#acpeds

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Leave it to fuck boy Elon Musk to always boost the tweets of racists, trans/homophobes and other Christofascists

The American College of Peds is pretty much like a “Crisis Pregnancy Center,” where they actively deceive people into believing that they offer abortions, but in reality they are an anti-abortion, Christian nationalist, hate group. The American College of Peds is running the same okie doke with their fake name (which closely resembles the name of a more respected association, American Academy of Pediatricians) and their proclamations about the LGBTQ community.

Edit: Elon Musk was not “fooled” by this. He’s a racist, crackpot conspiracy theorist who uses his platform to elevate the views of other racists and bigots. This is intentional on his part.

Here is their Wiki link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_College_of_Pediatricians

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Erin In The Morning:

On Friday, numerous conservative accounts and news sources promoted headlines that the "American College of Pediatricians" had issued a statement against transgender care. A video accompanied the announcement featuring Dr. Jill Simons, who, wearing a white lab coat, states that there must be an end to "social affirmation, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones" for transgender youth. Despite the official-looking attire and name, the organization's name serves to mislead observers into thinking they are the much larger American Academy of Pediatrics, which represents tens of thousands of pediatricians. In reality, the ACP is a hyper-conservative Christian group of doctors created in 2002 to oppose gay parenting. In the announcement released on Friday, Simons called for an end to social transition and gender-affirming care for transgender youth. One video, which went viral, begins with a statement that the organization has released a "declaration" authored by the American College of Pediatricians, along with "hundreds of doctors and healthcare workers," opposing transgender care. It references the highly-politicized Cass Review from the United Kingdom, whose author controversially blames pornography for being transgender, as well as the Climategate-style leak of the “WPATH Files” to support the statement.

The video, which was viewed over 51 million times on Twitter, cuts off just before the next speaker is introduced: Dr. Andre Van Mol, who represents the Christian Medical and Dental Associations. Van Mol serves on the board of the Bethel Church of Redding, which made headlines in 2019 for attempting to pray a dead child back to life. He is followed by representatives from several other Christian medical organizations that also support banning transgender care. The website promoted at the event lists signatories to the statement, including the Catholic Medical Association, Genspect, The National Catholic Bioethics Center, the Family Research Council, and the Discovery Institute, an organization that promotes intelligent design over evolution in schools.

The American College of Pediatricians has been hugely influential in the promotion of anti-trans policy in the United States, relying in part to its misleading name. Members of the organization testify in state houses and courtrooms across the United States, misleading legislators into thinking they are the much larger American Academy of Pediatrics, the professional society that represents 67,000 pediatricians in the United States. In 2023, the organization inadvertently left a Google Drive public, leading to the leak of a massive trove of files showing their extremist roots. According to these documents, the group received significant donations from the Alliance Defending Freedom, a right-wing organization that has played a large role in the passage and defense of anti-LGBTQ+ laws in the United States. It also received free video production from Family Watch International, a group of Christian fundamentalists opposing homosexuality, birth control, abortion, and sex education. The American College of Pediatricians itself has been listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center since 2012, when the group’s leader stated that “homosexuality poses a danger to children” and that the group was “essentially a Judeo-Christian values organization.”

[...] Despite the widespread misinformation, every major medical organization in the United States supports gender-affirming care. In February, the American Psychological Association, the largest psychological association in the world, released a policy resolution stating that gender-affirming care is medically necessary and saves lives. The American Academy of Pediatrics currently recommends that transgender youth have access to gender-affirming care tailored to their unique needs. The Advocates for Trans Equality maintains a list of over 30 of the largest U.S.-based medical organizations that support transgender care, including the Endocrine Society, the Pediatric Endocrine Society, the American Public Health Association, and the American Medical Association.

Anti-trans extremists such as X owner Elon Musk and numerous right-wing and anti-trans pundits and websites are touting a video from American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) Dr. Jill Simons issuing a statement opposing gender-affirming care for trans children.

