The most popular medical textbook publisher in the world was triggered after Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo referenced its definition of “gender dysphoria” in recent guidance advising against gender reassignment procedures for minors.
The Merck Manual director of marketing and brand awareness reached out to the Florida Department of Health to request they adjust their April 20 guidance for the “Treatment of Gender Dysphoria for Children and Adolescents,” according to Fox News Digital.
“We were in the process of updating our online chapter on that subject so I wanted to make sure you had the latest information,” Melissa Adams wrote.
“Some of the verbiage you reference in quotes has now been omitted as a result of the update which went live on our site at the end of April,” she added before she went on to request that Ladapo remove the information from the state’s fact sheet.
The definition in dispute was removed from the Merck website on April 20.
“Gender dysphoria is characterized by a strong, persistent cross-gender identification associated with anxiety, depression, irritability, and often a wish to live as a gender different from the one associated with the sex assigned at birth,” the Merck Manual read previously.
Ladapo posted a screenshot of the email on social media and called the move “political activism disguised as medical advancement.”
Where have we seen this before? 🤔
Political activism disguised as scientific advancement.
Medicine cannot be a weapon used to divide communities, and Florida’s guidance will not change due to political pressure. pic.twitter.com/6JXRFYJbBp
— Joseph A. Ladapo, MD, PhD (@FLSurgeonGen) May 5, 2022
“Medicine cannot be a weapon used to divide communities, and Florida’s guidance will not change due to political pressure,” Ladapo asserted.
Florida’s guidance was issued after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released guidance in March for “Gender-Affirming Care and Young People” that recommended irreversible surgery “in adulthood or case-by-case in adolescence.”
HHS guidelines also recommended “social affirmation” and puberty blockers as reversible options and “hormone therapy” for early adolescence onward as a partially reversible option.
The dumbfounded replied on Twitter, bewildered by the now-deleted introductory definition.
Gender dysphoria is characterized by a strong, persistent cross-gender identification associated with anxiety, depression, irritability, and often a wish to live as a gender different from the one associated with the sex assigned at birth” – What more needs to be said.
— Paul Jerome (@PaulJer17778886) May 8, 2022
Although some thought the original definition cited was already politicized by using the wording “assigned at birth” instead of “biological sex.”
See the wording though. “Assigned at birth”. I’m not even a doctor and I know It should read that it doesn’t align with their biological sex. It gives this notion that biology is such a malleable thing that biological sex is more opinion and perception than science.
— Shane Andrew (@Realityentruth) May 8, 2022
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I wonder if they ever developed a way to determine who is transgender while the fetus is still in the uterus would the Pro-Choice (Pro-Abortion) group would advocate for aborting those fetuses so they would not have to endure being in the ‘wrong’ body?
These people are trying to keep sex-selected abortions illegal, even while allowing abortion on demand. That’s quite illogical. But nobody can escape from logic forever. So they’ll probably warm up to it, eventually. Assuming letting people abort to uphold women’s dignity is really near the top of their priorities…
The ONLY thing ASSIGNED at birth is YOUR NAME! Everything else is THERE by the GRACE OF GOD! Be THANKFUL that You and YOUR BABY are HEALTHY and have ten Fingers and Ten toes! And for Heaven’s sake, pick a name that your child will be able to PRONOUNCE and SPELL before HIGH SCHOOL!
“God makes mistakes”? God’s decisions are fluid and bendable by mere humans? Interesting thoughts – for fiction writers! God gives each of us our lives, specially created just for us, each with our own foibles, unique characteristics and beauty as only God can do. It is up to each of us to seek out our Creator and use our uniqueness to His glory and our fullest lives. No, it’s not easy – that’s another part of our human uniqueness – and growing and maturing into the people that God chose us to be takes time and effort.
AMEN!
Not even for fiction writers! The best works I’ve ever read were built out of Tolkien’s notion of subcreation, which is based on respecting how God built things in order to use our creativity to the fullest.
So saying, while He never errs, He certainly allows things to creep in here and there, even if for His greater glory. It helps me greatly to remember God writes straight with crooked lines. If only these people shared that perspective.
The gender-benders should retreat to the closets from whence they came.
They can change the definition for things. They can remove things entirely. But we still know and they hate that because there’s nothing they can do.