Dr. Michelle Cretella-Healing Gender Dysphoria in Youth
- Cindy Dullum
- May 13
- 3 min read
Dr. Cretella is a pediatrician, researcher, educator, writer and speaker. She has served in leadership of the American College of Pediatricians and continues to speak publicly on issues impacting children and families.
In addressing the issues of Healing from Gender Dysphoria, Dr. Cretella urges parents to recognize the spiritual and cultural moment we are living in. She calls the audience to respond with courage, clarity, and compassion. She offers resources for families to protect and to extract our youth from the toxic transgender ideology culture. She believes education within families is most important, emphasizing that families need practical resources to protect children and to guide them through this confusion with truth, love, and steady parental leadership.
The truth, she says, is that trans identification didn't exist until society was pushed into this false idea. In fact, only 1% of children would believe they were born in the wrong body. She says that 85% of these children would outgrow this by young adulthood. She believes it is wrong to go along with the child's confusion, by affirming a lie. The body will speak the truth when the child reaches puberty. Playing into the lie will only cause the child increased anxiety.
Social media and internet influence has resulted in the spread of trans identities, preying on the vulnerable and isolated. Often using "love bombing" techniques. She calls this "gas-lighting" our young people. These social media outlets are attempting to normalize that which is not normal or changeable.
Dr. Cretella believes that the goal of therapy is ultimately to get to know the patient, to help bridge the gap between child and parents, and to help the child become physically and mentally healthy. She is an advocate for knowledge and talk therapy. And believes If counselors are allowed to help the child work through the underlying issues, affirm them of all of their positive talents, that the child will come into agreement. Over time, their bonds in the family improve, depression lifts, traumas are processed and as the brain matures into adulthood, the child experiences healing. The child needs time to heal.
She points out that embryonic genetics show male and female brains differ from the moment of conception. And finally, that studies show most children will outgrow their gender confusion without social indoctrination or drugs.
In her talk, Dr. Cretella speaks about the dangers of placing a young child on puberty blockers. She alleges that these blockers can impair bone development, interfere with brain maturation, cause mood/psychiatric effects and leave many with no improvement on the child's mental health.
She claims that cross-sex hormones and surgeries are causing permanent sterility and long-term physical health risks such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer in children.
Speaking of the attack on gender and the results of trying to change the body through hormone therapy and/or surgery, Dr. Cretella states; "This is definitely part of the culture of death, it's eugenics, it's evil."
I found her talk most interesting as she quoted an Israeli study who looked at 53 different tissues of the human body and found that these body tissues behaved differently. Thus showing that being a male or a female is more than skin deep. From conception, our genetics is in every cell of the body, including the brain. The little boy in utero is already producing testosterone from his testes. This proves that no one is born with the wrong brain.
Plants and animals alike, have male/female counterparts. The animals require an egg and a sperm to reproduce. The bee carries the pollen from the stamen over to the female flower which has the ovules. The sex determining genes on the Y chromosome are critical for male development, because sex is genetic. No amount of name changes, drugs or surgery can change the sex of a person.
She ends by encouraging her audience to become informed. Research. Know the help that is available. Find good counsel. I've listed some of the resources that she highlighted below.
Charles Spurgeon is quoted as saying; "Wisdom is the right use of knowledge."
Dr. Cretella offers us much knowledge on the subject of gender dysphoria. It's up to us to make good use of this knowledge and act wisely.
Here is the link to listen to Join the Movement, Child Protection League Conference, Dr.
Michelle Cretella, Healing Gender Dsyphoria in Youth. https://rumble.com/v794rvy-healing-gender-dysphoria-in-youth.html?e9s=src_v1_upp_pl%2Csrc_v1_pl&playlist_id=KI07f-rC6s8
A few of the resources mentioned by Dr. Michelle Cretella:
Church Transgender Response Guide
Desist, Detrans & Detox: Getting Your Child Out of the Gender Cult by Maria Keffler
Child & Parental Rights Campaign
Always Erin by Erin Brewer
For more information please go to https://cplaction.com/cpl-materials/ under the heading of Gender Identity.
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