{"id":87331,"date":"2021-08-06T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/?p=87331"},"modified":"2021-08-24T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T16:06:00","slug":"going-full-woke-ama-says-remove-gender-from-birth-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/going-full-woke-ama-says-remove-gender-from-birth-certificates","title":{"rendered":"Going full \u201cwoke\u201d: AMA says remove gender from birth certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last updated on August 24th, 2021 at 12:06 pm<\/p>\n

In July 2017, Michelle Cretella, M.D. and Executive Director of the American College of Pediatricians, published a banner article<\/a> titled, \u201cI\u2019m a Pediatrician. How Transgender Ideology Has Infiltrated My Field and Produced Large-Scale Child Abuse.\u201d Lamenting the fact that \u201cthe transgender movement has gained legs in the medical community and in our culture by offering a deeply flawed narrative,\u201d Dr. Cretella exploded a number of the myths fueling that narrative, and issued a sober warning: \u201cTransgender ideology is not just infecting our laws. It is intruding into the lives of the most innocent among us\u2014children\u2014and with the apparent growing support of the professional medical community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not four years later, in June 2021, the American Medical Association decided<\/a> that birth certificates should no longer record the sex of the child: \u201cTo protect individual privacy and to prevent discrimination, U.S.\u00a0jurisdictions should remove sex designation on the birth certificate.\u201d Acknowledging that the non-public \u201cCertificate of Live Birth\u201d\u2014for governmental data collection and vital statistics\u2014will still retain the record of the sex of the child, the AMA committed to advocate for a different standard for the public record: \u201cOur American Medical Association will advocate for the removal of sex as a legal designation on the public portion of the birth certificate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this tragic betrayal of its stated mission to \u201cpromote the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health,\u201d the AMA seems to have forgotten that at its very inception in 1847, it urged state governments to adopt measures to register births based on the sex of the child. Unfortunately, the \u201cwoke\u201d tidal wave sweeping society has inundated the once-respected AMA, which has now bought into the deeply flawed narrative propagated by the Human Rights Campaign on its webpage Transgender Children & Youth: Understanding the Basics<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children are not born knowing what it means to be a boy or a girl; they learn it from their parents, older children and others around them\u2026. As soon as a doctor or other healthcare provider declares\u2014based on observing the newborn\u2019s external sex organs\u2014\u2018it\u2019s a boy\u2019 or \u2018it\u2019s a girl,\u2019 the world around a child begins to teach these lessons\u2026. But gender does not simply exist in those binary terms; gender is more of a spectrum, with all individuals expressing and identifying with varying degrees of both masculinity and femininity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Compare that distortion to the immutable truth preserved about the divinely created order of society and what it means to be human as recounted in the simple but majestic creation account of Genesis:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Or, as paraphrased by IOF founder Dr. Allan Carlson in his landmark The Natural Family: A Manifesto<\/a>, \u201cthe natural family\u201d is \u201cpart of the created order, imprinted on our natures, the source of bountiful joy, the fountain of new life, the bulwark of ordered liberty.\u201d And the tragedy of our times, continues Dr. Carlson, is that the natural family \u201cstands reviled and threatened\u2026 Foes have mounted attacks on all aspects of the natural family,\u201d including an \u201cassault of new, family-denying ideas\u201d such as \u201ca swelling rhetoric of \u2018gender\u2019 and \u2018sexual\u2019 rights.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As IOF and our partners and friends have repeatedly urged, we are at a pivotal time in history. We cannot afford to stand by and allow this assault to prevail. We must proactively strengthen our own families and also courageously stand up and speak up to protect what the Universal Declaration of Human Rights acknowledges to be \u201cthe natural and fundamental group unit of society,\u201d and what historian Will Durant called \u201cthe ultimate foundation of every civilization known to history,\u201d namely, the family. In doing so, we continue to be guided by the inspirational and aspirational vision articulated by Dr. Carlson:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is the natural family? The answer comes to the woman and the man who take the risk of turning their love into promises of lifelong devotion. In doing so, they will discover the story of the family, at once an ideal vision and a universal reality. In our time, they will also sense crisis, for malignant forces tear at the common source of freedom, order, virtue, and children. To set things right, they will need to look for clear principles, open goals, and a firm course of action. They also will need to reject false charges and weak compromise. Still, through these acts they shall come to know true liberty, a rekindled hearth, and a real homecoming, for themselves and for all humankind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The time is now to courageously stand up, speak up, and protect \u201cthe natural and fundamental group unit of society”. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":87624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"The time is now to courageously stand up, speak up, and protect \u201cthe natural and fundamental group unit of society\". 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