muscle test cannot be used to foretell the future; otherwise there are no limits as to what can be asked. This blog is subject to this ongoing exploration.
14. The answers are impersonal and do not depend on the belief systems of either the tester or the test subject.
15. People want to determine truth from falsehood. Therefore, the statement has to be made very specifically. Avoid using general terms such as a good job to apply for. Good in what way? Pay scale? Working conditions? Promotional opportunities? Fairness of the boss?
16. Familiarity with the test bings progressive expertise.
17. Use chross-checking to confirm accuracy, e.g. reversing the statement.
18. 10% of the population, as well as sometimes married couples cannot use the technique for unknown reasons.
19. To try to prove a point negates accuracy.
20. Doing the thymus thump (with a closed fist, thump three times over the upper breastbone, smile, and say “ha-ha-ha” and mentally picture someone that is loved) will clear up temporary imbalances. The imbalance may be the result of recently having been with negative people, listening to heavy-metal rock-music, watching wiolent television programs, playing violent video games, etc.
21. Truth operates on a different paradigm (600’s) of reality as does logic in the 400’s. Thus it is not subject to prove or disprove.

- Discrepancies

Differing calibrations may be obtained over time or by different investigators for a variety of reasons:

1. Situations, people, politics, policies, and attidudes change over time.
2. People tend to use different sensory modalities when they hold something in mind, i.e., visual, sensory, auditory, or feeling. Your mother could therefore be how she looked, felt, sounded, etc, or Henry Ford could be calibrated as a father, as an industrialist, for his impact on America, his anti-Semitism, etc.
3. Accuracy increases with the level of consciousness. (The 400’s and above are the most accurate.) One can specify context and stick to a prevailing modality. The same team using the same technique will get results that are internally consistent. Expertise develops with practice. There are some people, however, who are unable of scientific, detached attitude and are unable to be objective, and for whom the testing method will therefore not be accurate. This amounts to 85% of the worlds population and around 50% of the western populace. Dedication and intention to the truh has to be given priority over personal opinions and trying to prove them as being “right.”