In contrast to radical right-wing whacko group ACPeds, mainstream medical organizations support gender-affirming care as a medically necessary.

ACPeds is a radical right-wing medical group that is opposed to abortion, LGBTQ+ rights, and transgender rights, and has trafficked in COVID denialism and anti-vaxxer extremism.

[zinniajones]

Like anti-gay conversion practices citing "sexual fluidity", anti-trans activists have alleged that gender dysphoria is fluid and transient. But behind the scenes, Genspect parents wonder why their trans kids still aren't "desisting" after several years.

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M1928A1 Thompson- .45 ACP

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Finally caught up on Sherlock and co, it’s rotting my brain, and I just had the dumbest concept

Mycroft finally gets introduced and there’s at least one joke about his name sounding like Minecraft

Will this in any way affect the plot? Hell no. But it would give me a sensible chuckle

“Your brother’s name is Minecraft??? Like the game?”

“What? No, it’s Mycroft- what is this ‘minecraft’ you speak of?”

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[destielmemenews]

"Dozens of people joined Biden administration officials, advocates and U.S. Sen. Peter Welch, a Democrat from Vermont, at a Washington public library on Tuesday to make a last-ditch plea to extend the Affordable Connectivity Program, a subsidy created by Congress and touted by President Joe Biden as part of his push to bring internet access to every U.S. household. The program, which is set to expire at the end of May, helps people with limited means pay their broadband bills.

“They need access to high-speed internet just like they need access to electricity,” Sen. Welch told the gathering. “This is what is required in a modern economy.”"

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Colt Model 1902 Military pistol with 8-round .38 ACP magazine

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Model 1917 Colt

[walks-the-ages]

You know another way Democrats could instantly get votes?

Something they could do to instantly gain more goodwill from the average american who isn't politically aware ?

Raise the minimum wage

Bring back the Affordable Connectivity Program

Hell, bring some new program in that makes a federal free internet plan that everyone everywhere can connect to for free and if you want better speeds or exclusivity you can shop around other companies like usual

Bridge the gap between WIC and SNAP/EBT/Foodstamps so its not so limited and runs on the same simplified program instead of paper checks that are only good for "x ounces of x food" and increase how much everyone gets each month

make a national standard that makes it easier for people to receive benefits via taking *living expenses* and transportation into account; no more "sorry you make too much to get food stamps" meanwhile 90% of a paycheck is going towards rent and everything else is going to utilites.

Enshrine abortion rights at the federal level

Enshrine queer rights, including healthcare, at the national level

Close Guantanamo bay and release the prisoners with full reparations and medical support

Stop commiting a goddamn fucking genocide and stop interfering with international law from the rest of the civilized world by vetoing every single measure that goes through the UN to stop atrocities

Oh, you say? Democrats won't or "can't" do any of these things? There's only a few weeks before the election? Well they probably should have thought for the past 4 fucking years they've been in office let alone the past year where they've fully embraced genocide and war crimes and have repeatedly stated again and again that they're going to continue to do so in the future if they're elected again??

Well, there's a reason Jill Stein and the Green Party are so popular this year...

[christina-sonikkukokoro3]

Bad news! The Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) is going to lose funding in the next few months! Please tell people in the US Congress to keep funding the program which I and millions of other Americans use to have discounted internet and phone service! You can do so by sending an email through this site: Save ACP - US Tech Future

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FNX 45 Tactical Pistol

[raichett]

In the latest instalment of the ACP-verse, after much debate about it, Grian takes Scar up to the border of the cursed lands to show him where not to go. Neither of them plan for what happens when the heart bleeds with the weight of the past, though.

Content warnings: implied/referenced Third Life canon events (such as character death and suicide), first kiss, getting together, and emotional intensity and complexity. This is loving but it's not fluffy.

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M3A1 Grease Gun - .45 ACP

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