Actual medical group supports trans kids while media seems to only listen to fake medical groups
By Cristan Williams Listen to this article Today, the actual medical group, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released several pieces of evidence-based guidance to support the care and protection of transgender youth. This included a detailed press release, user-friendly info kit, and a citable evidence-based review of the best practices for trans care for youth. A google news search returns one website that’s covering AAP’s important news while dozens of sites covered a fake medical group’s anti-trans propaganda5. In fact, the fake AAP organization, the American College of Pediatrics (ACP), is a hate group that enjoys televised appearances when it issues a press release about transgender youth, and yet, those who support anti-trans ideology continue to wrap themselves into paroxysms of ever-higher levels of hysteria concerning their supposed lack of free speech and media bias (especially concerning the fake diagnosis of ROGD). Even so, what AAP released today is
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
“Actual medical group supports trans kids while media seems to only listen to fake medical groups” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to education and youth, while also engaging transgender identity and history. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.
Historical significance
As a publication record from 2018 at Transadvocate.com, “Actual medical group supports trans kids while media seems to only listen to fake medical groups” provides dated evidence of how education and youth was being argued in relation to transgender identity and history. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.
Policy significance
The article’s strongest policy connection is education policy. It links that institutional frame to education and youth and transgender identity and history, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.
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Themes
- 1Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life100%
- 2Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community75%
- 3Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life67%
- 4Science, evidence, and expertiseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication49%
- 5Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community24%
- 6Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication23%
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Policy framing
- 1100%
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How “Education and youth” appears across the Collective corpus
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Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Transgender identity and history308
- Community and organizing177
- Law and civil rights151
- Healthcare and medicine103
- Culture, identity, and representation97
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse93
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization93
- Family and relationships91
- Science, evidence, and expertise80
- History, archives, and memory78
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The documented sources span 1 domain; the strongest available scholarly index reports 521 citing works. The dated evidence currently falls in 2020. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.
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This is where you’re really going to put your new language skills to good use!When you absolutely, positively, have got to dupe someone into not thinking very much about what you’re actually saying, tell them that someone’s coming after their children. This rhetoric worked to…
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Author profiles and related researchers
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Cristan Williams
Connected through 2 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Guest
Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Rani Baker
Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Kelley Winters
Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Admin
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Marian
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Related authors are calculated from co-authorship, shared themes and framings, and citation relationships in the registered corpus. This does not imply a personal or institutional association.
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