A ‘trans-sensitive’ training video for pediatricians should frighten us all

 by Andrea Widburg

One of the most shameful things in America today is how the American Academy of Pediatrics (“AAP”), the largest pediatric association in America, with around 67,000 members, has embraced transgender madness. Back in 2019, I wrote a post about the fact that the AAP, although it completely embraced so-called transgenderism, could not point to a single scientific work establishing that “transgenderism” is anything more than a mental illness, akin to anorexia or other forms of body dysphoria. (See Section III of the post.)

That post is still current, and the AAP is still pretending that children can magically change their biological existence through wishing, followed by profitable doctor’s visits, hormone treatments, and surgery. In thrall to this debased, delusional ideology, the AAP has released a video purporting to guide young pediatricians through the maze of discovering what sexually active teens are actually doing.

The line “well, I use my vagina, and Mary uses her penis,” pretty much spells out the biggest problem with this whole approach:

So, we’ve raised a generation of children who think they’re lesbians if they’re having sex with a man who thinks he’s a woman. Maybe it’s just me, but I think it’s incredibly dehumanizing to reduce sex to plug-and-play body parts. No wonder children think that they’re not spiritual beings who are greater than the sum of their parts but are, instead, just Lego pieces.

The weird thing for me about watching the video is that I’ve heard this song before, only not in a training video, but in real life. Back in the late 1970s or early 1980s, I knew a woman who had, at best, a distant relationship with her parents. However, after her mom died, she made the effort to visit her father, who greeted her at the front door, dressed in full drag. He explained to the woman that he’d always known he was a woman, but during her mother’s life, he hid that fact. Now, he was ready to go all the way and get his genitals chopped off. Oh.

A year later, the woman visited her father again, only to have him answer the door dressed in regular dad clothes: jeans and a flannel shirt. When asked to explain, he told her this: “I realized that I’m not just a woman, I’m a lesbian. I also learned that I have a better chance of having lesbian sex if they think I’m a man.”

That is an absolutely true story. But here’s the difference between 2026 and that long-ago time. Back then, everyone who heard the story dissolved into helpless laughter, while assuring the woman that they were sorry that her father was so troubled. (She said she didn’t care because, again, they weren’t close.) Everyone understood that her father was neither a woman nor a disguised lesbian. He was, instead, a mentally ill man with a really weird sexual fetish. (Now, we know he was autogynephilic, which applies to men who are sexually aroused by imagining themselves as women.)

Now, America’s preeminent pediatric association pretends this whole narrative is completely normal. It pretends that it’s okay for a young woman to throw herself into the arms of a cross-dressing man. (And yes, that’s real, too. Word got around very quickly when a troubled 15-year-old at my kids’ high school attended a Pride parade in San Francisco and went home with a “trans” woman—that is, a man—for sex. He was a perverted pedophile preying on a vulnerable child.)

Watching the AAP bring debased delusions to its treatment of children elicited appropriate responses from the social media crowd:

Americans are falling out of love with the whole transgender thing, but our hard-left academic institutions, including medical schools and the doctors they produce, are not. Unless this madness gets turned around quickly, American society will not fare well.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/03/a_trans_sensitive_training_video_for_pediatricians_should_frighten_us_all.html