The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recently published a policy statement: . Although almost all clinics and professional associations in the world use what's called the approach to helping gender diverse (GD) children, the AAP statement instead rejected that consensus, endorsing as the only acceptable approach. Remarkably, not only did the AAP statement fail to include any of the actual outcomes literature on such cases, but it also misrepresented the contents of its citations, which repeatedly said the very opposite of what AAP attributed to them.

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