Far-right group behind abortion pill lawsuit spreading anti-trans junk science, leak finds - PinkNews
The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) was formed 20 years ago as a breakaway group from the respected American Academy of Pediatrics, over the latter’s support for same-sex adoption.
ACPeds is one of the groups behind a lawsuit fighting the US Food and Drug Administration over the abortion drug mifepristone.
The college’s campaigning against LGBTQ+ rights, including trans healthcare, same-sex marriage and adoption, has seen it categorised as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). ACPeds disputes the label.
A significant data breach, which the group reportedly suffered after it published a link on its website to an unsecured Google Drive, has been reported on by Wired.
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The leak showed that the group’s designation as a “hate group” saw it lose out on funding, including an Amazon charity programme it applied to, and revealed its struggle in peddling its far-right agenda: to “return America to a time when the laws and social mores around family squared neatly with evangelical Christian beliefs”.
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Wired reported that files within the leak included literature, designed to be sent to schools, claiming trans youth have a “pathological disorder” and could influence others.
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Other leaked documents described same-sex marriage as “aberrant and immoral behaviour”.
One reportedly offered physicians a guide on how to encourage patients to purchase “Christian-based parenting guides” designed to instil “sexual purity”.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center describes ACPeds as a “anti-LGBTQ hate group that masquerades as the premier US association of paediatricians to push anti-LGBTQ junk science”.
The leak suggests that ACPeds has just over 700 members, while the American Academy of Pediatrics has an estimated 67,000.
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