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Specifically, the organization disputes that people can be transgender, adding that widespread acceptance of trans people amounts to child abuse.聽The statement also claims that transgender people are mentally ill.

鈥淎 person鈥檚 belief that he or she is something they are not is, at best, a sign of confused thinking,鈥� the statement reads, adding that 鈥渨hen an otherwise healthy biological boy believes he is a girl, or an otherwise healthy biological girl believes she is a boy, an objective psychological problem exists that lies in the mind not the body and it should be treated as such.鈥�

Many of the claims in the ACPeds statement are, as ThinkProgress , myths. Such anti-trans rhetoric also isn鈥檛 new. In fact, it is part of an ongoing crusade against LGBT people, which often include amicus briefs in court cases and statements like this latest one.

ACPeds was founded in 2002 by a ultra-conservatives from the 60,000-plus member , the foremost national professional organization regarding pediatrics in the country. Initially, the group was formed as a protest to AAP鈥檚 support of LGBT adoption rights. In the 14 years since its founding, ACPeds 聽has continued to pump out demonizing pseudoscience and falsehoods about LGBT people, often parroting Paul Cameron, and calling homosexual relationships promiscuous, a danger to children, unstable, and claiming that LGBT people experience 鈥渟hortened lifespans.鈥�

The group has also legitimate research in its attacks on LGBT people, to the point that at least one social scientist that the group stop.

The聽statement is jut the latest salvo in the anti-LGBT鈥檚 continued battle against LGBT people, which has recently turned to specifically target trans people through a spate of 鈥渂athroom bills鈥� and the passage of a law in North Carolina鈥檚 that bans trans people from using public restrooms that correspond to the gender with which they identify.

One of the signatories of the ACPeds鈥� anti-trans statement is , a retired University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School. McHugh has held , options for trans people and pushing ideas like 鈥渁utogynephilia鈥� 鈥� the idea that trans women鈥檚 identities are predicated on sexual arousal with the idea of themselves as women.

According to McHugh, trans people should be treated as disordered, like people with anorexia nervosa.

鈥淚ts treatment should not be directed at the body as with surgery or hormones any more than one treats obesity-fearing anorexic patients with liposuction,鈥� he in an article titled 鈥淭ransgender: A Pathogenic Meme.鈥� Rather, 鈥渢he treatment should strive to correct the false, problematic nature of the assumption and to resolve the psychosocial conflicts provoking it.鈥�

McHugh, a noted Catholic conservative, was a in pushing his beliefs that transgender identity does not merit surgery or medical treatment, but rather should be dealt with as mental illness. He spent a good deal of his career at John Hopkins聽as chair of the department of psychiatry聽and the gender identity clinic at Johns Hopkins in 1979.

Some of his other views have also garnered public controversy. He was a defender of Catholic priests in the sex abuse scandals of the 1990s, and in 2002 amidst much criticism to a lay council to resolve the sex abuse problem.

Another statement signer is Rhode Island pediatrician Michelle Cretella, ACPeds鈥� current president. In 2013, she that she was a member of the board of directors of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), a group known as the NARTH Institute or Alliance for Therapeutic Choice and Scientific Integrity. The group聽seeks to legitimize the discredited and pseudoscientific practice of so-called 鈥渞eparative鈥� or 鈥渆x-gay鈥� therapy.

In 2009, Cretella published an article she co-wrote with Arthur Goldberg, the founder and director of now-defunct 鈥渆x-gay鈥� therapy outlet Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing (JONAH), which was found guilty of consumer fraud in a lawsuit brought by the 澳彩开奖聽and .

In the article, the authors that gay people are inherently promiscuous and unstable, and that allowing same-sex people to marry endangers the common good.

Cretella was also a board member of anti-LGBT group National Organization of Marriage-Rhode Island. In 2014, she was slated to speak at Providence College in 2014, but her appearance was postponed after questions about her views arose.

The third signatory is Quentin Van Meter, vice president of ACPeds and a pediatric endocrinologist based in Atlanta. Van Meter his 37-year membership in the American Academy of Pediatrics because of its inclusive stance regarding LGBT people.

Groups like ACPeds and its supporters have been pushing the idea that any kind of gender variance or expression is a mental illness, and it must be discouraged, especially when it comes to children.

Under the veneer of a professional organization with a professional-sounding name, ACPeds finds a ready and willing audience in the , no matter the falsehoods and pseudoscience it continues to peddle. Look for a longer statement about 鈥済ender ideology鈥� this summer, according to the group鈥檚 website.