If you don’t like the message, you can always shoot the messenger

Jun 9, 2017 by

by Michelle A. Cretella, MercatorNet:
Opposing sex changes for children can get you into hot water.

One of the most useful words in the lexicon of internet cage-fighters is “chillingly”. If you write, “Chillingly, the sun is predicted to rise at 6.43 tomorrow morning”, you cast suspicion and fear over daybreak, which is widely regarded as a positive event.

And if you write, as Dr Jack Turban did recently in Psychology Today, “Chillingly, the group has moved beyond its online reports, deeper into the political arena. They have gone as far as filing amicus briefs to US courts for major cases concerning LGBT rights,” you make it sound as if “the group” is a sub-branch of the KKK.

The group in question is not the 64,000-member American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which has submitted numerous amicus briefs supporting such politically charged issues as climate change, gun control and immigration and LGBT rights.

It is the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds), a much smaller group.

However, according to Dr Turban, a young Harvard Medical School psychiatrist who is also a columnist at Psychology Today, it is ACPeds which deserves the adverb “chillingly”, but not the AAP. Not only that, ACPeds should be regarded as an “anti-LGBT hate group”. Why? Because ACPeds opposes transgender affirmation and because Dr Turban is – “chillingly” — a strong advocate of giving some 10-year-olds puberty-blocking implants.

ACPeds understandably rejects Dr Turban’s attack as defamatory. Below is a response from Dr Michelle Cretella, the ACPeds president.

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