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American Medical Association Faces Major Backlash With Latest Call On Birth Certificates

By • August 2, 2021 4:30 pm

The American Medical Association (AMA) was recently met with backlash as critics took to social media to slam its call for sex to be dropped as a legal definition on the public section of birth certificates.

The intense backlash late last week and over the weekend came after WebMD — an American firm known primarily as an online publisher of news and information pertaining to health — highlighted the call from the AMA in a tweet it posted on Saturday.

“Sex should be removed as a legal designation on the public part of birth certificates, the American Medical Association (AMA) said Monday,” the association wrote.

WebMD’s report noted, among others, that “requiring it can lead to discrimination and unnecessary burden on individuals whose current gender identity does not align with their designation at birth, namely when they register for school or sports, adopt, get married, or request personal records.”

“A person’s sex designation at birth would still be submitted to the US Standard Certificate of Live Birth for medical, public health, and statistical use only, report authors note,” it added.

Social media backlash

Critics took to social media blasting the medical association’s woke push — mostly arguing that the AMA call further raised doubts on the credibility of recommendations from health experts in the wake of the slow vaccination progress across the country.

“Thanks for making it more difficult to argue down vaccine skeptics. Every time I say ‘trust medical science,’ they can just point to this clown show,” Jonathan Kay, editor at Quillette wrote.

“Another once-trusted institution has lost its mind,” commented Christina Sommers, author.

“Nothing will undermine public trust in health advice more than activist medics,” said Rita Panahi, political commentator.

“Certain medications affect men and women differently,” argued podcaster Tim Pool.

“Literal nonsense,” commented Allie Beth Stuckey, political commentator. “Gender identity is a made-up concept with no scientific or medical substance.”

“This sounds crazy to me. There’s a difference between stopping transgender discrimination and wantonly promoting transgenderism. Now we’re doing the latter under the guise of the former,” author Vivek Ramaswamy, said.

Julie Gunlock, another political commentator said “it’s important to know that medical associations shifted to activist organizations years ago” adding that the suggestion is “very dangerous.”

Kurt Schlichter, author and columnist said: “Remember this when they tell you to trust experts.”

“We are still in the early stages of a total collapse in trust in our credentialing institutions. It remains to be seen whether this results in epistemological chaos or a broad renaissance. I suspect we will see both,” another comment from Nate Fischer said.

 

“Politicization of science”

Meanwhile, Omri Ceren, national security adviser for Republican Senator Ted Cruz  also hit the AMA for “politicizing science.”

“The near-total politicization of science on behalf of fringe progressive fantasticism happened really fast, all things considered,” he said.

“How to say ‘we prioritize woke ideology over science and health’ without saying ‘We prioritize woke ideology over science and health,’” Geoffrey Miller, a psychology professor wrote.

“This isn’t enough. The AMA should create an entire research division devoted to debunking the socially constructed myth of chromosomes. Call it the Lysenko Department,” Sohrab Ahmari of The New York Post commented.

“The reason we have to continue to deal with the woke scold losers at every turn is because when they say things like this, we don’t absolutely laugh them into oblivion like they deserve,” commented T.J. Moe, a former University of Missouri football player.

“These people are insane and should be treated as such.”

Rachel Moran, a feminist, questioned the motive behind AMA’s call — and raised the question on who will benefits from this far-left push.

“To benefit who? And in the service of what? Who gains if biological reality is erased from birth certificates, & who loses? And what is gained & lost?” Moran said.

“This is the most serious assault on women’s dignity & autonomy I have ever seen in my life,” Moran added.

Nikki Haley, former US Ambassador to the United Nations also slammed the AMA call saying: “This is literally the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. Stop the madness!”

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